Google denies “large” AI data centre planned for Christmas Island
Google has confirmed reports it is ramping up activities on Christmas Island, an Australian territory located 350 km (220 miles) south of Indonesia, but has denied reports it is planning to build “a large AI data centre” on the island, as reported by Reuters. A spokesperson for the company said its activities were actually a […]
DL Invest Group and Boosteroid form a new JV to build high-performance data centers in Europe
DL Invest Group, a commercial real estate investor and developer in Central and Eastern Europe, has entered a strategic joint venture with Boosteroid, a global cloud gaming and cloud solutions provider, to develop a network of high-performance data centers across Europe. In a joint press release, the companies revealed that this partnership aims to deliver […]
‘Thermal Event’ at Microsoft Azure data center causes an outage in West Europe
Microsoft Azure experienced a widespread outage in its West Europe cloud region on November 5, after a data center suffered a “thermal event” that triggered automatic shutdowns to protect hardware. The incident affected multiple Azure services, disrupting both enterprise and public sector users across the Netherlands and neighbouring areas. The event caused a subset of […]
Mumbai CDC 2025 draws over 1600 top digital infrastructure professionals!
You read that right! Over 1,600 technology professionals including cloud and data center industry veterans and digital infrastructure experts thronged Hotel Sahara Star for Mumbai Cloud & Datacenter Convention and South Asia Awards 2025. Attendees included industry bigwigs, influential technocrats, data center owners and operators, connectivity ecosystem experts, as well as hundreds of providers of […]
KBC, AIC, Vietin Bank ink MOU to develop US$2 billion 200MW AI data center
Vietnam’s real estate and industrial park developer, Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation (KBC) has in October signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with data center specialist Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC), and Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank), to jointly develop a 200-MW artificial intelligence (AI) data center campus with investment […]
EPI joins TÜV NORD GROUP; expands data center certification and training services
EPI, a Singapore-based data center audit, certification, and professional training organisation, has officially joined the TÜV NORD GROUP following the successful completion of the acquisition on 24 October, an EPI statement says today. TÜV NORD GROUP is a 150-year-old global one-stop platform for digital solutions across the data center ecosystem. EPI will continue to operate […]