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Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia

Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia

December 10, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has announced that its PE3 data center in Perth, Australia, has launched, the third IBX facility in the city. According to reports, the first phase of the project provides a capacity of 700 cabinets spanning 1,830 sqm (38,600 sqtf), following an investment of US$54 million (A$71.7...

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Read Hickory DC is developing a 72MW data center in Melbourne
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Hickory DC is developing a 72MW data center in Melbourne

December 10, 2021 Melbourne

Australian real estate development company Hickory has begun construction on its first data center in Melbourne. The company first revealed plans for the data center in June. The facility will be located on a 3.5-hectare site in Truganina, West Melbourne. The data center was to have 269,000...

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Read Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics
Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

December 09, 2021 Northern Virginia

Plans to build data centers opposite the Manassas National Battlefield Park are being opposed. Critics are warning that the proposal, known as "PW Digital Gateway", is the "Single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in nearly three decades," compromising the environmental...

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Read Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition
Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

December 07, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operation in...

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Read Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies
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Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies

December 06, 2021 Stockholm

Vattenfall has formed a strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies in a joint sustainable data centre pilot project. Together, the companies will work to construct a facility at Vattenfall’s biomass-fired district heating plant in Jordbro, south of Stockholm. Speaking about the...

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Read ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong
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ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

November 25, 2021 Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which...

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Read Chayora to open new 54MW data center campus in Shanghai, China
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Chayora to open new 54MW data center campus in Shanghai, China

November 18, 2021 Shanghai

Chinese developer Chayora has revealed plans to build a data center campus in Shanghai, China. The data center campus will sit on an 8.5-acre site. In addition, the campus will have three five-story buildings with a capacity of up to 10,000 racks. Chayora also revealed that the campus would have...

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Read Blackstone acquires Equinix-occupied data center in London for £196.5 million
Blackstone acquires Equinix-occupied data center in London for £196.5 million

Blackstone acquires Equinix-occupied data center in London for £196.5 million

November 12, 2021 Equinix London LD8 Harbour Exchange (Docklands)

Land Securities Group has announced the sale of an office and data center property located in the Canary Wharf side of London. The sale price of the property is £196.5 million ($262.82 million). Equinix is currently occupying the property as its LD8 IBX data center. Land Securities Group sold the...

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Read Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center
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Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center

November 12, 2021 Northern Virginia

Prince William County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to pause the development of a Gainesville data center until late January. CTP-II LLC proposed the data center project in question. CTP-II LLC wanted 22.72 acres of land to be rezoned from business and light industrial to data center...

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Read Government of Galicia plans data center outside Santiago, Spain
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Government of Galicia plans data center outside Santiago, Spain

November 11, 2021 Spain

The Regional Government of Galicia has plans to build a new data center in the Galicia region of Spain. According to reports, the planned facility will double Galicia's digital capacity. The government first announced a data center called Gaiás Integral Data Processing Center in 2011. The...

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Read Energia Group plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Dublin, Ireland
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Energia Group plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Dublin, Ireland

November 04, 2021 Dublin

Huntstown Power Company, a subsidiary of Energia Group, plans to build two data centers next to its Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. Hunstown has filed for planning permission with Fingal County Council. It is looking to build two data center buildings on 13.3 hectares of land. Each building...

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Read Equinix Expands in Osaka, Japan with OS3 data center
Equinix Expands in Osaka, Japan with OS3 data center

Equinix Expands in Osaka, Japan with OS3 data center

October 29, 2021 Equinix Osaka OS3

Equinix has expanded in Japan by opening a new data center in Osaka called OS3. In Phase 1, the IBX facility will provide more than 33,000 square feet (3,070 square meters) of colocation space and 900 racks. OS3 will offer over 89,300 square feet (8,300 square meters) of colocation space and...

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Read Mapletree Industrial Trust divests SG3 to Equinix for $92m
Mapletree Industrial Trust divests SG3 to Equinix for $92m

Mapletree Industrial Trust divests SG3 to Equinix for $92m

October 29, 2021 Equinix Singapore SG3

Mapletree Industrial Trust has sold an Equinix-occupied data center at 26A Ayer Rajah Crescent in Singapore to Equinix. The sale price of the facility is S$125 million (US$92.7m). The SG3 facility has 384,802 square feet of space. It is also a built-to-suit seven-story data center facility...

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Read Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK
Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK

Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK

October 28, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has revealed its plans for a new data center in Manchester, UK. The MA5 facility is the company’s fifth IBX facility in Manchester. It is situated in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford. The first phase of the facility will provide up to 3,600 square meters of colocation space. It will...

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Read Equinix and PGIM Real Estate form a $575 Million Joint Venture to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in Australia
Equinix and PGIM Real Estate  form a $575 Million Joint Venture to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in Australia

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate form a $575 Million Joint Venture to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in Australia

October 19, 2021 Equinix

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have formed a new $575 million joint venture with an aim to develop hyperscale data centers in Sydney, Australia. PGIM is the real estate investment and financing division of Prudential Financial. The facilities the companies will be developing under this JV are SY9x...

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Read Landmark Dividend buys 1.2 million square feet of data center space in Northern Virginia
Landmark Dividend buys 1.2 million square feet of data center space in Northern Virginia

Landmark Dividend buys 1.2 million square feet of data center space in Northern Virginia

October 13, 2021 Northern Virginia

Landmark Dividend, which DigitalBridge acquired earlier in the year, has acquired what it refers to as a “portfolio of assets” in Northern Virginia. It acquired 1.2 million square feet of data center space within the Quantum Park in Northern Virginia. According to Landmark Dividend, the property...

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Read The Northern Virginia data center boom: Reactions from the local community are mixed
The Northern Virginia data center boom: Reactions from the local community are mixed

The Northern Virginia data center boom: Reactions from the local community are mixed

October 12, 2021 Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia is in the midst of a data center boom. This has partly developed due to a demand for new data centers resulting from the pandemic, which means that it currently has the highest density of data centers in the world. Loudoun County alone has over 100 data centers, with more than...

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Read Equinix opens a new hyperscale data center in São Paulo, Brazil
Equinix opens a new hyperscale data center in São Paulo, Brazil

Equinix opens a new hyperscale data center in São Paulo, Brazil

October 06, 2021 Equinix Sao Paulo SP5x

Equinix has announced the opening of its new hyperscale data center facility in São Paulo, Brazil, called SP5x. The new facility is located next to Equinix’s SP3 IBX data center in Santana de Parnaíba. The facility has 5MW of capacity in its first phase. It is also expected to have a total...

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Read Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt
Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt

Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt

October 01, 2021 Equinix Frankfurt FR8

Equinix has announced the opening of its new data center facility in Frankfurt, Germany. The facility is located to the west of Frankfurt, and it would be known as FR8. The facility's first phase has 51,600 square feet (4,800 square meters) of colocation space available. Equinix also revealed...

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Read Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan
Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

October 01, 2021 Milan

Italian data center company Irideos has begun work on a new data center at its Avalon campus in the city of Milan. The new facility named Avalon 3 will have space for 500 racks across 37,700 square feet (3,500 square meters). It will also have 3.2MW of capacity. Irideos is building the new data...

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