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Struggling Compute North Sells Two Data Centers to Foundry Digital

Compute North has sold two of its data centers to crypto mining firm Foundry Digital amidst bankruptcy. Compute North provides data center hosting services for blockchain and crypto mining firms. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September due to owing over 200 creditors up to ...

Invesis Announces the Acquisition of UK’s Asanti

United Kingdom

UK data center company Asanti has been acquired by Investment firm Invesis. Asanti has also acquired five data center facilities from Daisy Group. The five data centers are located in Reading, Hamilton, Manchester, Farnborough, and Birstall. The five facilities have a capacity of over 1,500...

European Investment Bank Loans OVHcloud €200m

OVH Group

OVHcloud has secured a €200 million ($208m) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The loan will be used to fund future developments. OVHcloud's goal is to provide a sustainable cloud service alternative in Europe to replace US cloud providers. It aims to support European privacy standa...

Allied Properties REIT Planning to Sell its Toronto Data Center Portfolio

Allied Properties REIT

Allied Properties REIT is looking to sell its data center portfolio in Toronto. The company announced that it is exploring options for a sale of the portfolio. Allied REIT currently owns three data center facilities in downtown Toronto. The properties also include the 151 Front Street West ...

Regional Group Acquires Data Center From Manulife Investment Management in Ottawa, Canada

Ottawa

Canadian real estate company Regional Group has acquired a data center and office complex in Ottawa, Canada. The property it acquired is Qualicum Centre, a three-building office campus located at 2932, 2934, and 2936 Baseline Road. The selling firm is Manulife Investment Management. The ter...

Microsoft files to build two data centers in San Jose, California

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed to build two new data centers at a site in San Jose, California, it has been reported. The proposal details plans for two-building on a 632,000-square-foot campus on 22 vacant acres near the intersection of Orchard Parkway and Component Drive. These two new additions have ...

Microsoft signs further PPAs in Ireland

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed CPPAs with Statkraft, Energia Group, and Power Capital Renewable Energy, for 900MW to cover its data center operations in Ireland and 28% of Ireland's renewable energy target for 2030. By 2025, the giant expects to power 100% of its Irish facilities with renewable energy....

AWS proposal "indefinitely postponed" in Fauquier County

Amazon AWS

AWS’s Warrenton data center proposals have been ‘indefinitely postponed’ by Virginia’s Fauquier County officials following a unanimous vote. The original proposal outlined plans for a 220,000-square-foot (20,400 sqm), single-story data center in Warrenton at the intersection of Blackwell Road...

Equinix Announces Expansion in The UK

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint in the UK in London and Manchester. The data center firm revealed that it had launched a new data center in Manchester called MA5. It is also expanding its LD7 and LD8 facilities in London. The Managing Director of Equi...

Equinix Announces TY15 in Tokyo

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is developing a new data center in Tokyo called TY15. The company first announced the facility earlier in the month. Equinix revealed that the data center is scheduled to be in operation in H1 2024. The facility will also have a capacity of around 1,200 cabinet...

Amazon Buys Two Data Centers in Massachusetts For $26.7m

Amazon AWS

According to the Worcester Business Journal, Amazon has acquired two data centers in Massachusetts. The company bought the two properties in Westborough and Grafton in Worcester County for $26.7m from State Street Corp. Amazon bought 600 and 800 Friberg Parkway in Westborough for $11.6 mill...

DigitalBridge Acquires Major Stake in AIMS DC

DigitalBridge

DigitalBridge Group has announced the acquisition of Malaysian data center company AIMS DC. The company also announced that it had formed a new Edge data center platform with a focus on high-growth markets in Southeast Asia. DigitalBridge expects the acquisition deal to close in Q2 2023 fol...

Amazon Web Services Opens New Cloud Region in Hyderabad, India

Amazon AWS

AWS has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Hyderabad, India. The company’s statement reads: “Today we are announcing the general availability of the 30th AWS Region, Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, with three Availability Zones and the ap-south-2 API name. The new Hyderabad Regi...

Patria Investments Looking To Sell Odata For $1.8 Billion

ODATA SA

According to Estado, Brazilian private equity firm Patria Investments is looking to sell its data center unit Odata. The Brazilian data center firm was established in 2015 and it offers colocation services from three data centers in Brazil and one each in Mexico and Colombia. Odata is value...

Former Large Turkey Farm in Loudoun County Seeks Rezoning for Potential Data Center

Northern Virginia

The owners of a former turkey farm in Leesburg, Northern Virginia, have plans to rezone part of the land for data center development. According to BizJournal, Orme Farm LLC, owners of up to 376 acres of land in Leesburg, Loudoun County, is working with an affiliate of real estate company Van M...

KKR, PAG, and EQT Remain in The Race To Acquire Global Switch as Stonepeak and Gaw Dropout

Global Switch

According to Bloomberg, PAG, KKR, and EQT have been selected as the final bidders for Global Switch. Per Bloomberg, the companies are mulling over the best financing structures to seek the acquisition of the London-based firm. However, the publication noted that the initial bids didn’t meet Gl...

Airtel’s Nxtra begins work on new data center in Kolkata

Nxtra Data Ltd

Nxtra Data, a Bharti Airtel subsidiary, has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center in Kolkata, India. The facility, expected to go live in 2024, will see an investment of Rs 600 Crore ($74.4m), spanning 150,000 sq ft (13,900 sqm) and will be located in Kolkata’s Bengal Silic...

Thales Alenia Space to lead the ASCEND feasibility study for data centers in orbit

France

As data demand continues to surge and countries ponder different ways to reach their respective climate goals, the European Commission has announced that it’s launching a feasibility study into putting data centers into orbit. Thales Alenia Space, an aerospace company has been chosen to lead t...

Fujitsu to trial a private 5G network and robot datacenter inspector at data center

Fujitsu

Currently, Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation Fujitsu has a lot in the works. It’s trialing a private 5G network at a data center so that a robot can carry out data center inspections and report on any anomalies it finds. ...

Data centers to move onshore in line with privacy laws?

JLL

Data privacy regulations are tightening across the world. In recent weeks, following data breaches, there have been numerous reports of countries proposing tighter privacy laws. The proposed Digital India Act, for example, would see India strengthen privacy and data localization regulations; e...