Cloud & Data Centers

Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies

Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra

Micro data center company rolls out stackable data center for edge and AI

Australian micro data center specialist Zella DC has introduced a modular data center platform designed to bring more computing capacity into locations where conventional racks and purpose-built facilities are difficult to deploy.

AWS seeks to automate cloud optimization with new AI agent

AWS is applying AI to the challenge of evaluating and improving cloud environments with a public preview of a new agentic service aimed at automating the discovery and optimization of architectural issues.

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Ares ups investment in Sabey Data Centers

Minority stakeholder takes total investment above $500 million

Green fuels plant in Nova Scotia, Canada, could host data centers

EverWind Fuels explores potential co-located data center development

Sovereignty is within Scottish soil

Why the country offers a solution to many constraints

Applied Digital adds 75MW of capacity at Ellendale data center campus in North Dakota

Second building now complete, campus totals 250MW

Continent 8 enters African market with Joburg data centre

There’s a new arrival in the African data centre market as Continent 8 Technologies, a provider of managed technology solutions designed for the global iGaming and online sports betting industry, announces its expansion into Africa with…

HPE to be connectivity provider role at next year's Ryder Cup in Ireland

Will deploy Self-Driving Network to provide an up to par experience

Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology unveils 33 petaflops HoreKa 2 supercomputer

Hybrid system powered by AMD Turin CPUs and Nvidia GB200 GPUs

Former IBM research campus in Silicon Valley set to be acquired by data center firm

Blackstart Digital acquiring IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose

AI cloud startup Verda raises $189m in Series B funding round

Rethinking power architecture in large-scale data centers

How block-redundant (Catcher) architectures optimize power infrastructure while maintaining high availability

Beyond the Megawatt: Why Data Center Site Selection Is Now a Three-Front Battle

Data center development now requires addressing grid costs, water use, and community benefits. Securing power alone is no longer enough for approval.

Former UK power station site could become data center campus

Former Fawley Power Station outside Southampton could host data centers

Google's head of data center global design and construction joins Anthropic

John M. Wilson to head EMEA capacity delivery

IT systems in southern Italy back online after data center outage

The regional government ruled out a cyberattack

Vertical Data Centers Face Cost-Proximity Trade-Offs

A proposed 20-story Kansas City data center trades suburban sprawl for urban density, offering proximity and network diversity – but at higher construction costs that only specific workloads may justify.

AWS drops NDAs with governments and pledges $1B to data center communities

AWS chief Matt Garman says Amazon will stop using NDAs with government agencies and spend over $1 billion in communities that host its data centers.

America’s AI race won’t be won by hitting pause on data centers

Google hearts Apple's Swift so much it's pumping out server-side support

After a decade of false starts, Swift is showing backend appeal

Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent

Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!

General Compute signs multi-year agreement with Cerebras

Will see Cerebras' wafer-scale compute coming to the AI cloud platform

Intro Group to invest $270m in Egypt’s Kemet Data Center

The facility will be developed in two phases