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Offaly could be home to a new data center

Northern Ireland

It has been rumoured that a new data center could be on its way to Offaly, Ireland. ​​A senior official of Offaly County Council hinted at this last week at Offaly when discussing renewable energy targets. Andrew Murray, a senior planner, commented the data center industry could potentially ta...

New data center firm DāSTOR has launched in the US

DāSTOR

A new data center firm with the name DāSTOR has launched in the US by acquiring four data centers across Delaware and Pennsylvania. The former president of colocation at Crown Castle, Kevin Mulqueen, founded the Company. It acquired two facilities in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. It also acqu...

CleanSpark Joins teams up with Partnership Gwinnett

Cleanspark has announced its partnership with Partnership Gwinnett, which will see an expected capital and human investments of nearly $145 million over the next five years at CleanSpark's data center in Norcross, Georgia. The facility is forecast to be operational by the end of 2021.Speaking ...

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors approves zoning of 196-acre of land for data center use in Gainesville, Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia

196-acres of land has been rezoned for data center purposes in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. This is after the Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted that a 196-acre land off Linton Hall Road should be zoned for data center use. A 1 million square feet data center campus will also ...

Iron Mountain files to expand its data center campus in Virginia campus

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Iron Mountain is reportedly expanding its Virginia data center campus. According to Inside Nova, a firm with the name KH Data Capital Development is applying to revise the condition of the industrial zoning on its 37-acre property off Wellington Road, which is between Manassas and Gainesvil...

GI Partners completes the acquisition of LightEdge

GI Partners

GI Partners has completed the acquisition of Des Moines-based colocation provider LightEdge. LightEdge operates seven data centers in Kansas City, Des Moines, Raleigh, Austin, and Omaha. Anschutz Corporation has owned the majority of the firm since 2018. CEO of LightEdge, Jim Masterson, sai...

ColoHouse acquires Lume Cloud

ColoHouse

ColoHouse has completed the acquisition of Lume Cloud. Lume Cloud is a managed cloud services provider that provides workspace and cloud solutions. It also offers colocation services out of multiple multi-tenant facilities around the world. CEO of Lume Cloud, Kyle Verzello, said the acquisitio...

What does the US $1 trillion Infrastructure Bill mean for the data center industry?

North America

There’s a lot of discussion around what the new bipartisan Infrastructure Bill means for the data center industry, and many are anticipating significant changes on the horizon.The bill, which is currently passing through Congress, would lend a hand to the industry’s decarbonization efforts, wi...

Turkcell inaugurates new data center in Tekirdağ, Turkey

Turkcell

Turkcell recently inaugurated its new LEED Gold and Uptime Tier III-certified data center based in the Kapaklı district of Tekirdağ, Turkey. The facility has seen a $295 million investment and spans ​​37,277 sqm (400,000 sq ft) with 7,238 sqm (78,000 sq ft) of white space. Named the 'European...

DigitalBridge announces partnership with ImpactData to target underserved communities

DigitalBridge

DigitalBridge has announced it has formed a partnership with ImpactData, to deliver a network of edge data centers built on an "inclusion-based delivery model." According to the company's press release, this model will enable enterprises to "leverage their data for good", advancing student le...

A commitment to a greener future: AirTrunk converts $1.545bn in sustainability linked loans

AirTrunk

AirTrunk has announced it has converted its corporate loan facilities of over AU$2.1 billion (US$1.545bn) into a Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL). The tech company is the latest to join the wave of data center companies pursuing these kinds of loans, alongside Aligned, KPN, and Nabiax.As per ...

Google data center in Bnei Zion, Israel faces protest from locals

Google

Residents of Bnei Zion, Israel, are protesting against the construction of Google’s data center in the town. The locals have petitioned the Lod District Court to revoke the approval for the data center. The residents are worried over the health and environmental impact of the center project...

Element Critical acquires data center in Austin, Texas

Element Critical Austin

Element Critical has announced it is expanding into the Austin market after acquiring a 62,000 square feet data center in Austin, Texas. It named the new facility Austin One. It is also the Company’s second data center facility in Texas. Austin One is designed to support up to 7MW of critical ...

Baxtel’s Self-Service Advertising Platform Reaches Data Center Audiences Faster

North America

We are thrilled to announce we recently launched our self-service advertising platform! Our targeted ad platform gives you an e-commerce experience that is optimized to reach data center audiences faster.   As a self-service advertising platform, companies can launch ads quickly and more ef...

AWS launches Local Zones in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Kansas City

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has launched Local Zones in Minneapolis, Kansas City, and Chicago. AWS’ Local Zones serve as Edge locations that host applications that require single-digit millisecond latency for on-premises installations and end-users. AWS announced its excitement of launching the Loc...

TierPoint to build new data center in Missouri

TierPoint

TierPoint has announced that it is expanding in Missouri by investing $20 million into building a 23,000 square feet Tier III data center in the St. Louis region. The data center firm already has three facilities in Missouri; two in St. Louis and one in Kansas City. TierPoint has also secur...

Vantage Data Centers enters Asia-Pacific region by acquiring Agile Data Centers and PCCW’s data center business

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is expanding into the Asia-Pacific Market by acquiring Agile Data Centers and PCCW’s data center portfolio. The primary stakeholder of Vantage Data Centers, DigitalBridge Investment Management, and other existing investors of Vantage DC have contri...

KT Corp. acquires Epsilon Telecommunications

Epsilon Telecommunications Limited

KT Corp of South Korea has acquired Epsilon Telecommunications for KRW 170 billion ($145 million). Epsilon Telecommunications has its headquarters in Singapore, and it offers peering, cloud on-ramp, networking, and routing services. It also operates three data centers across Singapore, the ...

Resident challenges Apple Galway data center planning extension in court

Hyperscale Data Center

Even after winning over 20 appeals, there seem to be more lawsuits against the planning permission for Apple’s data center in Athenry, Galway, Ireland. In August 2021, Apple secured five-year planning permission for the site from the Galway County Council even after ceasing plans for the pr...

Sberbank to build 82MW data center in Balakovo, Russia

Russia / Россия

Sberbank is planning to build a large data center facility in Saratov Oblast, Russia. Sberbank is a state-owned banking and financial services company that is based in Moscow. It has broken ground on the new facility in Balakovo. According to the Company, the facility will have a total space o...