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KIO announces new data center campus in Colombia

KIO Data Centers

KIO has launched operations in Colombia with the opening of KIO BOG1, a data center campus in the Bogotá Free Trade Zone, it has announced. This comes fewer than six months after it entered South America. BOG1 has a power capacity of 5.6MW, and is Tier 3-certified. The project also has adjacen...

Amazon plans a campus with two buildings in Stafford County, Virginia

Amazon AWS

More proposals for data centers are on the way to Stafford, Virginia's Stafford County. Amazon has applied to a two-building facility in the county, while an unnamed developer plans a three-building site nearby. Amazon Data Services has applied for approval to construct the Potomac Church Tech...

Michigan's Kmart headquarters and data center will be demolished

Michigan

The Troy, Michigan, Kmart corporate office and data center will be destroyed soon. The 906,000-square-foot facility is located at 3100 W. Big Beaver Road on a 40-acre lot. No post-demolition arrangements for the site have been revealed publicly at this time. The head offices have been vacant s...

A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale

Detroit

A data center outside of Detroit, Michigan, is available for purchase. Lee & Associates, a real estate agency, has listed 21420 Melrose in Southfield, Oakland County, as available. The 1986-built, 15,956-square-foot property is available for $1.34m.“This building is extremely well maintain...

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is considering selling its fiber assets for $1 billion.

Indonesia

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) is contemplating selling its Indonesian fiber assets. The Indonesian telco is reportedly assessing its strategy for its fiber business, as Bloomberg reported last week. The assets could be valued at more than $1 billion, according to Bloomberg, which reported in...

Fujitsu closes US data centers operations, might follow suit in South America

Fujitsu

Fujitsu is revising its data center approach to the Americas and has shut down its data center operation in North America. Fujitsu's newly hired CEO for the Americas, Asif Poonja, stated in an interview with BNAmericas this week that the company is contemplating partnering with service provide...

EdgeConneX Now Powering All of Its Data Centers With 100% Renewable Energy

EdgeConneX has shared that it is now powering all of its global data centers with 100% renewable energy. The company noted that it has achieved 100% carbon neutrality for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions as a result, with a significant 44% reduction in Scope 3 emissions.The company was reportedl...

Morrow County, Oregon, rezones Percheron data center land

Oregon

Land 11 miles southwest of Boardman in Oregon's Morrow County has been zoned from agricultural to industrial, and the board of commissioners has given authorization.  The change in zoning will permit the construction of data centers on the site. There are proposals to construct a 50MW solar fa...

Water tech company AquaTech and new Saudi firm DataVolt collaborate for data centers

Saudi Arabia

DataVolt is collaborating with AquaTech Systems, an Indian firm specializing in water technology, to construct water-efficient data centers. The two companies revealed this week that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation and services in water conditioning and rec...

CyrusOne plans expansion in Frankfurt with seventh data center campus

CyrusOne Frankfurt FRA7

CyrusOne is set to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA7, this is the company’s seventh data center campus in Frankfurt. Construction is set to begin in the third quarter of 2024, with an expected delivery date of the second quarter of 2026. Based on a 63,000 sqm (678,1...

SK ecoplant plans new 120MW data center campus

SK ecoplant: Pohang

SK ecoplant has shared plans for a new 120MW data center campus and landing station in Pohang, South Korea. This will reportedly be the first in Pohang City, and will see four data centers developed with a capacity of 30MW each, to be built by 2027.This comes following the signing of an invest...

Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council

Virginia

Culpeper Town Council is debating whether to rezon a land on East Chandler Street to create a six-building, 4.3 million-square-foot data center facility and substation in Culpeper County, Virginia. The 116-acre lot is zoned Residential-2 following 15 years of planning for a 490-home project. S...

Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers

Philippines

Axiata Group is done with the transfer of the remaining towers from PLDT's subsidiaries to its Philippine subsidiary. Thus, the Malaysian company has finalized an agreement to acquire and lease back 2,710 sites. The company declared that the final transfer of the six sites under its agreement ...

Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers

Sweden

Karnfull Next, a Swedish nuclear corporation, has announced plans for a campus of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Swedish coast that will power data centers. The company intends to construct the facility in Nykoping, on the Swedish east coast, where the nuclear software company Studsvik c...

King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility

Amazon AWS

The King George County Board of Supervisors authorized Amazon Web Service's (AWS) 19-building data center campus's 869-acre rezone from agriculture to industrial use. Birchwood Power Partners applied for rezoning for AWS. AWS has received this first approval, but Birchwood's attorney, Charlie ...

EdgeConneX to build 200MW Cyberjaya facility in Malaysia

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX continues to grow its APAC operations by adding three facilities in Malaysia, located in and around Kuala Lumpur. Business Today and Edge Malaysia report that EdgeConneX signed a sales and purchase contract with Cyberview earlier this month to acquire a 12.14-hectare tract of land i...

Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper

Vantage Data Centers

AustralianSuper has made an investment in Vantage Data Centers' EMEA operations. Last week, the company announced it would invest $1.6 billion to acquire a "significant minority stake" in Vantage Data Centers Europe, Middle East, and Africa (Vantage EMEA), backed by DigitalBridge. The pension ...

Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City

Google

Google has submitted two planning applications to Kansas City to develop its Northland at the Hunt Midwest Business Center site.  The cloud computing company acquired 78.9 acres in Northland, Kansas City, in 2019, followed by an additional 236.4 acres in December 2021, stating that the parcel ...

Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm

ServerFarm Realty

Manulife Investment Management has concluded the acquisition of data center firm Serverfarm on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II. In May 2023, Manulife announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in Serverfarm. Avner Papouchado, the CEO of Serverfarm, and NantCapital LLC will r...

University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

Meta

The University of Minnesota (UoM) Board of Regents has authorized the $39.7 million land sale to Meta. The 280-acre tract of land in UMore Park has been sold to Jimnist LLC, a subsidiary of Meta, for a data center.The land that comprises UMore Park is located in Rosemount and is bordered by Co...