Data Center News

Yandex data center in Finland loses power

Yandex NV

According to circulating reports, Yandex's Finland data center has been disconnected from the electricity grid by Nivos Energia Oy. This news comes in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite the company, which is registered in the Netherlands, not being on a sanctions list. That said...

Riot Blockchain's 1GW cryptomining farm in Texas

Texas

Riot Blockchain Inc. has announced that it is going to build a new cryptomine data center in Texas, on a 265-acre site that will utilize 1GW of energy, with an initial capacity of 400MW. According to reports, if used at full capacity constantly, the facility would consume the same amount of en...

Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

Microsoft Azure

Infrastructure Masons, a body for large data center builders, has announced the formation of a new group, the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), to establish a standard for data centers' embodied carbon. So far, some of the hyperscalers involved in the project include AWS, Google, Meta, and Microso...

Amazon To Develop New Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon is going to develop another data center in Chantilly, Virginia. The news was first broken by BizJournal. However, it has now been confirmed with local county records that the company has been granted permission to develop the data center at 3980 Virginia Mallory Drive. The filing did...

Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has shared its data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE) data for the first time. Overall, the giant achieved a high level of efficiency with regards to PUE, while when it came to WUE, it didn't quite meet its target, and there was room for impr...

Interxion data center to heat Vienna hospital

Digital Realty: Vienna

Interxion's Vienna data center campus is set to heat the nearby Floridsdorf Hospital, it has been announced. This will be facilitated by the Austrian government injecting €3.5 million ($3.7m) from environmental funds into the project, which will see the construction of an insulated pipe betwe...

Planned AWS data center in Dublin to go ahead despite challenge

Amazon AWS

After a prolonged battle by charity An Taisce to defeat Amazon's Co Meath 48 megawatt (MW) data center proposal at the IDA Business & Technology Park, it has been announced that the giant's plans have been given the green light. The charity had opposed the facility based on environmental c...

AWS Given Green Light To Purchase Land For New Zealand Cloud Region cloud region

Amazon AWS

It is good news for Amazon Web Services as it has been granted permission to acquire land for its planned data center development in New Zealand. In September last year, the company revealed plans to launch its new Cloud Region in the country in 2024. Consistent with Microsoft’s previous regio...

Yandex To Sell Its Media Arm To VKontakte

Yandex NV

Russia’s Yandex has decided to sell its Media unit to VKontakte. Yandex is usually considered Russia’s Google, while VKontakte is referred to as Russia’s Facebook. Yandex’s blogging platform Zen and its news sending service Yandex news are being disposed of for undisclosed fees. The reason ...

Google Launches First Spanish Region in Madrid

Google

Google has announced that it has opened its first cloud region in Madrid, Spain. The company noted that the just opened cloud region is designed to meet the technological needs of businesses in Spain. In addition, it added that the region helps provide low latency cloud services with high data...

TelOne Opens New Data Center in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s state-owned telecommunication company TelOne has announced the opening of its new data center in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The 400kW, 120 rack data center is built to Tier 3 standard, and it is the first of its kind in Matabeleland, south of the country. The facility also offers redund...

Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is set to buy over 100 acres in Malaga, Washington. According to the county's officials, the company will be using the land to develop data centers. Commissioners of the Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority signed a sale and purchase agreement with Microsoft for 102.5 acres of l...

Flexential To Develop an 18MW Facility in Raleigh, North Carolina

Flexential

Flexential has announced that it plans to develop an 18MW data center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The data center will span 11,150 square meters (120,000 square feet). The first phase is expected to deliver 4.5MW capacity, and it is scheduled to come online in Q3 2023. Flexential has also r...

Start Campus Starts Work on Its 495MW Data Center Project

Start Campus has announced that it is starting development on a new data center campus in Portugal. Start Campus is owned by Pioneer Point Partners and Davidson Kempner. The company will break ground on the first phase of the Sines 4.0 facility. The data center is located in the Sines Indus...

GDS and YTL To Jointly Develop Eight Data Centers With 168MW Capacity in Johor, Malaysia

GDS Services Ltd

GDS has announced its plan to develop multiple data centers in YTL’s data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. GDS Holdings and YTL Power International Berhad signed an agreement to co-build eight data centers at the YTL Green Data Center Park. The data centers developed will have a capacity o...

Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland

Dublin

Energia Group has announced that Fingal County Council has granted the company planning permission for two new data centers next to the Huntstown Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. The two facilities, known as Buildings A and B, are expected to have a gross floor area of c. 37,647 sqm (400,000 ...

Alibaba shares new green goals

China

Alibaba has announced that it has joined the Low Carbon Patent Pledge (LCPP), which is an international platform that encourages companies to share patents for low carbon technologies. In line with this pledge, the company will make nine key patents for green data center technology available f...

Iron Mountain constructs first-ever BREEAM certified data center

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Data Centers has added another layer to its sustainability efforts, after it secured BREEAM design certification for its Phoenix, AZ (AZP-2) data center. This makes the data center company the first in North America to receive "top tier certification" for sustainable constructio...

Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced it has signed another PPA, this time, with ATCO Group. The PPA will enable the giant to procure solar energy in Canada from a 37MW Deerfoot solar project, which is adjacent to ATCO's 27-MW Barlow project. According to reports, the projects' construction will take place...

Datum Datacentres To Double The Space at Its Farnborough Facility

Datum FRN1

Datum Datacentres has begun an expansion process on its facility nine months after UBS Asset Management bought it. The company plans to double the space of its data center located at Farnborough, Hampshire, London. The facility currently has 3,750 square meters of space. It will now have 7,...