Data Center News

New $370 million data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility in Salalah, Oman

Oman

A new data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility has been built in Oman for $370 million. Established in Salalah on August 13 by the Omani Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology (MTCIT), the center is part of the country's national infrastructure program. The da...

DoD procures a security advancement for Hawaii data center

Hawaii

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is soliciting proposals for a data center security upgrade in Hawaii. On August 14, the contract offer was released, giving businesses three weeks to present their ideas for the DoD's facility. The solution must upgrade the Defense Information Systems Agency ...

GreenSquareDC leases tract of land in Western Australia for wind & solar park to power data center

GreenSquareDC has shared that it is leasing a large tract of land at at Billericay Road in East Hyden, Perth, Western Australia,  to develop a wind and solar park to power its 96MW data center. The long-term ground lease is for over 3,100 hectares of land, and on this land, the company will bu...

GLP's new global data center business breaks ground on its first Tokyo, Japan campus

GLP has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo West 1 (TKW1) is the company’s first foray into Japan, with the campus offering 31 MW across three buildings. The first building is projected to be ready for service by 2025, offering 10MW, while building two ...

Tillman FiberCo and Northleaf execute a $500 million investment agreement

United States

Northleaf Capital Partners and Tillman FiberCo have joined forces in a strategic partnership. The fiber broadband company confirmed receiving a preliminary investment of $200 million, with an additional $300 million possible as the company looks to expand.The investment, per Tillman, will spee...

India will get a "million qubit" quantum computing machine -centric data center

India / Bhārata

India's Greater Noida will soon house a data center dedicated to quantum computation. On August 11, the Utter Pradesh (UP) Government and Innogress, a project promoter, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Indraprastha Quantum Data Center (IQDC).As a joint venture between Innogre...

Rosatom acquires a data center in development; the 36MW facility is set to open in 2024

Moscow / Москва́

The state-owned Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia has acquired a Moscow data center. C.News.ru reports that Rosatom's Atomdata Center division has acquired a Moscow data center under construction for $237 million. The Moscow-2 facility, situated on 215,280 square feet in the Southern Admini...

British Land considering Vodafone-occupied data center sale to Realty Income

British Land is negotiating with Realty Income to sell an array of data centers occupied by Vodafone in London. In July, it was reported that Savills was seeking purchasers for the Network Portfolio, a collection of six facilities totaling 260,000 square feet. British Land, the proprietor of t...

Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved

Amazon AWS

Amazon's plans for a 7.5 million square foot data center campus have received preliminary approval from the King George County, Virginia, planning commission. Amazon will be the project's end customer, according to the Free Lance-Star.Birchwood Power Partners requested an amendment to the Coun...

Rowan plans a 1 million-square-foot data center in Morrow County, Oregon

Rowan Digital Infrastructure

Rowan Green Data in Morrow County, Oregon, plans to build a data center. Proposals for the Percheron Data Center near Boardman were recommended for approval by the County planning commission at the end of last month. Later this month, the proposal will be presented to the County Board of Commi...

STT GDC plans to construct a third facility in Bangkok, Thailand

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) Thailand is constructing its third data center in Bangkok, Thailand. STT Bangkok 3 will be located in the One Bangkok district and will have 2MW of IT capacity when it opens at the end of 2023, as is currently scheduled. This facility will join the ot...

Cyxtera files plan of reorganization with bankruptcy court

Cyxtera Technologies

Cyxtera has submitted a reorganization plan to the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Lenders with over two-thirds of the company's outstanding first-lien debt support the proposal.The proposal would get rid of more than $950 million in pre-filing debt for Cyxtera. In either a...

EdgeCore begins construction of a data center in Reno, Nevada

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has begun construction on a new facility in Reno, Nevada. The company announced last week that it has begun construction on its first data center campus in the Reno, Nevada metropolitan area, nearly five years later than originally planned.Two data centers will ...

Launch of the GDS data center campus in Johor, Malaysia

GDS Services Ltd

A new data center campus for GDS has opened in Malaysia's Johor. This week, the company announced the grand inauguration of its data center campus at Nusajaya Tech Park (NTP). Phase 1 of the campus (consisting of Nusajaya 1, 2, and 3, or NTP1, 2, and 3) offers 242,200 square feet of net floor ...

Intel acquires space in Bengaluru's CtrlS DC data center

Intel

A CtrlS Data Centers location in Bengaluru, India, has been leased by Intel India for use as a data center. Intel will be provided with 11,536 square feet of data center space under the terms of a three-year lease commencing on July 18. The lease, which CRE Matrix was able to access, states th...

Bitdeer completes 100MW Bhutan cryptomine data center

Bitdeer, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency miner, has finished building a new mining data center in Gedu, Bhutan. During the facility's power-on testing, 11,000 mining devices are operating normally. The company announced in July that it bought 23,000 mining devices, with an additional 7,000 en...

Construction of the UNN data facility in Brunei commences

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Unified National Networks (UNN) data center construction has commenced at the UNN Tungku Submarine Landing Station in Brunei. A ceremony to mark the start was conducted for the 51,000-square-foot facility containing 200 Vertiv-supplied racks.Utilizing a prefabricated design, construction shoul...

Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India

Equinix

Equinix will invest $42 million in a new data center in Mumbai, India. The MB4 data center is anticipated to be operational by the end of the fourth quarter 2023. The MB4 data center is in the Kalwa Industrial Area, approximately 9 miles from the company's two other IBX data centers in Mumbai....

Singtel breaks ground on new Singapore data center

Singtel

This week, Singtel announced it has broken ground on a new data center in Singapore. The new facility is an eight-story building that will offer 58MW of IT load capacity across 120,000 sq ft. It's set to go live in 2025. Named DC Tuas, the data center has a target PUE of below. 1.3 It also inc...

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) to power Indonesian data center with biomass

Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) will power one of its Indonesian data centers with biomass, following the signing of a renewable energy contract with PT Cikarang Listrindo Tbk (CL). PDG will subsequently power its Cibitung data center with the company's biomass-sourced energy.The facility itsel...