October 11, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has revealed its plans to develop a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the company's first facility in the Asian country. Equinix noted that it would be investing $74m in developing the new IBX facility. The data center will be located in the Central Business District of...
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October 06, 2022 Northern Virginia
According to BizJournal, Real estate investment company BlackChamber Group has plans to develop a 157,900 square meter (1.7 million square feet) data center campus in Arcola, Loudoun County, Virginia. The company is looking to build four data center buildings on its land on Belmont Ridge Road,...
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October 03, 2022 Northern Virginia
Dominion Energy has announced that some new data centers in Loudoun County, home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, will be reconnected, following concerns that transmission infrastructure restraints would halt new additions. Back in July, the energy utility had said that new...
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September 30, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is the latest company in the industry to trial hydrogen fuel cells as a power source for data centers. The company will be working in partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and...
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September 16, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced the expansion of one of its data centers in Zurich, Switzerland. Its ZH4 IBX facility, located at Josefstrasse 225, will see the addition of 850 square meters (9,150 sq ft) of whitespace and more than 200 cabinets. The facility first opened in 2010, and since then, it has...
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September 12, 2022 Northern Virginia
Prince William County planners have recommended the approval of the PW Digital Gateway project, it has been announced. Subsequently, the controversial project is likely to go ahead. If approved, the project would see the rezoning of over 2,000 acres of land for up to 27.6 million square feet of...
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September 05, 2022 Equinix
According to Bloomberg, Equinix and DigitalBridge are the final two companies looking to buy Time Dotcom’s data center business. The companies are looking to sign an agreement to take over the business called Aims Data Centre within the next few weeks. Per sources, Time Dotcom might also retain a...
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August 19, 2022 Northern Virginia
Dominion, the primary power provider in Loudoun county, has announced that although Loudoun County's data center industry outpaces its capacity to deliver electricity, there is a way forward. In a conversation with Biz Journals, Bob Blue, Dominion's president and CEO, said that the company had...
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August 04, 2022 Northern Virginia
The ever-expanding data center hub in Prince William County is to see another addition, after Prince William County Officials voted 6-1 to grant a rezoning request for a planned four million sqft data center campus in Bristow. The data center developer is Stanley Martin, which, according to...
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August 01, 2022 Northern Virginia
Dominion Energy, a Northern American utility company, has warned that it may be unable to serve new data center projects in Ashburn, Northern Virginia. According to reports, this could mean that projects, which have seen tens of millions of dollars worth of investment, are stalled and potentially...
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July 29, 2022 Northern Virginia
Prince William County officials have begun to delve into the PW Digital Gateway data center proposal in its first public review. Since it was first proposed, the project has been controversial. Proponents argue that the project will bring significant financial gains for the area, while opponents...
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July 28, 2022 Northern Virginia
American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that it has launched a new data center division named PowerHouse Data Centers, with Luke Kipfer as Vice President of Data Center Development and Construction and Jarrett Appleby as Data Center Strategy Consultant and Senior Advisor. According to...
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July 26, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed a second PPA with Neoen in Finland in a 10-year deal. The deal will see Neoen (which owns an 80% stake in the project) and project developer Prokon (owning 20%) provide at least 42MW of wind capacity from the 53MW Lumivaara wind park which is currently...
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July 25, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is being faced with a lawsuit from Cloud Conductor LLC, a multi-cloud management firm, over accusations that the colocation giant stole its technology that was placed in one of its data centers. According to the filing, Equinix began offering a cloud connectivity service identical to a...
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July 22, 2022 Northern Virginia
Prince William County, North Virginia, is often in the spotlight when it comes to locals' gripes and complaints regarding noise and environmental pollution. With the number of facilities in the area growing year on year, a recent report in June estimated that by 2035, the County could run out of...
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July 22, 2022 Northern Virginia
Loudoun County, which currently has more data centers than anywhere else in the world, is reportedly updating its guidelines around the development of future data centers in response to the incredible industry growth at work in the area and opposition from locals over noise pollution and data...
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July 06, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporation...
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June 17, 2022 Northern Virginia
Virginia's Warren County officials have announced that they are considering a proposal to amend zoning laws which could lead to a new wave of data center development in the County, in the northwest of the state and west of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties. As per the proposal, an amendment would be...
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June 17, 2022 Northern Virginia
It has been confirmed that Compass Data Centers is one of the companies that is involved in the Prince William Digital Gateway Project in Virginia, a plan that is steeped in controversy and would see over 2,000 acres of land in the County used for data center construction. If the plan is given...
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June 16, 2022 Equinix
Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have announced the opening of SY9x, the first xScale data center in Sydney, following the closing of the two parties' US$575 million joint venture. Located in Rosehill, and adjacent to the Western Sydney CBD of Parramatta, this facility, will be accompanied by a...
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