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Verne Global introduces cooling liquid to underground Finnish facility

UK and Nordic provider Verne Global has added liquid cooling to its underground Finnish data center campus in conjunction with Dell and Intel. Verne is now offering direct liquid cooling (DLC) for systems installed in the Rock data center, which occupies ex-military tunnels in the bedrock at P...

December 01, 2023

Verne Global

CyrusOne launches fifth data center in Frankfurt

CyrusOne has just launched its fifth data center in Frankfurt, FRA5 located in Hanau, 25km east of Frankfurt's city center. This new campus, spanning 18,000 square meters across two buildings will offer 54MW of IT capacity. The launch ceremony hosted by Carsten Schneider was attended by Lord ...

December 01, 2023

CyrusOne

Kao Data’s second Harlow facility now ready for operation

Kao Data recently completed work on its second data center in Harlow, UK and has noted that the facility is now ready for operations. According to a LinkedIn post shared by the company on November 28, the KLON-02 is a 10MW data center that has been designed and built "to the highest standards...

December 01, 2023

KAO Data

Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

Google recently announced that its data centers in Nevada will be powered by a new geothermal power plant. This project, originally announced by Google and Fervo in 2021, is a 5MW project that will use Google AI systems to help with its operations. Michael Terrell, senior director of energy a...

November 29, 2023

Google

DataBank raises capital for new data centers

DataBank has raised $533 million of capital to build new data centers through debt and equity. This brings the total funds raised by the company this year to $1.6 billion, with $715 million of secured notes issued in February and a $350 million credit facility announced later in March. DataBa...

November 29, 2023

DataBank

Ardian purchases data center company Verne Global

French private equity firm Ardian just purchased data center company Verne Global from Digital 9 Infrastructure. D9 bought Verne for $320 million in 2021 and has since then acquired and merged Finnish data center firm Ficolo and London’s Volta Data Centres into the Verne brand. However, D9 had...

November 28, 2023

Verne Global

OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

OpenAI has hired Google’s Todd Underwood to head a new Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads as it already has a functional team for the applied side working on inference and API products. The SRE concept originally started at Google, but has since spread...

November 28, 2023

Google

OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department

OpenAI has hired Google’s Richard Ho as the head of hardware to lead the new division to help “influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings.” Ho had spent about 9 years at Google, leading one of the company’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units projects, wi...

November 27, 2023

Google

Microsoft to expand its footprint in Canada

Microsoft this week announced that it will be expanding its footprint in Canada with multiple new data centers with an investment of US$500 million to expand its cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Quebec over the next two years. The company notes that this investment will increase its lo...

November 23, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Sam Altman returns as OpenAI’s CEO, with new board

Sam Altman, who was suddenly fired by the board has “reached an agreement in principle” to return as CEO of OpenAI as nearly all of OpenAI’s employees threatened to leave the company if the board did not reverse its decision. Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, who was appointed as interim CEO ai...

November 23, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW

Mayor of the Skien municipality, Marius Roheim Aarvold has said claims that Google’s upcoming data center campus in Norway will require 860MW of power to support its planned data center campus in Gromstul, Skien municipality.are false. Local press had reported that Microsoft formerly applied f...

November 22, 2023

Google

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and colleagues join Microsoft

Microsoft has recruited Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and other OpenAI researchers who left the startup over the weekend to head a new advanced AI research team. The OpenAI board abruptly fired Altman, saying he was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its abi...

November 20, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Green Mountain plans 10MW data center at Oslo campus

Norway’s Green Mountain announced this week that it was granted approval to develop a new building at its data center campus outside Oslo, Norway. This planned facility will be a three-story, 9,600 square-meter building at its Enebakk campus, and construction is expected to start soon and be c...

November 20, 2023

Green Mountain AS

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Concert will operate under its curre...

November 18, 2023

London

CyrusOne completes its first data center in Spain

Colocation company CyrusOne recently completed the shell and core of its first data center in Spain and threw a traditional flag-flying ceremony to celebrate it. The MAD1 facility, situated on a five-acre site, is a two-story facility with an IT capacity of 18MW across 6,000 square meters. Thi...

November 16, 2023

CyrusOne

DataBank plans 192MW data center facility in Virginia

DataBank announced it has acquired 85 acres of land in Culpeper, Virginia, to construct a new data center campus, which will host up to three two-story data centers offering 1.4 million square feet of space. The new facility will use DataBank’s recently announced Universal Data Hall Design (UD...

November 16, 2023

DataBank

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation form a data center JV in Northern Virginia

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation established a joint data center venture in Northern Virginia. Following their agreement, the real estate investment firm invested $200 million and will get an 80 percent equity interest in two data centers currently under construction in Northern Vi...

November 16, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft announces two in-house designed semiconductors

Microsoft has recently announced it is working on two in-house designed semiconductors. One is an Arm CPU called the Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU, designed for general workloads, focusing on performance per watt and a dedicated AI accelerator. The other is the Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator...

November 15, 2023

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne files to invest $15m in new San Antonio data center

Colocation company CyrusOne has filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to build a new data center for the 'CyrusOne SAT 8 & 9' project in San Antonio, Texas. The application notes that the company intends to invest $15 million in building a two-story data center and of...

November 15, 2023

CyrusOne

Exa Infrastructure names Nick Read as interim CEO

Exa Infrastructure recently announced that former Vodafone chief executive Nick Read will lead the business with immediate effect. Read, appointed as chairman of Exa Infrastructure in June, will replace Martijn Blanken as chief executive on an interim basis. As part of the transition, Blanket ...

November 14, 2023

EXA Infrastructure

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