Data Center News

Japanese Renewable Energy Industry's announces first solar-powered data center achieves stable operations

Japan

Japan Renewable Energy Corporation (JRE) has announced that stable operation has been achieved at the Morgenrot data center constructed on the grounds of its solar power plant in Nagano prefecture. Morgenrot will provide its M:CPP (Morgenrot Computing Power Pool) GPU cloud service from the dat...

AIMS DC commences work on second building Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Malaysia

AIMS Group has announced plans to build a second data center in Cyberjaya to meet data center demand in Malaysia. Work on AIMS Cyberjaya Block 2 is set to be complete by the end of the year, and offer a total IT load of 8MW.AIMS chief executive officer Chiew Kok Hin shared that 90% occupancy i...

Washington House Bill 1416 signed into law to regulate emissions tied to crypto mining and data centers

Washington

In Washington, House Bill 1416, a Bill set on regulating carbon emissions tied to crypto mining and data centers has been signed into law. Signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on May 3, the legislation closed a loophole in the previously passed Clean Energy Transformation Act, which enabled crypto mining...

Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has inked a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Sonnedix. The deal will see the colocation provider source energy from three PV plants in the Castilla-La Mancha region of Spain. The three plants are pegged to be operational by the end of 2024; collective...

ChatGPT identified as potential threat in water-stressed MENA

Middle East

Although there are a number of innovative research programs targeting AI's vast resource consumption, for the time being, advanced AI-powered language learning models (LLM) like GPT-3 and GPT-4 require huge amounts of water to cool down. This is a serious issue in drought-prone areas with high...

Benya Group And Khazna Data Centers Seek to Set Up Shop in Egypt

Khazna

The largest network of hyper-scale data centers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Khazna Data Centers (Khazna), this week announced its intention to enter the Egyptian market alongside Benya Group, the country's top integrator of solutions, digital transformation, and ICT infr...

Aligned Data Centers Enters Canada, Invests In QScale

Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has invested in the Canadian company QScale. The "strategic investment" received "strong support" from existing shareholders, according to QScale. The scale of the investment was not disclosed; however, it is described as a "major financing round" and is anticipated to cl...

Digital Edge's second ESG report reveals key metrics on carbon neutrality

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge recently published its second ESG report, which shared key metrics for achieving its carbon neutrality target by 2030. Based on the theme of "Future Possible," the report emphasized the importance of building the digital infrastructure of the future sustainably and responsibly an...

Novva Data Centers announces New facility in Tahoe-Reno region

Novva Data Centers

Novva Data Centers has announced a new data center in Storey County. Set to go live in late 2024, the facility will span 300,000 sqft on a 20 acre-campus and offering 60 MW of capacity. The data center will have a total of six 10MW data halls and accommodate high-density deployments with hot a...

Prime plans first Phoenix data center campus

Prime Data Centers

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...

Pressure Sensitive Systems' Dubai arm announces launch of new data center

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Pressure Sensitive Systems India, through its subsidiary Global Markets Insights IT Services LLC, has recently opened a new data center, Pressure 2.0 Cloud, in Dubai, UAE. The facility reportedly has a capacity of 20MW of IT capacity, spanning 194,000 square feet (18,000 square meters) and wil...

AdaniConneX to Develop a New 200MW Data Center Facility in Andhra Pradesh, India

AdaniConneX

Adani Group is building a 200MW data center complex in Andhra Pradesh, India. The company's "Integrated Data Center and Technology Business Park" at Madhurawada, Vizag (Visakhapatnam), is the first of three technology zones intended for the city. The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Yeduguri ...

NextDC Reveals New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan Data Center Initiatives

NEXTDC

Plans for new data center projects in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan have been subtly added to NextDC's website. The prospective plans to expand in New Zealand were initially reported by Reseller News a few weeks ago. They stated that the company had purchased several blocks of land in centr...

Racial Harassment at Google Data Center Construction Site Cost Whiting-Turner $1.2m

Google

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the construction company Whiting-Turner alleging racial harassment and retaliation against former Black employees. The lawsuit centered on the company's role as the general contractor for the Google data center's...

GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer

London: Slough

After breaking ground on its new Slough-based campus in January, KKR-funded Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it plans to launch the site before summer 2023. The $1 billion campus, GB One, comprises three independent facilities, each providing 5373 sqm of net technical space and...

North Holland province to prevent new facility in Uithoorn

North Holland

The Province of Noord-Holland (North Holland) has launched an objection against the development of a new data center project in De Kwakel, Uithoorn. This is the latest intergovernmental dispute over a data center in the Netherlands, where the climate is growing increasingly hostile to data cen...

Gartner: 75% of organizations will have data center infrastructure sustainability program by 2027

According to research by Gartner, by 2027, 75 per cent of organizations will have implemented a data center infrastructure sustainability program. This is a significant jump from the current figures; in 2022, only 5% had implemented such a program. The organization conducted a global survey of...

DE-CIX exchanges in Norway Bulk Data Centers go live

Norway

DE-CIX has announced that its new DE-CIX IXs are now available in Bulk data centers in Oslo (OS-IX) and Kristiansand (Campus N01). Its InterconnectionFLEX service will be available via the partnership with Bulk Infrastructure Group, through which customers will be provided with an interconnect...

Cyxtera Receives $50m Lifeline, Satisfies Debts, And Must Sell or Raise Capital

Cyxtera Technologies

A shaky US colocation provider has settled its debts with creditors. The business must find a buyer or investor to continue funding or go bankrupt and cede control to its owners. The company obtained $50 million in new funding from lenders holding over two-thirds of its existing term loan to s...

Harbor Peak Starts Building a Fiber Conduit System to Connect Ashburn, Virginia Data Centers

Virginia

Harbor Peak, a joint venture specializing in carrier-neutral dark fiber, interconnect, and network planning services, has begun construction in Ashburn, Virginia, on a new middle-mile network infrastructure that will facilitate connectivity between numerous private and public data centers. In ...