Global Data Center News

November 12, 2021

Blackstone acquires Equinix-occupied data center in London for £196.5 million

Equinix London LD8 Harbour Exchange (Docklands)

Land Securities Group has announced the sale of an office and data center property located in the Canary Wharf side of London. The sale price of the property is £196.5 million ($262.82 million). Equinix is currently occupying the property as its LD8 IBX data center. Land Securities Group so...

November 12, 2021

IFC invests in DigitalBridge’s Digital Infrastructures

DigitalBridge

The International Finance Corporation has invested $100 million into DigitalBridge’s digital infrastructure. From the investment, IFC has already committed $75 million towards three of DigitalBridge’s portfolio companies. These companies include Brazilian tower firm Highline do Brasil, Indones...

November 12, 2021

Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center

Northern Virginia

Prince William County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to pause the development of a Gainesville data center until late January. CTP-II LLC proposed the data center project in question. CTP-II LLC wanted 22.72 acres of land to be rezoned from business and light industrial to data center con...

November 11, 2021

Oracle opens cloud regions in Singapore and France

Oracle

Oracle has announced the opening of its new cloud regions in Singapore and Marseilles, France. The two regions are Oracle’s first in both countries. However, Oracle plans to open another cloud region in France next year. According to Oracle, the Marseille cloud region works with a “river cooli...

November 11, 2021

New Canadian cloud region for AWS

Amazon AWS

Calgary, Alberta, is to be home to AWS’s new Canadian cloud region, set to be available from late 2023 to early 2024. According to AWS, over the next few years, it will invest over $17 billion (CA$21 billion) in Canada, $3bn (CA$4bn) will go to the new Calgary region.Speaking about the announc...

November 11, 2021

True IDC to expand its Bangkok campus in Thailand

True IDC: Midtown Ratchada

True IDC has announced that it is expanding its True IDC-East Bangna facility in Bangkok. The data center firm had a ceremony last week to break ground on the second building on the site. True IDC planned four buildings with a total capacity of 15MW upon full buildout on the site. The facility...

November 11, 2021

Netrality requests $36 million in bonds for new data center in Kansas City

Netrality: Kansas City 7801 Nieman

According to BizJournal, Netrality has applied to the Shawnee City Council for $36 million in federally taxable private activity revenue bonds. Bizjournal says Netrality plans to use the bonds to finance construction materials, equipment, fixtures, and labor for the renovation of 7801 Nieman R...

November 11, 2021

Google buys 53 hectares of land in Wallonia, Belgium For Data Center Development

Google

According to L’Echo and La Nouvelle Gazette, Google has acquired over 50 hectares of land in Belgium. The search giant acquired the land in the Wallonia region of Belgium for developing data centers and office buildings. The Saint Ghislain data center in Belgium was Google’s first expansion in...

November 11, 2021

Government of Galicia plans data center outside Santiago, Spain

Spain

The Regional Government of Galicia has plans to build a new data center in the Galicia region of Spain. According to reports, the planned facility will double Galicia's digital capacity. The government first announced a data center called Gaiás Integral Data Processing Center in 2011. The faci...

November 11, 2021

ColoHouse acquires Quonix Group

ColoHouse

ColoHouse has completed the acquisition of Quonix Group. The acquisition sees ColoHouse take control of Quonix’s Data102 and Turnkey Internet Units. ColoHouse will be adding three new locations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York; and Colorado Springs, Colorado. Quonix’s Turnkey ba...

November 11, 2021

Custodian Data Centres to develop a data center in Dartford, UK

Custodian Data Centres

Custodian Data Centres has revealed that it would be building a new data center in Dartford, Kent. The proposed data center called DA2 will have 10MW of capacity, and it would be located outside southeast London. Custodian DC says the facility is scheduled to be in operation by Q2 2022. Th...

November 10, 2021

DITO planning hyperscale data center in the Philippines

Philippines

DITO has revealed its plans to develop hyperscale data centers in the Philippines. DITO CME Holdings Corp, the parent company of DITO Telecommunity, is in talks with some hyperscale firms about developing a data center in the Philippines. President and Director of DITO CME, Ernesto Alberto, to...

November 10, 2021

Orange plans new $135 million data center in Egypt’s new capital

Orange

Orange has announced its plans for a new $135 million data center in Egypt. The chief enterprise line of business officer at Orange Egypt, Hesham Mahran, revealed that Orange would build a new data center in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital. He noted that the new data center would host al...

November 10, 2021

Databank moves into Ashburn, Virginia

DataBank

Databank has announced that it is breaking ground on a new facility in Ashburn, Northern Virginia. This data center, IAD3, will initially have a capacity of 4MW of capacity expandable to 40MW and will span 200,000 sq ft (18,600 sqm). According to the company, the facility will be ready for ser...

November 10, 2021

Oracle opens another cloud region in UAE

Oracle

Oracle has announced the opening of a cloud region in Abu Dhabi, making it the firm’s second cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company opened its first cloud region in the UAE in 2020 after opening a facility in partnership with Etisalat in 2019. Oracle now has four cloud facilitie...

November 09, 2021

Validus to build crypto/HPC data center in Canada

Validus Power

Validus Power has revealed that it is building a cryptocurrency mining facility. It will also be reactivating a mothballed gas power plant in Canada. The firm says it plans to develop a 3,000 square meter (32,000 square feet) high-performance compute hosting facility at the Kapuskasing cycle p...

November 09, 2021

Augusta data center plans curbed

Georgia

A data center proposed for the site of a former cotton mill in Augusta, Georgia, is no longer ahead. Back in 2016, Cape Augusta Real Estate Development announced redevelopment plans for the site and outlined the project would go ahead under the name ‘Augusta Cyberworks.’ Original plans for the...

November 09, 2021

AWS's $35billion investment in Virginia

Amazon AWS

Between 2011 and 2020, Amazon Web Services (AWS) injected $35 billion into its cloud computing infrastructure in Northern Virginia, which is a hub for data centers and the largest single concentration of corporate data centers globally. This information was released by a recent report by the t...

November 09, 2021

Hetzner completes expansion at Finnish campus, starts work on two more

Hetzner Finland

German cloud and hosting firm Hetzner has completed the expansion of its Finish data center campus. It has also broken ground on other buildings on the same campus. Earlier in July, Hetzner completed the development of a new building at the Tuusula campus which is to the north of Helsinki. ...

November 08, 2021

DataBank to open new data in Minnesota

DataBank Brooklyn Park MSP3

DataBank has announced the launch of a new data center located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 86,000 square feet carrier-neutral MSP3 facility is located in Brooklyn Park. MSP3 is DataBank’s fourth Minneapolis data center, and it is built to Tier III standards. The first phase of the facility ...

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IFC invests in DigitalBridge’s Digital Infrastructures

Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center