Data Center News

Lunar data center on the horizon

Paris

While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility b...

3S Group announces new data center in Poland

3S Katowice

3S Group has announced it is building a new data center in Katowice, Poland. Its largest data center on the complex yet, the DC3 facility will span 2,200 sq m (23,600 sq ft), built next to its DC1 and DC2 facilities.Based in Southern Poland, the addition of the new data center brings the grou...

Marathon Digital Holdings Announces Binding Letter of Intent with Compute North to Host 300-Megawatts of Bitcoin Mining at New Data Center

New Data Center to House Approximately 73,000 of Marathon’s Bitcoin Miners, Transitioning the Company’s Mining Operations to 70% Carbon NeutralLAS VEGAS, May 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In the news release issued under the same headline earlier today by Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ...

Etisalat announces new data center in Kalba, UAE to serve as a CLS for Africa-1

Etisalat Kalba

Etisalat just announced its new data center in the city of Kalba, northeast of the country. The data center named SmartHub Kalba, scheduled to open in Q1 of 2022, is Etisalat’s third wholesale data center as it opened two facilities in 2020. Besides, the Kaba facility is built to Tier III stan...

MainOne to expand its data center footprint in West Africa

MainOne MDX-i

MainOne, a Nigerian Telco, has announced its plans to expand its data centers across West Africa. The Company plans to double its storage capacity over the next two years. The data center capacity will increase from 700 racks to 900 racks next year. It also plans to expand its racks by 300 ...

HostDime breaks ground on Eatonville data center

HostDime

After a several delays, HostDime has announced that it has broken ground on its new 95,000 sqft data center in Eatonville. The development was subject to delays as a result of the pandemic, according to the company.The facility will be built on land which hasn’t seen development in nearly 100 ...

Liberty Global and Digital Colony launch AtlasEdge Data Centers

AtlasEdge

Liberty Global, a leading Telecoms Company and Digital Colony, a top investment firm focusing on digital infrastructure, has announced that they have joined forces to create AtlasEdge Data Centers, a European Edge data center business. The joint venture will see them operating over 100 Edge da...

Yondr Group Announces $2 Billion Investment in Data Centers in the Americas

North America

Yondr Group has announced a major $2 billion expansion plan to deliver data infrastructures spanning across the US, Canada, Central, and South America as part of its global scaling strategy. By 2024, the group plans to deliver data centers across five continents. Yondr Group has appointed Éann...

Digital Realty Completes Acquisition Of Ascenty (Press Release)

Digital Realty Trust

SAN FRANCISCO, May. 20, 2021 -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its Brazilian subsidiary, Stellar Participações Ltda., has completed the previously announced acquisition of Ascenty, the leading data...

Vertiv launches micro data center solution in EMEA

Vertiv

Vertiv just launched its already assembled micro data center system in Europe. The data center system is designed for the Edge and small IT locations. This system is called VRC-S, and it includes a UPS, monitor sensors, a rack power distribution system, and software. It also has up to 3.5KW of...

Sila agrees to sell all its data centers to Mapletree for $1.3bn

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

Sila Realty Trust announced that it has agreed to sell all its 29 data centers in the US to Mapletree Investment Trust for $1.3 billion. The 29 data centers are all the data centers in Sila’s portfolio which means upon completion; it will be an exit from the data center industry for Sila. ...

Microsoft gains approval for data center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft just gained approval from Hoffman Estates village board members to build a data center outside of Chicago, Illinois. The approved data center building is one of the two planned buildings at the 53-acre site. A 250,000 square feet building would be erected at the first phase while the...

GDS Holding continues expansion in China

GDS Services Ltd

GDS Holding has significantly expanded its footprint in China after commencing construction on five different facilities in its first quarter, with a view for further expansion.The company has closed two data center acquisitions in Beijing 15 and Tianjin 1. BJ15 brings over 19,000 sq m (204,00...

New Tennessee solar farm to provide Facebook data center with 110MW of renewable energy

Hyperscale Data Center

The Tennessee Valley Authority has just announced a deal with RWE Renewables and Facebook to build a 150MW solar facility near Millington TN. The solar facility will provide Facebook with 110MW of energy for its data centers in Gallatin, Tennessee, and across the Tennessee Valley. The solar f...

OneWeb partners with Rock Networks to serve Canadian Armed Forces

OneWeb has announced an essential distribution partnership in Canada with Rock Networks. With this deal, OneWeb will use its Low Earth Orbit in conjunction with Rock Network’s state-of-the-art devices to bring reliable and robust connectivity to Canada’s national defense and security protocol...

Alpha Federal to provide data center services to the US Geological Survey agency

Alpha Federal has won a contract valued at $20 million to deliver data center services to the US Geological Survey Agency. The contract is expected to run for five years. It also includes a one-year base period and four one-year options. Alpha Federal will be hosting the US Geological Survey ...

NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT to launch data center in space

NTT

Is space the new edge? NTT is planning to develop a data center in space. NTT will be working with SKY Perfect Holdings, a Japanese satellite company, to develop the project. Plans are in place for trials to start in 2022, launch in 2025, and for operations to begin in 2026. The orbiting data ...

STACK to run on 100 percent renewable energy by end of 2021

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it would be running 100% on renewable energy by the end of 2021. The Company made the promise of running all its current and future data centers with 100% green energy while launching its new social responsibility program. The Chief strategy officer at S...

South Australia to receive new $ 70 million data center from DCI

DCI Data Centers

DCI Data Centers recently announced plans to launch South Australia’s first Tier-Ready III data center. With a AU$70 million (US$54 million) investment, the company says that the facility will support local businesses and governments.Currently, the company has two data centers in the country. ...

Core Scientific to invest more than $100 million in new North Dakota data center

Core Scientific: Grand Forks

Core Scientific has announced that it will build a new data center based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after securing a $269,000 loan from the Grand Forks Growth Fund.In partnership with Nodak Electric Cooperative and Minnkota Power Cooperative, the blockchain company has said it plans to inve...