Data Center News

Microsoft pushes forward with data center projects in Brazil

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has shared its plans for further expansion in Brazil, with a new data center in the Campinas area of São Paulo state, Brazil. Located in Hortolândia, details on the facility obtained by BNAmericas, reveal the giant’s plans for the installation of a data center on greenfield land wit...

Culpeper data center rezoning request deferred

United States

On July 18th, the Town of Culpeper Planning Commission held a public hearing where it deferred action on a rezoning request for a large data center complex adjacent to the Culpeper National Cemetery annex.Copper Ridge Culpeper LLC of Middleburg is seeking to rezone 116 acres along East Chandle...

$100 million data center plan in Columbia River Gorge 'discontinued'

Oregon

In Oregon, Cascade Locks port authority has announced the decision to discontinue Roundhouse Digital Infrastructure's $100 million data center project in the Columbia River Gorge. The startup had planned to build a 10MW data center targeting "niche government and energy industry" clients. Howe...

STT GDC to team up with leading universities in the Philippines

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) Philippines, a joint venture of Globe, Ayala Corporation, and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, has announced that it is partnering up with some of the country's top universities. Collaborating with De La Salle University, the Univers...

Multacom, a LA data center company, bought by Edge Centres

Edge Centres

US data center company Multacom has been acquired by Australian Edge operator Edge Centres. This week, the companies announced the acquisition. The terms were not revealed. Edge Centres will acquire a Los Angeles-based data center operator, adding 25,000 square feet and 1-megawatt capacity acr...

GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

Singapore

The sovereign wealth fund GIC of Singapore is soliciting funds for a data center outside Seoul, South Korea. According to Business Korea, institutional investors, such as GIC, are working with indigenous institutional investors, securities companies, and asset management firms to build a data ...

Cambodia starts construction on its national data facility

The government of Cambodia has begun construction of a new national data center. Chea Vandeth, minister of post and telecommunications in Cambodia, attended the groundbreaking event in Phnom Penh last week. The new center, according to Vandeth, not only provides secure storage but also seeks t...

Google's data center plans in Uruguay spark outrage as country faces water crisis

Google

Uruguay is currently battling a water crisis, facing its worst drought in more than 70 years. The country has now experienced years of low rainfall, something which is likely to only continue as climate change exacerbates the issue. However, it's not just the result of climate change, accordin...

Hyperscalers set capture half of data center capacity in the next five years

According to Synergy Research Group, hyperscalers and colocation companies are dwarfing on-premise data center capacity. Its research revealed that hyperscalers now account for  37% of the worldwide capacity of all data centers, with the number of large data centers operated by hyperscalers re...

Moveworks expands with Canadian data center

Canada

Moveworks has announced that its first regional data center in Canada has opened, a move which the company said signifies its move toward promoting greater data center privacy and residency, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Canada.The company noted that data privacy is a “cruc...

SEB Bank provides DEAC and DLC a $33 million loan

Delska (DEAC, DLC Data Logistics Center)

The DEAC of Latvia and the Data Logistics Center (DLC) of Lithuania have received a $33.4 million loan to finance the expansion of their respective data centers. The two companies announced this week that they had secured a 10-year loan from SEB Bank to expand Baltic telecommunications systems...

Compass will soon buy Sears' 2.4 million-square-foot Chicago facility

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters, which was recently taken over, is planning to purchase a former Sears office complex in Chicago, Illinois, presumably for a new data center campus. The data center constructor and operator are "poised" to acquire the Sears site in the Hoffman Estates neighborhood, as first...

Liberty Global raises its stake in Telenet to 93.23 percent

Liberty Global has taken on a larger majority stake in Belgian telecommunications provider Telenet and will recommence its efforts to acquire the company outright. The company will increase its ownership stake in the telecommunications company to 93.23 percent and is scheduled to reopen its op...

Datum has completed a 1 MW data hall upgrade in Farnborough

Datum Datacentres Limited

Datum Datacentres has completed the development of a 1MW data hall at its Farnborough data center. The development project at Datum's FRN1 has been concluded as part of a $9 million investment program.The new data hall on the first floor, Hall 4, has space for 380 racks, a cooling framework fo...

Edged Energy intends to construct an 18MW data facility in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas

A data center is being built by Edged Energy in Kansas City, Missouri. According to BizJournal, the Northland of Kansas City will soon see the start of construction on a data center by engineering and construction company Burns & McDonnell. The company is constructing an 18MW waterless-coo...

Equinix Sofia data center's phase 2 development completed

Equinix Sofia SO1

The expansion of one of Equinix's Bulgarian data centers in Sofia has been concluded. This week, the company announced the completion of the second phase of its SO2 data center in the capital of Bulgaria. The development, which doubles the site's capacity to 700 servers, cost $12 million, acco...

Microsoft was permitted to operate its Dublin data center on gas

Microsoft Azure

According to reports, Microsoft has been granted permission to construct a 170MW gas power facility for its Dublin data center expansion. As per a report from Business Post, the cloud giant applied in December to construct a gas power facility for its $1 billion Dublin data center campus curre...

EdgeConneX announces deployment of AWS Direct Connect in Phoenix data center

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced the deployment of AWS Direct Connect with both 10Gbps and 100Gbps capability at the Phoenix Edge Data Center (PHX01). The company shared that this will enable customers to establish direct edge cloud on-ramps. This, it shared, can reportedly reduce costs, improve oper...

ClickUp announces localised data hosting at its EU data center in Ireland

Europe

ClickUp has announced that it is expanding its investment in Europe with localised data hosting in its European data center. Operated by Amazon Web Services, ClickUp's European data center is based in Ireland, and following this announcement, customers subscribed to its Enterprise plan will ha...

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel to begin work on data center

Canada

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel has shared that it has obtained the permits to begin work on its new data center in the heritage section of Vancouver's Harbour Centre. The company shared that the project is still in its preconstruction phase, but that construction will commence in August 2023, ...