Data Center News

Ireland's data center boom continues as Vantage files application to build two facilities near Dublin

Vantage Data Centers

Ireland's data center boom shows no signs of slowing, as Vantage Data Centers signs an application to build its first two data centers in the country, just outside of Dublin. Its initial application outlines plans for two facilities with a gross floor area of 40,589 sqm on an 8.7-hectare plot....

Rostelecom signs data center service deals with Russian Post and mining company Petropavlovsk

Rostelecom

Russian telco Rostelecom has announced the signing of a new data center deal with Russian gold mining company Petropavlovsk and Russian Post. Rostelecom signed a five-year contract worth RUB13.5 billion ($184.3 million) with Russian Post to provide IT services. The agreement will see Rostel...

Lendlease selects Google as primary cloud provider, plans to exit its data centers by 2022

Lendlease Data Centre Partners

Lendlease has selected Google Cloud as its primary cloud provider. Aside from that, it is also planning to exit all of its on-premises data centers by 2022. The news comes as a shock since it has a $1 billion data center fund and is in the process of developing a $600 million hyperscale fac...

CyrusOne awarded for net water positive efforts

CyrusOne

CyrusOne's commitment was recently recognized by The Environment + Energy Leader Awards program, which awarded the company with the Top Project of the Year Award. The program highlights products and services that provide companies with environmental and energy benefits. CyrusOne secured the a...

Lumen pays $275,000 to DoJ for contacting former customers it divested

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies, formerly known as CenturyLink, has agreed to pay $275,000 to resolve a Civil Contempt Claim by the Department of Justice for its acquisition of Level 3 Communications Inc in 2016. The Justice Department accused Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) of violating the terms designed...

PLDT is considering selling its data centers for $500m

ePLDT

One of the biggest telcos in the Philippines, PLDT, is considering selling its data centers for approximately $500 million. PLDT has a total of ten data centers with a combined capacity of 72MW. Bloomberg reports that the Company is taking advice on a deal to sell these facilities potentially....

Africa Data Centres to invest $500m inbuilding 10 data centers across Africa

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has announced its plans to spend $500 million building 10 data centers across the African continent in two years. It hopes to double its data center footprint with this investment. Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt are some of the countries it plans to invest in. The Company r...

Keppel DC REIT acquires data center in Netherlands

Keppel Eindhoven Campus

Keppel Data Center REIT has acquired a data center in the Netherlands. The data center firm acquired 100% of the property, which has two data center buildings in De Hurk business Park, Eindhoven. Keppel paid €37.2 million ($44.1m) to a fund affiliated with MCAP Global Finance (UK) for the p...

Digital 9 acquires Verne Global as it strives for sustainability

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global, which operates a 100% renewable powered data center campus in Iceland, has been acquired by Digital 9, following an investment of £231m (€271m).The purchase of the 40-acre, 24MW campus, is a first for Digital 9, being the only deal to involve a data center operator to date. Acco...

China's data centers and climate change

China

China's data center market has seen incredible growth over the last few years. Back in 2019, the market was valued at USD 13.01 billion but is forecast to reach a value of USD 36.18 billion by 2025. It is also registering a CAGR of 19.2% from 2020 to 2025. While this is good news economically...

The importance of geographical diversification for Indian data centers

India / Bhārata

India's data center market is forecast to grow by a CAGR of around 12% between 2020−2026, which means the country is undoubtedly witnessing a data center boom. That said, as the country's data center footprint grows, industry veterans have warned that India must learn from the past mistakes o...

Prince William County officials to decide on data center in Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia

Prince William’s Board of County Supervisors is going to hold a public hearing on a proposed data center facility in Northern Virginia later this week. The purpose of the meeting is to decide whether to rezone the 196.28 acres of land across three properties from agricultural to industrial use...

GlobeNet expanding in Brazil by building second data center in Fortaleza

Globenet

Globenet is going to build another data center in Fortaleza, Brazil. The facility is scheduled to be in operation by 2022. The Company says the new facility will triple the racks and power available in its existing Fortaleza data center. However, Globenet didn’t reveal the exact specificati...

Equinix completes acquisition of GPX India

Equinix Mumbai MB1

Equinix has finally completed the acquisition of the Indian operations of GPX Global Systems for $161 million. The purchase sees Equinix add two data centers in Mumbai to its portfolio. These facilities named Equinix MB1 and MB2 provide a combined 1,350 cabinets, with an additional 500 cabi...

Interxion opens PAR12 on the East side of Paris

Digital Realty: PAR12 Ferrières-en-Brie

Interxion has announced the opening of its new data center outside Paris, France. Besides, the data center is also the Company’s 12th in the French capital region. The PAR12 facility is located 30km to the east of Paris in Ferrières-en-Brie. It has up to 12MW of IT capacity. It also has over 6...

Google plans to invest €1 billion ($1.18bn) in Frankfurt and Berlin

Google

Google is looking to expand its data center operations in Germany with €1 billion ($1.18bn) worth of investments. The tech giant announced that it would launch a new region in Berlin-Brandenburg. It would also expand its Cloud Region in Frankfurt in a new facility in Hanau. The Company reveale...

NTT plans to grow its data center footprint by 20% in the next 18 months

NTT

NTT ltd has announced it plans to increase its data center footprint in the next 18 months by 20%. The Company would be expanding some of its existing data centers and adding 300MW of capacity and 600,000 sqm (6.5 million square feet) of space within 18months. This expansion will be in 20 c...

Keppel DC REIT sells iseek data center in Brisbane, Australia for AU$34.5 million

Keppel DC REIT has completed the sale of its iseek-operated data center in Brisbane, Australia. Amber Infrastructure Group first acquired the majority stake in iseek in June. In July, Keppel announced that it had granted the Australian data center company iseek the option to purchase its 10...

International Telecoms Week 2021 discusses the growing data center ecosystem in West Africa

Africa Data Centres

International Telecoms Week 2021 was recently held, with 1,500 attendees in National Harbor and over 5,000 attending virtually. A number of experts from the data center industry came together and discussed data center expansion in Africa, and the current disparity between data centers and popu...

EdgeConneX Portland Data Center Campus Now Enabled with 100Gbps AWS Direct Connect Offering

EdgeConneX Portland

EdgeConnex has announced that it has deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect 100Gbps capability at its Portland data center. The Company has been an AWS Partner Network since 2016. It has now expanded its connection options from 1Gbps and 10Gbps to 100Gbps. The expansion will enab...