Data Center News

AT&T, Google, and Vodafone invest $155 million in AST SpaceMobile

Direct-to-cell satellite firm AST SpaceMobile this week announced a $155 million strategic investment from AT&T, Google, and Vodafone along with aggregate new financing of up to $206.5 million. This investment is to support  the commercial roll-out of AST SpaceMobile’s network and is compr...

Google confirms Project Zodiac facility in Indiana

Google has confirmed it is involved in a major data center campus proposal in Fort Wayne, Indiana dubbed Project Zodiac. This project is a 12-building campus spanning more than 700 acres, bounded by East Tillman Road, Adams Center Road, and the railroad track. Google spokesperson Devon Smiley ...

PowerHouse expands footprint into Nevada

PowerHouse Data Centers, a joint venture between American Real Estate Partners (AREP) and Harrison Street – this week announced that it has expanded out of Virginia and into Nevada with plans for a new campus in Reno. The company closed on the site of PowerHouse Reno; a three-building, 900,000...

Macquire to develop new data center in Australia

Macquarie Data Centres has revealed plans to add a third data center to its Sydney campus. This facility dubbed IC3 SuperWest, the data center received approval from the Independent Planning Commission New South Wales (IPC, NSW).  This new facility will bring the total IT capacity at the Macqu...

Orange & Capgemini to unveil Microsoft-focused sovereign cloud venture

Orange

Orange & Capgemini this week announced that their Microsoft-focused Bleu joint venture is now getting ready for commercial operations. This cloud venture has begun engaging with ‘select French public and private organizations’ to ensure that they are ready for the migration once the first ...

Lunar Digital begins upgrade of the Reynolds House data center

Manchester

Lunar Digital began the planned multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company started development works across all the data halls at the site, including full renovations of the C5 and C6 data halls to optimize power and cooling, the deployment of ...

1623 Farnam names Bill Severn as its new CEO

1623 Farnam LLC

Nesbraka data center firm 1623 Farnam has announced Bill Severn as its new CEO. Severn who joined the company as an operating partner in 2019 will now serve as its CEO and will fill the position of 1623 Farnam president, which was held by Todd Cushing since 2017. Severn said, "I've had the ple...

TA Realty unveils dedicated hyperscale data center development arm

North American real estate investment firm TA Realty recently unveiled a dedicated hyperscale data center development arm to be led by Tim Shaheen, who joined the company a year ago from Aligned Energy, where he was the EVP of strategy and development. Shaheen said, “I am thrilled to lead the ...

Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

Google

Global payment services company Worldline has agreed to migrate its operations to Google Cloud Platform as a part of its “Move to Cloud” program. Following this partnership, the payment service company will use Google’s Could Infrastructure and Google's data analytics and AI offerings to devel...

EllaLink to land first trans-Atlantic cable in French Guiana

EllaLink this week announced it has been awarded a contract by SPLANG (the Local Public Company for the Digital Development of Guyana) for a 2,100km extension to the existing EllaLink cable to land in the South American French territory. This new branch will land in Cayenne, French Guiana, and...

India’s Union Cabinet approves MoU with the European Union

India’s Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Modi, has approved the Memorandum of Understanding on semiconductors signed by India and the European Union in November 2023. Following this agreement, both governments will work together to build a robust semiconductor supply chain and further ...

Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years

Equinix

Michael Winterson has left colocation provider Equinix after 24 years to take on the role of managing director for the European Data Centre Association. Winterson wrote on LinkedIn, “Exactly 24 years ago I started my data center career at IXEurope, not 300 meters from our current Equinix offic...

LightEdge acquires data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

GI Partners

GI Partners-owned company  LightEdge this week announced it had acquired a 76,000-square-foot, 3.6MW facility, located at 1708 West Creek Lane in Carver County, Chaska, Minnesota.  This data center houses 30,000 square feet of data hall space across three private data center suites. LightEdge ...

General Atlantic to plans Actis acquisition

United States

Growth equity firm General Atlantic has recently revealed plans to acquire sustainable infrastructure investor Actis. This deal will create an investment platform with about  $96 billion in combined assets under management. Company head Torbjorn Caesar, who will continue to run the business, s...

Google to expand data center footprint in London

Google

Google this week announced it has commenced plans to expand its data center footprint in the UK with a new campus outside London in Hertfordshire. The company has started building a new facility on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, north of London. And plans to invest $1 billion in the project....

DigitalOcean to now offer Nvidia H100 GPUs

United States

Cloud provider DigitalOcean which is dedicated to small-to-medium businesses and startups, has added to its GPU-accelerated cloud computing platform with Nvidia chips. With this new upgrade, DigitalOcean's ability to offer cloud-based artificial intelligence, machine learning applications, and...

Swisscom and Nvidia to build AI full-stack supercomputers in Switzerland

Swisscom AG

Swiss telco Swisscom, in a new announcement, revealed that it has partnered with Nvidia to build generative AI full-stack supercomputers in Switzerland for the development of specialized and new AI use cases for both internal and customer use. The telco aims to get the latest technologies from...

Seagate to ship 30TB hard drives with HAMR tech

United States

Seagate Technology recently announced that it will be shipping 30TB hard drives based on its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. The company expects to conclude full production by the end of March as hyperscale customers already have evaluation units and are planning to adopt i...

Microsoft signs solar PPA with Apex Clean Energy in Ohio

Apex Clean Energy this week announced its 125MW Wheatsborough Solar project in Ohio has been contracted under the Microsoft–Volt Energy Utility Environmental Justice Framework. Kourtney Nelson, director of renewable energy procurement at Microsoft, said, “As Microsoft works toward a more susta...

Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

Google

Google Cloud recently announced that former Okta executive Oliver Parker has now been recruited by the company to lead a newly formed go-to-market (GTM) organization. Parker will now become the VP of AI to report directly to Google Cloud’s president of GTM, Adaire Fox-Martin. Parker wrote on L...