Data Center News

EdgeCore begins construction of a data center in Reno, Nevada

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has begun construction on a new facility in Reno, Nevada. The company announced last week that it has begun construction on its first data center campus in the Reno, Nevada metropolitan area, nearly five years later than originally planned.Two data centers will ...

Launch of the GDS data center campus in Johor, Malaysia

GDS Services Ltd

A new data center campus for GDS has opened in Malaysia's Johor. This week, the company announced the grand inauguration of its data center campus at Nusajaya Tech Park (NTP). Phase 1 of the campus (consisting of Nusajaya 1, 2, and 3, or NTP1, 2, and 3) offers 242,200 square feet of net floor ...

Construction of the UNN data facility in Brunei commences

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Unified National Networks (UNN) data center construction has commenced at the UNN Tungku Submarine Landing Station in Brunei. A ceremony to mark the start was conducted for the 51,000-square-foot facility containing 200 Vertiv-supplied racks.Utilizing a prefabricated design, construction shoul...

Bitdeer completes 100MW Bhutan cryptomine data center

Bitdeer, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency miner, has finished building a new mining data center in Gedu, Bhutan. During the facility's power-on testing, 11,000 mining devices are operating normally. The company announced in July that it bought 23,000 mining devices, with an additional 7,000 en...

Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India

Equinix

Equinix will invest $42 million in a new data center in Mumbai, India. The MB4 data center is anticipated to be operational by the end of the fourth quarter 2023. The MB4 data center is in the Kalwa Industrial Area, approximately 9 miles from the company's two other IBX data centers in Mumbai....

Singtel breaks ground on new Singapore data center

Singtel

This week, Singtel announced it has broken ground on a new data center in Singapore. The new facility is an eight-story building that will offer 58MW of IT load capacity across 120,000 sq ft. It's set to go live in 2025. Named DC Tuas, the data center has a target PUE of below. 1.3 It also inc...

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) to power Indonesian data center with biomass

Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) will power one of its Indonesian data centers with biomass, following the signing of a renewable energy contract with PT Cikarang Listrindo Tbk (CL). PDG will subsequently power its Cibitung data center with the company's biomass-sourced energy.The facility itsel...

Google will invest $350 million to expand data center in Iowa

Google

The Council Bluffs data center, located on the Nebraska/Iowa border, will be expanded by Google for $350 million. Plans for a data center in Council Bluffs were first made public in 2007. Google announced expansion plans in 2012 and 2015 and has since spent approximately $5 billion on the faci...

NextDC is developing a modular data center in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

NEXTDC

Western Australia has received an Edge data center module from NextDC. According to the company's website, the 1.5MW, single-story PH1 provides technical space for 320 racks across 7,825 square feet. The company has projected a go-live date of August 2023.The company stated that the data cente...

Scala Data Centers' site in Curauma, Chile is operational

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers developed its first facility in Chile and commenced operations at its 5MW Curauma data center. This is Scala's third data center to be launched this year, following the opening of additional sites in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The new facility is already completely leased...

Brazil's Paraná government will receive a data center from Zeittec

Brazil / Brasil

The Brazilian company Zeittec will construct a new federal data center. This week, the corporation announced that a new building would be built for the Paraná Court of Auditors at the TCE-PR (Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Paraná) headquarters in Curitiba, in the southern part of the country....

Northern Data Group divides its operations into three brands

Northern Data AG

Northern Data Group, a provider of infrastructure for high-performance computing (HPC), has segregated its operations into three distinct brands: Taiga Cloud, Ardent Data Centers, and Peak Mining. Northern Data Group will continue to be the corporate parent of the three new brands, while the a...

Vodafone Idea partners with Yotta to expand Indian data centers

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Vi Business, the enterprise division of Vodafone Idea (Vi), has partnered with Yotta Data Services to expand its data center colocation and cloud services offering in India. The collaboration will enable Vi Business to provide its enterprise customers with integrated connectivity, cloud, and s...

Hoffman Estates, Illinois, will boost data center electricity and ambulance expenses

Hoffman Estates, Illinois, hiked taxes and fees to replace two fire stations. Data centers will pay a higher electricity tax rate as part of it. The Lakewood Boulevard Microsoft data center is estimated to generate $900,000 annually. Microsoft announced a $200 million first phase for the forme...

A Phoenix, Arizona racetrack is slated for data center development

Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona's racehorse track, might be converted into an industrial park and data center. Initially reported by BizJournal, developers filed a conceptual site plan to the Phoenix planning commission for a 2.6 million-square-foot industrial and data center park.CT Realty, based in Califor...

Digital Realty unveils high-density colocation solu with 70kW racks in 28 markets

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a global leader in the data center industry, has introduced a high-density colocation service in 28 markets across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. The new service supports up to 70 kilowatts per rack of computing power. Digital stated that the increased rack densities we...

OVHcloud is looking to acquire Gridscale

OVH Group

Gridscale, an industry leader in hyper-converged infrastructure, and OVHcloud are in exclusive takeover talks. The deal, which won't affect the fiscal year 2023 and will help OVHcloud with its Edge computing goals, is anticipated to close at the start of 2024. There has been no disclosure of t...

Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

San Francisco Bay Area

Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an entertainment d...

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners plans big expansion over next three years

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has announced its plans to develop nearly one gigawatt of data center capacity over the next three years. According to the company, it will "own and operate one of the largest global hyperscale data center platforms" in the world, once the purchase of Data4 a...

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) finishes fit-out data center in Frankfurt, Germany

Colt Frankfurt West

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS)' data center fit-out in Frankfurt, Germany, is complete, it has announced. Called Frankfurt West, the facility consists of 14 data halls with a total IT capacity of 25MW. This is two fewer than originally planned.Mercury Engineering, the main contractor on ...