Data Center News

Data4 Signs Nuclear Deal with Westinghouse

European data center firm Data4 this week announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the use of Westinghouse Electric Company’s AP300 SMR to power future data centers in Europe. Data4 will use the AP300 SMR as its technology of choice to evaluate deployment at one o...

Pembina and Kineticor to Develop 1.8GW Gas Project in Alberta

Canadian midstream gas company Pembina Pipeline Corporation (PBA) and Kineticor Asset Management, a Canadian power generation firm, have formed a joint venture (JV) to develop a natural gas power plant in Alberta, Canada, to serve the data center sector. will co-develop the Greenlight Electric...

Teraco Signs PPA with NOA in South Africa

Teraco, Digital Realty's African arm, has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with NOA, a South African integrated energy aggregator, to supply renewable energy from multiple wind projects to Teraco’s facilities through a wheeling arrangement.“The conclusion of this PPA supports our sustai...

Colt Launches Data Center in Tokyo, Japan

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) this week announced the launch of its latest hyperscale data center, Inzai 4. Colt launched its first Inzai data center back in 2011. This expansion is the second site developed under the joint venture between Fidelity Investments and Mitsui & Co., Ltd....

Meta Sifns Solar EAPA with Cypress Creek in Texas

Meta  this week signed an Environmental Attribute Purchase Agreement (EAPA) with Cypress Creek Renewables to support the construction of a 505MW solar facility in Texas. Construction of the project is scheduled to begin later this year, with operations expected to commence in 2027."We are thri...

LCL Powers up Three Wind Turbines in Belgium

Belgian data center firm LCL Data Centers has powered up three wind turbines in Belgium with a combined capacity of 6.9MW. Each turbine will have a capacity of 2.3MW and, according to the company, will contribute to LCL’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. Laurens van Reijen, managin...

Sharon AI and New Era Helium Purchase Land in West Texas for Data Center

Sharon AI and New Era Helium this week announced they have signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Grow Odessa to acquire a 200-acre site in Ector County in West Texas for the development of a 250MW AI/HPC data center that will be powered via natural gas from New Era.The companies said the site i...

ImpactData Partners with Raeden for Greensboro Data Center

Data center developer ImpactData has partnered with Raeden, signing a joint venture (JV) agreement to support the development of a 20MW turnkey colocation data center in Greensboro, North Carolina.“ImpactData’s strong efforts to obtain readily buildable land and near-term deliverable power fro...

Bitfarms Explores Pivot to HPC and AI

Bitfarms last week announced it had tapped Appleby Strategy Group (ASG) and World Wide Technology (WWT), to conduct a comprehensive feasibility analysis on all its North American sites and advise on its global HPC/AI strategy. According to the company, ASG and WWT are evaluating Bitfarms’ ener...

Iron Mountain Invests in Ooredoo's Data Center Unit

Qatari telco Ooredoo and Iron Mountain have announced a partnership for data center growth across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. The deal will see Iron Mountain take a minority stake in Ooredoo’s data center company, MENA Digital Hub. “We are delighted to partner with Ooredoo ...

Amadeus Renews Cloud Contract with Microsoft

Travel technology company Amadeus has renewed its cloud computing contract with Microsoft. The company has recommitted to its cloud migration strategy and will use Microsoft's cloud and AI technologies. Amadeus has thus far moved more than 50 percent of its applications to the public cloud. Th...

CtrlS Completes 125MW Solar Farm to Power Mumbai Campus

Indian data center developer CtrlS Datacenters has completed the construction of a 125MW captive solar farm in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. CtrlS has said that the project will cover 60 percent of the energy requirements at its Mumbai data center campus. The campus currently houses five data ce...

Amazon Signs two PPAs in India

Amazon has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in India for a combined 199MW across two onshore wind projects. The first PPA was signed with CleanMax, an Asia-focused renewable developer, for energy from a 100MW onshore wind project currently under development in Koppal, Karnataka.Kulde...

Amazon Signs PPA with ERG in Northern Ireland

Amazon has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Italian energy firm ERG Group as a pay-as-produced agreement in which ERG will supply the cloud giant with Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGOs) produced by the Corlacky wind farm. According to ERG, the PPA will deliver ...

Crusoe and Kalina to Develop Natural Gas Powered AI Data Centers in Canada

Artificial intelligence data center developer Crusoe has entered into a multi-year framework agreement with natural gas-fired power provider Kalina Distributed Power (KDP) to develop multiple colocated AI data centers powered by natural gas power plants in Alberta, Canada.Each potential coloca...

Orange Romania Signs 10-year vPPA with Engie

Orange Romania has signed a ten-year virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with Engie Romania, that will cover 40GWh of Orange Romania's annual electricity requirements which will be delivered from one of Engie’s wind farms in Romania.“This long-term partnership will significantly contribute...

United Group Invests €120m in Four Renewable Projects

Southeastern European telco firm United Group has invested €120 million ($125.1 million) to support the development of three solar power plants and a wind farm in Bulgaria. The projects will have a combined capacity of 124MW.The first solar plant, located near Stara Zagora, reached operational...

Amazon Signs Two PPAs in Japan

Amazon has secured two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Japan.In its first deal, Amazon signed a 20-year PPA with EDP Renewables APAC, a subsidiary of EDP-Energias de Portugal, to buy power from a 44MW solar farm in Fukushima. The project includes 63,000 solar panels and is expected t...

NREL Launches Geothermal Storage Project

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a federally funded research center, has launched a new project to address the increasing energy consumption of data center cooling. It aims to incorporate geothermal underground thermal energy storage (UTES) technology at data center sites natio...

STMicroelectronics Signs PPA with TotalEnergies in France

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European semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Total Energies. The PPA will power STMicroelectronics sites in France and will be supplied from two recently constructed wind and solar farms with a combined capacity of 75MW."We are delight...