Data Center News

Switch invests $772m in another Georgia facility outside Atlanta

Switch

Switch is preparing to construct a new data center facility in Bartow County, Georgia. Switch is preparing to build the "Switch KEEP 2.0 Atlanta North Campus" in Cartersville, according to the Developments of Regional Impact filings (DRI, 1-2).The 126-acre site is located in Cartersville, sout...

The Guam government will construct a Tier IV data center on the island

Guam

To enhance Internet quality, the government of Guam intends to construct a solar-powered Tier IV data center on the island. In addition, it intends to construct a new government data center on the University campus. This week, the Office of the Governor revealed the Guam Five-Year Action Plan ...

165 acres of land are acquired at auction by Novva DC in Mesa, Arizona

Novva Data Centers

Novva Data Centers has won an auction for a piece of land in Mesa, Arizona. This week, the company purchased 165 acres of state land in southeast Mesa for $62.7 million, according to BizJournal and AZCentral. Wes Swenson, the chief executive officer of Novva, was the sole bidder for the plot a...

DXN provides Palau with a modular cable landing station for Echo cable landing

DXN Limited

DXN recently set up a cable landing station (CLS) for the Meta/Google-led Echo subsea cable at Ngaradmau on the island of Palau. Last year, DXN announced that it had delivered a CLS module to the state-owned Belau Submarine Cable Company (BSCC) for a new cable run to Palau. According to the Ja...

Belgian emergency services numbers go offline after Proximus data center fire

Belgium

Last week, a fire in a data center operated by the Belgian telecommunications company Proximus temporarily disrupted phone services for contacting emergency services.Last Wednesday morning, emergency numbers 112 (firefighters and ambulances in a hazardous situation) and 101 (police) were inacc...

Crusoe plans to install gas flare data centers in Utah

Crusoe

Crusoe Energy will install data center modules at Utah oil wells and power the facilities with excess natural gas. This week, Crusoe Energy Systems and XCL Resources announced a new agreement to deploy Crusoe's Digital Flare Mitigation (DFM) technology at XCL sites in Utah's Uinta Basin. Large...

Solar-powered data center to heat surfing lagoon in New Zealand

New Zealand

In New Zealand, Aventuur, a leisure park developer, has shared plans to heat a surfing lagoon using a solar-powered data center. The company is already in the process of building a surf park in Perth, Australia, which, it has outlined, is set to open in 2025. In Auckland, meanwhile, it's plann...

Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina

Google

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy for wind energy in North Carolina. Through the deal, the giant will offtake the full capacity from the Timbermill Wind project, which is in the process of being built. Located in Chowan County, the project will offer 18...

Channel Islands' Old C5 data center will soon be Jersey Water HQ

An old data center on the Channel Island of Jersey is slated to become the new headquarters of the local water utility. According to the Jersey Evening Post and Baliwick Express, Jersey Water has requested planning approval to convert an industrial structure in St. Saviour parish into a new he...

GTA receives clearance for new Guam cable landing station

Guam

Guam-based telecommunications company GTA TeleGuam has been permitted to construct a new cable landing station (CLS). In May, GTA submitted plans to construct a new CLS in Inalhan, southeast of the island. The Guam Daily Post reported last week that the Guam Hybrid Land Use Commission granted ...

AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to expand to the Virginia county of Louisa. Last week, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $11 billion by 2040 to build two data center campuses in Louisa's Technology Overlay District (TOD). The county...

Clark provides NTT with a data center in Ashburn, Virginia

NTT

NTT's Ashburn, Virginia, data center has been delivered by the construction company Clark. This week, Clark Construction Group revealed the notable finalization of the first phase of the VA6 Data Center in Loudoun County, Virginia.The project, which began in May 2022, was completed on time for...

CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design

CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced the launch of an AI-specific built-to-suit data center design, which it says has been developed specifically to address the “rapidly growing needs of AI applications and services.”The company notes that the Intelliscale data center is built on an ultra-high-density found...

IIJ of Japan looks into data center set up in Kenya

Kenya

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) is considering deploying a containerized modular data center in Kenya. This week, the company reported that the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has been exploring methods to "capture the vitality of the African market" and has decided to investigat...

Stream DC's data center zoning request in Elk Grove, Illinois is granted

Zoning approval has been given to Stream Data Centers for an envisioned data center facility in the Elk Grove area of Chicago, Illinois. At last week's council meeting in Elk Grove Village, plan commissioners jointly recommended approval of the proposals, as first reported by the Journal &...

Office and data center for sale in Birmingham, Alabama

A workspace and data center building is for sale in Birmingham, Alabama. Colliers has listed the Kemper Building at 2201 4th Avenue North for $18,95 million. The structure is a four-story, 110,295-square-foot Class-A office building on two acres. Colliers notes that the building has raised flo...

Orange signs vPPA with Engie in Romania

Orange Romania has shared that it has signed a six-year virtual PPA with Engie. As per the agreement, 30GWh of the telco's annual electricity needs will be met with energy from solar. This deal aligns with Orange's broader goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 and brings Romania into the...

Telkom Indonesia launches Bandar Lampung data center

Telkom Indonesia

Telkom Indonesia has announced that its new Bandar Lampung data center has launched, with a third of the facility's racks already filled. With this development in South Sumatra in Lampung province, the company now has 23 locations spread across 17 major cities in Indonesia. In attendance at th...

Varonis Opens Data Center in the United Kingdom to Serve SaaS Customers

United Kingdom

Varonis Systems, Inc., an industry leader in data security, has announced the opening of its first data center in the United Kingdom to support customers migrating to its SaaS offering. Varonis customers will be able to show compliance with national data protection laws and utilize Varonis' wo...

atNorth purchases HPC company Gompute

atNorth

atNorth, a Nordic data center company, has acquired Gompute, a Swedish High-Performance Computing (HPC) services provider. The terms were not disclosed. Gompute, a company founded in 2002, provides HPC-as-a-cloud services with bare-metal compute nodes for computer-aided engineering (CAE) appli...