Global Data Center News

August 12, 2021

Hines raises $650m for investing in properties including data centers

Hines Interests

US-based Real estate firm Hines has raised $650m for a new fund targeting properties including data centers within the United States. The firm is also targeting industrial, multifamily, and other property types. Fund manager Adriana de Alcantara was quoted to have said the firm wants to inv...

August 11, 2021

Beroe report: Green Data Center projects to grow 10%

World

Data center businesses are becoming increasingly environmentally conscious, realising that sustainability must be at the core of the industry going forward. As a result, green data center projects are on the rise. A recent study conducted by Beroe found that the global market for green data ce...

August 11, 2021

Aligned invests in green future with $1.25B for waterless data center

Aligned SLC-04

Aligned has announced plans to develop its $1.25 billion SLC-04, a waterless data center, based in Salt Lake City. Instead of cooling its data centers with water, SLC-04 will use the cold desert climate to eliminate heat. The company's Delta3 cooling technology will accompany this. Accordi...

August 11, 2021

GTR to build new data center in Tel Aviv

Global Technical Realty

Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it is launching a 10.5MW data center in Petah Tikva, Israel. The facility will be an underground site that will be built for hyperscale purposes. It will also have 4,800 sqm (51,666 square feet) of space spread across two floors. Each of the ...

August 11, 2021

Interxion to expand its data center footprint in Düsseldorf by leasing additional 12,000 sqm

Digital Realty: Düsseldorf

Interxion is leasing 12,000 sqm (129,000 square feet) in Düsseldorf to expand its data center capacity in the city. The Company has been occupying the property on In der Steele 27-43 in west Germany for 20 years, and it is leasing more space there to expand its data centers. The owner of t...

August 11, 2021

Norwegian updates sustainability strategy for data centers

Norway

The Norwegian government recently updated its sustainability strategy for all data centers in the country in its "Norwegian data centers - sustainable, digital power centers" report. This strategy, it hopes, will project Norway as the world's most sustainable data center nation.Launched by Lin...

August 10, 2021

AUBix LLC to build 40,000 sq ft data center in Auburn, Alabama

AUBix Auburn

AUBix LLC, a new Company, has broken ground on its new data center in Auburn, Alabama. The firm says it will build a $120 million, 40,000 square foot facility on Samford Avenue, close to Auburn University’s campus. The first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed in Q1 of 2022.The f...

August 10, 2021

Unnamed firm signs 2.4MW lease for Iron Mountain Boyers data center

Iron Mountain The Underground

An unnamed hyperscale enterprise software provider has entered into a 2.4MW data center lease agreement with Iron Mountain. The unknown firm will deploy at Iron Mountain’s WPA-1 data center facility in Boyers, Pennsylvania. Besides, the firm also has existing deployments at other Iron Mount...

August 06, 2021

eBay invests in green power for its data centers

eBay

Another tech company switching to green power is eBay, which has just announced that it has signed a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement with Lightsource BP. This agreement will enable the tech giant to power its data centers with renewable energy from a solar farm in Louisiana, helping it to rea...

August 06, 2021

The future of data center back-up energy

Microsoft Azure

With more and more data center companies committing to climate change initiatives, the industry is also looking at how it can make backup energy more sustainable too. For decades, diesel has served as the primary fuel for traditional backup generators - however, diesel fuels, whilst getting cl...

August 06, 2021

Tackling data centers' cooling issues

Microsoft Azure

According to the principles of Moore’s law, technology will double in its capacity every two years. Although on the technological advancement front this is great news, with increased computer power comes challenges. The main challenge being increased excess heat and the need to cool it. A numb...

August 06, 2021

Flexential enters sale-leaseback deal for Plano data center

Flexential

Flexential has made a leaseback agreement with Legacy Investing and Invesco Real Estate for its data center facility in Plano. The deal will see Flexential add 130,000 square feet to its existing space, which means it will be doubling its capacity with the expansion. None of the companies d...

August 06, 2021

Lumen divests CenturyLink ILEC assets

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has announced that it is selling its current local exchange carrier (ILEC) business in 20 states for $7.5 billion. The firm will be selling the business to Apollo Funds. Lumen Technologies currently operates the ILEC business under the CenturyLink name, and the business incl...

August 05, 2021

Green Mountain doubles the capacity of its DC3-Oslo facility

Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

Green Mountain has announced that it has expanded its DC3-Oslo facility in Norway. Green Mountain just acquired the 4MW facility, and it has doubled its capacity by adding another 4MW capacity to the site. Aside from that, it also added a new backup generator set to the facility. The CEO of...

August 05, 2021

Piemonte Holdings to invest 600m reais ($116m) in data centers

Elea Data Centers

Piemonte Holdings, a Brazil-based firm, plans to invest 600m reais ($116m) in data centers throughout the rest of the year. The Rio de Janeiro-based firm says it will be expanding its existing data centers and buying new sites in Brazil in H2 of 2021. CEO of the firm, Alessandro Lombardi, says...

August 05, 2021

DATEV acquires q.beyond's Nuremberg data center

DATEV: Am Tower 5

DATEV has acquired q.beyond’s Nuremberg data center. Earlier in June, q.beyond (formerly QSC) initially announced its intention to sell its colocation business in June 2021. It operates three data centers in Nuremberg and Munich through its wholly-owned subsidiary, IP Exchange GmbH. The Nuremb...

August 05, 2021

Mantra Data Centers plans significant expansion in India

Mantra Cata Centers

Mantra Data Centers has announced that it plans to make a significant investment in India, with proposals to inject $1 billion into its expansion project that will see data centers in NCR (Delhi), Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai, where it will build two. It has not yet been c...

August 05, 2021

CyrusOne buys land for 21MW data center in Madrid, Spain

CyrusOne Madrid I

CyrusOne, a data center REIT, acquired five acres of land in Madrid, Spain, to build a new data center. The Company’s recent earnings report showed that it acquired this land in Alcobendas, Madrid. CyrusOne also revealed earlier in the week that it acquired the land to build a new data cent...

August 04, 2021

KPN agrees €1 billion ($1.176bn) sustainability-linked credit facility

Netherlands

Dutch telco KPN has agreed to a €1 billion ($1.176bn) sustainability-linked loan. The loan is linked with some sustainability performance in the next few years. The credit facility will be linked to three sustainability objectives. The first one is reducing its energy consumption, the secon...

August 04, 2021

I Squared Capital to acquire Mexico's biggest data center firm, KIO Networks

KIO Data Centers

I Squared Capital is to acquire KIO Networks through its ISQ Growth Markets Infrastructure Fund and ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III. None of these companies disclosed the terms of the deal. KIO Networks is the biggest data center firm in Mexico. It operates 11 core data center campuses a...

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