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Microsoft to cut down 2,600 trees in San Antonio to make way for data center

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is to build a data center on a 33-acre plot in San Antonio, however, this will come at the expense of 2,642 trees. The move was recently given the go-ahead by the City Council, who voted 8-3 on Thursday, January 28, 2022. The giant will reportedly plant 833 trees around the data cen...

Hut 8 Announces Closing of the Acquisition of TeraGo's Data Center Business

Hut 8 Corp

TORONTO, Jan. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) ("Hut 8" or "the Company"), one of North America's largest, innovation-focused digital asset mining pioneers, supporting open and decentralized systems since 2018, is pleased to announce the closing of its defini...

Equinix Is Closing Its MA2 Facility in Manchester

Equinix Manchester MA2

Equinix has announced that it will be closing its MA2 facility in Manchester, UK. The data center says it will no longer operate the facility when the lease on the property expires in June 2023. According to Equinix, the data center does not meet its evaluation criteria anymore. Besides, th...

Ascenty Is Developing Its Fourth Data Center São Paulo, Brazil

Ascenty

Ascenty has broken ground on its fourth data center in the Sao Paulo region of Brazil. The new data center will have 7,000 square meters of space while also offering 9MW of capacity. Ascenty says it will be investing up to R$220 million (US40.9m) in developing the facility. The data center is ...

Huge data center on the way for Williston, North Dakota

North Dakota

A huge data center is on its way to Williston, North Dakota. Atlas Power Data Center is the $1.9 billion project which will be built by Montana-based FX Solutions and owned and operated by Atlas Power. The first phase of the project is expected to be completed by 2024. Governor D...

DEAC and Neste announce partnership

Delska (DEAC, DLC Data Logistics Center)

DEAC has announced that it is teaming up with Neste, a producer of renewable diesel, helping the company to reach its goal of using 100% renewable energy by "as early as 2022." According to the company, it will enhance the sustainability of its data storage during potential power cuts.  A...

Maincubes Plans To Develop Third Facility In Frankfurt and First One In Berlin

maincubes one GmbH

Maincubes has revealed its plans to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. It also wants to develop its first data center in Berlin, Germany. Maincubes first announced plans for the FRA02 data center in July 2021. It also broke ground on the data center while scheduling the faci...

Dutch Data Center Firm Penta Infra Secures €75 million in Funding

Penta Infra

Penta Infra has announced that it has raised €75 million ($83.5m) in a financing deal tied to sustainability targets. Penta Infra is a Dutch data center firm with a focus on European data centers. It has facilities in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Penta owns 11 data centers across the...

Huawei and Aesler are Developing Data Centers in Batam, Indonesia

Huawei Cloud

Huawei has revealed that it will be developing three data center facilities in Indonesia for Aesler Grup Internasional Tbk. Besides, Huawei has broken ground on one of the data centers. The two companies committed to developing data centers in the country last year. The first facility is sched...

Data4 Breaks Ground On Its €250m ($278m) Data Center Campus In Poland

Data4: Warsaw 1

Data4 has announced that it has broken ground on its first data center campus in Poland. The French data center company announced earlier in July last year that it would invest up to €200 million ($237m) in developing the data center campus in Warsaw, Poland. The company has now confirmed that...

Meta/Facebook is Expanding Its Gallatin Data Center Campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook, now known as Meta, has plans to expand its Gallatin facility in Tennessee. Biz Journal was the first to report that the social media giant wants to construct another data center building at the Gallatin campus. The city council has also approved the plans for the development this ...

Acronis expands data center footprint into South Africa

Acronis has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint with the addition of its Acronis Cyber Cloud Data Center in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. According to the company, this new data center will provide customers with constant data availability and data sovereig...

DXN to build data center for new Covid-19 quarantine center in Perth, Western Australia

DXN Limited

DXN has announced that it has entered a partnership with the Australian Government’s Department of Finance and Multiplex to supply a modular data center and ten communications rooms for a new Covid-19 quarantine center being built in Perth, Western Australia. The company has agreed to this wor...

Equinix Partners With GIC For another $525m Joint Venture

Equinix

Equinix is making strategic partnerships as it announced that it had formed another joint venture with GIC. The data center company and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund aim to develop hyperscale facilities in South Korea. The companies announced the $525 million joint venture details earlie...

D9 Poised For Another Acquisition Spree After Raising Another £95m

Digital 9 Infrastructure

Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9) has announced that it has successfully raised another £95.2 million ($127.4m). It plans to use the money raised to finance its infrastructure acquisition run. D9 raised the finances through new Ordinary shares. The company has some digital infrastructures it is...

CloudHQ's Cloud Capital Buys COPT's Manassas Data Center For $222m

CloudHQ Manassas Hornbaker

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced that it sold a data center in Manassas, Virginia, for $222.5 million. The buying firm is CloudHQ’s investment arm. COPT revealed that it sold the DC-6 facility to Cloud Capital, CloudHQ’s affiliate company. The data center is a two-stor...

€5 billion ($5.67bn), 360MW data center campus coming to Madrid, Spain

Madrid

Great news for Spain as plans for a 360MW data center campus in Madrid, Spain, is underway. The data center will be developed on a 700-hectare site, and investment is expected to reach up to €5 billion ($5.67bn). The Digital Valley project is to be a ‘reference model’ for sustainability in dat...

Meta signs wind PPA in Iowa

Meta

In its latest move towards attaining more green credentials, Meta has announced the signing of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Apex for its 225-MW Great Pathfinder Wind project in Iowa. This is the energy company’s fifth deal with the social media giant. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg,...

SenseTime opens Shanghai data center

SenseTime has announced the opening of a new $880 million data center in Shanghai, China. The facility, which the company first broke ground on in July 2020, spans 130,000 square meters (1.4 million sq ft), with 5,000 computer racks.The Artificial Intelligence Data Center (AIDC) is located in ...

ServerChoice Adds New data hall to Its Stevenage, UK Facility

United Kingdom

UK data center company ServerChoice has announced the expansion of its facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The company added a new data hall which hosts 47 racks. In addition, the new hall uses hot aisle containment that ensures greater efficiency. In addition, the racks are backed up by a d...