Data Center News

Australia's Edge Centres acquires its local Edge rival DC Matrix

Edge Centres

Australia-based edge data center firm Edge Centres has completed the acquisition of its rival DC Matrix. DC Matrix is a local edge data center company based in Queensland. DC Matrix planned to roll out six facilities in Queensland before the acquisition. The CEO of Edge Centres, Jonathan Eaves...

Microsoft buys 17 acres of land in Georgia for further expansion

Microsoft Azure

According to Biz Journal, Microsoft has acquired extra 17 acres of land in Fulton County of Georgia. In addition, the Fulton County property deeds confirmed the purchase by showing that Microsoft bought 10 acres of land from Macq LLC for $1 million and 7 acres from Lit/Hodges Industrial Trust ...

DigitalBridge closes $8.3 billion investment fund- its largest ever

DigitalBridge

DigitalBridge has announced that it has closed its $8.3 billion digital infrastructure investment fund. This is the company’s second flagship fund. DigitalBridge’s own Capital Formation team led the fundraising. Interestingly, the fund was launched in 2020 with an initial target of $6 billion....

Data center campus on the way for Georgia

QTS: Augusta Campus

T5 Data Centers has announced it is planning the development of a 140 acre, 200 MW government and enterprise cloud data center campus located in Augusta, Georgia, adjacent to Fort Gordon and the U.S. Army's Cyber Command Headquarters.Commenting on the location's suitability, Pete Marin, T5's C...

Prime Data Centers expands in Silicon Valley

Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

Prime Data Centers has announced plans to develop a new 119,000 square-foot data center in Silicon Valley, in Santa Clara, California. When complete, the facility will deliver a capacity of 9MW, and construction on the facility will commence in the second half of 2023. The facility will b...

Oracle opens new data center in South Africa

Oracle

Oracle has announced that it has opened a new data center in South Africa, making it the company's 37th "cloud region," with a view to open at least 44 cloud regions this year.Looking ahead, for the rest of the year, the company has not announced plans for further data centers in Africa; howe...

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel to build data center in Harbour Centre

Vancouver

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel is to build a new facility in Vancouver's Harbour Centre. When fully built out, the company says the facility will span 43,000 sqft, with a capacity of 10MW, supporting 20kW+ per cabinet, and over 20,000 connected fibers. According to Director of Data Center ...

Continued environmental concerns around Wallingford data centers

Gotspace Data Partners LLC, the company seeking to build two data center campuses to Wallingford, is facing opposition from locals who argue that facilities in the area would cause detriment to the surrounding environment. At a recent Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, those living in the...

DataGrid to expand in New Zealand

New Zealand

Following the purchase of a 43-hectare site in North Makarewa near Invercargill, Datagrid, is moving forward with its plans to construct a hyperscale facility there, the first of its kind in the area.According to reports, the company will build up to ten 6,500 sqm (70,000 sq ft) modules totali...

Verizon expands in Colorado Springs

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon has announced that it is expanding its digital footprint with the addition of a second data center in Colorado Springs. The company has submitted a proposal for a 49,000 square-foot (4,500 sqm) data center on Arrowswest Drive in El Paso County, with plans for a potential second phase ...

Paris to house Equinix's tenth data center

Equinix Saint-Denis PA10

Equinix is adding a tenth data center into Paris on its Paris Equinix's Saint-Denis campus, with the new site named PA10. In the first phase of construction, the project will offer 3,775 sqm and 1,525 cabinets of capacity. Meanwhile, it will offer 5,775 sqm (62,100 sq ft) of colocation space a...

BBT Has Selected MCFI's Genius Data Center Solution

BBT Midland 1

Mission Critical Facilities International (MCFI) has announced that it has deployed its GENIUS Modular Data Center in Midland, Texas. Midland is in the epicenter of the most productive oil and gas production locality in the whole of North America. BBT selected MCFI’s GENIUS Modular Data Center...

Orange and Engie partner to transform GOS

Orange

Orange has joined forces with Engie to transform its Ivory Coast, Tier III-certified GOS (Groupement Orange Services) data center and install solar panels. The site, located in Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, was first built in 2016, spanning 16,600 sqm (179,000 sq ft).This project comes in resp...

Facebook's DeKalb data center in first stage of construction

Meta

Facebook’s data center in DeKalb located east of Route 23 and south of Gurler Road, has almost reached its first phase of completion, while the second phase of construction has been approved. According to reports, an initial investment of $800 million has been made, a figure that is likely to ...

DigiPlex signs up to the European Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres

DigiPlex Norway AS

DigiPlex has announced that it is the latest signatory to the European Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres. This will reportedly help the company benchmark its performance regarding sustainability and see it participate in carbon reduction initiatives to ensure it keeps a lo...

KKR’s Global Technical Realty moves ahead with UK data center

Global Technical Realty

KKR's Global Technical Realty has announced that it has begun work on its UK data center campus located in Slough. When fully built out, the campus will have a total capacity of 40.5MW, made up of three 13.5MW, 5,400 sq m (58,000 sq ft) data centers.Franek Sodzawiczny, Founder and CEO at Globa...

Skybox Datacenters finishes construction on Illinois data center

Skybox Datacenters

Construction on Skybox Datacenters's 189,000 sq ft (17,600 sq m) facility Elk Grove Village facility is complete, the company has announced. The project, first announced in March 2021, is the company's first outside of Texas and has a capacity of 30MW.Rob Morris, CEO of Skybox Datacenters, sai...

Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

Singapore

This week, Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister made an announcement that the country's moratorium on new data center builds, which was introduced back in 2019. Minister Gan Kim Yong said that going forward, a "more selective" approach to new builds will be taken.In a written reply to a par...

AREP to invest in six data centers

Ashburn: Data Center Alley

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that, with Harrison Street, it is investing $1bn (€864m) in six data centres in the US. According to reports, this development plan will total 2.1m sqft of data centre space in Data Center Alley in Ashburn and Arcola, Virginia.Speaking about t...

Stack makes progress at its Hillsboro campus

STACK: POR03A

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has made progress at its new Hillsboro campus in Oregon with the completion of its first building. Spanning 180,000 sqft, with a capacity of 24MW, that said, only half of that capacity (12MW) is available due to pre-leasing activity.The facility, POR0...