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Read CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco
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CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco

September 05, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

JLL and CIM Group have listed a new purpose-built data center for lease. The data center is located at 400 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California. The data center offers 24MW of power across 182,250 square feet of two-story powered shell building on 7.3 acres. Per additional information in the...

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Read Kennedy Wilson To Develop a 73MW Data Center in Slough, UK
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Kennedy Wilson To Develop a 73MW Data Center in Slough, UK

August 23, 2022 London: Slough

A 73MW data center campus is being planned outside Slough, UK. Developers plan to demolish many office buildings that are not commercially viable to develop the facility. Kennedy Wilson’s affiliate Kwere II filed with the South Buckinghamshire council to develop the data center campus at...

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Read Segro applies to build new data center park in Slough, UK
Segro applies to build new data center park in Slough, UK

Segro applies to build new data center park in Slough, UK

August 09, 2022 London: Slough

Segro has announced that it has applied to build a new data center park, near Slough, UK. Details outline that the park will span 65,000 sqm (700,000 sq ft) and be located within the Thorney Business Park in Iver. According to the planning statement, the proposed building (DC1) is also...

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Read Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated
Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

August 08, 2022 Frankfurt

Frankfurt recently announced an updated plan for commercial developments in the city, which will place a limitation on cloud and colocation data center buildings. This comes as a response to concerns around their land and energy usage. Alongside this announcement, the city also outlined its...

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Read Singapore authorities to begin taking applications for new data centers
Singapore authorities to begin taking applications for new data centers

Singapore authorities to begin taking applications for new data centers

July 22, 2022 Singapore

Singapore has announced the end of its data center moratorium and is now accepting new applications for facilities, following Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Economic Development Board's (EDB) pilot scheme launch. The moratorium was originally put in place back in 2019 due to...

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Read Angelo Gordon To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Hong Kong
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Angelo Gordon To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Hong Kong

June 22, 2022 Hong Kong

Angelo Gordon, a New York-based equity group, has plans to develop a data center in Hong Kong. According to Mingtiandi, the company has submitted an application with the town planning board to build a 20MW data center. The data center will be located at No. 3 Kin Tai Street, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong....

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Read Evolution Data Centres (EvoDC) launches new Sustainable Data Centre Charter
Evolution Data Centres (EvoDC) launches new Sustainable Data Centre Charter

Evolution Data Centres (EvoDC) launches new Sustainable Data Centre Charter

June 20, 2022 Singapore

Evolution Data Centres has announced the launch of its new Sustainable Data Centre Charter, through which it measures its entire operations, with the aim of minimizing carbon intensity and limiting water usage as the company grows. The charter includes the target of emitting 20 tonnes of carbon...

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Read Material and labor shortages in the data center
Material and labor shortages in the data center

Material and labor shortages in the data center

June 14, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

As the need for data grows and grows, demand for data center construction is as strong as ever, however, the boom is being hampered by a number of factors, including supply and labor shortages, and price hikes. In a recent report named 'Data center market conditions update - Q1, 2022,'...

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Read RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development
RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development

RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development

May 23, 2022 Singapore

MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX), a crypto exchange regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has announced it is teaming up with AI firm Red Dot Analytics, for carbon measurement and to offset tropical data centers. Singapore implemented a three-year moratorium on new data center...

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Read Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany
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Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

May 17, 2022 Frankfurt

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European...

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Read SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota
SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota

SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota

April 11, 2022 Singapore

Although back in 2019, Singapore introduced a data center moratorium following concerns around energy supplies, in 2022, this moratorium was lifted - with conditions. Part of these conditions was that the country would be more selective over future data center projects. Further details around...

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Read Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million
Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million

Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million

April 07, 2022 Hong Kong

A Vantage-occupied facility in Hong Kong has been acquired by the Asia Pacific Cities Fund (APCF). The complex acquired is located at 43 Container Port Road. It is also a fully occupied data center with a 14MW capacity across 270,000 square feet of gross floor area. The deal was worth HK$2.88...

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Read Carrianna Group Sets Up Data Center in Hong Kong
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Carrianna Group Sets Up Data Center in Hong Kong

March 18, 2022 Hong Kong

Carrianna Group has announced the launch of a new data center in the Kwai Chang industrial area, Hong Kong. The Hong Kong property firm, Jun Gao Holdings Company Limited and Dr. Quentin Tsang jointly invested in the data center. The property has a gross floor area of 2,100 square meters (23,000...

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Read Singapore and Silicon Valley tie second place in data center rankings
Singapore and Silicon Valley tie second place in data center rankings

Singapore and Silicon Valley tie second place in data center rankings

February 03, 2022 Singapore

According to Cushman & Wakefield's 2022 Global Data Center Market Comparison report, Singapore now ties with the US's Silicon Valley in its league table of the top data center markets. This means that Singapore is now the top market for data centers in Asia-Pacific, beating Hong Kong (6th...

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Read AIIB to invest $150 million in new data centers
AIIB to invest $150 million in new data centers

AIIB to invest $150 million in new data centers

January 24, 2022 Beijing

Multilateral bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), has announced that it is making a significant investment in new data center development, with $150 million. The Beijing-based company will direct the funds through the Keppel Data Centre Fund II (KDCF II). Current reports outline that...

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Read Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?
Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

January 17, 2022 Singapore

This week, Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister made an announcement that the country's moratorium on new data center builds, which was introduced back in 2019. Minister Gan Kim Yong said that going forward, a "more selective" approach to new builds will be taken. In a written reply to a...

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Read TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center
TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

January 06, 2022 Hong Kong

Taoping Inc (TOAP) has announced that it is expanding its Taoping G Cloud Hong Kong Data Center (the "Center") in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022. The facility, built in May 2021, will have an estimated total hash rate of 700GH/s, and its...

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Read Beijing warning over data center construction
Beijing warning over data center construction

Beijing warning over data center construction

December 09, 2021 Beijing

In light of the global push to reduce carbon emissions, Beijing outlined in a plan published on Wednesday that local governments in China should ensure that the "blind and disorderly development" of data centers is carefully monitored and prevented. Moreover, it stated that governments should...

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Read China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong
China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong

China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong

December 09, 2021 China Mobile

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) has started work on a new data center facility in Hong Kong, China. CMI is developing the facility on a 1 million square foot land in Fo Tan, Sha Tin. The facility will have multiple stories, and it will cover 103,660 square meters (1.1 million square...

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Read ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong
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ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

November 25, 2021 Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which...

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