Data Center News

Bain seeks to privatize ChinData

Chindata Group

A bid to take Chinese data center operator ChinData private has been made by the investment firm Bain Capital. This week, ChinData announced that the investment firm, which is already investing in the data center firm, filed a preliminary, non-binding request letter to acquire all remaining or...

Work begins on a data facility in Lincoln, Nebraska

Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska, looks to have seen the start of construction on a data center campus that was first proposed in 2019. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, the project appears to be progressing, with some excavation occurring in recent months.In July 2019, Agate LLC filed for a 600 million...

Old Capital One facility offered by Chirisa to hyperscalers

Chirisa Investments

A former Capital One facility in Chester, Virginia, is being marketed by Chirisa to hyperscalers. Chirisa Technology Parks, a subsidiary of Chirisa that was recently established, lists the facility located at 1401 Meadowville Technology Pkwy outside of Richmond on its official website as avail...

Digital Realty gets $1.1 billion, sells Texas and Illinois data facilities

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a US data center company, has had an eventful week raising money and selling data centers. The company announced that it had raised over $1 billion through the sale of shares, with the money going to be used for expansion and debt reduction. Digital is selling the vast majority...

CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.

CloudHQ

CloudHQ has purchased land in San Antonio, Texas, to construct a data center campus. The company has acquired nearly 123 acres of land in the Texas Research Park, just down the street from Microsoft's Bexar County facilities. The University of Texas System sold CloudHQ the land bounded by Lamb...

Digital Edge begins construction on Tokyo data facility

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has begun constructing its data center in downtown Tokyo, Japan. A few days ago the company announced on LinkedIn that the building of its TYO7 site had officially begun. The Singapore-based business revealed plans for a new facility in March 2023. The facility will be situated at...

The University of Minnesota moves ahead with $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus

Minnesota

The University of Minnesota has announced that it's moving forward with a new $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus. The university is reportedly accepting design proposals for a two-story, 33,000-square-foot "Advanced Operations Center." The facility will be located west of the...

Data center colo provider Cyxtera declares bankruptcy

Cyxtera Technologies

The US colocation provider Cyxtera has declared bankruptcy. Cyxtera began a pre-arranged court-supervised procedure under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code following the Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA) originally made with certain lenders. Cyxtera stated that it intends to ...

IBM plans to construct a quantum data facility in Germany

Kyndryl

IBM will construct a data center in Germany to house quantum processors. This week, the company revealed plans to establish its first quantum data facility in Europe on the IBM campus in Ehningen, near Stuttgart, to facilitate cutting-edge quantum computing for businesses, research institution...

Elea Digital expands Brazilian data facility with $20m

Elea Data Centers

Elea Digital, a Brazilian data center corporation, has invested more than $20 million in expanding its Rio de Janeiro data center. The data center in issue, RJ01, has doubled its capacity from 2.5MW to 5MW, and the additional 5,380 sq ft of data center space can accommodate up to 200 more rack...

Verne Global receives $100m loan

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global, an Icelandic data center company, received a $100 million loan. This week, the board of directors of Digital 9 Infrastructure announced that the business had inked a new $100 million green term loan debt financing for Verne Global Iceland, along with a $50 million accordion provi...

York County's $1bn data center proposal

South Carolina

South Carolina is planning a $1 billion data center development. This week, the York County Council will discuss and vote on tax incentives for a data center proposal in the county. York County is located in northeast South Carolina, toward the east of Greenville and Spartanburg, and adjacent ...

Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

Rackspace

A data center occupied by Rackspace is for sale in Kansas City, Missouri. Collers are offering 10828 NW Airworld Drive as a "long-term NNN lease investment opportunity." No sale price was disclosed. The two-story, 77,545-square-foot building was built 1982 on 5.2 acres and came with a single-t...

Ufinet launches new data center in Panama City, Panama

Central America

Ufinet has announced that it has launched its new data center in Panama City, Panama. Certified by Uptime and Rated 3 ANSI/TIA-942-B, the facility is Tier III, although further details have not yet been released.“Ufinet in its 25 years celebrates a new achievement in the Panama branch, the ina...

AWS establishes Direct Connect location at NEC Inzai data center

AWS has announced it has announced a new AWS Direct Connect location within the NEC Inzai data center in Inzai, Japan. AWS said that this means that customers can now gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (bar China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.The Inzai locatio...

Tayra facility in Colombia to become supercomputer

Colombia

In Colombia, an underused data center at Colombia's center for bioinformatics and computational biology (BIOS) in Valle del Cauca, is to be transformed into a supercomputer. According to the government, it will invest 1.5bn pesos ($330,000) to facilitate this.The Tayra facility is currently us...

AWS' data center chief Chris Vonderhaar makes abrupt departure

Amazon AWS

Chris Vonderhaar, head of data center design, planning, construction, and operation, has made an abrupt departure from AWS. This announcement comes as AWS continues to invest in its data center footprint, pegged to invest $35 billion alone on new data centers in Virginia by 2040.AWS has also a...

Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Renantis for wind energy in Finland from its two Renantis' onshore wind farms when they're complete. The Mustalamminmäki and Koiramäki wind farms in Karstula, Central Finland, will have a combined cap...

Bidding in Illinois for an unoccupied HSBC/CapitalOne facility

Illinois

Illinois's former HSBC data center will be auctioned off later this month. On June 6-8, Cushman & Wakefield will auction off a data center in Volo via LoopNet. According to the listing, the Volo Data Center is a 160,000-square-foot data facility on a 42-acre lot at 300 S Fish Lake Road. Vo...

Legrand Introduces the First Harmonic Distortion Measuring Power Distribution Units for Data Centers

Legrand, an international leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures, has introduced the latest version of smart rack Power Distribution Units (PDUs). The Server Technology PRO4X and Raritan PX4 rack PDUs are poised to revolutionize power management in data centers with superior...