Data Center News

Bahrain region to launch region's first data center park

Bahrain

Bahrain recently announced its plans to establish the region's largest technology park, which will include the region's first data center to meet the needs of those in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This vision will come into fruition through STC Bahrain partnering with the Mi...

NE Edge and Groton: Data center discussions cease

Connecticut

Although it looked like a new data center would be on its way to Groton, Connecticut, last week, the Town Council decided to end negotiations with NE Edge LLC. This announcement came following the council's vote (five to one) to discontinue efforts to pursue a municipal host fee agreement with...

Macquarie Partnering With NTT To Further NTT's European & North American Expansion

NTT

NTT and Macquarie Asset Management are partnering up to invest in data centers. These firms announced that they had entered a strategic real estate partnership that covers NTT’s wholesale facilities across North America and Europe. The agreement will see Macquarie invest real estate capital...

Telekom Malaysia: Green electricity tariff secured for three data centers

Malaysia

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has announced that it has secured a Green Electricity Tariff (GET) for three of its data centers: Klang Valley Core Data Centre (KVDC) in Cyberjaya, Iskandar Puteri Core Data Centre (IPDC) in Johor Baru, and KL City Data Centre (CTDC) in Brickfields. The GET from Tenaga N...

Equinix joins CyrusOne in orchard initiative

Equinix

Equinix has joined Host In Ireland’s Orchards in the Community initiative, alongside CyrusOne, and is now one of 52 pledgers – and more than 90 schools and community groups. The initiative plans to help plant over 1,200 orchards across Ireland to bolster the country’s declining bee population...

Stratosfair announces plans for its second facility

Brittany

Stratosfair has announced plans for a second facility, located in Pontivy in Brittany, west of Rennes. Due to come online in the second quarter 2023, the Pontivy facility will span 500 sqm (5,380 sq ft) and be built from recovered containers. This announcement comes just a month after the comp...

Equinix moves into Salalah, Oman

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it plans to build a data center in Salalah, a city located on the south coast of the Sultanate of Oman, making it the second in Oman, with links to its MC1 in Muscat. SN1 will also be the company's fifth data center in the region, and will be built in partnership wi...

New data center on the way for Saint Kitts and Nevis

Puerto Rico

A new data center is on its way to Saint Kitts and Nevis, it has been announced. Saint Kitts and Nevis are neighboring islands to the east of Puerto Rico. Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, announced that a state-of-the-art facility would be built in the country in a plan...

Telekom Malaysia: Green electricity tariff secured for three data centers

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has announced that it has secured a Green Electricity Tariff (GET) for three of its data centers: Klang Valley Core Data Centre (KVDC) in Cyberjaya, Iskandar Puteri Core Data Centre (IPDC) in Johor Baru, and KL City Data Centre (CTDC) in Brickfields. The GET from Tenaga N...

KKR & GIC Make History By Closing CyrusOne's Acquisition for $15bn

CyrusOne

KKR & Global Infrastructure Partners have announced that they have completed and closed the acquisition of CyrusOne. The acquisition sees the public company become private. The acquisition fee is $15 billion, making it the largest Merger and Acquisition deal in the data center industry ...

Meta To Develop $800m Data Center in Temple, Texas

Meta

Meta is going to develop a data center in Temple, Texas. The social media giant plans to develop the new facility on a 393-acre site located off Industrial Blvd. and NW H K Dodgen Loop. When completed, the new data center will have up to 83,600 square meters (900,000 square feet) of space. ...

Indonesia's Edge DC Secures Funding For Expansion

Indonesia

Edge DC of Indonesia has announced that it secured credit facilities with PT Bank Central Asia Tbk. The company aims to use the funds to expand its business. It secured working capital loans worth IDR 100 billion ($7m) and credit facilities worth IDR 2.7 trillion ($188m). The company currently...

CVC Capital Partners Offers To Acquire Telecom Italia’s Data Center & Cyber Business

TIM Group

CVC Capital Partners is looking to acquire a substantial stake in TIM’s data center unit. The company has offered to buy TIM’s SpA’s new enterprise services unit. Telecom Italia is currently setting up the unit. It will be part of its SerbCo division which will include the Noovle data cente...

NTT Opens New Data Center in Jakarta, Indonesia

NTT Jakarta 3 (JK3)

NTT has announced the opening of a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The new Jakarta 3 Data Center is a four-story building with a 15.2MW capacity and 18,000 square meters of IT space. The data center will also reach 45MW of capacity upon full build-out. The President and Director of NTT ...

Macquarie Launches its New Intellicentre 3 East Facility in Sydney, Australia

Macquarie: IC3 East

Macquarie Data Centres has announced the launch of its Intellicentre 3 East data center in Sydney, Australia. The facility is located at the Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus in North Sydney. According to Macquarie, the new facility cost over AU$85 million (US$63.9 million). The 16MW facili...

Alibaba Launches Data Center in Seoul, South Korea

Seoul

Alibaba Cloud has announced the opening of a new data center in Seoul, South Korea. The company first revealed plans for a South Korean cloud region last year. It currently operates 82 Availability Zones and 26 regions across the globe. Alibaba’s head of Cloud Intelligence for Japan and Korea,...

Yotta To Develop a Data Center in Mumbai, India

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Yotta Infrastructure has been granted permission to develop a data center in Mumbai, India. The company secured permission from the state's urban development department to convert 19 acres of land in the Powai area of Maharashtra into an industrial zone from a special development.  The com...

Meta Puts The Zeewolde Data Center Development on Hold Due To Political Opposition

Meta

Meta has finally announced that it is pausing its plans for a mega data center in the Netherlands. The company said it would not be going forward with its plans for the facility in Zeewolde until further notice. Facebook gained approval for the facility from the Zeewolde council. However, i...

NTT & QD.TEK Form JV To develop Data Center in Vietnam

NTT

NTT and QD.Tek are partnering up to build a data center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Both companies will form a joint venture called NTT Global Data Centers HCMC1 Limited Liability. The partnership will see the companies develop the new facility called Ho Chi Minh City 1 Data Center. The f...

T4 Group move in on New Zealand's South Island

New Zealand

T4 Group has announced its plans to build a Tier IV-quality modular data center on New Zealand’s South Island. The facility, which will see a NZ$50 million ($34.6m) investment, will reportedly source its energy from Southland’s two hydro stations, in Lake Manapouri and Lake Monowai, making it ...