March 28, 2024

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Akron Energy raises $110M to grow U.S. bitcoin mining capacity, launch AI cloud service in Norway

Akron Energy, a data center infrastructure company, closed a $110 million private funding round to expand its operations, the company’s CEO Josh Payne shared exclusively with TechCrunch.
The round was led by Bluesky Capital Management and included part…

Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers

Running a data center means that you have to find innovative ways to manage heat from the servers. And French startup Qarnot is standardizing its process to reuse fatal heat and turn it into an asset. While the startup has been around for a while, Qarnot now wants to reach the next level. It has […]

Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. Today, Microsoft confirmed the acquisition but not the purchase price, saying that it plans to use Fungible’s tech and team to deliver “multiple DPU solutions, network […]

Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Google will open its first data center in Japan in 2023

Google said today that it will open its first data center in Japan by 2023. The company noted that this data center will be located in Inzai City, Chiba, and is a part of its $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024. This is the company’s third data center in Asia after Taiwan […]

Google will open its first data center in Japan in 2023 by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch