March 13, 2023 Dubai
Alibaba has announced that it has signed a deal to upgrade its Dubai-based data center. Through its long-term partner Dubai Holding, the company is set to revamp the facility, equipping it with state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure. It will also reportedly offer a wider range of products and...
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March 10, 2023 Dubai
Dubai-based Global Data Hub (GDH), has announced the launch of a new commercial tier-III data center, in partnership with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The facility will span 27,600 sqm and have a minimum capacity of 14.4 MW IT load. Further, the two parties outlined...
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March 03, 2023 India / Bhārata
Ahluwalia Contracts has been given a $20.46 million contract by Indian Financial Technology and Allied Services (IFTAS) to construct a data center complex in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. The Reserve Bank of India's fully-owned subsidiary IFTAS offers essential infrastructure services to the RBI...
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February 22, 2023 India / Bhārata
Varanium Cloud, an Indian digital technology startup, has opened a new Edge data center in Maharashtra. This week, the company's Hydra Web Services unit opened a containerized data facility in the municipality of Kudal in the Sindhudurg region. Although no details were provided, photos imply the...
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February 18, 2023 India / Bhārata
The initial closing of the data center fund by Kotak Alternate Assets has been revealed to be $590 million. The fund is based in the Gujurat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), and this amount represents about 74% of the company's initial $800 million aim. The investment division of...
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February 17, 2023 Dubai
Digital DEWA subsidiary Moro Hub has announced the launch of its 16,030 sqm (172,566 sq ft) Dubai data center, the world's largest solar-powered data center. It will have a capacity of 100MW, which be 100 percent powered by solar power from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park in Saih...
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February 15, 2023 India / Bhārata
Cyfuture is constructing a new data center in Chennai, India, its fifth facility in the country. To be located on a one-acre plot in Tembaran, Chennai, it is pegged to offer 500 racks in its first phase. While the company already data centers in Noida, Jaipur, and Raipur, it has also announced...
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February 14, 2023 Dubai
The new data center company Edgnex, founded by the Dubai real estate company Damac, has changed its name to Damac Data Centres and revealed plans for a 35MW data center. This week, the company announced that Edgnex had changed its name to Damac Data Centres to serve its clients better and uphold...
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January 31, 2023 India / Bhārata
The regional Maharashtra government, in India, announced at the World Economic Forum (WEF) that it has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with two companies to build data centers in the city of Pune, in western India. The deals, worth ~$3.9 billion or Rs 32,414 crore, are with RCube/Ark...
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January 26, 2023 Mumbai
Web Werks has announced that it is launching a new data center in Mumbai, India. Named the Mumbai-2 data center, the facility will provide 10 MW of capacity and span 120,000 sq ft (11,150 sqm). According to the company, the facility, first announced back in March 2021, will launch on January 31st...
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January 17, 2023 CtrlS Datacenters Ltd
CtrlS has made some big expansion announcements this week. The company, founded back in 2007, with a portfolio of eight operational data centers, spanning from Mumbai to Noida, has said it will triple its data center portfolio by 2025, taking its figure to 25. This will see the company expand...
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November 30, 2022 India / Bhārata
India’s Kotak Mahindra Bank’s investment arm Kotak Alternate Assets, has launched a new data center fund. The company announced the appointment of Subhamkar Das as the Chief Operating Officer of its new Kotak Data Centre platform. Kotak Alternate Assets is managed by Kotak Investment Advisors...
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November 22, 2022 India / Bhārata
VueNow Infotech has announced that it has signed an MoU with the government of Uttar Pradesh, India. The deal will see VueNow develop the infrastructure for up to 750 Edge data centers in the state. The MoU is worth 13,500 crores (~US$1.6bn). VueNow Infotech Pvt Ltd’s MD, Sukhvinder Singh...
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November 17, 2022 Dubai
The Guinness Book of World Records has awarded Dubai's Moro Hub the title of the largest solar-powered data center in the world. Owned by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), with a capacity of 100 MW data center, entirely fueled by DEWA-owned 3,000MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar...
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November 15, 2022 India / Bhārata
Blackstone, a private equity investor, has revealed that it is launching an Asian data center platform called Lumina CloudInfra. The development will see Blackstone start with two data center facilities in India with a total capacity of 600MW. Blackstone reportedly has up to $25 billion in the...
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November 01, 2022 India / Bhārata
PhonePe has announced that it has launched its first green data center in India. According to the company, this addition will open up new opportunities from a data management perspective while bolstering data security, power efficiency, and cloud solutions, made possible by PhonePe leveraging...
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August 29, 2022 India / Bhārata
India is currently experiencing a data center boom, an expansion that is only expected to grow. According to research, while the industry was previously fragmented, it is now evolving rapidly as the industry becomes more consolidated. Presently, there are 138 data centers spanning India, with 57%...
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July 05, 2022 Bangkok / Krung Thep
Riamon Land has announced that it will join forces with Nava Nakorn Public Company Limited, and RATCH Group Public Company Limited through an MoU to develop green data centers. According to Stephane Michel, Chief Operating Officer of Raimon Land, the MoU will enable the "pursuit of a deeper...
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June 29, 2022 India / Bhārata
The government of Uttar Pradesh, India, has approved the plan for four data center parks in the state. The government granted permission to Adani Enterprises Limited Project-1 and Adani Enterprises Limited Project-2, NIDP Developers Private Limited (an affiliate of Hiranandani Group), and NTT...
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May 13, 2022 Bangkok / Krung Thep
Alibaba Cloud opened its first data center in Bangkok, Thailand. The company first announced the facility in October 2021. It, however, had an opening ceremony for the new data center this week. Alibaba Cloud Intelligence’s country manager for Thailand, Tyler Qiu, said data protection and...
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