Data Center News

The founders of Chayora introduce a digital infrastructure investment

Chayora

The co-founders of China-focused data center developer Chayora have established Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC), a new investment platform. Oliver Jones and Jonathan Berney established AIC to invest in and offer access to venture capital for digital infrastructure programs in second a...

Microsoft's Mount Pleasant data facility projected to produce 200 jobs during the first phase

Microsoft Azure

200 people are anticipated to work at the Microsoft facility in Mount Pleasant during its initial phase, according to an executive summary provided to the village's Plan Commission. When completed, the data center will provide 460 employees, including 330 first-shift positions and 130 second-s...

Pantheon Infrastructure raises revolving credit to $146m

The management board of Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), based in the United Kingdom, has authorized a $66.56 million increase to the company's revolving credit facility (RCF). This increase will bring the total to $145,8 million, allowing PINT's investment platforms to offer additional liquidi...

Macquarie Technology Group is attempting to raise $88 million for a new data facility

Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP)

Macquarie Technology Group is raising 88 million dollars to finance its Sydney data center. The company is raising capital through a non-underwritten institutional placement to increase its liquidity and free float. The business offers 2.22 million additional fully paid shares at $39.61 per sh...

As amber energy alert is issued in Ireland, government has no plan to pause data center growth

Republic of Ireland

Startling new figures released by the Central Statistics Office have revealed that in just a year, data center power consumption in Ireland has increased by 31 percent; 18 percent of all electricity used in 2022. Yet, Ireland's government is not intending to reduce the number being built in th...

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

London

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the co...

External construction work on Digital Realty’s latest Frankfurt data center now complete

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty’s new data center, FRA33 facility in Hattersheim, Frankfurt, Germany, has now been completed, it has been announced. The new facility will reportedly offer 40MW of IT capacity spanning 16,000 square meters (172,222 sq ft) of white space. The construction firm that worked on the...

NTT and Prestige to develop 100MW data center in Bangalore

NTT

NTT has announced that it has partnered with Prestige Group for a new 100 MW data center in Bangalore, India. The deal will see the company develop a one million square feet area spread across multiple buildings and constructed in three phases. According to the companies, the first building i...

Quantum Loophole Maryland campus paused amid environmental concerns

Quantum Loophole

Quantum Loophole has confirmed that it has agreed with state officials this week to pause construction of its data center campus in Maryland, having racked up "numerous environmental violations" over the past five months. According to a report by Frederick News-Post, the Maryland Department o...

More data center proposals in Spotsylvania; AWS files for four rezoning requests for data centers

Amazon AWS

More data centers are set to arrive in Spotsylvania County, as applications continue to pile up. Amazon is one of the key drivers here, planning four new data center campuses in Virginia's Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, equating to more than 10 million square feet of development.Amazon ha...

Evolution DC and Central Pattana build Bangkok data center

Bangkok / Krung Thep

Evolution Data Centres has partnered with Central Pattana PCL, a Thai property developer, to construct a new data center in Bangkok. Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, the two corporations will construct a 34MW carrier-neutral data center in central Bangkok, Thailand. Phase 1 of t...

Digita Oy launches an independent data center business

Digita Oy

Digita, a Finnish tower operator, is separating its data center operations into a new company dubbed Digita Data Centers Oy. The new company will function as a subsidiary of Digita, which DigitalBridge owns. Digital Data Centers Oy will provide colocation, cloud, and connectivity services to e...

Yondr and Apollo forms strategic Partnership

Yondr Group

Apollo Global Management and Yondr Group have formed a strategic partnership. This week, the data center developer announced that it had agreed on a "strategic relationship partnership" in which Apollo will invest in Yondr.Yondr, which Cathexis, a single-family investment office, owns, stated ...

AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.

atNorth

AtNorth's newest 12MW data center in Iceland is now running. The colocation company announced on June 12 that ICE03, its third facility in Iceland, has begun operations. The site's initial plans were released in April 2022. The data center is located in the northern Icelandic city of Akureyri...

Horizon Equity will buy Covilhã’s Portugal data center from Altice for $107m

Altice Portugal (Portugal Telecom)

According to reports, the French telco Altice is almost ready to sell its core data center in Portugal. According to Jornal Económico, the company is discussing selling its Covilh data facility for $107.8m. Horizon Equity Partners, a Portuguese infrastructure investor, is reportedly the most p...

Tesla leases Sacramento Twitter data center Musk once blasted

Sacramento

Twitter formerly used the Sacramento site of NTT Global Data Centers, but now it is home to Musk's electric car company. Twitter departed the data center in late 2022, with the CEO disparaging the area. Tesla will now occupy the space as well as extra square footage.The data center will likely...

Serpro modular data center receives TIER 3 certification

Brazil / Brasil

Serpro has announced that its new data center in São Paulo has received TIER III certification. The facility has a total area of ​​1820 sqm and 503 sqm of prefabricated modules. The first three phases have been completed, with two further phases remaining, set to go ahead in early 2024. At ful...

Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

Equinix

Equinix is expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, with plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur called KL1, which, the company said, will provide greater digital infrastructure capacity in the country. The new facility, which follows the company's announcement of JH1 in Johor, wi...

atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics

atNorth

atNorth has announced that its third Iceland data center, ICE03, is now operational. The facility, located 250 km north of Reykjavík, offers an initial capacity of 12 MW, expandable to 50MW. Completed in just 11 months, the company now has a portfolio of six operational data centers, with an ...

University of York moves data to Sweden for sustainability

EcoDataCenter Falun, Sweden

The University of York has outlined that it is moving its data to Sweden in a bid to make its operations more sustainable. The UK university has chosen the EcoDataCenter in Falun, Sweden, to store its data, which it says has aided it in reducing its emissions from data by 98%. This has been ma...