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Telkom Indonesia and Etisalat to develop $100m data center in Batam, Indonesia

According to Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for the Economy, Telkom Indonesia and Etisalat are joining forces to develop a new data center in northwest Indonesia. This announcement comes as the country undergoes a data center construction boom and is expected to reach a value of USD$ 3.07 b...

July 20, 2021

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GDS plans 54MW hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia

GDS has announced plans to build a 22,500 sqm (242,200 sq ft), 54MW hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. This move follows the firm acquiring land in the Nusajaya Tech Park, Johor. According to the company, it plans to complete the project's first phase in early 2024, with a capa...

July 20, 2021

DayOne: Nusajaya Tech Park

Rack Centre doubles its Lagos data center campus capacity

Rack Centre has doubled the capacity of its data center campus in Lagos through expansion. With the expansion, the facility now has 1.5MW of capacity. The expansion also sees Rack Centre add 6,500 square feet of white space to the facility. Rack Centre is also looking to expand the facility...

July 19, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Rack Centre Limited

Digital Realty and Brookfield team up to develop data centers in India

Digital Realty has announced that it has entered into a 50/50 joint venture agreement with Brookfield Infrastructure to develop data centers in India. The brand name of the joint venture is BAM Digital Realty.Although precise details around the project are yet to be released, reports indicate...

July 16, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Facebook's Eagle Mountain data center moves online

Facebook has announced that its data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah is now up and running. Although officially serving traffic, the site is still under construction, with a view to span to 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m). At the peak of construction, the site employed a total of 1,250 ...

July 16, 2021

Facebook Eagle Mountain Utah Campus

New data center for Macquarie Data Centres in Sydney

Macquarie Data Centres has announced plans for a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Based at the Macquarie Park campus, the facility, 3 Super West, if it goes ahead, will have a capacity of 32MW. The company expects the data center to be completed by 2023 The construct...

July 16, 2021

Macquarie Data Centres

Digital Realty is meeting green targets according to third annual ESG report

According to its latest ESG report, Digital Realty is meeting its sustainability targets in the push for carbon-neutrality. The company, as part of the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi), has committed to reducing its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 68% and Scope 3 emissions by 24% by 2030. It...

July 16, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

NTT reveals details of its 240 MW Phoenix data center campus

NTT has revealed plans for its new 240MW data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. It has also broken ground on the site. The facility is on a 102-acre site, and it is located on Elliot Road Technology Corridor, Mesa, Arizona. It will have a 240MW capacity and 1.5 million square feet of floor space...

July 15, 2021

Eric Advinci

NTT Phoenix Campus

IBM announces 21 sustainability goals

IBM is one of the latest data center companies to commit itself to net-zero GHG emissions by 2030. In its most recent Environmental Report, the company set out twenty-one environmental sustainability goals and also outlined its involvement with the European Green Digital Coalition.As a foundin...

July 15, 2021

IBM Cloud

DataBank expands Its DFW3 Dallas Fort Worth data center

DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services, just announced the expansion of its DFW3, Dallas Fort Worth Data Center. It is expanding to meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure in the Dallas Fort Worth market. Th...

July 14, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank Plano DFW3

Prime Data Centers announces new 9MW data center in Silicon Valley

Prime Data Centers has announced that it is building a new 9MW data center on Martin Avenue in Santa Clara, California. With this new data center, it is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley as this is its second facility in Silicon Valley. Prime says it is strategically building the dat...

July 14, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

GI Partners new ETS Fund to target data centers and life sciences

GI Partners has launched the GI Real Estate Essential Tech + Science Fund (ETS Fund), which will look to acquire data center properties and life sciences assets. The fund will also focus on always-on R&D facilities in the office and industrial sectors. Former president of Infomart, John...

July 14, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

GI Partners

Senegal pushes for digital sovereignty with new government data center

Senegal has announced that it is moving all government and data applications into a new government data center to achieve “digital sovereignty”. Named the Diamniadio National Datacenter and worth 46 billion CFA francs ($18.2 million), it was financed with a Chinese loan.The facility has a host...

July 14, 2021

Senegal

EngineNode data center gets green light despite environmental concerns

Another environmental controversy has arisen in Ireland, as Ireland’s planning board, An Bord Pleanála dismissed complaints by locals and environmental groups, granting EngineNode permission to build data center in Bracetown and Gunnocks, County Meath, Ireland. The building plan first submitte...

July 14, 2021

EngineNode

Telmex opens fifth data center in Mexico

Telmex, a Mexican telco, has opened a new data center in Cancún, Mexico. The Company first announced that it was opening this data center in August 2020. Besides, according to El Economista, Telmex chose Cancún to access the Equinix-operated NAP of the Americas IEX in Miami via submarine cable...

July 13, 2021

Eric Bell

Telmex Cancun

AWS Planning 3 new data centers in San Antonio

Planning documents recently revealed that Amazon is developing three data centers in Texas. The documents disclosed the project’s name as “Rockfish” and unveiled a plan to build a $56 million, 109,600 sqft (10,100 sq m) data center located on 11625 Old Corpus Christi Highway.This is not the on...

July 13, 2021

Amazon AWS

TikTok's Irish data center campus to be at Echelon Clondalkin

According to The Sunday Business Post, TikTok plans to lease space at the Echelon data center campus in Clondalkin for its new Irish data center. According to the different sources of the Sunday Business Post, TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, will use the Clondalkin campus as its m...

July 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Echelon Clondalkin

Microsoft wants to build five more data centers in San Antonio, Texas

According to recent documents filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Microsoft has applied to build five more data centers in San Antonio, Texas. The data centers will have a total space of 350,000 square feet. It will also cost over $200 million. The construction of ...

July 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

San Antonio

Data4 to invest up to €200 million ($237 million) in new Poland campus

French data center firm, Data4 is planning to invest up to €200 million ($237 million) in its new Poland campus. According to Les Echos, Data4 wants to expand in Poland, and it will be investing over €100 million ($118m) within three years. It will also be investing up to €200 million ($237...

July 12, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DATA4 Group

3SIIF fund has €1 billion($1.9 billion) to spend, including on digital infrastructure

The Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund (3SIIF), an investment fund backed by some state-owned banks, has over €1 billion ($1.9 billion) to spend in the Eastern Europe region, digital infrastructure inclusive. 3SIIF was established in 2019, and it focuses on investing in critical infrastr...

July 10, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Eastern Europe

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