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Five Colorado Cities and Counties Pause or Ban New Data Centers in 2026

Colorado's Front Range spent the spring slamming the brakes on data centers. Denver, Jefferson County, Boulder County, Larimer County, and the city of Longmont have all moved to pause or ban new development since May. Colorado Springs did the opposite. Its planning department [quietly approved](h...

June 21, 2026

Colorado (CO)

NextDC To Develop a Tier IV-Certified Data Center in Adelaide, Australia

NextDC has announced its plans to develop a data center in Adelaide, Australia. The Australian data center firm revealed that it had purchased land to develop a 10MW data center which will be called A1 Adelaide. The facility will be a Tier IV-certified data center. It will also develop a Missi...

February 18, 2022

NEXTDC

Will the Philippines absorb demand from Singapore?

In light of Singapore announcing that going forward, it will be more selective about the data center projects it accepts, experts forecast that the Philippines will likely absorb some of the data center demand from Singapore. In a recent briefing paper, Santos-Knight Frank (SKF) Occupier Solut...

February 17, 2022

Philippines

AT&T signs two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)

AT&T has signed two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with Vitol, an energy trader, it has announced. The virtual PPAs are for approximately 80MW and 75 MW at solar projects in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The two projects are expected to be fully operational by 2022 and 2023, respectiv...

February 17, 2022

AT&T

Meta moves into Kuna, Idaho

Meta is continuing its expansion as it moves into Kuna, Idaho, with a 960,000 sqft facility. The giant is injecting $800 million into the project and intends to break ground on the facility in September 2022, which is expected to continue through to 2025. The facility will be the largest of it...

February 17, 2022

Meta: Kuna Idaho

Web Werks moves into Bengaluru, India

Web Werks has announced its plans to build a new data center in Bengaluru (Bangalore). The company outlined that the first phase of the building project will be completed by the fourth quarter of 2022. In its final form, it will offer 110,000 sqft of colocation space and 20 MVA of gross power ...

February 17, 2022

Iron Mountain: Bengaluru

Africa50 Invests $20m in PAIX Data Centres

PAIX Data Centres has announced that investment vehicle, Africa50 has invested $20 million into its business. The funds raised signifies PAIX Data Center’s Series B financing by the investment firm. According to PAIX, the funds will be used to expand and grow into new markets. The CEO of PAIX ...

February 17, 2022

PAIX

EdgeConneX to expand in Dublin

The South Dublin County Council (SDCC) has granted EdgeConnex permission to build two single-story data centers and three gas-powered generation plant buildings at Dublin’s Grange Castle Business Park after it was initially proposed last year. The facilities span 2,800 sqm (137,700 sqft combin...

February 16, 2022

EdgeConneX

CyrusOne makes headway on sustainability goals

CyrusOne has announced that in line with its ambition to become data climate-neutral by 2030, its Dallas, Texas headquarters is now powered by 100% renewable energy. It is also the latest part of its portfolio to be net-water positive. CyrusOne is also one of the signatories of the Climate Ne...

February 16, 2022

CyrusOne

Cologix announces significant expansion in North America

Cologix has announced that it is funneling further investment in its expansion to accelerate its growth, adding to the number of hyperscale edge data centers in its portfolio. Alongside this announcement, the company also published the new name of its hyperscale edge data centers, Scalelogix. ...

February 16, 2022

Cologix

AWS Buys Land and Data Center From IPI Partners After Selling Land To Its Subsidiary Stack

Amazon Web Services has completed the sale of two plots of land in Prince William County, Virginia, to Stack Infrastructures. Interestingly, it also bought two parcels of land in Loudoun County, Virginia, from Stack Infrastructure’s owner, IPI Partners. According to BizJournal, AWS sold two...

February 16, 2022

Amazon AWS

Carbon accounting standards in the industry

A number of organizations and companies have come together to form an initiative called the Carbon Call, which is seeking to achieve "reliable and interoperable" carbon emissions accounting to ensure the world reaches net-zero by midcentury. Among the twenty organizations launching the call is...

February 15, 2022

Microsoft Azure

NorthC and green hydrogen

NorthC's data center in Groningen is to be the first in Europe to use green hydrogen fuel cells (H2), created through electrolysis. According to the company, the 1.5MW facility will have 500kW of fuel cells. This will reportedly save tens of thousands of liters of diesel a year, the equivalen...

February 15, 2022

NorthC Datacenters

Beeinfotech PH's "The Hive" and what it signals for the Philippines

Beeinfotech PH has announced that it has opened its new data center in Manila, the Philippines. Named 'The Hive,' the facility, first announced in July 2021, will be the largest carrier-neutral data center facility in operation in the country, spanning three floors with a capability of up to ...

February 15, 2022

Beeinfotech PH

Rostelecom expands its facility in Russia

Rostelecom's Udomlya data center has entered its second phase. The launch features an 8MW facility with a capacity for 800 racks, and a new fiber-optic line. The facility first launched back in 2019 is located at the Kalininskaya Nuclear Power Plant in Tver and is a joint project with Rosener...

February 15, 2022

Rostelecom

New data center heading to Islamabad

The government of Pakistan has announced that it has opened a new data center in Islamabad, namely the National Information Technology Board (NITB) (NITB Staging Environment). Federal Minister for Information and Technology, Syed Amin ul Haq, inaugurated the PKR. 330 million ($1.88m) facility,...

February 15, 2022

South Asia

Acronis launches its first cloud data center in Nigeria

Acronis has announced that it has launched its first cloud data center in Lagos, Nigeria. This move is part of a larger expansion plan that will see the company grow with the deployment of 111 new centers. It is also part of its Acronis Global/Local Initiative. This initiative reportedly inclu...

February 15, 2022

Nigeria

STC Launches New Data Center in Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia

STC has announced the launch of its new data center in Qassim, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi telco’s new data center measures approximately 12,000 square meters. It was also inaugurated by the Governor of Qassim Region, Prince Faisal bin Mishaal bin Saud. STC posted on Twitter that it was happy that...

February 15, 2022

Saudi Arabia

What is Waukee saying about Apple's data center?

Following the recent green light given by local planning officials on Apple’s Iowa development, a number of business people and leaders in the area have voiced their thoughts on what the development will mean for the area. Mayor Courtney Clarke outlined that in the first phase of development t...

February 14, 2022

Apple

Data centers planned for Muskogee and near Oktaha

Two data centers are reportedly on their way to Muskogee County; it has been announced. YZY Capital Holdings, LLC, is the New York-based private equity firm behind the project and has announced that it will inject $100 million into the construction and operation of the centers on the 136.5-acr...

February 14, 2022

Oklahoma

Data centers and the nuclear option

With the UN chief recently declaring that it's "code red for humanity," it has never been more clear that immediate action is required on the part of governments and industry leaders to make big sustainability changes. Of course, the data center and digital infrastructure industries have caugh...

February 14, 2022

Europe

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