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The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Chillmine, Energywise to develop solar powered data centers in Zimbabwe
Plan to utilize power from 100MW solar project
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GigaIO launches “suitcase-sized AI supercomputer” Gryf
Offers data center-scale compute from any location
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IQM to deploy Poland’s first superconducting quantum computer at the Wrocław University
IQM Spark system will be installed in Q2 2025
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IBM saw 15 federal contracts canceled by DOGE during Q1 2025
Company loses $100 million in future payments but downplays impact in earnings call
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Fujitsu and Riken developing 256-qubit superconducting quantum computer
Builds on the 64-qubit system previously deployed by the partners
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La Fe Health Research Institute building supercomputer in Valencia, Spain
Project expected to be complete by June 2025
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Vertiv, Nvidia, and iGenius partner on AI supercomputer Colosseum
Will be hosted in Italy
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QpiAI launches 25-qubit superconducting quantum computer in India
Wants to scale the system to 100 logical qubits by 2030
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PsiQuantum signs $10.8m contract with US Air Force for quantum photonics research
Chips will be used to support use cases within the Air Force
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Telus to deploy 500 Nvidia Hopper GPUs at Rimouski data center later this year
Canadian telco also planning to expand its Kamloops site to house a supercomputer
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Anton 3 supercomputer begins operations at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
System funded by a $3.15 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health
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IBM launches Aachen, a 156-qubit quantum system powered by Heron r2 processor
System deployed in the company’s IBM Quantum Data Center in Germany
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Australia’s Defense Dept. says Taingiwilta supercomputer is fully operational
System specifications still not been shared
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US National Science Foundation awards $20m to NSF CloudBank
Funding will be used to expand cloud computing capacity for science and engineering research
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UK gov’t announces £121m to further support quantum technologies
Funding package made up of new and previously announced investments
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HPC cloud provider Qarnot gets funding from European Innovation Council
Value of funding not shared
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Sparrow Quantum raises $24m to expand production of photonic quantum chips
Funding round included participation from European Innovation Council
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xAI doubles number of onsite gas turbines at Memphis data center in violation of permit limits
Aerial photos revealed 35 onsite methane gas turbines
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European Commission plans network of AI clusters across continent
Commission also plans to propose Cloud and AI Development Act to triple EU data center capacity
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Soluna secures wind supply deal for 120MW crypto data center in Texas
Project Hedy will be colocated with the 200MW wind farm
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Atos appoints Thales' Pierre-Yves Jolivet as EVP and head of Eviden
Jolivet previously held role of VP and GM of cyber digital business at Thales
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University of Edinburgh deploys Cerebras CS-3 cluster at EPCC supercomputing center
Wafer Scale Engine processors provide both training and inferencing capabilities
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IBM unveils next-generation z17 mainframe
Has been specifically engineered to support AI workloads
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Serbian gov’t signs contact with Eviden for €50m supercomputer
Will contain 20x more chips than country’s existing Nvidia-based system
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EuroHPC JU upgrades Bulgarian Discoverer supercomputer with four DGX H200s
System renamed Discoverer+
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DARPA announces 15 companies selected for first phase of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Program to determine if building a fault-tolerant quantum computer within a decade is possible
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Jericho Energy launches modular data center business
Will be powered by onsite natural gas generation