Global Data Center News

August 17, 2022

Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Developing New Facility in Taoyuan, Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwanese telecommunication company Chunghwa will be developing a new data center in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The company revealed that the board approved the development of the Lunping Internet Data Center. The new data center will feature five floors above ground and a basement. Its floor area will ...

August 17, 2022

Google To Launch Cloud Regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia

Google

Google has announced its plans to launch three Cloud regions in the APAC region. The company plans to launch these regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia. Although its competitors like Microsoft Azure and AWS already have projects in the works in Malaysia and New Zealand, it is the fir...

August 17, 2022

Compass Datacenters To Develop 48MW Data Center Campus in Milan, Italy

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters has announced the acquisition of and in Milan. The company partnered with real estate firm Hines to acquire the property for the development of a 48MW data center campus. The move sees Compass venture into Europe for the first time. The land acquired by the two companies...

August 16, 2022

Ascenty expands in Chile

Ascenty

Ascenty has announced the opening of its second data center in Santiago, Chile, the Santiago 2. Located in the Quilicura district of the capital, the facility will span 21,000 sqm (226,000 sq ft), with 31MW of IT load and a capacity for up to 3,550 racks.Plans were that the company would comm...

August 16, 2022

Riot Blockchain generated more money from energy credits than mining cryptocurrency

Riot Platforms

Riot Blockchain, one of the world’s largest bitcoin miners, has announced that it recently generated more money from energy credits allocated to the company for powering down than from actually mining cryptocurrency. During July, the company shut down its bitcoin mining rigs at its Texas faci...

August 15, 2022

Elisa to share heat from its data center in Helsinki

Elisa Corporation

According to reports, Finish telco Elisa is the latest company to employ circular economy principles in order to make use of waste heat from its data center in Helsinki. The company recently announced that it has connected to an open district heating system run by energy company Helen, to help...

August 15, 2022

Namibia: Paratus launches data center in Windhoek

Africa

Paratus has announced the launch of a new data center in Namibia, located in the capital city, Windhoek, its first facility in the country. The company has called the facility ‘Armada,' and although further details around the facility are yet to be released, it will reportedly be built to Tier...

August 15, 2022

Protests arise in opposition to recently approved €450m Ennis data center

Republic of Ireland

Environmental group Futureproof Clare is opposing the approval of a €450 million ($464.3m) data center project in Ennis, in the West of Ireland, over concerns around public health, and a projected use of "inordinate amounts of water and electricity."The facility, an Art Data Centres project, w...

August 15, 2022

Eurofiber Cloud Infra employs circular economy principles

Netherlands

Eurofiber Cloud Infra has announced that it is exploring employing circular economy principles in association with housing corporation Volkshuisvesting, infra-specialist for new energy Firan, and Eurofiber-owned Dataplace, for its data center in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The three have partnere...

August 15, 2022

Digital 9 Infrastructure Increases Credit Facility By £75m ($91m)

Digital 9 Infrastructure

Digital 9 Infrastructure has announced an increase to its revolving credit facility by £75 million ($91m). This brings its total credit to £375m ($454m). According to D9, it still has the capacity to increase its credit facility by another £125m ($151m). The company is managed by Triple Point....

August 15, 2022

Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For $205m

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced the sale of a “mature” data center. The move is to ensure that more capital is available for new projects. Notably, the company did not reveal which building it sold or who acquired the facility. According to a release from the company, it has disposed of the prope...

August 12, 2022

Lincoln Rackhouse and Principal Real Estate Investors Acquire 7MW Data Center in Atlanta

Lincoln Property Company

Principal Real Estate Investors and Lincoln Rack have acquired a data center in Atlanta. The data center spans 185,000 square feet (17,200 square meters). It also sits on 38 acres of land. The facility has a capacity of 7MW. It can also be expanded to 13MW upon full build out. According to ...

August 11, 2022

Colt planning 50MW West London campus

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt is reportedly planning to build a new data center campus in Hayes, West London, after receiving approval for the project in April. The proposal will see the development of the former Optimum Data Centre, neighboring Tudor Works and Veetec Motor Group facilities, into a new data center ca...

August 11, 2022

Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft embroiled in gold mine controversy

Amazon AWS

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, have all made big claims regarding sustainability and social responsibility, however, recently, the three giants have been embroiled in a c ontroversy relating to buying so-called "blood gold." According to reports, the three, alongside Apple, bought gold from an...

August 11, 2022

Ooredoo announces ground breaking of three data centers in Oman

Qatar

Qatari telecoms firm Ooredoo has announced plans to build three more data centers in Barka, Salalah, and Suhar. Each will be Tier 3 and have 500 racks capacity, the two former will provide landing points for the upcoming 2Africa cable. “Ooredoo has begun construction on three new state-of-the-...

August 11, 2022

Amazon's emissions increase

Amazon AWS

Despite Amazon's lofty promises of securing carbon neutral status before 2040, the latest statistics from its sustainability report, reveal that the giant's carbon emissions actually increased by 18%, from 60.64 million metric tons to 71.54 million metric tons, the equivalent of 19 coal-fired ...

August 10, 2022

New York Internet Doubles Its Data Center Presence By Taking Over Equinix's Space at 60 Hudson Street

Equinix New York NY8

New York Internet has announced the takeover of space at the Hudson Street carrier hotel. Equinix formerly occupied the space. NYI is an infrastructure and managed services provider. It also had a presence at the building before expanding to Equinix's former space. The deal is a result of a...

August 10, 2022

Google experiences widespread outage

Google

This week, Google was down after experiencing an outage that impacted systems worldwide. As reported by DCD, this outage occurred shortly after an explosion at Google’s data center in Iowa - however, currently, it is unknown whether the two are related. According to Down Detector, the ou...

August 10, 2022

Huawei to finalize data center location in Saudi Arabia

Huawei Cloud

Huawei is reportedly set to finalize its data center location in Saudi Arabia, the giant’s second in the Middle East, following the establishment of a first in Abu Dhabi. In a statement, Frank Dai, President of Huawei Cloud M.E, said: “We are in the final stages of the Saudi decision — the ...

August 10, 2022

Microsoft's hydrogen fuel test successful

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that its hydrogen fuel cell tests have been successful. The giant recently trialed the energy source for its backup generators to support its data center, in what has been called a “moon landing” moment for the data center industry. Microsoft director of data center re...

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