Data Center News

Singapore's IMDA establishes tropical data facility sustainability benchmark

Singapore

Singapore has introduced a standard for maximizing the energy efficacy of data centers (DCs) in tropical regions. The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) standard recommends operating centers at higher temperatures to save energy on cooling. Dr. Janil Puthucheary, Singapore's Senior Mi...

Accelevation acquires data center technology integrator Instor

Accelevation, an Ohio-based producer, bought data center machinery integrator Instor. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Baird Business Owner Solutions served as Instor's financial advisor. Instor has over 25 years of data center layout, structured cabling, electrical facilities,...

Iron Mountain and Web Werks invest $170m in Navi Mumbai data facility

Web Werks

Web Werks and Iron Mountain plan to invest 170 million dollars in a data facility in Navi Mumbai, India. The envisioned facility, Mumbai-3, will have a 32MW capacity and be constructed to Tier III specifications. The JV already owns a five-acre parcel to develop the data center, which is antic...

Nabiax increases the capacity of the Alcala data facility in Spain to 22MW

Nabiax: ADC 1

The data center operator Nabiax has begun expanding its Alcala Data Center in Spain. The company plans to increase the facility's capacity by 47% by the end of the year, from 15.1MW to 22MW. The center is located northeast of Madrid in Alcalá de Henares. After the expansion process, the compan...

Digital Realty designs data center on Marseille sugar silo site

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty will construct a new data center on the site of an ancient sugar silo at the Port of Marseille-Fos, having won a bid to acquire and develop the land. The new MRS5 facility will reportedly encompass approximately 107,640 square feet and will be operational by the end of 2025. Acc...

3data Partners With Key Point to Set up Data Facility Throughout Russia

By 2027, the Russian company Key Point intends to place 35 data centers in each nation's federal district, working with the data center chain 3data, according to Comnews.ru. It's expected that the data centers will meet Tier-3 requirements.According to the plans, a data center in Vladivostok w...

Work begins on a data facility in Lincoln, Nebraska

Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska, looks to have seen the start of construction on a data center campus that was first proposed in 2019. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, the project appears to be progressing, with some excavation occurring in recent months.In July 2019, Agate LLC filed for a 600 million...

Zeittec provides the Brazilian Intelligence Agency with a data facility.

Zeittec has created a data facility for Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (ABIN), the Brazilian Intelligence Agency. The Brazilian company built a 3,230-square-foot data center at the ABIN headquarters in Braslia, Federal District. The facility comprised a 538-square-foot data hall, a power s...

Bain seeks to privatize ChinData

Chindata Group

A bid to take Chinese data center operator ChinData private has been made by the investment firm Bain Capital. This week, ChinData announced that the investment firm, which is already investing in the data center firm, filed a preliminary, non-binding request letter to acquire all remaining or...

Evroc aims to raise $3.2 billion for tw hyperscale data centers

Sweden

A new Swedish startup called Evroc intends to open several large data centers throughout Europe. In its pre-seed round, the company raised $13.9 million, but it hopes to raise $3.2 billion in the following two years to build and run two hyperscale data centers in Europe. Long-term, Evroc aims ...

Digital Edge begins construction on Tokyo data facility

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has begun constructing its data center in downtown Tokyo, Japan. A few days ago the company announced on LinkedIn that the building of its TYO7 site had officially begun. The Singapore-based business revealed plans for a new facility in March 2023. The facility will be situated at...

Old Capital One facility offered by Chirisa to hyperscalers

Chirisa Investments

A former Capital One facility in Chester, Virginia, is being marketed by Chirisa to hyperscalers. Chirisa Technology Parks, a subsidiary of Chirisa that was recently established, lists the facility located at 1401 Meadowville Technology Pkwy outside of Richmond on its official website as avail...

Elea Digital expands Brazilian data facility with $20m

Elea Data Centers

Elea Digital, a Brazilian data center corporation, has invested more than $20 million in expanding its Rio de Janeiro data center. The data center in issue, RJ01, has doubled its capacity from 2.5MW to 5MW, and the additional 5,380 sq ft of data center space can accommodate up to 200 more rack...

Digital Realty gets $1.1 billion, sells Texas and Illinois data facilities

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a US data center company, has had an eventful week raising money and selling data centers. The company announced that it had raised over $1 billion through the sale of shares, with the money going to be used for expansion and debt reduction. Digital is selling the vast majority...

The University of Minnesota moves ahead with $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus

Minnesota

The University of Minnesota has announced that it's moving forward with a new $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus. The university is reportedly accepting design proposals for a two-story, 33,000-square-foot "Advanced Operations Center." The facility will be located west of the...

IBM plans to construct a quantum data facility in Germany

Kyndryl

IBM will construct a data center in Germany to house quantum processors. This week, the company revealed plans to establish its first quantum data facility in Europe on the IBM campus in Ehningen, near Stuttgart, to facilitate cutting-edge quantum computing for businesses, research institution...

Data center colo provider Cyxtera declares bankruptcy

Cyxtera Technologies

The US colocation provider Cyxtera has declared bankruptcy. Cyxtera began a pre-arranged court-supervised procedure under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code following the Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA) originally made with certain lenders. Cyxtera stated that it intends to ...

CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.

CloudHQ

CloudHQ has purchased land in San Antonio, Texas, to construct a data center campus. The company has acquired nearly 123 acres of land in the Texas Research Park, just down the street from Microsoft's Bexar County facilities. The University of Texas System sold CloudHQ the land bounded by Lamb...

York County's $1bn data center proposal

South Carolina

South Carolina is planning a $1 billion data center development. This week, the York County Council will discuss and vote on tax incentives for a data center proposal in the county. York County is located in northeast South Carolina, toward the east of Greenville and Spartanburg, and adjacent ...

Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

Rackspace

A data center occupied by Rackspace is for sale in Kansas City, Missouri. Collers are offering 10828 NW Airworld Drive as a "long-term NNN lease investment opportunity." No sale price was disclosed. The two-story, 77,545-square-foot building was built 1982 on 5.2 acres and came with a single-t...