Data Center News

Aqaba Digital Hub receives funding from Jordan's JCIF fund

Middle East

Jordan Capital & Investment Fund (JCIF) invests in Aqaba Digital Hub (ADH), a company that operates a data center in Jordan. The fund revealed this week that it had finalized the terms of a ‘significant minority' investment in ADH, a Jordanian corporation that operates a data center and fi...

South Korean government to develop two data centers with domestically manufactured AI semiconductors

The South Korean government has revealed it will develop two data centers using domestically manufactured artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors. Further to this, it will also increase funding for the development of semiconductor products by fabless firms; this is in addition to the $642 ...

CapitaLand acquires a data center in London, UK, from Digital Realty

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

CapitaLand, a Singaporean investment company, has acquired a London, UK, data center from Digital Realty. The manager of CapitaLand Ascendas REIT, CapitaLand Ascendas REIT Management Limited, announced this week the purchase of a colocation data center from an "unrelated global data center ope...

Fidelis New Energy to pursue energy and data center developments in West Virginia

Fidelis New Energy has announced it has chosen Mason County, West Virginia, US, as the location for a lifecycle net zero hydrogen production facility and a 1GW data center campus, known as the Mountaineer GigaSystem and the Monarch Cloud Campus. The campus could reportedly see a $5 billion inv...

Principal buys Amsterdam logistics site for 42MW Switch DC data center

Switch Datacenters Amsterdam BV

Principal Asset Management has purchased a Dutch logistics facility that will be converted into a data center. This week, the company announced the acquisition of a logistics facility for the Principal European Data Centre Fund I. The terms were not disclosed.The acquired facility in the Schip...

Cyxtera property sought after by Brookfield and Digital Realty

Cyxtera Technologies

Reportedly, Brookfield and Digital Realty are interested in acquiring the struggling Cyxtera. According to Bloomberg, several parties, including Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty Trust, are interested in purchasing the assets of the insolvent colocation company. The firms r...

Arctic Wolf announces launch of Australian data center

Arctic Wolf has opened a new local data center in Australia, it has announced. The local center, running as a module through AWS’s Sydney facility, is part of its strategic expansion. It launched in the country regionally last October. The company outlined that this move sets it apart from oth...

Vultr expands in São Paulo, Brazil

Vultr has announced that it is expanding in Brazil. The company has shared that after launching a new cloud data center in Santiago earlier this year, it is now investing in São Paulo to provide additional capacity.This additional capacity will be an over 200% capacity expansion. Further, sinc...

Data centers could be built on Maryland's old mall site for FBI HQ

Maryland

Lerner Enterprises is evaluating a former Maryland mall as a possible campus for a data center if the FBI does not relocate there. Brightseat Associates LLC, a Lerner affiliate, filed a preliminary application for a "qualified data center" with Prince George's County's land use regulatory body...

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Northern Virginia

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...

Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Clean Energy Connect (CEC), a solar power company in the Itochu group for solar energy. Through the 20-year corporate PPA, CEC will invest more than 10 billion yen ($75 million) by 2024 for the development of small ...

Tesla to build new 'first of its kind' data centers

Through a job ad, Tesla has announced that it plans to build so-called "first of its kind data centers."In a job posting, first highlighted by Electrek, Tesla outlines it is seeking a senior engineering program manager who would be "responsible for leading the full design & engineering of ...

DoD procures a security advancement for Hawaii data center

Hawaii

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is soliciting proposals for a data center security upgrade in Hawaii. On August 14, the contract offer was released, giving businesses three weeks to present their ideas for the DoD's facility. The solution must upgrade the Defense Information Systems Agency ...

IP3 and Green Energy Partners form JV for development in Surry, Virginia

IP3 and Green Energy Partners have announced that they have formed a joint venture to work on the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) in Surry County, Virginia. Together, the two are planning to develop between 20 and 30 green data centers, on 641 acres in Surry County. The project includes a fle...

New $370 million data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility in Salalah, Oman

Oman

A new data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility has been built in Oman for $370 million. Established in Salalah on August 13 by the Omani Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology (MTCIT), the center is part of the country's national infrastructure program. The da...

IXAfrica buys 11 acres for second Nairobi data center facility

Nairobi

IXAfrica has bought land in Nairobi, Kenya, for a second data center site. The company executed a contract with local real estate developer Tilisi Developments plc to acquire 11 acres of land in the Kenyan capital for the development of its second data center campus. Research is currently bein...

Bain to privatize ChinData in a $3.16 billion transaction

Chindata Group

ChinData, a Chinese data center operator, will be taken private by existing investor Bain Capital. ChinData Group Holdings Limited revealed over the weekend that it had gone into a $3.16 billion merger deal with two Bain subsidiaries that will be taken private: BCPE Chivalry Bidco Limited and ...

GreenSquareDC leases tract of land in Western Australia for wind & solar park to power data center

GreenSquareDC has shared that it is leasing a large tract of land at at Billericay Road in East Hyden, Perth, Western Australia,  to develop a wind and solar park to power its 96MW data center. The long-term ground lease is for over 3,100 hectares of land, and on this land, the company will bu...

GLP's new global data center business breaks ground on its first Tokyo, Japan campus

GLP has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo West 1 (TKW1) is the company’s first foray into Japan, with the campus offering 31 MW across three buildings. The first building is projected to be ready for service by 2025, offering 10MW, while building two ...

Rowan plans a 1 million-square-foot data center in Morrow County, Oregon

Rowan Digital Infrastructure

Rowan Green Data in Morrow County, Oregon, plans to build a data center. Proposals for the Percheron Data Center near Boardman were recommended for approval by the County planning commission at the end of last month. Later this month, the proposal will be presented to the County Board of Commi...