Global Data Center News

September 26, 2022

South Africa faces unprecedented power cuts

South Africa

South Africa is reportedly facing unprecedented levels of nationwide power blackouts. These blackouts come as a result of state-owned power utility Eskom, which produces 95% of the country’s electricity, implementing Stage 6 load shedding, which means that homes and businesses go without elect...

September 26, 2022

Safaricom to expand footprint in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Safaricom is to build a new data center outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, it has been announced. This comes following the signing of a developed land sublease agreement with Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) to build a new Tier-III quality ‘telco-cloud data center’. The facility wil...

September 26, 2022

China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers

China

Back in May 2021, Greenpeace said that China's data center emissions were to double, with its energy usage expected to nearly quadruple by 2035 (increasing by an estimated 289%). "Explosive growth" in digital infrastructure was identified as a major contributing factor to this. Considering the...

September 26, 2022

Cargill moves into the bio-industrial business with its plant-based immersion cooling

United States

Cargill, an American food producer giant and the third largest meat producer in the world, has announced that it has created the world's first plant-based dielectric fluid for immersion cooling fluid in data centers. Named NatureCool 2000, the cooling liquid was designed for the data center an...

September 26, 2022

T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1

Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the ...

September 26, 2022

OVHcloud Develops Facility on Strasbourg Site Ravaged By Fire in 2021

OVH Strasbourg Campus

OVHcloud has announced opening of a new facility on the Strasbourg site ravaged by fire in 2021. The new data center named SBG5 cost the company €30 million ($30.5m). SBG5 data center is equipped with an automatic fire extinguishing system. Although this system is standard among modern data ce...

September 26, 2022

Weserve Completes Acquisition of Datacenter Groningen

Datacenter Groningen BV

Dutch company Weserve has acquired colocation firm Datacenter Groningen. Weserve was founded in 2003, and it operates and provides fiber optics. It also manages its own hardware and network from 25 data centers across the country. On the other hand, Datacenter Groningen owns and operates one d...

September 23, 2022

Work on Meta's data center in Sarpy County halted following racist graffiti being found

September 23, 2022

Verne and Volta announce they're team up

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global and Volta Data Centres have announced that they have teamed up and will now be operating under the Verne Global brand, spanning from Iceland to the UK. Speaking about the decision to merge, Dominic Ward, CEO of Verne Global, said: “With two complementary, best-in-class data cente...

September 23, 2022

Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has invested in another wave of renewable energy projects, totaling 71. Altogether, these projects will take the giant total renewable energy production to 50,000GWh, the same amount required to power 4.6 million homes in the US annually. These projects include th...

September 23, 2022

Bosung Group to expand in South Korea

South Korea

Bosung Group is expanding its data center footprint in SolaSeaDo, South Korea, with the addition of a new 200MW data center campus in SolaSeaDo, to the south of the country in Jeonnam Province. These expansion plans come following the company partnering up with The Green Korea (TGK), a joint v...

September 23, 2022

NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe

Japan

NEC Corporation has announced that it is establishing two new green data centers, in response to the growing demand. The first is the "NEC Kanagawa Data Center: Phase 2 Building" which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2023, and the second is "NEC Kobe Data Center: Phase 3 Building," ...

September 23, 2022

Borealis Data Center Buys Data Center For Undisclosed Fee in Reykjavík, Iceland

Iceland

Icelandic data center company Borealis Data Center has completed the acquisition of a data center just outside Reykjavik, Iceland. According to Visir, the company purchased the facility from Islandsbanki. However, the terms of the acquisition weren’t revealed. Borealis currently operates tw...

September 23, 2022

Raxio Breaks Ground on its 1.5MW Kinshasa Data Center in The DRC

Raxio Group

Raxio has announced that it has begun constructing its new Kinshasa facility in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The company first announced the data center in March 2021. At the ground-breaking ceremony, Raxio noted that the facility is the DRC’s first Tier III rated carrier-neutral...

September 22, 2022

Tighter guidelines on data centre sustainability needed, new report says

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

There have been a number of recent reports that have highlighted that data center operators are falling short when it comes to sustainability tracking. Morningstar Sustainanalytics, Uptime Institute's 12th annual Global data center survey, and now Cushman & Wakefield's report 'Energy, Wate...

September 22, 2022

Stack's heat-sharing project in Oslo successful

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

STACK Infrastructure has successfully connected its data center to Hafslund Oslo Celsio System in Norway for city-wide heat reuse. This is the first time a project of this kind has taken place in the country. Now, after a one-year ramp-up, STACK's OSL01 data center is now providing heat and h...

September 22, 2022

Former CenturyLink data center to become residential development

CenturyLink

A former CenturyLink data center in Salt Lake City, Utah, is set to undergo a significant transformation. Unico Properties is reportedly seeking to convert the 350,000-square-foot (32,500 sqm) facility building into a mixed housing and retail development. This proposal has been in the works si...

September 22, 2022

DTCP Completes Acquisition of Main Stake in Maincubes

maincubes one GmbH

Maincubes has announced that investment management firm Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) has acquired a stake in its firm. The deal sees DTCP take over the shares of the former main shareholder Art-Invest Real Estate. Although the transaction details were not shared, Art-Inves...

September 21, 2022

Founder of Vnet, Josh Sheng Chen Looking To Acquire The Company

21Vianet

The founder of Vnet, Josh Sheng Chen, has offered to acquire the data center company. According to reports from the Chinese data center firm, a non-binding proposal has been received from Josh Sheng Chen. The proposal is to acquire all of Vnet’s outstanding ordinary shares. He proposed $8.2...

September 20, 2022

Equinix expands in Madrid, Spain

Equinix MD6

Equinix's new IBX facility, known as MD6, is almost ready for opening, the company has announced. The facility is set to span 1,466 sqm (15,780 sq ft), with a power capacity of 4.8 MW, and offers capacity for 600 racks. Located on Calle de la Pedriza, 12, Alcobendas, this new facility joins ...

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South Africa faces unprecedented power cuts

Safaricom to expand footprint in Ethiopia

China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers

Cargill moves into the bio-industrial business with its plant-based immersion cooling

T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1

OVHcloud Develops Facility on Strasbourg Site Ravaged By Fire in 2021

Weserve Completes Acquisition of Datacenter Groningen