Data Center News

Microsoft to develop Azure data center region in Belgium

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced plans for an Azure data center region in Belgium. However, it didn’t share details of where the region will be or when it plans to develop it. Yet, just like Microsoft’s other regions, the Belgium Azure region will include three availability zones to enable better redun...

Supernap Italia opens second data center on its Siziano Campus

STACK Milan Campus

Supernap Italia has announced the opening of its second data center on its Siziano campus in Milan, Italy. The new data center has two independent data halls. With this, the facility now has 1 million square feet of space (100,000 square meters) and 40MW of capacity. CEO of Supernap Italia,...

Sustainability efforts: New data center at LNG terminal from Korea Gas and KT

KT Corporation

Korean telecoms company KT is looking into using the cold energy released during the regasification process from KOGAS’s natural gas to cool a facility at the LNG plant. This process deals with temperatures of -160oc, and if all goes ahead, this project will be the first of its kind. In Seoul,...

Utilizing waste heat: Nokia vLabs data center

Nokia's vLab data center in Tampere, Finland, will start to provide its waste heat to Tempere's district heating system in a move that promotes a secular economy. This heat project will commence at the beginning of 2022 and is a move towards a more sustainable future, in line with the company'...

VPLS acquires Wave Broadband's data center Silicon Valley

Evocative

VPLS has completed the acquisition of its third data this year by buying Wave Broadband’s facility in Santa Clara, California. The 3MW, 30,000 square feet data center located at 3080 Raymond Street, was acquired for an undisclosed fee. VPLS will rename the data center to SV3. According to r...

ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which w...

Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has "amended, extended, and upsized" its existing global revolving credit facility from $2.35 billion to $3.0 billion, which now feature a sustainability-linked pricing component. Moreover, the pricing will be "subject to adjustment" based on performance ta...

Tencent Cloud launches first internet data center in Brazil

Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud has announced that it has opened its first data center in São Paulo, Brazil. This means, Tencent Cloud now spans 68 available zones across the world, including 27 geographical areas. The expansion comes to meet the growing digitalization demand in the country. Poshu Yeung, Senior...

Schneider Electric's blueprint for data center sustainability compliance

In response to the growing and urgent need for data centers to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Schneider Electric has revealed its framework for how data center operators can achieve this. Tony Kang, Business VP for Secure Power at Schneider Electric Philippines, commente...

KKR offers to acquire TIM/Telecom Italia for $12 billion

TIM Group

United States hedge fund KKR has offered to acquire Italian telco TIM/Telecom Italia for $12 billion. TIM revealed that its board of directors met this week to discuss the interest of KKR to take its company private. However, there’s no assurance or indication whether TIM’s board will accept K...

L&T to build data center at Kanchipuram

Tamil Nadu

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has announced that it is planning to build data centers in Kanchipuram following the signing of a pact with the Tamil Nadu government. Over the next five years, the company expects to establish 90 MW capacity data centers in "a phased manner." According to the com...

atNorth opens its first Swedish data center

atNorth

atNorth has announced that it is opening its first data center in Sweden in Kista, northern Stockholm. The SWE01: SIF DC facility underwent the first phase of construction at the end of 2020, and plans are to build out the second phase of the project shortly.The second phase will see an additi...

Chandler's new legislation proposal and what it means for data centers

Arizona

Chandler may introduce new legislation that will introduce a more rigorous process when it comes to building more data centers in the area. This news comes with the region coming out third nationally for data center construction in the first half of 2021; concerns are mainly rooted in the unsu...

Several firms are looking into $11bn Global Switch buyout

Global Switch

Several data center and investment firms are mulling over the acquisition of data center firm Global Switch Holdings. According to Bloomberg, KKR and Blackstone Inc. are the likely forerunners of acquiring Global Switch. Equinix, Digital Realty, and DigitalBridge have also shown interest in...

Nxtra launches 38MW hyperscale data center in Chennai

Nxtra Data Ltd

Nxtra by Airtel is expanding its data center footprint in Chennai. Its new data center will have a capacity of 38MW, spanning 270,000 sq. ft. The facility received its virtual inauguration by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.K.In a statement, the company said: "This will include setting up ...

Vantage Data Centers tops-out of first data center in Goodyear, Arizona

Vantage: AZ11

Vantage Data Centers has expanded its data center campus in Goodyear, Arizona, by completing the construction of a new data center. The company revealed that it topped out its first 32MW data center on the Phoenix campus. Vantage acquired land in 2019 and began construction on the site. The...

Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) moves into Africa

Africa

Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) has announced that it is moving into Africa, after having signed Letters of Intent (LOI) for several projects, in the first steps towards collaboration with government ministries. This news follows African Energy Week. According to reports, EW&P is looking...

Rostelecom to develop 55MW data center campus in Moscow

Rostelecom Biryulevo

Rostelecom has announced its plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Moscow, Russia. The company revealed that its subsidiary Rostelecom DPC acquired a facility at Nikopolskaya street. Rostelecom plans to develop four data center buildings at the site. The buildings will cover a to...

Africa Data Centres to double capacity in Johannesburg, South Africa to 100MW

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has revealed its plans to more than double its capacity in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company says its footprint in the region would be increased to 100MW. ADC currently has two campuses in Johannesburg which will have 20MW of capacity each upon full build-out. In addi...

Data center development at US Antarctic base in pushed back to 2023

New Zealand

The development of a data center at the US Antarctic base has been stalled with completion now scheduled to be in 2023. The data center is situated in the McMurdo Station research and logistics base in Ross Island, New Zealand. It is about 1,360 kilometers (850 miles) north of the South Pol...