This Week's Top Stories in the Data Centre Industry
HPE this week completed its US$14bn acquisition of Juniper Networks, creating a networking vendor with US$7bn in annual revenue and establishing a direct competitor to Cisco across enterprise, data centre and service provider markets.
The transaction doubles HPE’s networking business and positions the company to address infrastructure challenges created by AI workloads. It also aims to bring together HPE’s enterprise networking capabilities with Juniper’s data centre and service provider expertise under a single organisation.
Rami Rahim, former CEO of Juniper Networks, now leads HPE’s combined networking business as President and General Manager of HPE Networking.
“Today begins a new era for HPE – we are now at the epicentre of the transformation of IT, where AI and networking are converging,” says Antonio Neri, President and CEO of HPE.
AI data centre firm CoreWeave said on 7 July 2025 it is buying crypto miner Core Scientific in an all-stock deal valued at about US$9bn.
According to Reuters, the offer represents a US$20.40 per share value and implies a premium of nearly 66% to Core Scientific stock’s close before potential deal talks were first reported.
CoreWeave is hoping to strengthen its AI capabilities and bulk out its data centre infrastructure by bringing critical infrastructure in-house.
Company CEO, Chairman and co-founder Michael Intrator said the move is expected to eliminate US$10bn in future lease obligations and significantly enhance operating efficiency.
“This acquisition accelerates our strategy to deploy AI and HPC workloads at scale,” he says.
The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025, pending regulatory and shareholder approval.
Leading data centre company Digital Realty has announced a strategic collaboration with Vodafone Greece, a global leader in telecommunications, IoT and 5G connectivity.
The goal is to enhance digital infrastructure and connectivity in Crete, demonstrating how both companies are committed to positioning the island as an emerging connectivity hub in the Mediterranean.
A critical part of this collaboration is Vodafone Greece establishing a point of presence (PoP) at Digital Realty’s new HER1 data center in Heraklion, the first carrier-neutral interconnection point for all cable landing stations in Crete.
The facility will host customers’ submarine line terminating equipment, creating a critical link in the island’s connectivity ecosystem.
“This collaboration with Vodafone Greece marks a transformative moment for Crete’s digital infrastructure,” says Alexandros Bechrakis, Managing Director, Digital Realty in Greece.
Google Cloud’s Waltham Cross data centre will become fully operational by the end of 2025.
Located in Hertfordshire, UK, the facility is set to deliver high-performance, low-latency cloud infrastructure to British businesses and represents a major milestone in Google Cloud’s strategy to support enterprise AI workloads across the UK market.
“Delivering on our promise, this facility will provide British businesses with the high-performance, low-latency cloud they need to compete globally,” says Maureen Costello, Vice President UK, Ireland, Sub-Saharan Africa at Google Cloud, via a Google Cloud blog post.
“We're close to reaching a major milestone with our data centre in Waltham Cross, which will be fully operational by the end of the year.”
Read more about Google Cloud Summit London 2025 here.
DC BLOX has announced plans to construct a second subsea cable landing station campus in Palm Coast, Florida, expanding the company’s infrastructure footprint beyond its existing Myrtle Beach, South Carolina facility.
As a leading provider of connected data centres and fibre network solutions across the Southeastern US, DC BLOX’s new location will be the newest global network node supporting international data communications.
The Palm Coast CLS campus will provide global access to the US through a diverse Southeast location, distinct from existing Northern, Mid-Atlantic and Southern cable landings. This is to ensure more resilient and reliable international communications.
“The demand for global communications infrastructure continues to grow as hyperscalers expand into new international markets and invest in subsea cables to meet the growing requirements for cloud computing, AI and global data exchange,” says Chris Gatch, Chief Revenue Officer at DC BLOX.