Data Center News

Guam University to receive new government data center

Guam

A new government data center is proposed for the campus of the University of Guam. The government intends to construct a two-story, 15,000-square-foot data center/Office of Information Technology facility. The endeavor will see an investment of $15 million.The report notes that the 1992-built ...

Solar-powered data center to heat surfing lagoon in New Zealand

New Zealand

In New Zealand, Aventuur, a leisure park developer, has shared plans to heat a surfing lagoon using a solar-powered data center. The company is already in the process of building a surf park in Perth, Australia, which, it has outlined, is set to open in 2025. In Auckland, meanwhile, it's plann...

Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina

Google

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy for wind energy in North Carolina. Through the deal, the giant will offtake the full capacity from the Timbermill Wind project, which is in the process of being built. Located in Chowan County, the project will offer 18...

Channel Islands' Old C5 data center will soon be Jersey Water HQ

An old data center on the Channel Island of Jersey is slated to become the new headquarters of the local water utility. According to the Jersey Evening Post and Baliwick Express, Jersey Water has requested planning approval to convert an industrial structure in St. Saviour parish into a new he...

AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to expand to the Virginia county of Louisa. Last week, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $11 billion by 2040 to build two data center campuses in Louisa's Technology Overlay District (TOD). The county...

GTA receives clearance for new Guam cable landing station

Guam

Guam-based telecommunications company GTA TeleGuam has been permitted to construct a new cable landing station (CLS). In May, GTA submitted plans to construct a new CLS in Inalhan, southeast of the island. The Guam Daily Post reported last week that the Guam Hybrid Land Use Commission granted ...

Clark provides NTT with a data center in Ashburn, Virginia

NTT

NTT's Ashburn, Virginia, data center has been delivered by the construction company Clark. This week, Clark Construction Group revealed the notable finalization of the first phase of the VA6 Data Center in Loudoun County, Virginia.The project, which began in May 2022, was completed on time for...

Stream DC's data center zoning request in Elk Grove, Illinois is granted

Zoning approval has been given to Stream Data Centers for an envisioned data center facility in the Elk Grove area of Chicago, Illinois. At last week's council meeting in Elk Grove Village, plan commissioners jointly recommended approval of the proposals, as first reported by the Journal &...

CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design

CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced the launch of an AI-specific built-to-suit data center design, which it says has been developed specifically to address the “rapidly growing needs of AI applications and services.”The company notes that the Intelliscale data center is built on an ultra-high-density found...

Office and data center for sale in Birmingham, Alabama

A workspace and data center building is for sale in Birmingham, Alabama. Colliers has listed the Kemper Building at 2201 4th Avenue North for $18,95 million. The structure is a four-story, 110,295-square-foot Class-A office building on two acres. Colliers notes that the building has raised flo...

IIJ of Japan looks into data center set up in Kenya

Kenya

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) is considering deploying a containerized modular data center in Kenya. This week, the company reported that the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has been exploring methods to "capture the vitality of the African market" and has decided to investigat...

Orange signs vPPA with Engie in Romania

Orange Romania has shared that it has signed a six-year virtual PPA with Engie. As per the agreement, 30GWh of the telco's annual electricity needs will be met with energy from solar. This deal aligns with Orange's broader goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 and brings Romania into the...

Telkom Indonesia launches Bandar Lampung data center

Telkom Indonesia

Telkom Indonesia has announced that its new Bandar Lampung data center has launched, with a third of the facility's racks already filled. With this development in South Sumatra in Lampung province, the company now has 23 locations spread across 17 major cities in Indonesia. In attendance at th...

Varonis Opens Data Center in the United Kingdom to Serve SaaS Customers

United Kingdom

Varonis Systems, Inc., an industry leader in data security, has announced the opening of its first data center in the United Kingdom to support customers migrating to its SaaS offering. Varonis customers will be able to show compliance with national data protection laws and utilize Varonis' wo...

atNorth purchases HPC company Gompute

atNorth

atNorth, a Nordic data center company, has acquired Gompute, a Swedish High-Performance Computing (HPC) services provider. The terms were not disclosed. Gompute, a company founded in 2002, provides HPC-as-a-cloud services with bare-metal compute nodes for computer-aided engineering (CAE) appli...

DataQube, a UK Edge data center firm, enters insolvency

United Kingdom

Edge data center company DataQube Global Ltd of the United Kingdom has declared bankruptcy. Creditors convened today, August 29th, to deliberate a nomination of liquidators and, if necessary, appoint a liquidation committee. DataQube reps did not acknowledge requests for comment regarding the ...

Old Verizon office and data center in Pittsburgh for sale/lease

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon's former Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office and data center is available for purchase or lease. It has been put up for sale or lease by Colliers and Sampson Morris Group at 5400 Campbells Run Road. The 10-acre, 1959-built office and data facility features 130,000 rentable square feet and ...

APL Investments plans 150MW Kyushu data center facility

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

A new campus in the Japanese prefecture of Kyushu is being built by a US investment company that plans to expand into the data center industry. According to Nikkei Asia, the U.S.-based investment firm Asia Pacific Land (APL) intends to construct a $845 million facility in Kitakyushu. Per repor...

Telkom Indonesia sets up a new data facility in Bandar Lampung

Telkom Indonesia

Telkom Indonesia has unveiled a brand-new data center in Bandar Lampung. Telkom's director of wholesale and international service, Bogi Witjaksono, the EVP of regional I area Sumatra, Djatmiko Djatmiko, and the EVP of the wholesale service division, Muhammad Rofik, attended the inauguration. D...

Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

Google

Google unveiled several cloud-based tools and services centered on artificial intelligence. Cloud TPU v5e, the company's newest Tensor Processing Unit, is now available for preview, according to the company. Google claims that, compared to TPU v4, which was released in 2021, the chip has up to...