Data Center News

A Phoenix, Arizona racetrack is slated for data center development

Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona's racehorse track, might be converted into an industrial park and data center. Initially reported by BizJournal, developers filed a conceptual site plan to the Phoenix planning commission for a 2.6 million-square-foot industrial and data center park.CT Realty, based in Califor...

Scala Data Centers' site in Curauma, Chile is operational

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers developed its first facility in Chile and commenced operations at its 5MW Curauma data center. This is Scala's third data center to be launched this year, following the opening of additional sites in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The new facility is already completely leased...

Northern Data Group divides its operations into three brands

Northern Data AG

Northern Data Group, a provider of infrastructure for high-performance computing (HPC), has segregated its operations into three distinct brands: Taiga Cloud, Ardent Data Centers, and Peak Mining. Northern Data Group will continue to be the corporate parent of the three new brands, while the a...

Vodafone Idea partners with Yotta to expand Indian data centers

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Vi Business, the enterprise division of Vodafone Idea (Vi), has partnered with Yotta Data Services to expand its data center colocation and cloud services offering in India. The collaboration will enable Vi Business to provide its enterprise customers with integrated connectivity, cloud, and s...

NextDC is developing a modular data center in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

NEXTDC

Western Australia has received an Edge data center module from NextDC. According to the company's website, the 1.5MW, single-story PH1 provides technical space for 320 racks across 7,825 square feet. The company has projected a go-live date of August 2023.The company stated that the data cente...

Hoffman Estates, Illinois, will boost data center electricity and ambulance expenses

Hoffman Estates, Illinois, hiked taxes and fees to replace two fire stations. Data centers will pay a higher electricity tax rate as part of it. The Lakewood Boulevard Microsoft data center is estimated to generate $900,000 annually. Microsoft announced a $200 million first phase for the forme...

Google will invest $350 million to expand data center in Iowa

Google

The Council Bluffs data center, located on the Nebraska/Iowa border, will be expanded by Google for $350 million. Plans for a data center in Council Bluffs were first made public in 2007. Google announced expansion plans in 2012 and 2015 and has since spent approximately $5 billion on the faci...

Brazil's Paraná government will receive a data center from Zeittec

Brazil / Brasil

The Brazilian company Zeittec will construct a new federal data center. This week, the corporation announced that a new building would be built for the Paraná Court of Auditors at the TCE-PR (Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Paraná) headquarters in Curitiba, in the southern part of the country....

OVHcloud is looking to acquire Gridscale

OVH Group

Gridscale, an industry leader in hyper-converged infrastructure, and OVHcloud are in exclusive takeover talks. The deal, which won't affect the fiscal year 2023 and will help OVHcloud with its Edge computing goals, is anticipated to close at the start of 2024. There has been no disclosure of t...

Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

San Francisco Bay Area

Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an entertainment d...

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners plans big expansion over next three years

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has announced its plans to develop nearly one gigawatt of data center capacity over the next three years. According to the company, it will "own and operate one of the largest global hyperscale data center platforms" in the world, once the purchase of Data4 a...

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) finishes fit-out data center in Frankfurt, Germany

Colt Frankfurt West

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS)' data center fit-out in Frankfurt, Germany, is complete, it has announced. Called Frankfurt West, the facility consists of 14 data halls with a total IT capacity of 25MW. This is two fewer than originally planned.Mercury Engineering, the main contractor on ...

Digital Realty unveils high-density colocation solu with 70kW racks in 28 markets

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a global leader in the data center industry, has introduced a high-density colocation service in 28 markets across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. The new service supports up to 70 kilowatts per rack of computing power. Digital stated that the increased rack densities we...

Global Switch seeks buyers for European and Asia Pacific data centers

Global Switch

In an effort to raise $6 billion, Global Switch is contemplating selling its operations in Europe and Asia Pacific separately. According to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg, the London-based company may offer its Europe and Asia Pacific units to separate purchasers with the expectation tha...

Sentinum introduces hosting and colocation services

Michigan

Sentinum's data center in Michigan has started offering colocation and hosting services. Sentinum, a subsidiary of the holding company Ault Alliance, will provide these offerings for artificial intelligence ecosystems and other industries. The corporation intends to expand its operations into ...

Maryland denies use of diesels for data center backup

The Maryland Public Services Commission has told Aligned, which has bought space on the 2GW Quantum Loophole site in Adamstown, Frederick County, that diesel generators are not an acceptable form of backup in 2023.Aligned applied to have 168 diesel generators, each with 3MW generating capacity...

GDA, a Bitcoin miner, establishes three data centers in South Carolina

Genesis Digital Assets (GDA), a Bitcoin mining corporation, launched three data centers in South Carolina with a total capacity of 33MW. One data center is located near the community of Anderson, while the other two are between Union and Lockhart. The Anderson facility has been active since Fe...

New campus facility with a data center is constructed at Hardin-Simmons University

Abilene Hall, Hardin-Simmons University's main structure, has been enlarged, and a data center has been added. Abilene Hall's new 7,000-square-foot extension will be dedicated to the university's engineering faculty on August 29. The building will consist of three stories, with lab space on th...

Irish government data center initiative costs double

Europe

Irish government's new data center has reached an all-time high price tag of €80 million ($87.4m). While initial estimates placed the cost of building the data center at €30 million and the completion date at 2020, the project has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.The completion date wa...

Converge ICT plans to invest $60m in 3 new data centers.

Converge ICT Solutions

CEO Dennis Uy stated that the Philippines-based telecommunications company Converge ICT Solutions plans to invest $60 million in creating three new data centers in the Philippines. In the following 18 to 24 months, the Internet service provider plans to build data centers in Pampanga, Quezon C...