Data Center News

Empyrion DC Raises Funds For Gangnam Data Center Building

Empyrion Digital

The intended construction of Empyrion DC's Gangnam Data Center (GDC) has been financed by three South Korean financial institutions. KEB Hana Bank, Hana Capital Co Ltd, along with the National Credit Union Federation of Korea will provide the loan, which KEB Hana Bank and Hyundai Asset Managem...

Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs

Meta

Reuters reports that Meta abandoned plans to release its own artificial intelligence processor and instead adopted Nvidia GPUs. Initial use of CPUs for AI training and chips for inference caused the company to fall behind in AI development. The switch to GPUs necessitated the redesign of its d...

HostDime's Colombia Data Center becomes first in Latin America to obtain EDGE Green Certificate

HostDime

HostDime's Columbia data center has become the first in Latin America to obtain the EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) certificate. This certificate is awarded to buildings with the resource efficiency of at least 20 percent in energy, water, and embodied energy in materials...

Google signs new PPA with EDPR

Google

Google has announced that it has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), EDPR NA Distributed Generation (EDPR NA DG), for solar energy in the US. This deal is reportedly the largest-ever corporate sponsorship for distributed generation signed between two companies in the US.Over 80 distr...

Work begins on third data center at Data4's Madrid campus

DATA4 Group

Data4 has announced that it is developing a new data center building at its campus in Madrid, Spain. The third building at the Alcobendas Campus was announced by the company in a LinkedIn post this week. According to the company, the building already on the site has been demolished to c...

Google merges DeepMind and Brain

Google

Google has announced a merger between its DeepMind subsidiary and Google Research's Brain division, dubbed 'Google DeepMind, as it pursues its big AI push. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai outlined that this move will "significantly accelerate" the company's AI progress. This move may co...

Microsoft gains approval for construction in Hollands Kroon area

Microsoft Azure

After what has been a long road, potted with controversy and setbacks, Microsoft has obtained construction permission for its data center in the Hollands Kroon area in the north of the Netherlands, after a protracted permitting process. While permission has now been granted, back in 2021, the ...

Serverspace Establish New Data Centers Around the World

Toronto

Leading cloud provider Serverspace is pleased to announce the installation of hardware in an innovative data center in Toronto, Canada. With current facilities in five other nations, this facility represents Serverspace's sixth international location. The new data center's equipment is kept in...

Soluna's Project Dorothy Data Center Receives Approval to Go Live from ERCOT

Texas

The manufacturer of green data centers for Bitcoin mining and other intensive computing, Soluna Computing, Inc., announced yesterday that it had received final authorization from ERCOT for powering Project Dorothy, its flagship data center in Texas, with immediate effect. The last legal requir...

Global Industry Analysis, CAGR Status, and Forecast for the Data Center Interconnect Market from 2023 to 2032

Based on the demands of the industry, Polaris Market study makes an effort to give the most pertinent and exemplary study on Data Center Interconnect Market: By Size, Changes, Share, Development, Segments, Industry Evaluation and Forecast, 2032. The piece looks at the market's ongoing developm...

RMZ Corp, a Real Estate Developer, Wants to Enter The Data Center Industry

India / Bhārata

RMZ Corp has diversified into three new asset classes, which include data centers. The company anticipates developing 350 million square feet of commercial space in India and abroad by 2032 for industrial and warehouse logistics, accommodations, and data centers. The company announced its inte...

Scala Data Centers Opens a Data Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Scala Data Centers

Scala's new data center in Rio de Janeiro for Scala Data Center is now operational. The Brazilian data center has a 7.2MW hyperscale capacity and only one anchor tenant at the moment. The So Joo do Meriti campus, where the SGIGSM01 facility is situated, will have 55MW of IT capacity when fully...

EdgeConneX Increases the Size of Its Israeli Data Centers

EdgeConneX

The construction of a new facility in Rishon will allow EdgeConneX, an innovator in global Hyperlocal to Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, to increase its data center impact in Israel. The new data center will meet the region's growing demand from hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and bus...

NetActuate Opens New Data Center in Nairobi, Kenya

NetActuate

The opening of services from a new data center in Nairobi, Kenya, was announced by NetActuate, a top provider of network and infrastructure solutions on a global scale. The three key cities of Nairobi, Accra, and Johannesburg now represent the entirety of NetActuate's footprint in Africa for m...

Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

Northern Virginia

The debate surrounding the construction of a massive data center facility in Prince William County persists. Tuesday evening, residents planned to hold a protest against the Prince William Digital Gateway prior to a developer-hosted open house. Maureen Umeh of FOX 5 reports that the controvers...

Eaton Obtains a 49% Investment in Jiangsu Ryan Electrical

China

Eaton has acquired a substantial stake in Jiangsu Ryan Electrical, a Chinese power distribution company. This week, the US power management company stated that it has acquired a 49 percent stake in Jiangsu Ryan Electrical Co. Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer of power distribution and sub-transmiss...

Lefdal Mine increases its power capacity of underground data center

Lefdal Mine Datacenter

In Måløy, Norway, Lefdal Mine Datacenter has added 60 MW to its underground data center. This increase was made possible through a connection to the regional 132 kV power network, upping its capacity from 20MW to 80MW. The power capacity has been expanded into modules of 30MW transformers. The...

European data center operators raise concern around energy supply

Europe

Across Europe, data center operators are raising concerns around energy supply availability, a new study by Agrreko has found. The company gathered responses from 700 data center professionals across seven European countries, including the UK, France, and parts of Scandinavia, and found that o...

Multifeed launches JPNAP service at Osaka 7 Data Center

Osaka

Internet Multifeed has announced that it has added the Osaka Data Center 7 in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, to its JPNAP service. The data center is operated by NTT Communications Corporation and will go online for operations in May 2023.According to the company, the data center is one of th...

Analysing the feasibility and impact of data center heat sharing

Green Mountain AS

In the last year or so, there's been a lot of talk about data centers sharing their heat and promoting the circular economy. The practice is widespread in Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania and Estonia and Germany was even exploring making it compulsory for operators to reuse waste heat with a new eff...