Data Center News

Host in Ireland holds first DCs for Bees event in North America

Irish data center group Host in Ireland recently held its first North American event for DCs for Bees. More than 115 volunteers from the data center sector joined in on the event in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, last week, with the intention of increasing the bee population, and enhancing...

Dubai's Moro Hub named world's largest solar data center

Dubai

The Guinness Book of World Records has awarded Dubai's Moro Hub the title of the largest solar-powered data center in the world. Owned by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), with a capacity of 100 MW data center, entirely fueled by DEWA-owned 3,000MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum So...

AirTrunk Breaks Ground on TOK2 Data Center

AirTrunk

AirTrunk has announced that it has begun constructing its TOK2 data center facility. The hyperscale data center will be located in West Tokyo, offering up to 110MW of capacity. The company first announced the facility in May and said it would span across 4.6 hectares of land. AirTrunk held...

AWS Launches Spanish Cloud Region

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has launched a new region in Spain. With this launch, the company has opened its eight regions in the continent. Like AWS’ other regions, the Spanish region also launched with three availability zones. AWS had announced in the past that it would invest up to €2.5 billion ($...

Earth Wind & Power (EWP) to move 'green' data centers to oilfields in the Middle East

Middle East

Earth Wind & Power (EWP) has announced that it has signed with services company Oilserv to place its "green" data centers in oil fields across the Middle East, including in Kuwait, Iraq, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates. The company utilizes excess energy from win...

DigitalOcean announces new facility in Sydney

Sydney

DigitalOcean has announced that it is expanding its digital footprint with a new data center in Sydney, Australia, namely SYD1. This new facility is reportedly connected to DigitalOcean's private internet edge and backbone network, providing 400 Gbps of on-net access to Asia, North America, an...

Amazon follows tech industry with new round of layoffs

Amazon AWS

Amazon is the latest tech company to make big layoffs. The giant is making around 10,000 cuts to employees in corporate and technology roles, in what the New York Times has determined represents about 3% of its corporate staff. More broadly, the cuts represent less than 1% of the global workf...

Germany's Energy Efficiency Act and what it could mean for the data center industry

Germany / Deutschland

The German Federal Ministry for the Economy recently presented a draft for an "Act to Enhance Energy Efficiency, Improve Climate Protection and Implement EU Legislation," named the Energy Efficiency Act (ENEfG). This bill has been proposed with the aim of saving 500 Terawatt hours (TWh) of ene...

Blackstone Starts Asian Data Center Unit With 600MW Facilities in India

India / Bhārata

Blackstone, a private equity investor, has revealed that it is launching an Asian data center platform called Lumina CloudInfra. The development will see Blackstone start with two data center facilities in India with a total capacity of 600MW. Blackstone reportedly has up to $25 billion in the...

Meta makes big cuts sacking 13% of its workforce

Meta

Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, has announced the biggest job cuts in the giant's history, with 13% of its workforce set to lose their jobs in a move that follows big redundancies at Twitter, Oracle and Microsoft. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the job cuts are "the mo...

HostDime plans new "Andromeda" data center

HostDime

HostDime has released design plans for a new facility to be built in Guadalajara, Mexico. The 3MW "Andromeda" data center is reportedly due to open in 2024, and will be certified by the International Computer Room Experts Association (ICREA) V standard, and certified with the Uptime Institute...

AirTrunk signs renewable energy agreement to offset Microsoft’s energy use

AirTrunk

AirTrunk and Hong Kong utility CLP Power have signed a renewable energy agreement to offset Microsoft's energy use in its facilities by matching its electricity consumption with local renewable energy certificates (RECs). Through this agreement, AirTrunk will source hourly RECs from CLP Power...

Scala signs 1.6GW PPA with Enel Américas

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has signed a PPA with Italian energy firm Enel Américas for data center power. The firm will reportedly provide the data center company with 1.6GW of power for its facilities across Chile, Peru, and Colombia, in a deal that represents 10% of Enel Américas' total existing ca...

BDx Indonesia To Develop Massive 100MW Data Center Campus in Jakarta, Indonesia

BDx Data Centers

BDx Indonesia has revealed its plan to develop a 100MW data center campus in Jakarta. The CGK5 data center campus will be developed on a 12-acre parcel in the Suryacipta City of Industry. The facility will be part of the company’s third availability zone in Indonesia. BDx Indonesia is a joint ...

Microsoft To Invest $1 Billion on Four Data Centers in North Carolina

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has promised to invest a minimum of $1 billion in developing four data centers in North Carolina’s Catawba County. The company plans to spread the investment over the next 10 years. According to county officials, Microsoft will invest in the data centers in Maiden, Hickory, and Conov...

Google's 15-Year Tax Break on Oregon Data Center Expires

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has started paying property taxes at its Oregon data center- 15 years after it launched the facility. The company got a tax bill of $5.2m from Wasco County after its tax break expired. Google developed the data center in 2006. The tax bill might be small for Google, but it will signi...

Telefónica Considering Selling its Stake in Cornerstone

Telefonica

Telefonica is mulling over selling its stake in Cornerstone, a UK mast operator. The Spanish operator has a 50% stake in the company which it considers a “disposable asset.” The other half is held by Vantage Towers. According to Reuters, the CEO of Telefonica said that the company has not yet ...

Kio Acquires a 20MW Facility in Greater Mexico City Metro Area

KIO Data Centers

Kio Networks has announced the acquisition of a new data center campus in the greater Mexico City. The acquired data center is called KIO MEX6, which has a capacity of up to 20MW across 50,000 sqm. The facility is also capable of hosting telecom and critical IT services. Kio Networks also conf...

Ascenty Invests $290m To Develop Five Data Centers in Latin America

Ascenty

Ascenty has announced its plans to invest R$1.5 billion ($290 million) in Latin America. The funds will be used to develop five data centers in the region. The new facilities will be located in Colombia, Chile, and Brazil. Upon completion, Ascenty’s data center count in the region will hit ...

Helios Investment Partners Pumps $50 million into Kenya's IXAfrica

Kenya

Helios Investment Partners has announced a $50m investment into Kenyan data center company IXAfrica. The investment in the data center company is expected to close before the turn of the new year. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, which also include Kenyan regulatory ...