Data Center News

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Cluster to be Developed Outside Paris, France

Paris

French national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia this week announced the formation of a joint venture to establish what they claim will be Europe’s largest AI campus in France.The companies said they aim to develop Europe’s first purpose...

Applied Digital Proposes "Multi-Billion-Dollar" Facility

Applied Digital

Applied Digital is looking to develop a multi-billion-dollar data center in Deuel County, South Dakota which could see up to $16 billion in investment and create up to 200 high-paying jobs. In addition, Applied Digital has committed to improving local fiber infrastructure, and to minimize the ...

Virgin Media O2 Business X Daisy Group to Create Telecoms Group in UK

Virgin Media O2 Business and Daisy Group have announced plans to merge their B2B operations to create a £3 billion ($3.96bn) telecoms group in the UK. In the announcement, Virgin Media O2 Business said the merger will "create a major new force in the UK business communications and IT sector."“...

Five Point Launches PowerBridge

Five Point Infrastructure LLC (formerly known as Five Point Energy) this week announced the formation and funding of PowerBridge LLC, launched with an equity commitment of up to $1 billion. PowerBridge will focus on developing, building, and managing gigawatt-scale data center campuses, associ...

PepsiCo Signs Multi-Year Contract with AWS

PepsiCo, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation will migrate its applications and workloads to AWS' cloud platform as part of its "cloud-first" strategy."A cloud-first approach has been essential t...

CoreWeave Leases Another 260MW Capacity from Galaxy

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. this week announced that CoreWeave has exercised its first option to access an additional 260MW of critical IT capacity at the former’s Helios data center campus."This Phase II commitment with CoreWeave marks another major step in Galaxy's evolution as a trusted pa...

Iron Mountain Names Gary Aitkenhead as EVP

Iron Mountain has appointed Gary Aitkenhead as the company's executive vice president and general manager of data centers. In his new role at Iron Mountain, Aitkenhead will lead commercial and operational activities for Iron Mountain's data center business, reporting to Mark Kidd - EVP and GM ...

Atos Appoints Thales' Pierre-Yves Jolivet as EVP

Atos Group has appointed Pierre-Yves Jolivet as executive vice president and head of Eviden, the company's HPC business. He enters the role coming from aerospace and defense company Thales where he was most recently VP and GM of the cyber digital business line.In a LinkedIn post, Jolivet wrote...

Telehouse Canada Names Atsushi Kubo as President and CEO

Telehouse Canada has appointed Atsushi Kubo as president and CEO, effective immediately. He will be entering the role after holding the EVP and COO position at Telehouse Canada, which he took on in 2023. Kubo succeeds Satoshi Adachi.According to Telehouse Canada, Kubo was "instrumental" in ide...

Jericho Energy Launches Modular Data Center Business

Canadian energy company Jericho Energy Ventures has launched a modular data center business that aims to utilize its natural gas assets as the foundation for developing AI-specific modular data centers.According to the company, it currently owns and operates 40,000 acres of productive land acr...

QTS Chad Williams Steps Down after 20 years

QTS Data Centers founder and CEO Chad Williams is leaving the company after 20 years. Also, relinquishing the role of company chairman, he is returning to the post of CEO at the Quality Group of Companies (QGC), a real estate and business services family office investment firm which was spun o...

Visa Plans Data Center in Nigeria

Global payments services company Visa Inc., is planning to develop a data center in Nigeria in addition to $1 billion the company has already invested in the country. Visa's regional president for central & eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Andrew Torre noted that while the company ...

Turkish Coast Guard HQ Launches Data Center

The Turkish Coast Guard Command has launched its data center which has now been commissioned with an opening ceremony held. The data center is part of the SahilNET project which was signed between the Coast Guard and Havelsan in September 2021. That project will see the establishment of a netw...

Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as CEO

Beleaguered chipmaker Intel has appointed former director Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO. Tan will take up his new role on March 18, and also rejoin the Intel board of directors.Intel named CFO David Zinsner and Intel Products CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus as interim co-CEOs following Gelsinger’s ...

GE Vernova and AWS Partner on Data Center Decarbonization

GE Vernova has signed a deal to provide power equipment to four Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in North America, Europe, and Asia. GE Vernova will provide AWS with turnkey substation solutions to enable the connectivity of AWS data centers to the grid. This includes expanding major ele...

DataOne to Expand into New Jersey

BSO’s new data center unit, DataOne, is expanding into the US and developing a data center for European cloud firm Nebius to be located in Vineland, Cumberland County. DataOne said it will be delivering the first phase of the new facility in 20 weeks. The site will be powered at least in part ...

Nicolas Roy to Lead Orange's Data Center Strategy

Totem CEO Nicolas Roy has announced  on his LinkedIn that he will step aside to lead Orange Group's data center strategy and business development unit. Roy has been CEO of Totem, Orange's tower-focused subsidiary, since the division launched in October 2021."Accessing, storing, and processing ...

PowerHouse and Provident to Develop New Campus in Texas

AREP-owned PowerHouse and Provident Data Centers this week announced the co-development of a 768-acre data center campus with a 1.8GW switchyard in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. Located just outside of Grand Prairie in northern Ellis County, the first 500MW tranche has already been appr...

Gaw and Sinar Primera Launch Data Center in Indonesia

Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners and Indonesian real estate business Sinar Primera have launched a new data center in Batam, Indonesia. Phase one of the new data center offers 5.2 MW on a 13,000 sqm site. Phase II aims to deliver a further 20MW.Kok Chye Ong, managing direct...

Digital Edge Names John Freeman as CEO

APAC data center firm Digital Edge has appointed group president John Freeman as chief executive officer to succeed Samuel Lee, who will transition to the role of senior advisor to the board after five years at the helm.With over two and a half decades of experience in the data center sector, ...