Data Center News

Microsoft Submits Plans For a Six-Building Data Center Facility in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed plans to construct a new data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. This week, the Norfolk District of the US Army Corps of Engineers got a joint license application for Federal and State clearances from the corporation. According to the application – labeled LYH03 Bailey...

Liquid Intelligent Technologies Will Provide Zambia With a Brand-new Data Center

Africa

To accelerate the country's digital transformation, the Zambian government has partnered with Liquid Intelligent Technologies to establish a new data center. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating this was signed by both sides. This is a positive move since the data center will also handl...

Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership

Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership, which aims to encourage organizations to voluntarily utilize green power for the benefit of the planet and human health. Through signing up for the Green Power Partnership...

Scientists at NTU Singapore invent data center cooling spray

Singapore

When it comes to data center cooling, everyone's on the hunt for the latest innovative, efficient tech; and at Singapore's Nanyang Technical University (NTU), its research team is working on the latest solution. The group proposes cooling servers by spraying chips with fluid; dielectric fluid,...

"Shut it all down": Machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky sounds alarm on AI evolution

Microsoft Azure

As AI continues its rapid evolution, machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is sounding the alarm, arguing that AI should not only be paused, as recommended by the Future of Life Institute, but stopped entirely. Yudkowsky has been a vocal critic of AI for over two decades, and says that...

BDX breaks ground on CGK3A data center

BDx Data Centers

Big Data Exchange (BDx) Indonesia has announced that it has broken ground on its new 15MW CGK3A facility in South Jakarta, Indonesia. The facility will see an investment of $150 million, offering 14,127 sqm (152,000 sq ft) of space. Big Data Exchange (BDx) Indonesia's groundbre...

5.5 million sq ft data center park proposed in Stafford County, Virginia

Northern Virginia

In Stafford County, Stafford Technology LC, a company affiliated with US real estate firm Peterson, has outlined plans to develop a 5.5 million sq ft data center park. In order to accommodate the 25-building data center campus, the company is seeking to rezone 524 acres in the Falmouth Electio...

Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

Equinix

Astra has joined Equinix's plans to develop a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This week, Astra and the colocation company announced a new joint venture, with Equinix holding 75 % of the new endeavor. The initial proposal for this joint venture is to build and operate a JK1 International ...

Vodafone May Sell Its Spanish Commercial Unit For $4 Billion

Vodafone

Reportedly, Vodafone Group is contemplating proposals for its Spanish business, which could fetch as much as $4 billion. As first revealed by Bloomberg, potential purchasers, including Apollo Global Management, are showing interest in the operator's Spanish unit. According to sources familiar ...

Half of Iliad Group's Polish Network Business Sold For $415m

OpCore

For $415 million, French telecom Iliad has finalized the sale of a 50% share in its Polish wholesale business, Polski Swiatlowod Otwarty (PŚO). With this change, PŚO will be able to improve its fiber network nationwide and connect approximately six million homes. With the deal, PŚO will run th...

Astrocast Receives a $17.5 Million Loan From Yahsat's Thuraya

This week saw an investment in Astrocast by Thuraya, a division of Yahsat, a satellite company based in the United Arab Emirates. A $17.5 million convertible loan from Thuraya, a provider of satellite phones, antennae, and terminals, will go to Astrocast. IoT connection services are offered di...

Värde Provides $200 Million in Financing to GlobalStar

Satellite company GlobalStar has received a fresh note funding round. The company said last week that it had signed into a purchase contract with an affiliate of investment firm Varde Partners as well as others, allowing for the sale of $200 million in principal amount of 13 percent Senior Not...

Nigerian President Unveils Kano's Tier 4 Data Center

Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the 41-terabyte countrywide tier-4 Data Center in Kano on Monday. During the ceremony, Prof. Ali Isa Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, stated that the data center was the first of its kind in northern Nigeria and the finest in the co...

Norwegian Authorities Increases Its Oversight of Data Center

Norway

The Norwegian government is making preparations to strengthen national supervision over data centers through proposed rules in the country's electronic communications law. All Norwegian data center operators will be required to register and provide details of their activities under the propose...

Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying

Amazon AWS

House Bill 2816, which sought to impose greenhouse gas emissions standards to encourage data centers to cut their carbon emissions in Oregon, died in legislative committee this week. Amazon, which aggressively lobbied against the bill, has been cited as one of the major reasons for its defeat....

Green building regulations and data center sustainability in India

India / Bhārata

In India, an increased focus on green buildings, from a regulatory perspective, is pegged to give rise to more sustainable data centers being built in the country. Experts have outlined that the publishing of recommendations on by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in November o...

Headwaters rezone request in Catlett, Virginia could pave the way for between three to five data centers

Headwaters Site Development, a US real estate developer, has announced that it is seeking the development of a 66-acre industrially zoned property in Catlett, Virginia, for a new data center park. The ​​pre-application requests up to 1.4 million square feet (130,050 sqm) of data center develop...

Spark New Zealand announces new data center strategy

New Zealand

Spark New Zealand has outlined it will inject between $156 million to $189m into data center expansion, as part of a new three-year strategy. As part of this strategy, it will also work on new technologies, in order to open up new commercialisation opportunities across its core markets of mobi...

AWS inks another PPA in Spain with Grenergy Renovables SA

Amazon AWS

Amazon has signed another Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), this time with Grenergy Renovables SA, to procure solar energy in Spain. The 10-year deal will provide AWS with 469 MWp of solar energy. Grenergy Renovables is an independent power producer (IPP) involved in large-scale renewable energ...

Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

Northern Virginia

This spring and summer, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is mulling over a proposal enabling data facilities in Loudoun County to draw power more routinely from on-site disaster diesel generators. The proposal aims to alleviate pressure on the transmission system, which transpo...