Data Center News

Goodman says it has capacity for 3.7GW of data centers

Germany / Deutschland

Real estate group Goodman has over 3GW of potential data center capacity in its pipeline, according to a Q1 2024 operational update published yesterday. The company notes that this is an opportunity worth tens of billions of dollars as it outlines its ambitions for the data center space.  The ...

Iron Mountain to convert records management facility in Miami to a data center

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain is to convert one of its former records management facilities in Miami, Florida, into a data center that will offer 16MW.  Iron Mountain CEO William L. Meaney said during the company's Q3 2023 earnings call last week, “Miami is a key market where a number of our customers are loo...

Vodacom begins 5G technology testing in Congo

Vodacom Business

Vodacom Congo announced that it has recently begun the testing phase of its 5G technology. However, the company noted in an interview with ITWeb Africa that its main focus is still expanding its existing 4G network coverage and mobile money services. Vodacom DRC CEO Khalil Al Americani said in...

Companies plan new “Fuel cell-powered” data center in Ireland

Europe

SK Ecoplant and Lumcloon Energy are planning to create a new age data center in Ireland that will depend on gas-powered fuel cells rather than the regular grid connection. The  Irish development company and SK Group’s construction subsidiary signed this agreement this week during a trade missi...

Gaw & Sinar Primera to construct new DC facility in Batam, Indonesia

Batam

Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners and Indonesian developer Sinar Primera announced a partnership this week to build a data center in Batam, Indonesia. Gaw will be acting as the primary investor in this partnership with Sinar Primera as the development manager will take a min...

Dominion to construct the largest-ever authorized wind project in the US

United States

Utility Dominion Energy has recently received permission from the US Interior Department for a 2.6 gigawatt offshore wind farm near the Virginia coast, the largest-ever wind project to be authorized in the US. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said, “The Interior Department is committed to...

Google signs first wind PPA in Poland

Google

Google has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)  to procure renewable energy in Poland . Following this agreement with Polsat Plus Group, Google will now offtake from the company’s wind farm in Przyrów to power Google Cloud’s operations. Tara Brady, president, Google Cloud EMEA said...

Biden orders companies to report large compute deployments to US gov

United States

Biden has imposed an executive order focused on artificial intelligence, mandating all large computing clusters to be registered with the federal government.  Following this order,  "companies, individuals, or other organizations or entities that acquire, develop, or possess a potential large-...

X claims $100m annual savings upon exiting Sacramento data center

Sacramento

X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, claims to have saved $100 million annually after exiting its Sacramento data center via a post on the platform. X further claimed to have saved a significant amount by repatriating some of its workloads to on-prem data centers. The company...

Secretary of state dismisses data center plan in Buckinghamshire

Michael Gove, the UK Secretary of State, has dismissed a planning appeal by Greystoke Land to construct a data center campus in Iver, Buckinghamshire. Greystoke planned to develop up to 163,000 square meters of data center floor space across three 243,600 sq ft buildings. Once completed, this ...

Microsoft to develop new facility in Rome, Georgia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed its plans to construct a new data center campus on a 347-acre property on Huffaker Road, east of Fouche Gap Road, outside Rome, Georgia. The Rome Floyd County Development Authority (RFCDA), as well as several local news outlets, announced the $1 billion campus outside th...

Vantage closes €2.5 billion investment deal in Europe

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has finalized an investment partnership with DigitalBridge and a consortium of investors led by MEAG and Infranity for some of its European data center assets. The collaboration between both companies consists of six data center facilities across Europe, valued at around €...

Virgin Media O2 to sell minority stake in Cornerstone towers

Virgin Media Business

Virgin Media O2 recently confirmed it had agreed with GLIL Infrastructure LLP. Following the agreement, Virgin Media O2 will sell a 16.67 percent minority stake in its tower joint venture, Cornerstone (CTIL), to GLIL for about £360 million, which will be paid once the deal is closed.  After th...

DataBank purchases new parcel in Atlanta, Georgia, for DC campus

DataBank

US colocation provider DataBank recently purchased 95 acres of land near Lithia Springs within a mile of the 18 acres where it is already building its ATL4 facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The newly acquired parcel can accommodate two multi-story data centers totaling 1 million gross square feet....

Microsoft unveils Israeli Azure cloud region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft revealed in an update that it has launched its newest Israeli Azure cloud region. The company noted in a now-deleted update, “We are launching our newest data center region in Israel. The new Israel Central data center region includes Azure availability zones, which offer you additio...

Gaza completely loses Internet access again after another outage

Israel

Internet services have now returned in Gaza after another outage, which took the connectivity in the entire country down for several hours. This disruption occurred just before 3:00 a.m. local time, with Palestinian telco Paltelco announcing that connectivity to the Gaza Strip had been cut off...

Brookfield to acquire Cyxtera's assets for $775 million

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Brookfield recently announced that it has entered an asset purchase agreement to acquire Cyxtera, following the latter’s bankruptcy, and will combine its new purchase with its other US colo provider, Evoque. Under this agreement, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and its institutional partner...

Vodafone to sell Spanish business to Zegona

Vodafone

Vodafone has confirmed the sale of its Spanish business to UK investment firm Zegona for $5.3 billion. Once the transaction is completed, Vodafone will get about €4.1 billion in cash and up to €0.9bn in the Redeemable Preference Shares. Margherita Della Valle, chief executive of Vodafone, said...

ATC names new CEO as Tom Barlett retires

American Tower Corporation

American Tower Corporation (ATC) recently revealed that Tom Bartlett will retire as president, CEO, and board director on February 1, 2024. The company announced that Steve Vondran would succeed Barlett, taking over his positions. Moreso, Vondran has been appointed as the executive vice presid...

STT GDC completes 1.2MW DC campus in Makati City

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Philippines has completed the construction of a 1.2MW data center in Makati City, the Philippines. This new facility on the outskirts of Manila, has a capacity for around 100 racks and can support loads between 5kW and 12kW. Operations. Carlo Malana, president ...