Data Center News

Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

Finland

Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the c...

Australia's DUG obtains a $3.4 million grant to establish the Geraldton HPC campus

DUG, an Australian high-performance computing (HPC) company, has secured government aid for a Geraldton, Australia, campus. This week, the company announced receiving $3.4 million in government funding for its long-planned campus in Geraldton, Western Australia, approximately 250 miles north o...

Norwegian government approves Green Mountain TikTok data facility

Norway

The government has granted Green Mountain permission to construct a data center campus for TikTok. However, stricter data center regulations may shortly be introduced in Norway. Green Mountain announced in March 2023 that it would construct three 90MW buildings in the Hamar region by November ...

Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

Amazon AWS

Amazon is reportedly interested in purchasing a former Ford plant near Cardiff, Wales. According to BusinessLive and WalesOnline, AWS is in talks to purchase the former Ford engine facility in Bridgend. However, it may be a distinct Amazon division that is interested in the site.According to r...

Asterion and Telefónica are looking into an acquisition of the Nabiax unit

Asterion and Telefónica are reportedly considering the sale of Nabiax, a Latin American data center company. According to Reuters, infrastructure fund Asterion Industrial Partners, which owns 80 percent of Nabiax, has enlisted the services of bankers from BBVA BBVA.MC and Citigroup C.N. to eva...

Tonomus establishes data center in Saudi's Neom city

Saudi Arabia

Tonomus, a digital corporation within the new Neom city in Saudi Arabia, opened a data center. Neom is a plan to build a massive new smart metropolis on the coast of the Red Sea in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk. The Public Investment Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund, owns 10...

GI Partners acquires the majority stake in 2 Chicago data centers from Digital Realty

Digital Realty Trust

GI Partners has acquired a majority stake in two data centers in Chicago, Illinois, from Digital Realty. This week, the business announced that it had formed a joint venture with GI Partners to sell a 65 percent stake in two stabilized hyper-scale data center facilities and their associated ma...

Port of Valencia gives up data center proposals for docks building

Spain

The municipal council of Valencia has abandoned plans to construct a data center in a port docks building. More than a year had passed since the local government began considering multiple proposals for establishing a data center in a building on the Marina de Valencia. Nevertheless, this week...

NorthC purchases a data center in Switzerland from Kyndryl

NorthC Datacenters

NorthC Group purchased a new data center near Zurich, Switzerland, through a sale/leaseback transaction. This week, the Dutch colocation company announced the opening of a new data center in the Winterthur neighborhood of Zurich. However, the company announced on LinkedIn that it had acquired ...

Equinix to connect to new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany

Equinix

Equinix has announced that, through a partnership with a number of different companies, it will connect to a new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany. In collaboration with Vonovia, AS Enterprise, and EB-SIM, the group aims to build a heating network for the bizonal residential area ...

AtlasEdge enters strategic partnership with Northshore

AtlasEdge

AtlasEdge, has entered into a strategic partnership with Northshore to implement an operational sustainability strategy and execution plan. According to the company, the technology-enabled engineering company will assist it in ensuring that data collection and validation processes are streaml...

Circularity in action: Obit shares data center/vertical farm plans

Russia / Россия

Obit has shared plans for a new data center in St. Petersburg, which will be located on a land plot home to a complex of vertical farms. The company is set to invest around two billion rubles ($22.1m) in the project, which will offer a capacity for 512 racks, with excess heat released from the...

Modul'Data Center provides Solvay with a containerized facility

Solvay has received a containerized data center module from the French company Modul'Data Center. Modul, along with Rosenberger OSI and Eaton, recently delivered the container-sized module, as first reported by DCmag.fr. Remy Febvre, CEO of Modul's parent company IPenergy, stated on LinkedIn t...

India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar

India / Bhārata

PowerGrid, an Indian transmission corporation, plans to construct a data center on a substation site outside of Delhi. This week, PowerGrid's board authorized a revised investment proposal for the 'establishment of an experimental data center at PowerGrid Manesar Substation,' according to an a...

Data center to be built by Edged Energy in Mesa, Arizona

Arizona

Edged Energy intends to construct a new data center in the Phoenix, Arizona, neighborhood of Mesa. Edged Energy has submitted applications to Mesa's design review board and development and zoning board to construct a 126,000-square-foot data center on a 14-acre site near the Loop 202 interstat...

Microsoft buys a 14-acre plot for data centers in Sterling, Virginia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has plans for data centers in Sterling, Virginia. BizJournal reports that Microsoft purchased a 14-acre parcel at 23540 Pebble Run Place for approximately $15 million last month, citing Loudoun County property records. Data centers are already legally permitted on the property, which...

Google breaks ground on Mesa data center campus

Google

Google has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in the Mesa area of Phoenix, Arizona. A $1 billion project, the facility will span 750,000 square feet (70,000 sqm) once fully built out.Previously known as "Redhawk," the project's first 288,530 sq ft (26,805 sqm) phase is due ...

New green Panama data center launched by Sparkle

Panamá

Sparkle, Telecom Italia's infrastructure unit, has launched the Panama Digital Gateway, a 3.5MW site offering the first "green data center" in Panama. Located in the Corozal area of Panama City, the site spans 5,500 square meters (59,200 sq ft) of space for up to 650 equivalent racks across fi...

Ericsson sets up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy

Texas

Ericsson has announced that it has set up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy. Located in Plano, Texas, the site can be fully operated by solar energy and supported by integrated Lithium-ion batteries, for up to 24 hours. The Plano site includes Ericsson's Massive MIMO radio configurati...

Bain denies China Merchants acquisition of ChinData

Chindata Group

Bain Capital has informed ChinData that it will not sell the company to China Merchants because it is pursuing its own deal to take the data center operator private. Last week the company verified in an investor disclosure that it had received a preliminary non-binding acquisition proposal let...