Data Center News

Biden orders companies to report large compute deployments to US gov

United States

Biden has imposed an executive order focused on artificial intelligence, mandating all large computing clusters to be registered with the federal government.  Following this order,  "companies, individuals, or other organizations or entities that acquire, develop, or possess a potential large-...

X claims $100m annual savings upon exiting Sacramento data center

Sacramento

X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, claims to have saved $100 million annually after exiting its Sacramento data center via a post on the platform. X further claimed to have saved a significant amount by repatriating some of its workloads to on-prem data centers. The company...

Secretary of state dismisses data center plan in Buckinghamshire

Michael Gove, the UK Secretary of State, has dismissed a planning appeal by Greystoke Land to construct a data center campus in Iver, Buckinghamshire. Greystoke planned to develop up to 163,000 square meters of data center floor space across three 243,600 sq ft buildings. Once completed, this ...

Microsoft to develop new facility in Rome, Georgia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed its plans to construct a new data center campus on a 347-acre property on Huffaker Road, east of Fouche Gap Road, outside Rome, Georgia. The Rome Floyd County Development Authority (RFCDA), as well as several local news outlets, announced the $1 billion campus outside th...

Vantage closes €2.5 billion investment deal in Europe

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has finalized an investment partnership with DigitalBridge and a consortium of investors led by MEAG and Infranity for some of its European data center assets. The collaboration between both companies consists of six data center facilities across Europe, valued at around €...

Virgin Media O2 to sell minority stake in Cornerstone towers

Virgin Media Business

Virgin Media O2 recently confirmed it had agreed with GLIL Infrastructure LLP. Following the agreement, Virgin Media O2 will sell a 16.67 percent minority stake in its tower joint venture, Cornerstone (CTIL), to GLIL for about £360 million, which will be paid once the deal is closed.  After th...

DataBank purchases new parcel in Atlanta, Georgia, for DC campus

DataBank

US colocation provider DataBank recently purchased 95 acres of land near Lithia Springs within a mile of the 18 acres where it is already building its ATL4 facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The newly acquired parcel can accommodate two multi-story data centers totaling 1 million gross square feet....

Gaza completely loses Internet access again after another outage

Israel

Internet services have now returned in Gaza after another outage, which took the connectivity in the entire country down for several hours. This disruption occurred just before 3:00 a.m. local time, with Palestinian telco Paltelco announcing that connectivity to the Gaza Strip had been cut off...

Brookfield to acquire Cyxtera's assets for $775 million

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Brookfield recently announced that it has entered an asset purchase agreement to acquire Cyxtera, following the latter’s bankruptcy, and will combine its new purchase with its other US colo provider, Evoque. Under this agreement, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and its institutional partner...

Vodafone to sell Spanish business to Zegona

Vodafone

Vodafone has confirmed the sale of its Spanish business to UK investment firm Zegona for $5.3 billion. Once the transaction is completed, Vodafone will get about €4.1 billion in cash and up to €0.9bn in the Redeemable Preference Shares. Margherita Della Valle, chief executive of Vodafone, said...

Microsoft unveils Israeli Azure cloud region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft revealed in an update that it has launched its newest Israeli Azure cloud region. The company noted in a now-deleted update, “We are launching our newest data center region in Israel. The new Israel Central data center region includes Azure availability zones, which offer you additio...

ATC names new CEO as Tom Barlett retires

American Tower Corporation

American Tower Corporation (ATC) recently revealed that Tom Bartlett will retire as president, CEO, and board director on February 1, 2024. The company announced that Steve Vondran would succeed Barlett, taking over his positions. Moreso, Vondran has been appointed as the executive vice presid...

STT GDC completes 1.2MW DC campus in Makati City

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Philippines has completed the construction of a 1.2MW data center in Makati City, the Philippines. This new facility on the outskirts of Manila, has a capacity for around 100 racks and can support loads between 5kW and 12kW. Operations. Carlo Malana, president ...

Mira Aerospace successfully completes 5G trial from the stratosphere

Abu Dhabi

High altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) firm Mira Aerospace has successfully conducted a  5G connectivity trial from the stratosphere - which ranges from 4-12 miles (6-20 km) above the Earth's surface to around 31 miles (50km). Mira said in an announcement last week, “Our team is excited to anno...

Cirion Technologies expands DC facility in São Paulo, Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

Cirion Technologies has expanded its SAO1 data center campus in São Paulo with a new data center building spanning 3,600 square meters, increasing its capacity by 50 percent. The two data center facilities in Cotia, São Paulo, share a 20MW power substation, are carrier-neutral, and have receiv...

DC Blox breaks ground on new dc campus in Atlanta, Georgia

DC BLOX

US colocation firm DC Blox has broken ground on a new data center campus on 55 acres of land in the Douglasville area of Atlanta, Georgia. This new facility will feature twelve data halls, totaling 750,000 square feet (69,680 sqm) of gross space, and will offer a 180 MW capacity to customers. ...

Proximus and LuxConnect launch JV to offer Google Cloud services

Google

Cloud companies Proximus and LuxConnect recently launched a joint venture to offer Google Cloud services through a sovereign cloud. This venture called the Clarence JV, aims to provide a "disconnected sovereign cloud solution to governments, regulated companies, international organizations and...

Digital 9 Infrastructure to sell stake in Verne Global

Digital 9 Infrastructure

UK infrastructure fund Digital 9 Infrastructure has announced its intentions to sell its European data center company Verne Global amid shareholder pressure. Initially, the company announced plans only to sell a minority stake. However, it revealed last week that it intends to sell its entire ...

DC fire kills three and takes millions offline

Bangladesh

A fire that broke out on the 13th floor of the 14-story Khawaja Tower in the Mohakali district of the Bangladesh capital yesterday killed three people and severely disrupted the Internet in Bangladesh. The fire broke out at 16:58, and the Dhaka fire department arrived at the location at 17:07 ...

Swiss DC firm Green staarts DC construction in Zurich

Azur Datacenter

Swiss data center firm Green announced this week that construction on data centers N and O has commenced on the Metro-Campus Zurich in Dielsdorf. Combined, new 11,600 square meter facilities will offer 35MW and accommodate about 4,000 racks.  Roger Süess, CEO of Green, said, “Our growth reflec...