Data Center News

Data center colo provider Cyxtera declares bankruptcy

Cyxtera Technologies

The US colocation provider Cyxtera has declared bankruptcy. Cyxtera began a pre-arranged court-supervised procedure under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code following the Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA) originally made with certain lenders. Cyxtera stated that it intends to ...

CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.

CloudHQ

CloudHQ has purchased land in San Antonio, Texas, to construct a data center campus. The company has acquired nearly 123 acres of land in the Texas Research Park, just down the street from Microsoft's Bexar County facilities. The University of Texas System sold CloudHQ the land bounded by Lamb...

Digital Edge begins construction on Tokyo data facility

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has begun constructing its data center in downtown Tokyo, Japan. A few days ago the company announced on LinkedIn that the building of its TYO7 site had officially begun. The Singapore-based business revealed plans for a new facility in March 2023. The facility will be situated at...

IBM plans to construct a quantum data facility in Germany

Kyndryl

IBM will construct a data center in Germany to house quantum processors. This week, the company revealed plans to establish its first quantum data facility in Europe on the IBM campus in Ehningen, near Stuttgart, to facilitate cutting-edge quantum computing for businesses, research institution...

Elea Digital expands Brazilian data facility with $20m

Elea Data Centers

Elea Digital, a Brazilian data center corporation, has invested more than $20 million in expanding its Rio de Janeiro data center. The data center in issue, RJ01, has doubled its capacity from 2.5MW to 5MW, and the additional 5,380 sq ft of data center space can accommodate up to 200 more rack...

York County's $1bn data center proposal

South Carolina

South Carolina is planning a $1 billion data center development. This week, the York County Council will discuss and vote on tax incentives for a data center proposal in the county. York County is located in northeast South Carolina, toward the east of Greenville and Spartanburg, and adjacent ...

Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

Rackspace

A data center occupied by Rackspace is for sale in Kansas City, Missouri. Collers are offering 10828 NW Airworld Drive as a "long-term NNN lease investment opportunity." No sale price was disclosed. The two-story, 77,545-square-foot building was built 1982 on 5.2 acres and came with a single-t...

Verne Global receives $100m loan

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global, an Icelandic data center company, received a $100 million loan. This week, the board of directors of Digital 9 Infrastructure announced that the business had inked a new $100 million green term loan debt financing for Verne Global Iceland, along with a $50 million accordion provi...

AWS establishes Direct Connect location at NEC Inzai data center

AWS has announced it has announced a new AWS Direct Connect location within the NEC Inzai data center in Inzai, Japan. AWS said that this means that customers can now gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (bar China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.The Inzai locatio...

Ufinet launches new data center in Panama City, Panama

Central America

Ufinet has announced that it has launched its new data center in Panama City, Panama. Certified by Uptime and Rated 3 ANSI/TIA-942-B, the facility is Tier III, although further details have not yet been released.“Ufinet in its 25 years celebrates a new achievement in the Panama branch, the ina...

Tayra facility in Colombia to become supercomputer

Colombia

In Colombia, an underused data center at Colombia's center for bioinformatics and computational biology (BIOS) in Valle del Cauca, is to be transformed into a supercomputer. According to the government, it will invest 1.5bn pesos ($330,000) to facilitate this.The Tayra facility is currently us...

AWS' data center chief Chris Vonderhaar makes abrupt departure

Amazon AWS

Chris Vonderhaar, head of data center design, planning, construction, and operation, has made an abrupt departure from AWS. This announcement comes as AWS continues to invest in its data center footprint, pegged to invest $35 billion alone on new data centers in Virginia by 2040.AWS has also a...

Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Renantis for wind energy in Finland from its two Renantis' onshore wind farms when they're complete. The Mustalamminmäki and Koiramäki wind farms in Karstula, Central Finland, will have a combined cap...

The Segra Facility in Charlotte, North Carolina up for Sale or Lease.

North Carolina

A Charlotte, North Carolina, data center is available for purchase or lease. Currently, fiber provider Segra operates the data center, but the company will soon withdraw as its contract nears completion. Five 9s Digital is advertising the property for sale or lease. No sale or lease price was ...

Legrand Introduces the First Harmonic Distortion Measuring Power Distribution Units for Data Centers

Legrand, an international leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures, has introduced the latest version of smart rack Power Distribution Units (PDUs). The Server Technology PRO4X and Raritan PX4 rack PDUs are poised to revolutionize power management in data centers with superior...

Airtel Intends for Nxtra to Establish Five Data Centers in Africa

Nxtra Data Ltd

Bharti Airtel plans to construct five data centers in Africa under the Nxtra brand. Nxtra Data Centers is one of the largest operators of data centers in India but has yet to expand internationally. Last year, Carlyle acquired a 24 percent stake in Nxtra for $325 million, creating a joint vent...

Orion Data Centers Purchased by Edge Centre's Cybercon

Edge Centres

Cybercon, which Australian data center operator Edge Centres currently owns, has acquired Missouri data center company, Orion Data Centers. Last week, the business disclosed that it had successfully acquired Orion, expanding its regional coverage to include a facility in Columbia. The agreemen...

Bidding in Illinois for an unoccupied HSBC/CapitalOne facility

Illinois

Illinois's former HSBC data center will be auctioned off later this month. On June 6-8, Cushman & Wakefield will auction off a data center in Volo via LoopNet. According to the listing, the Volo Data Center is a 160,000-square-foot data facility on a 42-acre lot at 300 S Fish Lake Road. Vo...

Armenia to be the site of Rostelecom's 200-rack data center

Rostelecom

Rostelecom is proposing to build a new data center in Armenia. According to Tass, the Armenian subsidiary of Rostelecom, GNC-Alfa, intends to launch a 200-rack facility in Armenia at the beginning of 2024. Location and power capacity were not divulged. Last year, it was reported that Rosteleco...

nLighten takes over Euclyde Data Centers

The European data center company nLighten has acquired the French data center provider Euclyde Data Centers. The newly established corporation has acquired Euclyde and assumed control of six facilities in Sophia Antipolis, Lyon, Strasbourg, Besançon, and Paris. This agreement signifies nLighte...