Data Center News

University of Houston will establish a new energy-focused data facility

Houston

On Friday, July 7, UH Energy will host an educational symposium with a focus on hydrocarbon basin analysis, policy changes, and hydrocarbon opportunities in India to mark the opening of the new University of Houston (UH) - Directorate General for Hydrocarbon (DGH) Center for Hydrocarbon Explor...

Navégalo plans to build data facility in San José, Costa Rica

North America

Navégalo, a Latin American data center company, will soon open a new facility in Costa Rica. This week, the company announced that the 300-rack facility will launch on August 15. Phase one will provide 5MW, and the data center will be expandable to 15MW. The new facility is ANSI/TIA-942 Rated ...

IIJ inaugurates its second facility on Japan's Shiroi campus

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has established a second data center on a Tokyo-area campus. This week, the company revealed that the second phase of its Shiroi Data Center Campus in Shiroi-shi, Chiba Prefecture, has begun operations. The facility, which has been under construction since ...

Vantage appeals application rejection in Dublin, Ireland

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is appealing to An Bord Pleanála over the decision to refuse its data center application in Dublin, Ireland. The application for a two-story, 12,893 sqm development in the West Dublin area of Clondalkin was rejected on both power capacity and environmental grounds, with t...

Telenor signs PPA for wind energy Finland

Telenor Group

Telenor has announced the signing of a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Statkraft for wind energy in Finland. Through the deal, the company will procure the output of the energy firm's Palokangas wind farm.According to the company, the agreement will cover 80 percent of Telenor's F...

STC's Center3 data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, undergoes major expansion

stc

Center3, a subsidiary of Saudi Telecom (STC), has expanded one of its data facilities in Riyadh. This week, the company revealed the addition of 9.6 MW of capacity to the Khurais Riyadh facility.The company did not specify the facility's total capacity. In and around the city, Center3 runs sev...

Supply chain drawbacks exacerbate data center outages

According to AFCOM's annual State of the Data Center 2023 report, data center disruptions are related to supply chain shortages. AFCOM conducts market analysis in the IT and data center industries by polling its members. According to the report, 44% of data center administrators who were surve...

Data center expansion targetted in Elk Grove, Chicago

Stream Data Centers

The Elk Grove area of Chicago is being targeted as a site of data center expansion by numerous operators. Aligned, Stream and Nexstar are all seeking to develop data centers in the area.  Aligned, for example, is planning to demolish three office buildings it acquired for $29 million, along No...

Mubadala of Abu Dhabi, together with KKR, invested in CoolIT

Abu Dhabi

The Mubadala Investment Company of Abu Dhabi disclosed earlier this year that it had invested in liquid cooling company CoolIT. In May 2023, the company invested alongside KKR in the Canadian company, with the latter acquiring the majority of the cooling business. The terms of the acquisition ...

Brazil's V.tal purchases land for the construction data center in Fortaleza

Brazil / Brasil

V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, has acquired land in Fortaleza, Brazil, to construct a data center. The facility, which will have 20MW of IT capacity, has been named Mega Lobster. It will also be the first hyperscale-oriented initiative for the company. The size, cost, and construction...

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

London

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up t...

Etix Everywhere acquires five French data centers from DataBank

Etix Everywhere

US data center operator DataBank is transferring its data center portfolio in France to Etix Everywhere and leaving the country. This week, the company owned by DigitalBridge announced that it had reached an agreement with Etix Everywhere to sell all five of its facilities in France (which run...

Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center

Atlanta

Construction on Edge Energy's Atlanta, Georgia data center is underway, with the company commencing work on July 1st. Located at Tilford Yard, the company bought the 158 acre-site back in July 2021; 70 acres will be dedicated to data center development. In January 2023, it filed a building per...

Iron Mountain signs 24/7 PPA for hydropower in US

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain has signed a 24/7 PPA agreement with Rye Development, a US hydropower developer, for 150 ME of power over the next ten years from a number of the developer's low-impact hydroelectric projects. Rye Development seeks to integrate power generation capabilities into existing dams wi...

Microsoft partners with Constellation for hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has teamed up with Constellation to reduce the carbon footprint of one of its data centers in Boydton, Virginia. By signing an hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement with the energy producer, Microsoft's Boydton facility will receive up to 35 percent in environmental attribute...

H5 Data Centers to expand its Phoenix data center

H5 Data Centers

H5 Data Centers has announced a 30,000 sqft expansion of its Phoenix colocation facility. Located at 2600 W. Germann Road in Chandler, AZ, this expansion is part of the company's third phase of development at the 180,000-square-foot data center.Further to this square-footage expansion, phase ...

American Tower submits plans to construct Edge data center in San Antonio, Texas

American Tower Corporation

American Tower has submitted proposals for a new San Antonio, Texas, Edge data center. The tower company applied to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation last month to establish the 'American Tower Data Center - Highway 90'.The company intends to invest $15 million in constructing ...

French court reverses injunction against CyrusOne's Paris data center construction

CyrusOne

To obtain planning approvals for a data center in Paris, France, CyrusOne had to fight a legal battle. The Versailles Administrative Court overturned the local mayor's orders to prevent the issuance of two building permits. The company intends to convert a former logistics facility in the Vill...

NTT devotes $50 million toward the Garland campus' tenant fit-out.

NTT

NTT will spend $50 million to construct two of its data centers for a new tenant in the Garland area of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The company submitted applications to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for two fit-out projects at its existing campus under construction structure...

Cyxtera decids not to lease data center owned by Stack in Elk Grove, Illinois

Cyxtera Technologies

Due to ongoing losses and impending debt maturities, struggling Cyxtera issued a Chapter 11 bankruptcy claim last month. The company is seeking a buyer or potential investor. As part of the procedure, the company turned down the lease at the Stack-owned facility on Touhy Avenue in the Elk Grov...