Data Center News

EdgeConneX Increases the Size of Its Israeli Data Centers

EdgeConneX

The construction of a new facility in Rishon will allow EdgeConneX, an innovator in global Hyperlocal to Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, to increase its data center impact in Israel. The new data center will meet the region's growing demand from hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and bus...

Lefdal Mine increases its power capacity of underground data center

Lefdal Mine Datacenter

In Måløy, Norway, Lefdal Mine Datacenter has added 60 MW to its underground data center. This increase was made possible through a connection to the regional 132 kV power network, upping its capacity from 20MW to 80MW. The power capacity has been expanded into modules of 30MW transformers. The...

European data center operators raise concern around energy supply

Europe

Across Europe, data center operators are raising concerns around energy supply availability, a new study by Agrreko has found. The company gathered responses from 700 data center professionals across seven European countries, including the UK, France, and parts of Scandinavia, and found that o...

Multifeed launches JPNAP service at Osaka 7 Data Center

Osaka

Internet Multifeed has announced that it has added the Osaka Data Center 7 in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, to its JPNAP service. The data center is operated by NTT Communications Corporation and will go online for operations in May 2023.According to the company, the data center is one of th...

Analysing the feasibility and impact of data center heat sharing

Green Mountain AS

In the last year or so, there's been a lot of talk about data centers sharing their heat and promoting the circular economy. The practice is widespread in Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania and Estonia and Germany was even exploring making it compulsory for operators to reuse waste heat with a new eff...

Huawei Broadens its Market in Vietnam With Data Center-Related Products

Huawei Cloud

Huawei is expanding its offerings to include data center products in Vietnam, where storage laws are driving demand for cloud computing services from Amazon Web Services and local unicorn VNG. Do Van Chung, Huawei Data Center Product Manager, told Nikkei Asia on the sidelines of a recent indus...

New Tunisia-France Submarine Cable Will be Installed by Orange

Orange

The French telecommunications company Orange will install a new subsea cable linking France and Tunisia. A 650-mile cable from Marseille to Bizerte will be built thanks to a grant from the EU's "Connecting Europe Facility" (CEF) program, the company announced this week. The cable is expected t...

France's Lyon facility of Euclyde Data Centers is Being Expanded

Euclyde Data Centers

The Lyon data center of French operator Euclyde Data Centers is growing. The business announced this week that it is adding two new data halls to its DC5 data center in Villeurbanne, as first reported by DCmag.fr. According to the statement, the project, which will house more than 140 racks, w...

Free/Jaguar of France to Grow the Rockefeller Data Center in Lyon

Free Pro: Lyon

Iliad-owned One of Free's data centers in Lyon, France, is growing. The Rockefeller data center in Lyon has doubled its hosting area, according to a recent LinkedIn post by Free Pro. Additional IT space with a capacity of roughly 460 racks will be available, totaling more than 9,690 square fee...

Rack Centre expands footprint in Nigeria

Rack Centre Limited

Rack Centre is planning expansion in Lagos, Nigeria, with a new 12MW data center, in line with its wider West Africa expansion plan, where it is looking to increase its presence tenfold. Rack Centre LGS 2 will be based on a 20,000 sqm (215,280 sq ft) greenfield site, offering 3,240 sqm (34,87...

Goodman plans for 100MW powered shell in Frankfurt, Germany

Germany / Deutschland

Goodman has announced its plans to develop a data center in Frankfurt, Germany, following the purchase of a 4.5-hectare brownfield plot that used to be a newspaper printing plant. Located in Neu-Isenburg, south of Frankfurt, the development would see the creation of a 100MVA-powered shell faci...

Can AI training energy consumption be lowered?

Michigan

These days, A.I. is seemingly never out of the headlines, with concerns about everything from lack of regulations around development, unchecked A.I. growth, and energy and water consumption. Considering the world is in the grips of a climate crisis, and A.I. training is using a growing amount ...

Datadog announces launch of new data center in Japan

Datadog has announced the launch of a new data center in Tokyo, Japan, its first in Asia. According to the company, the new facility will store and process data locally, and enable the company and its customers to comply with local data center privacy and security regulation. Specific details ...

EcoDataCenter announces circular-focused data center plans in Östersund, Sweden

EcoDataCenter (EcoDC AB)

In Sweden, EcoDataCenter has announced expansion plans. The Nordic data center firm has outlined its intentions to develop a new 150MW campus, located in Östersund, Sweden. The facility, known as EcoDataCenter 2, will offer 20 MW in its first phase, which is set to be completed in 2026; this f...

Skybox plans 100MW build-to-suit campus in Plano, Texas

Skybox Datacenters

Skybox is planning a 100MW build-to-suit data center campus in Plano, Texas. The campus is being established in partnership with logistics real estate firm Prologis, which owns the site. The 64-acre site is listed on the company's website, which outlines it has a capacity of 100 MW, and can h...

DCI completes AKL01 in New Zealand

DCI Data Centers

In Auckland, New Zealand, DCI Data Centres (DCI) has announced that it has completed work on its first cloud data center, which it has shared was delivered “on time” and “on budget.”The addition of the new AKL01 data center, which was first announced back in 2021, comes as part of the company’...

Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

Arkansas

The Arkansas Data Centers Act was recently passed after being proposed not long ago on March 30 by Senator Joshua Bryant. The legislation seeks to regulate the Bitcoin mining industry in the state, and will allocate crypto miners the same rights as data centers. It outlines that the government...

CyrusOne Data Centers is Getting Ready to Issue CMBS Worth $701 million

CyrusOne

Asset-backed securities totaling $701 million will be backed by real estate and tenant contracts for space and electrical capacity in five finished and operational data centers in Texas and Virginia. According to a pre-sale assessment from S&P Global Ratings, the CyrusOne Data Centers, 202...

Saudi Telecom Will Pay $1.3 billion to Purchase United Group Towers

Saudi Telecom Company

As the carrier grows in Europe, Saudi Telecom Co. has agreed to pay $1.3 billion for a portfolio of tower assets from United Group. According to a statement released on Thursday, the state-backed company's Tawal infrastructure arm is offering funds for a portfolio of more than 4,800 towers in ...

Cologix Concludes a $144.7 Million Asset Securitization Deal

Cologix

Asset-backed securities worth $144.7 million have been closed by Cologix. Through a private placement transaction that was completed on April 5, the North American and Canadian hyperscale Edge data center and network-neutral links provider made a deal with secured notes. Cologix's chief financ...