Data Center News

DatacenterHawk Releases Q1 2023 Data Center Absorption Report

DatacenterHawk's Q1 2023 review found North American data center absorption at its lowest since Q3 2021. Despite this, worldwide industry demand remains high. DatacenterHawk president David Liggitt expects an interesting year of data center development. Market analysis will help stakeholders m...

Data Center Expansion in Spotsylvania

Northern Virginia

Spotsylvania County officials are planning to capitalize on data center building expansion. They are modifying the county's Comprehensive Plan as part of their efforts. The county Planning Commission scheduled data center-specific Comprehensive Plan amendment public hearings Wednesday night af...

Mubadala and Apollo Funds to Invest $500 Million in Brightspeed

Brightspeed, a provider of broadband and telecommunications services, and Mubadala Investment Company ("Mubadala"), the sovereign investor of Abu Dhabi, announced this week that Mubadala would invest $500 million in Brightspeed. With this investment, Mubadala will join investment funds managed...

Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has made a world first by inking a PPA deal with Helion for electricity from the company's first commercial fusion power plant. Scheduled to come online in 2028, the giant has been promised to receive 50MW or greater from the plant after a one-year ramp-up. This technology has been ...

Fairfax County to look at new rules for data centers

Northern Virginia

According to a report by FFXNow, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is set to look into the environmental impact of data centers in the midst of its ongoing data center boom. This week, following a unanimously approved motion introduced by Board Chairman Jeff McKay, county staff were inst...

Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center

KAO Data

Kao Data has announced plans to develop a new data center in Manchester, UK. The facility, located in Kenwood Point, will offer a capacity of 40 MW and will be the first Kao data center to be built in the North of England.  Based on a 39,000 sqm (419,800 sq ft) ex-industrial site, the facilit...

Scala Data Centers signs iMasons' open letter for greater use of greener concrete

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has signed an open letter published by iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), a non-profit striving for responsible digital transformation and sustainable digital infrastructure. The initiative strives to promote sustainable raw materials in the data center ind...

Data Center Constructed in Germany Using 3D Printing

Germany / Deutschland

A 3D-printed data facility will be built in Heidelberg, Germany. Heidelberg iT Management, a cloud and data center operator, said this month that it would employ the "largest 3D-printed building in Europe" as a server hotel by the end of 2023. The project is led by Kraus Group, Peri 3D Constru...

North San Jose Slated to Receive New Data Centers

San Francisco Bay Area

This week, the San Jose City Council unanimously authorized plans for a sophisticated manufacturing complex and data centers in North San Jose. Denver-based STACK Infrastructure plans to destroy two industrial buildings on a nearly 10-acre parcel, including a former Olympus service center, and...

Digital Realty Sets Up Direct Liquid Cooling at Paris "HPC-capable" Data Center

Digital Realty Trust

Direct liquid cooling (DLC) capabilities have been implemented at Digital Realty's La Courneuve data center in Paris, France. According to the company, its new facility is capable of high-performance computing (HPC). Fabrice Coquio, SVP and managing director – France at Digital Realty stated t...

NextDC is Looking For $413.3m For Global Expansion

NEXTDC

NextDC, an Australian data center company, will open projects in Kuala Lumpur and Auckland. They secretly added New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan data center proposals to its site last month. None of the locations had timelines or specifications. The company disclosed foreign expansion in an AS...

Homeshree Buys $24m Worth Webyne Data Facility Stake

India / Bhārata

Homeshree, an Indian non-banking financial company (NBFC), has purchased a $24.36m stake in Webyne Data Center. India-based Webyne is a cloud hosting and infrastructure provider. The investment is meant to enable Webyne to grow its product and tech portfolio, increase its expenditure on infras...

Amazon Receives $1 Billion in Oregon Tax Rebates For New Data Center Facilities

Amazon AWS

Officials in a rural county in the northeastern corner of Oregon have voted to provide Amazon with tax benefits that are believed to be worth one billion dollars so that the company can build five additional data centers there. According to The Oregonian and OregonLive, the five commissioners ...

Vertiv Increases LatAm Modular Datacenter Stake

Vertiv

Vertiv expects modular and prefabricated data centers to grow in Latin America. Vertiv Latin America manager of integrated solutions services Alexandre Alves said modular equipment is meant to build quickly. This ecosystem will provide more opportunities for Latin American providers if modula...

Bankruptcy Auction of Bed Bath & Beyond Data Facility

North Carolina

Bed Bath & Beyond's North Carolina data center was put up for sale during its bankruptcy asset sale. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.'s real estate advisor, A&G Real Estate Partners (A&G) revealed intentions to auction hundreds of tenancies last week. A&G plans to sell 475 Bed Bath &...

DOE invests millions in funding for cooling solution projects

United States

As the imperative to decarbonize data becomes clearer, the U.S. the Department of Energy (DOE) has announced it will invest $40 million in funding for 15 projects for the development of high-performance, energy-efficient cooling solutions for data centers.The department outlined that data cent...

Data Centre 220 and Xtreme Networks partner for greater data sovereignty in New Zealand

New Zealand

Data Centre 220 has partnered with Xtreme Networks for greater data sovereignty in New Zealand. According to the two, the partnership will provide their customers with two geographically diverse locations within New Zealand while providing secure and reliable data storage and management offeri...

HYD-1 data center launches in Hyderabad

Web Werks

In Hyderabad, the Web Werks and Iron Mountain Data Centers (IMDC) Joint Venture (JV) has launched the first data center on its campus in Hyderabad, India. Named HYD-1, the facility can support up to 5.5MW of IT load and spans 120,000 sqft.Commenting on the launch, Mark Kidd, EVP & Global G...

CDC Data Centres emissions data released after claim rejected by watchdog

Canberra Data Centres (CDC)

According to a report by Innovation Aus, CDC Data Centres request to have its greenhouse gas emissions data withheld from public release has been rejected by Clean Energy Regulator, Australia's clean energy watchdog.The data center company was seeking to have its indirect emissions and energy ...

Culpeper County looks at a new business personal property tax category for data centers

Virginia

In Culpeper County, the Board of Supervisors is reportedly considering a lower rate for data center developments. The proposal would see  a new business personal property tax category that would introduce a lower rate for computer equipment and peripherals in data centers. Economic Development...