Data Center News

Google's data center plans in Uruguay spark outrage as country faces water crisis

Google

Uruguay is currently battling a water crisis, facing its worst drought in more than 70 years. The country has now experienced years of low rainfall, something which is likely to only continue as climate change exacerbates the issue. However, it's not just the result of climate change, accordin...

Hyperscalers set capture half of data center capacity in the next five years

According to Synergy Research Group, hyperscalers and colocation companies are dwarfing on-premise data center capacity. Its research revealed that hyperscalers now account for  37% of the worldwide capacity of all data centers, with the number of large data centers operated by hyperscalers re...

Moveworks expands with Canadian data center

Canada

Moveworks has announced that its first regional data center in Canada has opened, a move which the company said signifies its move toward promoting greater data center privacy and residency, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Canada.The company noted that data privacy is a “cruc...

SEB Bank provides DEAC and DLC a $33 million loan

Delska (DEAC, DLC Data Logistics Center)

The DEAC of Latvia and the Data Logistics Center (DLC) of Lithuania have received a $33.4 million loan to finance the expansion of their respective data centers. The two companies announced this week that they had secured a 10-year loan from SEB Bank to expand Baltic telecommunications systems...

Liberty Global raises its stake in Telenet to 93.23 percent

Liberty Global has taken on a larger majority stake in Belgian telecommunications provider Telenet and will recommence its efforts to acquire the company outright. The company will increase its ownership stake in the telecommunications company to 93.23 percent and is scheduled to reopen its op...

Compass will soon buy Sears' 2.4 million-square-foot Chicago facility

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters, which was recently taken over, is planning to purchase a former Sears office complex in Chicago, Illinois, presumably for a new data center campus. The data center constructor and operator are "poised" to acquire the Sears site in the Hoffman Estates neighborhood, as first...

Equinix Sofia data center's phase 2 development completed

Equinix Sofia SO1

The expansion of one of Equinix's Bulgarian data centers in Sofia has been concluded. This week, the company announced the completion of the second phase of its SO2 data center in the capital of Bulgaria. The development, which doubles the site's capacity to 700 servers, cost $12 million, acco...

Datum has completed a 1 MW data hall upgrade in Farnborough

Datum Datacentres Limited

Datum Datacentres has completed the development of a 1MW data hall at its Farnborough data center. The development project at Datum's FRN1 has been concluded as part of a $9 million investment program.The new data hall on the first floor, Hall 4, has space for 380 racks, a cooling framework fo...

Edged Energy intends to construct an 18MW data facility in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas

A data center is being built by Edged Energy in Kansas City, Missouri. According to BizJournal, the Northland of Kansas City will soon see the start of construction on a data center by engineering and construction company Burns & McDonnell. The company is constructing an 18MW waterless-coo...

Microsoft was permitted to operate its Dublin data center on gas

Microsoft Azure

According to reports, Microsoft has been granted permission to construct a 170MW gas power facility for its Dublin data center expansion. As per a report from Business Post, the cloud giant applied in December to construct a gas power facility for its $1 billion Dublin data center campus curre...

EdgeConneX announces deployment of AWS Direct Connect in Phoenix data center

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced the deployment of AWS Direct Connect with both 10Gbps and 100Gbps capability at the Phoenix Edge Data Center (PHX01). The company shared that this will enable customers to establish direct edge cloud on-ramps. This, it shared, can reportedly reduce costs, improve oper...

ClickUp announces localised data hosting at its EU data center in Ireland

Europe

ClickUp has announced that it is expanding its investment in Europe with localised data hosting in its European data center. Operated by Amazon Web Services, ClickUp's European data center is based in Ireland, and following this announcement, customers subscribed to its Enterprise plan will ha...

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel to begin work on data center

Canada

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel has shared that it has obtained the permits to begin work on its new data center in the heritage section of Vancouver's Harbour Centre. The company shared that the project is still in its preconstruction phase, but that construction will commence in August 2023, ...

Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

Finland

Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the c...

Asterion and Telefónica are looking into an acquisition of the Nabiax unit

Asterion and Telefónica are reportedly considering the sale of Nabiax, a Latin American data center company. According to Reuters, infrastructure fund Asterion Industrial Partners, which owns 80 percent of Nabiax, has enlisted the services of bankers from BBVA BBVA.MC and Citigroup C.N. to eva...

Tonomus establishes data center in Saudi's Neom city

Saudi Arabia

Tonomus, a digital corporation within the new Neom city in Saudi Arabia, opened a data center. Neom is a plan to build a massive new smart metropolis on the coast of the Red Sea in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk. The Public Investment Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund, owns 10...

Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

Amazon AWS

Amazon is reportedly interested in purchasing a former Ford plant near Cardiff, Wales. According to BusinessLive and WalesOnline, AWS is in talks to purchase the former Ford engine facility in Bridgend. However, it may be a distinct Amazon division that is interested in the site.According to r...

Norwegian government approves Green Mountain TikTok data facility

Norway

The government has granted Green Mountain permission to construct a data center campus for TikTok. However, stricter data center regulations may shortly be introduced in Norway. Green Mountain announced in March 2023 that it would construct three 90MW buildings in the Hamar region by November ...

Australia's DUG obtains a $3.4 million grant to establish the Geraldton HPC campus

DUG, an Australian high-performance computing (HPC) company, has secured government aid for a Geraldton, Australia, campus. This week, the company announced receiving $3.4 million in government funding for its long-planned campus in Geraldton, Western Australia, approximately 250 miles north o...

Port of Valencia gives up data center proposals for docks building

Spain

The municipal council of Valencia has abandoned plans to construct a data center in a port docks building. More than a year had passed since the local government began considering multiple proposals for establishing a data center in a building on the Marina de Valencia. Nevertheless, this week...