Data Center News

Meta's Q4 2021 Capex Stands at $5.5bn- Also Loses $200b in Valuation

Meta

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has released its Q4 2021 financial reports. The report shows that the social media giant has spent $5.5 billion on capital expenditure in Q4 2021. The investment was in servers, office facilities, data centers, and network infrastructure. The company has inves...

DataBank Acquires Its Occupied DEN2 Data Center Site

DataBank

DataBank has announced the acquisition of a data center it was leasing in Denver, Colorado. The company plans to develop a new data center campus at the DEN2 facility. The data center is located at 6900 South Peoria Street, Colorado. DataBank did not reveal the details of the transaction. A...

Strategic Datasphere Acquires Data Center In Georgia For $80million

Strategic Datasphere

According to Biz Journal, Strategic Datasphere has completed the acquisition of a data center in Alpharetta, Georgia, for $80 million. The 165,000 square feet (15,300 square meters) facility is leased to E*Trade. This is Datasphere’s first acquisition since it was recently formed. The CEO o...

AtlasEdge Acquires Cornelius House Data Center in Leeds, UK

AtlasEdge

AtlasEdge Data Centers has announced the acquisition of a data center in Leeds, UK. It bought Cornelius House from Leeds Data Centre LLP. The facility is the largest purpose-built data center in the whole of Yorkshire city. The 11,000 square feet (1,020 square meters) facility has been in o...

Neom Reveals More Details For Planned Hyperscale Data Centers In New City

Saudi Arabia

Earlier in the week, Neom announced more details surrounding the development of data centers it planned in the new city of Neom, Saudi Arabia. The firm said it would be developing the data centers in partnership with Ezdihar Advanced Company for Information Technology (EzdiTek). In addition...

Singapore and Silicon Valley tie second place in data center rankings

Singapore

According to Cushman & Wakefield's 2022 Global Data Center Market Comparison report, Singapore now ties with the US's Silicon Valley in its league table of the top data center markets. This means that Singapore is now the top market for data centers in Asia-Pacific, beating Hong Kong (6th ...

Amazon set to expand presence in Loudoun

Amazon AWS

Amazon’s data center unit, Amazon Data Services Inc, may be looking to expand its data center footprint in Loudoun County following the purchase of three buildings in Sterling, Virginia. The office buildings are located at 46000, 46010 and 46020 Manekin Plaza, and the deal closed for a total o...

Amazon Acquires Three Office Properties in Loudoun County

Northern Virginia

According to Biz Journal, Amazon Data Services Inc. has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. The buildings acquired are located at 46020. 46010, and 46000 Manekin Plaza. The Loudoun County deed records show that Amazon paid over $21 million for the properties. According t...

Equinix unveils new sustainability initiatives

Equinix

Equinix recently opened its Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) based near Washington, DC, which will be home to a number of trials focusing on the development of sustainable data center tech. At the facility, the company will partner with Bloom Energy, ZutaCore, Virtual Power Systems (VPS), and Natr...

ColoHouse Opens 3rd Data Hall in Miami

ColoHouse Miami

ColoHouse has announced that it has opened a third data hall at its Miami, Florida data center. The new hall will provide more than 500kW of power at the facility. It will also add 550 square meters (6,000 square feet) of space to the location. The new hall is called MIA3, while the two pre...

Huawei establishes cloud region in Saudi Arabia and signs deal with STC

Huawei Cloud

Huawei has announced big plans in Saudi Arabia, with the launch of a newcloud region and the signing of a deal to build data centers with telco STC. While further details around the giant’s cloud region, its location and specifications are yet to be released, the announcement was made by rotat...

DataBank to expand DEN2 facility

DataBank

DataBank has announced the creation of its Centennial Campus by purchasing following the purchase of the data center it leased in the Centennial municipality in Colorado. This purchase will enable the company to expand onto the adjacent plot, which will be home to its DEN5 data center. Sp...

Panattoni backs out of data center plans in Borehamwood, London

​​Panattoni has backed out of its data center plans for Borehamwood, London; it has been announced. If all had gone to plan, the company would have developed a three-story, 41,763 sqm (449,500 sq ft) 50MW capacity data center with Pure Data Centres. However, the two have not gone ahead with th...

Prince William data center proposal moves ahead

Northern Virginia

The much-debated data center proposal located near Haymarket, Virginia, has made progress despite the Prince William County Planning Commission being unable to agree on a recommendation for the facility. The motion to recommend approval ended in a tie of 4:4, sending the proposal to the Board ...

India To Classify Data Centers as 'Infrastructure,' - More Development Expected

India / Bhārata

It is great news for data center companies, and investors in India as the country's government says it will classify data centers as infrastructure assets starting April 1, 2022. The development will help ensure that data center companies get better access to funds through loans or investments...

Unoccupied Data Center in Hauppauge, NY, sells for $21m

New York

An unoccupied data center in Hauppauge, New York, has been acquired for $21 million. According to Newsday, Link Logistics, a subsidiary of Blackstone, bought the property. Link Logistics plans to tear down the building and redevelop it as a Class A distribution center. The data center sits on ...

Continent 8 Technologies Launches a Data Center in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Continent 8 Technologies has announced the opening of a data center in Puerto Rico. The firm offers hosting and data center solutions to online gambling and betting companies. Continent 8 did not reveal the details of the data center. The company’s general manager for Latin America, Gabriel Sz...

What the FCC's decision on China Unicom Americas means for data centers

United States

The Federal Communications Commission has revoked China Unicom Americas’ operating license, citing national security risks, it has been announced. The vote was won 4-0, which means that within 60 days of the order’s publication, the company must cease all domestic interstate and international ...

Sabey Data Centers to expand in Quincy

Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Data Centers has announced it is expanding its SDC Quincy campus in central Washington. The company said the expansion will see 70 MW added to the campus. The campus currently spans 420,000 sq ft (39,000 sqm), and the first phase of construction will go ahead in the second half of the y...

EdgeConneX Granted Property Tax Break For its 22MW data center in Elk Grove

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX is developing a new data center in Elk Grove, Illinois. It has also been granted property tax breaks for the facility. The Elk Grove Village officials met last week and endorsed a proposed Cook County property tax for the company. EdgeConneX plans to develop a 22MW data center on...