Data Center News

Amazon files to develop 7-building DC campus in Louisa County, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has filed with the US Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District to develop a seven-building data center campus in Virginia’s Louisa County. In this filing, REB Investment Company LLC and Amazon Data Services seek permission to establish a new data center campus on 153 acres ...

Amazon to Invest in 5 Facility Campus in Ohio

AWS US East (Ohio)

Amazon Web Services plans to invest $3.5 billion in New Albany by 2020 to expand its footprint around Columbus, Ohio. The New Albany City Council announced it had approved a resolution enabling AWS to proceed with its expansion investment plan. This is only part of Amazon's $7.5 billion invest...

Unisys Corp. to relocate DC campuses within the Minneapolis market

Unisys

Technology company Unisys Corp. revealed its plans to sell its 32-acre data center campus just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, and relocate to an undetermined area in the Twin Cities. Shea Kolanowski, Unisys’ deputy chief administrative officer, told BizJournal, “We intend to relocate our asso...

British Land Sells DC Portfolio for £125 million

United Kingdom

UK real estate firm British Land has exchanged contracts to sell a portfolio of data centers and offices in London for £125 million. This deal represented an initial net yield of 4.6 percent, delivering an internal return rate of 8.2 percent per annum since its acquisition in 2007.The company ...

Keppel DC Secures S$120 million SLL Credit Facility

Keppel Data Center REIT

The Keppel DC REIT Management Pte. Ltd. Board of Directors announced that one of its DC campuses recently secured a S$120 million (US$87.7m) sustainability-linked Islamic credit facility. The company didn’t reveal details relating to the loan providers, intended loan uses, or sustainability ta...

Google data center pioneer Luiz André Barroso passes away

Google

59-year-old data center luminary Luiz André Barroso unexpectedly passed away on September 16, 2023.The DC legend joined Google in 2001 and was fundamental in remodeling the company's DC design, impacting the industry. Before his journey with Google, Barroso worked at Digital Equipment Corporat...

Alligned Reveals New Brownfield Land Acquisition for DC Campus in Ohio

Aligned

On September 25, 2023, Aligned Data Centers announced the acquisition of a new brownfield land in Perkins Township., Northeast Ohio. The firm purchased the 129-acre parcel to construct a new four-building hyperscale data center campus. Aligned said its NEO-01 data center, the first of the four...

CapitaLand Launches Massive Data Center in Hyderabad, India

India / Bhārata

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) recently began working on its 40MW data center in Hyderabad, India. The company announced that it has started operations for the first phase of the newly redeveloped International Tech Park at the IT hub of Madhapur.CLI hosted a ceremony celebrating the camp...

Italian Organizations Consider San Romedio mine for DC Construction

Italy

Some Italian companies have discussed building a data center company in a Dolomite mine. The University of Trento, construction company Covi Costruziono, IT services company Dedagroup, sustainable healthcare provider GPI, and holding company Istituto Atesino di Sviluppo (ISA), are looking to d...

JK Land Holdings expands proposed Virginia’s Gainesville DC with land buy

Virginia

Chuck Kuhn's real estate firm, JK Land Holdings, has expanded the proposed Gainesville data center via land acquisition in Virginia's Prince William County through its Wellington Road LLC affiliate. The company has also filed an application, which is currently under review, for up to 3.8 milli...

Eaton Unveils New DCIM Platform to Accelerate Digital Transformation

Electrical and industrial power management software provider Eaton has launched a new data center management platform, the Brightlayer DC suite.Mike Jackson, the global director of product, data center, and distributed IT software at Eaton, explained that this suite functions as a portfolio of...

Princeton Digital Group launches sixth DC campus in Indonesia

Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has opened its sixth data center campus in Indonesia with the launch of its 22MW hyperscale data center facility (JC2) in Citibung, Greater Jakarta. Built on the same center as the JCI, the new facility takes the Citibung campus up to 35MW.Varoon Raghavan, COO and...

St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction

Minnesota

The Minnesota St. Louis Park City Council has approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for constructing a data center at 6400 Walker Street. Information from the district’s website reveals that the new center will be built southeast of the football field and next to an existing maintenance buil...

Nokia Reveals Plans to Build Open Innovation lab in Dubai, UAE

Dubai

Finnish vendor Nokia has revealed plans to launch an Open Innovation lab in Dubai, UAE, to drive its Cloud RAN in the Middle East and Africa region. In a release, the vendor explained that the initiative will increase the regional focus of its established collaborations with Dell Technologies ...

DTCP takes majority stake in German operator Maincubes

maincubes one GmbH

Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) is now the majority owner of German DC firm Maincubes after acquiring additional stakes from Art-Invest Real Estate, a co-shareholder. Art-Invest, which used to hold about 75% of Maincubes stakes before DTCP’s initial investment, now retains only ...

Czech telecoms firm to build new DC campus outside Prague

Czech Republic

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) recently announced it's undergoing construction of a new data center campus on its site at the Cukrák transmitter, located in Jílovište to the south of Prague. The telecoms firm noted that the campus will offer a capacity of up to 78 racks at 3kW...

Charlotte City Council approves PowerHouse DC construction

The Charlotte City Council has accepted PowerHouse's land rezoning request to develop its first data center campus outside Virginia. The council voted 7-2 in favor of the rezoning request for nearly 124 acres of land on September 18, 2023.The city staff initially hesitated as they were concern...

Google-affiliated company buys 143 acres in South Carolina

Google

A Google-affiliated company has acquired 143 acres in Moncks Corner industrial site, Berkeley Country, where the Silicon Valley tech giant has operated a data center since 2007. Arum Composites LLC purchased this parcel, comprising five parcels across Mount Holly Commerce Park Cypress Gardens ...

GLP launches new global data center business, Ada Infrastructure

Ada Infrastructure

APAC logistics real estate firm GLP recently unveiled Ada Infrastructure, a new global data center business, and detailed its development pipeline across Europe, APAC, and South America. The DC campus launches with 850 megawatts of secured IT capacity across Japan, the UK, and Brazil, and repo...

Chirisa obtains a $200 million loan to outfit a CoreWeave data facility in Virginia

Virginia

Chirisa Investments has secured financing for constructing a data center in Chester, Virginia. According to Commercial Observer, Chirisa received $200 million in construction funding to build CoreWeave's 242,000-square-foot turnkey data center. CO's sources revealed that an undisclosed Brookfi...