Data Center News

NTT Starts Development on its VA6 Data center in Ashburn, Virginia

NTT has broken ground on its new data center in Northern Virginia. The data center would be housed in NTT's Ashburn data center campus. The new data center called VA6 will span 188,000 square feet (17,465 square meters). It will also have 24MW of critical IT load. The data center will be NT...

All-time high global temperatures: Data centers under microscope

United States

As the US's Lake Mead, the country's largest reservoir, reaches 'dead pool' levels and the Southwest experiences a record drought, the incredible amount of water guzzled by data centers is increasingly being put under the microscope. Despite a raft of sustainability pledges being made by big t...

AWS Acquires Three Properties in Sterling, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. According to BizJournal, the company paid up to $30.8 million to real estate firm Clarke-Hook Corp. This will be AWS’ third low-rise office property acquisition in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022. The buildings are loc...

Vantage secures green loan for Virginia data enter

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has secured a $300 million green loan for its upcoming 44MW sustainability-designed data center in Virginia. Structured and arranged by Societe Generale, the loan recognizes the facility’s sustainable features and will, according to the company, “exp...

Microsoft To Develop a Data Center campus in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed to develop three data center buildings in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The company wants to develop the buildings at a greenfield site in the County. The site is located at 210 Tunstall Road, Mecklenburg County. The data center buildings will be developed on a 132-acre sit...

PPA prices soar

Europe

According to a new report by LevelTen Energy, the prices of PPAs have shot up across Europe in the last year. The report outlined that Europe's solar and wind PPA prices increased by 16% in the second quarter of 2022 to €66,07 per MWh. Compared with statistics from last year, prices have incre...

Microsoft teams up with Climeworks

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that its partnership with carbon removal specialists Climeworks is expanding with a new 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement. The new deal will make it Microsoft's first-ever long-term carbon removal supplier and is one of the largest direct air capture (DAC) deals...

SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

Madrid

Web hosting service, SiteGround, has announced that it has opened a new data center in Madrid, Spain, the seventh SiteGround data center to open around the world and the fourth in Europe. In addition to the new facility, the company also announced the expansion of its content delivery network ...

QTS Buys Properties in Phoenix and The Netherlands

QTS Data Centers

QTS Realty Trust has acquired up to 400 acres of land in Phoenix, Arizona, for $255 million. The data center REIT also acquired land in the Netherlands for $9 million. QTS acquired the Phoenix property from First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. and Merit Partners Inc. QTS currently operates a ...

TAAL & Lake Parime to deploy cryptomine at nuclear station

Ohio

TAAL and Lake Parime have announced their intention to deploy a new cryptomine facility by an unidentified nuclear power station in Ohio, following the signing of a hosting agreement between the two. Through the deal, 3,000 TAAL-owned S19J Pro bitcoin mining units, with a capacity of 10MW, wil...

Are ammonia-powered data centers the future?

Japan

As the race for more sustainable power options continues in the data center industry, a raft of alternatives have been proposed, from solar to green hydrogen. However, perhaps one option that few expected is ammonia, which is now being pegged as the next major renewable fuel. Joel Moser, CEO o...

ERCOT requests Bitcoin miners switch off to reduce energy consumption in extreme heatwave

Texas

Texas is currently experiencing record temperatures, with the state hitting triple figures last week. Waco, for example, reached 108F, beating the 104F high set a century ago back in 1917. Last month, for instance, over a third of those in the US were urged to stay inside. This news comes as g...

Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn

American Tower Corporation

Stonepeak has revealed that it is acquiring a 29 percent stake in American Tower’s Coresite data center business. The investment firm will pay $2.5 billion for the stake in the business. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. According to an annou...

Ascenty Completes Development of Two Data Centers in Mexico

Ascenty

Ascenty has announced the launch of two new facilities in Mexico. It also revealed that it has finished constructing a second data center in Chile. Ascenty first announced its plans for data centers in Mexico in 2020. It has now launched both facilities in Queretaro, Mexico. These will be t...

DataBank Finally Completes ATL3 Expansion

DataBank Atlanta ATL3

DataBank has announced the completion of its ATL3 data center in Atlanta, Georgia. The data center company first started expanding the facility in 2021. It has now added over 2,050 square meters (22,000 square feet) of data center space to the facility to bring its white space capacity to 4...

StratCap Completes Acquisition of Data Center in Jacksonville, Florida For Undisclosed Fee

StratCap Data Centers

StratCap has announced the acquisition of a data center in Jacksonville, Florida. The company revealed that its data center real estate division, StratCap Data Centers bought a triple net leased data center for an undisclosed fee. The facility spans 2,400 square meters (25,600 square feet) and...

Nubes To Launch Tier III Data Center in Moscow

Moscow / Москва́

Russian IT company Nubes has announced that it is developing a Tier III standard data center in Moscow, Russia. The data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q4 2022. The data center will be located in the Biryulyovo Vostochnoye district of Moscow. It is also designed to accommodate 282 r...

Merlin breaks ground on Bilbao, Spain data center

Spain

Merlin Properties has announced that it is soon to break ground on its first data center located near Bilbao, Spain. The Iberian real estate company reportedly laid its first stone at the Arasur data center, based near Vitoria, last week. This announcement is part of an almost €600 million ($6...

Niagara Falls data center debate

New York

As reported by Baxtel at the end of June, Niagara Falls is being targeted as the site of a $1.5 billion technology and data center by New York City developer Howard Milstein and his partners, while the city launches a legal effort to create a new public park. While developers claim that the da...

American Tower Partners With Stonepeak in U.S. Data Center Business

American Tower Corporation

BOSTON & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) and Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, today announced that Stonepeak, on behalf of certain affiliated investment vehicles, will acquire an ownership int...