Data Center News

British Land considering Vodafone-occupied data center sale to Realty Income

British Land is negotiating with Realty Income to sell an array of data centers occupied by Vodafone in London. In July, it was reported that Savills was seeking purchasers for the Network Portfolio, a collection of six facilities totaling 260,000 square feet. British Land, the proprietor of t...

Rosatom acquires a data center in development; the 36MW facility is set to open in 2024

Moscow / Москва́

The state-owned Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia has acquired a Moscow data center. C.News.ru reports that Rosatom's Atomdata Center division has acquired a Moscow data center under construction for $237 million. The Moscow-2 facility, situated on 215,280 square feet in the Southern Admini...

India will get a "million qubit" quantum computing machine -centric data center

India / Bhārata

India's Greater Noida will soon house a data center dedicated to quantum computation. On August 11, the Utter Pradesh (UP) Government and Innogress, a project promoter, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Indraprastha Quantum Data Center (IQDC).As a joint venture between Innogre...

Tillman FiberCo and Northleaf execute a $500 million investment agreement

United States

Northleaf Capital Partners and Tillman FiberCo have joined forces in a strategic partnership. The fiber broadband company confirmed receiving a preliminary investment of $200 million, with an additional $300 million possible as the company looks to expand.The investment, per Tillman, will spee...

Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved

Amazon AWS

Amazon's plans for a 7.5 million square foot data center campus have received preliminary approval from the King George County, Virginia, planning commission. Amazon will be the project's end customer, according to the Free Lance-Star.Birchwood Power Partners requested an amendment to the Coun...

STT GDC plans to construct a third facility in Bangkok, Thailand

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) Thailand is constructing its third data center in Bangkok, Thailand. STT Bangkok 3 will be located in the One Bangkok district and will have 2MW of IT capacity when it opens at the end of 2023, as is currently scheduled. This facility will join the ot...

Launch of the GDS data center campus in Johor, Malaysia

GDS Services Ltd

A new data center campus for GDS has opened in Malaysia's Johor. This week, the company announced the grand inauguration of its data center campus at Nusajaya Tech Park (NTP). Phase 1 of the campus (consisting of Nusajaya 1, 2, and 3, or NTP1, 2, and 3) offers 242,200 square feet of net floor ...

Cyxtera files plan of reorganization with bankruptcy court

Cyxtera Technologies

Cyxtera has submitted a reorganization plan to the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Lenders with over two-thirds of the company's outstanding first-lien debt support the proposal.The proposal would get rid of more than $950 million in pre-filing debt for Cyxtera. In either a...

EdgeCore begins construction of a data center in Reno, Nevada

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has begun construction on a new facility in Reno, Nevada. The company announced last week that it has begun construction on its first data center campus in the Reno, Nevada metropolitan area, nearly five years later than originally planned.Two data centers will ...

Intel acquires space in Bengaluru's CtrlS DC data center

Intel

A CtrlS Data Centers location in Bengaluru, India, has been leased by Intel India for use as a data center. Intel will be provided with 11,536 square feet of data center space under the terms of a three-year lease commencing on July 18. The lease, which CRE Matrix was able to access, states th...

Bitdeer completes 100MW Bhutan cryptomine data center

Bitdeer, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency miner, has finished building a new mining data center in Gedu, Bhutan. During the facility's power-on testing, 11,000 mining devices are operating normally. The company announced in July that it bought 23,000 mining devices, with an additional 7,000 en...

Construction of the UNN data facility in Brunei commences

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Unified National Networks (UNN) data center construction has commenced at the UNN Tungku Submarine Landing Station in Brunei. A ceremony to mark the start was conducted for the 51,000-square-foot facility containing 200 Vertiv-supplied racks.Utilizing a prefabricated design, construction shoul...

Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India

Equinix

Equinix will invest $42 million in a new data center in Mumbai, India. The MB4 data center is anticipated to be operational by the end of the fourth quarter 2023. The MB4 data center is in the Kalwa Industrial Area, approximately 9 miles from the company's two other IBX data centers in Mumbai....

Singtel breaks ground on new Singapore data center

Singtel

This week, Singtel announced it has broken ground on a new data center in Singapore. The new facility is an eight-story building that will offer 58MW of IT load capacity across 120,000 sq ft. It's set to go live in 2025. Named DC Tuas, the data center has a target PUE of below. 1.3 It also inc...

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) to power Indonesian data center with biomass

Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) will power one of its Indonesian data centers with biomass, following the signing of a renewable energy contract with PT Cikarang Listrindo Tbk (CL). PDG will subsequently power its Cibitung data center with the company's biomass-sourced energy.The facility itsel...

NextDC is developing a modular data center in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

NEXTDC

Western Australia has received an Edge data center module from NextDC. According to the company's website, the 1.5MW, single-story PH1 provides technical space for 320 racks across 7,825 square feet. The company has projected a go-live date of August 2023.The company stated that the data cente...

Brazil's Paraná government will receive a data center from Zeittec

Brazil / Brasil

The Brazilian company Zeittec will construct a new federal data center. This week, the corporation announced that a new building would be built for the Paraná Court of Auditors at the TCE-PR (Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Paraná) headquarters in Curitiba, in the southern part of the country....

Vodafone Idea partners with Yotta to expand Indian data centers

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Vi Business, the enterprise division of Vodafone Idea (Vi), has partnered with Yotta Data Services to expand its data center colocation and cloud services offering in India. The collaboration will enable Vi Business to provide its enterprise customers with integrated connectivity, cloud, and s...

Scala Data Centers' site in Curauma, Chile is operational

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers developed its first facility in Chile and commenced operations at its 5MW Curauma data center. This is Scala's third data center to be launched this year, following the opening of additional sites in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The new facility is already completely leased...

A Phoenix, Arizona racetrack is slated for data center development

Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona's racehorse track, might be converted into an industrial park and data center. Initially reported by BizJournal, developers filed a conceptual site plan to the Phoenix planning commission for a 2.6 million-square-foot industrial and data center park.CT Realty, based in Califor...