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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)

3data expands footprint in Moscow

3data has announced its expansion in Moscow, after developing its 3data P6 data center, located at 125445, Moscow, ul. Pravoberezhnaya, 6A/5. According to the company, the facility is built to Tier III standards and accompanies its 20+ facilities dotted across the Moscow region.The company rec...

January 27, 2023

Moscow / Москва́

Optage to build new data center in Osaka, Japan

Optage Inc. has announced plans to build a new data center in Osaka, Japan. Named the 'Optage Sonezaki Data Center', this facility will be the company's fifth, with work to commence in November 2023 and due to open in January 2026.The facility will be located in the Higashi-Umeda area of the c...

January 27, 2023

Japan

Africa Data Centres begins work on a new data center in Cape Town, South Africa

Cassava Technologies subsidiary Africa Data Centres has begun constructing its new data center in Cape Town, South Africa, the second data center in the city. Located in the north of the city, it is primed to have an IT load of 20MW, spanning 12,000 square meters (129,150 sq ft).Commenting abo...

January 27, 2023

Africa Data Centres

Melbourne Becomes AWS's Second Australian Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a cloud region in Melbourne, Australia. This marks the second cloud region AWS has in Australia, following the launch of Sydney in 2012. The facility was first announced in December 2020. Littlepay's CEO, Amin Shayan, is ecstatic about establishing a se...

January 27, 2023

Amazon AWS

ECL to offer hydrogen-powered off-grid modular data centers

ECL has announced $7 million in seed funding, with plans to build the first 3D-printed modular data center to be powered by green hydrogen in California. The first facility will be built at its headquarters in Mountain View, using a construction 3D printer and a local building services company...

January 26, 2023

California

Web Werks launches in Navi Mumbai, India

Web Werks has announced that it is launching a new data center in Mumbai, India. Named the Mumbai-2 data center, the facility will provide 10 MW of capacity and span 120,000 sq ft (11,150 sqm). According to the company, the facility, first announced back in March 2021, will launch on January 3...

January 26, 2023

Mumbai

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia

Northern Virginia is now one of the largest data center hubs in the world. Over the years, tax incentives have brought in tech companies from far and wide. However, with this influx of companies data centers, has come a surge in energy use, which is now projected to increase electricity use by...

January 26, 2023

Northern Virginia

Aire Networks’ Ar Telecom acquires land in Portugal for data center

Ar Telecom has acquired land in Lisbon, Portugal, for a new data center, which it announced on LinkedIn and in ECO this week. The land acquired by the Portuguese telco is located in the Alfragide area of the city and the data center project has now moved on to the design and licensing phase. ...

January 25, 2023

Portugal

Google lays off 6% of its workforce

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has announced that it is making further cuts to its staff, and is set to lose around 6% of its global workforce. The giant's reasoning for the significant downsizing is similar to the reasons cited by other tech firms that have cut back on staff in recent mon...

January 25, 2023

Google

Microsoft and AWS to expand data center footprint in Telangana

Despite both tech giants making significant layoffs in recent months, both Microsoft and AWS have announced plans to boost investment and data center portfolios in the Telangana region of India. The former is set to double the number of facilities it is building in the region, while AWS has an...

January 25, 2023

Amazon AWS

Digital Realty joins forces with Mainova for district heating scheme in Frankfurt

Digital Realty and Mainova AG have signed a letter of intent for a joint project to explore a potential waste heat project in Frankfurt, which could heat approximately 3,600 households. In partnership, the data center firm, and German energy firm are conducting a feasibility study to decipher...

January 24, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Orange deploys new solar panels at Ivory Coast data center

At its Ivory Coast data center, telco Orange has deployed and commissioned a new solar plant. The facility, built back in 2016, offers 1.3MW of capacity, and is provided with energy from the new photovoltaic power plant for 50 percent of its daytime consumption (7am to 6pm). The company shared...

January 24, 2023

Orange

Green launches data center campus in Zurich

Green has announced the launch of its 46,000 sqm (495,150 sq ft) site new data center campus in the Dielsdorf region in Zurich. According to the Swiss data center operator, the campus, when fully built out, will contain three buildings, namely M, N, and O.Announced back in January 2021, constr...

January 24, 2023

Zurich

CyrusOne acquires a 57.6-acre land parcel in Loudoun County, Virginia

CyrusOne has purchased a 57.6-acre land parcel in Loudoun County, Virginia. The location of the parcel is near the intersection of the Dulles Greenway toll road and Belmont Ridge Road. This recent land acquisition is part of the company’s global growth and expansion plans.Speaking about this,...

January 23, 2023

CyrusOne

YTL announces $256m green loan for Johor data center

YTL Corp has announced that it has secured an RM1.1 billion ($256m) green loan for its upcoming data center in Johor, Malaysia. The fund will be used to develop a 48MW data center in Johor, in the Kulai area, which the company is aiming to obtain Gold LEED certification for. "As one of the key...

January 23, 2023

Malaysia

Prosoluce begins work on Haute-Garonne data center

Prosoluce has begun work on a data center in Haute-Garonne, located in the Occitanie region in the southwest of France. Alongside an accompanying office building, the data center will be operational and ready for use in the summer of 2023. This new data center, projected to cost around €3 mill...

January 23, 2023

France

MDC develops data center in San Diego, California

MDC Data Centers (formerly McAllen Data Centers) has announced that it is developing a new data center in San Diego, California, at 7014 Manya Cir. The new location is in partnership with Mexican telco Vívaro Telecom and will be ready to begin operations in the second quarter of 2023.The facil...

January 23, 2023

California

A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

According to reports, a new data center is planned for Tilford Yard, on Atlanta’s Westside, under the project name Edged. This announcement comes following the filing of a building permit for a nearly 210,000-square-foot, two-level data center.Further to this, records show that Endeavour, the ...

January 23, 2023

Atlanta

AirTrunk to develop 150MW campus in Johor, Malaysia

AirTrunk is expanding into Malaysia, with its first data center in the country. The facility, JHB1, will be in the Johor Bahru area, and span 21,900 sqm (235,750 sq ft) of space across 20 data halls, offering more than 150MW of capacity. In addition to this, it will have 370 sqm (4,000 sqm) o...

January 23, 2023

AirTrunk

Global Switch granted permission for a new data center in East London

At a Tower Hamlets Council meeting, the Strategic Development Committee in London has granted Global Switch permission to develop a new data center. Located on a car park adjacent to its existing London East and London North buildings at East India Dock House, 240 East India Dock Road, the fac...

January 20, 2023

Global Switch

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