Business – Page 3

5 days ago

Connectivity | Conor McNevin

Eurofiber and Delft Networks deploy quantum fiber link in the Netherlands

Eurofiber, a B2B digital infrastructure provider, and Delft Networks, a quantum networking company, have deployed an entanglement ready dark fiber…

6 days ago

Europe | Conor McNevin

Google gets approval for data center expansion in South Dublin

Google has received planning approval for an expansion of its data center at Grange Castle Business Park in south Dublin,…

6 days ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

South Australia launches AI Royal Commission setting broad economic and social remits

South Australia has formally established its Royal Commission into Artificial Intelligence, with the inquiry to examine how the technology will…

6 days ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Sophia Space signs MoU with Redwire to scale computing in orbit

Sophia Space, a California-based aerospace company, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Redwire Corporation, a US aerospace and…

6 days ago

Capital | Brendyn Lotz

Submer and ACES partner to speed up Saudi Arabia’s AI data center rollout

Spanish AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure provider Submer signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with digital infrastructure company Advanced…

6 days ago

Power | Jan Yong

US tech firm inks deal with Malaysian consortium for proposed 680MW solar-plus-storage project to power data center

A US-based multinational technology company has signed an agreement recently with a Malaysian consortium for a proposed 680MW solar-plus-storage project to power its…

6 days ago

Cloud | Conor McNevin

Alibaba Cloud to open cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and Netherlands

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Alibaba), a Chinese multinational technology company, will open its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and…

6 days ago

Capital | Conor McNevin

Samsung invests US$ 1 billion in AI infrastructure firm Helix

Samsung, a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate, has committed US$ 1 billion to Helix Digital Infrastructure, an AI infrastructure company…

7 days ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

CDC wins approval for AU$203.5m Beard 2 data centre in Canberra

CDC Data Centres has secured conditional development approval for a three-storey data centre at its Beard campus in the ACT,…

1 week ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Zone Frontier leases land for up to 500 MW Texas data center campus

Zone Frontier Inc., a company developing AI infrastructure including data center campuses, has announced that a subsidiary has entered into…

2 weeks ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Australian data centre operators raise AU$35bn in 2026 as debt funding surges

Australian data centre operators have raised at least AU$35bn in funding so far in 2026, with debt accounting for 85…

2 weeks ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Cybastion commits US$ 300 million to advance digital infrastructure in Senegal

Cybastion, a US technology firm building digital infrastructure in Africa, will invest US$ 300 million to finance digital transformation projects…

2 weeks ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

WIOCC Group secures US$ 155 million investment from US Development Finance Corporation

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the official development finance institution and international investment arm of the US government,…

2 weeks ago

Capital | Jan Yong

AirTrunk is said to seek US$ 1.6 billion loan to finance REIT listing in Singapore

Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk, is seeking US$1.6 billion loan to finance an upcoming proposed public listing of a real…

2 weeks ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

Nscale files for proposed IPO

Nscale, an AI hyperscale infrastructure company, has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…

2 weeks ago

Capital | Jan Yong

Crypto firm SOS inks Indonesian deal to potentially build 500 MW AI data center

US-based cryptocurrency miner SOS Limited announced last week its wholly-owned subsidiary in Singapore Future Digital Trading Pte. Ltd., has signed…

3 weeks ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Crusoe raises US$ 3.9 billion in latest oversubscribed funding round

Crusoe, an AI infrastructure provider, announced the initial closing of its US$ 3.9 billion Series F funding round at a…

3 weeks ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

South African tribunal approves takeover of JNB11 data center in Johannesburg

The Competition Tribunal of South Africa has approved a merger that will see Main Street 2156, an entity managed by…

3 weeks ago

Capital | Conor McNevin

Goodman group raises US$ 455 million for Hong Kong data center development

Goodman Group (Goodman), a global industrial property and digital infrastructure specialist company, has raised US$ 455 million in equity for…

3 weeks ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Vantage Data Centers closes US$ 2 billion finance facility for early-stage buildouts

Vantage Data Centers, a global provider of digital infrastructure for AI and cloud businesses, has closed a US$ 2 billion…

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12 months ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

South Korea DC fire: Over 60 percent data recovered, five booked for professional negligence

More than 60 percent of the data lost in last month’s fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in…

12 months ago

Outages | Conor McNevin

AWS outage raises concerns in UK

A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) brought parts of the global internet to a standstill on Monday, disrupting…

12 months ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

DEVELOPING STORY | AWS outage impacts over 80 Amazon apps and services, recovery underway

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was hit by an outage on Monday that led to disruption of at least 80 related…

12 months ago

Outages | Conor McNevin

Vodafone recovers from a major service outage in the UK

Over 130,000 customers were relieved to hear that Vodafone has confirmed its UK network is now fully restored, after a…

1 year ago

Africa | Deborah Grey

Cairo DC fire: Four killed, 26 injured in blaze at Telecom Egypt building

At least four people were killed, and 26 others injured in a fire that broke out at a data center…

1 year ago

Outages | Jan Yong

Major power outage at Equinix SG1 in Singapore

A major power outage occurred at Equinix’s flagship SG1 data centre in Singapore this morning between 11:09am and 12.24pm. In…

1 year ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

Sudden power outages: Spain declares State of Emergency, Portugal struggles to cope

The government of Spain has declared a state of emergency after being hit by large scale power outages. Portugal too…

1 year ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

BREAKING: Power outages reported from Spain, Portugal and France

Huge power outages are being reported from different parts of Europe. At the time of going to press outages have…

2 years ago

Outages | Nick Parfitt

CBA outage disrupts online trading for thousands of merchants and shoppers

This week saw another major Australian company impacted by outage as the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) announced on the afternoon of…

2 years ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

Jio outage impacts internet services; data center fire to blame?

On Tuesday, consumers of Reliance Jio’s internet services were left in the lurch when an alleged fire at a data…

4 weeks ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

VicGrid considers peak pricing for data centres and large loads

VicGrid is considering changes to Australian state Victoria’s transmission pricing framework that would give large electricity users an incentive to…

4 weeks ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Queensland council moves to protect drinking water as data centre enquiries mount

Toowoomba Regional Council is developing a policy that would prohibit new data centres from using potable reticulated water, as the…

4 weeks ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

NSW data centre water debate turns on who pays for peak demand

NSW’s independent pricing regulator is set to examine how data centres should pay for the water infrastructure needed to service…

1 month ago

Infrastructure Build | Jan Yong

Thailand freezes construction of 49 data centers; new rules to be unveiled in a month

Thailand has suspended the construction of 49 data centers amid public concerns over high power consumption and other impacts on…

1 month ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

The Green party calls for tighter rules on UK data centers

The UK Green Party is calling on the British government to stop automatically classifying new data centers as “critical infrastructure,”…

1 month ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Australia agrees national data centre framework, but energy rules remain open

Australia’s governments have agreed to develop mandatory national standards for large data centres, setting the framework for federal regulation of…

1 month ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Australia could cut AI emissions by exporting compute, Mandala says

Australia could capture a growing share of Asia-Pacific AI demand while reducing emissions compared with more carbon-intensive markets, according to…

1 month ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

AEMO: Australia’s data centres to use 34TWh by 2035-36

Australia’s data centre sector is set to become a significantly larger consumer of electricity over the next decade, with the…

1 month ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Whittlesea seeks greater oversight as Dover plans 200MW Victorian facility

Australia’s Whittlesea City Council has asked the Victorian government to improve transparency and regulation around data centre developments, as a…

2 months ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

Singapore’s DC-CFA2 winners announced; third CFA possible

Four data center platforms namely Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres have been announced…

1 week ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Zone Frontier leases land for up to 500 MW Texas data center campus

Zone Frontier Inc., a company developing AI infrastructure including data center campuses, has announced that a subsidiary has entered into…

1 week ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Crusoe named developer of Google’s Armstrong County data center campus

Crusoe, a company building AI factories, has announced that it is the developer of Google’s new data center campus being…

1 week ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Queensland council questions height, impacts of Swanbank data centre

Ipswich City Council in Queensland has requested further information from the developer of a proposed 10-storey data centre at Swanbank,…

1 week ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

Amazon buys 2 million sq ft land in Selangor, Malaysia to build data center

Amazon.com, Inc. has yesterday signed an agreement with Malaysian developer, Sunsuria Berhad to purchase land in Sepang, Selangor, for RM…

1 week ago

Capital | Conor McNevin

Virtus secures £ 2.45 billion financing for European data centers

Virtus Data Centres, a European data center developer and operator based in the UK, has secured a £ 2.45 billion…

1 week ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

China Mobile, Quill Group ink MOU to explore developing green data centers in Malaysia

China telco firm China Mobile International (CMI) and Malaysian property developer Quill Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)…

1 week ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Firmus expands Meta AI infrastructure deal into Southeast Asia

Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies has expanded its relationship with Meta into Southeast Asia, signing agreements for GPU compute…

1 week ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

NuRAN testing satellite backhaul for edge AI in rural Nigeria

NuRAN, a Canadian telecommunications infrastructure provider operating in Africa, has announced a pilot program that will see it use Starlink’s…

1 week ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

30 Tbps upgrade planned for ACE subsea cable connecting Africa to Europe

The consortium that manages the 17,000 km Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) subsea cable system, which connects Europe, West Africa,…

1 week ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Firmus backs tougher data centre rules in Tasmania, wants project-by-project assessment

Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies has called for tighter transparency requirements and proportionate energy and water standards for AI…

3 months ago

Power | Jan Yong

AirTrunk partners ib vogt delivering Malaysia’s first renewable VPPA for data center

Asia Pacific data center platform AirTrunk has signed a long-term Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) with renewable energy platform ib…

3 months ago

NEA | Conor McNevin

NTT Data, 4R Energy and Nissan Trading strategize to convert data center UPS systems into grid resources

NTT Data Corporation (NTT Data), 4R Energy Corporation (4R Energy) and Nissan Trading Corporation (Nissan Trading) will begin technical verification…

4 months ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

AWS to connect Melbourne data centre to recycled water supply in Victorian first

AWS and Greater Western Water (GWW) say a new data centre in Melbourne’s west will become the first facility in…

4 months ago

APAC | Simon Dux

AI growth puts water and data centre planning to the test in Melbourne

Rapid AI-driven data centre growth is forcing Australia’s water sector and digital infrastructure industry to confront challenges neither side believes…

4 months ago

APAC | Simon Dux

Australia’s data centre boom could intensify pressure on power systems – Fitch

Australia’s rapidly expanding data centre sector is becoming an increasingly significant factor in the country’s energy transition, with electricity demand…

5 months ago

APAC | Jan Yong

[SPECIAL REPORT] How Johor deals with thirsty data centers

Johor looks set to conquer a potential water crunch, judging by current initiatives taken by both the state and private…

5 months ago

APAC | Simon Dux

WinDC wants Australian data centres built around energy, not cities

WinDC founder and CEO Andrew Sjoquist has spent more than a decade inside Australia’s energy system, helping connect over six…

5 months ago

Power | Conor McNevin

Google signs 15-year power deal with Linea Energy

Google has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Linea Energy, an independent renewable energy production company, for electricity from…

5 months ago

APAC | Jan Yong

SPECIAL FEATURE | Johor’s big renewable energy push

Johor is building one of the world’s largest renewable energy zones, partly to meet the demand of insatiable data centers. …

5 months ago

APAC | Jan Yong

TotalEnergies starts work on 30 MWac solar farm in Malaysia; to supply energy to data centers

Global energy company TotalEnergies, and Malaysian property developer MK Land Holdings Berhad, will begin construction of a 30 MWac (50 MWp)…

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