Data Center News

Telkom declines a takeover bid lead by its former CEO

South Africa

The South African telecommunications company Telkom has rejected a consortium commanded by its former CEO, Sipho Maseko. Telkom SA disclosed in a filing with the stock exchange last week that its board had considered the proposal from the Public Investment Corporation, a consortium consisting ...

Vodafone is selling its portfolio of data centers in London

Vodafone

Savills is looking for buyers for the Network Portfolio, a collection of six buildings totaling 260,000 square feet. The portfolio is reportedly worth $128.3 million. The properties are leased to Vodafone Enterprise UK through April 2032. They generate $7.8 million per year in total passing re...

China Merchants outbids Bain for ChinData with $3.4 billion

Chindata Group

China Merchants Group has offered to acquire ChinData, a Chinese data center company. Existing investor Bain has already submitted a take-private proposal for the company. According to Bloomberg, a subsidiary of the state-owned conglomerate has submitted a $3.4 billion proposal to acquire Chin...

Vodafone signs Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Europe

Vodafone

Vodafone has signed a PPA with Iberdrola for 410GWh of annual solar spread across Spain, Portugal, and Germany, as part of the company's wider net-zero ambitions. The renewable energy comes from three solar plants, the Velilla solar PV plant located in Palencia, Spain, the Cedillo PV plant lo...

Application filed for Oxfordshire data center stirs up controversy amongst locals

United Kingdom

De Montalt Life Sciences is planning to build a campus comprising seven 25m high buildings, a data center, and two multi-story car parks on the outskirts of an Oxfordshire town in the UK. Planned at the former Wicklesham Quarry in Faringdon and spanning 42,286 sqm (455,163 sq ft), the proposal...

Digital Realty announces first NVIDIA DGX H100-Ready data center

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty's KIX13, its newest data center in Osaka, Japan, has been certified as NVIDIA DGX H100-ready as part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program. The facility reportedly received this accreditation, the first Japanese facility to do so, based on its ability to provide a dedicat...

Bitdeer expands: Announces new data centers in Norway and Bhutan

Singapore

In Bitdeer Technologies Group's latest operations update, it shared details about its upcoming expansion. Linghui Kong, Chief Executive Officer of Bitdeer, noted that its 100MW Gedu mining data center in Bhutan, for example, is almost complete and is expected to be delivered in July. Further t...

CtrlS Datacenters to set up data center in Thailand

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

Hyderabad-based CtrlS Datacenters has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the eastern economic corridor office (EECO) of Thailand to lease a 10-acre parcel of land which will be used for a 150 MW datacenter campus. The lease will reportedly last for 50 years, and marks its first intern...

Housing Bank inaugurates Tier III prefabricated modular data center in Jordan

Huawei Cloud

Housing Bank recently announced the launch of what it's calling the first-ever Prefabricated Modular Data Center in the banking sector in Jordan. According to the company, the data center is designed to enhance the bank's daily operations, boosting flexibility, efficiency, speed, and security....

Further details released about 60MW four-story data center campus planned in Berlin

Germany / Deutschland

Further details have been released regarding Van Caem's Berlin data center plans. The company has partnered with Prea Group for a 60MW four-story data center campus near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Named  Bluestar, the campus will see an investment of €1 billion ($1bn) and will be th...

Microsoft proposes data center in Sumaré, Brazil

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft intends to build a new data center in the Brazilian state of So Paulo. Microsoft is constructing a new data center in Sumaré, presumably expanding its Azure cloud region in So Paulo. The facility will be adjacent to Santo Antonio Park along the Venancio Calegari Municipal Road in No...

Flexential to expand Georgia and Oregon data center campuses

Flexential

A second building is anticipated at its new campus in Atlanta, and a fifth building will be constructed in Hillsboro, according to Flexential's announcement of new data center developments in Georgia and Oregon. This week, the company revealed the construction of a 36MW phased development on i...

Peterson Companies plans Culpeper County data center facility

A sizable campus of data centers will be built in Culpeper County, Virginia, according to plans made public by real estate development company Peterson Companies. The Culpeper County Board of Supervisors approved a rezoning request to construct a new data center campus. Peterson stated that th...

Microsoft officially announces Kemps Creek campus, drops Lane Cove project

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced further expansion in Sydney, with plans for a new data center campus. Located in Kemps Creek in Western Sydney, the facility will be designed in collaboration with Indigenous-owned Indigital, to shape the site’s exterior artwork and landscape design in a way that “supp...

Thor's Form8ation begins Madrid data center campus construction

Form8tion has begun construction on its first data center in Madrid, Spain. Thor Equities established a new digital infrastructure division, Thor Digital, in April 2022, before rebranding it as Form8tion this year. In October 2022, the company acquired a former Coca-Cola bottling facility in t...

Infratil pays $160m for majority stake in Console Connect

Infratil has acquired a dominant stake in the network provider and interconnection company Console Connect. This week, the company announced that it had finalized an interim contract with HKT to acquire 80% of Console Connect for $160 million.As part of a strategic partnership with HKT, the tw...

Google submits plans for a three-building data center facility in Belgium

Google

Initially announced by the mayor of Farciennes, Hugues Bayet, the search and cloud company intends to construct three facilities in the Ecopôle business park in Wallonia. The campus will encompass 570,500 square feet. The project will begin construction by the end of the year and be completed ...

EdgePresence, a data center company, acquired by Ubiquity

Ubiquity has acquired EdgePresence, a provider of custom-built Edge data centers that recently claimed DataBank as one of its investors. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Doug Recker, the founder of EdgePresence, and its current personnel will be supported by Ubiquity's leadership team...

Amazon purchases 25 acres for a data center in Chantilly, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon has purchased a 25-acre parcel of land in Fairfax County, Virginia, close to several of the company's current and planned data centers. BisNow reports that Amazon Data Services Inc. recently paid $34.44 million to acquire a 24.6-acre property at 44150 Wade Drive in Chantilly from Firefo...

High investor demand for LatAm edge data centers increases land values

Latin American land prices have risen rapidly due to investor demand for edge computing and data center decentralization.  CBRE reports investors are looking for new metropolitan locations until the pricing cycle changes. Due to rising land prices, Brasília, Fortaleza, and Porto Alegre are see...