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CtrlS acquires land for new data center in India

CtrlS Datacenters has acquired a parcel of land in Patna, India for an Edge data center development on a site less than 300m from its' existing Patna DC1 data center in the Pataliputra Industrial Area. The company plans to invest around Rs 400 crore ($477.2m) in the facility, which will have...

August 06, 2024

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CtrlS Datacenter launches new Hyderabad facility

CtrlS Datacenters has now launched its DC3 facility, located in the Gachibowli district of Telangana state, offers 13MW of IT load across 130,000 square feet. The company noted that it invested over Rs 500 crore ($60m) into the construction of this new facility , which has a capacity of appro...

May 31, 2024

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CtrlS breaks ground on new data center in Gujarat, India

CtrlS Datacenters has broken ground on its greenfield data center in GIFT City, Gujarat, India as it announces that it intends to invest Rs 250 crore in the project which is dubbed CtrlS Gandhinagar 1 DC. At the launch ceremony, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Bhupendrabhai Patel, laid the first st...

December 28, 2023

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Nokia Reveals Plans to Build Open Innovation lab in Dubai, UAE

Finnish vendor Nokia has revealed plans to launch an Open Innovation lab in Dubai, UAE, to drive its Cloud RAN in the Middle East and Africa region. In a release, the vendor explained that the initiative will increase the regional focus of its established collaborations with Dell Technologies ...

September 27, 2023

Dubai

CtrlS partners with NT for 150MW campus in Chonburi

CtrlS Datacenters is teaming up with NT, Thailand's state-owned telco, for its new 150MW campus in Chonburi, it has announced. Through the MOU, the partnership will provide data center co-location services, cable landing stations, network connectivity hubs, and cloud-based services.This devel...

August 25, 2023

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Thai's NT and India's CtrlS build 150MW facility in Chonburi

Indian firm CtrlS Datacenters has partnered with Thailand's government-owned telecommunications company to construct a new data center campus in Chonburi. Last week, the company and National Telecom Public Company Limited (NT) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Ct...

August 25, 2023

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CtrlS Datacenters to set up data center in Thailand

Hyderabad-based CtrlS Datacenters has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the eastern economic corridor office (EECO) of Thailand to lease a 10-acre parcel of land which will be used for a 150 MW datacenter campus. The lease will reportedly last for 50 years, and marks its first intern...

July 11, 2023

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CtrlS Plans to Invest $18.1m on a Data Center in Odisha, India

CtrlS Datacenters will invest $18.1 million in a greenfield Edge data center in Odisha, India. On May 30, the corporation began work on the data center in the capital city of the state, Bhubaneswar. It is anticipated that approximately 110 jobs will be created in the city of Bhubaneswar as a r...

May 31, 2023

CtrlS Dubai

Damac plans to build data center in Amman, Jordan

Following an agreement with King Hussein Business Park, Dubai property firm Damac (previously Edgnex) has announced its plans to build a new data center in Amman, Jordan. Specific details regarding the project have not yet been shared, although they are expected to follow shortly. ...

March 28, 2023

Dubai

Alibaba Cloud to upgrade its Dubai-based data center

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 s...

March 13, 2023

Dubai

Global Data Hub partners with KAUST to launch first-of-its-kind data center

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 outli...

March 10, 2023

Dubai

Digital DEWA launches in 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...

February 17, 2023

Dubai

Edgnex Rebrands as Damac Data Centres, Promises Additional Projects

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 upho...

February 14, 2023

Dubai

CtrlS announces big expansion plans

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...

January 17, 2023

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Dubai's Moro Hub named world's largest solar data center

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 So...

November 17, 2022

Dubai

CtrlS Starts Works on a New Facility in Guwahati, Assam, India

CtrlS has announced that it has started work on a new data center in India. The facility is located in the Tech City Park in Guwahati, Assam. CtrlS’ new data center will sit on a three-acre site, and it will have a capacity of 1,000 racks, expandable to 2,000 racks over the next 18 months. ...

April 19, 2022

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CtrlS commences construction on third Hyderabad data center

CtrlS has announced that it has broken ground on its third hyperscale facility, located in the Gachibowli suburb of Telangana, India. The facility, which is expected to span 131,000 sqft, with a capacity of 1,600 racks powered by 18MW of electricity, will reportedly meet LEED Platinum standar...

March 24, 2022

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Dubai to be home to two new 'state-of-the-art' data centers

Dubai Internet City has entered into a deal with Khazna Data Centers to construct two ‘state-of-the-art’ data centers in Dubai. The two facilities will employ Khazna’s data center pod design for rapid scaling, something which will reportedly offer both partners long-term growth benefits. This ...

January 04, 2022

Dubai

Moro Hub to build solar-powered data centre in Dubai

Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has announced that it has commenced work on a 100MW facility solar-powered data center located at EWA's 3,000MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.The facility, located southeast...

December 27, 2021

Dubai

Huawei to build the largest solar-powered data center in the Middle East

Huawei has signed an agreement with Moro Hub, a digital unit of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), to build the largest solar-powered Tier III-certified data center in the Middle East and Africa. The data center, located at Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, will be carbon-...

May 11, 2021

Dubai

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