Data Center News

AtlasEdge enters strategic partnership with Northshore

AtlasEdge

AtlasEdge, has entered into a strategic partnership with Northshore to implement an operational sustainability strategy and execution plan. According to the company, the technology-enabled engineering company will assist it in ensuring that data collection and validation processes are streaml...

India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar

India / Bhārata

PowerGrid, an Indian transmission corporation, plans to construct a data center on a substation site outside of Delhi. This week, PowerGrid's board authorized a revised investment proposal for the 'establishment of an experimental data center at PowerGrid Manesar Substation,' according to an a...

Microsoft buys a 14-acre plot for data centers in Sterling, Virginia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has plans for data centers in Sterling, Virginia. BizJournal reports that Microsoft purchased a 14-acre parcel at 23540 Pebble Run Place for approximately $15 million last month, citing Loudoun County property records. Data centers are already legally permitted on the property, which...

Circularity in action: Obit shares data center/vertical farm plans

Russia / Россия

Obit has shared plans for a new data center in St. Petersburg, which will be located on a land plot home to a complex of vertical farms. The company is set to invest around two billion rubles ($22.1m) in the project, which will offer a capacity for 512 racks, with excess heat released from the...

Google breaks ground on Mesa data center campus

Google

Google has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in the Mesa area of Phoenix, Arizona. A $1 billion project, the facility will span 750,000 square feet (70,000 sqm) once fully built out.Previously known as "Redhawk," the project's first 288,530 sq ft (26,805 sqm) phase is due ...

New green Panama data center launched by Sparkle

Panamá

Sparkle, Telecom Italia's infrastructure unit, has launched the Panama Digital Gateway, a 3.5MW site offering the first "green data center" in Panama. Located in the Corozal area of Panama City, the site spans 5,500 square meters (59,200 sq ft) of space for up to 650 equivalent racks across fi...

Ericsson sets up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy

Texas

Ericsson has announced that it has set up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy. Located in Plano, Texas, the site can be fully operated by solar energy and supported by integrated Lithium-ion batteries, for up to 24 hours. The Plano site includes Ericsson's Massive MIMO radio configurati...

Switch Inc. receives $500m investment from Aware Super

United States

The Australian pension fund Aware Super has invested in the data center company Switch Inc. This week, Switch proprietor DigitalBridge announced that Aware Super will make "a significant investment" in Switch. The deal's value wasn't made public in the initial publication, but DigitalBridge's ...

Icelandic hydroelectric plant receives a micro data center installation from Japan's IIJ

Iceland

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has installed a micro data center (MDC) at an Icelandic hydroelectric power station. In April 2023, IIJ announced intentions for a data center trial project in Iceland in collaboration with Landsvirkjun, the country's national power company.From April until...

StratCap acquires digital infrastructure assets worth $90 million

StratCap Data Centers

StratCap has acquired essential digital infrastructure assets worth roughly $90 million, which include 13 cell towers and a data center. The acquisition was announced during the company's recent Q2 earnings report. StratCap has acquired cell towers in Missouri, Florida, Wisconsin, Tennessee, a...

Cologix reveals a new data space at the 511 carrier hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Cologix

Cologix is expanding its data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by adding a new data hall. With the new MIN5 data center now available for pre-leasing, the company has increased its presence in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, market. Located in the 511 Building carrier hotel, also known as the Min...

Bain denies China Merchants acquisition of ChinData

Chindata Group

Bain Capital has informed ChinData that it will not sell the company to China Merchants because it is pursuing its own deal to take the data center operator private. Last week the company verified in an investor disclosure that it had received a preliminary non-binding acquisition proposal let...

Despite the rise of the cloud, on-premise data centers and computing remain stable

According to a new report by Synergy Research Group, hyperscale businesses now operate nearly  900 large data centers, constituting approximately 37 percent of the worldwide capacity. As per the research firm, non-hyper-scale colocation capacity covers approximately 23% of global capacity, whi...

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

Equinix

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to b...

Saudi IT company MIS establishes a subsidiary data center

Saudi Arabia

Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS) of Saudi Arabia has established a new data center subsidiary. This week, the company's board of directors announced the establishment of a wholly-owned data center business in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The subsidiary will focus on administering, operating, and m...

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

Madrid

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 ...

e& and Orange are contemplating bids for 45% of Ethio Telecom

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Two operators are reportedly interested in acquiring a 45 percent stake in Ethio Telecom. e& of the United Arab Emirates and Orange of France are exploring opportunities surrounding state-owned Ethio, as per Bloomberg, which cited individuals with knowledge of the situation. The publicatio...

Kyndryl contract for the Azure Stack solution signed by Legal & General

Legal & General (L&G) has entered into a seven-year arrangement with Kyndryl to use the latter's hybrid cloud infrastructure (HCI). The association between Kyndryl, Microsoft, and Dell provides access to Dell servers via Azure Stack HCI. The deal between L&G and Kyndryl is valid un...

Singtel is planning a data center in Johor, Malaysia

Singtel

According to reports, Singtel is considering building a campus for data centers in Malaysia's Johor. Onn Hafiz Ghazi, the Menteri Besar of Johor, announced in a Facebook post this week that the Singaporean telco was seeking to develop a new campus in the Malaysian state following discussions w...

Teraco begins phase 2 of Johannesburg's JB4 facility

Teraco JB4

Teraco, a South African data center provider, has started constructing a second building at its Bredell campus in the Ekurhuleni neighborhood of Johannesburg. The JB4 facility provides highly resilient and secure colocation facilities, and at its completion, it will encompass 861,110 square fe...