Data Center News

Meta signs deals for seven solar projects in Georgia and Tennessee

Meta

Meta has announced more solar projects, this time in Georgia and Tennessee. According to the company, the projects will be delivered through Silicon Ranch's partnership with Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Together, these three entities w...

Amazon postpones Virginia campus

Amazon AWS

Amazon has pressed pause on its 1 million sq ft (92,900 sqm) data center campus in Manassas, in Prince William County, Virginia. This announcement comes after the giant was scheduled to present three linked applications on 30 November. However, its special-use permit application has now been ...

Shell and NuScale announce nuclear-hydrogen partnership

United States

Shell has announced a partnership with US-based NuScale through which it aims to evaluate the production of hydrogen from small nuclear power stations inexpensively. This new deal is for the “Development and Demonstration of a Concept for an Economically Optimised IES” project, which will be c...

Meta 'rescopes' global projects

Meta

Meta, as part of a wider plan to integrate AI into its data center operations, has paused a number of its data center projects in a 'rescoping' effort, it has been announced. The first facility development that the giant announced it was halting was at its data center campus in Odense, Denmar...

V.tal plans new facility in Port Alegre, Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

V.tal has announced that it's planning a new facility in Porto Alegre after acquiring a building in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. While no details related to financial terms, location, building size, or timelines were shared, the company, a Brazilian fiber firm part of telco GlobeNet, in a s...

Atman To Develop a 43MW Campus in Warsaw, Poland

Atman

Atman has announced its plan for a third data center campus in Warsaw. The Polish data center company bought a 5.5-hectare land in Duchnice to the west of Warsaw to develop the new facility. The Atman Data Center Warsaw-3 data center campus will feature three buildings with a total of 36 data ...

NorthC Developing a 4.5MW Facility in Eindhoven, The Netherlands

NorthC Datacenters

NorthC has broken ground on a 4.5MW data center in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The 43,000 square feet (4,000 square meters) facility will be the company’s second data center in Eindhoven. It will also be located next to its existing data center on the Eindhoven High Tech Campus (HTC). The f...

Applied Digital Breaks Ground on New 5MW Facility in North Dakota

North Dakota

Applied Digital Corporation has announced that it is developing a 5MW data center in North Dakota. The facility will be designed to host Graphics Processing Units GPUs for non-cryptocurrency use cases. Applied Digital’s new data center will be located next to its existing 100MW hosting faci...

AtlasEdge To Develop Two Data Centers in Manchester, UK

AtlasEdge

AtlasEdge has announced its plan to build two data centers in Manchester, UK. The company secured permission for two data center buildings in Salford, Manchester. This will be the company’s first development since it was established in 2021. AtlasEdge filed for the buildings in May 2022 and...

Cox Edge Launches Edge Locations in Florida and Arkansas

Arkansas

Cox Edge has announced the launch of new Edge locations in Arkansas and Florida. The company's LinkedIn post reads: "We're excited to announce a new location in Johnson, Arkansas, and in Pensacola, Florida, on our journey to bring compute resources closer to end users!" Cox Edge is Cox Communi...

JLL Seeking Buyers For Property in Chicago Billed as Potential 50MW Data Center Development

JLL

JLL is looking to sell a plot of land outside Chicago, Illinois. The land is being touted for data center development. JLL’s Regional Director, Sean Reynolds, posted on LinkedIn about the land. He said: “Looking for a Chicago area data center development site with quick access to 50 megawa...

CapitaLand To Develop Massive Data Center Campus in Chennai, India

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

CapitaLand has announced that it bought land in Chennai, India, for a 55MW data center development. The land in question is a 4.01-acre freehold site located in the Ambattur area of India’s Chennai. CapitaLand India Trust (CLINT) will develop the 55MW greenfield facility through its subsidiary...

Forbes References Baxtel in a Report about Indonesia's Growing Data Center Market

With his trademark black shirt and long gray hair, Otto Toto Sugiri, cofounder and president director of data center company DCI Indonesia, stands out among the country’s youthful tech entrepreneurs. The 68-year-old, who learned to program before many of those entrepreneurs were born, is one o...

Luxembourg's Ministry of Environment and Google's delayed data center

Google

Google's Bissen data center project has gone quiet, according to Luxembourg's government, which says that it currently has no contact with the giant. The Ministry of Environment had requested a report on the environmental impact of the project, however Google also hasn't applied for a buildin...

Equinix To Develop Data Center in Johannesburg

Equinix

Equinix has announced its plan to venture into the South African data center market with a data center development. The company plans to invest $160m to develop a data center campus in Johannesburg. The 4MW data center called JN1 will have over 20,000 gross square feet of colocation space and ...

Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact announces launch of audit framework

Europe

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, made up of 80 data center companies and 22 associations, has announced the launch of an audit tool companies can use to verify the environmental claims they make. The Audit Framework, checked against the EU's Taxonomy regulation, will reportedly ensure tha...

Vantage To Develop Second Data Center Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced plans for a second data center campus in Johannesburg, Japan. The facility called JNB2 will be located in Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg. JNB2’s first building will feature a two-story, 33,000 square meter (355,000 square foot), 20MW data center. It is scheduled...

Hyperco To Develop two 50MW Facilities in Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki

Hyperco has announced its plan to expand its data center presence in New Zealand with two new data center campus developments. The Nordic data center company said it would develop the facilities in Helsinki, Finland, with each having an initial capacity of 50MW. The company did not reveal t...

Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

Northern Virginia

Following the Prince William County Board of Supervisors' decision to give the green light to the controversial PW Digital Gateway, it is now being faced with two lawsuits. The decision, which will permit changing the area's comprehensive plan, opening up the area to 25 million sq ft (2.3 mill...

CDC expands presence in Australia

Canberra Data Centres (CDC)

CDC Data Centres has announced expansion plans in Australia. The company has said it will expand its Sydney campus with two new buildings, adding more than 100MW, with the new additions seeing $1 billion in investment. This follows the official opening of its new $1.5 billion data center camp...