Data Center News

BW Digital acquires new land for data center in Batam, Indonesia

Indonesia

Cable operator and Citramas Group BW Digital this week announced that it has acquired a new land for data center construction and has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the ‘joint development of a carrier-neutral digital ecosystem’ in Batam’s Nongsa Digital Park (NDP), which Citram...

Grop acquired Definitive Intelligence to support newly formed unit

California

AI chip startup Groq has acquired Definitive Intelligence for an undisclosed sum to support its newly formed  GroqCloud unit, which Definitive Intelligence co-founder and CEO Sunny Madra will lead. GroqCloud is a cloud platform that provides Groq hardware documentation, code samples, and on-de...

Penta Infa names Bob Sprengers as new CEO

Penta Infra

European data center firm, Penta Infra has named Bob Sprengers as its CEO according to an announcement by the company and lead investor Photon Capital this week. Effective from March 2024, Sprengers will take over from Alex Bakker who has led the company since it was founded in 2015.  “The ti...

Iridium to support South Korean military with connectivity

Abidjan

Satellite provider Iridium has entered into an agreement with the Republic of Korea (ROK) Ministry of Defense (MOD) to provide connectivity for strategic use within the Republic of Korea's military operations. Iridium will provide the ROK Army with a range of services, including real-time pos...

Leesburg Council vote in favor of rezoning for proposed data center

Virginia

Town council officials in Leesburg, Virginia, announced this week that they have voted to approve a rezoning application that will allow data centers and additional industrial and research park uses on two parcels of vacant land to the south of Leesburg. Springfield East, LC, the applicant so...

Equinix deploys 1MW solar system on Melbourne data center

Equinix

Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at 578 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. The company has now completed the installation of rooftop solar systems at eight of its facilities, including Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and ...

Vodafone to upgrade security at Bracknell data center

Vodafone

Following an increasing number of criminal attacks at Vodafone’s Bracknell data center, the company is now making plans to upgrade security at this facility. Vodafone has received permission from the Bracknell Forest Council to install new security fences and gates, reconfigure the car park, a...

Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

London

Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said stron...

Platform.sh offers discount for greener data centers

Microsoft Azure

Platform.sh, a platform for building, running and scaling web applications, is offering customers a three percent 'greener region discount' when using a data center that consumes electricity that is less than 100gCO₂e/kWh. Customers have a choice of six data center regions across five countrie...

Axentec PLC unveils Tier IV-standard data center in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Robi Axiata subsidiary Axentec PLC has launched a Tier IV-standard data center called  "Cypher", located in the Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park in Jashore and spans 16,500 square feet. This prefabricated facility will offer 2N redundancy and fault-tolerant power backup systems for its t...

Green Mountain to host HPE AI and HPC infrastructure in Norweigan facility

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain is to host Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure in two of its Norweigan data centers. Green Mountain has three data centers in Norway and the specific facilities for this project are yet to be reveale...

CtrlS to invest $482.5 million in Chennai data center

Indian operator CtrlS Datacenters is building a new data center campus in Chennai and intends to invest Rs 4000 crore ($482.5m) in the 72MW project. Construction is already underway.  Sridhar Pinnapureddy, founder and CEO of CtrlS Datacenters, said: "We are delighted to unveil our upcoming Ch...

Kyivstar signs Rakuten Symphony Open RAN deal

Ukraine

Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has signed a new deal to procure and deploy Rakuten Symphony's Open RAN technology in its network. A  letter of intent has been signed by the companies to show that Rakuten would be the preferred partner for Kyivstar's eventual 5G rollout. "I share the excitement of o...

OData to expand footprint in Mexico

ODATA SA

Latin American data center operator OData  this week announced its QR01 data center in Querétaro is being expanded and  it has started to build two new hyperscale data center campuses in Mexico, in Guanajuato and El Marqués. “We are pleased with the success seen during the development of our Q...

Fatal incident reported at new London substation for Microsoft data center

Microsoft Azure

A fatal incident has been reported at an electrical substation being built to supply power to a new Microsoft data center in London. Reports have it that a worker was trapped after an incident involving an aerial work platform at the Park Royal, site in Ealing last week, and died of his injur...

Bridge DC plans further expansion in Malaysia

Malaysia

APAC operator Bridge Data Centres has revealed new plans for further expansion in Malaysia with a new facility in Cyberjaya. The ChinData subsidiary said the project will offer 87MW across three phases, with the first two phases involving the construction of a three-story data center. “We are ...

Modine to acquire Scott Springfield Manufacturing

Canada

Modine this week announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Calgary, Alberta-based manufacturer of air handling units (AHU), Scott Springfield Manufacturing.  Modine mentioned that it will gain ‘immediate access to a highly complementary product portfolio and a blue-c...

Empyrion DC secures S$133 million green loan

Singapore

Empyrion DC, a Singapore-based data center operator, has secured a green loan worth S$133 million (US$98 million) to refinance its  SG1 Dodid data center in Singapore, with proceeds used to “support existing operations” at the 12.5MW facility. This financing was provided by the UOB bank. Mark ...

NTT Docomo selects AWS for Japan Open RAN deployment

Amazon AWS

NTT Docomo has chosen Amazon Web Services to support the commercial deployment of its 5G Open RAN network in Japan. The company will use AWS to deploy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere), a container management software, at its 5G Open RAN. “Our philosophy at NTT D...

SK Telecom teams up with specialists for new AI liquid cooling Solution

South Korea

Korean telco SK Telecom (SKT) is teaming up with liquid cooling specialist Iceotope and lubricant developer SK Enmove to design a new liquid cooling solution for AI data centers. The companies will collaborate to deploy precision liquid cooling (PLC) using SK Enmove’s thermal fluid at SKT’s A...