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QTS expands further in Texas

QTS is expanding in Texas, with the addition of a new building to its Irving data center campus. The facility, namely DC5, is located at 6300 Longhorn Drive, and will see an investment of $180 million.According to the company, the facility, which will span 337,190 sq ft, is projected to be co...

October 11, 2022

QTS Data Centers

Equinix To Invest $74m in Developing its First Facility in Jakarta, Indonesia

Equinix has revealed its plans to develop a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the company's first facility in the Asian country. Equinix noted that it would be investing $74m in developing the new IBX facility. The data center will be located in the Central Business Distri...

October 11, 2022

Equinix

Stack Acquires 60 Acres in Manassas as Part of a Potential 250MW Data Center Campus Development

Stack Infrastructure has acquired two empty parcels of land in Manassas, Virginia. The land has been zoned for data center development. Per BizJournal, an affiliate of Stack Infrastructure paid $25.4m for 30.8 acres at 9530 Hornbaker Road, Manassas, last month. The company then bought anoth...

October 11, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Google to open its first data center in Japan

Google is opening its first data center in Japan, it has announced. To be located in Inzai City, Chiba, the facility is part of the company's $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024 and is set to open by 2023. Google The data center, the company...

October 10, 2022

Google

Stack To Develop an 80MW Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

Stack Infrastructure has announced its plans to develop a large data center campus in Frankfurt. The company is looking to develop an 80MW facility in a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in the German city. Stack Infrastructure acquired the 17-acre parcel from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners D...

October 10, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack installs beehives at data center campus in Milan

In a bid to help the drastically declining bee population and push forward its ESG commitments, Stack has announced that it has deployed three beehives at its Milan campus in Italy. In its announcement on LinkedIn, the company outlined that while honeybees are responsible for 80% of the world'...

October 04, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region

Google is reportedly close to buying a 30-hectare plot for its upcoming Berlin Google Cloud region in Germany having already signed corresponding preliminary contracts. According to reports by Maerkische Allgemeine, the site that it has chosen is in the Schenkendorf area of Mittenwalde, speci...

October 04, 2022

Google

Vantage announces the opening of its second data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Vantage Data Centers is expanding its presence in Malaysia, with its second data center in Cyberjaya. The facility, a four-story data center dubbed KUL12, will provide 10MW of capacity across 194,000 square feet of space when combined with its existing KUL11.Construction on the data center be...

September 30, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

Equinix tests hydrogen fuel cell power

Equinix is the latest company in the industry to trial hydrogen fuel cells as a power source for data centers. The company will be working in partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and Engine...

September 30, 2022

Equinix

NTT to build new 30MW data center in Kansai region of Japan

NTT is building a new 30MW data center in the Kansai region of Japan, it has been announced. The facility, which is being constructed in Soraku-gun, Kyoto Prefecture, will be a four-story, seismic-isolated structure. Model image of the completed data center The building wi...

September 30, 2022

NTT

Digital Realty files to build data center in Chicago

Digital Realty has reportedly filed to construct a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The application for construction on the facility outlines that it would span 565,000-square-foot (52,500 sqm) as a 13-story building at 321-337 E. 21st Street, which is opposite 350 E Cermak carrier hotel...

September 28, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Stack's heat-sharing project in Oslo successful

STACK Infrastructure has successfully connected its data center to Hafslund Oslo Celsio System in Norway for city-wide heat reuse. This is the first time a project of this kind has taken place in the country. Now, after a one-year ramp-up, STACK's OSL01 data center is now providing heat and h...

September 22, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Equinix expands its ZH4 IBX facility in Zurich

Equinix has announced the expansion of one of its data centers in Zurich, Switzerland. Its ZH4 IBX facility, located at Josefstrasse 225, will see the addition of 850 square meters (9,150 sq ft) of whitespace and more than 200 cabinets.The facility first opened in 2010, and since then, it has...

September 16, 2022

Equinix

Indoor vertical farm on the way for former Digital Realty data center in Herndon, Virginia

In Virginia, a former Digital Realty data center is gearing up for a dramatic transformation. Located in Herndon, the company’s old data center will become an agricultural facility, specifically a vertical farm. Vertical farms have similar power, water, and air conditioning requirements to dat...

September 14, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

ESR Cayman & Stack Form JV To Develop a 48MW Facility in Seoul, South Korea

ESR Cayman and Stack Infrastructure have partnered to develop a new data center in Seoul, South Korea. Both companies announced the joint venture to develop a 48MW data center in Incheon. The companies plan to break ground on the data center in Q1 2023. The facility is also scheduled to be com...

September 14, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Compass Datacenters files for data center renovation project in Red Oak, Texas

According to reports, Compass Datacenters is going to launch a $64 million data center renovation project in Red Oak, Texas. Filed with the state of Texas, the project is known as Vallies ELT-1 and is set to commence at the end of September. Located at 441 North Austin Boulevard, the project s...

September 12, 2022

Compass Datacenters

Environmental group launches appeal against Interxion's proposal for two data centers in Dublin

Environmentalists are appealing against two data centers Interxion is planning to build in Dublin. The appeal, lodged with An Bord Pleanála (ABP) by John Conway and Louth Environmental Group, argues that there are a "disproportionate" number of data centers in the area and that the facilities'...

September 09, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

NTT announces launch of its Cyberjaya 6 Malaysian data center

NTT has announced that it has begun construction on its Cyberjaya 6 data center in Malaysia, with an initial investment of more than $50 million. Set to cater to hyperscalers and high-end enterprises, the facility, when combined with the company's CBJ5 data center, will have a capacity of 22M...

September 08, 2022

NTT

DigitalBridge and Equinix are The Final Bidders For Time Dotcom's Aims DC Business

According to Bloomberg, Equinix and DigitalBridge are the final two companies looking to buy Time Dotcom’s data center business. The companies are looking to sign an agreement to take over the business called Aims Data Centre within the next few weeks. Per sources, Time Dotcom might also re...

September 05, 2022

Equinix

Vantage Plans To Develop Another Data Center Campus in Sterling

According to BizJournal, Vantage is looking to develop another data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. According to Loudoun property records, the company acquired 17 acres of land at 22318 Glenn Drive for $46m in October 2021. Per the documents filed by Loudoun County Economic Developm...

September 05, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

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