Google invests US$40 Billion in 3 data centers in Texas
Google plans its largest investment in any state in the U.S. with US$ 40 billion and establishing three new data-center campuses across Texas as announced last Friday in Midlothian by Governor Greg Abbott and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. These facilities will power next-generation AI systems, strengthen cloud services for businesses, and expand the technical backbone […]
ESR debuts 80-MW data center in South Korea
Asia-Pacific real asset owner and manager ESR has announced plans to build its first data center in South Korea in partnership with Seoul-based Wide Creek Asset Management. The 80-megawatt facility spanning a nine-storey complex is named KR1 Data Center. Construction is scheduled to begin this week in Incheon’s Bupyeong district and will be fully operational […]
DartPoints completes US$ 125 million data center expansion in South Carolina; raised capacity 5 times
Data center provider DartPoints recently completed a US$ 125 million expansion of its Greenville County, South Carolina, data center increasing capacity from 2.5 megawatts to 12.5 MW and adding 88,000 sq ft of space. The Greenville site serves enterprises and universities that rely on high-performance computing and research capabilities to advance AI innovation. Facility construction […]
Solaria, Goldman Sachs seek European data center investor: Bloomberg
Spanish renewable-energy developer Solaria Energia y Medio Ambiente SA has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to secure a financial partner for a newly established European data center infrastructure platform, according to Bloomberg, quoting sources familiar with the matter. The platform consolidates 3.4 gigawatts(GW) in grid connection capacity and 400 hectares of land across Spain, Italy, […]
ByteDance first in Malaysia to ink Green Electricity Tariff (GET) deal with TNB
ByteDance last week signed an agreement with Tenaga Nasional Berhad, becoming the first subscriber and offtaker for the Green Electricity Tariff (GET) Greenpath Program, securing Malaysia Renewable Energy Certificates (mREC) through the Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation (PETRA) framework. Both parties stated in their respective social media posts that they are accelerating the […]
Groq partners Equinix to bring global AI footprint to the Asia-Pacific region
US AI company Groq has expanded its AI inference footprint to Australia, with plans to invest USD 300 million, initially deploying its hardware in Equinix’s SY5 data centre in Sydney, as part of a global collaboration that already includes large-scale low-latency infrastructure in Europe and the US. The move brings Groq’s specialised Language Processing Unit […]
PDG debuts in South Korea with USD 700 million investment
Singapore-based developer and operator of data centers, Princeton Digital Group (PDG), today announced a US$ 700 million investment for its first multicampus facility in South Korea with a planned capacity of up to 500 MW. Construction of its first campus, its flagship 48 MW campus, PDG SE1, is slated to begin later this month and […]