Data Center News

AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced its goal of becoming water positive by 2030, which, according to AWS, will see it returning more water to the communities that it uses in its operations. It also promised to report on its WUE each year. Through this announcement, it joins the likes of other tech giants, Go...

Africa Data Centres Announces New Data Center in Kigali, Rwanda

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has announced that it is developing its first data center in Kigali, Rwanda. According to the company, the purpose-built data center will offer 2MW of capacity. ADC also revealed that it would break ground on the data center in Q1 2023. It, however, did not reveal the ex...

Canberra DC Plans Expansion of its Auckland Campuses in New Zealand After Land Purchase

Canberra Data Centres (CDC)

Canberra Data Centres has announced that it has bought more land in New Zealand. The company acquired the land in Hobsonville and Silverdale, Auckland. The plan is to expand its existing data center campuses in Auckland with the acquired land.  The Founder and CEO of CDC, Greg Boorer, said...

Meta To Expand its Data Center Campus in Richmond, Virginia

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta is looking to expand its data center campus in Richmond, Virginia. According to Richmond BizSense, Meta acquired 475 acres of land close to its existing facility within White Oak Technology Park in Henrico County. The social media company plans to develop new data centers under the umbrel...

More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

Northern Virginia

In recent years, Chuck Kuhn, the founder, and CEO of JK Moving, has become a big player in the data center real estate market scene in Northern Virginia. Now, it appears that he’s looking to develop a new facility in Loudoun County, following the application for a large data center and warehou...

Brazil’s Zeittec To Develop Data Center for Federal University of Espírito Santo

Brazil / Brasil

Zeittec plans to develop a new data center for the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Vitoria, Espirito Santo. The Brazilian firm plans to develop the facility in seven months. The first phase will see Zeittec renovate UFES to allow it to receive servers and all needed data cent...

Ennis Data Centre appeal reaches next stage

Republic of Ireland

The appeal against the Ennis Data Centre is reportedly moving to the next stage, according to a report by local newspaper, the Clare Herald. A response from the developer has been passed on from An Bord Pleanála, Ireland's national independent planning body, to the appellants, which include th...

Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia

Amazon AWS

AWS has announced that it has signed a PPA with Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to procure solar power for its operations in Indonesia. The state-owned electric utility will buy electricity from 210 MW of solar projects (four solar projects located in Bali and Java Island.)PLN stated that the ...

LCL to deploy more solar panels at its data center in Gembloux

Belgium

LCL has announced that it is deploying more solar panels at one of its data centers, at the LCL Wallonia One site in Gembloux. Currently, the park has 2,000, but this expansion will see an addition of 1,300, taking the site’s generating capacity to 1.6MW. According to the Belgian data center f...

Irish government confirms terms and conditions for ORESS 1

Dublin

Following the Irish government's approval of the terms and conditions of ORESS 1, a huge auction for offshore wind, 2.5GW of renewable energy could be added to the grid, enough to power 2.5 million Irish homes with green electricity. According to reports, at least three offshore energy auction...

Floating data centers on the agenda

France

As the data center industry increasingly searches for low-carbon and less water-intensive ways to cool facilities, a number of different methods have been proposed, with everything from underwater to orbital data centers suggested. Denv-R, a French startup, proposes to float data centers on ur...

Invesis Announces the Acquisition of UK’s Asanti

United Kingdom

UK data center company Asanti has been acquired by Investment firm Invesis. Asanti has also acquired five data center facilities from Daisy Group. The five data centers are located in Reading, Hamilton, Manchester, Farnborough, and Birstall. The five facilities have a capacity of over 1,500...

European Investment Bank Loans OVHcloud €200m

OVH Group

OVHcloud has secured a €200 million ($208m) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The loan will be used to fund future developments. OVHcloud's goal is to provide a sustainable cloud service alternative in Europe to replace US cloud providers. It aims to support European privacy standa...

Allied Properties REIT Planning to Sell its Toronto Data Center Portfolio

Allied Properties REIT

Allied Properties REIT is looking to sell its data center portfolio in Toronto. The company announced that it is exploring options for a sale of the portfolio. Allied REIT currently owns three data center facilities in downtown Toronto. The properties also include the 151 Front Street West ...

Struggling Compute North Sells Two Data Centers to Foundry Digital

Compute North has sold two of its data centers to crypto mining firm Foundry Digital amidst bankruptcy. Compute North provides data center hosting services for blockchain and crypto mining firms. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September due to owing over 200 creditors up to ...

Regional Group Acquires Data Center From Manulife Investment Management in Ottawa, Canada

Ottawa

Canadian real estate company Regional Group has acquired a data center and office complex in Ottawa, Canada. The property it acquired is Qualicum Centre, a three-building office campus located at 2932, 2934, and 2936 Baseline Road. The selling firm is Manulife Investment Management. The ter...

Microsoft files to build two data centers in San Jose, California

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed to build two new data centers at a site in San Jose, California, it has been reported. The proposal details plans for two-building on a 632,000-square-foot campus on 22 vacant acres near the intersection of Orchard Parkway and Component Drive. These two new additions have ...

Microsoft signs further PPAs in Ireland

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed CPPAs with Statkraft, Energia Group, and Power Capital Renewable Energy, for 900MW to cover its data center operations in Ireland and 28% of Ireland's renewable energy target for 2030. By 2025, the giant expects to power 100% of its Irish facilities with renewable energy....

AWS proposal "indefinitely postponed" in Fauquier County

Amazon AWS

AWS’s Warrenton data center proposals have been ‘indefinitely postponed’ by Virginia’s Fauquier County officials following a unanimous vote. The original proposal outlined plans for a 220,000-square-foot (20,400 sqm), single-story data center in Warrenton at the intersection of Blackwell Road...

Equinix Announces TY15 in Tokyo

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is developing a new data center in Tokyo called TY15. The company first announced the facility earlier in the month. Equinix revealed that the data center is scheduled to be in operation in H1 2024. The facility will also have a capacity of around 1,200 cabinet...