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Orion Stellar announces launch of new data center in Colombo, Sri Lanka

OrionStellar Colombo

Orion Stellar has opened a new carrier-neutral colocation data center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, called OrionStellar Data Center. The facility is built to Tier-III standards. It also has 1.5MW of capacity with space for up to 200 racks and a PUE of 1.4. Orion Stellar was founded this year, and ...

Smartfren makes significant expansion in Indonesia

Indonesia

Smartfren has announced that it is teaming up with UAE technology firm G42 to build a 1,000MW data center in Indonesia. Smartfren signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with G42 to develop the project, and this signing was attended by President of Indonesia Joko Widodo and the Crown Pri...

Crusoe's technology cuts data center CO2 emissions

Crusoe

In an effort to push forward the climate agenda as reliance on data and data centers increases, Crusoe energy has launched its new sustainable Data Center Services. According to the company, through utilizing its Digital Flare Mitigation technology, methane emissions can be reduced by 98%, and...

Facebook plans massive $29-34 billion CAPEX

Meta

Facebook says it plans to spend between $29 billion and $34 billion on capital investments in 2022. This is an increase from the social media giant’s $19 billion spend this year. Chief Financial Officer at Facebook, David Wehner, says the rise in expenditure was due to investments in servers, ...

eStruxture to Open second data center in Calgary

eStruxture CAL-2

eStruxture has revealed its plans for a new data center facility in Calgary, Canada. The facility will be called CAL-2, and it will be located in Balzac, north of Alberta city. The facility will have 93,000 square feet of space with 30MW of capacity. eStruxture will also build the facility ...

AirTrunk to develop 320MW hyperscale data center in Sydney

AirTrunk

AirTrunk has revealed its plans for a new 320MW data center campus in Sydney. Upon completion, the facility will be the largest single hyperscale data center campus in the Asia Pacific region outside of China. The facility will be called SYD3, and it will be located in western Sydney. SYD3 ...

Leading Edge DC opens new data center in Tamworth, Australia

Australia

Leading Edge DC, an Australian Edge data center firm, has announced the opening of a new facility in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. The company revealed the development in a LinkedIn post. It said: "We're Open for Business in Tamworth! A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of t...

CIM Group sells four data centers to 1547 and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

CIM Group has completed the sale of four US data centers. The Real estate firm owned the portfolio of data centers with fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547). Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and 1547 bought the facilities from CIM Group. The facilities are located in Cheyenne, W...

Vantage Data Centers secures $530 million in financing

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has raised $530 million in securitized notes. The funds it raised would be used to refinance Vantage DC’s Variable Funding Note (VFN) facility. VFN was used to facilitate the purchase of CA22. Vantage Stabilized Data Centers, a joint venture Vantag...

NorthC group acquires IP Exchange

NorthC Datacenters

The largest regional colocation provider in the Netherlands, NorthC, has completed the acquisition of Germany’s IP Exchange. The acquisition sees NorthC expand into Germany for the first time. With the acquisition, NorthC has two data centers in Munich and Nuremberg. The purchase price for the...

Yondr Group announces plans for a 100MW data center campus in Slough, UK

Yondr: Slough Campus

Yondr Group has revealed its plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Slough, just outside London. The initial phase of the development of the data center campus will see Yondr develop a 30MW facility. This phase is scheduled to be in operation by the first quarter of 2023. In ad...

MC Digital Realty open data centers in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan

MC Digital Osaka Connected Campus (KIX)

The joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty called MC Digital Realty has opened data centers in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. The Tokyo facility is called NRT10, and it offers 38MW of capacity across 407,400 square feet (37,850 square meters). NRT10 is the company’s third ...

Tackling the water scarcity issue: Controversy and secrecy

Google

Water scarcity is increasingly becoming an issue globally, and data centers, which typically guzzle around 3-5 million gallons of water per day, the equivalent of the water usage by 30,000-50,000 people, are adding to the problem. As the climate issue worsens and big tech companies continue to...

Interxion works to promote a circular economy

InterXion

Interxion, Digital Realty's European arm, has announced that in a move to promote a circular economy, it will be using excess heat from its Schiphol AMS5 data center in the Netherlands, with business parks Schiphol-Rijk near Amsterdam. This is happening in cooperation with Polderwarmte, a Dutc...

Compute North turns its back on Pitt County facility following push back

Following mounting concerns from locals, the controversial data center heading for Pitt County is no longer happening. Compute North has announced that it has requested to withdraw its permit application for a data center that would have been located opposite the nearby Belvoir Elementary Scho...

Microsoft: Renewable energy deal signed with AES to power Virginia data centers

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced a new agreement with energy firm AES, whereby AES will provide the tech giant with renewable energy for all of its data centers in Virginia. This energy will be sourced 576MW of contracted renewable assets. These assets include wind and solar. This agreement aligns with...

Energia Group plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Dublin, Ireland

Dublin

Huntstown Power Company, a subsidiary of Energia Group, plans to build two data centers next to its Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. Hunstown has filed for planning permission with Fingal County Council. It is looking to build two data center buildings on 13.3 hectares of land. Each building ...

TIM considering selling stake in Noovle data center unit

TIM Group

According to Reuters, Italian telco TIM is mulling over reorganization and selling off its stake in Noovle Cloud and data center unit. The potential decision is based on the company’s financial struggles. TIM has been struggling with shrinking margins and revenue, price competition, and costs ...

KSSF invests in Sify for expansion and sustainability

Sify Technologies

KSSF will invest up to INR 1,000 crore (USD 135 million) in Sify Infinit Spaces Limited (SISL), a subsidiary of Sify.The investment from KSSF will be in the form of Compulsorily Convertible Debentures, developing new data centers across Mumbai, Noida, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Accordin...

Alibaba Cloud to open data center in Thailand next year

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Alibaba is planning to develop its first hyperscale data center in Thailand. The Thailand data center is scheduled to launch in 2022, and it will carry some of Alibaba’s services and solutions. Some of these include those that support Alibaba’s operation around fintech, logistics, retail, d...