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X claims $100m annual savings upon exiting Sacramento data center

X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, claims to have saved $100 million annually after exiting its Sacramento data center via a post on the platform. X further claimed to have saved a significant amount by repatriating some of its workloads to on-prem data centers. The company...

November 02, 2023

Sacramento

CapMan Infra takes over the Danish colocation company Fuzion

CapMan Infra has acquired the Danish data center colocation company Fuzion. This week, the transaction via the CapMan Nordic Infrastructure II fund was announced. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Fuzion was founded in 2001 and operates out of four data centers in the Jutland region of...

September 04, 2023

Denmark

Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an entertainment d...

August 08, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

In anticipation of a potential sale-leaseback transaction, Spanish insurance company Mapfre is listing its data center for sale. According to Cinco Dias, the company has hired CBRE to find a buyer for the Tales de Mileto building in the Alcalá de Henares neighborhood of Madrid.Mapfre launched ...

July 13, 2023

Madrid

Phoenix Data center with 6 MW up for sale

A 6MW data facility is up for lease or purchase in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the desirable Deer Valley neighborhood, CBRE has listed 20435 North 26th Avenue for sale or lease. There was no listed pricing. The 6MW facility was completed in 2003 and sits on 3.66 acres of land, with a raised f...

June 27, 2023

Phoenix

Tesla leases Sacramento Twitter data center Musk once blasted

Twitter formerly used the Sacramento site of NTT Global Data Centers, but now it is home to Musk's electric car company. Twitter departed the data center in late 2022, with the CEO disparaging the area. Tesla will now occupy the space as well as extra square footage.The data center will likely...

June 13, 2023

Sacramento

North San Jose Slated to Receive New Data Centers

This week, the San Jose City Council unanimously authorized plans for a sophisticated manufacturing complex and data centers in North San Jose. Denver-based STACK Infrastructure plans to destroy two industrial buildings on a nearly 10-acre parcel, including a former Olympus service center, and...

May 12, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

Prime plans first Phoenix data center campus

Prime has announced that it is expanding into the Phoenix market with a new five-building, 66.5-acre campus located in Avondale. Prime's new location will feature 210 MW of critical power and span 1.3 million square feet of space.According to the company, it plans to embed sustainability feat...

May 08, 2023

Prime Data Centers

Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in the construction of data centers, according to a report by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. At the end of last year, 17 new data centers were either under construction or in development, with a total planned area of 4.7 million square...

April 18, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

With the construction of its dark fiber network, Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is enhancing connection options for the San Francisco Bay Area's densely populated area of data centers. Critical fiber infrastructure is now available from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

April 06, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

Thor Equity launches Form8tion Data Centers

Thor Equities has announced it has launched its own data center development company, named Form8tion data centers, which is reportedly now marketing Thor’s maiden project in Madrid, Spain, named ‘Madrid One’ campus. This facility will offer up to 100MW of capacity spanning 60,000 sqm (645,850 ...

March 14, 2023

Madrid

A 1.4 Million-square-foot Data Center Campus Outside Austin, Texas In Works

In Texas, a proposal for four data centers has been submitted on the location of a long-proposed private airport. The application for the 'Bastrop Project' data center was submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) this month. The application is for a new construct...

February 03, 2023

Austin

Fort Worth Data Center For Sale Following Bankruptcy

Following a bankruptcy filing, a recently converted data center is for auction. This week, Hilco Real Estate declared March 23, 2023, as the deadline for qualifying bids for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy sale of a newly converted flex industrial facility into a data center. Built in 2018 on a 13.7...

February 02, 2023

Dallas

Prime Planning a Large 124MW Campus in Denmark

Prime, a developer of data centers, will construct a new campus in Denmark. This Monday, the company unveiled plans for a three-building, 124MW facility to be built on Energivej in Saeby, Denmark. The 27.52-acre site will have three three-story buildings, each with 45 MW and 348,750 square fee...

February 02, 2023

Prime Data Centers

Twitter closes its Sacramento data center

Microblogging social media platform Twitter has undergone extensive changes as of late since the takeover by Elon Musk. From the introduction of Musk's paid verification plan, slashing nearly half of the platform's workforce in November, and his massive cost-cutting exercise, Musk's tenure as ...

January 05, 2023

Sacramento

Hyperco To Develop two 50MW Facilities in Helsinki, Finland

Hyperco has announced its plan to expand its data center presence in New Zealand with two new data center campus developments. The Nordic data center company said it would develop the facilities in Helsinki, Finland, with each having an initial capacity of 50MW. The company did not reveal t...

December 14, 2022

Helsinki

New report from the Cool-Data project assesses using waste heat from data centers in district heating

As part of the EU's Fit for 55 legislative package, it is pushing for data centers to be connected to surrounding district heating networks to use surplus heat. A new report from the Cool-Data project has comprehensively reviewed the rules and incentives around waste-heat recovery by data cent...

November 21, 2022

Denmark

Prime DC Breaks Ground on its 175MW Facility in Chicago

Prime Data Centers has announced that it has started work on a large campus in Chicago, Illinois. The data center company held a groundbreaking ceremony for its $1 billion facility at 1600 East Higgins Road in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. This will be the company's first data center in Illi...

November 21, 2022

Prime Data Centers

Prime DC commences work on Santa Clara site

Prime Data Centers has begun work on its Santa Clara data center in California. Located at 2175 Martin Ave, the three-story facility is on a 1.6-acre plot and is designed as a turnkey build-to-suit facility offering 80,000 square feet (7,430 sqm) of purpose-built data center space and 9MW with...

November 02, 2022

Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development

Thor Equities has announced the acquisition of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Madrid, Spain. The site is planned for a data center campus development. Swiss real estate investment company Stoneweg completed the sale on behalf of the Icona Capital Group to Thor. None of the companies reve...

November 02, 2022

Madrid

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