April 18, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area
Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in the construction of data centers, according to a report by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. At the end of last year, 17 new data centers were either under construction or in development, with a total planned area of 4.7 million square...
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April 18, 2023 California
StratCap, a privately held investment firm, has acquired two data centers in the United States. The data centers, located in California and Missouri, were purchased for an undisclosed amount. StratCap acquired in Santa Clara, California, a purpose-built data center that is 100 percent leased to a...
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April 17, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
ManageEngine is reportedly considering establishing a data center in Brazil. It plans to have the facility operational by either late this year or early next, near its Santa Catarina or São Paulo offices. According to the company, regulatory barriers and import tax mean that a lack of local data...
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April 14, 2023 Colombia
I-Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment group, has bought two data centers in Colombia from the Colombian telecoms operator UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. The data centers were formerly owned by UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. I-Squared Capital will now have a larger footprint in Latin...
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April 13, 2023 Northern Virginia
A first-of-its-kind combination data center and hydrogen fuel hub is on its way to Surry County, North Virginia, it has been announced. Middleburg-based Green Energy Partners LLC is leading the project, which is called the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) and comes after GEP secured 641 acres of...
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April 13, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Cirion has outlined its plans to develop three data centers in Chile, Peru and Brazil in 2023, as it continues its growth in Latin America. Specifically, the three facilities will be located in Santiago's Quilicura district, Macropolis in Lurín in Peru, and Cotia in São Paulo. Together the three...
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April 12, 2023 Peru
Optical Networks has announced that it is rebranding as Win Empresas. This pursuit of a commercial restructuring, is aimed at bolstering its presence in the corporate telecoms market through enhancing association with Win, its telecoms arm. Further to this, it restated its intentions to open two...
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April 11, 2023 Northern Virginia
In Stafford County, Stafford Technology LC, a company affiliated with US real estate firm Peterson, has outlined plans to develop a 5.5 million sq ft data center park. In order to accommodate the 25-building data center campus, the company is seeking to rezone 524 acres in the Falmouth Election...
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April 07, 2023 Northern Virginia
This spring and summer, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is mulling over a proposal enabling data facilities in Loudoun County to draw power more routinely from on-site disaster diesel generators. The proposal aims to alleviate pressure on the transmission system, which transports...
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April 06, 2023 Ashburn: Data Center Alley
Direct Line Global has announced that it has signed the lease for a 17,040-square-foot research and development space within Ashburn Crossing, an 80-acre business park in Ashburn, Virginia. Through this move, the company has tripled its presence in the area. Speaking about this expansion, Vern...
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April 06, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area
With the construction of its dark fiber network, Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is enhancing connection options for the San Francisco Bay Area's densely populated area of data centers. Critical fiber infrastructure is now available from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area to...
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March 30, 2023 Northern Virginia
PowerHouse anticipates that the 265,000-square-foot building will be occupied by tenants in July, with complete construction scheduled for completion in October. Nonetheless, there is a pervasive power issue. Buddy Rizer, head of Loudoun County Economic Development, stated that each project has a...
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March 29, 2023 Americas
Keepit has announced it has achieved 100% renewable energy across its data centers located in the Americas and EMEA; it currently operates ten data centers across the U.S., Canada, Germany, the UK, and Denmark. The energy sources that will be utilized come under local renewable energy guarantee...
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March 29, 2023 Americas
Actis and Nabiax, a European data center provider owned by Asterion Industrial Partners and Telefónica, have agreed for Actis to purchase 11 data centers spread across six countries in South America and the US. Actis will take complete ownership of the data centers upon settlement. Actis will own...
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March 29, 2023 Mexico City / Ciudad de México
The introduction of Tesla in Mexico and the pursuit of automation will exert pressure not just on the automobile sector but also on Data Centers and telecom networks. The electrification of automobiles will need the construction of a higher number of chargers. With the use of data centers,...
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March 28, 2023 United States
The Green Grid (TGG) recently announced the launch of its updated tool, which it says will boost data center power consumption by 50%. Total Cost of Ownership Calculation Tool – dubbed tggTCO, reportedly enables the analysis of different liquid cooling methods' impact on a data center's financial...
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March 28, 2023 United States
As institutions continue to consolidate their information repositories, a bipartisan group of senators has proposed legislation to strengthen government data centers' physical and electronic security against various threats. The Office of Management and Budget would be required to work with...
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March 27, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
In Campo Grande, western Brazil, a Zeittec-built modular data center has been launched. Spanning 72 sqm (775 sq ft) of usable space, with an area of 340 sqm (3,659 sq ft), the facility, for the Public Ministry of Mato Grosso, will provide the infrastructure for the daily work of around 2,500...
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March 27, 2023 Mexico City / Ciudad de México
Mexico's data center industry is poised to receive a significant boost, with the Mexican Association of Data Centers (MEXDC) announcing an $8 billion investment from major companies such as IBM, Oracle, and Equinix. The investment is expected to create over 20,000 jobs in the next few years and...
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March 26, 2023 United States
After a power failure knocked down its data center, the Internet Archive's digital library was offline for many hours. Free public entry to backups of websites, software programs, games, music, movies, photos, and millions of books is offered by the California-based non-profit. The Bay Area has...
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