Data Center News

Climate protestors gather outside Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin

Republic of Ireland

People Before Profit, is calling for an end to new data centers being buillt in Ireland, and picketed outside ​​Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin on 16 November in protest of the dangerous and continual expansion of data center building in Ireland.The protest held outside the annual data ce...

Verne Global to expand data center campus 10MW

Verne: IS-KEF-DC01

Verne Global, a provider of sustainable data center solutions, has announced that it is expanding its 40-acre data center campus by 10MW of capacity. This will be funded by $50m from Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9), the investment trust which recently acquired Verne. In an effort to “optimi...

KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners Acquire CyrusOne for $15 billion

CyrusOne

Investment firm KKR, alongside Global Infrastructure Partners, has completed the acquisition of CyrusOne for $15 billion. CyrusOne owns and operates up to 50 data centers worldwide. Co-founder and interim President and CEO of CyrusOne, Dave Ferdman, commented that CyrusOne had built one of ...

American Tower acquires CoreSite for $10.1 billion

American Tower Corporation

American Tower has completed the acquisition of CoreSite for $10.1 billion. According to American Tower, the acquisition of CoreSite will help transform its mobile computing business. Coresite operates up to 25 data centers in the United States. CEO of American Tower, Tom Bartlett, said Ame...

GDS to expand into Indonesia through acquisition of land in Batam for data center

GDS Services Ltd

Chinese data center developer and operator GDS has bought land in Batam, Indonesia, for the development of a new data center campus. GDS says it is looking to develop two data center buildings on the acquired land. The buildings will have a net floor area of up to 107,600 square feet (10,000 s...

Westland Bunker data center up for sale for $38 million

Westland Bunker

A bunker data center that used to be a nuclear shelter in Montgomery, Texas, has been put up for sale. The data center called the Westland Bunker is at 550 Club Drive, just outside Houston. The data center campus has four stories with 140,000 square feet of underground data center space and...

Former FBI data center in West Virginia available for sale/lease

FBI Clarksburg

A former data center occupied by the FBI in Clarksburg, West Virginia, has been put up for sale. The facility has been put up for sale for $1.5 million; however, real estate company RealCorp said the facility is available to lease. The building has 26,397 square feet of space, and it sits o...

CapitaLand acquires land in India for 90MW data center campus

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

Singaporean real estate firm CapitaLand has bought a 6.6-acre land in Navi Mumbai, India, for the development of a data center campus. Earlier in July, the firm first announced that its Ascendas India Trust (a-iTrust) plans to build a 90MW data center in the country. CapitaLand’s Q3 2021 ea...

Atos: €800 million in sustainability-linked bonds raised

Atos has announced that it has raised €800 million ($916m) in sustainability-linked bonds with an 8-year maturity and a 1.0% coupon. Moreover, if Atos achieves a reduction in 2025 of its annual Greenhouse Gas CO2 emissions (Scopes 1, 2 & 3) by 50% compared to 2019, the coupon of the last t...

Google to expand in Israel amid calls for the tech giant to 'boycott' Israel

Google

Google has announced that it will be expanding its data center footprint in Israel, building its fourth facility in the Sharon region near Moshav Beit Yehoshua. This development has come about following the tech giant winning the government's Nimbus cloud tender. Google already has leases for ...

Ant Group reduces data center emissions by 394 tons

Ant Group has announced that, through using green computing technologies, during this year's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, lasting 11 days, it reduced its data center electricity usage by 640 megawatt-hours and its carbon emissions by 394 tonnes. This news follows the company's pledge to bec...

Saudi Telecom Co. to Invest $400 Million in data center expansion

Saudi Telecom Company

Saudi Telecom (STC) is developing a set of data centers in Saudi Arabia. According to The Saudi Press Agency, STC will build data centers with up to 125MW of capacity across 1.9 million square feet (180,000 square meters) of land. The project will also cost the telco SAR1.5 billion ($400 milli...

Canberra Data Centres set to build new 150MW Melbourne facility

Canberra Data Centres (CDC)

Canberra Data Centres (CDC) is building a new 150MW facility in Melbourne, Victoria. According to the company, its operating and development capacity now extends beyond 700MW, and in the next two years, the company plans to have 13 operational data centers in its portfolio.Speaking about the c...

Google's Oregon plans given the green light despite water concerns

Google

On Monday, The Dalles council unanimously approved a $28.5 million deal for Google to build two new data centers in the area. This approval has gone ahead despite water concerns; due to the area currently being drought-stricken and the proposed facilities potentially guzzling millions of gallo...

CoreSite exploring sale

CoreSite

According to Reuters, CoreSite is looking at the possibility of a sale. The real estate trust is working with an investment bank to see its options. CoreSite currently operates over 25 data centers across North America. It also has a market of over $8 billion. According to reports, CoreSite ha...

Blackstone acquires Equinix-occupied data center in London for £196.5 million

Equinix London LD8 Harbour Exchange (Docklands)

Land Securities Group has announced the sale of an office and data center property located in the Canary Wharf side of London. The sale price of the property is £196.5 million ($262.82 million). Equinix is currently occupying the property as its LD8 IBX data center. Land Securities Group so...

COP26 and OpenUK's 'Patchwork Kilt' Edge data center blueprint

Glasgow

At the COP26 event in Glasgow, OpenUK shared its net-zero data center blueprint. The not-for-profit organisation's "Patchwork Kilt" framework aims to make new Edge data centers more sustainable and promote the curricular economy. The project proposes using derelict building stock and creating ...

Fujitsu-occupied data center in Belfast, Northern Ireland up for sale

Fujitsu

A Fujitsu-occupied data center in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been put up for sale. The facility is located at Trident House, 301 Airport Road West, in the Belfast Harbour Estate. The facility sits on a 6-acre site, and it consists of two buildings with up to 36,956 square feet of space. Th...

IFC invests in DigitalBridge’s Digital Infrastructures

DigitalBridge

The International Finance Corporation has invested $100 million into DigitalBridge’s digital infrastructure. From the investment, IFC has already committed $75 million towards three of DigitalBridge’s portfolio companies. These companies include Brazilian tower firm Highline do Brasil, Indones...

Unoccupied NortonLifeLock data center in Arizona up for sale

Arizona

NortonLifeLock Inc. is putting up an unoccupied data center in Tucson, Arizona, for sale. The facility sits upon 8.5 acres of land, and it is located at 3701 E. Columbia Street. It has 133,452 square feet of space with 40,793 square feet of raised floor within three data halls. In addition, th...