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BDX breaks ground on CGK3A data center

BDx Data Centers

Big Data Exchange (BDx) Indonesia has announced that it has broken ground on its new 15MW CGK3A facility in South Jakarta, Indonesia. The facility will see an investment of $150 million, offering 14,127 sqm (152,000 sq ft) of space. Big Data Exchange (BDx) Indonesia's groundbre...

5.5 million sq ft data center park proposed in Stafford County, Virginia

Northern Virginia

In Stafford County, Stafford Technology LC, a company affiliated with US real estate firm Peterson, has outlined plans to develop a 5.5 million sq ft data center park. In order to accommodate the 25-building data center campus, the company is seeking to rezone 524 acres in the Falmouth Electio...

Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

Equinix

Astra has joined Equinix's plans to develop a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This week, Astra and the colocation company announced a new joint venture, with Equinix holding 75 % of the new endeavor. The initial proposal for this joint venture is to build and operate a JK1 International ...

Vodafone May Sell Its Spanish Commercial Unit For $4 Billion

Vodafone

Reportedly, Vodafone Group is contemplating proposals for its Spanish business, which could fetch as much as $4 billion. As first revealed by Bloomberg, potential purchasers, including Apollo Global Management, are showing interest in the operator's Spanish unit. According to sources familiar ...

Half of Iliad Group's Polish Network Business Sold For $415m

OpCore

For $415 million, French telecom Iliad has finalized the sale of a 50% share in its Polish wholesale business, Polski Swiatlowod Otwarty (PŚO). With this change, PŚO will be able to improve its fiber network nationwide and connect approximately six million homes. With the deal, PŚO will run th...

Astrocast Receives a $17.5 Million Loan From Yahsat's Thuraya

This week saw an investment in Astrocast by Thuraya, a division of Yahsat, a satellite company based in the United Arab Emirates. A $17.5 million convertible loan from Thuraya, a provider of satellite phones, antennae, and terminals, will go to Astrocast. IoT connection services are offered di...

Värde Provides $200 Million in Financing to GlobalStar

Satellite company GlobalStar has received a fresh note funding round. The company said last week that it had signed into a purchase contract with an affiliate of investment firm Varde Partners as well as others, allowing for the sale of $200 million in principal amount of 13 percent Senior Not...

Nigerian President Unveils Kano's Tier 4 Data Center

Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the 41-terabyte countrywide tier-4 Data Center in Kano on Monday. During the ceremony, Prof. Ali Isa Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, stated that the data center was the first of its kind in northern Nigeria and the finest in the co...

Norwegian Authorities Increases Its Oversight of Data Center

Norway

The Norwegian government is making preparations to strengthen national supervision over data centers through proposed rules in the country's electronic communications law. All Norwegian data center operators will be required to register and provide details of their activities under the propose...

Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying

Amazon AWS

House Bill 2816, which sought to impose greenhouse gas emissions standards to encourage data centers to cut their carbon emissions in Oregon, died in legislative committee this week. Amazon, which aggressively lobbied against the bill, has been cited as one of the major reasons for its defeat....

Green building regulations and data center sustainability in India

India / Bhārata

In India, an increased focus on green buildings, from a regulatory perspective, is pegged to give rise to more sustainable data centers being built in the country. Experts have outlined that the publishing of recommendations on by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in November o...

Headwaters rezone request in Catlett, Virginia could pave the way for between three to five data centers

Headwaters Site Development, a US real estate developer, has announced that it is seeking the development of a 66-acre industrially zoned property in Catlett, Virginia, for a new data center park. The ​​pre-application requests up to 1.4 million square feet (130,050 sqm) of data center develop...

Spark New Zealand announces new data center strategy

New Zealand

Spark New Zealand has outlined it will inject between $156 million to $189m into data center expansion, as part of a new three-year strategy. As part of this strategy, it will also work on new technologies, in order to open up new commercialisation opportunities across its core markets of mobi...

AWS inks another PPA in Spain with Grenergy Renovables SA

Amazon AWS

Amazon has signed another Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), this time with Grenergy Renovables SA, to procure solar energy in Spain. The 10-year deal will provide AWS with 469 MWp of solar energy. Grenergy Renovables is an independent power producer (IPP) involved in large-scale renewable energ...

Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

Northern Virginia

This spring and summer, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is mulling over a proposal enabling data facilities in Loudoun County to draw power more routinely from on-site disaster diesel generators. The proposal aims to alleviate pressure on the transmission system, which transpo...

DataBank Obtains Credit Facility of $325 Million

DataBank

To help support its development aspirations, US colocation provider DataBank has obtained a new $325 million credit line. The facility, led by TD Securities, consists of a $50 million conventional credit line, a $125 million deferred draw term loan, and a $175 million five-year term loan. The ...

NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency

NTT

The Retirement Systems of Alabama has renewed NTT's contract with them until 2033. NTT Data will manage the data center for the state pension agency for an extra eight years as part of the arrangement. The contract's worth wasn't shared. The downtown Montgomery data center has 300 racks and a ...

New data Center For The Peruvian Police Force

New data center for Peruvian National Police (PNP). The data center would reportedly aid the PNP in battling organized crime and publicizing its efforts to do so, according to the Intelligence Directorate (Dirin). Vincente Romero, the interior minister, officially opened the facility, which ha...

AWS to offtake from Mercury's Turitea wind farm to power new Auckland region

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has inked a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in New Zealand Mercury to procure wind energy. The giant will procure around half the output from the local energy company's 103MW Turitea South onshore wind farm; which is more than is required to fuel Amazon Web Ser...

Equinix expands footprint in Canada

Equinix

Equinix has announced plans for a facility in Montreal, Canada. Known as MT2, the new facility is projected to be operational in the second half of 2023. In the first phase of the project, the facility will offer 500 racks from Q3, phase two, meanwhile, will add a further 500 racks by the fou...