Data Center News

Cloud Exchange launches new data centre in Nigeria

Nigeria

Cloud Exchange has announced that it has teamed up with telecommunications giant, Huawei, to launch Africa’s first uptime institute tier IV modular prefabricated data center. The facility is located in Lagos, and Nigeria’s growing digital economy has driven its development. Commenting on t...

DataBank acquires land for new data center campus in New York

DataBank Orangeburg LGA3

DataBank has announced that it has acquired 34 acres of land in Orangeburg, New York. The land it bought would be the home of its future data center in New York. Building the data center on the land will help the data center firm meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastruc...

Infratil buys 40 percent stake in UK's Kao Data

KAO Data

New Zealand investor Infratil has acquired a 40 percent stake in UK data center firm Kao Data. It has also acquired two data centers to add to the company’s portfolio. Infratil is paying £120-130 million” (US$163-177m) for the acquisition of the stakes in the company. CEO of Kao Data, Lee M...

Fueled by renewables: Rowan Green Data to expand in Texas

Rowan: Moriah DC

Rowan Green Data has announced big plans. The developer and infrastructure builder is to build a 500-megawatt (MW) multi-tenant campus in Temple, Texas. $300 million of investment will go into the construction of 135,000 sqft of new buildings and data center space. The project will be complete...

NEOM data center given the go-ahead by Saudi competition authority

Saudi Arabia

The General Authority of Competition in Saudi Arabia has reportedly given data centers in the new city-state of Neom, Saudi-Arabia, the go-ahead. This project will be a part of a joint venture between Neom and Fas Energy and will see the construction and operation of  “sustainable” ultra-large...

Peraton wins $2.7B contract from the Department of Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a $2.7 billion contract to Peraton. The contract will see Peraton manage DHS’s shift to the cloud from an on-premises computing environment. Although the award shows Perspecta as the winner of the contract, the firm was acquired for $7.1 bi...

Google to move into Eagle Mountain, Utah?

Google

Google has reportedly purchased 300 acres in Eagle Mountain, Utah, which could potentially be home to a new data center. Google already has offices in the region, in Salt Lake City and Provo. The plot of land is located in the south on Pony Express Parkway, near Facebook’s 1.5 million-square-...

IIJ: Micro data center moves in at Shiroi Data Center Campus

Japan

IIJ has announced that it has deployed a micro data center on the premises of Shiroi Data Center Campus (Shiroi DCC), the first of its kind in Japan. A 12U, the micro data center has an available range of 12U to 38U. The MDC also has a cooling unit, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), envir...

AWS to begin work on its second data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio

AWS US East (Ohio)

Amazon Web Services plans to start the construction of its second data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio. The Company revealed that work would begin in the next few months. Hilliard Economic Development Director David Meadows said to BizJournals that AWS would start construction on its second...

Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt

Equinix Frankfurt FR8

Equinix has announced the opening of its new data center facility in Frankfurt, Germany. The facility is located to the west of Frankfurt, and it would be known as FR8. The facility's first phase has 51,600 square feet (4,800 square meters) of colocation space available. Equinix also reveal...

Singtel to form new data center company, forms JW with Gulf Energy

Singtel

Singaporean telco Singtel is planning to form a new data center company with a focus on Southeast Asia. The firm has also signed a new joint venture with Gulf Energy. The joint venture between the two companies will have a focus on Thailand. Singtel already has a rich portfolio of 10 data c...

APAC REIT acquires Woolworths’ Sydney HQ and data center for $336.8m

Woolworths

Singaporean fund manager Aims APAC REIT has completed the acquisition of Woolworths’ Sydney headquarters and data center. AA REIT closed the transaction earlier in the week by paying AU$463.25 million (US$336.8m) to Inmark Asset Management Pty Ltd. In doing so, it has acquired the campus in...

Airtel Bharti to invest $673 million in expanding Nxtra's data center footprint

Nxtra Data Ltd

Indian telecommunication company Bharti Airtel has revealed its plans for expanding the data center portfolio of its subsidiary Nxtra. Bharti Airtel announced that it would triple Nxtra’s data center capacity by 2025 to 400MW+. According to the company, Nxtra currently operates 120 Edge and te...

Ava Telecom is deploying Edge data centers in São Paulo

Brazil / Brasil

Brazilian operator Ava Telecom has started deploying Edge data centers in São Paulo, Brazil. The company provided little information about what it is doing. It didn’t reveal the number of sites it is building, or how much it is planning to invest in deploying the Edge data centers. However, Mu...

Five 9s Digital buys Blue Cross Blue Shield data center in Phoenix, Arizona

Five 9s: Blue Shield Phoenix

Five 9s Digital has completed the acquisition of a data center in Phoenix, Arizona, from Blue Cross Blue Shield. The facility is at 2525 W Townley Avenue. Also, the Phoenix facility has 50,000 square feet of space. None of the companies revealed the terms of the transaction. However, Five 9...

Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)

OVH Group

OVHcloud could be seeing up to €105 million ($122m) leave its coffers because of the fire that destroyed its Strasbourg data center in March. The document the firm filed with a French financial authority is responsible for revealing this. Although insurance has covered most of the cost of t...

Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

Milan

Italian data center company Irideos has begun work on a new data center at its Avalon campus in the city of Milan. The new facility named Avalon 3 will have space for 500 racks across 37,700 square feet (3,500 square meters). It will also have 3.2MW of capacity. Irideos is building the new ...

DigitalBridge expands its Vantage SDC platform

DigitalBridge

DigitalBridge has announced that it has expanded its Vantage Stabilized Data Centers (SDC) platform by acquiring CA22. CA22 is a 24MW hyperscale data center with a focus on serving the Santa Clara, CA Market. The newly acquired facility is located next to Vantage SDC’s CA21 facility. The deal ...

AWS buys 42-acre of land in Warrenton for $40 million

Amazon AWS

According to Fauquier Now, Amazon Web Services has acquired a 41.7-acre land in Warrenton, Fauquier County, for $39.7 million. The land it acquired is on Blackwell Road, Lee Highway. With each acre costing $952,000, this is reportedly the biggest real estate transaction in the history of No...

Element Critical breaks ground on expansion project at Houston One facility

Element Critical Houston One

Element Critical has started its first expansion project on the Houston One data center it acquired earlier in the year. The US colo provider acquired the facility for an undisclosed fee from Skybox Datacenters in March. The first phase of the expansion will see Element Critical extend the ...