A New Zealand data center firm has bought a large plot of land on the South Island and is working towards building a hyperscale facility there. First announced in December 2020, Datagrid – founded by ...

When DataGrid, Inc. announced it successfully developed an AI system capable of generating high-quality photorealistic Japanese faces, it was impressive. But now the company has gone even further. Its ...

A Japanese tech company has made an AI capable of generating fake images of fashion models. The technology used to make them is called a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), which pits two algorithms ...

Rémi Galasso’s Datagrid and Kiwi telco Chorus have announced plans for a trans-Tasman subsea cable, named the Tasman Ring Network. The Memorandum of Understanding between the pair to build the cable ...

Datagrid chief executive Rémi Galasso met with ministers in April to discuss the proposed data centre and the new fibre optic subsea data cable linked to it. [File photo]Supplied / Supplied Datagrid ...

Meridian Energy has once again expressed it doubts about the progress of the Datagrid data centre project near Invercargill, although the company behind it – BW Digital – says “work is ongoing”.

Hawaiki Cable owner BW Digital said its plan to build a Datagrid data centre in Southland, drawing power from Meridian Energy’s Manapouri hydropower plant, is “progressing as planned”.