Data Center News

StratCap acquires digital infrastructure assets worth $90 million

StratCap Data Centers

StratCap has acquired essential digital infrastructure assets worth roughly $90 million, which include 13 cell towers and a data center. The acquisition was announced during the company's recent Q2 earnings report. StratCap has acquired cell towers in Missouri, Florida, Wisconsin, Tennessee, a...

Switch Inc. receives $500m investment from Aware Super

United States

The Australian pension fund Aware Super has invested in the data center company Switch Inc. This week, Switch proprietor DigitalBridge announced that Aware Super will make "a significant investment" in Switch. The deal's value wasn't made public in the initial publication, but DigitalBridge's ...

Icelandic hydroelectric plant receives a micro data center installation from Japan's IIJ

Iceland

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has installed a micro data center (MDC) at an Icelandic hydroelectric power station. In April 2023, IIJ announced intentions for a data center trial project in Iceland in collaboration with Landsvirkjun, the country's national power company.From April until...

Despite the rise of the cloud, on-premise data centers and computing remain stable

According to a new report by Synergy Research Group, hyperscale businesses now operate nearly  900 large data centers, constituting approximately 37 percent of the worldwide capacity. As per the research firm, non-hyper-scale colocation capacity covers approximately 23% of global capacity, whi...

Cologix reveals a new data space at the 511 carrier hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Cologix

Cologix is expanding its data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by adding a new data hall. With the new MIN5 data center now available for pre-leasing, the company has increased its presence in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, market. Located in the 511 Building carrier hotel, also known as the Min...

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

Equinix

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to b...

Singtel is planning a data center in Johor, Malaysia

Singtel

According to reports, Singtel is considering building a campus for data centers in Malaysia's Johor. Onn Hafiz Ghazi, the Menteri Besar of Johor, announced in a Facebook post this week that the Singaporean telco was seeking to develop a new campus in the Malaysian state following discussions w...

e& and Orange are contemplating bids for 45% of Ethio Telecom

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Two operators are reportedly interested in acquiring a 45 percent stake in Ethio Telecom. e& of the United Arab Emirates and Orange of France are exploring opportunities surrounding state-owned Ethio, as per Bloomberg, which cited individuals with knowledge of the situation. The publicatio...

Kyndryl contract for the Azure Stack solution signed by Legal & General

Legal & General (L&G) has entered into a seven-year arrangement with Kyndryl to use the latter's hybrid cloud infrastructure (HCI). The association between Kyndryl, Microsoft, and Dell provides access to Dell servers via Azure Stack HCI. The deal between L&G and Kyndryl is valid un...

Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

Madrid

In anticipation of a potential sale-leaseback transaction, Spanish insurance company Mapfre is listing its data center for sale. According to Cinco Dias, the company has hired CBRE to find a buyer for the Tales de Mileto building in the Alcalá de Henares neighborhood of Madrid.Mapfre launched ...

Saudi IT company MIS establishes a subsidiary data center

Saudi Arabia

Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS) of Saudi Arabia has established a new data center subsidiary. This week, the company's board of directors announced the establishment of a wholly-owned data center business in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The subsidiary will focus on administering, operating, and m...

Telkom declines a takeover bid lead by its former CEO

South Africa

The South African telecommunications company Telkom has rejected a consortium commanded by its former CEO, Sipho Maseko. Telkom SA disclosed in a filing with the stock exchange last week that its board had considered the proposal from the Public Investment Corporation, a consortium consisting ...

Teraco begins phase 2 of Johannesburg's JB4 facility

Teraco JB4

Teraco, a South African data center provider, has started constructing a second building at its Bredell campus in the Ekurhuleni neighborhood of Johannesburg. The JB4 facility provides highly resilient and secure colocation facilities, and at its completion, it will encompass 861,110 square fe...

Bitdeer expands: Announces new data centers in Norway and Bhutan

Singapore

In Bitdeer Technologies Group's latest operations update, it shared details about its upcoming expansion. Linghui Kong, Chief Executive Officer of Bitdeer, noted that its 100MW Gedu mining data center in Bhutan, for example, is almost complete and is expected to be delivered in July. Further t...

Digital Realty announces first NVIDIA DGX H100-Ready data center

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty's KIX13, its newest data center in Osaka, Japan, has been certified as NVIDIA DGX H100-ready as part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program. The facility reportedly received this accreditation, the first Japanese facility to do so, based on its ability to provide a dedicat...

Application filed for Oxfordshire data center stirs up controversy amongst locals

United Kingdom

De Montalt Life Sciences is planning to build a campus comprising seven 25m high buildings, a data center, and two multi-story car parks on the outskirts of an Oxfordshire town in the UK. Planned at the former Wicklesham Quarry in Faringdon and spanning 42,286 sqm (455,163 sq ft), the proposal...

Vodafone signs Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Europe

Vodafone

Vodafone has signed a PPA with Iberdrola for 410GWh of annual solar spread across Spain, Portugal, and Germany, as part of the company's wider net-zero ambitions. The renewable energy comes from three solar plants, the Velilla solar PV plant located in Palencia, Spain, the Cedillo PV plant lo...

China Merchants outbids Bain for ChinData with $3.4 billion

Chindata Group

China Merchants Group has offered to acquire ChinData, a Chinese data center company. Existing investor Bain has already submitted a take-private proposal for the company. According to Bloomberg, a subsidiary of the state-owned conglomerate has submitted a $3.4 billion proposal to acquire Chin...

Vodafone is selling its portfolio of data centers in London

Vodafone

Savills is looking for buyers for the Network Portfolio, a collection of six buildings totaling 260,000 square feet. The portfolio is reportedly worth $128.3 million. The properties are leased to Vodafone Enterprise UK through April 2032. They generate $7.8 million per year in total passing re...

CtrlS Datacenters to set up data center in Thailand

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

Hyderabad-based CtrlS Datacenters has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the eastern economic corridor office (EECO) of Thailand to lease a 10-acre parcel of land which will be used for a 150 MW datacenter campus. The lease will reportedly last for 50 years, and marks its first intern...