Data Center News

Vodafone to upgrade security at Bracknell data center

Vodafone

Following an increasing number of criminal attacks at Vodafone’s Bracknell data center, the company is now making plans to upgrade security at this facility. Vodafone has received permission from the Bracknell Forest Council to install new security fences and gates, reconfigure the car park, a...

Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

London

Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said stron...

Platform.sh offers discount for greener data centers

Microsoft Azure

Platform.sh, a platform for building, running and scaling web applications, is offering customers a three percent 'greener region discount' when using a data center that consumes electricity that is less than 100gCO₂e/kWh. Customers have a choice of six data center regions across five countrie...

Axentec PLC unveils Tier IV-standard data center in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Robi Axiata subsidiary Axentec PLC has launched a Tier IV-standard data center called  "Cypher", located in the Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park in Jashore and spans 16,500 square feet. This prefabricated facility will offer 2N redundancy and fault-tolerant power backup systems for its t...

Green Mountain to host HPE AI and HPC infrastructure in Norweigan facility

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain is to host Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure in two of its Norweigan data centers. Green Mountain has three data centers in Norway and the specific facilities for this project are yet to be reveale...

CtrlS to invest $482.5 million in Chennai data center

Indian operator CtrlS Datacenters is building a new data center campus in Chennai and intends to invest Rs 4000 crore ($482.5m) in the 72MW project. Construction is already underway.  Sridhar Pinnapureddy, founder and CEO of CtrlS Datacenters, said: "We are delighted to unveil our upcoming Ch...

Kyivstar signs Rakuten Symphony Open RAN deal

Ukraine

Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has signed a new deal to procure and deploy Rakuten Symphony's Open RAN technology in its network. A  letter of intent has been signed by the companies to show that Rakuten would be the preferred partner for Kyivstar's eventual 5G rollout. "I share the excitement of o...

OData to expand footprint in Mexico

ODATA SA

Latin American data center operator OData  this week announced its QR01 data center in Querétaro is being expanded and  it has started to build two new hyperscale data center campuses in Mexico, in Guanajuato and El Marqués. “We are pleased with the success seen during the development of our Q...

Fatal incident reported at new London substation for Microsoft data center

Microsoft Azure

A fatal incident has been reported at an electrical substation being built to supply power to a new Microsoft data center in London. Reports have it that a worker was trapped after an incident involving an aerial work platform at the Park Royal, site in Ealing last week, and died of his injur...

Bridge DC plans further expansion in Malaysia

Malaysia

APAC operator Bridge Data Centres has revealed new plans for further expansion in Malaysia with a new facility in Cyberjaya. The ChinData subsidiary said the project will offer 87MW across three phases, with the first two phases involving the construction of a three-story data center. “We are ...

Modine to acquire Scott Springfield Manufacturing

Canada

Modine this week announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Calgary, Alberta-based manufacturer of air handling units (AHU), Scott Springfield Manufacturing.  Modine mentioned that it will gain ‘immediate access to a highly complementary product portfolio and a blue-c...

NTT Docomo selects AWS for Japan Open RAN deployment

Amazon AWS

NTT Docomo has chosen Amazon Web Services to support the commercial deployment of its 5G Open RAN network in Japan. The company will use AWS to deploy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere), a container management software, at its 5G Open RAN. “Our philosophy at NTT D...

Empyrion DC secures S$133 million green loan

Singapore

Empyrion DC, a Singapore-based data center operator, has secured a green loan worth S$133 million (US$98 million) to refinance its  SG1 Dodid data center in Singapore, with proceeds used to “support existing operations” at the 12.5MW facility. This financing was provided by the UOB bank. Mark ...

SK Telecom teams up with specialists for new AI liquid cooling Solution

South Korea

Korean telco SK Telecom (SKT) is teaming up with liquid cooling specialist Iceotope and lubricant developer SK Enmove to design a new liquid cooling solution for AI data centers. The companies will collaborate to deploy precision liquid cooling (PLC) using SK Enmove’s thermal fluid at SKT’s A...

Summit acquires managed services provider Deft

United States

US cloud hosting firm Summit has acquired managed services provider Deft. Deft co-founders and principals Jordan Lowe, Daniel Brosk, and Eric Dynowski will join the Summit leadership team and retain a “significant ownership stake” in the business. Other terms of this deal have not been shared....

Demand for data center in Europe outstrips supply

Europe

Demand for colocation space in Europe’s data centers is outpacing supply despite an abundance of new facilities being built for customers accross the continent according to a new report.  Kevin Restivo, head of European data center research at CBRE, said, “Hyperscalers have sought increasingly...

GTAA to develop Large Language Models Joint Venture this year

Spain

An announcement made earlier this week at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain revealed that the members of the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA) are to establish a joint venture later this year specifically aimed at developing Large Language Models (LLMs). "We want our customers...

Global Switch reveals plans for new data center in London

Global Switch

Global Switch has announced its plans for a new data center in London to be located adjacent to Global Switch’s existing data centers in east London’s Docklands. The company noted that the five-story facility, known as London South, will offer 40MW across 27,000 square meter.  CEO Ashley Muldo...

Security services firm Securitas Technologies plans to certify 10,000 data center professionals

Europe

Security services firm Securitas Technologies has revealed plans to train up and certify 10,000 workers as data center security and safety professionals. The company has also  introduced certification to improve the skills of its security officers at its data centers. "The Certified Data Cente...

Mapfre sells 10MW facility in Madrid

Madrid

Spanish insurance firm Mapfre has sold its data center in Madrid. The company received advise on the sale-leaseback deal of its 10MW facility in Alcalá de Henares from CBRE’s Spanish unit. Paul Mortlock, senior director and head of European data center capital markets at CBRE, said, "CBRE's Eu...