Data Center News

Saudi Cloud Region Will be Hosted by Huawei at The Center3 Data Center

stc

Center3's building will house Huawei's Saudi Arabian cloud region. To assist Huawei in growing its cloud footprint in the area, Saudi telecom STC this month said that its Center3 subsidiary would offer hosting and data services to Huawei. In October 2022, Center3 was established to take over t...

DataDome to build a new data center in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

DataDome has shared plans to construct a new data center in Kyrgyzstan’s capital city, Bishkek, set to be the first Tier III facility in the country. The facility, set to be operated by DataTime, will offer 100 racks with a capacity of at least 500kW. Little is known about DataTime. Speaking a...

Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

Google

Google has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with Luminus to source wind energy in Belgium. The 12-year deal will see the tech giant acquire 23.8MW of energy from the Belgium energy company, sourced from four new onshore wind projects.According to Google, the PPA in Belgium will ke...

Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia

Northern Virginia

A first-of-its-kind combination data center and hydrogen fuel hub is on its way to Surry County, North Virginia, it has been announced. Middleburg-based Green Energy Partners LLC is leading the project, which is called the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) and comes after GEP secured 641 acres ...

Cirion plans data centers in Chile, Peru and Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

Cirion has outlined its plans to develop three data centers in Chile, Peru and Brazil in 2023, as it continues its growth in Latin America. Specifically, the three facilities will be located in Santiago's Quilicura district, Macropolis in Lurín in Peru, and Cotia in São Paulo. Together the thr...

NetActuate announces expansion in Africa

NetActuate

NetActuate has announced that it has launched a new data center location in Accra, Ghana, the company's second in the continent. The facility reportedly houses five submarine cable connections, equipment for all the major carriers and ISPs, and direct connectivity to GIX (Ghana Internet Excha...

iXAfrica to Expand Services as Lion Investment Bidco Acquires Majority Stake

Africa

Lion Investment Bidco, a subsidiary of a private equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in iXAfrica, a data center operator in Kenya. The transaction was completed for an undisclosed amount and marks Bidco's entry into the data center industry. XAfrica was founded in 2018 and operates data...

Cloud Computing Adoption Drives Growth of India's Data Center Market

India / Bhārata

India's data center construction market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.76% from 2022-2028, according to a report by Arizton. Adopting advanced technological solutions such as IoT, big data, and AI drives demand cloud services across various industries. Major cloud service providers in Ind...

GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has sold GI Partners a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. According to Dgtl Infra, Digital Realty has sold the property at 43915 Devin Shafron Drive in Loudoun County to a private equity company. The single-story, 9 MW, 132,280 square foot building, also known as Building A, purp...

AXA IM Sells Data4 to Brookfield

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

The European data center company Data4 was acquired by Brookfield Infrastructure. AXA IM Alts confirmed the sale this week, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The news comes weeks after it was reported that Brookfield was in 'exclusive negotiations' to acquire a majority stak...

SBI Crypto sues Riot-owned data center

Riot Platforms

SBI Crypto Co. is reportedly pursuing litigation against the Riot Blockchain-owned-Whinstone US data center based in Rockdale, Texas. The bitcoin mining company outlined in its lawsuit, filed April 6th, that the data center breached its Hosting Service Agreement, alongside other charges includ...

Optical Networks confirms data center plans and rebrands

Peru

Optical Networks has announced that it is rebranding as Win Empresas. This pursuit of a commercial restructuring, is aimed at bolstering its presence in the corporate telecoms market through enhancing association with Win, its telecoms arm. Further to this, it restated its intentions to open t...

Vodafone announces solar panels at Gloucester mobile telephone exchange in UK

Vodafone

Vodafone has announced that it is deploying solar panels at a mobile telephone exchange site in Gloucester, England, to cover approximately 12% of the site’s annual energy consumption requirements. This is in line with its wider energy efficiency goals and 2027 net-zero pledge.The telecoms pr...

Panattoni: €300m data center on the way to Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia

Spain

Together with the Parc de l'Alba Consortium (comprising Catalan Land Institute -INCASÒL- and the Cerdanyola del Vallès City Council), Panattoni has announced plans to develop the largest ever data center campus in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, following the purchase of a 60,000 sqm plot of...

Varonis opens Australia data center in line with national data sovereignty rules

Australia

Varonis has announced that it has opened its first data center in Australia to support Varonis' customers and to better demonstrate compliance with national data sovereignty rules, a regulatory trend which is on the rise.Varonis outlined that in light of a wave of ransomware attacks on Austral...

Liquid Intelligent Technologies Will Provide Zambia With a Brand-new Data Center

Africa

To accelerate the country's digital transformation, the Zambian government has partnered with Liquid Intelligent Technologies to establish a new data center. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating this was signed by both sides. This is a positive move since the data center will also handl...

Microsoft Submits Plans For a Six-Building Data Center Facility in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed plans to construct a new data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. This week, the Norfolk District of the US Army Corps of Engineers got a joint license application for Federal and State clearances from the corporation. According to the application – labeled LYH03 Bailey...

Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership

Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership, which aims to encourage organizations to voluntarily utilize green power for the benefit of the planet and human health. Through signing up for the Green Power Partnership...

Scientists at NTU Singapore invent data center cooling spray

Singapore

When it comes to data center cooling, everyone's on the hunt for the latest innovative, efficient tech; and at Singapore's Nanyang Technical University (NTU), its research team is working on the latest solution. The group proposes cooling servers by spraying chips with fluid; dielectric fluid,...

"Shut it all down": Machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky sounds alarm on AI evolution

Microsoft Azure

As AI continues its rapid evolution, machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is sounding the alarm, arguing that AI should not only be paused, as recommended by the Future of Life Institute, but stopped entirely. Yudkowsky has been a vocal critic of AI for over two decades, and says that...