Data Center News

Elea Digital and Vertiv announce strategic alliance

Vertiv

Elea Digital and Vertiv have announced they have formed a partnership to deliver edge data center services in Brazil. As per the partnership agreement, the two will provide "operation and maintenance services" for Elea Digital data centers in key metro areas, including Porto Alegre, Curitiba, ...

Microsoft and its Scope 3 emissions

Microsoft Azure

According to the tech giant's most recent sustainability report, Microsoft's scope 3 emissions are jeopardizing its ability to meet its carbon neutrality targets, which in 2021 rose by 23% year over year. Some argue that this indicates Microsoft has set lofty aspirations that it cannot achieve...

South Dublin passes motion to prevent data center builds

Dublin

Continuing to pursue the ban on new data center builds in Dublin, People Before Profit Councillor Madeleine Johansson recently put forward an amendment to do just that, a motion, which was voted through by 18 votes to 13 against, with one abstention.Despite the vote to curb further builds, the...

Lancaster University: carbon net-zero data center project

United Kingdom

Lancaster University has announced the launch of its Blackpool Innovation Catalyst project, which seeks to bring together "dynamic organisations" and academics to develop effective "long-term solutions around clean growth and secure digitalisation for their industries."One of the latest projec...

Nation Data Center moves in near Rennes, France

France

Nation Data Center (NDC) has announced it is to build a new 3,000 sqm (32,300 sq ft) data center based near Rennes, in France. The facility named the Roah Data Center, will accommodate 600 racks when fully built out. The facility was given the go-ahead after the company obtained a building per...

Hansen Technologies-Occupied Data Center in Australia Up For Sale

Australia

A Hansen-occupied three-story data center in Doncaster, Australia, is up for sale. The 39,900 square feet (3,707 square meters) data center is located on 2 Frederick Street in the Melbourne Suburb. Colliers and Fitzroys are responsible for offering the facility for sale. Expressions of inte...

Microsoft Launches Fifth Chinese Azure Region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced its fifth Azure region in China. According to the company, the new Chinese Azure region launched on the first day of the month. This region will be operated by Vnet (formerly 21Vianet). The CEO of Microsoft’s Greater China Region, Dr. Hou Yang, said the company had seen...

Amazon Proposal For Land Rezoning in Culpeper County Denied

Amazon AWS

The Culpeper County Planning Commission has denied Amazon's proposal to rezone over 200 acres of land in Stevensburg, Virginia, for data center use. The commission voted 5-4 against the company's proposal. It wasn't an easy decision for the council as the discussions and decision took over 5 h...

Meta To Develop a €1bn Data Center in Toledo, Spain

Meta

Meta is developing a €1 billion ($1.1bn) data center campus in Spain. The social media giant says the facility will be developed near Talavera de la Reina, in the Toledo region. Emiliano Garcia-Page, the socialist president of Toledo, was happy about the development and said the project wou...

Washington State Wants To Make Tax Exemptions For Data Center Development

Washington

Washington is looking to increase data center development in the state by passing some data center tax exemption bills. The HB 1846 bill, which was introduced by Democrats Alex Ramel and April Berg, would introduce tax exemptions on data center facilities developed in rural counties. The bill ...

Huawei and XData sign an agreement to boost the Data Center industry

Huawei Cloud

Huawei Digital Power has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with XData Properties for collaboration in the data center industry.According to the two, through the MoU, they will “offer solutions for the development of intelligent, efficient and sustainable data ce...

Groton Town Council and NE Edge's data center proposal

NE Edge, a new company, formed by Thomas Quinn, the former CEO of GotSpace, is proposing the development of at least one data center at Flanders Road, just south of Interstate 95. Moreover, not content with the speed at which the proposal was advancing, the company convinced Groton Town Counci...

Skybox's Pflugerville data center could see up to $548M in investment

Skybox Datacenters

Skybox Data Centers has announced it is partnering with Prologis to develop a data center in Austin, Texas. This news comes following Pflugerville City Council approving an economic development performance agreement between the Pflugerville Community Development Corp. and Skybox. As per this ...

Nautilus' floating data center faces opposition

Republic of Ireland

The Irish socialist party People Before Profit (PBP) has voiced its opposition to Nautilus Data Technologies' floating data center at Limerick Docks, which was originally approved back in 2019. Although construction is due to commence on the facility, Limerick PBP representative Cian Prendivil...

Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant

Meta

According to Biz Journal, Meta will be the first tenant at the new large data center campus in Kansas, Missouri. Plans for a Golden Plains Technology Park, also known as Project Velvet, were first submitted in 2021. The developer has plans for a 510,000 square meters (5.5 million square fee...

atNort's Data Center in Stockholm Finally Comes Online

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

atNorth has announced the launch of its first data center in Stockholm, Sweden. The Icelandic company revealed that its Kista data center is now up and running. According to atNorth, the facility is Sweden’s first data center designed for high-density workloads such as risk analysis, simula...

EcoDataCenter is Building a New Data Center at Its Falun Campus, Sweden

EcoDataCenter Falun, Sweden

EcoDataCenter has announced that it is developing a new data center at its Falun campus, in Sweden. The company revealed that it would be investing up to SEK 1 billion ($102m) in the development of the new facility. The new facility will add 15MW to the campus. Worthy of note is that EcoDataCe...

India's National Stock Exchange to relocate its data center

India / Bhārata

The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has announced plans to relocate its primary data center out of its Mumbai headquarters at the Bandra Kurla. This announcement comes following allegations that the NSE's former head was embroiled in a colocation scam that began in 2015, and ended with ...

Web Werks Announce Plans For a 6MW Data Center in Hyderabad, India

Web Werks

Great news as Web Werks revealed that it would be developing a data center in Hyderabad, India. The facility will span 11,100 square meters (120,000 square feet) of space. In addition, the data center will be a Tier III facility with up to 20MVA of gross power. It will also have an IT load ...

Google Buys Mandiant for $5.4 billion

Google

Google has announced that it is acquiring Mandiant for $5.4 billion. This will be Google’s second-largest acquisition in history. Mandiant is a cybersecurity firm founded in 2004. The firm offers many threat detection and response services. Mandiant will also be joining Google Cloud upon the c...