Data Center News

Four mega data center clusters ahead for China

China

According to reports, China is planning to introduce four large clusters of data centers situated outside the ‘main population centers’ in the north and west of the country. This announcement comes following China laying out its sustainability commitments and key targets as per its 2060 carbon...

Skanska wins £53m contract to develop Virtus London11 data center

VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd

Construction firm Skanska has been awarded the contract of developing the Virtus London11 data center. The company is in charge of developing the £53 million ($70m) data center with work scheduled to begin on the site this month. The facility is also scheduled to be completed in the Spring of ...

American Tower Finalizes CoreSite Acquisition

American Tower Corporation

American Tower Corporation has announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of CoreSite Realty Corporation. The company completed the acquisition by merging one of its subsidiaries with CoreSite. American Tower funded the transaction through borrowings revolving around term loa...

YLT gains access to Dodid data center through acquisition

YTL Data Centers

YTL, with the acquisition of Dodid Pte Ltd, now has access to the startup’s data center based in Tagore Industrial Ave, as it expands its footprint outside of Malaysia for the first time.Dodid’s facility is a 12.5-megawatt Tier-3 hyperscale data center, spanning 39,000 square feet of space. Th...

Sanya to receive first underwater data center

China

Sanya, a coastal city on the south of Hainan Island, is to receive the world's first commercial demonstration underwater data center, with an investment of over 5.6 billion yuan ($880 million). This news comes following Hainan provincial authorities announcing they had reached a strategic agre...

EdgeConneX strategically invests in China's Chayora

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it has made a strategic investment in Chinese data center company Chayora. The investment will see both EdgeConneX and Chayora offer data center services out of Chayora’s data centers in China. The firm will also expand on the existing data centers across Mainland...

Corscale is developing a 300MW data center campus in Prince William County

Corscale: Gainesville 1

Corscale has been revealed to be behind the development of a new data center campus in Prince William County. The Nascent hyperscale data center developer revealed on its website that it would be developing the data center campus in the county. It will be developing a 130-acre 300MW Gainesvill...

Moro Hub to build solar-powered data centre in Dubai

Dubai

Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has announced that it has commenced work on a 100MW facility solar-powered data center located at EWA's 3,000MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.The facility, located southeast...

Google buys 236 acres of land in Kansas City

Google

Google has completed the acquisition of hundreds of acres of lands in Kansas City’s Northland. The search engine giant plans to develop data centers at the site. According to Kansas City Business Journal, property records show that Google bought 236.4 acres of land to the north of Hunt Midwest...

Digital Realty Announces Opening Of First Data Center in South Korea

Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

Digital Realty has announced the opening of its first data center in Seoul, South Korea. The new Digital Realty data center is called Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10). The 12MW capacity data center has multiple stories, and it covers a space of 22,000 square feet. This facility is also located in Seoul...

Keppel Data Centres' green hydrogen supply chain feasibility study

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Data Centres has announced it has teamed up with Woodside, Japan's Osaka Gas business division in Singapore, City Energy and City-OG Gas Energy Services, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), to study the feasibility of a liquid hydrogen supply chain from Western Aust...

Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

Northern Virginia

Recently, Prince William County’s environmental officials announced that they were recommending that the request to replan 2,133-acres in the rural crescent for data centers should be rejected. The watershed management division has argued that the replan would be significantly detrimental to t...

Scala Data Centers to develop two hyperscale data centers in Brazil

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has broken ground on two new hyperscale facilities in Brazil. Scala DC was formed in 2020 by DigitalBridge for the sole purpose of developing hyperscale data centers in South America. Scala Data Centers will be developing the SP4 and SP5 hyperscale facilities in Barueri, Sao...

Hines Group acquires Digital Group's San Jose data center for $60m

150 S 1st

According to reports from BizJournal, The Hines Group has acquired Digital Realty’s data center in San Jose, California. The data center in question is a 179,800 square foot, two-story building at 150 S. First Street. The purchase price is said to be $59.6 million. The building sits on a 2.4-a...

Lancium makes investment in renewable energy-powered data center campus

Houston-based Lancium recently announced that over the next 20 years, it plans on investing $2.4 billion in the construction of its Clean Compute Campus, a large-scale renewable energy-powered data center in Abilene, Texas.According to the Development Corporation of Abilene (DCOA), the facilit...

Proximity Data Centers opens new facility in Birmingham, UK

nLighten Edge 8 Birmingham

Proximity Data Centres has announced that it has opened its Birmingham facility near the new HS2 rail station and BBC campus. The company outlines the facility site spans, with 63,000 sq ft (5,800 sq m) available in the actual facility with space for 2000 racks located across three data halls....

Launch of TikTok's €420m Irish data center Postponed to Late 2022

Republic of Ireland

TikTok has revealed that its planned data center opening in Ireland will be delayed due to issues caused by the pandemic. The company revealed to Business Post Ireland €420 million ($473m) that the facility will be launched in late 2022 instead of the planned early 2022 launch. CSO of TikTok, ...

Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia

Reports have it that Prologis has filed for permission to convert an industrial site in Sterling, Northern Virginia, into a data center. The company aims to develop a 500,000 square feet data center on its existing 19.5-acre industrial site. The development project is referred to as Prologis N...

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW turb...

Meta/Facebook got permission to develop Netherlands' largest data center in Zeewolde

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta has been granted permission to build the Netherlands’ largest data center for its Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp applications in the small town of Zeewolde. Reports have it that the facility will use 200MW of electrical power and have five data center halls. The town council had a meet...