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Greenidge gas powered cryptomining data center denied air permit renewal

It has been announced that New York's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has denied an air permit renewal by Greenidge Generation, which could see its gas-powered Bitcoin mining data center close. This follows the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling on West Virginia ...

July 05, 2022

New York

A $1.5 Billion Data Center in Niagara Falls is Being Planned

Urbacon and Niagara Falls Redevelopment (NFR) have announced plans for a $1.5 billion data center park on land in Niagara Falls, New York City. Urbacon is an Ontario-based construction company with an excellent track record of developing massive data center campuses in Richmond Hill, Montre...

June 29, 2022

New York

Angelo Gordon To Develop a 20MW Data Center in 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 ...

June 22, 2022

Hong Kong

Evolution Data Centres (EvoDC) launches new Sustainable Data Centre Charter

Evolution Data Centres has announced the launch of its new Sustainable Data Centre Charter, through which it measures its entire operations, with the aim of minimizing carbon intensity and limiting water usage as the company grows. The charter includes the target of emitting 20 tonnes of carbo...

June 20, 2022

Singapore

Material and labor shortages in the data center

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,' constru...

June 14, 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

Bill passed to ban cryptomining data centers that use fossil fuel power plants

The New York Legislature has passed a landmark bill to ban cryptocurrency data centers that use fossil fuels to power their operations, in an effort to reduce statewide emissions by 85% by 2050. Specifically, the bill will impose a two-year moratorium on these activities, however, Governor Kat...

June 13, 2022

New York

RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development

MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX), a crypto exchange regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has announced it is teaming up with AI firm Red Dot Analytics, for carbon measurement and to offset tropical data centers.Singapore implemented a three-year moratorium on new data center ...

May 23, 2022

Singapore

Hulic's Plan For a Data Center in Tokyo Revealed

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 demolis...

May 23, 2022

Tokyo

Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

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 conti...

May 17, 2022

Frankfurt

INAP Sells Its Network Business To Unitas Global

Unitas Global has bought INAP’s network business. By so doing, INAP will now become Unitas Global’s customer. Per the agreement, Unitas will take over INAP’s routing software called Managed Internet Route Optimizer (MIRO). MIRO will be integrated into Unitas’ global network Unitas Reach. Th...

May 10, 2022

HorizonIQ

'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's ...

April 12, 2022

London

SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota

Although back in 2019, Singapore introduced a data center moratorium following concerns around energy supplies, in 2022, this moratorium was lifted - with conditions. Part of these conditions was that the country would be more selective over future data center projects. Further details around...

April 11, 2022

Singapore

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

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...

April 08, 2022

Amsterdam

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

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,...

April 08, 2022

Tokyo

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

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....

April 07, 2022

Hong Kong

Carrianna Group Sets Up Data Center in 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 (23,00...

March 18, 2022

Hong Kong

Optus-Occupied Facility Up For Sale in 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 sq...

February 24, 2022

Sydney

Singapore and Silicon Valley tie second place in data center rankings

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 ...

February 03, 2022

Singapore

Unoccupied Data Center in Hauppauge, NY, sells for $21m

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 ...

February 02, 2022

New York

Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

This week, Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister made an announcement that the country's moratorium on new data center builds, which was introduced back in 2019. Minister Gan Kim Yong said that going forward, a "more selective" approach to new builds will be taken.In a written reply to a par...

January 17, 2022

Singapore

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