Read Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen
Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen
July 08, 2022

Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen

Amazon AWS

As green hydrogen turns the heads of big investors, Amazon, Equinor, and others have announced they are backing energy startup Electric Hydrogen (EH2) with a $198 million round, led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech. EH2 is reportedly working on a ‘100MW-minimum’ electrolyzer technology for industria...

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Read Landmark Dividend Acquires Data Center For Undisclosed Fee
Landmark Dividend Acquires Data Center For Undisclosed Fee
July 08, 2022

Landmark Dividend Acquires Data Center For Undisclosed Fee

TIAA: Broomfield

Landmark Dividend, a subsidiary of DigitalBridge, has acquired an office and data center from GI Partners in Broomfield, Colorado. According to BizWest, An affiliate of Landmark Dividend, LD DI Assetco acquired the property from GI TC Broomfield LLC, an affiliate of GI Partners. The property i...

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Read Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity"
Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity"
July 07, 2022

Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity"

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure has announced that worldwide its data centers are now operating with a limited server capacity available to customers as a result of a global supply shortage. The company has over 200 data centers across the world, stretching across 60 regions - however, reports indicate that ...

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Read The cities leading the data center growth in APAC
The cities leading the data center growth in APAC
July 07, 2022

The cities leading the data center growth in APAC

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

The APAC region has seen significant data center growth as of late, with an increase of 488 MW of new capacity in the first quarter of 2022, up from 185 MW in the previous quarter. Total capacity now stands at over 8,700 MW and has been largely driven by Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul.These were the ...

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Read AirTrunk Announces SYD1 Campus Final Phase Completion
AirTrunk Announces SYD1 Campus Final Phase Completion
July 07, 2022

AirTrunk Announces SYD1 Campus Final Phase Completion

AirTrunk Sydney

AirTrunk has completed the fifth and last building at its SYD1 data center campus in Sydney, Australia. The company announced the completion of the campus’ first phase in 2017. The campus also sits on over seven hectares of land. In addition, the site features 337,000 square feet (35,000 sq...

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Read Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU
Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU
July 06, 2022

Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporatio...

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Read CloudHQ Acquires Land in Culpeper County For 60MW Data Center Campus
July 06, 2022

CloudHQ Acquires Land in Culpeper County For 60MW Data Center Campus

CloudHQ

CloudHQ has completed the acquisition of 100 acres in Culpeper County, Virginia. The data center developer is looking to develop a build-to-suit data center campus with up to 60MW capacity spanning 2.1 million square feet. According to Daily Progress, CloudHQ acquired the property for $12 mill...

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Read Macquarie deal: CO2-cutting data center tech in Australia
Macquarie deal: CO2-cutting data center tech in Australia
July 05, 2022

Macquarie deal: CO2-cutting data center tech in Australia

Macquarie Data Centres

Macquarie Data Centres has announced it has signed a multi-year deal with ResetData, which will see Submer cooling technology used in Australia for the first time. This technology reportedly reduces CO2 emissions by up to 45% and also creates zero wastewater. Alongside this raft of benefits i...

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Read Maincubes Starts Work at its FRA02 Facility
Maincubes Starts Work at its FRA02 Facility
July 05, 2022

Maincubes Starts Work at its FRA02 Facility

maincubes one GmbH

Maincubes has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center outside Frankfurt, Germany. The company laid the foundation stone of the FRA02 facility in Schwalbach, close to Frankfurt. Maincubes first revealed it would be developing the data center in July 2021. The development of ...

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Read Greenidge gas powered cryptomining data center denied air permit renewal
Greenidge gas powered cryptomining data center denied air permit renewal
July 05, 2022

Greenidge gas powered cryptomining data center denied air permit renewal

New York

It has been announced that New York's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has denied an air permit renewal by Greenidge Generation, which could see its gas-powered Bitcoin mining data center close. This follows the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling on West Virginia ...

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Read Raimon Land's MOU for sustainable data centers
Raimon Land's MOU for sustainable data centers
July 05, 2022

Raimon Land's MOU for sustainable data centers

Bangkok / Krung Thep

Riamon Land has announced that it will join forces with Nava Nakorn Public Company Limited, and RATCH Group Public Company Limited through an MoU to develop green data centers. According to Stephane Michel, Chief Operating Officer of Raimon Land, the MoU will enable the "pursuit of a deeper ex...

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Read White Rock's flared gas cryptomine facility launches in Texas
White Rock's flared gas cryptomine facility launches in Texas
July 04, 2022

White Rock's flared gas cryptomine facility launches in Texas

Texas

Cryptomining firm White Rock Management has announced it is the latest company to decide to use flared gas to fuel its mining operations, launching its first US bitcoin mining operation in Texas' Brazos Valley region. This bitcoin mining facility will be powered using the oil well's excess nat...

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Read Scala’s SP4 hyperscale datacenter to go live in July
Scala’s SP4 hyperscale datacenter to go live in July
July 04, 2022

Scala’s SP4 hyperscale datacenter to go live in July

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced that its SP4 single-tenant hyperscale site, which was initially projected to go live in April, will now launch in July. The site, based in Tamboré in São Paulo's metropolitan region, will be the largest vertical datacenter in Latin America, spanning 13,000m2 a...

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Read Telia announces it has signed wind PPA in Estonia
Telia announces it has signed wind PPA in Estonia
July 04, 2022

Telia announces it has signed wind PPA in Estonia

Telia Company

Telia has announced that it has signed a PPA with Eesti Energia to be provided with 156GWh of renewable wind electricity over five years, starting at the end of 2022. According to the company, this deal will provide the European telco with 70% of its power needs, including its fixed and mobil...

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Read Microsoft To Launch New Azure Region in Qatar
Microsoft To Launch New Azure Region in Qatar
July 01, 2022

Microsoft To Launch New Azure Region in Qatar

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it will launch its Qatar Azure cloud region in two weeks. The general manager of Microsoft Qatar, Lana Khalaf, made this known at the launch of new offices in Doha, Qatar. He said: “In the coming two weeks we will be launching the region globally, but definitely th...

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Read Pantheon Invests $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers
Pantheon Invests $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers
July 01, 2022

Pantheon Invests $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers

Pantheon Infrastructure has announced that it will be investing $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers. The investment will be geared towards the data center company’s North American business for continued growth. Vantage has data center campuses in Quebec, Montreal, Phoenix, Ashburn, Quincy, and S...

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Read Land in Fayetteville, Georgia Annexed & Rezoned For Data Center Development
July 01, 2022

Land in Fayetteville, Georgia Annexed & Rezoned For Data Center Development

Georgia

Despite protests from residents of Fayette County, Georgia, county officials have voted to annex and rezone over 400 acres of land for the development of a data center office park. The council voted 5-0 to see the land located on Tyrone Road rezoned for data center development. The rezoning wi...

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Read Oracle Launches First Cloud Region in Mexico
Oracle Launches First Cloud Region in Mexico
July 01, 2022

Oracle Launches First Cloud Region in Mexico

Oracle

Oracle has announced the launch of its new cloud region in Querétaro, Mexico. The company first revealed plans for the region in 2021. This is Oracle’s first region in the country. The senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Mexico, Maribel Dos Santos, said: “We are excited to e...

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Read FedEx Plans To Shutdown Its Data Centers
July 01, 2022

FedEx Plans To Shutdown Its Data Centers

FedEx

FedEx announced that it would close all its data centers while retiring its mainframes within the next two years. The CIO of FedEx, Rob Carter, said the company is gunning for a zero mainframe and zero data center environment based in the cloud. According to Carter, the development will sav...

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Read Nautilus and DFFN Sign Agreement to Develop Data Center in the Philippines
July 01, 2022

Nautilus and DFFN Sign Agreement to Develop Data Center in the Philippines

Philippines

Nautilus Data Technologies and Philippine-based IT firm DFNN Inc. are forming a partnership to develop a data center in the Philippines. The companies signed an MoU to partner up to develop the facility in the Freeport Area of Bataan. None of the companies shared the data center specificati...

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