Data Center News

Data4 launches Polish data center campus

DATA4 Group

Data4 has announced the launch of its new data center campus outside Warsaw in Poland. The Polish facility, at full build-out, will offer 60MW across 15,000 sqm. Data4's new data center, located in Jawczyce near Warsaw, was first announced back in July 2021 and has seen a total investment of ...

Singtel signs 10-year PPA with Sembcorp

Singtel

Singtel has announced that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy firm Sembcorp. The deal, worth S$180 million (US$133.2m), will see energy supplied to the Singaporean telco, from October 1, 2023. Its existing electricity supply agreement (also with Sembcorp) will ...

DigitalBridge Collaborates With Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund to Expand Middle East Data Centers

DigitalBridge

Digital infrastructure company DigitalBridge will expand its presence in the Middle East. DigitalBridge Group will administer a new partnership in which the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia will invest. The new partnership aims to establish data centers in Saudi Arabia and througho...

Nvidia's Shares Jumps 20% on Massive Data Center Revenues

In extended trading last Wednesday, Nvidia shares surged significantly after the company surpassed analysts' revenue estimates and reported record data center sales. The Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor manufacturer reported a 19% increase in first-quarter revenue compared to the pr...

A Hospital in the UK Get new data center as Part of a $494m Renovation

United Kingdom

A hospital in the United Kingdom is undergoing a $494 million renovation that includes adding a data center. The House of Commons approved the reconstruction of Kettering General Hospital (KGH) in Northamptonshire. The KGH, which has occupied the same location for 126 years, will receive a $49...

Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has applied to construct a new data center in Los Angeles, California. The company has applied to construct a thirteen-story data center at 727 S Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The prospective applicant is GIP 7th Street LLC, a well-known subsidiary of Digital Realty. At ...

Digital Realty El Segundo's Facility Damaged by a Fire

2260 E El Segundo - Digital Realty

On Sunday, May 21st, a fire broke out at the LAX12 data center of Digital Realty in El Segundo, California. The fire led the facility to shut down two suites, and it incinerated an undisclosed number of servers, as well as cut power and locked out some users from the server space. A few days a...

Japan Data Facility Purchased by Mapletree Industrial Trust

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

The acquisition of a data center in Osaka, Japan, signifies Mapletree Industrial Trust's entrance into the Japanese data center market. This week, the manager of Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), Mapletree Industrial Trust Management Ltd., announced the purchase of a recently constructed data ...

AWS Secures Land for a new facility in Navi Mumbai

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be leasing land in Navi Mumbai, India, for a new data facility. The Hindustan Times reports that Amazon Data Services (an Indian subsidiary) has subleased a 451,000-square-foot site in the TTC industrial area in Bonsari, Airoli, for 15 years to construct a data c...

Cologix Begins Construction of an 21MW data facility in Montreal, Canada

Cologix

Cologix started the construction of a new data center in Montréal, Canada. This week, the company revealed that construction has begun on its latest Scalelogix facility in Quebec. The MTL8 facility, located in Technoparc Montréal, will encompass 205,000 square feet and provide 21 megawatts of ...

Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

Meta

After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data center...

Edged Energy begins work on Chicago facility

Chicago

Edged Energy has announced that work has commenced on its new facility in the Aurora area of west Chicago, Illinois.Together, with Seefried Industrial Properties, Inc., the company broke ground on the new 65-acre, multi-building data center campus, its first in Illinois, and nearby CyrusOne fa...

Moveworks opens regional data center in European Union

Europe

In a bid to meet growing demands for data privacy and sovereignty, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Europe, Moveworks, a ​​generative AI platform, has announced that it has opened its first regional data center in the European Union (EU).The company said that launching the fac...

Lumina CloudInfra plans Navi Mumbai hyperscale data center

India / Bhārata

Lumina CloudInfra has announced it has broken ground on its new data center in Navi Mumbai. To be built on 6.3 acres, the company's Airoli site will offer a capacity of over 60 MW across two phases; the first of which is expected to be complete by 2025.Lumina CloudInfra is owned and managed by...

Scala Data Centers launches the second largest vertical data center in Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil

Scala Data Centers

Scala has announced that it has launched the second largest vertical data center in Latin America, SGRUTB05, which adds 6MW of IT capacity to Tamboré Campus. Located in the Tamboré Campus, in Barueri city, it has a built area of 6,700 sqm, is 35.5 meters high, and has five floors, three of wh...

QTS Realty Secures a $800m Data Center Refinancing Contract

QTS Data Centers

QTS Realty, owned by Blackstone, has refinanced four data center properties. Citigroup leads a consortium of four institutions that provided the loan. It will be used to refinance QTS' existing $667 million debt and provide the funds necessary to finance tenant build-outs.The refinancing is gi...

Aligned Data Centers Concludes the Purchase of Odata

Aligned

Odata, a LATAM provider of data centers, has been fully acquired by Aligned Data Centers. According to Aligned, the transaction places the company among the biggest private data center owners in the Americas, with more than 2.5GW of critical capacity throughout over 40 data centers at full bui...

Zoho Intends to Construct a Data Center in Mexico

Mexico City / Ciudad de México

Within the next two years, the Indian software company Zoho Corporation intends to install its first data facility covering Latin America in Mexico. The company has two data centers in the United States that operate in tandem to ensure continuous service. The Mexico unit will also use this mod...

Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses

Northern Virginia

The Virginian county of Culpeper may soon see the construction of more than four million square feet of data centers. The Culpeper Town and County Councils have received rezoning requests that would enable the construction of approximately 17 buildings on two campuses on the town's border alon...

EdgeCore ntends to construct a data center in Sterling, Virginia.

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

EdgeCore, an American data center company, intends to construct multiple data centers in Sterling, Virginia. According to a summary of a land development application filed to Loudoun County in February, EdgeCore submitted a site plan to construct a data center in Sterling. The property is loca...