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April 21, 2022

Franklin County Officials Reject Zoning Request For a Crypto Mining Data Center

Tennessee

The Franklin County Commission has denied a zoning request that would have allowed the development of a crypto data center. The Tullahoma Utilities Authority requested 9.12 acres of land at 6945 Spring Creek Road to be rezoned to a C-1 commercial restricted district from an R-2 general resi...

April 21, 2022

Interxion Developing New 13.6MW Data Center in Belgium

Digital Realty: BRU4

Digital Realty’s Interxion has broken ground on a new facility in Belgium. The company laid the first stone of the data center called BRU4, which will be located in Zaventem, Belgium. According to Interxion, the data center will offer 13.6MW of capacity. It will also offer 72,100 square feet (...

April 20, 2022

DC Blox Going on An Expansion Spree

DC BLOX

DC Blox is going on an expansion spree as it outlines an expansion plan for its Greenville, Birmingham, South Carolina, and Alabama data centers. According to DC Blox, the data center in Greenville will see another data hall added to it. The company’s Birmingham facility will also deploy it...

April 20, 2022

Aligned Finishes Work at ORD-01 Data Center, Breaks Ground on ORD-2

Aligned Chicago ORD-01

Aligned has announced the completion of work on the first data center at its campus in Chicagoland. In addition, the company has also broken ground on a new data center at the campus. Aligned completed the first phase of its ORD-01 data center, which is located in Northlake, Illinois. The d...

April 20, 2022

DataBank Is Expanding its SNA2 Facility

DataBank

DataBank has announced that it is expanding its SNA2 data center in Irvine, California. The expansion will see the company add 4MW of critical power and 24,000 square feet (2,200 square meters) of raised floor space. The facility currently offers 4MW of critical power and 3,100 square meter...

April 20, 2022

Khazna Data Centers Developing Second Data Center at Masdar, UAE

Khazna

UAE’s data center firm Khazna Data Centers has broken ground on its second data center in Masdar, Abu Dhabi. The new data center is known as Khazna Abu Dhabi 6 (AUH 6). According to the company, it will offer up to 31.8MW of capacity. It is also scheduled to come online in Q3 2023. The CEO of ...

April 20, 2022

Fayetteville Georgia Looking To Annex Land For a $1 billion Data Center

Georgia

Fayette County is looking to annex 412 acres of land for a $1 billion data center project in Fayetteville. The city council will meet before the week runs out to discuss annexing this land for a data center campus that can span 1.5 million square feet with 250MW of capacity. In recent years, d...

April 19, 2022

Amazon announces plans for data center campus in California

Amazon AWS

AWS is exploring the development of a new data center on a $31.3 million 56-acre plot in the City of Gilroy, California, which it bought in 2020. Documents have already been filed with the city and outlined that AWS wants to build two 49MW data centers buildings on the site. This would total ...

April 19, 2022

Evoque Starts Offering Build-to-Suit Data Center Services

Csquare

Evoque has announced that it is moving beyond a colocation provider to offering build-to-suit data center services. The company's senior director of communications, Kevin Fleming, revealed that it is pioneering a new development with its build-to-suit solutions for government, hyperscale, a...

April 19, 2022

CtrlS Starts Works on a New Facility in Guwahati, Assam, India

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

CtrlS has announced that it has started work on a new data center in India. The facility is located in the Tech City Park in Guwahati, Assam. CtrlS’ new data center will sit on a three-acre site, and it will have a capacity of 1,000 racks, expandable to 2,000 racks over the next 18 months. ...

April 19, 2022

Google To Pump $25 million in its Montgomery County Facility

Google

Executives at Google have announced that the company will be investing $25 million in their data center in Montgomery County. Although the company did not reveal the development's exact details, it noted that the investment is part of its country-wide $9.5 billion investment cap for the year.G...

April 19, 2022

Open DC Partnering With Malaysian Government For a Data Center in Northern Malaysia

Open DC

Open DC is developing a data center in north Malaysia. The Malaysian data center firm is partnering with the Malaysian government to bring the data center to life. Although specific details about the facility weren’t shared, it is still expected to meet Tier III standards. Furthermore, the ...

April 18, 2022

Khazna Data Centers breaks ground on second data center in Masdar

Abu Dhabi

Khazna Data Centers has announced it has broken ground on its second data center in Masdar, Abu Dhabi. The facility, named Khazna Abu Dhabi 6 (AUH 6), will have a capacity of 31.8 (MW) and is forecast to be completed by the third quarter of 2023. Speaking about the company's data center footpr...

April 18, 2022

Vultr opens cloud data center in Mumbai

Mumbai

Vultr has announced that it has launched a cloud data center location in Mumbai, making the city its 25th global location. According to the company, it will enable businesses in India to innovate quicker and at a reduced cost.Commenting on the company’s expansion, Vinod Chacko, Business Develo...

April 15, 2022

Stack Infrastructure To Develop an 84MW Campus in Prince William County

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced its plans to develop an 84MW mega data center campus in Prince William County, North Virginia. The facility will be housed on a 34-acre site. It will also feature a minimum of two data center buildings spanning 602,000 square feet. Stack plans to deliver t...

April 15, 2022

American Realty Advisors Buys Property Housing Two Cyxtera-Occupied Facilities in Virginia

Cyxtera Technologies

American Realty Advisors has completed the acquisition of two data centers in Loudoun County currently occupied by Cyxtera. An affiliate of American Realty Advisors known as ACPF Nova Data Center LLC paid $51 million to acquire a 12-acre site that holds two single-story data centers. One of...

April 15, 2022

D9 Secures The Acquisition of Volta Data Centres for £45 million

Digital 9 Infrastructure

D9 Infrastructure has completed the acquisition of UK data center company Volta. This is exciting news as the company recently acquired Iceland’s Verne Global. D9 announced earlier in the week that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire Volta Data Centres for £45m ($58.5). Volta owns ...

April 14, 2022

The White Data Center (WDC): Sustainability and the circular economy

Japan

The White Data Center (WDC) in Japan's North Island of Hokkaido, is a research project run by the city of Babai. It initially ran between 2014-2019, in collaboration with Japan's NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) research body. Its aim was to research how sno...

April 14, 2022

Aligned Data Centers announces adoption of material tracing system

Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced the launch of a material tracing system called the OriginMark system. According to the company, this tracing system has been introduced to enhance and accelerate supply chain decarbonization. This will be achieved through the use of a unique identifier, simi...

April 14, 2022

TikTok's European data center encounters further delays

Dublin

Further delays have been announced regarding TikTok’s first data center in Europe. Its Dublin-based facility was initially planned to be up and running by early 2022, but due to what the company said were delays related to Covid, the facility’s opening was pushed back to late 2022. Now the com...

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