Data Center News

UK government clears purchase of Newport Water Fab factory

United Kingdom

The UK government has finally approved US electronics company Vishay’s takeover of Newport Wafer Fab factory, the UK’s largest semiconductor manufacturing site. Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has now issued a consent order approving the purchase. Under the terms of the agreement, the UK ...

Telkom Indonesia consolidates Singapore data centers

Singapore

Telkom Indonesia has consolidated its Singapore data centers under one umbrella unit ahead of a potential sale. The company wrote on LinkedIn that this marks a “significant milestone in our journey toward becoming a regional powerhouse in the data center industry,”  “The rationale behind this ...

Government data center in Jamaica receives $3.8million upgrade

Caribbean

A government data center in Jamaica known as the eGov Data Centre has received a J$600 million (US$3.8m) upgrade. Works relating to this upgrade began in 2020 and was managed by the Transformation Implementation Unit (TIU). Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr. Nigel Clarke said of th...

Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business

Finland

Boldyn Networks has completed its acquisition of Cellnex's private network business for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition includes Edzcom, Cellnex’s Finnish subsidiary that specializes in private networks for industrial environments.“By bringing Cellnex's private networks business unit und...

Grop acquired Definitive Intelligence to support newly formed unit

California

AI chip startup Groq has acquired Definitive Intelligence for an undisclosed sum to support its newly formed  GroqCloud unit, which Definitive Intelligence co-founder and CEO Sunny Madra will lead. GroqCloud is a cloud platform that provides Groq hardware documentation, code samples, and on-de...

Legrand acquires New Zealand cable management firm MSS

New Zealand

Legrand has acquired New Zealand cable management firm Mechanical Support Systems (MSS) which offers services including cable containment manufacturing, supply, installation, and design, as well as bespoke fabrication. This acquisition merges MSS’ cable management solutions with the acquiring ...

BW Digital acquires new land for data center in Batam, Indonesia

Indonesia

Cable operator and Citramas Group BW Digital this week announced that it has acquired a new land for data center construction and has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the ‘joint development of a carrier-neutral digital ecosystem’ in Batam’s Nongsa Digital Park (NDP), which Citram...

Penta Infa names Bob Sprengers as new CEO

Penta Infra

European data center firm, Penta Infra has named Bob Sprengers as its CEO according to an announcement by the company and lead investor Photon Capital this week. Effective from March 2024, Sprengers will take over from Alex Bakker who has led the company since it was founded in 2015.  “The ti...

Iridium to support South Korean military with connectivity

Abidjan

Satellite provider Iridium has entered into an agreement with the Republic of Korea (ROK) Ministry of Defense (MOD) to provide connectivity for strategic use within the Republic of Korea's military operations. Iridium will provide the ROK Army with a range of services, including real-time pos...

Leesburg Council vote in favor of rezoning for proposed data center

Virginia

Town council officials in Leesburg, Virginia, announced this week that they have voted to approve a rezoning application that will allow data centers and additional industrial and research park uses on two parcels of vacant land to the south of Leesburg. Springfield East, LC, the applicant so...

Equinix deploys 1MW solar system on Melbourne data center

Equinix

Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at 578 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. The company has now completed the installation of rooftop solar systems at eight of its facilities, including Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and ...

Vodafone to upgrade security at Bracknell data center

Vodafone

Following an increasing number of criminal attacks at Vodafone’s Bracknell data center, the company is now making plans to upgrade security at this facility. Vodafone has received permission from the Bracknell Forest Council to install new security fences and gates, reconfigure the car park, a...

Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

London

Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said stron...

Platform.sh offers discount for greener data centers

Microsoft Azure

Platform.sh, a platform for building, running and scaling web applications, is offering customers a three percent 'greener region discount' when using a data center that consumes electricity that is less than 100gCO₂e/kWh. Customers have a choice of six data center regions across five countrie...

Axentec PLC unveils Tier IV-standard data center in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Robi Axiata subsidiary Axentec PLC has launched a Tier IV-standard data center called  "Cypher", located in the Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park in Jashore and spans 16,500 square feet. This prefabricated facility will offer 2N redundancy and fault-tolerant power backup systems for its t...

Green Mountain to host HPE AI and HPC infrastructure in Norweigan facility

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain is to host Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure in two of its Norweigan data centers. Green Mountain has three data centers in Norway and the specific facilities for this project are yet to be reveale...

CtrlS to invest $482.5 million in Chennai data center

Indian operator CtrlS Datacenters is building a new data center campus in Chennai and intends to invest Rs 4000 crore ($482.5m) in the 72MW project. Construction is already underway.  Sridhar Pinnapureddy, founder and CEO of CtrlS Datacenters, said: "We are delighted to unveil our upcoming Ch...

Kyivstar signs Rakuten Symphony Open RAN deal

Ukraine

Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has signed a new deal to procure and deploy Rakuten Symphony's Open RAN technology in its network. A  letter of intent has been signed by the companies to show that Rakuten would be the preferred partner for Kyivstar's eventual 5G rollout. "I share the excitement of o...

OData to expand footprint in Mexico

ODATA SA

Latin American data center operator OData  this week announced its QR01 data center in Querétaro is being expanded and  it has started to build two new hyperscale data center campuses in Mexico, in Guanajuato and El Marqués. “We are pleased with the success seen during the development of our Q...

Fatal incident reported at new London substation for Microsoft data center

Microsoft Azure

A fatal incident has been reported at an electrical substation being built to supply power to a new Microsoft data center in London. Reports have it that a worker was trapped after an incident involving an aerial work platform at the Park Royal, site in Ealing last week, and died of his injur...