Data Center News

York County's $1bn data center proposal

South Carolina

South Carolina is planning a $1 billion data center development. This week, the York County Council will discuss and vote on tax incentives for a data center proposal in the county. York County is located in northeast South Carolina, toward the east of Greenville and Spartanburg, and adjacent ...

Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

Rackspace

A data center occupied by Rackspace is for sale in Kansas City, Missouri. Collers are offering 10828 NW Airworld Drive as a "long-term NNN lease investment opportunity." No sale price was disclosed. The two-story, 77,545-square-foot building was built 1982 on 5.2 acres and came with a single-t...

Verne Global receives $100m loan

Verne: IS-KEF-DC01

Verne Global, an Icelandic data center company, received a $100 million loan. This week, the board of directors of Digital 9 Infrastructure announced that the business had inked a new $100 million green term loan debt financing for Verne Global Iceland, along with a $50 million accordion provi...

Ufinet launches new data center in Panama City, Panama

Central America

Ufinet has announced that it has launched its new data center in Panama City, Panama. Certified by Uptime and Rated 3 ANSI/TIA-942-B, the facility is Tier III, although further details have not yet been released.“Ufinet in its 25 years celebrates a new achievement in the Panama branch, the ina...

AWS establishes Direct Connect location at NEC Inzai data center

AWS has announced it has announced a new AWS Direct Connect location within the NEC Inzai data center in Inzai, Japan. AWS said that this means that customers can now gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (bar China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.The Inzai locatio...

Tayra facility in Colombia to become supercomputer

Colombia

In Colombia, an underused data center at Colombia's center for bioinformatics and computational biology (BIOS) in Valle del Cauca, is to be transformed into a supercomputer. According to the government, it will invest 1.5bn pesos ($330,000) to facilitate this.The Tayra facility is currently us...

AWS' data center chief Chris Vonderhaar makes abrupt departure

Amazon AWS

Chris Vonderhaar, head of data center design, planning, construction, and operation, has made an abrupt departure from AWS. This announcement comes as AWS continues to invest in its data center footprint, pegged to invest $35 billion alone on new data centers in Virginia by 2040.AWS has also a...

Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Renantis for wind energy in Finland from its two Renantis' onshore wind farms when they're complete. The Mustalamminmäki and Koiramäki wind farms in Karstula, Central Finland, will have a combined cap...

nLighten takes over Euclyde Data Centers

The European data center company nLighten has acquired the French data center provider Euclyde Data Centers. The newly established corporation has acquired Euclyde and assumed control of six facilities in Sophia Antipolis, Lyon, Strasbourg, Besançon, and Paris. This agreement signifies nLighte...

Legrand Introduces the First Harmonic Distortion Measuring Power Distribution Units for Data Centers

Legrand, an international leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures, has introduced the latest version of smart rack Power Distribution Units (PDUs). The Server Technology PRO4X and Raritan PX4 rack PDUs are poised to revolutionize power management in data centers with superior...

The Segra Facility in Charlotte, North Carolina up for Sale or Lease.

North Carolina

A Charlotte, North Carolina, data center is available for purchase or lease. Currently, fiber provider Segra operates the data center, but the company will soon withdraw as its contract nears completion. Five 9s Digital is advertising the property for sale or lease. No sale or lease price was ...

DigitalBridge and Brookfield Want to Purchase Compass Datacenters

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and DigitalBridge are both interested in purchasing Compass Datacenters. A transaction could value the company over $5.5 billion, including debt. The auction for privately held Compass is being led by Brookfield and DigitalBridge, with a decision expected wit...

Armenia to be the site of Rostelecom's 200-rack data center

Rostelecom

Rostelecom is proposing to build a new data center in Armenia. According to Tass, the Armenian subsidiary of Rostelecom, GNC-Alfa, intends to launch a 200-rack facility in Armenia at the beginning of 2024. Location and power capacity were not divulged. Last year, it was reported that Rosteleco...

Bidding in Illinois for an unoccupied HSBC/CapitalOne facility

Illinois

Illinois's former HSBC data center will be auctioned off later this month. On June 6-8, Cushman & Wakefield will auction off a data center in Volo via LoopNet. According to the listing, the Volo Data Center is a 160,000-square-foot data facility on a 42-acre lot at 300 S Fish Lake Road. Vo...

Orion Data Centers Purchased by Edge Centre's Cybercon

Edge Centres

Cybercon, which Australian data center operator Edge Centres currently owns, has acquired Missouri data center company, Orion Data Centers. Last week, the business disclosed that it had successfully acquired Orion, expanding its regional coverage to include a facility in Columbia. The agreemen...

Airtel Intends for Nxtra to Establish Five Data Centers in Africa

Nxtra Data Ltd

Bharti Airtel plans to construct five data centers in Africa under the Nxtra brand. Nxtra Data Centers is one of the largest operators of data centers in India but has yet to expand internationally. Last year, Carlyle acquired a 24 percent stake in Nxtra for $325 million, creating a joint vent...

Airtel plans to take data center arm Nxtra to Africa

Bharti Airtel

Airtel has announced that it will be taking Nxtra, its data center arm, to Africa. Vani Venkatesh, Chief Executive Officer at Airtel Global Business, explained that the company already has 40 edge data centers in Africa, used for internal uses, as well as two submarine cables to Africa, 2Afri...

Batelco announces Bahrain data center now 100% solar powered

Bahrain

Batelco, Beyon Group's telecoms unit, has announced that one of its facilities is now Bahrain's first 100 percent green-energy-powered data center.This news follows the completion of Phase 2 of the Solar Park at the Beyon Data Oasis at Hamala. The facility in Bahrain is now entirely powered by...

Pittsburgh Data Center up for Sale or Lease

Pittsburgh

A data center for sale or lease is available in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colliers and Five 9s Digital are offering the McKees Rock facility located at 615 McMichael Road. The site is listed for lease in Colliers' materials, but Five 9s claims it can be purchased or leased. The circa 1980-cons...

Missouri Globe Building Data Center Property For Lease

Missouri

Data center space is available for lease at the Globe Building carrier hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The fourth floor of the structure at 710 North Tucker Blvd. has 28,700 square feet of floor space available, of which 16,000 square feet is built-out data center space, according to a listing b...