Data Center News

MeluXina supercomputer inaugurated in Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Atos’s MeluXina supercomputer, first announced in September was inaugurated on June 7th, and will be hosted by LuxConnect’s data centers in Bissen. The MeluXina supercomputer The supercomputer is co-financed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and ...

QScale breaks ground on AI-focused data center in Levis, Quebec

QScale

Qscale, a new Canadian company, has announced plans to build at least three renewable energy-powered data centers in Quebec. The facilities will specialize in AI, and construction has already begun on the first campus in Levis, with an expected delivery of November 2022.The project, forecast t...

Tencent Launches Four New Data Centers in Asia and Europe

Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud has announced its expansion with the launch of four new data centers in Bangkok, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo, with a view to launch an additional facility in Bahrain by the end of 2021. This follows the opening of new facilities in South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore. This expan...

Togo inaugurates its first data center

Togo

The Ministry of the Digital of Economy and Digital Transformation recently announced the inauguration of Togo’s first data center. A Tier III+ facility built by CFAOP Technologies will provide sensitive data hosting as a neutral colocation facility.The facility took two and a half years to bui...

Scala Data Centers acquires Algar Tech data center

Scala: SVCPCP01

Scala has announced its acquisition of Algar Tech’s data center and colocation operations in Capinas near São Paulo for $183 million. The company plans to modernize and expand the Tier III building and use it as a base for a new data center campus.Once the facility, which utilizes photovoltaic...

Google to migrate parts of YouTube to Google Cloud

Google

Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP).Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...

DCI to build data center in Auckland, New Zealand

DCI Auckland AKL01

DCI Data Centers has announced that it is expanding to New Zealand. The Company was recently granted New Zealand Overseas Investment Office consent to buy land for building a data center in Auckland, New Zealand. DCI didn’t reveal the timeline for building the facility, but it is said that co...

Plans for Harvard's old Motorola factory to become solar-powered data center

Illinois

The former Motorola manufacturing and distribution facility in Harvard, Illinois, may be given new life, with prospective planners looking into transforming the building into a solar-powered data center.Green Data Center Real Estate in Vancouver is reportedly working with Solar Alliance of Kno...

Yondr purchases 270 acres for Northern Virginia data center campus

Yondr: Arcola Bldg 1

After announcing a major $2 billion American expansion plan back in May, Yondr has acquired 270 acres of land in Northern Virginia. Although the specific location details are still under wraps, the company has disclosed that the sites are “in close proximity to Northern Virginia’s major fiber ...

Equinix plans to open $142m Silicon Valley data center this month

Equinix SV11

Equinix will be opening its new $142 million data center at its Silicon Valley on the 30th of June. The data center dubbed SV11 has a colocation space of 61,000 sqft with enough room for 1,450 cabinets. Also, Equinix plans to expand its existing Bloom Energy fuel cell deployment to use as a p...

Switch buys land from Dell for Austin data center campus

Switch Austin "The Rock"

Switch has revealed the primary location of its Fifth Prime data center campus in Texas, following a purchase land agreement with Dell Technologies. The campus will be called "The Rock" and powered by 100% renewable energy.The land, located next to Dell's global headquarters in Round Rock, wil...

Bechtel and Nautilus form partnership to build sustainable, high-performance data centers

Americas

Bechtel and Nautilus have formed a partnership to deliver data centers with better environmental footprints. The centers will reportedly be energy-intensive, delivering high-performance while prioritizing sustainability. The centers will use Total Resource Usage Effectiveness (TRUE) technology...

TIM Brasil signs solar deal with Faro Energy

TIM Group

TIM Brasil and Faro Energy just announced that they had signed a renewable energy deal. The deal will see Faro Energy supply TIM Brasil with five solar power plants for its network infrastructure before 2021 runs out. Faro will be responsible for investing, constructing, operating, and mainta...

COPT forms joint ventures with Blackstone, buys two data center shells

Maryland

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced a new joint venture with funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate to purchase data center shells.The JV has acquired a 90% stake in two single-tenant data center shell properties totalling 432,000 square feet (40,100 sqm). The propert...

CyrusOne’s European data center portfolio now 100 percent powered by renewable energy

CyrusOne

CyrusOne just announced that all of its data centers in Europe are now running on 100% renewable energy. The Company has facilities in Dublin, London, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam, currently operating on renewable tariffs. Besides, the Company recently promised to be carbon neutral by 2040, and t...

Iron Mountain to expand EMEA Data Center footprint with new facility in Sough

Iron Mountain: LON-2

Iron Mountain has announced its plans for a 27MW data center in Slough, East of London. The new data center dubbed LON-2 will be a three-story building with up to 25,000 sq m of space. It will also have a capacity of 27MW at full buildout. Moreover, the building will have three 9MW data halls,...

Schneider launches Edge container data center with Iceotope liquid cooling

Schneider Electric just launched its already fabricated Edge data center with an inbuilt Iceotope’s Ku:l 2 liquid cooling. This data center supports up to 60kW power as standard. However, it can be expanded to 336kW according to request. Also, Schneider Electric promises that this single rack ...

Switch raises $500 million in senior notes to fund the Data Foundry acquisition

Switch

Switch will borrow $500 million to pay for its recent acquisition of Data Foundry for $420 million. Switch will be borrowing $500 million in senior notes. Senior notes are less risky, and the lender gets to pay lower interest. However, senior notes are a priority over other types of debt. Thi...

Yondr plans two data centers in Slough, UK- initial phase to cost £450 million ($637 million)

Yondr Group

Yondr is planning to build two data centers in Slough, England. The Company recently applied to build the data centers at former Uxbridge Road Gas Works and the former Akzo Nobel paint factory. Plans for the data centers have been in the works since January 2021. If the applications were appr...

Lefdal Mine Datacenter secures €50 million funding through UBS to expand facility

Lefdal Mine Datacenter

Lefdal Mine Datacenter just announced that it had secured €50 million ($61.1 million) funding with UBS Asset Management to finance the expansion of a facility. The Company will use the five-year financing deal to expand its colocation space in Norway past its existing 20MW capacity. Jørn Skaa...