Data Center News

Cyxtera decids not to lease data center owned by Stack in Elk Grove, Illinois

Cyxtera Technologies

Due to ongoing losses and impending debt maturities, struggling Cyxtera issued a Chapter 11 bankruptcy claim last month. The company is seeking a buyer or potential investor. As part of the procedure, the company turned down the lease at the Stack-owned facility on Touhy Avenue in the Elk Grov...

NTT devotes $50 million toward the Garland campus' tenant fit-out.

NTT

NTT will spend $50 million to construct two of its data centers for a new tenant in the Garland area of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The company submitted applications to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for two fit-out projects at its existing campus under construction structure...

American Tower submits plans to construct Edge data center in San Antonio, Texas

American Tower Corporation

American Tower has submitted proposals for a new San Antonio, Texas, Edge data center. The tower company applied to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation last month to establish the 'American Tower Data Center - Highway 90'.The company intends to invest $15 million in constructing ...

Hyperscale data center from Equinix opens in Japan's capital

Equinix

This week, the company revealed the opening of TY13x. Situated in the Inzai region and opposite TY12x, TY13x provides 8MW in the first phase and 36MW when fully constructed. In October 2019, Equinix partnered with Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund to develop hyperscale centers under the xS...

Servpac's Hawaii data center to be expanded

Servpac

Servpac Inc. is expanding its Hawaii data center in Mililani Technology Park (MTP). Servpac announced on June 27 that it had begun work at the MTP data center with the goal of doubling the facility's colocation capacity.The construction work is expected to be finished by October this year and...

Digicel founder relinquishes majority stake in debt restructuring

Digicel, a pan-Caribbean telecommunications company, has settled with its bondholders to cancel nearly $1.7 billion in debt as a trade for a majority stake in the company. A restructuring agreement has been reached in which bondholders will convert their investment into an initial 62 percent s...

AirTrunk officially starts the TOK1 facility expansion in Tokyo, Japan

AirTrunk Tokyo TOK1

AirTrunk has begun work on an expansion of its Tokyo, Japan, TOK1 campus. Senior AirTrunker personnel and construction partners attended a traditional "jichinsai" Shinto launching ceremony to spiritually sanctify the land in preparation for safe and efficient construction. No timelines for com...

The colocation and hosting business of Ntirety acquired by Data Canopy

DataCanopy

The just-bought colocation company Data Canopy took over the colocation data center hosting division of IT security provider Ntirety. The deal's terms were not disclosed. Data Canopy, founded in 2007, provides colocation, connectivity, and cloud services from numerous data centers worldwide. I...

Edge data center launched by SBA Communications at Arlington tower site

SBA Edge

SBA Communications, a tower company, has launched a new Edge data center in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas. The precise location and configuration of the data center were not disclosed. SBA CEO Jeff Stoops has previously stated that the majority of the company's Edge rollout will consi...

Telia maintains Finnish data center with Caverion.

Caverion remains Telia's associate in Finland for data center maintenance. Telia Finland and Caverion continue their data center maintenance cooperation. Caverion is tasked with maintaining the Telia Helsinki Data Center and other large and medium-sized data facilities in Finland for the exten...

Groton votes unanimously to approve region's first data center regulations, blocking large scale data center projects

Connecticut

At a planning meeting this week in Groton, Groton's Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved regulations to limit the size of data centers after a year-long moratorium. Under the ruling, while local enterprises will be permitted to build their own on-premises facilities, hyperscale ...

Circularity controversy: Bitcoin operations heats bathhouse in Brooklyn

New York

In New York City, Brooklyn, a bathhouse and spa named Bathhouse has shared that it is now heating its pools with mining, with the water from the pool, then going on to cool the hardware. The bathhouse and spa also Bitcoin payments. The company shared the news in an Instagram post: "Enjoy a hot...

Ascenty announces launch date for its first Colombian data center

Ascenty

Ascenty has announced that it will launch its first Columbia data center in the fourth quarter of 2024, adding to its 34 data centers across Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Columbia that are either operational, in development or under construction. The company is reportedly designing two twin data ...

Ampere to facilitate the development of more climate-friendly data centers?

Oracle

Ampere, a chip startup, has launched new family of data center chips, which are pegged to make data centers more energy efficient and climate-friendly. Headquartered in the Bay Area, the company's solution is based on designs from Arm Holdings, the same technology used in mobile phones. This ...

Asia-Pacific Data Center Market to beDriven by Rapid AI Development

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

The widespread use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential growth for the data center industry, according to JLL's new Global Data Centre Outlook. Hyperscalers and edge data centers, which account for 79% of total demand, are the fastest-developing segments o...

Asia-Pacific Data Center Market to beDriven by Rapid AI Development

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

The widespread use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential growth for the data center industry, according to JLL's new Global Data Centre Outlook. Hyperscalers and edge data centers, which account for 79% of total demand, are the fastest-developing segments o...

Digital Realty buys 9 acres in Amsterdam for a 20MW data center

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has bought additional land for data centers in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This week, the company disclosed the acquisition of a 387,500-square-foot (8.9-acre) land parcel on its Amsterdam Schiphol campus. According to reports, the acquired land parcel can sustain a 40MW data cente...

Microsoft acquires 200 acres in New Albany for development of a data center

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has purchased a property in New Albany, Ohio, to probably construct a data center. Microsoft has reportedly acquired nearly 200 acres near Beech Road for a data center, as reported by the Newark Advocate. The Licking County Auditor's Office verified Microsoft paid $56.9 million to MB...

Shonfeld negotiating data center stake sale at $3.6b co value

According to "Globes," Yossi Shonfeld's company Shonfeld Engineering has enlisted Jefferies Group investment bank to manage discussions for selling 20–30% of data center firm Shonfeld Data Services (SDS) at a $3.6 billion company valuation. Shonfeld follows in the wake of the Azrieli Group and...

CBRE predicts that investment in data centers will increase in 2023

According to CBRE's 2023 Investment Sentiment Survey, we can anticipate that 89% of investors in the data center sector will increase their investment levels this year, following a relatively slow 2022. 85% of those who answered the survey have set aside more than $100 million, and 32% have ov...