April 04, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has joined Host In Ireland’s Orchards in the Community initiative, alongside CyrusOne, and is now one of 52 pledgers – and more than 90 schools and community groups. The initiative plans to help plant over 1,200 orchards across Ireland to bolster the country’s declining bee population....
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April 04, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it plans to build a data center in Salalah, a city located on the south coast of the Sultanate of Oman, making it the second in Oman, with links to its MC1 in Muscat. SN1 will also be the company's fifth data center in the region, and will be built in partnership with...
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March 31, 2022 Seoul
Alibaba Cloud has announced the opening of a new data center in Seoul, South Korea. The company first revealed plans for a South Korean cloud region last year. It currently operates 82 Availability Zones and 26 regions across the globe. Alibaba’s head of Cloud Intelligence for Japan and Korea,...
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March 28, 2022 Mumbai
Indian Energy firm ZR Power Holdings has announced that it is investing more than Rs 1,700 crore ($223.2m) in a data center at Mahape in Navi Mumbai. The proposed facility would have a capacity of 50MW and span a 10-acre plot which the company is currently acquiring. Zain Ravadji, chairman, of ZR...
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March 22, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is expanding in India as it acquired a plot of land in Chennai. This is part of the company’s expansion and growth strategy. The company revealed that it took possession of the 5.5-acre land in the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd (SIPCOT) IT Park. According to...
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March 21, 2022 Miami
Publix has plans to develop a data center at a former FedEx building in Florida. According to reports, the Supermarket chain is looking to invest $40 million in the building located in Polk County, Florida. However, the details of the project aren’t concrete enough at this time, as Publix claims...
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March 21, 2022 Seoul
Pacific Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have formed a joint venture for the sole purpose of developing a hyperscale data center in Seoul, South Korea. The two companies announced that they would be investing KRW 200 billion (US$164.4 million) to develop the largest...
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March 18, 2022 Hong Kong
Carrianna Group has announced the launch of a new data center in the Kwai Chang industrial area, Hong Kong. The Hong Kong property firm, Jun Gao Holdings Company Limited and Dr. Quentin Tsang jointly invested in the data center. The property has a gross floor area of 2,100 square meters (23,000...
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March 18, 2022 Warsaw
Polish telecommunications company, Korbank has revealed that it won’t be completing the construction of its Wroclaw data center till later. The data center was scheduled to be completed this month, but the date has been shifted to June of this year. The delay is happening because Korbank wants to...
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March 18, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has acquired four data centers belonging to Entel in Peru and Chile for $705 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of the year. Per the deal, Equinix will take over one data center in Lima, Peru, and three facilities in Santiago, Chile. Under the terms of the...
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March 15, 2022 Dublin
Continuing to pursue the ban on new data center builds in Dublin, People Before Profit Councillor Madeleine Johansson recently put forward an amendment to do just that, a motion, which was voted through by 18 votes to 13 against, with one abstention. Despite the vote to curb further builds, there...
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March 01, 2022 Seoul
Singapore’s SC Capital Partners (SCCP) has announced the launch of a new data center firm. The real estate investment firm says it will be developing hyperscale facilities across Asia. Zeus Data Centers, backed by SCCP, launched its website and social media pages in the summer. Reports show that...
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February 24, 2022 Sydney
According to ITNews, Fortius has listed its data center at 549 Harris Street, Sydney, Australia, for sale through JLL and CBRE. The data center is currently being occupied by Optus. Optus’ lease on the data center will expire in 2024 with no further option for expansion. This is a 60,300 square...
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February 22, 2022 Northern Virginia
Recently, a committee of the Board of Supervisors argued that data centers should be prevented from being built on the Route 7 corridor in northeastern Loudoun County. Already the area is home to 25 million square feet of data centers, with data center development booming in recent years, a boom...
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February 09, 2022 Northern Virginia
The development of a large-scale data center in Prince William County, Virginia, is being proposed by developers. Developers submitted plans to have a site at 14854 Dumfries Road to the west of Dale City and the east of the Northern Virginia county be rezoned. They want to develop a 1 million...
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February 07, 2022 Equinix Munich MU4
Equinix has announced the opening of a new facility in Ascheim, outside Munich, Germany. The company unveiled the opening of the International Business Exchange (IBX) called MU4. Equinix invested $90 million in the development of MU4’s first phase. The facility offers over 24,200 square feet...
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February 03, 2022 Singapore
According to Cushman & Wakefield's 2022 Global Data Center Market Comparison report, Singapore now ties with the US's Silicon Valley in its league table of the top data center markets. This means that Singapore is now the top market for data centers in Asia-Pacific, beating Hong Kong (6th...
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February 03, 2022 Equinix
Equinix recently opened its Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) based near Washington, DC, which will be home to a number of trials focusing on the development of sustainable data center tech. At the facility, the company will partner with Bloom Energy, ZutaCore, Virtual Power Systems (VPS), and Natron...
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February 03, 2022 Northern Virginia
According to Biz Journal, Amazon Data Services Inc. has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. The buildings acquired are located at 46020. 46010, and 46000 Manekin Plaza. The Loudoun County deed records show that Amazon paid over $21 million for the properties. According to...
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February 02, 2022 New York
An unoccupied data center in Hauppauge, New York, has been acquired for $21 million. According to Newsday, Link Logistics, a subsidiary of Blackstone, bought the property. Link Logistics plans to tear down the building and redevelop it as a Class A distribution center. The data center sits on...
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