Data Center News

Loblaw former data center in Canada bought by Grain & StratCap

StratCap Data Centers

Grain Management and StratCap bought a data center on the Canadian outskirts of Toronto. This week, the firms announced the formation of a joint venture to purchase 55 Hereford Street in Brampton, Ontario. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but per the joint venture contract, Str...

IT disruptions at the Guernsey government caused by data center cooling and power issues

United Kingdom

The States of Guernsey in the United Kingdom discovered that a series of IT disruptions were caused by the inability of backup systems and the use of outdated equipment. Between November and January, the authorities of the British Isles experienced four disruptions, rendering the state's websi...

Capitaland leases Manchester data center to Lunar Digital for 15 years

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

Capitaland Ascendas REIT and Lunar Digital have signed a 15-year lease for the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company's intention to acquire Reynold House in the Manchester Technopark was announced for the first time in February 2023, less than a year after Equinix began exi...

Everest Infrastructure Partners enters Portugal, buys Blue Sites Telco

Everest Infrastructure Partners has purchased TowerCo Blue Sites Telco in Portugal. It is the fourth global market in which Everest has invested, following the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Blue Sites Telco, established in 2017, is Portugal's largest communications tower lease agg...

Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

Equinix

Invesco has purchased a data center in San Jose, California, run by Equinix. Mercury News reports that the Sobrato Organization recently sold 1735 Lundy Avenue in San Jose to Invesco Real Estate for $86.3 million, citing documents from Santa Clara County.The single-story building encompasses 1...

Scaleway of Iliad will turn its data center unit into a separate entity, Opcore

OpCore

The French cloud and data center organization Scaleway separates its data center division into a separate businesses. President and former CEO of Scaleway, Arnaud de Bermingham, announced on Linkedin that he would oversee the new 46-person unit. In response to a commentator's inquiry about whe...

AFL Hyperscale launches DCI solutions to improve data center network infrastructure

AFL Hyperscale, a prominent provider of connectivity solutions, is thrilled to introduce its two new innovative Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions – Connectorized and Splice – to transform how organizations connect and manage their data centers. These novel products enable customers to c...

ST Telemedia opens STT Jakarta 1 data center

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has announced the launch of its STT Jakarta 1. This facility is the first building to be completed at the company's data center campus, which is being developed with Triputra Group and global investment company Temasek via a JV. At full build-out, the campus w...

STT GDC Philippines will increase the capacity of three data centers

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Globe Telecom announced on Tuesday that its joint venture with Ayala Corporation and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers would increase its capacity by 5.2MW by the end of the third quarter of this year. The expansion of ST Telemedia Global Data Centers Philippines (STT GDC Philip...

Telenor and Hafslund to partner for new sustainable data center-focused company

Telenor Group

Telenor and local energy company Hafslund have announced they're partnering to establish a joint venture to build data centers in Oslo, Norway. That said, ownership of the new company is split equally between Telenor, Hafslund, and HitechVision, each with 31.7 percent; Analysys Mason, a consu...

Virginia's Reston data center is now owned by Edge Centres

Edge Centres

Edge Centres has acquired a data center facility in Reston, Virginia. According to the company, the newly-acquired carrier hotel establishment, renamed EC104, features 1MW of scalability and 20 individual carriers. The data center is at 11513 Sunset Hills Road in Fairfax County, although the c...

FullSave launches data center in Auch, France

France

FullSave has announced the opening of a new data center in Auch. Offering 30-rack and spanning across two 70 sqm (753 sq ft) IT rooms, the facility also has a PUE of 1.4. Arnaud Turpin, IT manager at FullSave, said: "Our site has its own 144-fiber artery between Auch and Toulouse. Our data cen...

NextDC announces completion of S3 data center in Sydney, Australia

NEXTDC

NextDC has announced that it has completed construction at its S3 data center in Sydney, Australia, following AU$1 billion (US$685m) of investment, two months ahead of schedule. Construction first began at the facility in March 2021, with the first phase completed last year, in August. The se...

Compass Datacenters bought by Ontario Teachers' Plan and Brookfield

Compass Datacenters

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners will acquire Compass Datacenters with the company's current investor, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. This week, Brookfield Infrastructure, its financial partners, and longtime investor Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan revealed that they had officially agreed t...

The Hawaii data center initiative survives the governor's $1 billion in state budget cuts

Hawaii

Despite budget cutbacks, Hawaii's government will proceed with a proposed data center relocation. Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii had to make use of his line-item override to cut the General Appropriations Bill of 2023 and balance Hawaii's fiscal strategy with $500 million in budget cuts, but he ret...

Secure IT Environments provides the ICU of a UK hospital with a micro data center

United Kingdom

Secure I.T. Environments, a provider of modular data centers, has delivered a micro data center to a healthcare facility in London, United Kingdom. The intensive care unit (ICU) at Barnet Hospital got the 42U Micro Data Centre 3 this past week. The encapsulated facility has a maximum load capa...

NetActuate completes infrastructure and connectivity upgrades Santiago data center in Chile

NetActuate

NetActuate has announced the completion of a second round of infrastructure and connectivity upgrades at its Santiago data center in Chile to increase the availability of virtual servers and high bandwidth services. Its Santiago facility is now the third location to receive an anycast platfor...

365 Data Centers Planned Tampa Campus Expansion

365 Data Centers

365 Data Centers is constructing an additional data center space at its Tampa, Florida, site. The Tampa Internet Exchange and 25 carriers are housed in the Franklin Exchange building at 655 North Franklin Street, the campus location. The company's current market footprint will double due to t...

In light of Ireland's inaction on data center expansion, Ireland's Labour Party calls for hault

Republic of Ireland

Following concern being raised over the dangers posed by continued data center expansion, Ireland’s Labour Party has joined the call to halt data center building and, instead, introduce a temporary surcharge.Speaking about this, Labour leader and climate spokesperson Ivana Bacik, said that the...

Plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire, UK return following legal challenge

United Kingdom

Following a successful legal challenge, Link Park Heathrow’s plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire are going ahead. First filed in December 2020, the company was seeking to demolish the existing buildings at its site on Thorney Mill Road in Iver to develop a 55,000 sqm (592,000 sq ft)...