Data Center News

Macquarie Data Centers announces expansion plans at upcoming data center in Sydney, Australia

Macquarie Data Centres

Macquarie Data Centres has shared its expansion plans for an upcoming data center in Sydney, Australia. First announced in July 2021, the IC3 Super West will have its planned capacity increased to cater to high-density workloads, with a potential to increase its IT load to 45MW - this is a 41 ...

CtrlS partners with NT for 150MW campus in Chonburi

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

CtrlS Datacenters is teaming up with NT, Thailand's state-owned telco, for its new 150MW campus in Chonburi, it has announced. Through the MOU, the partnership will provide data center co-location services, cable landing stations, network connectivity hubs, and cloud-based services.This devel...

Odata unveils its data center facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ODATA SA

Odata, a data center company from Latin America, has opened a new campus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This week, the company announced the debut of its RJ01 facility, which provides up to 24MW. On a 20,000-square-meter lot in So Joo do Meriti, the facility features 18,000 square meters of raised...

Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea

South Korea

The government of South Korea is planning a 1GW data center campus in the country's southwestern region. The New Industry and Distributed Energy Division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced this week that up to 25 40MW data centers will be constructed in the Salaseido neighborhood ...

Old coal mine designated for data centers in Wise County, Virginia

Virginia

A former coal mine in Wise County will be converted into an industrial park with data centers thanks to a $1.7 million grant from Virginia Energy. The discarded mine at the Elam Farm site in Southern Virginia's Wise County will receive funding from the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalizati...

Scala intends to construct a 5MW data center in Mexico City

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers is constructing a new campus just outside Mexico City, Mexico. This week, the company owned by DigitalBridge announced intentions to build SMEXTP01, its first data center in the country. The facility, located in the municipality of Tepotzotlán, will have an initial critical ...

Thai's NT and India's CtrlS build 150MW facility in Chonburi

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

Indian firm CtrlS Datacenters has partnered with Thailand's government-owned telecommunications company to construct a new data center campus in Chonburi. Last week, the company and National Telecom Public Company Limited (NT) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Ct...

Sentinum builds Montana 20MW cryptomine data facility

Montana

Sentinum, Inc., previously known as BitNile, Inc., has broken ground in Montana on a new cryptomine data center. This week, Ault Alliance, the holding company and parent company of Sentinum, announced that construction had begun on a 20MW facility, which should be operational by the end of the...

AirTrunk announces doubling of sustainability-linked loan

AirTrunk has doubled its $1.35 billion sustainability-linked loan (SLL) to $2.96 billion, it has announced. This is, according to the company, the largest SLL for a data center operator in the world. The company has shared that this transaction will be used to refinance its existing debt facil...

Atea signs solar PPA in Denmark

Atea has announced that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Better Energy for solar energy in Denmark. This agreement aligns with its target to be carbon neutral by 2030. Through this PPA, the company will offtake energy from the development, expected to be around one-t...

Nodal Power secures $13m for landfill gas cryptomine data centers

Nodal Power, a crypto-mining startup, has raised $13 million for its methane-powered crypto-mining data centers. Nodal, founded in 2022, develops power plants that consume methane produced by decomposing garbage in landfills. According to the company, its system can be implemented at smaller l...

Equinix declined planning permission by South Dublin County County Council for gas-powered data center

South Dublin County County Council has denied Equinix's request for planning permission for a gas-powered data center.Originally, the site was to be powered by electricity, but so far, it has failed to secure a commercial or technical offer for permanent supply; this is what has led to its piv...

Netsolus, a Kansas City data center provider, is acquired by IP Pathways

Kansas

IP Pathways bought Netsolus, a Missouri-based MSP. This week, IP Pathways of Des Moines, Iowa, announced that it will merge with Netsolus of Kansas City, broadening its footprint and services in the Kansas City region. The deal's terms were not disclosed.IP Pathways was founded in 2007 and pro...

Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility

Google

Google has verified its involvement in the Lincoln, Nebraska, data center proposal. This week, the company announced it was constructing a third data center in Papillion and a data center in Lincoln. The search and cloud firm will invest $1.2 billion in the project.Long suspected to be Google,...

Government of Iraq initiates National Data Center

Middle East

Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani, Iraq's Prime Minister, has inaugurated the National Data Center. This week, the facility was inaugurated at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad by the Prime Minister. Very little information has been disclosed about the data center, which ha...

PowerHouse plans Charlotte data center facility

North Carolina

PowerHouse, a company that builds data centers, plans to build a new campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to WSCOC-TV, PowerHouse intends to construct on more than 130 acres between Interstate 485 and University City Boulevard. The site, located near a Duke Energy substation, could a...

ChinData offers hyperscale data centers integrated full-stack technology

Chindata Group

Hyperscale data center builders can use Chindata's full-stack modular products, including integrated power systems and prefabricated buildings. The four products were introduced on August 18 in Yinchuan City, China, at the Data Center New Technology Development Forum of the 2023 China Computin...

NE Edge purchases a parcel of land in Connecticut

Connecticut

The Connecticut municipality of Killingly has authorized the sale of vacant land at 125 Alexander Parkway to NE Edge LLC to construct a data center. The sale was approved for $5 million on August 8, with NE Edge intending to develop the site and two adjacent parcels.Upon expiration of the noti...

Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden

Sweden

Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA) has established a crypto mining data center in northern Sweden. Located near the 417 MW Porjus hydroelectric power station, the current capacity of this facility is 8MW, but expansion is planned for the future. It was previously used as a 'traditional' data...

Equinix declined planning permission by South Dublin County Council for gas-powered data center

The South Dublin County Council has denied Equinix’s request for planning permission for a gas-powered data center.Originally, the site was to be powered by electricity, but so far, it has failed to secure a commercial or technical offer for permanent supply; this is what has led to its pivot ...