Weekly Data Center Industry News

Weekly Data Center Industry News -Fourth Weeks of Oct

1. Data center firm Equinix trims annual revenue forecast on weak corporate spending

2. RoMan Manufacturing renovates facility for new business serving data center industry

3. Iceland president touts nation's role as green data center spot

4. Brazil's TIM will complete its data center shutdown in 2023

   Telecoms company progresses with move to the Cloud

5.  Data center requirements under the new German Energy Efficiency Act

6.  Software gives credence to chilled water revival

The cooling challenge has intensified as data centers have become bigger and systems more complex.

 What can data center operators do to ensure resilience, save money and slash carbon emissions?

7.  AWS debuts EU-based sovereign cloud with dedicated data center

8.  AI-based data center optimization startup MangoBoost raises $55M Series A

9.  Nokia wants to conquer the data center market — can genAI help?

10.  Modular data centers provide answer to current customer supply challenges

JLL, Lumen Technologies and Schneider Electric come together

to deliver cutting edge, turn-key modular center solutions nationally

11.  Digital Realty appeals against 50-story luxury apartment tower next to its LA data center project

Coalition for Responsible Equitable Economic Development also appeals

12.  Microsoft To Establish Nine New Data Centers in Australia

The move forms part of a $3.2 billion cloud computing and AI infrastructure investment plan

13.  LCL to expand Aalst and Diegem data centers in Belgium

Company adding more than 6,000 sqm across two sites

14.  Bankrupt Cyxtera Looks to Sell Data Centers to Brookfield

Digital Realty is also understood to have shown interest in Cyxtera's assets

15.  Microsoft ditches plans for Czech data center in Prague – report

Company reportedly runs out of patience with local bureaucracy

16.  Digital Realty/Brookfield’s Indian JV appoints new CEO

CB Velayuthan takes helm at company formerly known as BAM Digital Realty

17.  Alibaba, Tencent Join $340 Million Funding for AI Startup Zhipu

Chinese tech giants place their bets on homegrown alternative to ChatGPT and Bard.

18.   Accelerate growth and maximize efficiency with a modern data center

19.    Hyperscaler data center capacity to nearly triple by 2029

Cloud providers are building new infrastructure and retrofitting systems

to prepare for high-intensity generative AI workloads, according to Synergy Research Group.

20.   Data Center News Roundup: Data Center Woes at DBS, New Cooling Innovations

In this week's top data center news stories, banking facilities resume

following a data center outage, and we take a closer look at the COOLERCHIPS initiative.

21.  Lenovo’s new global innovation centre handles AI & HPC 

22. SoftBank to invest up to $400m developing "one of Japan’s largest data centers"

Telco going big for 14th facility – but details sparse for now

23.    Infosys-Google Cloud Partnership Expands to AI Services