Data Center News

AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to expand to the Virginia county of Louisa. Last week, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $11 billion by 2040 to build two data center campuses in Louisa's Technology Overlay District (TOD). The county...

Channel Islands' Old C5 data center will soon be Jersey Water HQ

An old data center on the Channel Island of Jersey is slated to become the new headquarters of the local water utility. According to the Jersey Evening Post and Baliwick Express, Jersey Water has requested planning approval to convert an industrial structure in St. Saviour parish into a new he...

CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design

CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced the launch of an AI-specific built-to-suit data center design, which it says has been developed specifically to address the “rapidly growing needs of AI applications and services.”The company notes that the Intelliscale data center is built on an ultra-high-density found...

Office and data center for sale in Birmingham, Alabama

A workspace and data center building is for sale in Birmingham, Alabama. Colliers has listed the Kemper Building at 2201 4th Avenue North for $18,95 million. The structure is a four-story, 110,295-square-foot Class-A office building on two acres. Colliers notes that the building has raised flo...

IIJ of Japan looks into data center set up in Kenya

Kenya

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) is considering deploying a containerized modular data center in Kenya. This week, the company reported that the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has been exploring methods to "capture the vitality of the African market" and has decided to investigat...

Stream DC's data center zoning request in Elk Grove, Illinois is granted

Zoning approval has been given to Stream Data Centers for an envisioned data center facility in the Elk Grove area of Chicago, Illinois. At last week's council meeting in Elk Grove Village, plan commissioners jointly recommended approval of the proposals, as first reported by the Journal &...

Orange signs vPPA with Engie in Romania

Orange Romania has shared that it has signed a six-year virtual PPA with Engie. As per the agreement, 30GWh of the telco's annual electricity needs will be met with energy from solar. This deal aligns with Orange's broader goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 and brings Romania into the...

Telkom Indonesia launches Bandar Lampung data center

Telkom Indonesia

Telkom Indonesia has announced that its new Bandar Lampung data center has launched, with a third of the facility's racks already filled. With this development in South Sumatra in Lampung province, the company now has 23 locations spread across 17 major cities in Indonesia. In attendance at th...

Varonis Opens Data Center in the United Kingdom to Serve SaaS Customers

United Kingdom

Varonis Systems, Inc., an industry leader in data security, has announced the opening of its first data center in the United Kingdom to support customers migrating to its SaaS offering. Varonis customers will be able to show compliance with national data protection laws and utilize Varonis' wo...

atNorth purchases HPC company Gompute

atNorth

atNorth, a Nordic data center company, has acquired Gompute, a Swedish High-Performance Computing (HPC) services provider. The terms were not disclosed. Gompute, a company founded in 2002, provides HPC-as-a-cloud services with bare-metal compute nodes for computer-aided engineering (CAE) appli...

DataQube, a UK Edge data center firm, enters insolvency

United Kingdom

Edge data center company DataQube Global Ltd of the United Kingdom has declared bankruptcy. Creditors convened today, August 29th, to deliberate a nomination of liquidators and, if necessary, appoint a liquidation committee. DataQube reps did not acknowledge requests for comment regarding the ...

Old Verizon office and data center in Pittsburgh for sale/lease

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon's former Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office and data center is available for purchase or lease. It has been put up for sale or lease by Colliers and Sampson Morris Group at 5400 Campbells Run Road. The 10-acre, 1959-built office and data facility features 130,000 rentable square feet and ...

Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

Google

Google unveiled several cloud-based tools and services centered on artificial intelligence. Cloud TPU v5e, the company's newest Tensor Processing Unit, is now available for preview, according to the company. Google claims that, compared to TPU v4, which was released in 2021, the chip has up to...

APL Investments plans 150MW Kyushu data center facility

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

A new campus in the Japanese prefecture of Kyushu is being built by a US investment company that plans to expand into the data center industry. According to Nikkei Asia, the U.S.-based investment firm Asia Pacific Land (APL) intends to construct a $845 million facility in Kitakyushu. Per repor...

Google shares plans to invest $1.7 billion into Ohio data centers

Google will invest $1.7 billion to support three data center campuses in central Ohio, it recently shared. The giant broke ground on its first data center in the state back in 2019, in New Albany, and has already invested over $2 billion in Ohio. This investment will go toward its facilities i...

Telkom Indonesia sets up a new data facility in Bandar Lampung

Telkom Indonesia

Telkom Indonesia has unveiled a brand-new data center in Bandar Lampung. Telkom's director of wholesale and international service, Bogi Witjaksono, the EVP of regional I area Sumatra, Djatmiko Djatmiko, and the EVP of the wholesale service division, Muhammad Rofik, attended the inauguration. D...

Infinera's GX Compact Modular Service for High-Performance Data Center Connectivity Adopted by IONOS Web Hosting

IONOS, the largest web hosting company in Europe, has deployed Infinera's GX Series Compact Modular Platform to broaden its network and interconnect data centers throughout Europe with dependable, high-capacity, high-performance connectivity services.IONOS provides web hosting and cloud servic...

After taking on the 4D and Sungard data centers, UK MSP Redcentric incurs a loss

Sungard Availability Services

After acquiring several data centers last year, UK-managed services company Redcentric is feeling the impact of rising energy bills. The corporation will close a Harrogate, Yorkshire, data center, has negotiated fixed energy pricing for the next year, signed new energy deals with clients, and ...

NTT data centers in India becomes 100% booked

NTT

The entire capacity of NTT's data center campuses currently under construction in Kolkata, Noida, Chennai, and other areas of Maharashtra has been pre-booked. NTT Data's Senior Vice President of Global Delivery, Ravi Kumar, stated.The Japanese conglomerate revealed plans to invest $2 billion i...

Princeton Digital Group tops off first building at 100MW data center campus in Tokyo, Japan

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has topped off the first building at its 100MW data center campus in Saitama, Greater Tokyo, 30 km north of central Tokyo. Plans for the development were first announced in June 2021, and it broke ground a year later. With a completion date of the second half of 2...