Data Center News

Odata unveils its data center facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ODATA SA

Odata, a data center company from Latin America, has opened a new campus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This week, the company announced the debut of its RJ01 facility, which provides up to 24MW. On a 20,000-square-meter lot in So Joo do Meriti, the facility features 18,000 square meters of raised...

Old coal mine designated for data centers in Wise County, Virginia

Virginia

A former coal mine in Wise County will be converted into an industrial park with data centers thanks to a $1.7 million grant from Virginia Energy. The discarded mine at the Elam Farm site in Southern Virginia's Wise County will receive funding from the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalizati...

Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea

South Korea

The government of South Korea is planning a 1GW data center campus in the country's southwestern region. The New Industry and Distributed Energy Division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced this week that up to 25 40MW data centers will be constructed in the Salaseido neighborhood ...

Scala intends to construct a 5MW data center in Mexico City

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers is constructing a new campus just outside Mexico City, Mexico. This week, the company owned by DigitalBridge announced intentions to build SMEXTP01, its first data center in the country. The facility, located in the municipality of Tepotzotlán, will have an initial critical ...

Thai's NT and India's CtrlS build 150MW facility in Chonburi

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

Indian firm CtrlS Datacenters has partnered with Thailand's government-owned telecommunications company to construct a new data center campus in Chonburi. Last week, the company and National Telecom Public Company Limited (NT) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Ct...

AirTrunk announces doubling of sustainability-linked loan

AirTrunk has doubled its $1.35 billion sustainability-linked loan (SLL) to $2.96 billion, it has announced. This is, according to the company, the largest SLL for a data center operator in the world. The company has shared that this transaction will be used to refinance its existing debt facil...

Atea signs solar PPA in Denmark

Atea has announced that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Better Energy for solar energy in Denmark. This agreement aligns with its target to be carbon neutral by 2030. Through this PPA, the company will offtake energy from the development, expected to be around one-t...

Equinix declined planning permission by South Dublin County County Council for gas-powered data center

South Dublin County County Council has denied Equinix's request for planning permission for a gas-powered data center.Originally, the site was to be powered by electricity, but so far, it has failed to secure a commercial or technical offer for permanent supply; this is what has led to its piv...

Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility

Google

Google has verified its involvement in the Lincoln, Nebraska, data center proposal. This week, the company announced it was constructing a third data center in Papillion and a data center in Lincoln. The search and cloud firm will invest $1.2 billion in the project.Long suspected to be Google,...

Netsolus, a Kansas City data center provider, is acquired by IP Pathways

Kansas

IP Pathways bought Netsolus, a Missouri-based MSP. This week, IP Pathways of Des Moines, Iowa, announced that it will merge with Netsolus of Kansas City, broadening its footprint and services in the Kansas City region. The deal's terms were not disclosed.IP Pathways was founded in 2007 and pro...

NE Edge purchases a parcel of land in Connecticut

Connecticut

The Connecticut municipality of Killingly has authorized the sale of vacant land at 125 Alexander Parkway to NE Edge LLC to construct a data center. The sale was approved for $5 million on August 8, with NE Edge intending to develop the site and two adjacent parcels.Upon expiration of the noti...

Government of Iraq initiates National Data Center

Middle East

Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani, Iraq's Prime Minister, has inaugurated the National Data Center. This week, the facility was inaugurated at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad by the Prime Minister. Very little information has been disclosed about the data center, which ha...

ChinData offers hyperscale data centers integrated full-stack technology

Chindata Group

Hyperscale data center builders can use Chindata's full-stack modular products, including integrated power systems and prefabricated buildings. The four products were introduced on August 18 in Yinchuan City, China, at the Data Center New Technology Development Forum of the 2023 China Computin...

PowerHouse plans Charlotte data center facility

North Carolina

PowerHouse, a company that builds data centers, plans to build a new campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to WSCOC-TV, PowerHouse intends to construct on more than 130 acres between Interstate 485 and University City Boulevard. The site, located near a Duke Energy substation, could a...

Nodal Power secures $13m for landfill gas cryptomine data centers

Nodal Power, a crypto-mining startup, has raised $13 million for its methane-powered crypto-mining data centers. Nodal, founded in 2022, develops power plants that consume methane produced by decomposing garbage in landfills. According to the company, its system can be implemented at smaller l...

Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden

Sweden

Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA) has established a crypto mining data center in northern Sweden. Located near the 417 MW Porjus hydroelectric power station, the current capacity of this facility is 8MW, but expansion is planned for the future. It was previously used as a 'traditional' data...

Equinix declined planning permission by South Dublin County Council for gas-powered data center

The South Dublin County Council has denied Equinix’s request for planning permission for a gas-powered data center.Originally, the site was to be powered by electricity, but so far, it has failed to secure a commercial or technical offer for permanent supply; this is what has led to its pivot ...

CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center

CyrusOne

CyrusOne has applied to the South Dublin County Council for permission to construct a new data center in the Grange Castle Business Park in the Irish capital. The application, submitted on July 14, calls for the demolition of a one-story home called "Erganagh" and the erection of a three-story...

Brunswick County, North Carolina, authorizes two containerized data facilities for schools

North Carolina

The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners in North Carolina has approved Schneider Electric's proposal for two containerized data centers. The agreement, first proposed in March 2023, stipulates that Schneider Electric will provide two prefabricated data centers to the institutions of Brunsw...

45 Sprint switch facilities to be converted into colo data centers by Cogent

Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications intends to transform the former Sprint switching plant real estate footprint acquired from T-Mobile into a substantial colocation data center portfolio. T-Mobile announced in September 2022 that it had agreed to sell its Wireline business to Cogent for a symbolic $1, with...