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Read Nubes To Launch Tier III Data Center in Moscow
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Nubes To Launch Tier III Data Center in Moscow

July 13, 2022 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...

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Read Angelo Gordon To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Hong Kong
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Angelo Gordon To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Hong Kong

June 22, 2022 Hong Kong

Angelo Gordon, a New York-based equity group, has plans to develop a data center in Hong Kong. According to Mingtiandi, the company has submitted an application with the town planning board to build a 20MW data center. The data center will be located at No. 3 Kin Tai Street, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong....

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Read Material and labor shortages in the data center
Material and labor shortages in the data center

Material and labor shortages in the data center

June 14, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

As the need for data grows and grows, demand for data center construction is as strong as ever, however, the boom is being hampered by a number of factors, including supply and labor shortages, and price hikes. In a recent report named 'Data center market conditions update - Q1, 2022,'...

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Read Selectel To Develop a 20MW Facility in Moscow, Russia
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Selectel To Develop a 20MW Facility in Moscow, Russia

May 20, 2022 Moscow / Москва́

Selectel will be developing a data center in Moscow, Russia. The data center firm will span 48,400 square feet (4,500 square meters) while also offering 20MW in capacity. The data center will be called Yurlovsky, and it will have the capacity to house up to 2,000 racks. The data center is...

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Read Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany
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Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

May 17, 2022 Frankfurt

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...

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Read Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas
Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas

Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas

April 26, 2022 Kansas City

Diode Ventures is looking to develop a massive data center campus in Kansas. The company filed a preliminary plan for a data center campus called Creek Technology Park. The campus will sit on an undeveloped 359 acres of land in the northeast of US Highway 169 and Interstate 435 in Missouri....

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Read 'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London
'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to  East London

'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

April 12, 2022 London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's...

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Read Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers
Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

April 08, 2022 Amsterdam

In Amsterdam, an argument around data center energy usage has been brewing for some time. Back in 2019, in response to the amounts of energy being used up by data centers, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer announced a moratorium on new projects. This was eventually lifted, but...

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Read Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million
Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million

Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million

April 07, 2022 Hong Kong

A Vantage-occupied facility in Hong Kong has been acquired by the Asia Pacific Cities Fund (APCF). The complex acquired is located at 43 Container Port Road. It is also a fully occupied data center with a 14MW capacity across 270,000 square feet of gross floor area. The deal was worth HK$2.88...

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Read Carrianna Group Sets Up Data Center in Hong Kong
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Carrianna Group Sets Up Data Center in Hong Kong

March 18, 2022 Hong Kong

Carrianna Group has announced the launch of a new data center in the Kwai Chang industrial area, Hong Kong. The Hong Kong property firm, Jun Gao Holdings Company Limited and Dr. Quentin Tsang jointly invested in the data center. The property has a gross floor area of 2,100 square meters (23,000...

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Read Optus-Occupied Facility Up For Sale in Sydney
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Optus-Occupied Facility Up For Sale in Sydney

February 24, 2022 Sydney

According to ITNews, Fortius has listed its data center at 549 Harris Street, Sydney, Australia, for sale through JLL and CBRE. The data center is currently being occupied by Optus. Optus’ lease on the data center will expire in 2024 with no further option for expansion. This is a 60,300 square...

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Read AREP to invest in six data centers
AREP to invest in six data centers

AREP to invest in six data centers

January 17, 2022 Ashburn: Data Center Alley

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that, with Harrison Street, it is investing $1bn (€864m) in six data centres in the US. According to reports, this development plan will total 2.1m sqft of data centre space in Data Center Alley in Ashburn and Arcola, Virginia. Speaking about the...

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Read TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center
TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

January 06, 2022 Hong Kong

Taoping Inc (TOAP) has announced that it is expanding its Taoping G Cloud Hong Kong Data Center (the "Center") in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022. The facility, built in May 2021, will have an estimated total hash rate of 700GH/s, and its...

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Read Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney
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Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney

December 16, 2021 Sydney

Australian real estate company Trifalga is starting a data center unit with plans to have a largescale data center campus in Sydney. Trifalga and Trifalga DC’s first data center project will be an 800,000 square feet data center in Rouse Hill, Sydney. However, Trifalga did not reveal when the...

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Read ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong
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ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

November 25, 2021 Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which...

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Read Chayora to open new 54MW data center campus in Shanghai, China
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Chayora to open new 54MW data center campus in Shanghai, China

November 18, 2021 Shanghai

Chinese developer Chayora has revealed plans to build a data center campus in Shanghai, China. The data center campus will sit on an 8.5-acre site. In addition, the campus will have three five-story buildings with a capacity of up to 10,000 racks. Chayora also revealed that the campus would have...

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Read AEW close to selling 1 million sq ft office park in Slough to unnamed data center developer
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AEW close to selling 1 million sq ft office park in Slough to unnamed data center developer

September 17, 2021 London: Slough

According to multiple reports, Real estate firm AEW is close to selling a 1 million square feet (92,000 square meters) office park to an unidentified data center firm. AEW will be selling the Bath Road Central office campus for a fee of around £420 million ($579.5m). The real estate firm first...

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Read Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam
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Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam

September 17, 2021 Amsterdam

Great Grey Investment has acquired the uncompleted Westpoort Data Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data center was bought from Caransa Group. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tikehu Capital provided financing to Great Grey Investments and Westpoort Datacenter through its...

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Read UK Brent Council plans to upgrade data center with £3.8 million ($5.3 million)
UK Brent Council plans to upgrade data center with £3.8 million ($5.3 million)

UK Brent Council plans to upgrade data center with £3.8 million ($5.3 million)

June 15, 2021 London

Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...

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Read Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney
Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

June 09, 2021 Sydney

Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due to...

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