Data Center News

Wesco ventures into the data center business

Pennsylvania

Wesco has announced the launch of a data center group, namely Wesco Data Center Solutions. The company is set to be led by Rahi Systems founding member Tarun Raisoni, who will be senior vice president and general manager, following the recent acquisition of Rahi Systems Holdings.Speaking about...

Uptime Institute Says Data Center Personnel is a Big Priority For Operators

Research by the Uptime Institute revealed data center personnel to be a major concern. The company's "2022 Management and Operations Survey" found that 54%  of operators prioritize staffing, followed by 46%  who prioritize sustainability. The problem is also expanding, both in terms of new rec...

Lonestar Data Holdings Secures $5M For Moon-based Data Centers

United States

Lonestar Data Holdings has successfully completed a $5 million seed round. The funding was provided by Scout Ventures, Seldor Capital, The Veteran Fund, Atypical Ventures, Irongate Capital, 2 Future Holding, and KittyHawk Ventures. The startup intends to deploy small data centers on the Moon. ...

Keppel DC REIT Receives Credit Facilities Totaling $73 million

Keppel Data Center REIT

The DC REIT group of Keppel has received a new credit facility of over $70 million, guaranteed by the financial services firm Perpetual. Keppel DC REIT Fin. Company Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel DC REIT, has procured the Loan Facility guaranteed by Perpetual Ltd (Asia) in its ...

Colt Data Centre Services' new London 4 data center in Hayes to have sustainability focus

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services has announced that it has broken ground on its new London 4 campus, located in Hayes. The company has outlined that the site will include two five-story buildings with a combined capacity of 57 MW, containing 18 data center halls across 30,000 sqm (322,900 sq ft).The...

McLouth locals' concerns about crypto mining facility proposal results in application withdrawal & moratorium

Kansas

In McLouth, Kansas, residents recently raised their concerns about a proposed data center off of K-92 at a natural gas site. The proposal for this commercial data center went before the Jefferson County Regional Planning Commission last week, and was put forward by Crypto Colo Center Corp. (CC...

Amazon Stopped Paying For Ads Because Twitter Failed To Pay Its AWS Bill

Amazon AWS

After Elon Musk acquired Twitter, the company ceased paying landlords, cleaning, and software providers for services done. But, according to The Information, the corporation has failed to pay its Amazon Web Services payments for months, despite using the cloud provider for crucial components o...

Algeria Telecom launches new data center

Africa

State-owned Algeria Telecom has announced the launch of a new data center in Constantine, Algeria. Although specific details regarding the facility are yet to be released, the company said that it is ‘equipped with the latest technology in addition to a cloud platform.’ Further, the facility i...

AWS announces new cloud region in Malaysia

Amazon AWS

AWS has launched a new AWS infrastructure Region in Malaysia, and through this, has outlined its intention to invest $6 billion (MYR 25.5 billion) in Malaysia by 2037. According to AWS, to begin with, the region will consist of three Availability Zones. Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of ...

Megawide and EDC commence project to build new data center

Manila

Megawide Construction is joining forces with Evolution Data Centres to acquire, develop, build, and operate center assets in the Philippines following the signing of a $300 million shareholder agreement between the two. Through this agreement, the company will develop a 69 MW colocation data c...

eStruxture opens another data center in Calgary

eStruxture

eStruxture has announced its second colocation data center, namely, Cal-2, in Calgary, Canada, is now open. The data center has reportedly been built to Tier III standards, offering a capacity of 20 MW, spanning 93,000 sq ft (8640 sqm). Pegged to attract both jobs and other large tech compani...

Fixed-line Provider HGC Makes a $1 billion Bid to Acquire Hong Kong's Telecom HKBN

HKBN Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited

Local broadband provider HKBN is being sought after by Hong Kong-based fixed-line telecommunication company HGC Global Communications for $1 billion. Shares in HKBN increased 13% after Bloomberg's original report before trading was suspended. The firm is currently valued at about $934 million,...

KDDI Switches Its Online Payment Software to Oracle Database

KDDI

KDDI, a Japanese telecom company, has a partnership with Oracle and will use the database of the technology company for its online payment brand. For disaster recovery, it has also implemented Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The company that runs the "au" mobile phone service in Japan, KDDI...

Construction of a New Teleport by Paratus Begins in Pretoria, South Africa

South Africa

The South African city of Pretoria now has a new teleport, thanks to pan-African telecom Paratus. At Doornkloof, some 50 miles north of Johannesburg, local newspapers claimed that Paratus has started building its newest "multimillion-rand" satellite teleport facility. The company stated that i...

Indian Fintech and Allied Services will Develop a $20.46m Data Facility Complex in Bhubaneswar

India / Bhārata

Ahluwalia Contracts has been given a $20.46 million contract by Indian Financial Technology and Allied Services (IFTAS) to construct a data center complex in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. The Reserve Bank of India's fully-owned subsidiary IFTAS offers essential infrastructure services to the RBI...

A Bill to Limit Tax Breaks For Data Centers in Idaho Stalls

Idaho

The Idaho legislature has rejected a proposed bill that would have limited tax breaks for data centers. The proposed plan, introduced last month, would require either a sales tax exemption or urban renewal regions for data centers, but not both. The measure failed in the House Revenue and Taxe...

Data Center Asset Sale on The Table From Allied Properties

Allied Properties REIT

As doubt spreads about the future of office buildings, Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, a landlord to corporations like Google and Morgan Stanley, is strengthening its financial sheet. According to Chief Executive Officer Michael Emory, the Canadian firm is generating a lot of i...

OPPO pledges to become carbon neutral across its global operations by 2050

China

OPPO has announced its commitment to achieving carbon neutrality across all its operations by 2050, the latest to do so. This pledge was made in the company’s OPPO Climate Action Report: Climate Pledges and Low Carbon Development Strategy, at MWC 2023. The company outlined that the greatest so...

Digital Edge 10MW green data center ready for service

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has announced that its first Philippines facility, located in Binan Laguna, Manila, is ready for service, and will offer 10 MW of capacity with 2,200 cabinets. Named the Narra 1 data center, it will provide colocation and interconnection services to the region and is a joint proj...

Twitter experiences continual outages: Issues attributed to data center issues and staff cuts

United States

Twitter continues to experience outages, which are impacting a number of users. The most recent outage occurred yesterday. Reports are that users were experiencing issues with their timeline, instead greeted with messaging saying, "Welcome to Twitter! This is the best place to see what's happe...