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Bridge Data Centres to develop 100MW data center in Malaysia

Bridge Data Centres

Bridge Data Centres has revealed plans for a new data center in Malaysia called MY06. The facility will be housed in the Kidex Sedenak business park in Sedenak. According to reports, the data center will be the biggest of its kind in Malaysia. The facility will be sited on 40 acres of land....

Tamil Nadu Government signs data center MoUs with different data center firms

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu Government has revealed that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with some data center firms to develop data centers in the Indian state. The MoU is worth up to Rs 35,208 crore ($4.7bn). Some of the companies in question include STT GDC, Adani Enterprises, L&T, Nxtra, and Ct...

DE-CIX expands to the Nordics Region in partnership with Bulk Data Centers

Bulk Infrastructure AS

DE-CIX has revealed its plans to expand to the Nordic region. The company has partnered with Bulk Data Centers on this development. Bulk Data Centers will be housing DE-CIX’s IX platforms in Kristiansand, Norway (Campus N01), Oslo, Norway (OS-IX), and Esbjerg, Denmark (Campus DK01). In additio...

Codisa to develop a 3.5MW data center in El Salvador

El Salvador

Costa Rican firm Codisa has begun construction on a new data center in El Salvador. The IT firm will partner with real estate firm Aristos Group to develop the data center. The facility will have a total capacity of 3.5MW, and it will house 322 racks. The facility is named DataTrust and it is ...

Digital Realty teams up with CoolestDC for liquid cooling for SIN11 data center

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is partnering with Coolest DC to develop high-efficiency thermal management solutions for the industry following a pilot program supported by Temasek Foundation. The initial pilot scheme sought to improve energy consumption by data centers and enhance efficiency and had deploye...

Virginia Commonwealth University announced plans to build new data center in Richmond

Richmond

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has announced proposals for a data center located in Richmond, Virginia, at 707 W. Broad St. The planned facility will span 30,000-square-foot (2,800 sqm).According to reports, the data center will cost around $42-44 million and will be divided between bo...

Africa Data Centres launches data center in Lagos

ADC Lagos LOS1

Africa Data Centres has announced the opening of a new data center in Lagos, Nigeria. The data center, namely LOS1 will have a capacity of 10MW, with six data halls, and spanning 6,000 sqm (64,500 sq ft). According to the company, the facility will serve as the West African Hub for the compan...

Hermosa Ranch data center pushback

Arizona

The proposed Hermosa Ranch data center in Avondale, Arizona, is being faced with pushback amid water concerns. TGV Investments Voting Trust and Rexco DC LLC are the companies proposing the construction of the Hermosa Ranch Tech Campus, which would involve changing city plans from installing a ...

Chickasaw Defense Logistics to build data center at Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina

Chickasaw Defense Logistics is to build a data center at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg military base, which holds 54,000 military personnel. The federal contractor will construct the facility in building E-1351.According to reports, the contract is worth approximately $15,172,228. That said, its...

Meeza expands in Qatar with fourth data center

Meeza

Meeza is launching its fourth data center building, namely M-Vault 4, which is to be the biggest in Qatar and due to host a new Microsoft cloud region in Doha. According to reports, this data center building will help to accelerate Qatar’s digital transformation agenda. Further details outlin...

Yotta to develop two data centers in its Greater Noida DC Park, India

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Yotta Infrastructure has announced its plans for developing two more data centers in Noida, India. The company revealed that it would be starting construction on the data centers in its Greater Noida Data Center Park by January 2022. The two data centers will have up to 30MW of capacity eac...

Meta (Facebook) confirms it's behind the 200MW data center in Zeewolde

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has confirmed that it is behind the development of the proposed 200MW data center in Zeewolde, the Netherlands. According to specifications, the facility could cover five data halls and have up to 200MW of capacity upon full buildout. However, the Zeewolde cit...

Infracrowd Capital signs MoU to develop $100 million data center in Vietnam

Vietnam

Singaporean infrastructure investment firm Infracrowd Capital has plans to develop a data center in Vietnam. Infracrowd signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nang IT Park Development Joint Stock Company for the data center development. The company will be developing a Tier III data c...

Rostec launches data center for Motovilikha Plants

Rostec has announced the launch of a new data center for Motovilikha Plants, a metallurgical and military equipment manufacturer. The Russian state-owned tech conglomerate outlined that this facility, developed with help from Technodinamika, will be used by MP for computing needs for the next ...

PLDT partners with Mpower to source renewable energy for its data centers

ePLDT

PLDT has announced that it has partnered with Mpower, a local energy firm, to become more sustainable and decarbonize its portfolio. Mpower will provide the renewable energy from its greenfield renewable energy plants. According to reports, Mpower will provide a “significant portion” of the co...

Microsoft to develop Azure data center region in Belgium

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced plans for an Azure data center region in Belgium. However, it didn’t share details of where the region will be or when it plans to develop it. Yet, just like Microsoft’s other regions, the Belgium Azure region will include three availability zones to enable better redun...

Supernap Italia opens second data center on its Siziano Campus

STACK Milan Campus

Supernap Italia has announced the opening of its second data center on its Siziano campus in Milan, Italy. The new data center has two independent data halls. With this, the facility now has 1 million square feet of space (100,000 square meters) and 40MW of capacity. CEO of Supernap Italia,...

Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has "amended, extended, and upsized" its existing global revolving credit facility from $2.35 billion to $3.0 billion, which now feature a sustainability-linked pricing component. Moreover, the pricing will be "subject to adjustment" based on performance ta...

Utilizing waste heat: Nokia vLabs data center

Nokia's vLab data center in Tampere, Finland, will start to provide its waste heat to Tempere's district heating system in a move that promotes a secular economy. This heat project will commence at the beginning of 2022 and is a move towards a more sustainable future, in line with the company'...

Sustainability efforts: New data center at LNG terminal from Korea Gas and KT

KT Corporation

Korean telecoms company KT is looking into using the cold energy released during the regasification process from KOGAS’s natural gas to cool a facility at the LNG plant. This process deals with temperatures of -160oc, and if all goes ahead, this project will be the first of its kind. In Seoul,...