P R O J E C T F O C U S

UNTIED STATES

STACK Infrastructure has announced a 36MW data centre in Elk Grove Village,

Illinois, with contributions from Riverbend Industries, an affiliate of a STACK partner in the project.

Strategically positioned in one of the most competitive and capacity-constrained data centre markets in the United States, this new development will transform vacant real estate into a state-of-the-art facility optimised for AI, Machine Learning and cloud workloads.

“ Elk Grove Village is proud to welcome STACK’ s new development, which exemplifies the kind of investment that drives our local economic growth while rejuvenating valuable industrial real estate,” said Craig Johnson, Mayor of Elk Grove Village.

“ This project brings meaningful job opportunities and resourceful development to one of our most vital business corridors. We look forward to the long-term benefits it will bring to both our community and the broader technology ecosystem.”

ZIMBABWE

Chillmine, an innovative Seattle, WA-based data centre company, and Energywise Equipment, a leading Zimbabwe-based independent power producer( IPP) have announced a MOU to jointly pursue the development of data centre facilities powered by renewable energy in Zimbabwe.

Chillmine’ s liquid cooling solutions will drastically reduce operating costs and the environmental footprint of data centres in this growing region.

The MOU outlines a framework for the development of data centre facilities and Energywise’ s 100MW Runde River Solar Park, located in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe. This collaboration aims to leverage the solar energy generated by the Runde River Solar Park to power Chillmine’ s data centre operations, focusing on services such as crypto mining, crypto mining hosting, and AI Infrastructure-as-a-Service( IaaS).

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