Data Center News

QTS Drops Plan for Data Center near Madison, Wisconsin

QTS Data Centers

QTS has backed off plans to develop a data center near Madison, Wisconsin, after pushback from local officials. The company has dropped plans for a campus in the Village of DeForest after the village announced its intention to deny an annexation request related to the project.“After individual...

Sharjah Looks to Lure Data Centers to UAE city

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Sharjah, a city in the United Arab Emirates, is looking to lure data centers to the area and signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DataCanvas International and AI Caravan. The MoU outlines a collaborative effort among the parties to explore opportunities for establishing a...

EuroCTP Selects Equinix's FR2 Data Center for Equity Trading Consildated Tape

Equinix

EuroCTP, a new provider of an EU real-time pre and post-trade Consolidated Tape (CT) for financial equity trades, has selected Equinix's FR2 data center to host its 'tape' in Frankfurt, Germany.“Equinix FR2 provides EuroCTP with the ideal foundation to drive growth, ensuring we can reliably me...

TikTok Suffers Data Center Outage in US

TikTok has suffered a data center outage in the US. The social media platform has confirmed that issues experienced with its app have been related to a power outage at one of its US data centers.Posting on X, TikTok USDS said: "Since yesterday we’ve been working to restore our services followi...

Aker Nscale Plans 96MW Data Center in Skien, Norway

Norway

Aker Nscale has entered into an agreement with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway. The company aims to establish a data center capable of supporting AI workloads and has applied for grid capacity from Statnett.Leopold Løvenskiold, the general manager ...

Bitfarms Files to Convert Cryptomine into AI Data Center

United States

Cryptomining firm Bitfarms is set to demolish a former Bitcoin mining facility in Washington state in order to redevelop it into an HPC/AI data center.  The revamped facility is expected to be completed by December 2026, adding to the region’s growing number of data centers that are making use...

20i Launches Data Center Location in Singapore

Singapore

Managed hosting provider 20i has signed an agreement to lease capacity at an Equinix data center in Singapore. 20i providers hosting services, including reseller hosting, managed WordPress hosting, and cloud servers - including 20icloud, AWS, and GCP. It utilizes "autoscaling" and load balanci...

Colorado Proposes Tax Breaks for Data Centers

Colorado (CO)

Colorado could offer tax breaks to data center developers that pledge to power their facilities with renewable energy.A new bill proposed in the state’s House of Representatives would offer a 20-year, 100 percent sales and use tax exemption for qualifying data centers. The bill would see a new...

Alerify Partners with Zadara on Sovereign AI Cloud in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania-based data center provider Alerify has partnered with AI cloud provider Zadara on an AI Edge platform. Through the agreement, Alerify will combine its data center infrastructure and cloud platform with Zadara's offering, creating a sovereign AI solution in Pennsylvania.“We chose Z...

Equinix Launches Data Center in San Jose, California

Equinix

Equinix this week energized its SV12x facility, the first to do so under a new partnership between the city of San Jose and utility PG&E. The city and the utility partnered last year to guarantee power delivery for data centers. The deal promised infrastructure and speed improvements at a ...

DayOne Targets 560MW Data Center Campus Outside Helsinki, Finland

DayOne

Data center developer DayOne is planning a third campus in Finland. The company this week announced “early-stage plans” for a data center project in Klaukkala, Nurmijärvi.The Municipality of Nurmijärvi has initiated its handling of a preliminary sale of the data center site with DayOne. The co...

AM Group To Establish 1GW Data Center Campus in Northern India

India / Bhārata

AM Green Group (AMG), which specializes in the ‘green’ production of industrial materials and fuels like ammonia, hydrogen, and methanol, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Invest UP, the investment agency of the Government of Uttar Pradesh.The memorandum, which is non-binding, states t...

Canada's Government Calls for Firms to Build 100MW+ AI Data Centers

Canada

Canada’s government has put out a call for businesses interested in building large-scale AI data centers as it is looking for industry partners interested in constructing data centers with a capacity of more than 100MW in Canada.Evan Solomon, Canada’s AI minister, said his government is “takin...

KDDI Launches Data Center in Osaka, Japan

KDDI

Japanese telecoms firm KKDI has launched the first phase of a new data center in Osaka. The company this week announced that operations at the Osaka Sakai Data Center, located near the Osaka metropolitan area, started on January 22.The four-story facility, totaling 57,000 sqm (613,542 sq ft), ...

Planning Permission for Buckinghamshire Data Center Likely to be Quashed

United Kingdom

The UK Government has admitted that it made a “serious logical error” when granting planning permission to a data center in Buckinghamshire, making it likely that the decision will be quashed, reports Bloomberg.The Buckinghamshire Council had already refused this specific data center proposal ...

Fermi America Hit with Class Action Lawsuit

Fermi America

Fermi America, the company behind the proposed up to 11GW data center campus in Amarillo, Texas, has been hit with a class action lawsuit. The suit filed by national plaintiffs' law firm Berger Montague PC was made on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Fermi securities dur...

180-acre Data Center Set to be Built in Lyon Township, Michigan

Michigan

A data center campus spanning 180 acres is set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan. If the data center – known as Project Flex – is built, it will be located on the east side of Milford Road, south of the Huron Valley Trail crossing and south of New Hudson Drive West. It will consist of six...

PACE Taps Mace to Construct 168MW UK Data Center Portfolio

United Kingdom

UK construction firm Mace Construct has been tapped by Pathfinder Clean Energy Limited (PACE) to construct a portfolio of data centers with a combined capacity of 168MW. The two companies signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding under which Mace will support the development of three da...

Google Confirmed as Company Behind 500,000 Square Feet Data Center

The Scioto County Commission has confirmed that Google is the company behind a 500,000 sq ft (46,452 sqm), $1 billion data center project in Franklin Furnace, Ohio. Google's identity was revealed after the commission awarded the cloud giant a tax abatement on the project.Google has been given ...

Internet Services Partially Restored in Uganda Following General Election

Some Internet services have been restored in Uganda following the country's general election last week. Internet services were shut down in Uganda ahead of the election by Uganda's Communications Commission "to mitigate the rapid spread of misinformation."He saw off competition from former pop...