Data Center News

Energy Vault partners with RSDC for novel battery storage system

Energy Vault has partnered with data center operator RSDC to deliver 2GW/20GWh of primary power to RSDC data centers through its battery energy storage system (BESS). Energy Vault will deploy its B-Nest BESS, a modular multi-story structure designed to house stackable lithium-ion BESS units at...

December 12, 2024

Rackspace

Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

A data center occupied by Rackspace is for sale in Kansas City, Missouri. Collers are offering 10828 NW Airworld Drive as a "long-term NNN lease investment opportunity." No sale price was disclosed. The two-story, 77,545-square-foot building was built 1982 on 5.2 acres and came with a single-t...

June 06, 2023

Rackspace

Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

Rackspace is presently experiencing an outage across its European and Asia-Pacific data centers. In their SYD2, LON5, LON3, and HKG5 data centers, they encountered connectivity issues. Later, Rackspace announced that it had been discovered that any affected Linux VMs (virtual machines) would r...

May 31, 2023

Rackspace

Mainova Ventures into Data Centers With 30MW Facility in Frankfurt

German energy company Mainova is moving into the data center business. The company broke ground on the new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. Mainova WebHouse, a subsidiary of the energy company, announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place earlier in the month. The new...

October 27, 2022

Frankfurt

Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

Frankfurt recently announced an updated plan for commercial developments in the city, which will place a limitation on cloud and colocation data center buildings. This comes as a response to concerns around their land and energy usage. Alongside this announcement, the city also outlined its in...

August 08, 2022

Frankfurt

Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European conti...

May 17, 2022

Frankfurt

Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers

Frankfurt has proposed a development plan to regulate data centers in the area. The plan, it says, will prevent the “uncontrolled growth” of data centers. The city is the hub of the data center industry in Germany, and one of the four largest hubs in Europe, taking up 64 hectares (640,000 sqm...

May 14, 2021

Frankfurt

Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years

Managed Cloud Service Provider Rackspace has appointed Kevin M Jones as their new Chief Executive Officer. It's the company's third CEO in two years. Jones was CEO at MV Transportation, the largest private paratransit service in the United States. Before MV Transportation, he held positions...

April 25, 2019

Rackspace

Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)

Switch and Rackspace announced a new agreement to deliver Rackspace private cloud solutions and connectivity to managed public cloud solutions on AWS, Azure and Google in Switch’s highly secure and reliable Tier 5® Platinum data center PRIME locations. The agreement builds on Rackspace’s Fanat...

April 02, 2018

Rackspace

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