Mexico's Axtel opens PoP at MDC's Texas hub
MEXICO 10:02

Mexico's Axtel opens PoP at MDC's Texas hub

Mexican operator and ICT services provider Axtel has activated a new point of presence (PoP) at MDC Data Centers' MCA2 facility in McAllen (Texas), expanding its network infrastructure in the US. The announcement is designed to further strengthen cross-border connectivity and comes after Axtel last year launched a 1,000-kilometre fibre route with 1.2 Tbps capacity between Queretaro and Texas.

Vantage Data Centers raises GBP 254 mln in debt for Cardiff site
UNITED KINGDOM 08:43

Vantage Data Centers raises GBP 254 mln in debt for Cardiff site

Vantage Data Centers announced it has raised an additional GBP 254 million in securitized term notes due May 2029. The offering included GBP 200 million from a tap of its existing Class A-2 Notes while GBP 54 million was raised from the new Class B Tranche. This builds on Vantage's debut public issue in 2024 in British sterling, which raised GBP 600 million. The proceeds will be used for refinancing debt associated with Vantage's data centres in Cardiff. 

CapitaLand India Trust inks second hyperscaler agreement for Mumbai data centre
INDIA 07:56

CapitaLand India Trust inks second hyperscaler agreement for Mumbai data centre

CapitaLand India Trust (Clint) has secured a second long-term agreement with a global hyperscaler for Tower 2 of its Navi Mumbai facility. This deal brings the Trust's pre-leasing total to 53 percent across its three active developments in Navi Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai.

Keppel secures 720 MW data centre powerbank site in Australia
AUSTRALIA 06:54

Keppel secures 720 MW data centre powerbank site in Australia

Singapore-based global asset manager Keppel has secured rights to lease a 123-hectare site near Melbourne in Victoria with up to 720 MW of gross power capacity, expanding its Asia-Pacific data centre powerbank to more than 1 GW. The agreement with Lightwood Group allows Keppel early access to the site for planning, power and water contracting, ahead of long-term leases by its private data centre funds. The scale of the site could support cumulative investment of around AUD 10 billion over time, including cu

Ready Server enters Japan with AT Tokyo data centre deployment
JAPAN 06:24

Ready Server enters Japan with AT Tokyo data centre deployment

Singapore-based hosting provider Ready Server has launched operations in Japan, deploying infrastructure at AT Tokyo's CC1 data centre in Tokyo. The move makes Tokyo the company's third live region, alongside Singapore and Hong Kong. The Tokyo deployment is hosted at AT TOKYO CC1, a carrier-centric facility that houses multiple telecommunications carriers, internet exchange points and network service providers. Ready Server said it will use the site to establish direct cross-connects with networks including

SKT advances to next phase of Korea's national AI Project
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF 06:18

SKT advances to next phase of Korea's national AI Project

SK Telecom (SKT) has confirmed that its specialist team has progressed to the second phase of South Korea's national "Independent AI Foundation Model" project, following the successful evaluation of its large-scale language model, A.X K1. A.X K1 is a 519-billion-parameter model, making it the first domestically developed AI model in South Korea to exceed the 500-billion-parameter threshold. 

IFS and NEC to launch sovereign cloud and industrial AI services
JAPAN 06:15

IFS and NEC to launch sovereign cloud and industrial AI services

Sweden's IFS and NEC have announced a joint initiative to develop cloud and industrial AI services for the Japanese market, aimed at modernising core systems used by capital-intensive industries while addressing economic security and data governance requirements. The companies plan to begin service delivery during Japan's 2026 financial year. Under the collaboration, IFS will deploy its IFS Cloud platform on infrastructure hosted in domestic Japanese data centres, with NEC supporting the build and operation

Lightpath reports growth in AI-related fibre contracts across US
UNITED STATES 06:08

Lightpath reports growth in AI-related fibre contracts across US

US wholesale fibre connectivity provider Lightpath, a JV between Altice USA and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, has reported a "significant increase" in contract awards linked to AI-driven infrastructure deployments, saying it secured USD 252 million in AI-enabling total contract value during 2025. The figure represents a rise from USD 110 million awarded in 2024, bringing the operator's total contract value over the past two years to USD 362 million.

Resolute CS extends Equinix Fabric to enterprise last-mile connectivity
UNITED STATES 06:03

Resolute CS extends Equinix Fabric to enterprise last-mile connectivity

Resolute CS and Equinix have announced a collaboration to automate the design, pricing and ordering of global last-mile access for enterprises, integrating these capabilities into the Equinix Customer Portal. The partnership brings Resolute CS's Nexus platform into Equinix Fabric, allowing customers to connect on-premises locations to Equinix data centres and onward to cloud environments through a single interface.

SG.GS appoints Ben Cooper to lead Australian and Pacific operations
AUSTRALIA 06:01

SG.GS appoints Ben Cooper to lead Australian and Pacific operations

Singapore and London-based wholesale carrier SG.GS has appointed Ben Cooper as Senior Vice President, Global Network Strategy & Pacific Region to lead the company's strategic growth across Australia and the Pacific. The move follows SG.GS' service expansions in North America and Eastern Europe and the carrier said this "signals a major investment in Southern Hemisphere connectivity".

Kaytus launches integrated liquid-cooled data centre offering
SINGAPORE 05:48

Kaytus launches integrated liquid-cooled data centre offering

Singapore-based Kaytus has introduced a one-stop, end-to-end liquid-cooled data centre solution aimed at operators and enterprises building infrastructure for AI workloads. The company said the offering is designed to address the complexity of deploying high-density, liquid-cooled facilities while improving energy efficiency. According to Kaytus, the solution supports power densities of up to 15 kW per node and 130 kW per cabinet, with a stated power usage effectiveness below 1.1.

Beeline to use Russian Railways data centre in Yekaterinburg
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 15 JAN

Beeline to use Russian Railways data centre in Yekaterinburg

Russian operator Beeline has concluded an agreement with the state-owned Russian Railways on the use of the latter's data centre in Yekaterinburg. The operator will place its core network equipment in the data centre under an agreement valid for ten years, supporting improved quality of its telecommunications services in the Urals.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 15 JAN

Ascenty signs renewable energy contract with Casa dos Ventos

Data centre services provider Ascenty and renewable energy generator Casa dos Ventos have signed a USD 500 million agreement for renewable energy supply. This deal, the largest of its kind for data centres in Latin America, will provide 110 MW to Ascenty's operations and give Ascenty an equity stake in two Casa dos Ventos projects slated for 2027, with a combined installed capacity exceeding 1.5 GW. The partnership is a significant step in Ascenty's decarbonisation strategy, projected to prevent approximate

CROATIA (HRVATSKA) 15 JAN

Infobip announces leadership changes

Global cloud communication platform Infobip announced leadership changes to fuel its further growth. Kreso Zmak steps into the newly created role of Chief Innovation Officer, and Ante Pamukovic is the new Chief Revenue Officer, tasked with strategising for sustainable growth through global alignment. Veselin Vukovic, currently Chief Alliances Officer, will also join the Board of Directors, overseeing business operations and key strategic decisions.

GLOBAL 15 JAN

Quantum computing company Equal1 raises USD 60 million

Equal1, Dublin-based quantum semiconductor company, has raised USD 60 million in a funding round led by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF). Other investors participating in the round include Atlantic Bridge Ventures, Matterwave Ventures, European Innovation Council Fund, Enterprise Ireland, TNO Ventures and Elkstone. This brings total funding raised to date to more than USD 85 million. 

UNITED STATES 15 JAN

CyrusOne appoints Chief Business Officer to lead US operations

Global data centre group CyrusOne has appointed Robert Johnson as Chief Business Officer to oversee the operations and performance of its US data centres as they come online. He will be responsible for operational excellence, revenue management, customer outcomes and asset utilisation; and lead teams from US operations, account management, asset management, service delivery and security. He joins the company from Ericsson, where he was in charge of the Americas Network business.

EUROPE 15 JAN

AWS starts sovereign cloud service in Europe

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, its new offering designed to meet demand from the public sector and critical industries for local storage and increased data protection. Located physically and logically separate from other AWS Regions, the new service launches first in Germany and will come soon to AWS Local Zones in Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal. 

JAPAN 15 JAN

Sakura adds dedicated eight-GPU Nvidia H100 to cloud service

Japanese operator Sakura Internet has launched a new beta plan for its container-based GPU cloud service, Koukaryoku DOK, offering customers dedicated access to eight Nvidia H100 GPUs within a single task. The new plan allows multiple H100 GPUs to be used concurrently for large-scale workloads such as model training and inference, reflecting growing demand for high-density compute driven by large language models and other AI applications. Under the plan, GPU resources and NVMe storage are provisioned automa

JAPAN 15 JAN

NTT Data launches SOC and incident response service using CrowdStrike

NTT Data has launched a new security operations and incident response service based on CrowdStrike's next-generation log monitoring and analysis platform, integrating CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM into its global UnifiedMDR service portfolio. The service combines CrowdStrike's cloud-native SIEM technology with NTT Data's managed SOC and CSIRT operations, enabling centralised monitoring and analysis of logs across endpoints, cloud environments and networks. NTT Data said the integration is intended to str

UNITED STATES 15 JAN

Megaport launches bare-metal GPU instance based on Nvidia RTX Pro 6000

Latitude.sh has introduced a new bare-metal GPU instance powered by Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 Server GPU, expanding its on-demand compute offering following Megaport's acquisition of the company. The new instance makes the RTX Pro 6000, based on Nvidia's Blackwell architecture, available in both bare-metal and virtual machine formats. Latitude said it is among the first providers to offer this GPU on an on-demand basis. The product is positioned as an alternative to higher-end Blackwell GPUs that are typically

JAPAN 15 JAN

BBIX's OCX cloud service now supports Cisco Secure Access

SoftBanks IX subsidiary BBIX and its network solutions provider BBSakura Networks said they will add Cisco Secure Access as a destination connection for "XaaS Connection" within their cloud-based network service Open Connectivity eXchange (OCX). Cisco Secure Access is a cloud-based Security Service Edge (SSE) solution built on zero trust. The security features provided by Cisco Secure Access can be flexibly applied to customers' environment, enabling efficient and centralised security management.

SINGAPORE 15 JAN

NetIX adds Equinix Singapore to global internet exchange service

NetIX has added the Equinix Singapore Internet Exchange to its Global Internet Exchange (GIX) service, extending its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The new exchange point is located at Equinix SG1 in Singapore and is now available to all existing GIX members. Through the GIX service, NetIX aggregates routes from more than 50 internet exchange points and delivers them to customers via a single port and cross-connect, allowing members to access multiple exchanges without deploying additional local infra

JAPAN 15 JAN

NEC to launch composable disaggregated infrastructure for data centres

NEC has announced that it will begin offering its Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure solution from late January, targeting data centres and research institutions seeking more flexible deployment of computing resources such as servers and GPUs. The solution enables CPU, GPU and other components to be separated from physical server chassis and distributed across a data centre-scale network. 

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 14 JAN

Zoho launches 2 data centres in UAE

Zoho has announced the launch of its data centres in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, strengthening its regional footprint and enabling greater control over performance, compliance and data sovereignty for customers. The centres form a part of AED 100 million investment in the UAE that the company had announced in 2023. They will host services from Zoho Corporation's main brands, namely ManageEngine (enterprise IT management) and Zoho (cloud business services).

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