Weekly Data Center Industry News -Second Weeks of Dec

Weekly Data Center Industry News -Secon Weeks of Dec

1. Seraya Partners closes $800m APAC digital infrastructure and energy transition fund

Fund oversubscribed by $50m

2. Intel unveils new data center chip with focus on AI growth

3. LinkedIn shelved planned move to Microsoft Azure, opting to keep physical data centers

4. Facebook, Google data centers among latest developments transforming Nebraska farmland

5. AWS acquires 20 acres in Manassas, Virginia, for $27 million

Buys plot just south of existing Digital Realty campus

6. Penta Infra breaks ground on 4.4MW Hamburg data center

Facility to go live in H1 2025

7. Oracle Database@Azure now available in Microsoft Azure East US region

Oracle deploys Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Azure data centers

8. Crusoe Announces Data Center Expansion with atNorth in Iceland

100% renewable energy project expands Crusoe’s clean computing footprint into Europe

9. Data centre colocation market to reach US$279.1bn by 2034

10. Equinix to expand liquid cooling to 100 datacenters to quench your AI thirst

Bit barn touts big savings for ditching the fans

11. Equinix enables data center liquid cooling for AI at scale and overall IT efficiency

12. Land and Expand: Meta, Novva Data Centers, Amazon, Microsoft, NTT

Land and Expand is a periodic feature at DCF highlighting recent data center developments,

including new sites, land acquisitions and campus expansions.

13. From outdated to outstanding—revolutionizing manufacturing data centers

14. CoreSite to build new data centers in Secaucus and Denver

Two buildings to offer 33MW, new Denver campus to eventually span 60MW

15. Intel joins RISE data center cooling research project in Sweden

Supports the data center testbed

16. ResetData launches liquid cooled data center lab in Sydney

Company testing new data center technology

17. DC Blox to develop 216MW campus outside Atlanta, Georgia

Company makes second Atlanta announcement in recent weeks

18. Startup Oxide Computer puts the ‘cloud’ back in on-prem private clouds

19. Oracle embarks on potentially risky data-center expansion as its cloud growth slows

20. How Saudi Arabia became the Fastest Growing DC Market in MENA

21. Indian DCs have attracted investments worth US$ 35 Billion: CBRE Report

22. Server Rooms vs. Data Centers: Advantages and Disadvantages

Despite the benefits of data centers, using a server room to operate IT equipment can sometimes be the better choice.

These pros and cons of both server rooms and data centers will help you make the right decision.

23. Startup raises $55 million for portable Starlink-dedicated data centers

24. AI heats up data center infrastructure market

25. Microsoft's San Jose data center will use food waste gas for back up power

Enchanted Rock will buy renewable natural gas from US Energy for Microsoft's microgrid

26. US Signal turns up second Indianapolis data center

The new location is the second-largest data center US Signal has in the Indianapolis market.

27. Meta’s Arizona data center to be powered by solar + storage project

Meta will receive the majority portion of the solar energy generated by Ørsted’s Eleven Mile Solar Center,

a 300-MW solar farm and 300-MW, four-hour battery energy storage system currently under construction in Pinal County, Arizona.

28. Why subsea data centers can’t get afloat

China is claiming the world's first 'commercial' ocean floor data center – but real commercial players aren't touching it.

29. Data Center News Roundup: AMD Throws Down the Gauntlet, Digital Realty Unveils Global Venture

In this week's top data center news stories, AMD introduces new hardware and a $7 billion partnership

will see the creation of new facilities on both sides of the Atlantic.

30. Data Center Reform Coalition forewarns of environmental impact of data center development

31. Blackstone, Digital Realty join hands to develop $7 bln data centers