Data Center News

PLDT secures green loan for fiber network expansion

Philippines

Philippines Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) has secured a green loan from Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank) worth 4 billion pesos ($69 million). Proceeds from the loan will be used toward expanding PLDT's fiber footprint, as it seeks to "narrow the country's digital divide, ...

DataVolt unveils debut datacenter in Uzbekistan

Saudi Arabia

Saudi firm DataVolt has broken ground on its debut data center which will offer 10MW via a $150 million investment. in Tashkent, Uzbekistan this week. DataVolt said the data center features a modular infrastructure design, allowing for scalable solutions able to accommodate various workloads “...

Grid Telecom to build CLS in Crete

Greece

Grid Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece, and Quadrivium Digital, this week announced plans to build a cable landing station (CLS) on the Greek island of Crete. This CLS will be hosted within Quadrivium’s planned campus and will se...

New GPU cloud firm offering access to AMD GPUs launches

Norway

A new GPU cloud provider Nscale which relies on AMD hardware has announced its official launch and is now offering services based on AMD’s Instinct MI300X GPU accelerators from a cryptomining firm and sister company Arkon Energy’s data center in Glomfjord, Norway. “Over the coming years, AI wi...

Kohler sells majority stake in energy unit to investment firm

United States

Kohler Co. and Platinum Equity announced this week that it has sold a majority stake in its energy unit to investment firm Platinum Equity and both companies have closed the transaction to establish Kohler Energy as a separate, independent business."This strategic move allows Kohler to focus a...

DXN enters agreement to deliver four cable landing stations for EMCS

Australia

Australian data center firm DXN has signed a US$3.8 million contract to deliver four cable landing stations for the East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS), expected  to be complete in Q1 of 2025. This would be the first submarine cable connection for the islands of Tarawa, Nauru, and Kosrae.Shali...

Microsoft signs new PPA in Ireland

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft revealed this week that it has entered into a long-term deal to offtake the output of the newly commissioned Lenalea Wind Farm near Letterkenny, County Donegal."At Microsoft, we are committed to playing our part in supporting the decarbonization of energy grids in markets in which we...

Microsoft signs new carbon capture deal in Sweden

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed the world’s largest carbon capture deal with Stockholm Exergi to remove carbon from an upcoming biomass plant in Sweden. The deal will cover 3.33 million tonnes of permanent carbon removals from bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at Värtan, Stockholm.“We ar...

GI Partners acquires fiber firm DQE Communications

GI Partners

Investment firm GI Partners this week announced the closing of the acquisition of Pennsylvanian regional fiber firm DQE Communications from DQE’s parent company, Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Light Holdings Inc. The company has also appointed Michael T. Sicoli as CEO of the company, effective imme...

Channel News Asia Recognizes Baxtel's Data on the Growing Johor Market

Johor’s data centres getting a boost from the Singapore factor; water, power remain bottlenecksRead the Full Article here

Oracle to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in dedicated Digital Realty data center

Oracle

Oracle is set to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in a dedicated Digital Realty data center in Northern Virginia as a part of a collaboration between the two companies to provide artificial intelligence (AI) services for enterprises. Digital Realty’s website notes that the company has 16 data c...

T5 to develop new data center campus in Illinois

T5 Data Centers

T5 Data Centers recently revealed its plans to develop a new data center campus in Grayslake, Illinois as it announced that the 160-acre site, 40 miles north of Chicago, will be used for “multiple data center buildings.”“The new Grayslake campus represents a major investment by T5 to meet the ...

Armstrongs unveils critical event monitoring data center in Quebec, Canada

Canada

Candian monitoring service provider Armstrongs has unveiled a critical event monitoring data center will provide a primary home in Canada for all the receivers and storage of subscribers' data in Laval, Quebec. From this new campus, Amstrongs will be able to provide dedicated video monitoring ...

Samsung partners with O2 Telefonica to unveil Open RAN network in Germany

Samsung Electronics has partnered with German telco O2 Telefónica to launch the site in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, providing high-performance and reliable 4G and 5G services to customers. This comes after the vendor announced the launch of its first commercial site in Germany.Both companies i...

Oracle partners with TIM for cloud region

Oracle

Oracle has announced plans for a second Italian cloud region in partnership with Telecom Italia (TIM), which would be the host partner for Oracle's second planned cloud region in Italy, located in Turin at the telco’s data center. Following the agreement, TIM Enterprise will also integrate Ora...

TSMC partners with Ansys, Synopsys and Cadence for silicon photonics program

Taiwan

Chipmaker TSMC is partnering with Ansys, Synopsys, and Cadence to develop its silicon photonics integration system capabilities.  Engineering firms, Ansys and TSMC are collaborating on the chipmaker’s Compact Universal Photonic Engine (COUPE) silicon photonics integration system while chip des...

Coreweave secures $1.1 billion in new funding

United States

GPU cloud provider CoreWeave announced that it has secured $1.1 billion in new Series C funding round this week led by Coatue, with participation from Magnetar who led the last primary round, as well as Altimeter Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Lykos Global Management....

KYEC to exit china following semiconductor sanctions

China

King Yuan Electronics Co (KYEC), one of the world's largest testing and packaging services firms, has sold its entire 92.1 percent stake in its King Long Technology (KLT) subsidiary, a manufacturing hub in the Chinese city of Suzhou as the company sets out to leave China. KYEC cites issues ari...

BT Group powers up repurposed EV charger in UK

BT Global Services

UK telecoms firm BT  has installed its first electric vehicle (EV) charge point repurposed from one of its old street cabinets which was traditionally used to store broadband and phone cabling. This repurposed charger forms part of a nationwide pilot by the business’ start-up incubation hub, c...

Riken to deploy IBM quantum computer

Kyndryl

Japanese research institute Riken is set to deploy an IBM quantum computer at its facilities in Kobe. The quantum system – to be powered by a 133-qubit Heron processor – will be colocated and integrated with the organization’s existing Fugaku supercomputer. “Riken is committed to developing sy...