Data Center News

45 Sprint switch facilities to be converted into colo data centers by Cogent

Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications intends to transform the former Sprint switching plant real estate footprint acquired from T-Mobile into a substantial colocation data center portfolio. T-Mobile announced in September 2022 that it had agreed to sell its Wireline business to Cogent for a symbolic $1, with...

DataBank completes seven data center expansion initiatives in the United States

DataBank

DataBank has finished seven expansion initiatives throughout the United States. Over the weekend, the company announced the conclusion of seven data center projects in Dallas, Las Vegas, San Diego, Irvine, and Kansas City, in addition to two in Atlanta. In the past year, seven facilities have ...

Amazon Data Services is leasing a 4-acre plot of land in Mumbai, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS) subsidiary Amazon Data Services (ADS) has leased a four-acre plot of land in the Mumbai suburb of Powai. This is the company's second land transaction in Mumbai in the past year. Larsen & Toubro (L&T), an Indian conglomerate specializing in engineering, constr...

Vantage completes the first structure of the 96MW Ashburn data center campus

Vantage Ashburn Campus

Vantage Data Centers' VA21 data center in Ashburn, Virginia, has reached completion. VA21 is the first data center currently under development on the 96MW VA2 campus of Vantage. The 18-acre VA2 campus will house three data centers with 800,000 square feet of space. Dominion Energy will provide...

A consortium of UK universities is looking for vendors for a data center contract

United Kingdom

This month, seven of the United Kingdom's Higher Education purchasing consortia (UKUPC), managed by the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC), issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a new data center framework. The contract runs from January 2024 until January 2027 and is ...

Newmark Real Estate Company launches a data center practice financial division

United States

Newmark Division, Inc., a US real estate advisory and services firm, has launched a data center practice division to provide financial data center consulting. This week, the company announced the expansion of its Capital Markets services by introducing the Data Center and Digital Infrastructur...

Aqaba Digital Hub receives funding from Jordan's JCIF fund

Middle East

Jordan Capital & Investment Fund (JCIF) invests in Aqaba Digital Hub (ADH), a company that operates a data center in Jordan. The fund revealed this week that it had finalized the terms of a ‘significant minority' investment in ADH, a Jordanian corporation that operates a data center and fi...

UK Gov't cloud & data center bids close at $152.76m

United Kingdom

Bids for a $152.76 million cloud services and data center management deal with the United Kingdom government closed last week. The contract, which was published for the first time on June 23, calls for a variety of services that can be categorized as cloud hosting and support services, cloud a...

South Korean government to develop two data centers with domestically manufactured AI semiconductors

The South Korean government has revealed it will develop two data centers using domestically manufactured artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors. Further to this, it will also increase funding for the development of semiconductor products by fabless firms; this is in addition to the $642 ...

Fidelis New Energy to pursue energy and data center developments in West Virginia

Fidelis New Energy has announced it has chosen Mason County, West Virginia, US, as the location for a lifecycle net zero hydrogen production facility and a 1GW data center campus, known as the Mountaineer GigaSystem and the Monarch Cloud Campus. The campus could reportedly see a $5 billion inv...

CapitaLand acquires a data center in London, UK, from Digital Realty

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

CapitaLand, a Singaporean investment company, has acquired a London, UK, data center from Digital Realty. The manager of CapitaLand Ascendas REIT, CapitaLand Ascendas REIT Management Limited, announced this week the purchase of a colocation data center from an "unrelated global data center ope...

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Northern Virginia

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...

Vultr expands in São Paulo, Brazil

Vultr has announced that it is expanding in Brazil. The company has shared that after launching a new cloud data center in Santiago earlier this year, it is now investing in São Paulo to provide additional capacity.This additional capacity will be an over 200% capacity expansion. Further, sinc...

Principal buys Amsterdam logistics site for 42MW Switch DC data center

Switch Datacenters Amsterdam BV

Principal Asset Management has purchased a Dutch logistics facility that will be converted into a data center. This week, the company announced the acquisition of a logistics facility for the Principal European Data Centre Fund I. The terms were not disclosed.The acquired facility in the Schip...

Arctic Wolf announces launch of Australian data center

Arctic Wolf has opened a new local data center in Australia, it has announced. The local center, running as a module through AWS’s Sydney facility, is part of its strategic expansion. It launched in the country regionally last October. The company outlined that this move sets it apart from oth...

Cyxtera property sought after by Brookfield and Digital Realty

Cyxtera Technologies

Reportedly, Brookfield and Digital Realty are interested in acquiring the struggling Cyxtera. According to Bloomberg, several parties, including Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty Trust, are interested in purchasing the assets of the insolvent colocation company. The firms r...

Data centers could be built on Maryland's old mall site for FBI HQ

Maryland

Lerner Enterprises is evaluating a former Maryland mall as a possible campus for a data center if the FBI does not relocate there. Brightseat Associates LLC, a Lerner affiliate, filed a preliminary application for a "qualified data center" with Prince George's County's land use regulatory body...

Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Clean Energy Connect (CEC), a solar power company in the Itochu group for solar energy. Through the 20-year corporate PPA, CEC will invest more than 10 billion yen ($75 million) by 2024 for the development of small ...

Tesla to build new 'first of its kind' data centers

Through a job ad, Tesla has announced that it plans to build so-called "first of its kind data centers."In a job posting, first highlighted by Electrek, Tesla outlines it is seeking a senior engineering program manager who would be "responsible for leading the full design & engineering of ...

Bain to privatize ChinData in a $3.16 billion transaction

Chindata Group

ChinData, a Chinese data center operator, will be taken private by existing investor Bain Capital. ChinData Group Holdings Limited revealed over the weekend that it had gone into a $3.16 billion merger deal with two Bain subsidiaries that will be taken private: BCPE Chivalry Bidco Limited and ...