Data Center News

Former BP CEO joins Prometheus Hyperscale

Former BP CEO Bernard Looney left his role at the oil and gas company last September and has linked up with the data center developer Prometheus Hyperscale, which is planning to develop a sustainable 1GW hyperscale data center campus in Wyoming.Writing on LinkedIn, Looney said he had been attr...

DataBox takes over Digital Realty's cloud service in Croatia

Digital Realty Trust

Croatian cloud solutions and data center provider DataBox has taken over Digital Realty's cloud services in the country. This move will enable Digital Realty to "realign" its offering in Croatia and focus on acting as an infrastructure provider instead of a cloud service provider in the countr...

BT's Marc Allera to step down next year

Marc Allera has announced he will step down as CEO of BT's Consumer division next year. Allera, who has been at BT for 13 years and CEO of the company's Consumer division since 2016, will be replaced by Claire Gillies. BT announced that Gillies has become CEO-designate and will also become a m...

Microsoft plans two data centers outside Cologne

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is to build two data centers near Cologne as part of a major German investment program. The company is developing data centers in Bergheim and Bedburg, two towns to the west of Cologne in the Rhein-Erft district."The establishment of a hyperscale data center campus from Microsoft is ...

Langan Engineering acquires Navix Engineering

Langan Engineering & Environmental Services has acquired data center engineering firm Navix Engineering. The company has recently expanded into the data centre industry, developing projects around the US. Details and terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.“Paul Manzer and the Nav...

AWS partners with SSAB for green steel at Swedish data center

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has agreed with SSAB to pilot the use of green steel in one of its three new data centers in Sweden. The green steel will be used to construct the roof and wall structures at the AWS Västerås data center. SSAB subsidiary Ruukki Construction will supply the steel for t...

Duos signs 850MW deal with Fortress

Duos Technologies Group subsidiary Duos Energy has signed a two-year Asset Management Agreement (AMA) with Fortress Investment Group to deploy and operate a fleet of mobile gas turbines and a balance of plant inventory with a combined capacity of 850MW. Fortress Investment Group acquired the p...

Coles Group and Microsoft sign five-year cloud

Microsoft Azure

Aussie retailer Coles Group has signed a five-year partnership with Microsoft for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Coles will be using Microsoft's cloud, AI, and Edge computing offerings to develop an AI-as-a-Service platform and to modernize its IT estate. The agreement is ho...

Equinix breaks ground on Singapore data center

Equinix

Equinix  this week announced its sixth International Business Exchange (IBX) facility in Singapore, to be named SG6. With an initial investment of $260 million, the facility will provide liquid cooling capabilities to support high-density workloads. Yee May Leong, managing director, Singapore,...

HMC Capital launches DigiCo REIT

Australia

Australia’s HMC Capital has launched its new digital infrastructure investment vehicle, having raised AU$153 million ($100m) more than anticipated in its initial public offering (IPO), and says it is in talks to buy three additional hyperscale data centers in the US.David Di Pilla, HMC Capital...

CoreWeave and Core Scientific launch 100MW data center in Oklahoma

Core Scientific

CoreWeave and Core Scientific this week announced ground had been broken on a 100MW facility in the Port of Muskogee in West Oklahoma. The facility will provide approximately 70MW of critical IT load, with the remaining 30MW powering ancillary systems required to ensure optimal GPU performance...

Kairos gets construction permits for Hermes Two Demonstration Plant

Tennessee

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued construction permits to Kairos Power for its Hermes Two Demonstration Plant at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The plant will also host a proposed single 35MW Hermes One Test Reactor, a non-nuclear engineering test...

AWS eyes data center project in Fayette County, Ohio

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is eyeing Fayette County, southern Ohio, as a site for a data center development and is considering a location about 25 miles east of Xenia, 40 miles east of Dayton.“We recently filed documents as part of the process in exploring possible data center locations. This i...

Civo launches second UK cloud region

United Kingdom

Cloud computing company Civo has launched a second cloud region in the UK with sustainability-focused data centre provider Deep Green, which is also set to launch another data centre that will heat a local swimming pool located at the York Stadium Leisure Complex. Civo's newest cloud region, k...

DirecTV terminates offer to acquire EchoStar

United States

DirecTV has terminated its offer to acquire EchoStar's satellite television business stating its failure to gain approval from Dish bondholders as a reason for termination. The proposed $1 sale to DirecTV would have included the sale of Dish's DBS pay-TV business as well as Dish and Sling TV, ...

AP&T completes SeaLink South subsea cable

United States

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) has completed the SeaLink South subsea cable a year ahead of schedule. AP&T said the project will expand and improve connectivity in Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago region.Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski said: “After hearing from Alaskans, stren...

CPP partners with Pacific AMC for South Korea data center

South Korea

Pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) this week announced a KRW 1 trillion (US$711 million) joint venture with Pacific Asset Management Company (Pacific AMC) to develop carrier-neutral hyperscale data centers in South Korea.“The demand for data centers in Asia Pac...

Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers

Japan

Japan's Rakuten Group is set to deploy Ampere hardware across its data centers. The company is expanding its partnership with Ampere Computing to reduce the power consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) computing.Hironori Yoshida, executive officer and vice director of the cloud platform s...

Lightmatter extends manufacturing partnerships with GlobalFoundries, ASE, and Amkor

Photonics computing company Lightmatter has announced it's extending its manufacturing partnerships with GlobalFoundries, ASE, and Amkor. Lightmatter’s VP of product, Steve Klinger, said the announcements reinforce the fact that Lightmatter is moving into the next phase of its product developm...

RWE selects HPE Private Cloud AI for weather modeling

Renewable energy company RWE has selected HPE's private coud AI for weather modeling and will be using HPE's Private Cloud for evaluating, fine-tuning, and inferencing its weather models. “As a leading provider of renewable energy, RWE is at the forefront of balancing the increasing power dema...