Data Center News

Africa Data Centres To Develop Second Facility in Cape Town, South Africa

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has announced its plans to expand its presence in South Africa. The company revealed that it would be developing a 20MW data center in the country. The data center will span 15,000 square meters (161,458 square feet) across eight data halls. According to ADC, the data cente...

Euronext announces completion of data center migration from UK to Italy

Italy

Euronext has announced it has completed its data center migration project, which involved moving its data infrastructure from the UK to Italy, (Basildon, UK, to the Aruba Global Cloud data center IT3 in Bergamo, Italy.) According to the company, the new core data center will be completely powe...

Cloudoon To Develop Kenya's Largest Data Center

Kenya

Cloudoon has plans to develop a large data center in Kenya. According to People Daily, the cloud hosting company secured up to 6 billion Kenyan Shillings ($51.1m) to develop the facility. The data center will be built on a 10-acre campus near a Forks Hydro-power station in the country. Acco...

Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 30...

Lendlease begins construction on 100 MW data center campus in Japan for Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced that Lendlease has commenced work on its 100MW data center campus. The two held a groundbreaking ceremony in Saitama City, north of Tokyo, to mark the occasion. According to reports, the data center is pegged to be one of the largest in Japan and wi...

Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 mill...

Cloud at Work Opens New Data Center in Toronto

Toronto

Cloud at Work has announced the launch of a new data center in Toronto, Canada. The move sees the company expand into the Canadian market as it already has two world-class data centers in the US. According to Cloud at Work, the new facility will ensure that its customers in Canada have access ...

Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future

Amazon AWS

AWS has announced its plans to launch hundreds of Local Zones to expand its Edge cloud network extensively. Local Zones serve as Edge locations hosting applications that need low latency to final users or on-premises installations. Some of the services the zone offers include database, storage...

3data and Alias Group Form Partnership To Develop Data Center in Krasnodar, Russia

Russia / Россия

Russian investment firm Alias Group and data center firm 3data will develop a data center in Krasnodar, Russia. The data center firm revealed that the data center would come online towards the end of next year. It will also use a franchise model with Alias Group. The Krasnodar territory is ...

Virginia's Culpeper County Could See Development of 765,000 Sq ft Data Center Campus

Virginia

The president of AttoTek, a software development firm, David Martin, has filed for rezoning in Culpeper County, Virginia. The filing details involve rezoning 88 acres of his property around Stevensburg Road and Brandy Road. Once approved, it can lead to over 700,000 square feet (65,000 square ...

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Announces Nine More Edge Facilities in South Africa

South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is looking to launch nine Edge data centers across South Africa. The company announced that it would deploy Edge facilities in East London, Paarl, New Germany, Pietermaritzburg, Beaufort West, Mount Edgecombe, Kimberley, George, and Brits in a few months. Upon c...

Material and labor shortages in the data center

San Francisco Bay Area

As the need for data grows and grows, demand for data center construction is as strong as ever, however, the boom is being hampered by a number of factors, including supply and labor shortages, and price hikes. In a recent report named 'Data center market conditions update - Q1, 2022,' constru...

New legislation to enable UK financial watchdog to visit and regulate cloud data centers and other "critical third parties"

United Kingdom

HM Treasury has published a policy paper which is proposing a new regulatory framework, whereby the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would have powers to visit and regulate the cloud sector. The ministry outlined that currently, over 65% of UK banking and insuran...

Gaw To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City

Gaw Capital Partners has announced that it will build a data center in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. The Hong Kong real estate firm revealed that it acquired 65,200 square feet (6,056 square meters) of greenfield land at the Saigon Hi-Tech Park. Gaw Capital Partners is looking to develop a facility...

Dutch Government Decide Not To Sell Zeewolde Land To Meta

Hyperscale Data Center

The Dutch Government has revealed that it will not be selling the land in Zeewolde to Meta. Meta had initially earmarked the land to develop a massive data center. The Dutch Government partially owns the land in question. However, Meta hoped to reach an agreement to take over the land to devel...

Sify Technologies Announces $345m Data Center Investment in Noida, India

Sify Technologies

Sify Technologies will be developing new data centers in Noida, India. The company revealed that it would be investing Rs 2,692 crores ($345m) in the project. Sify announced the development at the Uttar Pradesh Investors summit. According to the company, this will be one of the largest data...

CLP Power signs MoU with ESR

CLP Power Hong Kong Limited has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ESR HK Limited, through which it will develop sustainable data centers and logistics centers in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area (GBA), which it said will support "Hong Kong and the GBA to a...

STC's Share Price Sees Major Surge After $8bn Capital Increase Announcement

Saudi Telecom Company

Saudi Telecom is mulling over increasing its share capital by $8 billion. The company revealed this in a statement earlier in the week. If it happens, STC will issue 30 billion new shares. Existing shareholders will also be offered 1.5 new shares for every share they own. According to Refin...

Bill passed to ban cryptomining data centers that use fossil fuel power plants

New York

The New York Legislature has passed a landmark bill to ban cryptocurrency data centers that use fossil fuels to power their operations, in an effort to reduce statewide emissions by 85% by 2050. Specifically, the bill will impose a two-year moratorium on these activities, however, Governor Kat...

Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

Denmark

Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be en...