Data Center News

Japan Seeks Subsidies for Hokkaido and Kyushu Data Centers

Japan

To encourage the development of data centers, which are essential to a digital society, in the Kyushu southwestern region and Hokkaido's most northern prefecture, Japan's industry ministry on Tuesday proposed offering subsidies.The ministry stated that Hokkaido and Kyushu are ideal locations f...

Neterra Becomes a Leading European Data Center Investor

Along with companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Facebook (Meta), Equinix, Microsoft, Google, NTT Global Data Centers, Orange Business Services, etc., Neterra has been named one of the "Prominent Data Center Investors" in Europe. The classification appears in Arizton Advisory and Intellige...

OVHcloud claims energy savings to be made from combined water and immersion cooling

France

According to new research by OVHcloud, hybrid liquid cooling technology has the power to reduce a data center's energy consumption by 20 percent when compared with using water cooling alone. The European cloud provider coupled up with the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne to test the cooli...

Pennsylvania High School Tech Center Gets $2.6m Renovation, Including District Data Center

Pennsylvania

The Career and Technical Center (CTC) at State College Area High School in Pennsylvania is undergoing a $2.6 million upgrade to bring the district's data center to the campus. The school administration approved the renovation on May 15. The CTC will be utilized for online education, Reclaiming...

Cirion Technologies obtains Tier III certification for its data center in Ecuador

Ecuador

Cirion Technologies' data center in Carcelén, Quito, Ecuador, has obtained Tier III Certification from the Uptime Institute, it has announced. This certification means that the company's data center meets a number of requirements, including having in place rigorous preventive maintenance proce...

ClaroVTR announces Chile data center expansion

Chile

ClaroVTR has announced that it is expanding in Chile, with a US$320mn, 3,000m2 expansion of its 2,000m2 Liray data center in Colina municipality. This will bring the total footprint to 5,000 sqm (53,820 sq ft).According to reports, the building features three 1,000m2 clean rooms, anti-seismic ...

Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Contact Energy for geothermal energy in New Zealand. The 10-year PPA was reportedly signed in September 2022 and will see Contact provide Microsoft with all the renewable energy attributes generated by Contact's new 51.4MW Te Huka Uni...

Data4 launches Polish data center campus

DATA4 Group

Data4 has announced the launch of its new data center campus outside Warsaw in Poland. The Polish facility, at full build-out, will offer 60MW across 15,000 sqm. Data4's new data center, located in Jawczyce near Warsaw, was first announced back in July 2021 and has seen a total investment of ...

Singtel signs 10-year PPA with Sembcorp

Singtel

Singtel has announced that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy firm Sembcorp. The deal, worth S$180 million (US$133.2m), will see energy supplied to the Singaporean telco, from October 1, 2023. Its existing electricity supply agreement (also with Sembcorp) will ...

Japan Data Facility Purchased by Mapletree Industrial Trust

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

The acquisition of a data center in Osaka, Japan, signifies Mapletree Industrial Trust's entrance into the Japanese data center market. This week, the manager of Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), Mapletree Industrial Trust Management Ltd., announced the purchase of a recently constructed data ...

AWS Secures Land for a new facility in Navi Mumbai

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be leasing land in Navi Mumbai, India, for a new data facility. The Hindustan Times reports that Amazon Data Services (an Indian subsidiary) has subleased a 451,000-square-foot site in the TTC industrial area in Bonsari, Airoli, for 15 years to construct a data c...

Cologix Begins Construction of an 21MW data facility in Montreal, Canada

Cologix

Cologix started the construction of a new data center in Montréal, Canada. This week, the company revealed that construction has begun on its latest Scalelogix facility in Quebec. The MTL8 facility, located in Technoparc Montréal, will encompass 205,000 square feet and provide 21 megawatts of ...

DigitalBridge Collaborates With Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund to Expand Middle East Data Centers

DigitalBridge

Digital infrastructure company DigitalBridge will expand its presence in the Middle East. DigitalBridge Group will administer a new partnership in which the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia will invest. The new partnership aims to establish data centers in Saudi Arabia and througho...

Digital Realty El Segundo's Facility Damaged by a Fire

2260 E El Segundo - Digital Realty

On Sunday, May 21st, a fire broke out at the LAX12 data center of Digital Realty in El Segundo, California. The fire led the facility to shut down two suites, and it incinerated an undisclosed number of servers, as well as cut power and locked out some users from the server space. A few days a...

Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has applied to construct a new data center in Los Angeles, California. The company has applied to construct a thirteen-story data center at 727 S Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The prospective applicant is GIP 7th Street LLC, a well-known subsidiary of Digital Realty. At ...

A Hospital in the UK Get new data center as Part of a $494m Renovation

United Kingdom

A hospital in the United Kingdom is undergoing a $494 million renovation that includes adding a data center. The House of Commons approved the reconstruction of Kettering General Hospital (KGH) in Northamptonshire. The KGH, which has occupied the same location for 126 years, will receive a $49...

Nvidia's Shares Jumps 20% on Massive Data Center Revenues

In extended trading last Wednesday, Nvidia shares surged significantly after the company surpassed analysts' revenue estimates and reported record data center sales. The Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor manufacturer reported a 19% increase in first-quarter revenue compared to the pr...

Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

Meta

After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data center...

Edged Energy begins work on Chicago facility

Chicago

Edged Energy has announced that work has commenced on its new facility in the Aurora area of west Chicago, Illinois.Together, with Seefried Industrial Properties, Inc., the company broke ground on the new 65-acre, multi-building data center campus, its first in Illinois, and nearby CyrusOne fa...

Moveworks opens regional data center in European Union

Europe

In a bid to meet growing demands for data privacy and sovereignty, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Europe, Moveworks, a ​​generative AI platform, has announced that it has opened its first regional data center in the European Union (EU).The company said that launching the fac...