Data Center News

ReNew Power signs pact with RackBank for renewable energy for data center

RackBank Datacenters Ltd has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ReNew Power, whereby it will provide the company with 100% renewable energy to power its hyper-scale data center in India. According to the company, this pact will bring India its first "green" d...

DC Matrix plans six Edge data centers in Queensland, Australia

Edge Centres

DC Matrix, a new Edge data center firm based in Queensland, Australia, wants to build six data centers in Queensland. The first of the six facilities will be in Slippy Downs, on the Sunshine Coast. The chief digital infrastructure officer at DC Matrix, Adam Gibson, said the building design of ...

CBRE to acquire 60 percent of Turner & Townsend for £960 million ($1.3 billion)

CBRE Global Investors Ltd

CBRE Group will acquire a 60% stake in Turner & Townsend for £960 million ($1.3 billion) cash. CBRE Group is a real estate services and investment firm. At the same time, Turner & Townsend is a UK-based real estate, natural resources, and infrastructure consultancy that provides cos...

Digital Realty expands in Seoul

Digital Seoul 2 (ICN11)

Digital Realty has announced it is expanding its footprint in Seoul, South Korea, with a 64MW data center following the purchase of a land parcel in Gurae-dong, Gimpo City, in northwest Seoul. It is expected to be completed in the first half of 2023.The facility will span 970,000 square feet ...

NextDC buys land in west Sydney for new data center campus

Carrier-Neutral Data Center

NextDC just bought a plot of land covering 1,334,724 square feet in West Sydney for the development of a new data center. The site is located at Horsley Park, in New South Wales. This location will be NextDC’s fourth facility in the city, and it will be called S4. NextDC also says subject t...

Flexential to spend $4.8m in expanding its data center in Franklin, Tennessee

Flexential Franklin TN

BizJournal reports that Flexential is expanding its Franklin, Tennessee data center. The report states that Flexential has been granted building permits to expand its data center at 4600 Carothers Parkway. The Company is reportedly calling on Turner Construction for the project dubbed as ‘P...

Sustainable development: Compass Datacenters builds its data centers on eco-friendly concrete

Compass Datacenters

As Compass Datacenters expands across North America, it is prioritizing sustainability in the building of its data centers. Using technology created by Nova Scotia-based CarbonCure Technologies means that not only is less cement required in the mixing of concrete, but CO2 is also permanently r...

Victorian swimming bathhouse in Manchester gets a digital transformation

Manchester

Ashton Old Baths, a Victorian bathhouse in Manchester, has undergone a significant transformation into a council data center, and a tech hub spanning over 10,000 sq ft of office and coworking space.The historic Grade II-listed building, which first opened in 1870, is now in phase two of redeve...

Scala Data Centers signs renewable PPA contract with Engie Brasil

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has inked a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), a long-term energy purchase agreement with ENGIE Brasil Energia. This agreement, worth approximately 250mn reais (US$48.5 million), will see over 1,600 GWh of clean energy supplied by 2033.Speaking about the ...

Telstra converts two data centers into carrier-neutral colocation facilities

Telstra

Telstra has announced the conversion of two of its data centers into carrier-neutral colocation facilities. Based in Sydney and Melbourne, both facilities have a PUE of 1.61 and 10MW power capacity.This move, according to reports, could be the first in a series of smaller data centers opening...

New report makes big data center recommendations for UK government

United Kingdom

A new independent government report into the efficiency of UK government spending suggests that the UK government should introduce a central registry of all its data centers. According to the report, this recommendation comes in an effort to ensure “every pound is spent effectively and efficie...

INET sets up data center Real Estate Investment Trust in Thailand

Internet Thailand (INET)

INET, a Thai data center firm, is setting up a data center Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) in Thailand. The REIT arm of the firm (INETREIT) will make an initial capital commitment of 4.3 billion baht ($130.5 million) in INET’s IDC3 Phase 1 project in Saraburi Province. INET also says th...

Amazon signs deal with TotalEnergies for renewable energy

Amazon AWS

Amazon, like many other big tech companies, is making big sustainability pledges. Some of these pledges include becoming net-zero carbon by 2040 and powering all of its operations with renewable energy by 2025. These targets are needed, too, considering the scale of the tech giant. Speaking t...

Apple and Google rally against Ireland's proposed moratorium on new data centers

Google

Last month, the People Before Profit party in Ireland proposed an amendment to the Planning and Development act, to place a moratorium on new data centers being built. This proposal follows Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), launching a consultation on data center grid con...

AWS launches Local Zone in Denver

Amazon AWS

AWS just announced the availability of local zones in Denver, Colorado. With the new local zones in Denver, customers can now deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to on-premises installations and end-users in Denver. Amazon Web Services said it is happy to anno...

Yondr and Everstone forms $1 billion joint venture for developing hyperscale data centers in India

Yondr Group

Yondr Group and private investment firm Everstone Group have formed a joint venture to develop data centers in India. The joint venture will operate under the name EverYondr, and it will have its first data center in India. The Companies have already acquired land and power for developing the ...

Piemonte Holding announces agreement to purchase Globo's data center in Rio de Janeiro

Elea: Rio AI City RJO1

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The financial group Piemonte Holding, Globo Comunicação e Participações and Drammen Elea Digital, Piemonte's data center holding company, announced this Wednesday (28) that they have signed a sale and purchase agreement concerning Globo's data cent...

Aligned secures $250 million for sustainability and green growth plans

Aligned

Aligned has announced that it has secured $250 million in sustainability-linked financing, bringing its total to $1.25 billion. Last year, it became the first data center company to receive a sustainability-linked loan (SLL). These loans are linked to sustainability initiatives, and the inter...

Keppel DC REIT to acquire its first data center in China for $98 million

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel DC REIT has completed the acquisition of its first data center in China. The firm completed the agreement with Guangdong Bluesea Data Development Co. Ltd. and its parent Company, Guangdong Bluesea Mobile Development Co., to acquire the Guangdong Data Center in Jiangmen. The deal cost...

Lumen is selling its Latin American business to Stonepeak for $2.7 billion

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has announced the sale of its entire Latin American business to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. The sale is said to be worth $2.7 billion. Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, is also investing funds in the deal with Stonepeak. The current leadership team...