Data Center News

ChatGPT identified as potential threat in water-stressed MENA

Middle East

Although there are a number of innovative research programs targeting AI's vast resource consumption, for the time being, advanced AI-powered language learning models (LLM) like GPT-3 and GPT-4 require huge amounts of water to cool down. This is a serious issue in drought-prone areas with high...

Benya Group And Khazna Data Centers Seek to Set Up Shop in Egypt

Khazna

The largest network of hyper-scale data centers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Khazna Data Centers (Khazna), this week announced its intention to enter the Egyptian market alongside Benya Group, the country's top integrator of solutions, digital transformation, and ICT infr...

Aligned Data Centers Enters Canada, Invests In QScale

Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has invested in the Canadian company QScale. The "strategic investment" received "strong support" from existing shareholders, according to QScale. The scale of the investment was not disclosed; however, it is described as a "major financing round" and is anticipated to cl...

Digital Edge's second ESG report reveals key metrics on carbon neutrality

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge recently published its second ESG report, which shared key metrics for achieving its carbon neutrality target by 2030. Based on the theme of "Future Possible," the report emphasized the importance of building the digital infrastructure of the future sustainably and responsibly an...

Novva Data Centers announces New facility in Tahoe-Reno region

Novva Data Centers

Novva Data Centers has announced a new data center in Storey County. Set to go live in late 2024, the facility will span 300,000 sqft on a 20 acre-campus and offering 60 MW of capacity. The data center will have a total of six 10MW data halls and accommodate high-density deployments with hot a...

Prime plans first Phoenix data center campus

Prime Data Centers

Prime has announced that it is expanding into the Phoenix market with a new five-building, 66.5-acre campus located in Avondale. Prime's new location will feature 210 MW of critical power and span 1.3 million square feet of space.According to the company, it plans to embed sustainability feat...

Pressure Sensitive Systems' Dubai arm announces launch of new data center

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Pressure Sensitive Systems India, through its subsidiary Global Markets Insights IT Services LLC, has recently opened a new data center, Pressure 2.0 Cloud, in Dubai, UAE. The facility reportedly has a capacity of 20MW of IT capacity, spanning 194,000 square feet (18,000 square meters) and wil...

AdaniConneX to Develop a New 200MW Data Center Facility in Andhra Pradesh, India

AdaniConneX

Adani Group is building a 200MW data center complex in Andhra Pradesh, India. The company's "Integrated Data Center and Technology Business Park" at Madhurawada, Vizag (Visakhapatnam), is the first of three technology zones intended for the city. The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Yeduguri ...

NextDC Reveals New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan Data Center Initiatives

NEXTDC

Plans for new data center projects in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan have been subtly added to NextDC's website. The prospective plans to expand in New Zealand were initially reported by Reseller News a few weeks ago. They stated that the company had purchased several blocks of land in centr...

Racial Harassment at Google Data Center Construction Site Cost Whiting-Turner $1.2m

Google

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the construction company Whiting-Turner alleging racial harassment and retaliation against former Black employees. The lawsuit centered on the company's role as the general contractor for the Google data center's...

GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer

London: Slough

After breaking ground on its new Slough-based campus in January, KKR-funded Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it plans to launch the site before summer 2023. The $1 billion campus, GB One, comprises three independent facilities, each providing 5373 sqm of net technical space and...

North Holland province to prevent new facility in Uithoorn

North Holland

The Province of Noord-Holland (North Holland) has launched an objection against the development of a new data center project in De Kwakel, Uithoorn. This is the latest intergovernmental dispute over a data center in the Netherlands, where the climate is growing increasingly hostile to data cen...

Gartner: 75% of organizations will have data center infrastructure sustainability program by 2027

According to research by Gartner, by 2027, 75 per cent of organizations will have implemented a data center infrastructure sustainability program. This is a significant jump from the current figures; in 2022, only 5% had implemented such a program. The organization conducted a global survey of...

DE-CIX exchanges in Norway Bulk Data Centers go live

Norway

DE-CIX has announced that its new DE-CIX IXs are now available in Bulk data centers in Oslo (OS-IX) and Kristiansand (Campus N01). Its InterconnectionFLEX service will be available via the partnership with Bulk Infrastructure Group, through which customers will be provided with an interconnect...

Harbor Peak Starts Building a Fiber Conduit System to Connect Ashburn, Virginia Data Centers

Virginia

Harbor Peak, a joint venture specializing in carrier-neutral dark fiber, interconnect, and network planning services, has begun construction in Ashburn, Virginia, on a new middle-mile network infrastructure that will facilitate connectivity between numerous private and public data centers. In ...

Google Will Build Two Additional Data Centers in Ohio

Google

Google and state officials announced on Wednesday that the company intends to construct two additional data centers in Ohio to support its artificial intelligence equipment and other tools. According to officials, with one data center already operational in the Columbus area, Google's total i...

Oppidan Submits Paperwork For a 99,000 sq ft Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee

Tennessee

The US real estate development company Oppidan has filed plans to construct a data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The company has filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development for permission to build a data center at 3900 S. Mendenhall Road. The permit encompasse...

Cyxtera Receives $50m Lifeline, Satisfies Debts, And Must Sell or Raise Capital

Cyxtera Technologies

A shaky US colocation provider has settled its debts with creditors. The business must find a buyer or investor to continue funding or go bankrupt and cede control to its owners. The company obtained $50 million in new funding from lenders holding over two-thirds of its existing term loan to s...

Skybox and Prologis Propose 600-Megawatt Austin Data Center Facility

Skybox Datacenters

Skybox Datacenters and Prologis plan to construct a 600-megawatt campus offering up to 4 million sq ft of data center space near Austin, Texas. The project will increase momentum for the development of data centers in Austin, which has grown into an ideal location for tech companies. The Skyb...

AMD's Revenue Declines as PC CPU Sales Plummet And The Data Center Market stalls

AMD's revenues decreased year-over-year as sales of client CPUs dropped dramatically. Sales for its data center division stalled due to the general business slowdown. Overall, annual revenue was down 9.2 percent to $5.4 billion. Client CPUs, or consumer PCs, saw their revenue decline by 65 per...