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AWS Secures Land for a new facility in Navi Mumbai

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be leasing land in Navi Mumbai, India, for a new data facility. The Hindustan Times reports that Amazon Data Services (an Indian subsidiary) has subleased a 451,000-square-foot site in the TTC industrial area in Bonsari, Airoli, for 15 years to construct a data c...

May 26, 2023

Amazon AWS

QTS Realty Secures a $800m Data Center Refinancing Contract

QTS Realty, owned by Blackstone, has refinanced four data center properties. Citigroup leads a consortium of four institutions that provided the loan. It will be used to refinance QTS' existing $667 million debt and provide the funds necessary to finance tenant build-outs.The refinancing is gi...

May 25, 2023

QTS Data Centers

PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell

Earlier this month, PowerHouse Data Centers announced a 30-year lease agreement with CyrusOne, for a spec-built data center, ABX-1, located in Ashburn, Virginia. The company shared that substantial completion of the data center, a two-story, 265,000 SF powered shell, is scheduled for October.A...

May 23, 2023

CyrusOne

CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company

CyrusOne has announced its partnership with Japanese energy firm Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) for the development of new data centers across Japan. The 50:50 joint venture, called CyrusOne KEP, will see at least one trillion yen ($7 billion) invested in the project over the nex...

May 23, 2023

CyrusOne

Amazon Plans Four Data Centers in Sterling, Virginia

Amazon will demolish several office buildings it purchased in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022 and rebuild those structures with four data centers. Amazon Data Services has submitted to Loudoun County proposals to tear down and replace nine office buildings in three sites in Sterling with four data...

May 23, 2023

Amazon AWS

Vantage Plans a $3bn Cyberjaya, Malaysia Data Center Facility

The Malaysian city of Cyberjaya will soon be home to Vantage Data Centers' enormous new site. State-owned Cyberview, tasked with creating a digital cluster in Cyberjaya, recently shared that Vantage will invest $3 billion to build a second data center facility there. At a recent meeting in the...

May 19, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

QTS begins work on Phoenix data center

QTS has begun construction work on its Phoenix, Arizona data center PHX2 DC5. The company reportedly broke ground on the facility in March; it is set to span 337,330 sq ft (31,339 sqm) on 85 acres, offering 42 MW of capacity. The company shared that on March 21, it hosted a groundbreaking eve...

May 18, 2023

QTS Data Centers

New Bill To Give Data Centers Certain Tax Breaks Has Competitive Benefits

A bill submitted Monday would exclude data center equipment, software, and other costs from state sales and use taxes. Microsoft's projected Mount Pleasant data center would presumably benefit first. The bill's creators, Rep. Shannon Zimmerman, R-River Falls, and Sen. Romaine Robert Quinn, R-C...

May 14, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first

Microsoft has made a world first by inking a PPA deal with Helion for electricity from the company's first commercial fusion power plant. Scheduled to come online in 2028, the giant has been promised to receive 50MW or greater from the plant after a one-year ramp-up. This technology has been ...

May 12, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Receives $1 Billion in Oregon Tax Rebates For New Data Center Facilities

Officials in a rural county in the northeastern corner of Oregon have voted to provide Amazon with tax benefits that are believed to be worth one billion dollars so that the company can build five additional data centers there. According to The Oregonian and OregonLive, the five commissioners ...

May 11, 2023

Amazon AWS

QTS reveals latest plans for campus in Prince William County's Digital Gateway

Last week, QTS submitted the third draft of its plans for the controversial and hotly debated Prince William Digital Gateway to the Prince William County government. The updated plan shows the company's intention to increase the size of its proposed buildings. QTS has also requested a waiver t...

May 03, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers Plans £250 Million Data Center Fac in London

With a £250 million investment, Vantage Data Centers announced the creation of a second data center campus (LHR2) in London. Vantage Data Centers previously announced the 48MW facility (LHR1) in London for £500 million. Beginning in early 2025, LHR2 will be a single data center that offers cus...

May 01, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Microsoft launches its first data center region in Poland

Microsoft has announced that it has opened its first data center region in Poland, which consists of three independent physical locations around Warsaw. The giant shared that this expansion is in response to the growing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and fast and reliable access ...

April 27, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Glencar Secures Vantage Data Centers London Facility contract

Glencar, a prominent UK & Ireland construction firm that has recently been listed among Europe's fastest-growing companies, disclosed that it had been granted a contract to construct the new LHR21 facility for Vantage Data Centers at the company's second London Campus near Heathrow Airport...

April 27, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

QTS Data Centers Suspends its Request For $45 million in Tax Benefits at its Atlanta Location

QTS Data Centers has refrained from requesting $45 million in tax incentives for its massive data center project near the Westside Trail of the Atlanta BeltLine. According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, QTS halted its request for incentives for a $1.3 billion proposal involving two data ce...

April 27, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Vantage plans expansion in San Jose, California

Plans for a new data center in San Jose, California, have been proposed by Vantage Data Centers, as stated in city planning documents. Located at 105 Nortech Parkway in San Jose's Alviso district, the facility, if given the green light, would be based on a 9.8-acre site. That said, further det...

April 26, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers expands in London with second campus

Vantage Data Centers is expanding its data center footprint in the UK with a new data center campus in London. The campus, LHR2, will be the company's second in London, based at Park Royal in west London and will see an investment of £250 million ($310.1m).The campus will feature a single dat...

April 26, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Microsoft gains approval for construction in Hollands Kroon area

After what has been a long road, potted with controversy and setbacks, Microsoft has obtained construction permission for its data center in the Hollands Kroon area in the north of the Netherlands, after a protracted permitting process. While permission has now been granted, back in 2021, the ...

April 25, 2023

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne Data Centers is Getting Ready to Issue CMBS Worth $701 million

Asset-backed securities totaling $701 million will be backed by real estate and tenant contracts for space and electrical capacity in five finished and operational data centers in Texas and Virginia. According to a pre-sale assessment from S&P Global Ratings, the CyrusOne Data Centers, 202...

April 20, 2023

CyrusOne

Final approval: Microsoft's $1 billion data center receives green light in Racine County

In Racine County, Microsoft's $1 billion data center campus in Wisconsin has been given the go-ahead by The Racine County Board of Supervisors after initially receiving Village Board approval. As per the deal, the tech giant will begin the first phase of construction by July 2026, with the sec...

April 19, 2023

Microsoft Azure

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