Data Center News

DataBank expands its data center in Kansas

DataBank Kansas City MCI3

DataBank's development of the MC13 data center in Lenexa, Kansas, is complete. The company has added 17,000 square feet and 1.8 MW of IT capacity to its MC13 data center, bringing the total build-out to 42,000 square feet and 4.6 MW. In October 2021, DataBank first announced intentions to expa...

Groton's proposed data center regulations set to go to public hearing following year-long moratorium

Connecticut

In Groton, a data center moratorium has been in place for a year. This was introduced to give the town the time to formulate regulations for data centers, amidst concerns regarding environmental and noise impacts. Now the proposed regulations are set to go to a public hearing. As per the propo...

DCI Indonesia announces launch of its second building at its H2 Data Center Campus outside Jakarta

DCI Indonesia

DCI Indonesia has launched the second building at its H2 Data Center Campus outside Jakarta. The first phase at the site, H2-01, launched back in November 2021, offering 15 MW; meanwhile, H2-02, its second building, adds 12MW. The two buildings at the 791 hectare-campus now offer 27MW in tota...

AWS planning new data center under name 'Project Echidna,' in West Sydney, Australia

Amazon AWS

AWS is planning a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Located in west Sydney, under the program name Project Echidna, the facility will see an investment of AU$300 million (US$200m). Built across two stories, the facility will offer 35.2MW of capacity on 9,225 sqm (99,300 sq ft), and is loc...

Phoenix Data center with 6 MW up for sale

Phoenix

A 6MW data facility is up for lease or purchase in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the desirable Deer Valley neighborhood, CBRE has listed 20435 North 26th Avenue for sale or lease. There was no listed pricing. The 6MW facility was completed in 2003 and sits on 3.66 acres of land, with a raised f...

Amazon will allocate $7.8 billion to construct more central Ohio facilities

Amazon AWS

According to a news release from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Amazon intends to invest approximately $8 billion over six years in growing its data center business in central Ohio. Per a press release on Monday, the $7.8 billion initiative marks the second-largest private sector investment in Ohi...

GTD leaves data center agreement with Macquarie

Chile

GTD pulled from a non-binding offer previously accepted from investment firm Macquarie Capital. The transaction would have involved purchasing 49 percent of a new subsidiary encompassing the telecommunications company's data centers in Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Fernando Gana, the general mana...

Missing SAP data center SSD was discovered on eBay

eBay displayed a missing SSD disk from the SAP data center in Walldorf, Germany. In November of last year, it was reported that four SSD disks went missing from the SAP facility in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany. However, one of the disks popped up on eBay and was purchased by an SAP emp...

Intelishift and Data Canopy merge

US colocation provider Intelishift has acquired competitor Data Canopy. Data Canopy was founded in 2007 and offers colocation, connectivity, and cloud services from dozens of data centers across the globe. It operates out of facilities owned by third parties, including CyrusOne, Equinix, NTT, ...

New 200 MW facility on the way to the island of Borneo

Southeast Asia

In Kota Samarahan on the island of Borneo, a new data center is the planning stage. Set to offer 200 MW, the facility will be built by FutureData Sdn Bhd, a new company formed by Cyclect Group and TSG Group.The data center will be the first major facility on the island; it's pegged to be carbo...

NTT files for planning permission in Gainesville, Virginia for 336MW campus

NTT

In Prince William County, NTT has filed for permission for a joint Federal and State permit from the Norfolk District of the US Army Corps of Engineers for a 336MW data center campus. The permit application, NTT VA10, outlines the project is named Grove at Gainesville and includes plans to bui...

ePLDT shares plans for twelfth data center in the Philippines

ePLDT

PLDT Inc subsidiary, ePLDT, has announced that it has plans to increase data center market capacity with the introduction of its twelfth, set to offer at least 100 MW of capacity. Through this move, the company will further boost its 65% data center market capacity.Details regarding the locati...

STT GDC establishes Jakarta data facility in Indonesia

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has officially inaugurated its first data center facility in Indonesia. The company revealed the launch of STT Jakarta 1 in Bekasi, west of Jakarta, one week ago. The first structure offers 19.5MW across 198,850 square feet. The completed campus will ...

AdaniConneX gets $213 mn capital for data center assets

AdaniConneX

AdaniConneX, an equal partnership between data center provider EdgeConneX with ports-to-power conglomerate Adani Enterprises Ltd, announced on Friday that it had secured a $213 million senior debt facility with input from international banks to fund its 67 MW of under-construction data center...

Bridge Data Centres develops its data center in MRANTI Park, Malaysia

Bridge Data Centres

Bridge Data Centres (BDC), a prominent provider of data center solutions in the Asia Pacific region, has announced plans to expand its hyperscale data center campus, MY03, in Kuala Lumpur's MRANTI Park. This expansion offers 48MW of IT power to Malaysian and Asia-Pacific hyperscalers and ente...

DCI Indonesia inaugurates a second structure on its 600MW facility outside Jakarta

DCI Indonesia

DCI Indonesia has inaugurated a second structure on its campus outside of Jakarta. With the incorporation of the 12MW H2-02, the H2 campus now offers 27MW between two buildings.  The H2 campus, located east of the capital city on 791 hectares in Karawang, has a total capacity of up to 600 MW....

PLDT constructing a 100MW data facility in Philippines

Philippines

PLDT, a Philippine telecommunications company, is considering the construction of a 12th data center within the country. Victor S. Genuino, president and CEO of ePLDT, disclosed the company's intention to construct a new 100MW facility while delivering the keynote address at the W. Media Phili...

Microsoft signs 24x7 hourly matching energy agreement with Powerex Corp

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new 24x7 hourly matching agreement with Powerex Corp for carbon-free energy at its new data center in Washington state. The energy company will match the giant's hourly demand with direct deliveries of carbon-free hydro, solar, and wind power on a ...

UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers

United Kingdom

UK's Loughborough University has announced that it has completed its renovation project, upgrading two of its data centers in Leicestershire. Schneider Electric delivered the data center modernization on the Haslegrave and Holywell Park data centers, adding EcoStruxure Row Data Center, InRow C...

IonQ proposes quantum data facility in Switzerland

Switzerland

IonQ, a quantum computing company based in the United States, intends to deploy two of its facilities in Switzerland and establish a quantum data center in Europe. This week, the company disclosed its collaboration with QuantumBasel to deploy two quantum computers at QuantumBasel's Center of C...