Data Center News

CapitaLand Launches Massive Data Center in Hyderabad, India

India / Bhārata

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) recently began working on its 40MW data center in Hyderabad, India. The company announced that it has started operations for the first phase of the newly redeveloped International Tech Park at the IT hub of Madhapur.CLI hosted a ceremony celebrating the camp...

JK Land Holdings expands proposed Virginia’s Gainesville DC with land buy

Virginia

Chuck Kuhn's real estate firm, JK Land Holdings, has expanded the proposed Gainesville data center via land acquisition in Virginia's Prince William County through its Wellington Road LLC affiliate. The company has also filed an application, which is currently under review, for up to 3.8 milli...

Google data center pioneer Luiz André Barroso passes away

Google

59-year-old data center luminary Luiz André Barroso unexpectedly passed away on September 16, 2023.The DC legend joined Google in 2001 and was fundamental in remodeling the company's DC design, impacting the industry. Before his journey with Google, Barroso worked at Digital Equipment Corporat...

Italian Organizations Consider San Romedio mine for DC Construction

Italy

Some Italian companies have discussed building a data center company in a Dolomite mine. The University of Trento, construction company Covi Costruziono, IT services company Dedagroup, sustainable healthcare provider GPI, and holding company Istituto Atesino di Sviluppo (ISA), are looking to d...

Keppel DC Secures S$120 million SLL Credit Facility

Keppel Data Center REIT

The Keppel DC REIT Management Pte. Ltd. Board of Directors announced that one of its DC campuses recently secured a S$120 million (US$87.7m) sustainability-linked Islamic credit facility. The company didn’t reveal details relating to the loan providers, intended loan uses, or sustainability ta...

Eaton Unveils New DCIM Platform to Accelerate Digital Transformation

Electrical and industrial power management software provider Eaton has launched a new data center management platform, the Brightlayer DC suite.Mike Jackson, the global director of product, data center, and distributed IT software at Eaton, explained that this suite functions as a portfolio of...

Nokia Reveals Plans to Build Open Innovation lab in Dubai, UAE

Dubai

Finnish vendor Nokia has revealed plans to launch an Open Innovation lab in Dubai, UAE, to drive its Cloud RAN in the Middle East and Africa region. In a release, the vendor explained that the initiative will increase the regional focus of its established collaborations with Dell Technologies ...

St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction

Minnesota

The Minnesota St. Louis Park City Council has approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for constructing a data center at 6400 Walker Street. Information from the district’s website reveals that the new center will be built southeast of the football field and next to an existing maintenance buil...

DTCP takes majority stake in German operator Maincubes

maincubes one GmbH

Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) is now the majority owner of German DC firm Maincubes after acquiring additional stakes from Art-Invest Real Estate, a co-shareholder. Art-Invest, which used to hold about 75% of Maincubes stakes before DTCP’s initial investment, now retains only ...

Princeton Digital Group launches sixth DC campus in Indonesia

Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has opened its sixth data center campus in Indonesia with the launch of its 22MW hyperscale data center facility (JC2) in Citibung, Greater Jakarta. Built on the same center as the JCI, the new facility takes the Citibung campus up to 35MW.Varoon Raghavan, COO and...

Google-affiliated company buys 143 acres in South Carolina

Google

A Google-affiliated company has acquired 143 acres in Moncks Corner industrial site, Berkeley Country, where the Silicon Valley tech giant has operated a data center since 2007. Arum Composites LLC purchased this parcel, comprising five parcels across Mount Holly Commerce Park Cypress Gardens ...

Czech telecoms firm to build new DC campus outside Prague

Czech Republic

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) recently announced it's undergoing construction of a new data center campus on its site at the Cukrák transmitter, located in Jílovište to the south of Prague. The telecoms firm noted that the campus will offer a capacity of up to 78 racks at 3kW...

Charlotte City Council approves PowerHouse DC construction

The Charlotte City Council has accepted PowerHouse's land rezoning request to develop its first data center campus outside Virginia. The council voted 7-2 in favor of the rezoning request for nearly 124 acres of land on September 18, 2023.The city staff initially hesitated as they were concern...

GLP launches new global data center business, Ada Infrastructure

Ada Infrastructure

APAC logistics real estate firm GLP recently unveiled Ada Infrastructure, a new global data center business, and detailed its development pipeline across Europe, APAC, and South America. The DC campus launches with 850 megawatts of secured IT capacity across Japan, the UK, and Brazil, and repo...

Chirisa obtains a $200 million loan to outfit a CoreWeave data facility in Virginia

Virginia

Chirisa Investments has secured financing for constructing a data center in Chester, Virginia. According to Commercial Observer, Chirisa received $200 million in construction funding to build CoreWeave's 242,000-square-foot turnkey data center. CO's sources revealed that an undisclosed Brookfi...

Microsoft to extend DC footprint to Naas, Ireland

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft recently commenced plans to develop plans for a new Irish data center campus near Jigginstwon in Naas. Following reports by Kildare Nationalist, Microsoft has begun consultations with authorities for the proposed development of one of the two sites marked for DC usage in the Council’...

Philippines-based Telco Dito Secures $3.9bn Loan for Network Expansion

Philippines

Philippines-based telcommunity Dito secured a 15-year $3.9 billion loan to fund the rollout of its network expansion through its parent company, Dito CME Holdings, from a group of multinational banks. The company announced that about $1.5 billion will be diverted towards repaying another loan ...

QTS to establish operations in York County, South Carolina

QTS Data Centers

The South Carolina Office of the Governor confirmed that DC firm QTS will establish operations in York Country, marking the company’s entry into the state. This comes after news of a major data center project in York County dubbed ‘Project Cobra’ surfaced in June 2023.Gov. Henry McMaster celeb...

GLP Unveils Ada Infrastructure: An Ambitious Data Center Initiative Spanning Multiple Continents

Ada Infrastructure

GLP, a prominent APAC logistics real estate company, has launched Ada Infrastructure. The new company focuses on data center projects outside of China, with a current secured IT capacity of 850MW across Japan, the UK, and Brazil. The company has roadmapped an expansion to nearly 1.5 Gigawatts....

DigitalBridge completes DataBank recapitalization

DataBank

DigitalBridge Group recently revealed the completion of DataBank's recapitalization. The Group announced that DigitalBridge received an additional funding of $219 million, bringing the total costs of the recapitalization to $2.2 billion. This completed recapitalization will bring about a separ...