California startup Orbital joins space data center craze with $5m pre-seed
Orbital, a Los Angeles startup, has closed a pre-seed round of $5 million led by a16z’s startup accelerator program Speedrun.. Speedrun was…
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AWS inks recycled water supply agreement with Greater Western Water for planned data center in Melbourne, Australia
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a recycled water supply agreement with Greater Western Water (GWW) for its under-development data center site…
Buzz HPC signs $220m cloud deal with Bell AI and Cohere
Hive Digital Technologies’ subsidiary Buzz HPC has signed a sovereign AI contract with Bell Canada and LLM and AI company Cohere Inc..…
Verse raises $54m in Series B funding round for platform to expedite data center connections
US energy infrastructure firm Verse has closed an oversubscribed $54 million Series B funding round to support the deployment of its new…
Equinix trials hydrogen fuel cells as diesel alternative at Irish data center
Colo giant Equinix has commenced its first trial of using hydrogen fuel cell technology as an alternative to diesel backup generation at…
Quantum firm Atom Computing secures $100m Series C funding
Quantum computing firm Atom Computing has secured new funding.. The company this week announced it has raised a total funding of more…
Meta signs 1.6GW capacity agreement with Crusoe – report
Meta has reportedly signed on to secure 1.6GW of compute capacity from Crusoe.. As per a report from Bloomberg, Meta has signed…
Aston Power raises $20m to scale private power platform for data centers
US power delivery platform Aston Power has raised $20 million in a round led by TDK Ventures and JLL Spark Global Ventures…
Alibaba Cloud launches fifth data center in Japan
Alibaba Cloud has launched a fifth data center in Japan.. This comes just months after the company expanded the region with a…
Evaporative Cooling in Data Centers: Why the Industry Hesitates to Move On
Worldwide, data centers are significant water consumers, primarily because they utilize evaporative cooling systems to regulate heat produced by servers and other…