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Five Colorado Cities and Counties Pause or Ban New Data Centers in 2026

Colorado's Front Range spent the spring slamming the brakes on data centers. Denver, Jefferson County, Boulder County, Larimer County, and the city of Longmont have all moved to pause or ban new development since May. Colorado Springs did the opposite. Its planning department [quietly approved](h...

June 21, 2026

Colorado (CO)

Alibaba is Planning an Israeli cloud region

According to reports, Chinese firm Alibaba is considering setting up a cloud region in Israel. Globes says Alibaba has been considering the move for some years, but the covid-19 pandemic caused the delay. Besides, Alibaba is not thinking about building its own facility; instead, it will be hos...

October 29, 2021

Israel

NextDC plans to build a data center in Darwin, Australia

NextDC has revealed its plan to expand to Darwin, Australia’s Northern Territory. It would be developing a Tier III data center called D1 in Darwin’s Central Business District. NextDC didn’t reveal the details of the facility’s specifications and the cost of the land it acquired. CEO of Ne...

October 29, 2021

NEXTDC

Stack Infrastructure is expanding its Northern Virginia campus

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center on its Northern Virginia Campus in Manassas, Prince William County. According to Stack Infrastructure, the development will bring an additional 36MW of critical capacity with a goal of reaching 72MW. The firm ...

October 29, 2021

STACK Northern Virginia

Facebook is rebranding as Meta

Social Media and advertising giant Facebook have rebranded its company name as ‘Meta.’ The company’s top social media website will retain its name as Facebook. Its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp will also keep their names. The company revealed that it would start trading under the stock t...

October 29, 2021

Meta

NTT is expanding its Vienna data center

NTT has announced that it has broken ground on expanding its data center in Vienna, Austria. The company will add 32,300 square feet (3,000 square meters) to the Vienna 1 facility. By so doing, Vienna will have 92,500 square feet (8,600 square meters) upon expansion. NTT says the expansion is ...

October 29, 2021

NTT

AWS announces three new Local Zones in Las Vegas, New York City, and Portland

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new Local Zones in New York City, Las Vegas, and Portland. Local Zones are considered Edge locations that host applications that need low latency to end-users or on-premises installations. Sébastien Stormacq, the Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon ...

October 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK

Equinix has revealed its plans for a new data center in Manchester, UK. The MA5 facility is the company’s fifth IBX facility in Manchester. It is situated in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford. The first phase of the facility will provide up to 3,600 square meters of colocation space. It...

October 28, 2021

Equinix

The Dalles grants Google tax breaks for new facilities

The city council of The Dalles has voted to grant Google new property tax breaks. The tax breaks are for Google’s two new data centers. However, before Google commences work on its new data centers, it also hopes to increase its water usage significantly with a new agreement. The city counc...

October 28, 2021

Google

Bank of Israel's data center project reaches completion

The Bank of Israel's Information Technology Department has announced the completion of its data center project. The facility is built to Tier 4 standard and is reportedly close to receiving its official certification from the Uptime Institute. The data center has also been built with green tec...

October 28, 2021

Israel

Digital Realty forms JW with Pembani Remgro to acquire Nigeria's Medallion Data Centres

Digital Realty has announced that it has formed a joint venture with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to acquire Medallion Data Centres. Medallion is Nigeria’s top interconnection and colocation provider. The company operates two data centers in the country. One of the facilities is in Abuja...

October 27, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Raxio Group to open first carrier neutral Tier III data center in the Ivory Coast

Raxio Group has announced its plans to develop a Tier III data center in Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The data center will be located at the village of Innovation and Technology, 30KM from Abidjan. Raxio is developing the facility in collaboration with Master Power Technologies. The facilit...

October 27, 2021

Raxio Group

Africell opens data center in Angola

Africell has announced the opening of its new data center in Luanda, Angola. This is after it signed a new partnership with Angola Cables. According to Africell, the new facility will be in the Kings Tower building in the center of Luanda. CEO of Africell, Cristopher Lundh, said the company is...

October 27, 2021

Angola

Ooredoo selects BDx as preferred bidder for Indonesian data centers

PT Indosat, part of Qatar's Ooredoo QPSC, has announced that it has selected Big Data Exchange (BDx) as its "preferred bidder" for the majority stake in its data centers business.As reported by Bloomberg, BDx has emerged as the preferred buyer for a 75% stake in the company's data center asset...

October 26, 2021

BDx Data Centers

Plans for Swansea seafront data center and the $2.8 billion Blue Eden Project

DST Innovations, in association with several other business partners, with support from Swansea Council and Associated British Ports, have announced a £1.7 billion ($2,3 billion) project: Blue Eden project. On Swansea's seafront, Wales, this project will include a newly-designed tidal lagoon, ...

October 26, 2021

Wales

Under the microscope: Ameren's new data center

Ameren's new data center, fuelled by one of its coal-fired power plants in Missouri, has come under the microscope, garnering concerns from those in the local community and beyond.While the company says that the $1 million facility will help to stabilize demand for electricity, critics aren't ...

October 26, 2021

Missouri

Hydrogen powered data centers: Research begins in County Offaly

Ireland's County Offaly is investigating hydrogen as a green energy that could power data centers. The study, 'Exploring Data Centre Integration with Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen in the Midlands', will look into the feasibility of integrating data centres with renewable energy and will ...

October 26, 2021

Republic of Ireland

STC Solutions signs contract worth $53.66m for NEOM data center

Following the General Authority of Competition in Saudi Arabia giving data center builds the go-ahead in Neom, the Arabian Internet and Telecommunication Company (Solutions) has announced it has awarded the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) a contract, worth SAR 201.3 million (USD 53.6 million). ...

October 26, 2021

Saudi Telecom Company

Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. opens first data center site

Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. has announced that its first Australian site will be online this month and powered by 100% renewable energy. This will be achieved in partnership with Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners.Based in New South Wales, Australia, the site will have a capacity of 20MW, ...

October 26, 2021

Tesla Finally opens a data center in China

Tesla has finally opened its data center in Shanghai, China. It first announced the facility in April after Chinese regulators started making rules that would require Chinese subsidiaries to store data in China. Tesla did not reveal many details about the data center as the electric vehicle ma...

October 26, 2021

China

Quebec: The power of green

Just two years ago, Quebec had just 39 data centers; now, this number has shot up to 50. So, what’s driving this growth? Well, the Canadian city offers vast amounts of low-cost and green energy, generated mainly from hydro dams, which gives it the big green tick.Of course, while it’s no Virgin...

October 25, 2021

Quebec Province

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