Data Center News

STACK Infrastructure Constructs Its First Data Center in Australia

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

A new data center campus has been opened by Stack in Melbourne, Australia. This week, the company announced the conclusion of its MEL01 Asia-Pacific (APAC) data center.The 36MW MEL01A facility, situated on a 3.6-hectare site in Melbourne's Truganina region, is part of a 72MW campus that will u...

EdgeConneX contests the Dublin data center denial

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX Ireland has appealed to An Bord Pleanála against South Dublin County Council's decision to deny its proposed data center. The company intended to construct two adjacent data centers on its Dublin Campus in Ballmakaily, Lucan, Dublin, on Newcastle Road. Two single-story data centers ...

Southern Poland data center planned by Gliwice government fiber enterprise

Poland

A fiber company owned by the Polish government is constructing a data center in Gliwice. 24Gliwice reported that the Silesian Metropolitan Network (SSM) had purchased land at the intersection of Bojkowska and Toruska Streets in Gliwice.SMM is a municipal government ICT network operator that wa...

Vantage outlines a data center facility in Atlanta, Georgia

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers intends to construct a new campus in the Atlanta, Georgia, district of Douglas County. Vantage plans to construct nearly 1.7 million square feet of data center floor space through three buildings in Douglasville, according to a filing with the state under the Developments ...

Opening of AI data center by Changan Automobile and Baidu

China

The Chinese government-owned automaker Changan Automobile and the technology company Baidu have opened a data center dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). Baidu's cloud service and the Baige heterogeneous AI computation platform power the facility. According to the corporations, the cente...

Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure

Microsoft Azure

The digital arm of the Malaysian energy company Petronas, Petronas Digital, has inked a contract with Microsoft to develop a high-performance computing (HPC) artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform. The organization will use the platform to perform AI and machine learning to look ...

DataBank completes seven data center expansion initiatives in the United States

DataBank

DataBank has finished seven expansion initiatives throughout the United States. Over the weekend, the company announced the conclusion of seven data center projects in Dallas, Las Vegas, San Diego, Irvine, and Kansas City, in addition to two in Atlanta. In the past year, seven facilities have ...

Amazon Data Services is leasing a 4-acre plot of land in Mumbai, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS) subsidiary Amazon Data Services (ADS) has leased a four-acre plot of land in the Mumbai suburb of Powai. This is the company's second land transaction in Mumbai in the past year. Larsen & Toubro (L&T), an Indian conglomerate specializing in engineering, constr...

UK Gov't cloud & data center bids close at $152.76m

United Kingdom

Bids for a $152.76 million cloud services and data center management deal with the United Kingdom government closed last week. The contract, which was published for the first time on June 23, calls for a variety of services that can be categorized as cloud hosting and support services, cloud a...

A consortium of UK universities is looking for vendors for a data center contract

United Kingdom

This month, seven of the United Kingdom's Higher Education purchasing consortia (UKUPC), managed by the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC), issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a new data center framework. The contract runs from January 2024 until January 2027 and is ...

Vantage completes the first structure of the 96MW Ashburn data center campus

Vantage Ashburn Campus

Vantage Data Centers' VA21 data center in Ashburn, Virginia, has reached completion. VA21 is the first data center currently under development on the 96MW VA2 campus of Vantage. The 18-acre VA2 campus will house three data centers with 800,000 square feet of space. Dominion Energy will provide...

Aqaba Digital Hub receives funding from Jordan's JCIF fund

Middle East

Jordan Capital & Investment Fund (JCIF) invests in Aqaba Digital Hub (ADH), a company that operates a data center in Jordan. The fund revealed this week that it had finalized the terms of a ‘significant minority' investment in ADH, a Jordanian corporation that operates a data center and fi...

Newmark Real Estate Company launches a data center practice financial division

United States

Newmark Division, Inc., a US real estate advisory and services firm, has launched a data center practice division to provide financial data center consulting. This week, the company announced the expansion of its Capital Markets services by introducing the Data Center and Digital Infrastructur...

South Korean government to develop two data centers with domestically manufactured AI semiconductors

The South Korean government has revealed it will develop two data centers using domestically manufactured artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors. Further to this, it will also increase funding for the development of semiconductor products by fabless firms; this is in addition to the $642 ...

Fidelis New Energy to pursue energy and data center developments in West Virginia

Fidelis New Energy has announced it has chosen Mason County, West Virginia, US, as the location for a lifecycle net zero hydrogen production facility and a 1GW data center campus, known as the Mountaineer GigaSystem and the Monarch Cloud Campus. The campus could reportedly see a $5 billion inv...

CapitaLand acquires a data center in London, UK, from Digital Realty

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

CapitaLand, a Singaporean investment company, has acquired a London, UK, data center from Digital Realty. The manager of CapitaLand Ascendas REIT, CapitaLand Ascendas REIT Management Limited, announced this week the purchase of a colocation data center from an "unrelated global data center ope...

Data centers could be built on Maryland's old mall site for FBI HQ

Maryland

Lerner Enterprises is evaluating a former Maryland mall as a possible campus for a data center if the FBI does not relocate there. Brightseat Associates LLC, a Lerner affiliate, filed a preliminary application for a "qualified data center" with Prince George's County's land use regulatory body...

Principal buys Amsterdam logistics site for 42MW Switch DC data center

Switch Datacenters Amsterdam BV

Principal Asset Management has purchased a Dutch logistics facility that will be converted into a data center. This week, the company announced the acquisition of a logistics facility for the Principal European Data Centre Fund I. The terms were not disclosed.The acquired facility in the Schip...

Vultr expands in São Paulo, Brazil

Vultr has announced that it is expanding in Brazil. The company has shared that after launching a new cloud data center in Santiago earlier this year, it is now investing in São Paulo to provide additional capacity.This additional capacity will be an over 200% capacity expansion. Further, sinc...

Cyxtera property sought after by Brookfield and Digital Realty

Cyxtera Technologies

Reportedly, Brookfield and Digital Realty are interested in acquiring the struggling Cyxtera. According to Bloomberg, several parties, including Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty Trust, are interested in purchasing the assets of the insolvent colocation company. The firms r...