Data center cooling system failure causes CME Group to suspend trading
A glitch in the cooling system of its data center, has caused the CME Group, one of the world’s largest exchange operators, to suspend trading on its currency and derivatives platforms, impacting trading in foreign exchange, treasuries, commodities and stocks. The Chicago-headquartered CME Group operates financial derivatives exchanges, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the […]
SPECIAL FEATURE | Designing adaptive data centers for India’s heartland
As digital services surge in India’s heartland, smaller towns have emerged as the new frontier for data center development. There’s more to India’s data center market than the glitzy metros of Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi NCR, and Bangalore. Digital services are being consumed in Meerut, Cuttack, Haridwar, Darjeeling, and Bhopal too. This necessitates the deployment […]
Tillman Global Holdings to develop a 300 MW hyperscale DC campus in Visakhapatnam
Tillman Global Holdings, a US-based holding company focused on creating, operating and investing in telecommunications and energy infrastructure, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to develop a 300 MW hyperscale data center campus in Visakhapatnam with a proposed investment of Rs 15,000 crore. […]
Digital Connexion to invest US$ 11 billion to build 1 GW AI data center in Andhra Pradesh
Digital Connexion has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh Government to build a 1 GW data center in the state. For this project Digital Connexion plans to invest approximately US$ 11 billion by 2030. The AI-native, purpose-built data center project will come up across 400 acres of land in Vishakhapatnam. In […]
Aramco and Pasqal deploy Saudi Arabia’s first quantum computer
Aramco, a Saudi-owned integrated energy and chemicals company headquartered in Dhahran, in partnership with Pasqal, a global provider of neutral-atom quantum computing, has announced the successful deployment of Saudi Arabia’s first quantum computer. In a press release, Aramco said that this will also be the region’s first quantum computer dedicated to industrial applications. Pasqal’s system […]
Indian DC operators’ revenue to surge 20-22 percent annually till fiscal 2028: Crisil Ratings
Crisil Ratings expects the revenue of India’s data center operators to reach around Rs 20,000 crore annually by fiscal 2028. This translates to an annual growth of 20-22 percent. It further finds that to cater to the buoyant demand, capacity in the industry is expected to double to 2.3-2.5 GW by March 2028. In a […]
The prefabrication revolution in data centers
Not the biggest, but the fastest. How prefabrication is reshaping the data center race. Data centers were once seen as nothing more than “four walls and a shell” – borrowing from commercial real estate jargon to describe a weather-tight exterior envelope that keeps the elements out. Building this shell is the easy part. The […]
Oracle deploys OCI Supercluster in the Middle East
Oracle has announced a major expansion of the Oracle Cloud Abu Dhabi Region, with the deployment of the first Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster in the Middle East. The new OCI Supercluster, which is powered by more than 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, will support sovereign AI initiatives in the Middle East, and aim to deliver […]
PIF, SITE and Microsoft sign MoU to explore sovereign‑cloud services in Saudi Arabia
Public Investment Fund (PIF), which is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Saudi Information Technology Company (SITE), and Microsoft, to explore the delivery of Microsoft’s sovereign-cloud services in Saudi Arabia. In a press release, PIF said that under the MoU, Microsoft will work […]
China Mobile lands Hong Kong segment of SEA-H2X subsea cable
China Mobile, a key initiator and investor in the Southeast Asia-Hainan-Hong Kong (SEA-H2X) international submarine cable project, has successfully landed the cable in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong. With this, construction of the Hongkong segment has officially begun, with full system completion anticipated by the end of 2025. The SEA-H2X international submarine cable spans approximately […]