Data Center News

STT Invests in AI Hosting company Firmus Technologies to Set the Pace in APAC

Firmus Technologies

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), a data centre provider based in APAC, has invested in Firmus Technologies and plans to collaborate to introduce a GPU-focused Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) named Sustainable Metal Cloud (SMC). Set to debut in Singapore, this service is tailored ...

Van Caem shares plans for €1 billion data center in Berlin

Germany / Deutschland

Van Caem, a Dutch developer, has shared its plans to develop a 100MW data center in Germany on a brownfield site near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. With an investment of €1 billion ($1bn), the facility is set to be the fifth largest in the country and the largest in Berlin.Earlier desi...

Old Mutual announces closure of data centers and migrates to AWS

Amazon AWS

Old Mutual Limited has announced that it has closed all of its on-premise data centers and moved its entire IT infrastructure to AWS. The company shared that through this move, it has been able to reduce downtime by 50 per cent. According to Old Mutual, which has been a customer of AWS since 2...

Ascenty to expand footprint with plans for a new São Paulo datacenter

Ascenty

Ascenty is planning to expand its data center footprint following the purchasing of a 47,000 sqm (500,000 sq ft) parcel of land in Osasco, greater Sao Paulo. The company hasn’t shared further details about the scale of its development plans on this site, and is currently in the planning stage...

N-Ark's proposes floating cities with underwater Edge data centers

Japan

Japanese start-up N-Ark has unveiled designs for a floating city named ‘Dogen City,’ which, as the climate crisis worsens, looks to be a place of refuge for those who can afford to escape the effects of climate change.  That said, the company also shared that it would also "accept and provide ...

Capitaland leases Manchester data center to Lunar Digital for 15 years

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

Capitaland Ascendas REIT and Lunar Digital have signed a 15-year lease for the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company's intention to acquire Reynold House in the Manchester Technopark was announced for the first time in February 2023, less than a year after Equinix began exi...

Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

Equinix

Invesco has purchased a data center in San Jose, California, run by Equinix. Mercury News reports that the Sobrato Organization recently sold 1735 Lundy Avenue in San Jose to Invesco Real Estate for $86.3 million, citing documents from Santa Clara County.The single-story building encompasses 1...

Lafayette Square funds DartPoints' Venyu acquisition

DartPoints

DartPoints's May 2023 acquisition of Venyu was partly funded by Lafayette Square, a financial associate of data center provider DartPoints. Last month, DartPoints purchased the Louisiana-based operator, incorporating three data centers into its fleet and bringing the total number of data cente...

Loblaw former data center in Canada bought by Grain & StratCap

StratCap Data Centers

Grain Management and StratCap bought a data center on the Canadian outskirts of Toronto. This week, the firms announced the formation of a joint venture to purchase 55 Hereford Street in Brampton, Ontario. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but per the joint venture contract, Str...

Everest Infrastructure Partners enters Portugal, buys Blue Sites Telco

Everest Infrastructure Partners has purchased TowerCo Blue Sites Telco in Portugal. It is the fourth global market in which Everest has invested, following the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Blue Sites Telco, established in 2017, is Portugal's largest communications tower lease agg...

IT disruptions at the Guernsey government caused by data center cooling and power issues

United Kingdom

The States of Guernsey in the United Kingdom discovered that a series of IT disruptions were caused by the inability of backup systems and the use of outdated equipment. Between November and January, the authorities of the British Isles experienced four disruptions, rendering the state's websi...

Telehouse, a subsidiary of KDDI, buys Allied Properties' data center holdings for $1 billion

Telehouse

Telehouse has entered the Canadian market with the acquisition of three data centers. KDDI, the parent company of the data center company, announced this week that it had acquired three data centers and the associated assets in Toronto, Canada, from Allied Properties REIT. KDDI paid $1.02 bil...

ST Telemedia opens STT Jakarta 1 data center

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has announced the launch of its STT Jakarta 1. This facility is the first building to be completed at the company's data center campus, which is being developed with Triputra Group and global investment company Temasek via a JV. At full build-out, the campus w...

AFL Hyperscale launches DCI solutions to improve data center network infrastructure

AFL Hyperscale, a prominent provider of connectivity solutions, is thrilled to introduce its two new innovative Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions – Connectorized and Splice – to transform how organizations connect and manage their data centers. These novel products enable customers to c...

Telenor and Hafslund to partner for new sustainable data center-focused company

Telenor Group

Telenor and local energy company Hafslund have announced they're partnering to establish a joint venture to build data centers in Oslo, Norway. That said, ownership of the new company is split equally between Telenor, Hafslund, and HitechVision, each with 31.7 percent; Analysys Mason, a consu...

STT GDC Philippines will increase the capacity of three data centers

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Globe Telecom announced on Tuesday that its joint venture with Ayala Corporation and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers would increase its capacity by 5.2MW by the end of the third quarter of this year. The expansion of ST Telemedia Global Data Centers Philippines (STT GDC Philip...

FullSave launches data center in Auch, France

France

FullSave has announced the opening of a new data center in Auch. Offering 30-rack and spanning across two 70 sqm (753 sq ft) IT rooms, the facility also has a PUE of 1.4. Arnaud Turpin, IT manager at FullSave, said: "Our site has its own 144-fiber artery between Auch and Toulouse. Our data cen...

Scaleway of Iliad will turn its data center unit into a separate entity, Opcore

OpCore

The French cloud and data center organization Scaleway separates its data center division into a separate businesses. President and former CEO of Scaleway, Arnaud de Bermingham, announced on Linkedin that he would oversee the new 46-person unit. In response to a commentator's inquiry about whe...

Virginia's Reston data center is now owned by Edge Centres

Edge Centres

Edge Centres has acquired a data center facility in Reston, Virginia. According to the company, the newly-acquired carrier hotel establishment, renamed EC104, features 1MW of scalability and 20 individual carriers. The data center is at 11513 Sunset Hills Road in Fairfax County, although the c...

Secure IT Environments provides the ICU of a UK hospital with a micro data center

United Kingdom

Secure I.T. Environments, a provider of modular data centers, has delivered a micro data center to a healthcare facility in London, United Kingdom. The intensive care unit (ICU) at Barnet Hospital got the 42U Micro Data Centre 3 this past week. The encapsulated facility has a maximum load capa...