Data Center News

Edge data center launched by SBA Communications at Arlington tower site

SBA Edge

SBA Communications, a tower company, has launched a new Edge data center in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas. The precise location and configuration of the data center were not disclosed. SBA CEO Jeff Stoops has previously stated that the majority of the company's Edge rollout will consi...

The colocation and hosting business of Ntirety acquired by Data Canopy

DataCanopy

The just-bought colocation company Data Canopy took over the colocation data center hosting division of IT security provider Ntirety. The deal's terms were not disclosed. Data Canopy, founded in 2007, provides colocation, connectivity, and cloud services from numerous data centers worldwide. I...

Ascenty announces launch date for its first Colombian data center

Ascenty

Ascenty has announced that it will launch its first Columbia data center in the fourth quarter of 2024, adding to its 34 data centers across Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Columbia that are either operational, in development or under construction. The company is reportedly designing two twin data ...

Ampere to facilitate the development of more climate-friendly data centers?

Oracle

Ampere, a chip startup, has launched new family of data center chips, which are pegged to make data centers more energy efficient and climate-friendly. Headquartered in the Bay Area, the company's solution is based on designs from Arm Holdings, the same technology used in mobile phones. This ...

Asia-Pacific Data Center Market to beDriven by Rapid AI Development

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

The widespread use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential growth for the data center industry, according to JLL's new Global Data Centre Outlook. Hyperscalers and edge data centers, which account for 79% of total demand, are the fastest-developing segments o...

Asia-Pacific Data Center Market to beDriven by Rapid AI Development

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

The widespread use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential growth for the data center industry, according to JLL's new Global Data Centre Outlook. Hyperscalers and edge data centers, which account for 79% of total demand, are the fastest-developing segments o...

Digital Realty buys 9 acres in Amsterdam for a 20MW data center

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has bought additional land for data centers in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This week, the company disclosed the acquisition of a 387,500-square-foot (8.9-acre) land parcel on its Amsterdam Schiphol campus. According to reports, the acquired land parcel can sustain a 40MW data cente...

Microsoft acquires 200 acres in New Albany for development of a data center

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has purchased a property in New Albany, Ohio, to probably construct a data center. Microsoft has reportedly acquired nearly 200 acres near Beech Road for a data center, as reported by the Newark Advocate. The Licking County Auditor's Office verified Microsoft paid $56.9 million to MB...

Shonfeld negotiating data center stake sale at $3.6b co value

According to "Globes," Yossi Shonfeld's company Shonfeld Engineering has enlisted Jefferies Group investment bank to manage discussions for selling 20–30% of data center firm Shonfeld Data Services (SDS) at a $3.6 billion company valuation. Shonfeld follows in the wake of the Azrieli Group and...

CBRE predicts that investment in data centers will increase in 2023

According to CBRE's 2023 Investment Sentiment Survey, we can anticipate that 89% of investors in the data center sector will increase their investment levels this year, following a relatively slow 2022. 85% of those who answered the survey have set aside more than $100 million, and 32% have ov...

Market for Data Center Accelerators to Reach $168 Billion by 2032

The Data Center Accelerator Market is anticipated to reach $168 Billion by 2032, up from $18.2 Billion in 2022, at a CAGR of 25.6% between 2022 and 2032. In recent years, the market for data center accelerators has expanded rapidly due to the increasing demand for high-performance computation ...

NTT unveils a new data center in Chennai

NTT

NTT launched a $350 million hyperscale data center (DC) campus in Chennai. MIST, its undersea cable system, will connect to the new DC site. The firm and TN inked a facilitation MoU in 2021.Chennai 2, a six-acre DC campus in Ambattur, will have two towers with a 35 MW IT load. The first facili...

Servpac's expansion of MTP Data Center

Servpac

Servpac Inc., a local telecommunications corporation, has begun expanding its data center in Mililani Technology Park. The company announced on June 27 that the expansion would double the MTP Data Center's colocation capacity. According to the announcement, InForm Design is the project archite...

TierPoint aims to raise $925 million through securitized loans

TierPoint

TierPoint seeks to raise $925 million by selling A-rated data center revenue notes from Kroll Bond Rating Agency. The exchange is TierPoint's first and is backed by 31 colocation data centers with approximately $397.2 million in annualized monthly frequent revenue and $198.3 million in yearly...

The site plan for Metro Edge Development Partners' Chicago data center approved

Chicago

The Chicago, Illinois data center of commercial real estate finance firm Metro Edge Development Partners has been granted site approval. The corporation received site plan approval for its IMD1 data center from the Chicago Department of Planning and Development this month.IMD1 will be a five-s...

Frederick County establishes work group to look at data centers

Maryland

In Frederick County, a place which has become a highly attractive data center zone and is the location site of Quantum Loophole’s massive and recently paused data center campus, Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater has formed a workgroup for data centers. Fitzwater formed the group in ...

Paratus Group announces plans for new facility in Angola

Angola

Paratus Group has announced plans to construct Angola’s first Tier-IV-by-design data centre in Luanda. This is the company’s third in the country, and Angola’s first Tier-IV by design.According to Chief Technical Officer at Paratus, Rolf Mendelsohn, the new facility will be constructed on a 30...

AirTrunk to develop HKG2, its second facility in Hong Kong

AirTrunk

AirTrunk is developing its second facility in Hong Kong, located in the East New Territories. The facility, AirTrunk HKG2, will offer 15 MW, spanning 11,600 sqm (124,860 sq ft), with 4,400 sqm (4,7360 sq ft) of technical space. The facility will have a PUE of 1.25, and initial capacity is set...

Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville

Northern Virginia

Residents of Prince William County, Virginia, are attempting to sell their land to an unidentified data center developer. According to InsideNoVa, residents of Sanders Lane near Gainesville are attempting to sell their land to a data center developer. The residents appear to be attempting to r...

TASMAC awards RailTel a $35.9 million contract for an India data center

India / Bhārata

RailTel, an IT infrastructure provider, has been awarded a $35.9 million contract by TASMAC, a Tamil state-owned beverage corporation. RailTel will provide TASMAC with end-to-end automation and connectivity five years into the contract. This will extend to RailTel providing the project's facil...