Data Center News

QTS acquires 400 acres in South Carolina's York County

QTS Data Centers

A new campus for its data centers is being built by QTS on 400 acres of land in York County, South Carolina. Citing York County real estate documents, BizJournal reports that two entities linked with QTS Realty Trust LLC have acquired nearly 400 acres off S.C. Highway 274 for more than $11.2 m...

Google’s Water Consumption in Data Centers Soars by 20%

Google

The 2023 Google environmental report shows a considerable increase in data center water consumption. The company consumed an astounding 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022, of which 5.2 billion were used solely for data centers. Compared to the previous year, this is 20% higher. Large data ce...

Reliance joins Brookfield and Digital Realty's Indian data center JV

Digital Realty Trust

Reliance Industries, the largest business group in India, revealed that it would join Mercury Holdings SG Pte, the current joint venture between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, to construct data centers in India. By acquiring a 33,33 % stake in the existing JV, Reliance Industrie...

Kotak Data Center Fund grants Sify $73 million

Sify Technologies

Sify has raised over $70 million to develop new data centers. This funding was made public this week during the company's quarterly earnings report. Sify and Sify Infinit Spaces Limited ("SIS"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sify that operates its data centers, recently entered into a contract ...

Orange installs over 200 solar panels on data center in Timișoara, Romania

Orange

Orange has installed over 200 solar panels at its Timișoara, Romania data center, it has announced. This is in addition to deployments at its data center in Constanța and Braşov, taking the total to 650 solar panels that are installed and operational. The deployment will reportedly bring 100k...

CoreWeave intends to construct a $1.6bn AI cloud-based facility in Plano, Texas

CoreWeave Plano

CoreWeave, a cloud company specializing in GPUs, intends to invest $1.6 billion in a data center in Plano, Texas. To qualify for a tax credit approved this week by the Plano City Council, the company will need to invest at least $800 million each year for the following two years. In 2025 and 2...

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP) publishes its first Certifications of Adherence

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP) has published its first list of certifications since being set up in 2021. Over 80 service providers have now promised to be climate neutral by 2030. Further, it shared that 95% of the first cohort of signatories, which represent nearly 75% of ...

Microsoft pushes forward with data center projects in Brazil

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has shared its plans for further expansion in Brazil, with a new data center in the Campinas area of São Paulo state, Brazil. Located in Hortolândia, details on the facility obtained by BNAmericas, reveal the giant’s plans for the installation of a data center on greenfield land wit...

Stack Infrastructure intends to raise $100 million in secured notes

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure seeks to raise $100 million by issuing securitized notes. After raising $250 million in March, this will be Stack's second fundraising round this year and sixth overall. It will begin on July 24.The notes have received an A-2 rating from S&P Global. This is presently s...

Culpeper data center rezoning request deferred

United States

On July 18th, the Town of Culpeper Planning Commission held a public hearing where it deferred action on a rezoning request for a large data center complex adjacent to the Culpeper National Cemetery annex.Copper Ridge Culpeper LLC of Middleburg is seeking to rezone 116 acres along East Chandle...

$100 million data center plan in Columbia River Gorge 'discontinued'

Oregon

In Oregon, Cascade Locks port authority has announced the decision to discontinue Roundhouse Digital Infrastructure's $100 million data center project in the Columbia River Gorge. The startup had planned to build a 10MW data center targeting "niche government and energy industry" clients. Howe...

STT GDC to team up with leading universities in the Philippines

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) Philippines, a joint venture of Globe, Ayala Corporation, and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, has announced that it is partnering up with some of the country's top universities. Collaborating with De La Salle University, the Univers...

Multacom, a LA data center company, bought by Edge Centres

Edge Centres

US data center company Multacom has been acquired by Australian Edge operator Edge Centres. This week, the companies announced the acquisition. The terms were not revealed. Edge Centres will acquire a Los Angeles-based data center operator, adding 25,000 square feet and 1-megawatt capacity acr...

Cambodia starts construction on its national data facility

The government of Cambodia has begun construction of a new national data center. Chea Vandeth, minister of post and telecommunications in Cambodia, attended the groundbreaking event in Phnom Penh last week. The new center, according to Vandeth, not only provides secure storage but also seeks t...

GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

Singapore

The sovereign wealth fund GIC of Singapore is soliciting funds for a data center outside Seoul, South Korea. According to Business Korea, institutional investors, such as GIC, are working with indigenous institutional investors, securities companies, and asset management firms to build a data ...

Google's data center plans in Uruguay spark outrage as country faces water crisis

Google

Uruguay is currently battling a water crisis, facing its worst drought in more than 70 years. The country has now experienced years of low rainfall, something which is likely to only continue as climate change exacerbates the issue. However, it's not just the result of climate change, accordin...

Hyperscalers set capture half of data center capacity in the next five years

According to Synergy Research Group, hyperscalers and colocation companies are dwarfing on-premise data center capacity. Its research revealed that hyperscalers now account for  37% of the worldwide capacity of all data centers, with the number of large data centers operated by hyperscalers re...

Moveworks expands with Canadian data center

Canada

Moveworks has announced that its first regional data center in Canada has opened, a move which the company said signifies its move toward promoting greater data center privacy and residency, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Canada.The company noted that data privacy is a “cruc...

Liberty Global raises its stake in Telenet to 93.23 percent

Liberty Global has taken on a larger majority stake in Belgian telecommunications provider Telenet and will recommence its efforts to acquire the company outright. The company will increase its ownership stake in the telecommunications company to 93.23 percent and is scheduled to reopen its op...

SEB Bank provides DEAC and DLC a $33 million loan

Delska (DEAC, DLC Data Logistics Center)

The DEAC of Latvia and the Data Logistics Center (DLC) of Lithuania have received a $33.4 million loan to finance the expansion of their respective data centers. The two companies announced this week that they had secured a 10-year loan from SEB Bank to expand Baltic telecommunications systems...