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China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) has started work on a new data center facility in Hong Kong, China. CMI is developing the facility on a 1 million square foot land in Fo Tan, Sha Tin. The facility will have multiple stories, and it will cover 103,660 square meters (1.1 million square f...

December 09, 2021

China Mobile

Yondr moves into Frankfurt

Yondr is to build a new data center outside Frankfurt, Germany, it has announced. Located in the City of Bischofsheim, the facility will have a capacity of 40MW and comes as a response to increased cloud capacity demands. Speaking about the expansion near the southwest of Frankfurt, Pete Jone...

December 08, 2021

Yondr Group

Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operati...

December 07, 2021

Equinix

Digital Realty teams up with CoolestDC for liquid cooling for SIN11 data center

Digital Realty is partnering with Coolest DC to develop high-efficiency thermal management solutions for the industry following a pilot program supported by Temasek Foundation. The initial pilot scheme sought to improve energy consumption by data centers and enhance efficiency and had deploye...

November 30, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing

Digital Realty has announced that it has "amended, extended, and upsized" its existing global revolving credit facility from $2.35 billion to $3.0 billion, which now feature a sustainability-linked pricing component. Moreover, the pricing will be "subject to adjustment" based on performance ta...

November 25, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners Acquire CyrusOne for $15 billion

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 ...

November 16, 2021

CyrusOne

American Tower acquires CoreSite for $10.1 billion

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...

November 16, 2021

CyrusOne

Yondr Group announces plans for a 100MW data center campus in Slough, UK

Yondr Group has revealed its plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Slough, just outside London. The initial phase of the development of the data center campus will see Yondr develop a 30MW facility. This phase is scheduled to be in operation by the first quarter of 2023. In ad...

November 04, 2021

Yondr: Slough Campus

CyrusOne to outsource the management of its US data centers to JLL

CyrusOne has announced that it will be outsourcing the management of its US data centers to JLL. The agreement is expected to start on January 1st, 2022. CyrusOne announced the deal in an email it sent to its customers. In the email, CyrusOne says transitioning the management of its US data...

October 29, 2021

CyrusOne

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

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

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

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate form a $575 Million Joint Venture to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in Australia

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have formed a new $575 million joint venture with an aim to develop hyperscale data centers in Sydney, Australia. PGIM is the real estate investment and financing division of Prudential Financial. The facilities the companies will be developing under this JV are...

October 19, 2021

Equinix

Digital Realty makes strategic investment in AtlasEdge

Digital Realty has reached an agreement to make a strategic investment in AtlasEdge Data Centres. The investment will also see Digital Realty’s Executive VP, Strategic & Business Segments, Giuliano Di Vitantonio, join AtlasEdge as CEO, starting January 2022. AtlasEdge delivers smooth, loca...

October 15, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Infratil buys 40 percent stake in UK's Kao Data

New Zealand investor Infratil has acquired a 40 percent stake in UK data center firm Kao Data. It has also acquired two data centers to add to the company’s portfolio. Infratil is paying £120-130 million” (US$163-177m) for the acquisition of the stakes in the company. CEO of Kao Data, Lee M...

October 05, 2021

KAO Data

CyrusOne exploring the sale of its company

According to Reuters, CyrusOne is considering the sale of its business. It is said to be exploring some strategic changes that might include a sale. CyrusOne is a real estate investment trust that has a market cap of up to $9 billion. The Company is exploring its options with investment ban...

September 29, 2021

CyrusOne

Sustainable Finance: New way to address the environmental footprint of data centers

Much has been said about how data centers adversely affect the environment. However, more data centers have begun to become 'Greener.' Besides, in order to leave a better environmental footprint, many data center companies are now spending more on green energy. Investors and data center fin...

September 27, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Yondr's green energy projects to fuel data centers

Yondr has announced that to deliver on its sustainability goals; it is developing a wide range of renewable energy projects that will fuel its data centers. This is promising considering that the company is massively expanding its data center footprint across the US, Latin America and Canada,...

September 27, 2021

Yondr Group

Menlo Equities acquires four Digital Realty data centers in Silicon Valley

Menlo Equities has completed the acquisition of four Digital Realty data centers in Silicon Valley. The firm acquired the facilities for a combined $108.8 million. First, it acquired a facility at 4650 Old Ironside Drive in Santa Clara for $35.8 million. The facility has 124,400 square feet...

September 24, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

AEW close to selling 1 million sq ft office park in Slough to unnamed data center developer

According to multiple reports, Real estate firm AEW is close to selling a 1 million square feet (92,000 square meters) office park to an unidentified data center firm. AEW will be selling the Bath Road Central office campus for a fee of around £420 million ($579.5m). The real estate firm fi...

September 17, 2021

Yondr Group

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