July 15, 2022 Ascenty
Ascenty has announced the launch of two new facilities in Mexico. It also revealed that it has finished constructing a second data center in Chile. Ascenty first announced its plans for data centers in Mexico in 2020. It has now launched both facilities in Queretaro, Mexico. These will be the...
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July 06, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporation...
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July 04, 2022 Scala Data Centers
Scala Data Centers has announced that its SP4 single-tenant hyperscale site, which was initially projected to go live in April, will now launch in July. The site, based in Tamboré in São Paulo's metropolitan region, will be the largest vertical datacenter in Latin America, spanning 13,000m2...
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June 16, 2022 Equinix
Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have announced the opening of SY9x, the first xScale data center in Sydney, following the closing of the two parties' US$575 million joint venture. Located in Rosehill, and adjacent to the Western Sydney CBD of Parramatta, this facility, will be accompanied by a...
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June 09, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it will be developing its third data center in Mumbai, India. The data center giant said it would invest over $86 million to develop the data center. According to the company, the data center will be housed on four-acre land. The data center will be located in...
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May 19, 2022 ODATA SA
Odata has launched its first data center in Mexico. Rumor also has it that CyrusOne, an existing stakeholder, will acquire the rest of the Brazilian firm from its founders, Patria Investments. Odata opened the new data center in in El Marqués, Querétaro, Mexico. The first phase of development at...
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May 16, 2022 Equinix
According to a newsletter from Christian Koch’s Foundations, New York Internet (NYI) will be taking over a space in 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel currently occupied by Equinix. Equinix announced in May 2021 that it would be exiting some of its leased data centers in the US. One of those...
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May 13, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced its involvement in a new district heating system project in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The data center company is teaming up with Codema, the Dublin energy agency, which will begin by carrying out a feasibility study. The project will reportedly be based around Equinix's DB5, a...
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April 12, 2022 HostDime
HostDime has announced that to support its Paraíba data center in Brazil, it has installed a solar plant. The photovoltaic solar power plant, which has already had more than 2,000 photovoltaic modules installed, is located in a rural area of the Pilar municipality in Paraíba, and saw an...
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April 08, 2022 ODATA SA
According to Valor Economico, Patria Investments is mulling over the sale of its data center firm Odata. The report has it that the Brazilian asset manager is in advanced talks with investment banks and international merger & acquisition firms to determine who will handle the transaction. In...
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April 07, 2022 Equinix
In its latest sustainability effort, Equinix has announced $1.2 billion of "green bonds," the fourth green bond the company has issued. Now the company's total green bonds stand at $4.9 billion. According to the company, the company will use these funds to push forward its sustainability...
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April 04, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has joined Host In Ireland’s Orchards in the Community initiative, alongside CyrusOne, and is now one of 52 pledgers – and more than 90 schools and community groups. The initiative plans to help plant over 1,200 orchards across Ireland to bolster the country’s declining bee population....
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April 04, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it plans to build a data center in Salalah, a city located on the south coast of the Sultanate of Oman, making it the second in Oman, with links to its MC1 in Muscat. SN1 will also be the company's fifth data center in the region, and will be built in partnership with...
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March 22, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is expanding in India as it acquired a plot of land in Chennai. This is part of the company’s expansion and growth strategy. The company revealed that it took possession of the 5.5-acre land in the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd (SIPCOT) IT Park. According to...
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March 18, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has acquired four data centers belonging to Entel in Peru and Chile for $705 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of the year. Per the deal, Equinix will take over one data center in Lima, Peru, and three facilities in Santiago, Chile. Under the terms of the...
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March 09, 2022 HostDime
HostDime recently celebrated a significant milestone in the construction of its 100,000-square-foot Eatonville data center with the last structural beam placed on the facility. According to Manny Vivar, the company’s CEO, the $37 million project will be the “Penn Station of Florida.” He added:...
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February 03, 2022 Equinix
Equinix recently opened its Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) based near Washington, DC, which will be home to a number of trials focusing on the development of sustainable data center tech. At the facility, the company will partner with Bloom Energy, ZutaCore, Virtual Power Systems (VPS), and Natron...
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January 31, 2022 Ascenty
Ascenty has broken ground on its fourth data center in the Sao Paulo region of Brazil. The new data center will have 7,000 square meters of space while also offering 9MW of capacity. Ascenty says it will be investing up to R$220 million (US40.9m) in developing the facility. The data center is...
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January 27, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is making strategic partnerships as it announced that it had formed another joint venture with GIC. The data center company and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund aim to develop hyperscale facilities in South Korea. The companies announced the $525 million joint venture details earlier...
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January 12, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has signed a green energy deal it has announced. By penning a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Neoen and Prokon, Equinix will be provided with 85% of the energy produced by the 35MW Björkliden wind farm in the municipality of Närpes, in the western region of Ostrobothnia. This...
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