Data Center News

Netrality secures $380 million SLL for upgrade efforts

Netrality Properties

US data center operator Netrality has secured a $380 million sustainability-linked loan (SLL) to help make its data halls more energy efficient. The loan facility will be paid in US data center operator Netrality has secured a $380 million sustainability-linked loan (SLL) to help make its data...

Open Access Data Centers to expand Johannesburg facility

Johannesburg

Pan-African operator Open Access Data Centers (OADC) plans to expand its data center in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has reportedly begun work on phase two expansion of its Isando facility, which is expected to be complete in Q1 2024, adding 4MW and 600 racks.  Darren Bedford, group chief b...

Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW

Google

Mayor of the Skien municipality, Marius Roheim Aarvold has said claims that Google’s upcoming data center campus in Norway will require 860MW of power to support its planned data center campus in Gromstul, Skien municipality.are false. Local press had reported that Microsoft formerly applied f...

Scala Data Centers makes $215m green-tied issuance

Scala Data Centers

Latin America data center provider Scala Data Centers has issued $215 million of green debentures, marking the second largest green-tied issuance in the Brazil data center sector. The funds will be used to construct hyperscale data centers which will have an annual PUE of less than 1.45, with ...

OpenAI employees threaten to quit if the board doesn’t resign and reinstate Sam Altman

Over 500 employees at artificial intelligence company OpenAI have threatened to quit unless the board resigns and ousted CEO Sam Altman is reinstated. A total of 505 staffers have mentioned that they will be crossing over to Microsoft, which has now hired Altman, cofounder Greg Brockman, and s...

H5 expands its San Antonio data center

H5 Data Centers

H5  this week announced the phase three expansion of its 100 Taylor Street facility, adding an additional 340 cabinets and up to 1.5MW of additional UPS capacity. This site, located at 100 Taylor Street, was acquired by H5 in 2018 and was previously owned by the Texas ISP Taylor Telecom. It is...

DXC Technology to move 1,000 customers to Amazon

DXC Technology

DXC Technology announced this week that it is set to move about 1,000 of its biggest IT outsourcing customers to Amazon Web Services (AWS), who will then migrate their workload due to the expanded relationship between both companies. AWS will also serve as DXC’s primary cloud provider and dive...

Skybox plans new data center facility in Dallas, Texas

Skybox Datacenters

Skybox Datacenters announced this week that it is planning a new 300MW, 1 million square feet data center facility known as PowerCampus Dallas in Texas. This 115-acre site is located in Lancaster, south of Dallas, and will feature an on-site substation. The company said on LinkedIn, “Skybox Da...

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and colleagues join Microsoft

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has recruited Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and other OpenAI researchers who left the startup over the weekend to head a new advanced AI research team.  The OpenAI board abruptly fired Altman, saying he was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its abi...

OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI's co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, has quit the company after the board suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman last week. Brockman, who was initially made to step down as board chairman, has left the company. The board is yet to disclose the exact reason for firing Altman as the company ...

Green Mountain plans 10MW data center at Oslo campus

Green Mountain AS

Norway’s Green Mountain announced this week that it was granted approval to develop a new building at its data center campus outside Oslo, Norway. This planned facility will be a three-story, 9,600 square-meter building at its Enebakk campus, and construction is expected to start soon and be c...

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of the artificial intelligence startup as the board denounces confidence in his leadership. In a statement released by the company, the board noted that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to lead.”  Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technol...

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

London

Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  Concert will operate under its curre...

Telenor to sell salellite business to Space Norway for $217.1 million

Telenor Group

State-majority-owned Telenor has agreed to sell its subsidiary Telenor Satellite to state-owned Space Norway for NOK 2.36 billion ($217.1m). To finance this acquisition, Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry, Jan Christian Vestre said the government will propose to the Parliament that Space...

Court approves Cyxtera sale to Brookfield

Cyxtera Technologies

The US Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey this week approved the sale of substantially all of the Cyxtera assets to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners for $775 million. Both companies expect this deal to be finalized by the first quarter of 2024. Nelson Fonseca, Cyxtera CEO said, ...

EcoDataCenter raised €170 million in debt financing

EcoDataCenter (EcoDC AB)

Swedish data center firm EcoDataCenter has raised €170 million ($184.3m) in debt financing from a consortium of banks comprising KfW IPEX and Kommunalkredit as global coordinators and mandated lead arrangers, and Investec and NIBC as mandated lead arrangers. This fund will be used to “enhance ...

Fibra Medios Telecom unveils new data center in Murcia, Spain

Spain

Fibra Medios Telecom announced the launch of a new data center facility in Murcia, Spain, this week. This new facility known as the CPD Titan facility spans across 1,400 square meters and can host up to 120 cabinets across nine data rooms. This new facility also features two fiber entry vaults...

Data Clean Corp acquires data center cleaning business Sealco

Texas

Data Clean Corporation has acquired Texas-based critical environment cleaning company Sealco LLC, marking its second acquisition since it was bought by Angeles Equity Partners in November 2022. Frank Spelman, managing director at Angeles Equity Partners said, “Sealco is arguably one of the mos...

Digital Edge secures $335m green loan for Seoul project

Digital Edge DC

APAC-focused operator Digital Edge has secured its first green loan worth $335 million to support the first phase of the previously announced 100MW data center project in Seoul (SEL2), South Korea. Once completed, the SEL2 will be the largest commercial data center project in South Korea, and ...

CyrusOne completes its first data center in Spain

CyrusOne

Colocation company CyrusOne recently completed the shell and core of its first data center in Spain and threw a traditional flag-flying ceremony to celebrate it. The MAD1 facility, situated on a five-acre site, is a two-story facility with an IT capacity of 18MW across 6,000 square meters. Thi...