Global Data Center News

May 30, 2022

Telefónica Announces €1 Billion Sustainability-Linked Senior Bond

Telefonica

Telefonica has announced that it has issued its first senior sustainable bond. The bond will be used to sponsor sustainability initiatives and projects. The nine-year bond amounts to €1 billion ($1.06 billion). Telefonica saw immense success with the bond as it was over subscribed by more t...

May 27, 2022

Best Wonder Business (BWB) to develop a data center powered entirely by solar power in Aragon, Spain

Spain

Best Wonder Business (BWB) has announced its intentions to develop a 16MW data center, powered solely by solar power, and located at the Huesca Logistics Platform (Plhus) business park outside Huesca, in the Aragon region. Reported to be worth €230 million ($264m); the company hopes the facili...

May 27, 2022

AWS, biometrics and human rights

Amazon AWS

AWS is under pressure to drop a contract it holds with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which will see it host the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric database, which, according to a recent report by Mijente, Just Futures Law and the Immigrant Defense Project, h...

May 27, 2022

Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro

Intel

Intel has announced that it is developing a $700 million research lab in Hillsboro, Oregon, which will focus on sustainable data center technology. To be located at the company’s Jones Farm campus, the lab will span 200,000 sq ft (18,580 sqm) and is expected to open next year. According to th...

May 27, 2022

Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion

Spain

Telefónica has announced that it has successfully issued its first senior sustainable bond to fund sustainability projects and initiatives amounting to €1 billion ($1.06bn) with a term of nine years. Telefónica has now made five ESG issuances in the last three years totaling €4.25 billion ($4...

May 27, 2022

České Radiokomunikace To Develop Largest Data Center in The Czech Republic

Czech Republic

České Radiokomunikace has announced that it is looking to develop a new data center in Prague, Czech Republic. HN first announced the plans of the Czech telecommunication firm before the company confirmed it. Although Miloš Mastník, CR’s sales director, didn’t share details of the data center,...

May 26, 2022

Avanti set to build ground station at Free data center in Senegal

Senegal

A new ground station is set to be built at a Free-operated data center in Senegal, satellite firm Avanti has announced. This announcement comes following the signing of a five-year partnership agreement between the two companies, through which the telco will build and host a new satellite gate...

May 25, 2022

NTT Opens Data Center in Madrid, Spain

NTT Madrid 1

NTT has announced the opening of its first facility in Spain. The data center is located in Las Rozas, outside Madrid. According to NTT, the data center sits on 134,720 square feet (12,516 square meters) of land in the Europolis Business and Technology Park. Currently, the facility offers 3...

May 25, 2022

Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region

Google

Google has announced the launch of its new cloud region in Columbus, Ohio. The company noted that the new cloud region (us-east5) would provide users with the availability and speed needed to serve local customers, innovate quicker, and develop high-performing applications. Google first ann...

May 24, 2022

Increased risk of grid blackouts ahead warns North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC)

United States

The North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) has sounded the alarm that this summer, a number of states in the central and upper midwest, Texas, and Southern California, might be hit with blackouts due to the increased risk of power outages. This risk was outlined in the nonprofit's ann...

May 24, 2022

New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact

Google

Over the last few years, tech giants have made big claims regarding carbon emissions and their sustainability efforts, yet, despite many of them claiming to be carbon neutral, a new report has found that their investments' carbon footprint is, in fact, greater than all the emissions created by...

May 24, 2022

Update on Lonestar's Moon-based backup data center plans

United States

Lonestar, the startup that emerged from stealth with big space plans, has announced that its intentions to use lava tubes to shield from the extreme conditions of the lunar surface, which will assist it in its plans to back up the world's data on the Moon. The company cited the Earth's instabi...

May 24, 2022

Lancom to Develop a Data Center in Crete

Greece

Lancom has announced that it is developing a data center on Crete Island. The Greek telecommunication company said it would be developing the facility to Tier III standards. Lancom did not reveal its exact location, specifications, cost, or timeline details. However, it seems the data center c...

May 24, 2022

Thailand's Raimon Land and Nautilus Partnering to Develop Data Centers

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Nautilus Data Technologies has announced a partnership with Raimon Land, a Thai luxury property developer. According to the agreement, Raimon Land will use Nautilus’ water-cooled data center architecture to develop data centers in Thailand. Raimon will also expand the developments to neighb...

May 23, 2022

Interxion Pauses Its $300m Expansion Plan in Dublin

InterXion

Interxion has paused its plans to expand its presence in Ireland due to a moratorium placed on new data centers by EirGrid, the country’s national grid operator. EirGrid’s de facto moratorium says that it will only consider new applications from data centers to connect to the grid on a case...

May 23, 2022

RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development

Singapore

MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX), a crypto exchange regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has announced it is teaming up with AI firm Red Dot Analytics, for carbon measurement and to offset tropical data centers.Singapore implemented a three-year moratorium on new data center ...

May 23, 2022

Hulic's Plan For a Data Center in Tokyo Revealed

Tokyo

Japanese real estate company Hulic has plans to develop a data center in Tokyo, Japan. According to the Japanese press and Japan Property Central, the firm will be building the data center on the site of an existing office it owns. The office is located in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Hulic will demolis...

May 23, 2022

3S Launches a 1.2 MW Facility in Gdańsk, Poland

Grupa 3S SA

Grupa 3S has announced the opening of a new facility in Gdansk, Poland. The Polish telecommunication company opened the new 1.2MW data center at ul. Nowy Świat 40. The data center has an area of over 500 square meters and has a capacity for up to 180 racks. A member of 3S Group companies’...

May 22, 2022

Vision Net Completes The Acquisition of iConnect Montana

United States

Vision Net has announced the acquisition of iConnect Montana. The telecommunications solution provider revealed earlier in the week that it closed the transaction for an undisclosed fee. Both companies will now operate under the Vision Net brand and name. iConnect was founded in 1999 by Nor...

May 22, 2022

EirGrid halts up to 30 potential data centers

Republic of Ireland

The pressure on the Irish power supply is starting to bite, as state-owned grid manager EirGrid announces that it has stopped talks with dozens of data center companies and halted plans for up to 30 data centers. Currently, there are some 70 data centers in the State, which have become a huge ...

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