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Read Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus
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Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus

July 25, 2022 Madrid

According to Cinco Dias, Spanish data center developer Xdata is looking to offload a stake in its company to help fund its 100MW Madrid data center campus development. The company has reportedly contacted CBRE and Morgan Stanley to seek an investor. Stoneshield established XData Properties in...

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Read SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain
SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

July 18, 2022 Madrid

Web hosting service, SiteGround, has announced that it has opened a new data center in Madrid, Spain, the seventh SiteGround data center to open around the world and the fourth in Europe. In addition to the new facility, the company also announced the expansion of its content delivery network in...

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Read Zscaler announces launch of co-located data centers in Canberra and Auckland
Zscaler announces launch of co-located data centers in Canberra and Auckland

Zscaler announces launch of co-located data centers in Canberra and Auckland

July 11, 2022 Auckland

Zscaler has announced that it has launched a new co-located data center in Canberra and a second co-located data center in Auckland, in a bid to offer both public and private sector enterprises in Australia and New Zealand "greater resilience" in support of their "zero trust cybersecurity...

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Read Angelo Gordon To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Hong Kong
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Angelo Gordon To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Hong Kong

June 22, 2022 Hong Kong

Angelo Gordon, a New York-based equity group, has plans to develop a data center in Hong Kong. According to Mingtiandi, the company has submitted an application with the town planning board to build a 20MW data center. The data center will be located at No. 3 Kin Tai Street, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong....

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Read Material and labor shortages in the data center
Material and labor shortages in the data center

Material and labor shortages in the data center

June 14, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

As the need for data grows and grows, demand for data center construction is as strong as ever, however, the boom is being hampered by a number of factors, including supply and labor shortages, and price hikes. In a recent report named 'Data center market conditions update - Q1, 2022,'...

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Read Hulic's Plan For a Data Center in Tokyo Revealed
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Hulic's Plan For a Data Center in Tokyo Revealed

May 23, 2022 Tokyo

Japanese real estate company Hulic has plans to develop a data center in Tokyo, Japan. According to the Japanese press and Japan Property Central, the firm will be building the data center on the site of an existing office it owns. The office is located in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Hulic will demolish...

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Read Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany
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Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

May 17, 2022 Frankfurt

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European...

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Read Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain
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Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain

April 22, 2022 Madrid

Thor Equities has announced its plans to move into data centers. The US real estate group, is also looking to develop its first data center in Madrid, Spain. Thor Equities will be doing this by launching a new data center division called Thor Digital. The new unit will be headed by Roy Gibbens,...

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Read Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers
Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

April 08, 2022 Amsterdam

In Amsterdam, an argument around data center energy usage has been brewing for some time. Back in 2019, in response to the amounts of energy being used up by data centers, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer announced a moratorium on new projects. This was eventually lifted, but...

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Read Gaw Capital Partners Acquires Building For Data Center in Tokyo, Japan
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Gaw Capital Partners Acquires Building For Data Center in Tokyo, Japan

April 08, 2022 Tokyo

Gaw Capital Partners has announced the acquisition of a building in Tokyo, Japan. The real estate private equity firm also plans to transform the building into a data center. The Fuchu Building it acquired is next to Meito Sangyo Building in Fuchu Intelligent Park. Gaw will demolish the 59,000...

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Read Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million
Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million

Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million

April 07, 2022 Hong Kong

A Vantage-occupied facility in Hong Kong has been acquired by the Asia Pacific Cities Fund (APCF). The complex acquired is located at 43 Container Port Road. It is also a fully occupied data center with a 14MW capacity across 270,000 square feet of gross floor area. The deal was worth HK$2.88...

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Read Carrianna Group Sets Up Data Center in Hong Kong
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Carrianna Group Sets Up Data Center in Hong Kong

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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Read Optus-Occupied Facility Up For Sale in Sydney
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Optus-Occupied Facility Up For Sale in Sydney

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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Read €5 billion ($5.67bn), 360MW data center campus coming to Madrid, Spain
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€5 billion ($5.67bn), 360MW data center campus coming to Madrid, Spain

January 26, 2022 Madrid

Great news for Spain as plans for a 360MW data center campus in Madrid, Spain, is underway. The data center will be developed on a 700-hectare site, and investment is expected to reach up to €5 billion ($5.67bn). The Digital Valley project is to be a ‘reference model’ for sustainability in data...

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Read TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center
TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

January 06, 2022 Hong Kong

Taoping Inc (TOAP) has announced that it is expanding its Taoping G Cloud Hong Kong Data Center (the "Center") in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022. The facility, built in May 2021, will have an estimated total hash rate of 700GH/s, and its...

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Read Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney
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Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney

December 16, 2021 Sydney

Australian real estate company Trifalga is starting a data center unit with plans to have a largescale data center campus in Sydney. Trifalga and Trifalga DC’s first data center project will be an 800,000 square feet data center in Rouse Hill, Sydney. However, Trifalga did not reveal when the...

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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 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 Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam
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Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam

September 17, 2021 Amsterdam

Great Grey Investment has acquired the uncompleted Westpoort Data Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data center was bought from Caransa Group. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tikehu Capital provided financing to Great Grey Investments and Westpoort Datacenter through its...

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Read Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney
Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

June 09, 2021 Sydney

Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due to...

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