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Connectivity | Conor McNevin

Orange and Telesat commission European gateway for Lightspeed satellites

Orange, a French multinational telecommunications corporation and Telesat LEO ULC, a subsidiary of Telesat Corporation, a Canadian satellite communications company,…

2 weeks ago

Data Privacy | Conor McNevin

Data Protection Commission fines Google € 403 million over location data privacy breaches

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google Ireland € 403 million (US$ 460 million) following an inquiry into the…

2 weeks ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

EU proposes rating system for data center energy and water use

The European Commission has proposed a common rating system for data centers to increase transparency around their energy and water…

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Africa | Brendyn Lotz

World Bank sees US$ 240 million data center opportunity in Djibouti

The World Bank Group reports in its latest Country Private Sector Diagnostic for Djibouti that the African nation could unlock…

2 weeks ago

Americas | Deborah Grey

Meta, NEC and Sumitomo collaborate to build Petal submarine cable system

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), NEC Corporation (NEC), and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Electric) have started collaboration to build “Petal”,…

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

Data Center | Conor McNevin

Russian attacks damage data centers in Kyiv

Russia has claimed that its strikes have damaged two major data center facilities in Kyiv, Ukraine, highlighting the growing vulnerability…

3 weeks ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

New environmental assessments required for large Scottish data center applications

New data center developments in Scotland with a power capacity above 50 MW will now be obliged to include an…

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…

2 months ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

AMACO seeks approval for US$ 1.5 billion off-grid AI data center in Kenya

AMACO Energy Group, a Greek multinational energy and infrastructure firm, is planning to build a KSh 194 billion (US$ 1.5…

2 months ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Eskom looks to hyperscalers to soak up South Africa’s 6 GW power surplus

Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned electricity utility, plans to court hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to take up as…

3 months ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

SPECIAL REPORT | Digital transformation sparks energy revolution across Africa

All across the African continent there is buzz about digital transformation. Government leaders will often toss the phrase into their…

3 months ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Telecom Egypt to carve out data center business after dropping Helios deal

Telecom Egypt’s board of directors resolved on July 15, 2026, not to move forward with a transaction that would have…

3 months ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Cape Town tribunal approves land rezoning for two Equinix data centers

The City of Cape Town’s Municipal Planning Tribunal on Tuesday approved an application by landowner King David Country Club to…

3 months ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Raxio’s TZ1 to add 6 MW and 800 racks to Tanzania’s data center market

African data center operator Raxio Group is planning to launch Tanzania’s first carrier-neutral, Tier III data center, on the outskirts…

3 months ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Paratus and Powertel light up first phase of major Zimbabwe fiber corridor

Paratus, an African fiber and satellite connectivity operator, through its Paratus Zimbabwe subsidiary and partner Powertel Communications, has lit the…

3 months ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Genew Technologies to lay 1,700 km of fiber along the Congo River bed

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chinese telecommunications and…

3 months ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

ST Digital opens Gabon’s first sovereign Tier III data center

African data center operator ST Digital has opened its first Tier III data center in Gabon located in the Nkok…

3 months ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Africa needs 500 data centers in nine years: AfCFTA secretary-general

Africa’s digital economy is projected to grow nearly fourfold over the next decade, but the continent is starting from a…

4 weeks ago

Artificial Intelligence | Conor McNevin

Mistral AI raises €3 billion in record European tech funding round

Mistral AI (Mistral), a French artificial intelligence company, has raised € 3 billion (US$ 3.49 billion) in a Series D…

1 month ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure plan 36 MW data center near Milan

Greenfield Group (Greenfield), a renewable energy investor and developer, and Finsbury Infrastructure, a privately held specialist developer and investor, are…

1 month ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

Pure DC commences final data center construction phase in North London

Pure Data Centres Group (Pure DC), a digital infrastructure company and Glencar, a general construction contractor, have started the piling…

1 month ago

Capital | Brendyn Lotz

CPP Investments and Equinix complete US$ 4 billion acquisition of atNorth

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), an organization managing the reserve funds of the Canada Pension Plan, and…

1 month ago

Artificial Intelligence | Deborah Grey

Cerebras and Compute Nordic Finland announce new 165 MW AI data center in Mikkeli

Cerebras Systems, an AI infrastructure provider, has announced a new AI data center in Mikkeli, Finland, to be developed in…

1 month ago

Artificial Intelligence | Brendyn Lotz

AI demand expected to push Europe’s hyperscale market beyond US$ 139 billion by 2031

Market research outfit Research And Markets has published its latest industry outlook and forecast for the European hyperscale data center…

1 month ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

YIT to build new atNorth data center in Finland

YIT, a Finnish construction company, has agreed with Nordic data center services provider atNorth, to build a new data center…

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

Capital | Conor McNevin

Eurofiber secures € 2.2bn in refinancing

Eurofiber, a digital infrastructure and telecommunication service provider, has secured € 2.2 billion (US$ 2.56 billion) in new long-term financing…

1 month ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

Digital Realty starts construction of a new data center in Switzerland

Digital Realty, a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), has started construction of ZUR4, a new data center in Glattbrugg, Switzerland,…

3 months ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

Iran targets Amazon Web Services data center in Bahrain

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have carried out yet another strike on a data center in the Middle East.…

3 months ago

Artificial Intelligence | Deborah Grey

e& UAE and Core42 partner to deliver sovereign AI infrastructure

Middle Eastern telecom major e& UAE, and Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure and digital services,…

3 months ago

Capital | Deborah Grey

I Squared Capital to invest US$ 2 billion into digital infrastructure and district cooling in Saudi Arabia

PIF and I Squared Capital, an independent global infrastructure investment manager, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for I…

3 months ago

Data Center | Deborah Grey

Letsia to invest US$ 13.32 million into green data center development in Riyadh

Letsia, a Middle Eastern technology conglomerate has announced plans to invest SAR 50 million (US$ 13.32 million) to develop a…

3 months ago

Middle East | Deborah Grey

MEA green data center market poised to grow by over 30 percent by 2030: Report

The market for sustainable or “green” data centers across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) could grow by 31.81 percent…

3 months ago

Artificial Intelligence | Deborah Grey

Magna AI and Emaar Executive Company to build sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

Magna AI, a global integrated-value-chain sovereign AI provider, has announced a strategic collaboration with Emaar Executive Company (EEC), a Saudi-based…

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