Data Center News

Cyxtera property sought after by Brookfield and Digital Realty

Cyxtera Technologies

Reportedly, Brookfield and Digital Realty are interested in acquiring the struggling Cyxtera. According to Bloomberg, several parties, including Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty Trust, are interested in purchasing the assets of the insolvent colocation company. The firms r...

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Northern Virginia

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...

Principal buys Amsterdam logistics site for 42MW Switch DC data center

Switch Datacenters Amsterdam BV

Principal Asset Management has purchased a Dutch logistics facility that will be converted into a data center. This week, the company announced the acquisition of a logistics facility for the Principal European Data Centre Fund I. The terms were not disclosed.The acquired facility in the Schip...

Arctic Wolf announces launch of Australian data center

Arctic Wolf has opened a new local data center in Australia, it has announced. The local center, running as a module through AWS’s Sydney facility, is part of its strategic expansion. It launched in the country regionally last October. The company outlined that this move sets it apart from oth...

Data centers could be built on Maryland's old mall site for FBI HQ

Maryland

Lerner Enterprises is evaluating a former Maryland mall as a possible campus for a data center if the FBI does not relocate there. Brightseat Associates LLC, a Lerner affiliate, filed a preliminary application for a "qualified data center" with Prince George's County's land use regulatory body...

Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Clean Energy Connect (CEC), a solar power company in the Itochu group for solar energy. Through the 20-year corporate PPA, CEC will invest more than 10 billion yen ($75 million) by 2024 for the development of small ...

Tesla to build new 'first of its kind' data centers

Through a job ad, Tesla has announced that it plans to build so-called "first of its kind data centers."In a job posting, first highlighted by Electrek, Tesla outlines it is seeking a senior engineering program manager who would be "responsible for leading the full design & engineering of ...

New $370 million data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility in Salalah, Oman

Oman

A new data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility has been built in Oman for $370 million. Established in Salalah on August 13 by the Omani Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology (MTCIT), the center is part of the country's national infrastructure program. The da...

IP3 and Green Energy Partners form JV for development in Surry, Virginia

IP3 and Green Energy Partners have announced that they have formed a joint venture to work on the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) in Surry County, Virginia. Together, the two are planning to develop between 20 and 30 green data centers, on 641 acres in Surry County. The project includes a fle...

Bain to privatize ChinData in a $3.16 billion transaction

Chindata Group

ChinData, a Chinese data center operator, will be taken private by existing investor Bain Capital. ChinData Group Holdings Limited revealed over the weekend that it had gone into a $3.16 billion merger deal with two Bain subsidiaries that will be taken private: BCPE Chivalry Bidco Limited and ...

IXAfrica buys 11 acres for second Nairobi data center facility

Nairobi

IXAfrica has bought land in Nairobi, Kenya, for a second data center site. The company executed a contract with local real estate developer Tilisi Developments plc to acquire 11 acres of land in the Kenyan capital for the development of its second data center campus. Research is currently bein...

DoD procures a security advancement for Hawaii data center

Hawaii

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is soliciting proposals for a data center security upgrade in Hawaii. On August 14, the contract offer was released, giving businesses three weeks to present their ideas for the DoD's facility. The solution must upgrade the Defense Information Systems Agency ...

GreenSquareDC leases tract of land in Western Australia for wind & solar park to power data center

GreenSquareDC has shared that it is leasing a large tract of land at at Billericay Road in East Hyden, Perth, Western Australia,  to develop a wind and solar park to power its 96MW data center. The long-term ground lease is for over 3,100 hectares of land, and on this land, the company will bu...

GLP's new global data center business breaks ground on its first Tokyo, Japan campus

GLP has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo West 1 (TKW1) is the company’s first foray into Japan, with the campus offering 31 MW across three buildings. The first building is projected to be ready for service by 2025, offering 10MW, while building two ...

Rosatom acquires a data center in development; the 36MW facility is set to open in 2024

Moscow / Москва́

The state-owned Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia has acquired a Moscow data center. C.News.ru reports that Rosatom's Atomdata Center division has acquired a Moscow data center under construction for $237 million. The Moscow-2 facility, situated on 215,280 square feet in the Southern Admini...

Rowan plans a 1 million-square-foot data center in Morrow County, Oregon

Rowan Digital Infrastructure

Rowan Green Data in Morrow County, Oregon, plans to build a data center. Proposals for the Percheron Data Center near Boardman were recommended for approval by the County planning commission at the end of last month. Later this month, the proposal will be presented to the County Board of Commi...

India will get a "million qubit" quantum computing machine -centric data center

India / Bhārata

India's Greater Noida will soon house a data center dedicated to quantum computation. On August 11, the Utter Pradesh (UP) Government and Innogress, a project promoter, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Indraprastha Quantum Data Center (IQDC).As a joint venture between Innogre...

Tillman FiberCo and Northleaf execute a $500 million investment agreement

United States

Northleaf Capital Partners and Tillman FiberCo have joined forces in a strategic partnership. The fiber broadband company confirmed receiving a preliminary investment of $200 million, with an additional $300 million possible as the company looks to expand.The investment, per Tillman, will spee...

STT GDC plans to construct a third facility in Bangkok, Thailand

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) Thailand is constructing its third data center in Bangkok, Thailand. STT Bangkok 3 will be located in the One Bangkok district and will have 2MW of IT capacity when it opens at the end of 2023, as is currently scheduled. This facility will join the ot...

British Land considering Vodafone-occupied data center sale to Realty Income

British Land is negotiating with Realty Income to sell an array of data centers occupied by Vodafone in London. In July, it was reported that Savills was seeking purchasers for the Network Portfolio, a collection of six facilities totaling 260,000 square feet. British Land, the proprietor of t...