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Datadog announces launch of new data center in Japan

Datadog has announced the launch of a new data center in Tokyo, Japan, its first in Asia. According to the company, the new facility will store and process data locally, and enable the company and its customers to comply with local data center privacy and security regulation. Specific details ...

EcoDataCenter announces circular-focused data center plans in Östersund, Sweden

EcoDataCenter (EcoDC AB)

In Sweden, EcoDataCenter has announced expansion plans. The Nordic data center firm has outlined its intentions to develop a new 150MW campus, located in Östersund, Sweden. The facility, known as EcoDataCenter 2, will offer 20 MW in its first phase, which is set to be completed in 2026; this f...

Skybox plans 100MW build-to-suit campus in Plano, Texas

Skybox Datacenters

Skybox is planning a 100MW build-to-suit data center campus in Plano, Texas. The campus is being established in partnership with logistics real estate firm Prologis, which owns the site. The 64-acre site is listed on the company's website, which outlines it has a capacity of 100 MW, and can h...

DCI completes AKL01 in New Zealand

DCI Data Centers

In Auckland, New Zealand, DCI Data Centres (DCI) has announced that it has completed work on its first cloud data center, which it has shared was delivered “on time” and “on budget.”The addition of the new AKL01 data center, which was first announced back in 2021, comes as part of the company’...

Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

Arkansas

The Arkansas Data Centers Act was recently passed after being proposed not long ago on March 30 by Senator Joshua Bryant. The legislation seeks to regulate the Bitcoin mining industry in the state, and will allocate crypto miners the same rights as data centers. It outlines that the government...

Saudi Telecom Will Pay $1.3 billion to Purchase United Group Towers

Saudi Telecom Company

As the carrier grows in Europe, Saudi Telecom Co. has agreed to pay $1.3 billion for a portfolio of tower assets from United Group. According to a statement released on Thursday, the state-backed company's Tawal infrastructure arm is offering funds for a portfolio of more than 4,800 towers in ...

Cologix Concludes a $144.7 Million Asset Securitization Deal

Cologix

Asset-backed securities worth $144.7 million have been closed by Cologix. Through a private placement transaction that was completed on April 5, the North American and Canadian hyperscale Edge data center and network-neutral links provider made a deal with secured notes. Cologix's chief financ...

CyrusOne Data Centers is Getting Ready to Issue CMBS Worth $701 million

CyrusOne

Asset-backed securities totaling $701 million will be backed by real estate and tenant contracts for space and electrical capacity in five finished and operational data centers in Texas and Virginia. According to a pre-sale assessment from S&P Global Ratings, the CyrusOne Data Centers, 202...

Raxio announces $170 million sustainability-linked debt facility

Raxio Group

Raxio has announced that it has secured up to $170 million in sustainability-linked debt, as part of a multiple-tranche sustainability-linked debt facility. Through Proparco and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, the fina...

Final approval: Microsoft's $1 billion data center receives green light in Racine County

Microsoft Azure

In Racine County, Microsoft's $1 billion data center campus in Wisconsin has been given the go-ahead by The Racine County Board of Supervisors after initially receiving Village Board approval. As per the deal, the tech giant will begin the first phase of construction by July 2026, with the sec...

Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco

Google

Google has announced that it has signed a new 10-year PPA with Eneco, a Dutch utility company, for 0.5TW/h of power, with a capacity of 153MW across the lifespan of the deal. The two wind farms the energy will be sourced from are the Fryslân offshore wind farm and the Kroningswind onshore win...

Zeittec-built intelligence data center launches in Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

In Brazil, Agência Brasileira de Inteligência, ABIN, Brazil’s intelligence agency has announced the launch of a new Zeittec-built modular data center. Designed to Tier III standards, the facility reportedly has extremely high security in order to perform its function to protect confidential da...

NetActuate adds new Kansas City, Missouri data center location

NetActuate

NetActuate has announced that it is expanding its footprint in the Midwest, with the addition of a new data center in Kansas City, Missouri, which is considered to be one of the fastest-growing tech hubs in the US. NetActuate has outlined that the new data center features redundant power and ...

Glenside Data Centre in Adelaide, Australia, Catches Fire

Adelaide

A fire has started at the Glenside Data Centre in Adelaide, Australia. Among other government services, the event led to the failure of South Australia's state hospitals' electronic medical records system. The primary data center for the state government is located in Glenside. The electrical ...

Key Point and Rostelecom Partner to Build New Data Center on Sakhalin Island

Russia / Россия

Key Point and Rostelecom are teaming up to build a new data center on Sakhalin Island, off the east coast of Russia, north of Japan. In September 2022, Key Point signed an agreement with Sakhalin Oblast Governor Valery Igorevich to construct a data center in the Sakhalin Region, without provid...

Skybox Datacenters Plans to Build a 100 Acre Data Center Campus in Lancaster, Texas

Skybox Datacenters

Skybox's data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, a co-development with Prologis, is located on the site of a former industrial complex. Bandera Ventures and Skybox Datacenters, both based in Dallas, intend to construct a multi-building data center complex in Lancaster, Texas. The proposed ...

Ericsson Partners with Canadian Government to Invest $351M in 5G and 6G Research and Development

Canada

A five-year agreement between the Canadian government and the Swedish vendor Ericsson will see more than $351 million invested in two research and development facilities in Ottawa, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec. To enhance mobile networks, the investment will concentrate on 5G Advanced, 6G, Cl...

Empyrion DC Secures Funding for Gangnam Data Centre Construction in Seoul

Empyrion Digital

A syndicated loan has been obtained by Empyrion DC, a portfolio business of Seraya Partners, from KEB Hana Bank, Hana Capital Co Ltd, and the National Credit Union Federation of Korea to fund the development of the Gangnam Data Centre (GDC) in Seoul, South Korea. The funding from the loan w...

Panama to Boost Connectivity with Two New Submarine Cables and Digital Gateway Project

Americas

Panama, the most connected nation in Central America with six submarine cables, is set to become even more connected. Two new systems, the Carnival Submarine-Network (CSN-1) and Caribbean Expresses, are being constructed and scheduled to be operational by 2025 and 2026, respectively. These new...

Intel Shifts Focus to High-Margin Businesses, Exits Prebuilt Server System Market with MiTAC Sale

Intel

Intel has announced that it will be exiting the prebuilt server system business due to its low-margin profitability. The Data Center Solutions Group (DSG) will be sold to MiTAC, an edge-to-cloud IT solutions provider and a long-standing ODM partner of DSG. MiTAC will have the right to manufact...