Data Center News

Dutch data centers: electricity gets pricey

Netherlands

Smaller data center companies in the Netherlands have voiced concerns over surging energy prices, which they say is creating a challenging financial climate. The Dutch Data Center Association is now asking for a cap on electricity prices, corporate tax breaks or subsidies for clean energy inve...

Carbon offsets under the microscope: Greenpeace reasserts its position

NEXTDC

Following its scathing 'Hero to Zero' report, Greenpeace has hit out again at large companies using carbon offsets to meet sustainability targets. At the Reuters Impact conference, Greenpeace's Executive Director Jennifer Morgan said there's "no time" for offsets and that the climate emergency...

Start Campus and EllaLink team up

Start Campus has announced that it has signed an agreement with EllaLink, to strengthen connectivity between Europe, South America and Africa. The 'reinforced combination' of hyperscale data centers and submarine cables will ensure 99% of intercontinental digital connectivity through this part...

What's in store at the Huawei Global Digital Power Summit 2021?

Huawei Cloud

The Huawei Global Digital Power Summit 2021 is to go ahead later this month (October 16) in Dubai. According to the event's press release, the summit will focus on the "race to net-zero," and emphasize that the target of carbon neutrality requires everyone to get involved, a "global coalition"...

What has the HoneyWell survey revealed about data centers?

North America

Yesterday, Honeywell released its most recent report, "Rethinking Data Centers as Resilient, Sustainable Facilities." The report explored a number of different factors, including the challenges, and priorities of facility managers in the sector across the United States, China, Germany and Saud...

STT GDC plans two data centers in Tokyo with 60MW capacity

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced that it plans to build two new data centers in Tokyo, Japan. STT GDC says the two data centers will be developed by and leased from Goodman Group. Goodman Group is an Australian property firm. The facilities will be located in Goodman...

Teraco completes CT2 data center in Cape Town, South Africa

Teraco Cape Town CT2

South African data center company Teraco has announced it completed the first phase of its CT2 facility in Cape Town, South Africa. CT2 is a new hyperscale data center in Brackenfell, Cape Town. Phase one has 25,000 square meters (269,000 square feet) of building structure, 18MW of capacity, a...

Google and Thales Partner to form French sovereign cloud service

Google

Google and Thales have announced a new Joint Venture that will offer a sovereign cloud service in France. The companies announced that they would develop a sovereign hyperscale cloud offering for France. The new company aims to provide cloud services to local private and public companies th...

Oracle, TIM (Telecom Italia) and Noovle to Offer Multi-cloud Services in Italy

TIM Group

TIM (Telecom Italia), Oracle, and Noovle, TIM Group’s cloud company, have announced that they have signed a partnership agreement. The agreement will see the companies offer multi-cloud services for public sector organizations and enterprises in Italy. TIM Group says it would help advance Ital...

American Tower acquires DataSite

American Tower Corporation

American Tower has announced that it has completed the acquisition of DataSite. American Tower has now added two new data centers to its portfolio of state-of-the-art colocation facilities with the purchases. In addition, the investment also means American Tower will now manage and operate ...

Rostelecom opens new data center in Moscow, Russia

NORD-6

Rostelecom has announced the opening of its new data center in Moscow, Russia. The latest data center was opened under its Rostelecom-DPC unit. The new NORD-6 facility is in the Rostelecom-DPC campus in Korovinskoe highway 37. It has a capacity of 5MW and two data rooms that will house 207 rac...

Core Scientific's 300MW Blockchain data center in Texas to be 100% net carbon-neutral

Core Scientific: Denton, TX

Core Scientific has announced a significant expansion in Denton, Texas. This expansion will see the construction of a 300- megawatt (MW) blockchain data center, and is in association with Tenaska Energy.This announcement was made in a statement by the company on Thursday, which outlined that t...

Swoop acquires Countrytell in New South Wales, Australia

Australia

Australian telecommunication firm Swoop Holdings has acquired 100 percent of Countrytell Holdings for AU$4.2 million (US$3). Swoop paid half in cash and the other half in Swoop shares. Countrytell is a regional connectivity provider in Newcastle, New South Wales. Countrytell was founded in 200...

ADACEN moves in to Albuquerque

ADACEN has announced that it is relocating to Silver Spring, Maryland, in order to expand development. According to the company, this relocation is also a way for it to explore new technologies to make its data centers eco-efficient.Part of this exploration will see the company research renewa...

What can the data center industry learn from the Facebook blackout?

Meta

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram recently experienced a six-hour blackout, where users were unable to login, message, and peruse the platforms. But, users weren't the only ones whose access to the platform was interrupted. According to reports, tech giant Facebook also lo...

Nudging towards nuclear: Rolls Royce proposes powering data centers with nuclear

Rolls Royce is reportedly in talks with Amazon and other tech giants about exploring the possibility of powering data centers with small nuclear reactors (SMR). The project is under development by a consortium led by Rolls-Royce, and funded by a £215 million from the UK government grant last y...

TierPoint Milwaukee data center sells for $4.66 million

TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham

According to Biz Times, investors group KCMJ Investments LLC has sold TierPoint’s Milwaukee data center to Milwaukee-based WSP Burnham LLC for $4.66 million. The deal includes the sale of a 3.3-acre plot with the facility. TierPoint’s Milwaukee data center has 70,000 square feet of space wi...

Westfield City Council developing cold feet over 40-year tax deal for proposed $2.7 billion data center

Massachusetts

Westfield’s City Council has become skeptical about the 40-year tax break deal it wants to grant the developers of the $2.7 billion data center in the city. The council sat on the matter on Monday, October 4, 2021, but they were not expected to make a final decision then. The project will get ...

Full steam ahead: Geoveda Srl, pushes ahead with geo-thermal fuelled data center

Italy

Italian Geoveda Srl has announced that it is pursuing the construction of a green data center in the province of Pisa in Tuscany, Italy. Sourcing geothermal energy from Larderello, the proposed data center will be net-zero and aim for a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) below 1.1.The project, in...

Equinix opens a new hyperscale data center in São Paulo, Brazil

Equinix Sao Paulo SP5x

Equinix has announced the opening of its new hyperscale data center facility in São Paulo, Brazil, called SP5x. The new facility is located next to Equinix’s SP3 IBX data center in Santana de Parnaíba. The facility has 5MW of capacity in its first phase. It is also expected to have a total cap...