Data Center News

Google will invest $350 million to expand data center in Iowa

Google

The Council Bluffs data center, located on the Nebraska/Iowa border, will be expanded by Google for $350 million. Plans for a data center in Council Bluffs were first made public in 2007. Google announced expansion plans in 2012 and 2015 and has since spent approximately $5 billion on the faci...

Northern Data Group divides its operations into three brands

Northern Data AG

Northern Data Group, a provider of infrastructure for high-performance computing (HPC), has segregated its operations into three distinct brands: Taiga Cloud, Ardent Data Centers, and Peak Mining. Northern Data Group will continue to be the corporate parent of the three new brands, while the a...

Hoffman Estates, Illinois, will boost data center electricity and ambulance expenses

Hoffman Estates, Illinois, hiked taxes and fees to replace two fire stations. Data centers will pay a higher electricity tax rate as part of it. The Lakewood Boulevard Microsoft data center is estimated to generate $900,000 annually. Microsoft announced a $200 million first phase for the forme...

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners plans big expansion over next three years

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has announced its plans to develop nearly one gigawatt of data center capacity over the next three years. According to the company, it will "own and operate one of the largest global hyperscale data center platforms" in the world, once the purchase of Data4 a...

OVHcloud is looking to acquire Gridscale

OVH Group

Gridscale, an industry leader in hyper-converged infrastructure, and OVHcloud are in exclusive takeover talks. The deal, which won't affect the fiscal year 2023 and will help OVHcloud with its Edge computing goals, is anticipated to close at the start of 2024. There has been no disclosure of t...

Digital Realty unveils high-density colocation solu with 70kW racks in 28 markets

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a global leader in the data center industry, has introduced a high-density colocation service in 28 markets across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. The new service supports up to 70 kilowatts per rack of computing power. Digital stated that the increased rack densities we...

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

San Francisco Bay Area

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...

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) finishes fit-out data center in Frankfurt, Germany

Colt Frankfurt West

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS)' data center fit-out in Frankfurt, Germany, is complete, it has announced. Called Frankfurt West, the facility consists of 14 data halls with a total IT capacity of 25MW. This is two fewer than originally planned.Mercury Engineering, the main contractor on ...

Global Switch seeks buyers for European and Asia Pacific data centers

Global Switch

In an effort to raise $6 billion, Global Switch is contemplating selling its operations in Europe and Asia Pacific separately. According to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg, the London-based company may offer its Europe and Asia Pacific units to separate purchasers with the expectation tha...

Sentinum introduces hosting and colocation services

Michigan

Sentinum's data center in Michigan has started offering colocation and hosting services. Sentinum, a subsidiary of the holding company Ault Alliance, will provide these offerings for artificial intelligence ecosystems and other industries. The corporation intends to expand its operations into ...

Maryland denies use of diesels for data center backup

The Maryland Public Services Commission has told Aligned, which has bought space on the 2GW Quantum Loophole site in Adamstown, Frederick County, that diesel generators are not an acceptable form of backup in 2023.Aligned applied to have 168 diesel generators, each with 3MW generating capacity...

New campus facility with a data center is constructed at Hardin-Simmons University

Abilene Hall, Hardin-Simmons University's main structure, has been enlarged, and a data center has been added. Abilene Hall's new 7,000-square-foot extension will be dedicated to the university's engineering faculty on August 29. The building will consist of three stories, with lab space on th...

Irish government data center initiative costs double

Europe

Irish government's new data center has reached an all-time high price tag of €80 million ($87.4m). While initial estimates placed the cost of building the data center at €30 million and the completion date at 2020, the project has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.The completion date wa...

Converge ICT plans to invest $60m in 3 new data centers.

Converge ICT Solutions

CEO Dennis Uy stated that the Philippines-based telecommunications company Converge ICT Solutions plans to invest $60 million in creating three new data centers in the Philippines. In the following 18 to 24 months, the Internet service provider plans to build data centers in Pampanga, Quezon C...

GDA, a Bitcoin miner, establishes three data centers in South Carolina

Genesis Digital Assets (GDA), a Bitcoin mining corporation, launched three data centers in South Carolina with a total capacity of 33MW. One data center is located near the community of Anderson, while the other two are between Union and Lockhart. The Anderson facility has been active since Fe...

ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development

Hong Kong

ESR has secured a Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) to develop a data center in Hong Kong, it has announced. It has closed the first SLL in Hong Kong, worth HK$1.6 billion (US$205m), which will be used to convert a building in Kwai Chung into the 21.3MW ESR Kwai Chung Data Centre HK1.The compan...

SCC installs solar panels on its Birmingham data center

Birmingham UK

SCC has installed solar panels on its data center in Birmingham, it has announced. Its flagship CV1 facility will have a 737kWp roof-mounted solar-PV system attached that will cover just over five percent of the facility's total energy needs. This new development has been made possible in part...

Hill International to support building of two Digital Realty data center projects in Greece

Digital Realty: Athens ATH1

Hill International, Inc. has announced it will work with Digital Realty to support the construction of two new data centers in Greece. The first will be in Heraklion, Crete, while the second will be located in Athens. The latter location is where the company's Greek data center campus is based...

Data center for sale in Topeka, Kansas

Kansas

There is a data center building available for purchase in Topeka, Kansas. Topeka's 400 SE Jefferson Street is up for sale through Colliers for a price that has not been disclosed. The 16,350-square-foot building in Shawnee County contains a 10,500-square-foot data center and a 5,850-square-foo...

Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

Lumen Technologies

In the second quarter, Lumen Technologies reported a loss of $8.74 billion, a significant decrease from the $344 million profit in the same quarter last year. The company, formerly CenturyLink Enterprise, has lost more than 66 percent of its value this year, reducing its market capitalization ...