London Data Center News

Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London

A 185,150-square-foot data center is projected for northeast London. Alandale Scaffolding has applied to Epping Forest District Council for permission to construct a new center in Loughton, close to the Debden station, as first revealed by EssexLive. The company intends to construct a three-st...

February 23, 2023

London

DataBank Secures $715m For Data Center Development

DataBank is collecting $715 million on the market for asset-backed securities (ABS) to develop its data center infrastructure. Kroll Bond Rating Agency has disclosed in a pre-sale report information on the financing. The deal's issuer and co-issuer are represented by DataBank Issuer, LLC and D...

February 23, 2023

DataBank

MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

On February 22nd, NTT Global Data Centers revealed that its MIST subsea cable had arrived in Mumbai, India. The Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system has a length of approximately 5000 miles. It links Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as Mumbai and Chen...

February 23, 2023

NTT

Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington

CyrusOne is building a data center in Quincy, Washington. The corporation has a 45-acre block of land in the city of Washington State and has made it known that it intends to construct a campus there with built-to-suit buildings and a capacity of up to 96MW. The Columbia Basin Herald noted ...

February 20, 2023

CyrusOne

A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.

Digital Second Manassas LLC plans to build a 185,000-square-foot, one-story data center at 9905 Godwin Road in Manassas, as previously reported by Potomac Local News and InsideNoVa. The current Glen-Gary brickyard, which opened about 1964 and shut down in 2019, is being demolished for the faci...

February 20, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

Currently, Equinix is planning to construct a second data center in Barcelona, Spain. Last week, the colocation giant revealed its intentions to build BA2, an International Business Exchange (IBX) facility right next to its current BA1 location. We were not given any information on the proj...

February 16, 2023

Equinix

Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment

Following the successful introduction of Arm server processors by Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud is preparing two Arm CPUs for its cloud service. Before launching the cloud service in 2025, the firm made a significant stride and will put them into trial operation this year. The cloud servers...

February 15, 2023

Google

Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers

Uber Technologies wants to close its data center facilities after signing two significant cloud contracts. In two seven-year contracts, it will migrate over 95% of its IT to Google Cloud and Oracle from its own data centers. After 11 months of analysis, the taxi and delivery startup opted to u...

February 14, 2023

Google

Echelon Data Centers-linked firm planning battery storage facility in Dublin

Over the last few years, Ireland has witnessed a significant data center boom, so much so, that Ireland introduced a moratorium in Dublin to halt the development of further data centers in the city. As part of this de facto moratorium, EirGrid has outlined that no new grid connection applicati...

February 13, 2023

Echelon Data Centres

iColo launches new facility in Maputo, Mozambique

Digital Realty's iColo has announced that it has launched a new data center, located in Maputo, Mozambique, namely MPM1. The campus spans 9500 sqm, with 350 sqm of rentable space, equivalent to 80 racks in the first phase of development. The company has shared that the facility will be the lo...

February 09, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks

Late on Wednesday, there was a Twitter outage that prevented users from Tweeting, following accounts, or sending direct messages. A notification stating that the "daily limit of tweets has been reached" was displayed to certain users. Elon Musk, the CEO and new owner, advised workers in an ema...

February 09, 2023

Google

Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

Cooling equipment at a Microsoft data center went down due to a utility data center power spike, which resulted in an outage. Customers hosted in the South East Asia cloud area experienced a variety of problems as a result of the outage. According to Microsoft's status page, when cooling ca...

February 09, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty invests in photovoltaics through ENGIE PPA

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed an agreement with Engie to procure solar power. Through the 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) the company inked, it will have access to 116 megawatts (MW) of a new 154 MW ground-mounted solar photovoltaic project, which is currently under d...

February 08, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty and Brookfield Start Data Center Construction in Chennai, India

BAM Digital Realty has begun construction on its first data center in India. This week, the company, a partnership between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, revealed that building of a data center in Chennai has begun and is on schedule to be completed by the end of the year. MA...

February 08, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Plans For Two New Datum Data Centers In The UK

Datum Group, a UK-based data center company, is working on building two new facilities in the country's south and northwest. This week, the firm revealed its intention to establish two new data centers in Farnborough and Manchester in the year 2024. The two new centers (FRN2 and MCR2) will ...

February 07, 2023

Datum Datacentres Limited

Application Submitted by Vantage For a 134-acre Data Center Facility in Ashburn, Virginia

Vantage Data Centers has filed for a Loudoun County campus near Ashburn. Vantage applied for federal and state approvals for its VA3 data center facility with the US Army Corps of Engineers district commander. Vantage plans to build a "large-scale data center complex" on 134 acres west of B...

February 07, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Microsoft Plans to Build a Data Facility and Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia

Microsoft will construct a new Azure cloud region and data center in Saudi Arabia. This week, the company revealed plans to build a new cloud data facility in Saudi Arabia. The news was made at the Riyadh conference LEAP 2023. Microsoft stated that the new cloud region will provide enterpri...

February 07, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Virtus Hires JLL For Facility Administration

Virtus, a data center company in the United Kingdom, has hired JLL to manage its centers. This week, JLL confirmed that it had been selected to provide complete facilities management expertise for all of its UK data center facilities. Neil Cresswell, the CEO of Virtus, stated that this is ...

February 06, 2023

VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd

Telia joins job-cut wave

Telia joins the big tech job cuts with the announcement that it is cutting 1,500 jobs this year, 1000 in the first quarter, and the rest throughout the year. According to the company, it has been aiming to reduce its workforce by around 1000 a year, since 2021, in line with its restructuring p...

February 01, 2023

Telia Company

Digital Realty explores biofuel for backup energy in Spain

Digital Realty is the latest data center company to explore the use of biofuel for backup energy. Through partnering with Spanish energy company Repsol, the company has announced the first data center to switch out fossil fuels for biofuel is its MAD3 facility in Spain, which offers 5.8MW of ...

January 31, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

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