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Million square foot data center given the go-ahead in Haymarket, North Virginia

A one million square foot data center has been given the go-ahead just outside the town of Haymarket, following the Prince William Board of County Supervisors approving a rezoning and special use permit. Locals, however, have voiced their concerns that minority communities may be negatively i...

June 17, 2021

Northern Virginia

LOGOS and Pure Data Centers to build a 20MW data center in Indonesia

LOGOS and Pure Data Centers are partnering to build a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The data center will have 215,000 square feet of space with a 20MW capacity. LOGOS said the facility is already under construction and that it would be ready in the first quarter of 2022. LOGOS is ...

June 17, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pure Data Centres Group

Global Technical Realty and KKR to build a data center campus in Slough, UK

Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it would be building a data center campus in Slough, UK. The campus will have three interconnected data centers, with each having more than 57,900 square feet of floor space and 13.5MW of capacity. SEGRO, a UK real estate investment and develop...

June 17, 2021

Eric Bell

GTR: Slough

DataBank completes the expansion of its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh

DataBank has expanded its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by adding 25,000 square feet of raised floor space to the facility. The company also added an extra 2.5MW capacity to the facility to bring its total floor space and capacity to 40,000 square feet and 4.5MW respectively. T...

June 17, 2021

Eric Bell

DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers

The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...

June 17, 2021

Eric Bell

Amazon AWS

50% of Digital Realty's global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy

Digital Realty has announced in its third ESG report that half of its global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy. It did this by increasing the portfolio of its data centers being powered by renewable energy by 20% in 2020. Impressively, it also increased its energy consump...

June 17, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

Tokyo Century partners with NTT for data center business in India

NTT and Tokyo Century are coming together to form a data center partnership in India. Tokyo Century is a finance company that specializes in equipment leasing, mobility and fleet management, and specialty financing centered on aviation and real estate. NTT, on the other hand, specializes in d...

June 17, 2021

Eric Bell

NTT

Digital Edge now the single largest shareholder in Indonet through $165 million investment

Digital Edge has acquired the major stake in Indonesian telco PT Indointernet for $165 million. The acquisition of the major stake was backed by the Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners private firm. This move is Digital Edge’s first in Indonesia. After completing the deal, the CEO of Digital Edg...

June 16, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Edge DC

OVHcloud to go public by end of 2021

OVHcloud has officially confirmed that it would be going public on the Euronext stock exchange. Although OVHcloud hasn’t confirmed the date, but it will happen before the year runs out. Also, it did not say how much it expects to raise through the IPO, but it said the founder’s family, Octave...

June 16, 2021

Eric Bell

OVH Group

STT GDC announces new data center in Noida, India

STT Global Data Centers India (STT GDC) has announced that the construction of its new data center in Noida, India is underway. The Company plans to invest 1100 crore ($150 million) in building the facility. The data center will be on a five-acre site, and it will have a 35MW capacity upon fu...

June 16, 2021

Eric Bell

STT Noida 1

Cyxtera breaks the lease of its Moses Lake data center in Washington

Cyxtera has decided to break the lease of the data center it is occupying in Moses Lake, Washington. Cyxtera communicated this decision to the landlord of the site in February 2021. However, Cyxtera will have to pay between $57 - $62 million as a charge for breaking the lease.The data center ...

June 16, 2021

Eric Bell

Deutsche Telekom opens twin data centers in the Netherlands

German telecom firm, Deutsche Telecom just announced that it is opening two new data centers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Company confirmed that the data centers have a combined floor space of 226,000 square feet. It also said that the two facilities would serve its Open Telekom Cloud of...

June 16, 2021

Eric Bell

T-Systems International GmbH

Lincoln Rackhouse sells T-Mobile Everglades data center for $25 million

According to reports from BizJournal, Lincoln Rackhouse has completed the sale of T-Mobile’s Everglades MSO data center in Miami, Florida, for $26 million. USPP Sunrise DC LLC, managed by Principal Real Estate Investors is reportedly the buyer of the facility. The 45,571 square feet facility w...

June 16, 2021

Eric Bell

T-Mobile Everglades MSO

Singapore government and Facebook back $S17m project for sustainable tropical data centers

It has been announced that social media giant Facebook and the Singapore government are joining forces to fund a $17 million (S$23m) project to address the need to boost the number of sustainable data centers built in tropical climates. The programme is also being funded by Singapore's Nationa...

June 16, 2021

Singapore

LG Uplus building a $268 million data center in Anyang City, South Korea

LG Uplus, a South Korean telco, is building a new hyperscale data center. The new facility, named Pyeongchon 2 Center, would be located in Anyang City in Gyeonggi Province, south of Seoul. The specific location has not been released. The building will have 12 stories with a floor area of 435,4...

June 15, 2021

Eric Bell

LG Uplus Pyeongchon 2

Dutch province of Flevoland gives temporary data center moratorium the go-ahead

Flevoland, a province in the Netherlands, has joined the likes of Amsterdam, Haarlemmermeer and Singapore with the announcement of a moratorium on the building of new data centers for an undisclosed period of time. The temporary suspension was given the go-ahead after a vote of 30-9. The durat...

June 15, 2021

Netherlands

UK Brent Council plans to upgrade data center with £3.8 million ($5.3 million)

Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...

June 15, 2021

Eric Bell

London

Microsoft launches new Azure region in Arizona

Microsoft just launched its new Azure cloud region in Arizona. The region would be made up of three facilities or Availability Zones. Also, the zones will be sited in Goodyear, El Mirage, and outside Phoenix. Microsoft said the reason for choosing Arizona for the Azure cloud data center is bec...

June 15, 2021

Eric Bell

Microsoft Goodyear Campus

Inmark Asset Management Wants To Sell Woolworths Sydney HQ and data center

Inmark Asset Management wants to sell Woolworths’ headquarters in Sydney, Australia. It is looking for buyers for the 483,400 square feet site on 1 Woolworths Way, Bella Vista. The 9-hectare site includes three different office buildings that are linked with a foyer. Furthermore, you’ll also f...

June 15, 2021

Eric Bell

Woolworths

Equinix partners with GIC to invest additional $3.9 billion in its Hyperscale Program

Equinix has announced that it has signed agreements for additional joint ventures with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, which will add $3.9 billion to expand its data center program.The agreements come in the form of limited liability partnerships with GIC. The close, which is expected...

June 15, 2021

Eric Bell

Equinix

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