Data Center News

DataQube, a UK Edge data center firm, enters insolvency

United Kingdom

Edge data center company DataQube Global Ltd of the United Kingdom has declared bankruptcy. Creditors convened today, August 29th, to deliberate a nomination of liquidators and, if necessary, appoint a liquidation committee. DataQube reps did not acknowledge requests for comment regarding the ...

Old Verizon office and data center in Pittsburgh for sale/lease

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon's former Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office and data center is available for purchase or lease. It has been put up for sale or lease by Colliers and Sampson Morris Group at 5400 Campbells Run Road. The 10-acre, 1959-built office and data facility features 130,000 rentable square feet and ...

Google shares plans to invest $1.7 billion into Ohio data centers

Google will invest $1.7 billion to support three data center campuses in central Ohio, it recently shared. The giant broke ground on its first data center in the state back in 2019, in New Albany, and has already invested over $2 billion in Ohio. This investment will go toward its facilities i...

Telkom Indonesia sets up a new data facility in Bandar Lampung

Telkom Indonesia

Telkom Indonesia has unveiled a brand-new data center in Bandar Lampung. Telkom's director of wholesale and international service, Bogi Witjaksono, the EVP of regional I area Sumatra, Djatmiko Djatmiko, and the EVP of the wholesale service division, Muhammad Rofik, attended the inauguration. D...

APL Investments plans 150MW Kyushu data center facility

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

A new campus in the Japanese prefecture of Kyushu is being built by a US investment company that plans to expand into the data center industry. According to Nikkei Asia, the U.S.-based investment firm Asia Pacific Land (APL) intends to construct a $845 million facility in Kitakyushu. Per repor...

Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

Google

Google unveiled several cloud-based tools and services centered on artificial intelligence. Cloud TPU v5e, the company's newest Tensor Processing Unit, is now available for preview, according to the company. Google claims that, compared to TPU v4, which was released in 2021, the chip has up to...

After taking on the 4D and Sungard data centers, UK MSP Redcentric incurs a loss

Sungard Availability Services

After acquiring several data centers last year, UK-managed services company Redcentric is feeling the impact of rising energy bills. The corporation will close a Harrogate, Yorkshire, data center, has negotiated fixed energy pricing for the next year, signed new energy deals with clients, and ...

Infinera's GX Compact Modular Service for High-Performance Data Center Connectivity Adopted by IONOS Web Hosting

IONOS, the largest web hosting company in Europe, has deployed Infinera's GX Series Compact Modular Platform to broaden its network and interconnect data centers throughout Europe with dependable, high-capacity, high-performance connectivity services.IONOS provides web hosting and cloud servic...

NTT data centers in India becomes 100% booked

NTT

The entire capacity of NTT's data center campuses currently under construction in Kolkata, Noida, Chennai, and other areas of Maharashtra has been pre-booked. NTT Data's Senior Vice President of Global Delivery, Ravi Kumar, stated.The Japanese conglomerate revealed plans to invest $2 billion i...

Princeton Digital Group tops off first building at 100MW data center campus in Tokyo, Japan

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has topped off the first building at its 100MW data center campus in Saitama, Greater Tokyo, 30 km north of central Tokyo. Plans for the development were first announced in June 2021, and it broke ground a year later. With a completion date of the second half of 2...

Macquarie Data Centers announces expansion plans at upcoming data center in Sydney, Australia

Macquarie Data Centres

Macquarie Data Centres has shared its expansion plans for an upcoming data center in Sydney, Australia. First announced in July 2021, the IC3 Super West will have its planned capacity increased to cater to high-density workloads, with a potential to increase its IT load to 45MW - this is a 41 ...

CtrlS partners with NT for 150MW campus in Chonburi

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

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...

Odata unveils its data center facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ODATA SA

Odata, a data center company from Latin America, has opened a new campus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This week, the company announced the debut of its RJ01 facility, which provides up to 24MW. On a 20,000-square-meter lot in So Joo do Meriti, the facility features 18,000 square meters of raised...

Sentinum builds Montana 20MW cryptomine data facility

Montana

Sentinum, Inc., previously known as BitNile, Inc., has broken ground in Montana on a new cryptomine data center. This week, Ault Alliance, the holding company and parent company of Sentinum, announced that construction had begun on a 20MW facility, which should be operational by the end of the...

Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea

South Korea

The government of South Korea is planning a 1GW data center campus in the country's southwestern region. The New Industry and Distributed Energy Division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced this week that up to 25 40MW data centers will be constructed in the Salaseido neighborhood ...

Old coal mine designated for data centers in Wise County, Virginia

Virginia

A former coal mine in Wise County will be converted into an industrial park with data centers thanks to a $1.7 million grant from Virginia Energy. The discarded mine at the Elam Farm site in Southern Virginia's Wise County will receive funding from the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalizati...

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

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

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...

Scala intends to construct a 5MW data center in Mexico City

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers is constructing a new campus just outside Mexico City, Mexico. This week, the company owned by DigitalBridge announced intentions to build SMEXTP01, its first data center in the country. The facility, located in the municipality of Tepotzotlán, will have an initial critical ...

AirTrunk announces doubling of sustainability-linked loan

AirTrunk has doubled its $1.35 billion sustainability-linked loan (SLL) to $2.96 billion, it has announced. This is, according to the company, the largest SLL for a data center operator in the world. The company has shared that this transaction will be used to refinance its existing debt facil...

Atea signs solar PPA in Denmark

Atea has announced that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Better Energy for solar energy in Denmark. This agreement aligns with its target to be carbon neutral by 2030. Through this PPA, the company will offtake energy from the development, expected to be around one-t...