Data Center News

Sify to expand data center capacity in response to increasing demand

Sify Technologies

Sify has announced that it is expanding its data center capacity, outlining that it will add around 350 MW over the next few years. Already the company already has 11 facilities located in Chennai, Mumbai, Noida, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Kolkata, together totaling 100 MW. However, now, in re...

Cisco announces new plan to build Saudi Arabia data center

Cisco Systems

Cisco has announced its plans to establish a new data center in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The facility, the company said, will help customers protect their users, infrastructure, and investments against threat actors. Dedicated to cloud-delivered security, the facility is pegged to p...

Six letters of intent to acquire the business delivered to Cyxtera

Cyxtera Technologies

Data center company Cyxtera is being seriously considered for acquisition by at least six parties. This month, struggling Cyxtera filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to continuous losses and impending debt maturities. The organization is seeking a buyer or new investor. The company has contact...

Edgewater receives a $138 million contract for FBI data center

United States

The FBI has awarded Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc. a contract to manage its data centers. Edgewater recently disclosed that it had been granted a five-year, $138 million license to support the Information Technology Infrastructure Division (ITID) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

MTP opens Mexico City facility

Mexico City / Ciudad de México

México Telecom Partners (MTP), a Mexican telecommunications company, has opened a new data center in Mexico City. The entity owned by DigitalBridge reportedly put in $17.5 million in the endeavor. Location and infrastructure specifications were not disclosed. The facility is not intended for h...

Officials make progress on a massive data center in Hutto

Skybox Datacenters

City Council took action to move the development process along almost a year after it was revealed that Dallas-based Skybox Datacenters and its San Francisco-based partner Prologis Inc. bought more than 220 acres in Hutto. At a meeting on June 15, officials granted preliminary approval to anne...

Brazilian company Petrobras issues a tender for data center operation

Brazil / Brasil

Petrobras, a state-owned oil and gas corporation in Brazil, has issued a request for proposals worth $17.2 million for the running and maintenance of its data center facilities. The company is accepting bids until August 11, and per Petrobras, the winning bidder will be the one with the finest...

Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations

Scotland

The Scottish authorities are still trying to attract data center developers to their country. Twenty potential data center sites in the nation have been identified in a report created by Host in Scotland in support of the Scottish Authorities, including five additional spots not mentioned in a...

Microsoft's Mount Pleasant data facility projected to produce 200 jobs during the first phase

Microsoft Azure

200 people are anticipated to work at the Microsoft facility in Mount Pleasant during its initial phase, according to an executive summary provided to the village's Plan Commission. When completed, the data center will provide 460 employees, including 330 first-shift positions and 130 second-s...

AirTrunk begins the 70MW expansion of the SYD2 facility in Sydney, Australia

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

AirTrunk, an APAC data center developer, has begun constructing a 70MW expansion to one of its Sydney, Australia campuses. The organization announced this week that construction has begun on the final two stages of its SYD2 facility. The two-phase development is anticipated to be completed in...

Wingu.Africa opens a data center in Ethiopia

Africa

Wingu.Africa, a data center corporation based in Djibouti, launched its data center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. When fully functional, the data center will be located in the Ethio ICT park, constructed on a 161,500-square-foot tract of land, with a capacity of 10MW across 800 racks. Minister of...

Google signs PPA with Kronos Solar EDPR in the Netherlands

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has signed a new PPA for solar energy with Kronos Solar EDPR. The 15-year PPA will see the giant offtake part of the output from the company's four photovoltaic plans currently in the works in the municipalities of Smallingerland in the province of Friesland, Lochem and Berkelland, bot...

Sabey Data Centers announces completion of its Quincy data center expansion

Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Data Centers has completed the expansion of its Quincy data center, it has announced. The facility now features two buildings, offering over 85 MW; it also incorporated construction methods that reportedly reduce reliance on carbon-intensive concrete. Spanning 525,000 sqft across five b...

The founders of Chayora introduce a digital infrastructure investment

Chayora

The co-founders of China-focused data center developer Chayora have established Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC), a new investment platform. Oliver Jones and Jonathan Berney established AIC to invest in and offer access to venture capital for digital infrastructure programs in second a...

Cologix completes its Scalelogix Data Center

Cologix

Cologix has announced the completion of its new 120 MW facility in Data Center Alley, Ashburn, Virginia. The three-story data center spans 455,000 sqft, and has already been pre-leased, to a tenant described as a 'major global technology company.'According to reports, the Scalelogix ASH1 faci...

Pantheon Infrastructure raises revolving credit to $146m

The management board of Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), based in the United Kingdom, has authorized a $66.56 million increase to the company's revolving credit facility (RCF). This increase will bring the total to $145,8 million, allowing PINT's investment platforms to offer additional liquidi...

As amber energy alert is issued in Ireland, government has no plan to pause data center growth

Republic of Ireland

Startling new figures released by the Central Statistics Office have revealed that in just a year, data center power consumption in Ireland has increased by 31 percent; 18 percent of all electricity used in 2022. Yet, Ireland's government is not intending to reduce the number being built in th...

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

London

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the co...

External construction work on Digital Realty’s latest Frankfurt data center now complete

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty’s new data center, FRA33 facility in Hattersheim, Frankfurt, Germany, has now been completed, it has been announced. The new facility will reportedly offer 40MW of IT capacity spanning 16,000 square meters (172,222 sq ft) of white space. The construction firm that worked on the...

Macquarie Technology Group is attempting to raise $88 million for a new data facility

Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP)

Macquarie Technology Group is raising 88 million dollars to finance its Sydney data center. The company is raising capital through a non-underwritten institutional placement to increase its liquidity and free float. The business offers 2.22 million additional fully paid shares at $39.61 per sh...