Data Center News

Human Rights Watch releases statement on Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's new cloud data center region in Saudi Arabia has faced criticism since the tech giant announced its plans in early February. Now, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for Microsoft to suspend its investment in the country until it can "clearly demonstrate" how it plans to mitigate ...

Azintelecom LLC to expand data center footprint in Azerbaijan

AzInTelecom LLC is building a new data center in Azerbaijan. Announced at the recent "Sustainable Development Technologies: Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Cloud Solutions," event, Sadig Yolchuev, advisor to the Chairman of AzInTelecom LLC, shared that while the company cu...

Digital Edge announces groundbreaking of Incheon data center

Digital Edge DC

This week, Digital Edge announced that it had broken ground on its new SEL2 data center in Incheon, South Korea. The facility was first announced back in April last year, and will see around one trillion won ($800m) invested in the project.The company is working in partnership with SK ecoplant...

Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a number of renewable energy deals in line with its net zero and sustainability goals. In Australia the company has signed a renewable electricity supply contract with Origin Energy. The colocation company will procure energy from the Origin Sto...

Iron Mountain signs PPA in the Netherlands

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain will procure solar energy for its Dutch campus following the signing of a PPA with local energy company Sunrock, the largest developer of rooftop solar deployments in the Netherlands. Through the deal, the data center company will source energy from a 4MW solar system, which has...

Colombian Data Centers Acquired by I-Squared Capital to Strengthen Portfolio in Growing Latin American Market

Colombia

I-Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment group, has bought two data centers in Colombia from the Colombian telecoms operator UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. The data centers were formerly owned by UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. I-Squared Capital will now have a larger footprint in Latin ...

Saudi Cloud Region Will be Hosted by Huawei at The Center3 Data Center

stc

Center3's building will house Huawei's Saudi Arabian cloud region. To assist Huawei in growing its cloud footprint in the area, Saudi telecom STC this month said that its Center3 subsidiary would offer hosting and data services to Huawei. In October 2022, Center3 was established to take over t...

AWS and Element Six Develop Synthetic Diamonds for Quantum Networks

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Networking has partnered with Element Six, a De Beers Group division, to create synthetic diamonds that can act as nodes in quantum networks. This collaboration aims to use diamond memory nodes to enable quantum communication to travel long distance...

Authomize Expands Cloud Security Services to Australian Businesses with Microsoft Data Centers Availability

Microsoft Azure

Authomize, a leading cloud security and authorization platform, has announced that its services are now available in Microsoft data centers in Australia. This expansion brings Authomize's innovative platform closer to Australian businesses seeking advanced security solutions. According to the ...

DataDome to build a new data center in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

DataDome has shared plans to construct a new data center in Kyrgyzstan’s capital city, Bishkek, set to be the first Tier III facility in the country. The facility, set to be operated by DataTime, will offer 100 racks with a capacity of at least 500kW. Little is known about DataTime. Speaking a...

Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

Google

Google has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with Luminus to source wind energy in Belgium. The 12-year deal will see the tech giant acquire 23.8MW of energy from the Belgium energy company, sourced from four new onshore wind projects.According to Google, the PPA in Belgium will ke...

Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia

Northern Virginia

A first-of-its-kind combination data center and hydrogen fuel hub is on its way to Surry County, North Virginia, it has been announced. Middleburg-based Green Energy Partners LLC is leading the project, which is called the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) and comes after GEP secured 641 acres ...

Cirion plans data centers in Chile, Peru and Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

Cirion has outlined its plans to develop three data centers in Chile, Peru and Brazil in 2023, as it continues its growth in Latin America. Specifically, the three facilities will be located in Santiago's Quilicura district, Macropolis in Lurín in Peru, and Cotia in São Paulo. Together the thr...

NetActuate announces expansion in Africa

NetActuate

NetActuate has announced that it has launched a new data center location in Accra, Ghana, the company's second in the continent. The facility reportedly houses five submarine cable connections, equipment for all the major carriers and ISPs, and direct connectivity to GIX (Ghana Internet Excha...

iXAfrica to Expand Services as Lion Investment Bidco Acquires Majority Stake

Africa

Lion Investment Bidco, a subsidiary of a private equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in iXAfrica, a data center operator in Kenya. The transaction was completed for an undisclosed amount and marks Bidco's entry into the data center industry. XAfrica was founded in 2018 and operates data...

GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has sold GI Partners a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. According to Dgtl Infra, Digital Realty has sold the property at 43915 Devin Shafron Drive in Loudoun County to a private equity company. The single-story, 9 MW, 132,280 square foot building, also known as Building A, purp...

Cloud Computing Adoption Drives Growth of India's Data Center Market

India / Bhārata

India's data center construction market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.76% from 2022-2028, according to a report by Arizton. Adopting advanced technological solutions such as IoT, big data, and AI drives demand cloud services across various industries. Major cloud service providers in Ind...

AXA IM Sells Data4 to Brookfield

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

The European data center company Data4 was acquired by Brookfield Infrastructure. AXA IM Alts confirmed the sale this week, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The news comes weeks after it was reported that Brookfield was in 'exclusive negotiations' to acquire a majority stak...

SBI Crypto sues Riot-owned data center

Riot Platforms

SBI Crypto Co. is reportedly pursuing litigation against the Riot Blockchain-owned-Whinstone US data center based in Rockdale, Texas. The bitcoin mining company outlined in its lawsuit, filed April 6th, that the data center breached its Hosting Service Agreement, alongside other charges includ...

Optical Networks confirms data center plans and rebrands

Peru

Optical Networks has announced that it is rebranding as Win Empresas. This pursuit of a commercial restructuring, is aimed at bolstering its presence in the corporate telecoms market through enhancing association with Win, its telecoms arm. Further to this, it restated its intentions to open t...