Data Center News

Application Submitted by Vantage For a 134-acre Data Center Facility in Ashburn, Virginia

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has filed for a Loudoun County campus near Ashburn. Vantage applied for federal and state approvals for its VA3 data center facility with the US Army Corps of Engineers district commander. Vantage plans to build a "large-scale data center complex" on 134 acres west of B...

Plans For Two New Datum Data Centers In The UK

Datum Datacentres Limited

Datum Group, a UK-based data center company, is working on building two new facilities in the country's south and northwest. This week, the firm revealed its intention to establish two new data centers in Farnborough and Manchester in the year 2024. The two new centers (FRN2 and MCR2) will ...

GenH2 to offer mobile liquid hydrogen source for data center tests

United States

GenH2 has announced that it has produced a mobile liquid hydrogen plant, which it has said can be deployed to support pilot projects and tests for applications such as data centers.The company has outlined that the LS20 mobile liquid hydrogen system is an end-to-end liquefaction and storage sy...

V.tal Launches New 4MW Facility In Fortaleza, Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

GlobeNet subsidiary V.tal, a Brazilian fiber company, has opened a brand-new Edge data center in Fortaleza. The facility, dubbed the 'Big Lobster,' will launch with a 4MW capacity over four data halls that can house a total of 400 racks. The innovative data center is connected to the company's...

Teraco Secures $678m Loan For Expansion

Teraco Data Environments

Teraco, a provider of data centers in South Africa, has been given a $678 million loan. Absa Group, a South African lender, led the loan. The business stated that "many big financial institutions" provided the cash, but did not identify them. Teraco, a subsidiary of Digital Realty, will utiliz...

Record Breaking Data Center M&A Purchases In 2022

Private equity drove the great majority of data center mergers and acquisitions in a massive year for such transactions. The overall value of the 187 data center-related M&A transactions tracked by Synergy Research in 2022 was $48 billion, which was slightly less than the record of $49 bil...

Citigroup Is Equipping Two Of Its Data Centers in Texas With Battery Rooms

Texas

CitiGroup is initiating two data center expansion projects in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth regions of Texas. Two applications for 'Battery Room Buildouts' have been submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). Its Georgetown Data Center is located at 201 Blue Ridge...

WIOCC's OADC Breaks Ground On Data Center in Kinshasha, DRC

Africa

WIOCC's new data center platform, Open Access Data Centres (OADC), has commenced constructing a data center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This Monday, the firm announced on LinkedIn that its latest core plant in the DRC will be located in Kinshasa. The construction of the w...

Renewable energy commitments made by Bulk

Bulk Infrastructure AS

Bulk Data Centers has announced that it will provide its customers with 100 percent renewable energy 24/7. This, it has outlined, will be achieved by matching hourly consumption with local hydropower. Customers at Bulk's OS-IX facility in Oslo, Norway, will be able to choose to have renewable...

T-Mobile makes 2040 net-zero pledge

T-Mobile

 T-Mobile is the latest company to make a pledge to reach net-zero emissions by 2040, and claims it is the first US wireless to do so. According to the company, this pledge includes not only Scope 1 and 2 but also Scope 3 emissions that occur through the wider supply chain. It has also signed...

Key Point opens data center in eastern Siberia

Russia / Россия

Key Point has announced the launch of a new data center in Primorsky Krai in far east Russia. The Russian data center developer has outlined that at full build-out, the facility will have capacity for 880 racks and 10MW. Its first phase saw the construction of two modules with a total capacity...

DTiX Proposing New Facility in Chalon-sur-Saône, France

France

DTiX, a French data center operator, is constructing a major data center in Chalon-sur-Saône, France. The company is constructing a second facility in the Saône-et-Loire department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. There will be enough for 100 racks in two data rooms spanning around 7,...

Virtus Hires JLL For Facility Administration

JLL

Virtus, a data center company in the United Kingdom, has hired JLL to manage its centers. This week, JLL confirmed that it had been selected to provide complete facilities management expertise for all of its UK data center facilities. Neil Cresswell, the CEO of Virtus, stated that this is ...

NTT Third Building at its Vienna Data Center Comes Online

NTT Vienna

NTT has opened a brand-new facility on its Vienna, Austria data center campus. The extension, which was announced in October 2021, increases the site's size to 92,500 square feet and its capacity to 15.2 megawatts. In 2015, NTT purchased the Austrian data center when it purchased German firm e...

Sify recognized as India's first NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center

Sify Technologies

Sify Technologies Limited has announced that it has been recognised as an NVIDIA DGX-Ready data center colocation provider, making it of its kind to be recognized in India. According to Sify, with DGX systems, it will be able to provide its customers with high-compute density, measurable perf...

Telefonica issues green hybrid bond worth €1 billion

Telefonica

Telefonica has announced that it has issued a €1 billion ($1.1bn) green bond to fund its sustainability efforts. The green hybrid bond has a maturity of 7.25 years, and will go toward green projects, procuring renewable energy, and helping the company shut down its obsolete equipment. Further...

AWS to use low-carbon EcoPact concrete in new facilities in North Virginia

Amazon AWS

In Northern Virginia, home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world, AWS has announced that it has signed an agreement with Holcim US, and Baker Concrete Construction to utilize EcoPact concrete for the construction of a number of data centers. The cement and concrete industry...

Amazon procures record amount of renewable energy

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it is increasing its renewable energy capacity, consolidating its position as the world's largest buyer of renewable energy. According to the giant, its capacity increased by 8.3GW through 133 new projects in 11 countries during 2022. This means that its portfolio st...

IIJ announces sustainability efforts with rooftop solar power system

Japan

Japanese ISP Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has announced its sustainability efforts with the installation of a 336kWp rooftop solar power system at its Shiroi data center campus in Chiba Prefecture. The solar panels, primed to generate approximately 373MWh annually, 3 percent of the fac...

A 1.4 Million-square-foot Data Center Campus Outside Austin, Texas In Works

Austin

In Texas, a proposal for four data centers has been submitted on the location of a long-proposed private airport. The application for the 'Bastrop Project' data center was submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) this month. The application is for a new construct...