Data Center News

Webel to construct new DC in West Bengal, India

India / Bhārata

West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (Webel) is considering a new data center in Siliguri, the Indian state of West Bengal. This new data center will be Webel’s third facility focused on promoting the IT and electronics industries in the Indian state.  A senior offi...

North Carolina government funds new Washington-Warren Airport DC

North Carolina

After receiving additional government funding, North Carolina's Washington-Warren Airport is on track to get a new data center campus. This airport in Washington City will get $13.5 million in funding from the state budget.The government funds will be utilized to develop "key infrastructure," ...

AI's Growth Drives Energy Demand, Sparking Concerns and Innovations

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is heralded as one of the most transformative technological advancements, comparable to the emergence of the internet. This sentiment is echoed by Wall Street, with the Nasdaq (^IXIC) witnessing a 26% surge this year, largely attributed to the enthusias...

AI Edge chip company Kneron raises additional $49m funds

San Diego

Kneron, a startup developing chips for AI inferencing, has raised $49 million from investors to scale up its hardware-developing efforts. Investors, including Foxconn HH-CTBC Partnership (Foxconn Co-GP Fund) and Alltek, made this additional investment, bringing the total Series B financing to ...

Amazon files to develop 7-building DC campus in Louisa County, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has filed with the US Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District to develop a seven-building data center campus in Virginia’s Louisa County. In this filing, REB Investment Company LLC and Amazon Data Services seek permission to establish a new data center campus on 153 acres ...

Pi Datacenters to invest in new DC campus in Hyderabad, India

Pi Datacenters Pvt. Ltd

Pi Datacenters has revealed plans to expand operations in India by opening a new data center campus in Hyderabad. This new facility will lead the company's new AI Cloud vertical once completed and will be the company's headquarters. Kalyan Muppaneni, founder and CEO of Pi Datacenters, said to ...

Amazon to Invest in 5 Facility Campus in Ohio

AWS US East (Ohio)

Amazon Web Services plans to invest $3.5 billion in New Albany by 2020 to expand its footprint around Columbus, Ohio. The New Albany City Council announced it had approved a resolution enabling AWS to proceed with its expansion investment plan. This is only part of Amazon's $7.5 billion invest...

Unisys Corp. to relocate DC campuses within the Minneapolis market

Unisys

Technology company Unisys Corp. revealed its plans to sell its 32-acre data center campus just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, and relocate to an undetermined area in the Twin Cities. Shea Kolanowski, Unisys’ deputy chief administrative officer, told BizJournal, “We intend to relocate our asso...

British Land Sells DC Portfolio for £125 million

United Kingdom

UK real estate firm British Land has exchanged contracts to sell a portfolio of data centers and offices in London for £125 million. This deal represented an initial net yield of 4.6 percent, delivering an internal return rate of 8.2 percent per annum since its acquisition in 2007.The company ...

Google data center pioneer Luiz André Barroso passes away

Google

59-year-old data center luminary Luiz André Barroso unexpectedly passed away on September 16, 2023.The DC legend joined Google in 2001 and was fundamental in remodeling the company's DC design, impacting the industry. Before his journey with Google, Barroso worked at Digital Equipment Corporat...

Keppel DC Secures S$120 million SLL Credit Facility

Keppel Data Center REIT

The Keppel DC REIT Management Pte. Ltd. Board of Directors announced that one of its DC campuses recently secured a S$120 million (US$87.7m) sustainability-linked Islamic credit facility. The company didn’t reveal details relating to the loan providers, intended loan uses, or sustainability ta...

Alligned Reveals New Brownfield Land Acquisition for DC Campus in Ohio

Aligned

On September 25, 2023, Aligned Data Centers announced the acquisition of a new brownfield land in Perkins Township., Northeast Ohio. The firm purchased the 129-acre parcel to construct a new four-building hyperscale data center campus. Aligned said its NEO-01 data center, the first of the four...

CapitaLand Launches Massive Data Center in Hyderabad, India

India / Bhārata

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) recently began working on its 40MW data center in Hyderabad, India. The company announced that it has started operations for the first phase of the newly redeveloped International Tech Park at the IT hub of Madhapur.CLI hosted a ceremony celebrating the camp...

JK Land Holdings expands proposed Virginia’s Gainesville DC with land buy

Virginia

Chuck Kuhn's real estate firm, JK Land Holdings, has expanded the proposed Gainesville data center via land acquisition in Virginia's Prince William County through its Wellington Road LLC affiliate. The company has also filed an application, which is currently under review, for up to 3.8 milli...

Italian Organizations Consider San Romedio mine for DC Construction

Italy

Some Italian companies have discussed building a data center company in a Dolomite mine. The University of Trento, construction company Covi Costruziono, IT services company Dedagroup, sustainable healthcare provider GPI, and holding company Istituto Atesino di Sviluppo (ISA), are looking to d...

DTCP takes majority stake in German operator Maincubes

maincubes one GmbH

Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) is now the majority owner of German DC firm Maincubes after acquiring additional stakes from Art-Invest Real Estate, a co-shareholder. Art-Invest, which used to hold about 75% of Maincubes stakes before DTCP’s initial investment, now retains only ...

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

Dubai

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 ...

St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction

Minnesota

The Minnesota St. Louis Park City Council has approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for constructing a data center at 6400 Walker Street. Information from the district’s website reveals that the new center will be built southeast of the football field and next to an existing maintenance buil...

Princeton Digital Group launches sixth DC campus in Indonesia

Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has opened its sixth data center campus in Indonesia with the launch of its 22MW hyperscale data center facility (JC2) in Citibung, Greater Jakarta. Built on the same center as the JCI, the new facility takes the Citibung campus up to 35MW.Varoon Raghavan, COO and...

Eaton Unveils New DCIM Platform to Accelerate Digital Transformation

Electrical and industrial power management software provider Eaton has launched a new data center management platform, the Brightlayer DC suite.Mike Jackson, the global director of product, data center, and distributed IT software at Eaton, explained that this suite functions as a portfolio of...