Data Center News

India To Classify Data Centers as 'Infrastructure,' - More Development Expected

India / Bhārata

It is great news for data center companies, and investors in India as the country's government says it will classify data centers as infrastructure assets starting April 1, 2022. The development will help ensure that data center companies get better access to funds through loans or investments...

Unoccupied Data Center in Hauppauge, NY, sells for $21m

New York

An unoccupied data center in Hauppauge, New York, has been acquired for $21 million. According to Newsday, Link Logistics, a subsidiary of Blackstone, bought the property. Link Logistics plans to tear down the building and redevelop it as a Class A distribution center. The data center sits on ...

What the FCC's decision on China Unicom Americas means for data centers

United States

The Federal Communications Commission has revoked China Unicom Americas’ operating license, citing national security risks, it has been announced. The vote was won 4-0, which means that within 60 days of the order’s publication, the company must cease all domestic interstate and international ...

Sabey Data Centers to expand in Quincy

Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Data Centers has announced it is expanding its SDC Quincy campus in central Washington. The company said the expansion will see 70 MW added to the campus. The campus currently spans 420,000 sq ft (39,000 sqm), and the first phase of construction will go ahead in the second half of the y...

EdgeConneX Granted Property Tax Break For its 22MW data center in Elk Grove

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX is developing a new data center in Elk Grove, Illinois. It has also been granted property tax breaks for the facility. The Elk Grove Village officials met last week and endorsed a proposed Cook County property tax for the company. EdgeConneX plans to develop a 22MW data center on...

H5 Data Centers Completes The Acquisition of Seven Data Centers From vXchnge

H5 Data Centers

H5 Data Centers has announced that it has completed the acquisition of seven data center facilities from vXchnge across the United States. With this development, vXchnge has just one data center. With this agreement, H5 data centers has added over 250,000 square feet (23,200 square meters) of ...

Blackstone Makes a $250m Investment In Vnet

21Vianet

Chinese data center firm Vnet has announced that Blackstone has invested $250 million in the firm. Blackstone bought $250 million worth of convertible notes in Vnet. According to Vnet, it will be using the funds to develop and expand in China. The founder and executive Chairman of Vnet, Josh C...

IDA CEO makes announcement on Dublin data centers

Dublin

IDA Ireland Irish Development Agency (IDA) has announced that looking ahead, it is “unlikely” that any new data centres will be built in Dublin or along the east coast. However, Martin Shanahan, the head of the state’s development agency, has said it will build data centers if they are require...

Microsoft to cut down 2,600 trees in San Antonio to make way for data center

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is to build a data center on a 33-acre plot in San Antonio, however, this will come at the expense of 2,642 trees. The move was recently given the go-ahead by the City Council, who voted 8-3 on Thursday, January 28, 2022. The giant will reportedly plant 833 trees around the data cen...

Ascenty Is Developing Its Fourth Data Center São Paulo, Brazil

Ascenty

Ascenty has broken ground on its fourth data center in the Sao Paulo region of Brazil. The new data center will have 7,000 square meters of space while also offering 9MW of capacity. Ascenty says it will be investing up to R$220 million (US40.9m) in developing the facility. The data center is ...

Equinix Is Closing Its MA2 Facility in Manchester

Equinix Manchester MA2

Equinix has announced that it will be closing its MA2 facility in Manchester, UK. The data center says it will no longer operate the facility when the lease on the property expires in June 2023. According to Equinix, the data center does not meet its evaluation criteria anymore. Besides, th...

Hut 8 Announces Closing of the Acquisition of TeraGo's Data Center Business

Hut 8 Corp

TORONTO, Jan. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) ("Hut 8" or "the Company"), one of North America's largest, innovation-focused digital asset mining pioneers, supporting open and decentralized systems since 2018, is pleased to announce the closing of its defini...

Huge data center on the way for Williston, North Dakota

North Dakota

A huge data center is on its way to Williston, North Dakota. Atlas Power Data Center is the $1.9 billion project which will be built by Montana-based FX Solutions and owned and operated by Atlas Power. The first phase of the project is expected to be completed by 2024. Governor D...

DEAC and Neste announce partnership

Delska (DEAC, DLC Data Logistics Center)

DEAC has announced that it is teaming up with Neste, a producer of renewable diesel, helping the company to reach its goal of using 100% renewable energy by "as early as 2022." According to the company, it will enhance the sustainability of its data storage during potential power cuts.  A...

Acronis expands data center footprint into South Africa

Acronis has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint with the addition of its Acronis Cyber Cloud Data Center in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. According to the company, this new data center will provide customers with constant data availability and data sovereig...

Dutch Data Center Firm Penta Infra Secures €75 million in Funding

Penta Infra

Penta Infra has announced that it has raised €75 million ($83.5m) in a financing deal tied to sustainability targets. Penta Infra is a Dutch data center firm with a focus on European data centers. It has facilities in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Penta owns 11 data centers across the...

Maincubes Plans To Develop Third Facility In Frankfurt and First One In Berlin

maincubes one GmbH

Maincubes has revealed its plans to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. It also wants to develop its first data center in Berlin, Germany. Maincubes first announced plans for the FRA02 data center in July 2021. It also broke ground on the data center while scheduling the faci...

Meta/Facebook is Expanding Its Gallatin Data Center Campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook, now known as Meta, has plans to expand its Gallatin facility in Tennessee. Biz Journal was the first to report that the social media giant wants to construct another data center building at the Gallatin campus. The city council has also approved the plans for the development this ...

Data4 Breaks Ground On Its €250m ($278m) Data Center Campus In Poland

Data4: Warsaw 1

Data4 has announced that it has broken ground on its first data center campus in Poland. The French data center company announced earlier in July last year that it would invest up to €200 million ($237m) in developing the data center campus in Warsaw, Poland. The company has now confirmed that...

Huawei and Aesler are Developing Data Centers in Batam, Indonesia

Huawei Cloud

Huawei has revealed that it will be developing three data center facilities in Indonesia for Aesler Grup Internasional Tbk. Besides, Huawei has broken ground on one of the data centers. The two companies committed to developing data centers in the country last year. The first facility is sched...