Data Center News

Microsoft was permitted to operate its Dublin data center on gas

Microsoft Azure

According to reports, Microsoft has been granted permission to construct a 170MW gas power facility for its Dublin data center expansion. As per a report from Business Post, the cloud giant applied in December to construct a gas power facility for its $1 billion Dublin data center campus curre...

Edged Energy intends to construct an 18MW data facility in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas

A data center is being built by Edged Energy in Kansas City, Missouri. According to BizJournal, the Northland of Kansas City will soon see the start of construction on a data center by engineering and construction company Burns & McDonnell. The company is constructing an 18MW waterless-coo...

EdgeConneX announces deployment of AWS Direct Connect in Phoenix data center

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced the deployment of AWS Direct Connect with both 10Gbps and 100Gbps capability at the Phoenix Edge Data Center (PHX01). The company shared that this will enable customers to establish direct edge cloud on-ramps. This, it shared, can reportedly reduce costs, improve oper...

ClickUp announces localised data hosting at its EU data center in Ireland

Europe

ClickUp has announced that it is expanding its investment in Europe with localised data hosting in its European data center. Operated by Amazon Web Services, ClickUp's European data center is based in Ireland, and following this announcement, customers subscribed to its Enterprise plan will ha...

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel to begin work on data center

Canada

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel has shared that it has obtained the permits to begin work on its new data center in the heritage section of Vancouver's Harbour Centre. The company shared that the project is still in its preconstruction phase, but that construction will commence in August 2023, ...

Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

Finland

Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the c...

Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

Amazon AWS

Amazon is reportedly interested in purchasing a former Ford plant near Cardiff, Wales. According to BusinessLive and WalesOnline, AWS is in talks to purchase the former Ford engine facility in Bridgend. However, it may be a distinct Amazon division that is interested in the site.According to r...

Asterion and Telefónica are looking into an acquisition of the Nabiax unit

Asterion and Telefónica are reportedly considering the sale of Nabiax, a Latin American data center company. According to Reuters, infrastructure fund Asterion Industrial Partners, which owns 80 percent of Nabiax, has enlisted the services of bankers from BBVA BBVA.MC and Citigroup C.N. to eva...

Tonomus establishes data center in Saudi's Neom city

Saudi Arabia

Tonomus, a digital corporation within the new Neom city in Saudi Arabia, opened a data center. Neom is a plan to build a massive new smart metropolis on the coast of the Red Sea in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk. The Public Investment Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund, owns 10...

Norwegian government approves Green Mountain TikTok data facility

Norway

The government has granted Green Mountain permission to construct a data center campus for TikTok. However, stricter data center regulations may shortly be introduced in Norway. Green Mountain announced in March 2023 that it would construct three 90MW buildings in the Hamar region by November ...

Australia's DUG obtains a $3.4 million grant to establish the Geraldton HPC campus

DUG, an Australian high-performance computing (HPC) company, has secured government aid for a Geraldton, Australia, campus. This week, the company announced receiving $3.4 million in government funding for its long-planned campus in Geraldton, Western Australia, approximately 250 miles north o...

NorthC purchases a data center in Switzerland from Kyndryl

NorthC Datacenters

NorthC Group purchased a new data center near Zurich, Switzerland, through a sale/leaseback transaction. This week, the Dutch colocation company announced the opening of a new data center in the Winterthur neighborhood of Zurich. However, the company announced on LinkedIn that it had acquired ...

GI Partners acquires the majority stake in 2 Chicago data centers from Digital Realty

Digital Realty Trust

GI Partners has acquired a majority stake in two data centers in Chicago, Illinois, from Digital Realty. This week, the business announced that it had formed a joint venture with GI Partners to sell a 65 percent stake in two stabilized hyper-scale data center facilities and their associated ma...

Port of Valencia gives up data center proposals for docks building

Spain

The municipal council of Valencia has abandoned plans to construct a data center in a port docks building. More than a year had passed since the local government began considering multiple proposals for establishing a data center in a building on the Marina de Valencia. Nevertheless, this week...

India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar

India / Bhārata

PowerGrid, an Indian transmission corporation, plans to construct a data center on a substation site outside of Delhi. This week, PowerGrid's board authorized a revised investment proposal for the 'establishment of an experimental data center at PowerGrid Manesar Substation,' according to an a...

Circularity in action: Obit shares data center/vertical farm plans

Russia / Россия

Obit has shared plans for a new data center in St. Petersburg, which will be located on a land plot home to a complex of vertical farms. The company is set to invest around two billion rubles ($22.1m) in the project, which will offer a capacity for 512 racks, with excess heat released from the...

Modul'Data Center provides Solvay with a containerized facility

Solvay has received a containerized data center module from the French company Modul'Data Center. Modul, along with Rosenberger OSI and Eaton, recently delivered the container-sized module, as first reported by DCmag.fr. Remy Febvre, CEO of Modul's parent company IPenergy, stated on LinkedIn t...

AtlasEdge enters strategic partnership with Northshore

AtlasEdge

AtlasEdge, has entered into a strategic partnership with Northshore to implement an operational sustainability strategy and execution plan. According to the company, the technology-enabled engineering company will assist it in ensuring that data collection and validation processes are streaml...

Microsoft buys a 14-acre plot for data centers in Sterling, Virginia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has plans for data centers in Sterling, Virginia. BizJournal reports that Microsoft purchased a 14-acre parcel at 23540 Pebble Run Place for approximately $15 million last month, citing Loudoun County property records. Data centers are already legally permitted on the property, which...

Equinix to connect to new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany

Equinix

Equinix has announced that, through a partnership with a number of different companies, it will connect to a new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany. In collaboration with Vonovia, AS Enterprise, and EB-SIM, the group aims to build a heating network for the bizonal residential area ...