Data Center News

Missing SAP data center SSD was discovered on eBay

eBay displayed a missing SSD disk from the SAP data center in Walldorf, Germany. In November of last year, it was reported that four SSD disks went missing from the SAP facility in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany. However, one of the disks popped up on eBay and was purchased by an SAP emp...

Intelishift and Data Canopy merge

US colocation provider Intelishift has acquired competitor Data Canopy. Data Canopy was founded in 2007 and offers colocation, connectivity, and cloud services from dozens of data centers across the globe. It operates out of facilities owned by third parties, including CyrusOne, Equinix, NTT, ...

New 200 MW facility on the way to the island of Borneo

Southeast Asia

In Kota Samarahan on the island of Borneo, a new data center is the planning stage. Set to offer 200 MW, the facility will be built by FutureData Sdn Bhd, a new company formed by Cyclect Group and TSG Group.The data center will be the first major facility on the island; it's pegged to be carbo...

NTT files for planning permission in Gainesville, Virginia for 336MW campus

NTT

In Prince William County, NTT has filed for permission for a joint Federal and State permit from the Norfolk District of the US Army Corps of Engineers for a 336MW data center campus. The permit application, NTT VA10, outlines the project is named Grove at Gainesville and includes plans to bui...

ePLDT shares plans for twelfth data center in the Philippines

ePLDT

PLDT Inc subsidiary, ePLDT, has announced that it has plans to increase data center market capacity with the introduction of its twelfth, set to offer at least 100 MW of capacity. Through this move, the company will further boost its 65% data center market capacity.Details regarding the locati...

PLDT constructing a 100MW data facility in Philippines

Philippines

PLDT, a Philippine telecommunications company, is considering the construction of a 12th data center within the country. Victor S. Genuino, president and CEO of ePLDT, disclosed the company's intention to construct a new 100MW facility while delivering the keynote address at the W. Media Phili...

STT GDC establishes Jakarta data facility in Indonesia

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has officially inaugurated its first data center facility in Indonesia. The company revealed the launch of STT Jakarta 1 in Bekasi, west of Jakarta, one week ago. The first structure offers 19.5MW across 198,850 square feet. The completed campus will ...

Bridge Data Centres develops its data center in MRANTI Park, Malaysia

Bridge Data Centres

Bridge Data Centres (BDC), a prominent provider of data center solutions in the Asia Pacific region, has announced plans to expand its hyperscale data center campus, MY03, in Kuala Lumpur's MRANTI Park. This expansion offers 48MW of IT power to Malaysian and Asia-Pacific hyperscalers and ente...

AdaniConneX gets $213 mn capital for data center assets

AdaniConneX

AdaniConneX, an equal partnership between data center provider EdgeConneX with ports-to-power conglomerate Adani Enterprises Ltd, announced on Friday that it had secured a $213 million senior debt facility with input from international banks to fund its 67 MW of under-construction data center...

DCI Indonesia inaugurates a second structure on its 600MW facility outside Jakarta

DCI Indonesia

DCI Indonesia has inaugurated a second structure on its campus outside of Jakarta. With the incorporation of the 12MW H2-02, the H2 campus now offers 27MW between two buildings.  The H2 campus, located east of the capital city on 791 hectares in Karawang, has a total capacity of up to 600 MW....

Microsoft signs 24x7 hourly matching energy agreement with Powerex Corp

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new 24x7 hourly matching agreement with Powerex Corp for carbon-free energy at its new data center in Washington state. The energy company will match the giant's hourly demand with direct deliveries of carbon-free hydro, solar, and wind power on a ...

UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers

United Kingdom

UK's Loughborough University has announced that it has completed its renovation project, upgrading two of its data centers in Leicestershire. Schneider Electric delivered the data center modernization on the Haslegrave and Holywell Park data centers, adding EcoStruxure Row Data Center, InRow C...

STT Invests in AI Hosting company Firmus Technologies to Set the Pace in APAC

Firmus Technologies

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), a data centre provider based in APAC, has invested in Firmus Technologies and plans to collaborate to introduce a GPU-focused Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) named Sustainable Metal Cloud (SMC). Set to debut in Singapore, this service is tailored ...

Van Caem shares plans for €1 billion data center in Berlin

Germany / Deutschland

Van Caem, a Dutch developer, has shared its plans to develop a 100MW data center in Germany on a brownfield site near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. With an investment of €1 billion ($1bn), the facility is set to be the fifth largest in the country and the largest in Berlin.Earlier desi...

IonQ proposes quantum data facility in Switzerland

Switzerland

IonQ, a quantum computing company based in the United States, intends to deploy two of its facilities in Switzerland and establish a quantum data center in Europe. This week, the company disclosed its collaboration with QuantumBasel to deploy two quantum computers at QuantumBasel's Center of C...

Old Mutual announces closure of data centers and migrates to AWS

Amazon AWS

Old Mutual Limited has announced that it has closed all of its on-premise data centers and moved its entire IT infrastructure to AWS. The company shared that through this move, it has been able to reduce downtime by 50 per cent. According to Old Mutual, which has been a customer of AWS since 2...

Ascenty to expand footprint with plans for a new São Paulo datacenter

Ascenty

Ascenty is planning to expand its data center footprint following the purchasing of a 47,000 sqm (500,000 sq ft) parcel of land in Osasco, greater Sao Paulo. The company hasn’t shared further details about the scale of its development plans on this site, and is currently in the planning stage...

N-Ark's proposes floating cities with underwater Edge data centers

Japan

Japanese start-up N-Ark has unveiled designs for a floating city named ‘Dogen City,’ which, as the climate crisis worsens, looks to be a place of refuge for those who can afford to escape the effects of climate change.  That said, the company also shared that it would also "accept and provide ...

Telehouse, a subsidiary of KDDI, buys Allied Properties' data center holdings for $1 billion

Telehouse

Telehouse has entered the Canadian market with the acquisition of three data centers. KDDI, the parent company of the data center company, announced this week that it had acquired three data centers and the associated assets in Toronto, Canada, from Allied Properties REIT. KDDI paid $1.02 bil...

Lafayette Square funds DartPoints' Venyu acquisition

DartPoints

DartPoints's May 2023 acquisition of Venyu was partly funded by Lafayette Square, a financial associate of data center provider DartPoints. Last month, DartPoints purchased the Louisiana-based operator, incorporating three data centers into its fleet and bringing the total number of data cente...