Data Center News

KKR’s Global Technical Realty moves ahead with UK data center

Global Technical Realty

KKR's Global Technical Realty has announced that it has begun work on its UK data center campus located in Slough. When fully built out, the campus will have a total capacity of 40.5MW, made up of three 13.5MW, 5,400 sq m (58,000 sq ft) data centers.Franek Sodzawiczny, Founder and CEO at Globa...

Skybox Datacenters finishes construction on Illinois data center

Skybox Datacenters

Construction on Skybox Datacenters's 189,000 sq ft (17,600 sq m) facility Elk Grove Village facility is complete, the company has announced. The project, first announced in March 2021, is the company's first outside of Texas and has a capacity of 30MW.Rob Morris, CEO of Skybox Datacenters, sai...

Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

Singapore

This week, Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister made an announcement that the country's moratorium on new data center builds, which was introduced back in 2019. Minister Gan Kim Yong said that going forward, a "more selective" approach to new builds will be taken.In a written reply to a par...

AREP to invest in six data centers

Ashburn: Data Center Alley

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that, with Harrison Street, it is investing $1bn (€864m) in six data centres in the US. According to reports, this development plan will total 2.1m sqft of data centre space in Data Center Alley in Ashburn and Arcola, Virginia.Speaking about t...

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into Japan with a 36MW campus

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed that it would be developing a 36MW data center campus in Japan. The facility will be located in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, just outside Tokyo. Stack Infrastructure will be partnering with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management LP on the project. The comp...

AIMS Data Centre buys a 13-story building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

AIMS Data Centre Sdn Bhd

Malaysia’s AIMS Data Centre has revealed that it acquired a 13-story building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The data center firm acquired the purpose-built office building for RM 62 million ($14.8m). The company reached an agreement with KWSP (Malaysia’s Employees Provident Fund Board) for the bu...

Stack makes progress at its Hillsboro campus

STACK Portland POR03

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has made progress at its new Hillsboro campus in Oregon with the completion of its first building. Spanning 180,000 sqft, with a capacity of 24MW, that said, only half of that capacity (12MW) is available due to pre-leasing activity.The facility, POR0...

GTD Group to grow its presence in Peru

GTD Group is expanding its data center footprint in Lima, Peru, it has announced, with an investment of $50 million in a new facility. According to reports, the site will span 10,000 sqm (107,600 sq ft) with 2,000 sqm (21,500 sq ft) to accommodate 900 racks. $7 million of the $50 million inves...

Echelon Data Centres secures over $960m funding from Starwood Capital

Echelon Data Centres

Echelon Data Centres has announced a debt finance agreement with Starwood Capital Group. The agreement sees Echelon raise over €855 million ($969.8m). Echelon will use the funds to finance the completion of data centers on its four facilities in Ireland. The sites include DUB40, DUB20, DUB1...

AWS continues to expand its local zones

Amazon AWS

Ever-growing and expanding its reach, AWS has announced that local zones are now available in Atlanta, Phoenix, and Seattle. This expansion means that the giant now has 17 Edge locations in 16 US metros. Its zones now include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Las ...

Gibtelecom initiates tree planting scheme in Wales

Wales

Gibtelecom has teamed up with the charity Protect Earth for a forestation project. Already, it has planted over 600 native British trees at the Pantpurlais farm, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, including 12 species of native saplings, including 100 Silver Birch, 50 Common Alder, 25 Bird Cherry, and ...

Telehouse moves into Bangkok

Telehouse Bangkok

Telehouse has announced that it is introducing a new data center to Bangkok, Thailand, which according to the company, is the first of its kind in the area, and will launch the company's third location in Southeast Asia.Spanning 9,000 sqm (97,000 sq ft), the facility, based in the Rama 9 busin...

A DartPoints-leased data center in Indiana has been sold

DartPoints

According to Five 9s Digital, it advised the owner of a DartPoints-leased data center in Columbus, Indiana, to sell off the property. The data center has been sold for $8.3 million. The facility in question is a purpose-built single-tenant data center. The data center is located at 2425 Tec...

Eirgrid report makes decision on data centers in Ireland

Republic of Ireland

EirGrid has made a decision on data center building in Ireland. The state-owned electric power transmission operator has outlined that it will not accept any further applications to build facilities in Dublin for "the foreseeable future" and perhaps not until 2028. That said, the data center a...

Digital 9 is investing extra $93 million in Verne Global

Verne Global

Digital 9 Infrastructure has revealed that it is investing an extra $93 million in Iceland’s data center company Verne Global. The investment is to fund a further expansion of the data center firm. Triple Point Investment Management manages D9, and it acquired Verne Global in September last ye...

CloudHQ plans 4 million sq ft of data center buildings

CloudHQ

According to DgtlInfra, a firm with links to CloudHQ wants to develop a 4 million square feet data center on a 97-acre site in Virginia. The Loudoun County Planning & Zoning commission is looking to increase the approved data center use on the Dulles Berry project site in Ashburn to 4,050,...

Verne Global to expand its Iceland data center

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global has announced that it will be expanding its campus in Iceland. According to the company, this expansion will take place over the next year with a $93 million additional investment from Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), following its acquisition of Verne Global in September 2021.The ...

More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

Northern Virginia

More people are speaking out against proposed data centers along Pageland Lane, near Manassas National Battlefield. The latest to outline his opposition to the construction plans is documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. In a letter to Prince William County Board of Supervisors, Burns expressed "fea...

Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

Equinix

Equinix has signed a green energy deal it has announced. By penning a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Neoen and Prokon, Equinix will be provided with 85% of the energy produced by the 35MW Björkliden wind farm in the municipality of Närpes, in the western region of Ostrobothnia. T...

Akwa Ibom State to be site for technological development and data centers

Africa

Akwa Ibom is becoming an emerging technology and innovation hub in Africa. Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Committee on Foreign Direct Investment Commission, Gabriel Ukpeh, said that the state government is working to ensure that undersea cable lands are in the works in the next 12 to 24 month...