Data Center News

Aligned Acquires 177k Sq. Ft. Office Building in Chicago for New Data Center Campus

Aligned

Aligned bought an office property in the Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Elk Grove. It is currently unknown whether the company intends to convert the facility occupied by CitiBank into a data center. The Real Deal reports, citing Cook County public records, that Aligned purchased 50 Nort...

Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

San Francisco Bay Area

Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in the construction of data centers, according to a report by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. At the end of last year, 17 new data centers were either under construction or in development, with a total planned area of 4.7 million square...

StratCap Expands Data Center Portfolio with Acquisition of Two US Facilities

StratCap Data Centers

StratCap, a privately held investment firm, has acquired two data centers in the United States. The data centers, located in California and Missouri, were purchased for an undisclosed amount. StratCap acquired in Santa Clara, California, a purpose-built data center that is 100 percent leased t...

New Hybrid Data Center to Boost Student Learning in Nigeria

Nigeria

The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has commissioned a new hybrid data center at the Delta State Polytechnic, Oghara. The new facility is expected to provide students with access to the latest technology and help improve their learning experience. According to the President...

Key Point Technologies Begins Construction on Siberia's Largest Data Center in Novosibirsk, Russia

Russia / Россия

Key Point Technologies, a Russian data center operator, has broken ground on a new facility in Novosibirsk. The data center is set to be one of the largest in Siberia, with a total capacity of 8MW. The Tier III quality facility will provide 8MW at completion. First announced in 2022, the fi...

Modular Data Centers Poised for Explosive Growth, Set to Reach $155.09 Billion by 2033

The global modular data centers market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.3% and reach a size of $155.09 billion by 2033, according to a recent report. Modular data centers are self-contained computing facilities that can be easily transported and quickly assembl...

ManageEngine plans data center in Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

ManageEngine is reportedly considering establishing a data center in Brazil. It plans to have the facility operational by either late this year or early next, near its Santa Catarina or São Paulo offices. According to the company, regulatory barriers and import tax mean that a lack of local da...

JLL releases its 2023 Global Data Center Outlook

JLL

JLL recently released its 2023 Global Data Center Outlook and revealed that despite economic uncertainty, the data center industry continues to boom, especially in Northern Virginia, which continues to remain top of the data center market list. The outlook report suggests that demand from sma...

Ex-Intel Chief Architect Considers Data Center Opportunities For an Indian AI Startup

Intel

Raja Koduri, the former chief architect of Intel Corp, is negotiating a contract with Hiranandani-backed data center company Yotta for his generative artificial intelligence venture, which he says will have a significant presence in India. Koduri stated that his unnamed company would partner w...

Indian Data Centre Industry Poised for Strong Growth Per JLL Report

India / Bhārata

India's data center industry is expected to drive demand for real estate spanning over 9.1 million square feet by 2025, according to a report by JLL India. The report revealed that the data center industry in India has already seen investments of $977 million, with a current supply of 7.5 mill...

Asia-Pacific Data Center Power Market to Reach $5.34 Billion by 2027

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

The Asia-Pacific data center power market is projected to grow significantly in the coming years, driven by the increasing demand for cloud-based services, big data analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The market is expected to reach a value of $100,625.1 million over 2023-2032. Accord...

Brazil's Odata Gets Licences For Santiago Data Center

ODATA SA

Carlos Salata, the quality manager for Odata, stated that the company's ST01 data center in Santiago, Chile, has obtained three ISO certifications, completing the process of obtaining this set of labels for all of its regional sites. The ISO 9001, ISO 20000-1, and ISO 27001 certifications were...

Human Rights Watch releases statement on Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's new cloud data center region in Saudi Arabia has faced criticism since the tech giant announced its plans in early February. Now, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for Microsoft to suspend its investment in the country until it can "clearly demonstrate" how it plans to mitigate ...

Azintelecom LLC to expand data center footprint in Azerbaijan

AzInTelecom LLC is building a new data center in Azerbaijan. Announced at the recent "Sustainable Development Technologies: Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Cloud Solutions," event, Sadig Yolchuev, advisor to the Chairman of AzInTelecom LLC, shared that while the company cu...

Digital Edge announces groundbreaking of Incheon data center

Digital Edge DC

This week, Digital Edge announced that it had broken ground on its new SEL2 data center in Incheon, South Korea. The facility was first announced back in April last year, and will see around one trillion won ($800m) invested in the project.The company is working in partnership with SK ecoplant...

Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a number of renewable energy deals in line with its net zero and sustainability goals. In Australia the company has signed a renewable electricity supply contract with Origin Energy. The colocation company will procure energy from the Origin Sto...

Iron Mountain signs PPA in the Netherlands

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain will procure solar energy for its Dutch campus following the signing of a PPA with local energy company Sunrock, the largest developer of rooftop solar deployments in the Netherlands. Through the deal, the data center company will source energy from a 4MW solar system, which has...

Authomize Expands Cloud Security Services to Australian Businesses with Microsoft Data Centers Availability

Microsoft Azure

Authomize, a leading cloud security and authorization platform, has announced that its services are now available in Microsoft data centers in Australia. This expansion brings Authomize's innovative platform closer to Australian businesses seeking advanced security solutions. According to the ...

AWS and Element Six Develop Synthetic Diamonds for Quantum Networks

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Networking has partnered with Element Six, a De Beers Group division, to create synthetic diamonds that can act as nodes in quantum networks. This collaboration aims to use diamond memory nodes to enable quantum communication to travel long distance...

Colombian Data Centers Acquired by I-Squared Capital to Strengthen Portfolio in Growing Latin American Market

Colombia

I-Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment group, has bought two data centers in Colombia from the Colombian telecoms operator UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. The data centers were formerly owned by UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. I-Squared Capital will now have a larger footprint in Latin ...