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ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in 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 w...

November 25, 2021

Hong Kong

Colt completes sale of 12 colocation sites in Europe

Colt has announced that it has completed the sale of a total of 12 of its colocation sites spanning across Europe with AtlasEdge Data Centres. This sale is part of a wider vision of Colt Data Centre Services to focus on “building and developing larger hyperscale data centre sites” in Europe a...

November 02, 2021

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt outlines 2030 carbon neutral goals for a greener future

Colt Group is the latest tech company to announce its green goals. It has outlined 2030 as its deadline to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across all its operations. Its goals have been informed by comprehensive, science-based emissions reduction targets, which were approved by the Science-B...

September 17, 2021

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services announce 45MW data center outside Osaka, Japan

Colt Data Centre Services has broken ground on a new 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft) data center outside Osaka, Japan. The facility will have 45MW of capacity, and it will be in Keihanna Science City. According to the Company, the facility will be in operations by 2023. VP Head of APAC at Colt ...

August 31, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Colt Data Centre Services

Singapore government and Facebook back $S17m project for sustainable tropical data centers

It has been announced that social media giant Facebook and the Singapore government are joining forces to fund a $17 million (S$23m) project to address the need to boost the number of sustainable data centers built in tropical climates. The programme is also being funded by Singapore's Nationa...

June 16, 2021

Singapore

UK Brent Council plans to upgrade data center with £3.8 million ($5.3 million)

Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...

June 15, 2021

Eric Bell

London

Lunar data center on the horizon

While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility b...

May 24, 2021

Paris

Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers

Frankfurt has proposed a development plan to regulate data centers in the area. The plan, it says, will prevent the “uncontrolled growth” of data centers. The city is the hub of the data center industry in Germany, and one of the four largest hubs in Europe, taking up 64 hectares (640,000 sqm...

May 14, 2021

Eric Bell

Frankfurt

Colt DCS European operations go 100% green

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has announced that its operations in Europe and the UK are now powered by 100% renewable power. This represents 17 facilities in Europe and the UK. Colt Press Release on Feb 8th 2021:Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) today announced that its operations across the ...

February 09, 2021

Eric Bell

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt DCS launches Inzai 3 near Tokyo

Colt Data Centre Services has completed the construction of Inzai 3, a 27 MW, carrier-neutral facility in Japan. The facility expands Colt's Inzai campus where the company has two hyperscale data centers. Demand has been strong and the new facility is already 90 percent pre-leased.Colt Press R...

November 10, 2020

Eric Bell

Colt Tokyo Inzai

Colt Pre-Leases all of its Frankfurt West Facility 16 months Before Construction is Complete

Colt Colt Data Centre Services has announced that its data centre in West Frankfurt has secured customer commitments for all of the space and power in the facility. The facility is due to be completed in late Q4 2021 and will have a capacity of 25.2 megawatts. This underscores the demand in th...

September 09, 2020

Eric Bell

Colt Frankfurt West

Colt appoints Niclas Sanfridsson as new CEO, replacing Detlef Spang

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) today announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer, Niclas Sanfridsson effective December 2nd. Sanfridsson will replace the Detlef Spang as CEO. Detlef Spang plans to retire at the end of this year after leading Colt DCS since the company's ince...

November 28, 2019

Eric Bell

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt announces a new data centre "Frankfurt West" to be completed by Q4 2020

First phase of delivery expected to complete in H4 2020 Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) today announced the expansion of its presence in Germany with its new Frankfurt West data centre. The strategic decision to expand comes alongside demand in the region from cloud service providers, but also...

June 12, 2019

Eric Bell

Colt Frankfurt West

Colt Data Centre Services enters new market in Mumbai (PR)

Major investment in 100MW data centre will deliver hyper-scale [and cloud computing] data centre in India Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), a Fidelity owned company today announced their entry into a major new market in India. The organisation has successfully acquired land in Mumbai and plans ...

November 27, 2018

Eric Bell

Colt Mumbai

Alibaba Cloud to launch London region

China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt.The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in t...

October 02, 2018

Eric Bell

London

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