Data Center News

NTT and Prestige to develop 100MW data center in Bangalore

NTT

NTT has announced that it has partnered with Prestige Group for a new 100 MW data center in Bangalore, India. The deal will see the company develop a one million square feet area spread across multiple buildings and constructed in three phases. According to the companies, the first building i...

Quantum Loophole Maryland campus paused amid environmental concerns

Quantum Loophole

Quantum Loophole has confirmed that it has agreed with state officials this week to pause construction of its data center campus in Maryland, having racked up "numerous environmental violations" over the past five months. According to a report by Frederick News-Post, the Maryland Department o...

More data center proposals in Spotsylvania; AWS files for four rezoning requests for data centers

Amazon AWS

More data centers are set to arrive in Spotsylvania County, as applications continue to pile up. Amazon is one of the key drivers here, planning four new data center campuses in Virginia's Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, equating to more than 10 million square feet of development.Amazon ha...

Tesla leases Sacramento Twitter data center Musk once blasted

Sacramento

Twitter formerly used the Sacramento site of NTT Global Data Centers, but now it is home to Musk's electric car company. Twitter departed the data center in late 2022, with the CEO disparaging the area. Tesla will now occupy the space as well as extra square footage.The data center will likely...

AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.

atNorth

AtNorth's newest 12MW data center in Iceland is now running. The colocation company announced on June 12 that ICE03, its third facility in Iceland, has begun operations. The site's initial plans were released in April 2022. The data center is located in the northern Icelandic city of Akureyri...

Yondr and Apollo forms strategic Partnership

Yondr Group

Apollo Global Management and Yondr Group have formed a strategic partnership. This week, the data center developer announced that it had agreed on a "strategic relationship partnership" in which Apollo will invest in Yondr.Yondr, which Cathexis, a single-family investment office, owns, stated ...

Evolution DC and Central Pattana build Bangkok data center

Bangkok / Krung Thep

Evolution Data Centres has partnered with Central Pattana PCL, a Thai property developer, to construct a new data center in Bangkok. Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, the two corporations will construct a 34MW carrier-neutral data center in central Bangkok, Thailand. Phase 1 of t...

Digita Oy launches an independent data center business

Digita Oy

Digita, a Finnish tower operator, is separating its data center operations into a new company dubbed Digita Data Centers Oy. The new company will function as a subsidiary of Digita, which DigitalBridge owns. Digital Data Centers Oy will provide colocation, cloud, and connectivity services to e...

Horizon Equity will buy Covilhã’s Portugal data center from Altice for $107m

Altice Portugal (Portugal Telecom)

According to reports, the French telco Altice is almost ready to sell its core data center in Portugal. According to Jornal Económico, the company is discussing selling its Covilh data facility for $107.8m. Horizon Equity Partners, a Portuguese infrastructure investor, is reportedly the most p...

Serpro modular data center receives TIER 3 certification

Brazil / Brasil

Serpro has announced that its new data center in São Paulo has received TIER III certification. The facility has a total area of ​​1820 sqm and 503 sqm of prefabricated modules. The first three phases have been completed, with two further phases remaining, set to go ahead in early 2024. At ful...

Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

Equinix

Equinix is expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, with plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur called KL1, which, the company said, will provide greater digital infrastructure capacity in the country. The new facility, which follows the company's announcement of JH1 in Johor, wi...

atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics

atNorth

atNorth has announced that its third Iceland data center, ICE03, is now operational. The facility, located 250 km north of Reykjavík, offers an initial capacity of 12 MW, expandable to 50MW. Completed in just 11 months, the company now has a portfolio of six operational data centers, with an ...

University of York moves data to Sweden for sustainability

EcoDataCenter Falun, Sweden

The University of York has outlined that it is moving its data to Sweden in a bid to make its operations more sustainable. The UK university has chosen the EcoDataCenter in Falun, Sweden, to store its data, which it says has aided it in reducing its emissions from data by 98%. This has been ma...

Empyrion DC commences construction of the Gangnam data facility in South Korea

Empyrion Digital

Empyrion DC has begun construction on its first data center in the Gangnam neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea. The 40MW facility, located in Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, will be the first to be built in the Gangnam region since around 2011. Interestingly enough, this is when Psy's song Gangnam-Sty...

SES will offer satellite connectivity for the AWS modular data facility

Amazon AWS

SES released a satellite connectivity solution for Department of Defense (DoD) clients using the new modular data center product from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This week, SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned division of SES, announced that satellite-powered network connectivity is now avai...

Denver's former Neustar data facility for sale

The former Neustar data center in Denver, Colorado, is available for purchase. Through a LoopNet listing, Telaxis is offering a data center that is "plug and play ready" on 3.6 acres at 8532 Concord Center Drive in Englewood, Colorado. The facility was constructed in 2006 and turned into a dat...

Grant County in Washington is sued by Sabey Data Centers over $2 million in property taxes

Sabey Data Centers

Integrate Quincy of Sabey Data Centers is suing Grant County, Washington, over its real estate taxes. Over the past two years, the company claims to have paid $3.3 million in county tax payments under protest, reflecting nearly $2 million in excess charges for which it now requests a full reim...

The University of Turbat in Pakistan receives a new data center

South Asia

A new data center has been opened by the University of Turbat (UoT) in Balochistan, Pakistan. Governor Malik Abdul Wali Khan Kakar inaugurated the conclusion of the first phase and the first phase of the 1MW solar initiative at the university. The capacity of the data center is unknown at this...

Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced the availability of its first cloud region in Italy. Consisting of three data centers located in the Lombardy region, the company said it guarantees the highest levels of security, privacy and performance. The region is pegged to accelerate the digital transition of or...

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) signs PCA with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL)

Mumbai

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has signed a 25-year power consumption agreement (PCA) with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL) to procure solar energy in India. The deal will see the data center firm receive power generated by a solar project located in Nanded district, Maharashtra. Thi...