Data Center News

Microsoft adds new availability zones to India Central Azure cloud region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has unveiled new availability zones in its Indian Central Azure cloud region. Usually, Azure regions launch with three availability zones. These zones are physically separated to provide higher redundancy, availability, and disaster recovery protection. However, there are cases where...

China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong

China Mobile

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) has started work on a new data center facility in Hong Kong, China. CMI is developing the facility on a 1 million square foot land in Fo Tan, Sha Tin. The facility will have multiple stories, and it will cover 103,660 square meters (1.1 million square f...

OADC to develop data centers in Nigeria and South Africa

Africa

A new data center firm called Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has revealed plans for its first two data centers in Nigeria and South Africa. Earlier in November, Wholesale fiber network company WIOCC revealed that it raised $200 million to launch a new data center based in Africa called OADC. ...

Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

Northern Virginia

Plans to build data centers opposite the Manassas National Battlefield Park are being opposed. Critics are warning that the proposal, known as "PW Digital Gateway",  is the "Single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in nearly three decades," compromising the environmental in...

Africa Data Centres chooses Distributed Power Technologies to provide renewable energy

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has announced that it has chosen Distributed Power Technologies (DPT) to provide its South African data centers with renewable energy and storage. This announcement follows news that the company recently secured nearly R4 billion to expand and develop its two data centers i...

Elk Grove Data Center rezone to go forward

Illinois

Data center plans are moving ahead in Elk Grove Village as officials have announced their expectation to close on the sale of four parcels totaling 17.5 acres later this month. The sale will be made to Prime Data Centers Corp for $21.3 million. This follows planning commissioners voting unanim...

China Telecom leaving the US in January after appeal fails

China Telecom

News emerging is that China Telecom Americas will be leaving the United States. This comes after the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied China Telecom’s emergency motion to pause an FCC order that revoked its authorizations to continue operations in the country. ...

Iron Mountain signs 20MW lease with existing customer at Va-2

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Iron Mountain has announced that it has signed a 20MW lease agreement with an existing Fortune 100 customer for its Va-2 data center in Manassas, Virginia. The new lease agreement now sees Iron Mountain sign leases of up to 44MW since the beginning of the year. The new lease will start in phas...

Connecticut towns plan to stop data center development projects

Connecticut

Towns in Connecticut want to stop a new company from building data centers. Gotspace Data Partners LLC plans to build five data centers across Connecticut. The company plans to build data centers in Griswold, Groton, Wallingford, Bozrah, and Norwich. However, according to reports, the Wallingf...

Yondr moves into Frankfurt

Yondr Group

Yondr is to build a new data center outside Frankfurt, Germany, it has announced. Located in the City of Bischofsheim, the facility will have a capacity of 40MW and comes as a response to increased cloud capacity demands. Speaking about the expansion near the southwest of Frankfurt, Pete Jone...

Chargebee opens data center in Sydney

To support its SaaS and subscription business, Chargebee has announced that it has opened a dedicated data center and office in Sydney, Australia, following significant growth of the company's global customer base. Krish Subramanian, CEO and co-founder of Chargebee, said that the decision to i...

Pure DC and LOGOS to develop data centers across the Asia Pacific Region

Pure Data Centres Group

LOGOS and Pure Data centres are partnering to develop data centers in the Asia Pacific region. Both companies announced that they would be developing critical data center infrastructure across the APAC region. Frederic Devos, Head of infrastructure at LOGOS, said there’s an underwhelming suppl...

OneX announces expansion in Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

OneX, a data center newcomer, has announced that by the end of 2023, it plans to construct five data centers, with an investment of 75mn reais (US$13.2mn). The first of the five, based in the Vale do Aço (steel valley) region of Minas Gerais, was inaugurated on Tuesday. This data center, accor...

Oracle's Linlithgow data center set to shutdown

Oracle

Oracle has announced that it will be closing its Linlithgow data center in Scotland early next year. The company acquired the former Sun Microsystems manufacturing facility back in 2009 and transformed the facility into a data center in 2012. It spans 160,000 sq ft (14,900 sqm), with a capacit...

LogicMonitor launches data center in Sydney

LogicMonitor has announced the launch of its first Australian data center based in Sydney, hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to the company, this new facility will provide local, in-country data storage for Australian customers.Commenting on its expansion into Australia, LogicMoni...

Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operati...

Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers and its lead investor, Digital Bridge Group, have announced the acquisition of PCCW Ltd.’s data center business. The acquisition sees Vantage DC’s portfolio to include 100MW of existing and expansion capacity across many facilities in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Besides, t...

Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies

Stockholm

Vattenfall has formed a strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies in a joint sustainable data centre pilot project. Together, the companies will work to construct a facility at Vattenfall’s biomass-fired district heating plant in Jordbro, south of Stockholm.Speaking about the part...

Bio-gas powered data center ahead for Adista and DataFarm Energy

Adista and Datafarm Energy are partnering to deliver a 250kW data center powered by bio-gas, which Adista will operate, and Datafarm will power with exclusively with renewable energies from the recovery of agricultural bio-waste.” The location of the facility is yet to be announced, and the so...

Digital Edge acquires five data centers in Japan

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has completed the acquisition of five data centers in Japan. The company acquired the data centers from ICT Services company Itochu Techno-Solutions (CTC) for a fee of around $230 million. The report also shows that CTC will still be an anchor customer across all the data centers....