Data Center News

Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville

Northern Virginia

Residents of Prince William County, Virginia, are attempting to sell their land to an unidentified data center developer. According to InsideNoVa, residents of Sanders Lane near Gainesville are attempting to sell their land to a data center developer. The residents appear to be attempting to r...

DataBank expands its data center in Kansas

DataBank Kansas City MCI3

DataBank's development of the MC13 data center in Lenexa, Kansas, is complete. The company has added 17,000 square feet and 1.8 MW of IT capacity to its MC13 data center, bringing the total build-out to 42,000 square feet and 4.6 MW. In October 2021, DataBank first announced intentions to expa...

TASMAC awards RailTel a $35.9 million contract for an India data center

India / Bhārata

RailTel, an IT infrastructure provider, has been awarded a $35.9 million contract by TASMAC, a Tamil state-owned beverage corporation. RailTel will provide TASMAC with end-to-end automation and connectivity five years into the contract. This will extend to RailTel providing the project's facil...

Frederick County establishes work group to look at data centers

Maryland

In Frederick County, a place which has become a highly attractive data center zone and is the location site of Quantum Loophole’s massive and recently paused data center campus, Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater has formed a workgroup for data centers. Fitzwater formed the group in ...

AirTrunk to develop HKG2, its second facility in Hong Kong

AirTrunk

AirTrunk is developing its second facility in Hong Kong, located in the East New Territories. The facility, AirTrunk HKG2, will offer 15 MW, spanning 11,600 sqm (124,860 sq ft), with 4,400 sqm (4,7360 sq ft) of technical space. The facility will have a PUE of 1.25, and initial capacity is set...

Paratus Group announces plans for new facility in Angola

Angola

Paratus Group has announced plans to construct Angola’s first Tier-IV-by-design data centre in Luanda. This is the company’s third in the country, and Angola’s first Tier-IV by design.According to Chief Technical Officer at Paratus, Rolf Mendelsohn, the new facility will be constructed on a 30...

Groton's proposed data center regulations set to go to public hearing following year-long moratorium

Connecticut

In Groton, a data center moratorium has been in place for a year. This was introduced to give the town the time to formulate regulations for data centers, amidst concerns regarding environmental and noise impacts. Now the proposed regulations are set to go to a public hearing. As per the propo...

DCI Indonesia announces launch of its second building at its H2 Data Center Campus outside Jakarta

DCI Indonesia

DCI Indonesia has launched the second building at its H2 Data Center Campus outside Jakarta. The first phase at the site, H2-01, launched back in November 2021, offering 15 MW; meanwhile, H2-02, its second building, adds 12MW. The two buildings at the 791 hectare-campus now offer 27MW in tota...

AWS planning new data center under name 'Project Echidna,' in West Sydney, Australia

Amazon AWS

AWS is planning a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Located in west Sydney, under the program name Project Echidna, the facility will see an investment of AU$300 million (US$200m). Built across two stories, the facility will offer 35.2MW of capacity on 9,225 sqm (99,300 sq ft), and is loc...

Missing SAP data center SSD was discovered on eBay

eBay displayed a missing SSD disk from the SAP data center in Walldorf, Germany. In November of last year, it was reported that four SSD disks went missing from the SAP facility in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany. However, one of the disks popped up on eBay and was purchased by an SAP emp...

Amazon will allocate $7.8 billion to construct more central Ohio facilities

Amazon AWS

According to a news release from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Amazon intends to invest approximately $8 billion over six years in growing its data center business in central Ohio. Per a press release on Monday, the $7.8 billion initiative marks the second-largest private sector investment in Ohi...

Intelishift and Data Canopy merge

US colocation provider Intelishift has acquired competitor Data Canopy. Data Canopy was founded in 2007 and offers colocation, connectivity, and cloud services from dozens of data centers across the globe. It operates out of facilities owned by third parties, including CyrusOne, Equinix, NTT, ...

GTD leaves data center agreement with Macquarie

Chile

GTD pulled from a non-binding offer previously accepted from investment firm Macquarie Capital. The transaction would have involved purchasing 49 percent of a new subsidiary encompassing the telecommunications company's data centers in Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Fernando Gana, the general mana...

Phoenix Data center with 6 MW up for sale

Phoenix

A 6MW data facility is up for lease or purchase in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the desirable Deer Valley neighborhood, CBRE has listed 20435 North 26th Avenue for sale or lease. There was no listed pricing. The 6MW facility was completed in 2003 and sits on 3.66 acres of land, with a raised f...

New 200 MW facility on the way to the island of Borneo

Southeast Asia

In Kota Samarahan on the island of Borneo, a new data center is the planning stage. Set to offer 200 MW, the facility will be built by FutureData Sdn Bhd, a new company formed by Cyclect Group and TSG Group.The data center will be the first major facility on the island; it's pegged to be carbo...

NTT files for planning permission in Gainesville, Virginia for 336MW campus

NTT

In Prince William County, NTT has filed for permission for a joint Federal and State permit from the Norfolk District of the US Army Corps of Engineers for a 336MW data center campus. The permit application, NTT VA10, outlines the project is named Grove at Gainesville and includes plans to bui...

ePLDT shares plans for twelfth data center in the Philippines

ePLDT

PLDT Inc subsidiary, ePLDT, has announced that it has plans to increase data center market capacity with the introduction of its twelfth, set to offer at least 100 MW of capacity. Through this move, the company will further boost its 65% data center market capacity.Details regarding the locati...

PLDT constructing a 100MW data facility in Philippines

Philippines

PLDT, a Philippine telecommunications company, is considering the construction of a 12th data center within the country. Victor S. Genuino, president and CEO of ePLDT, disclosed the company's intention to construct a new 100MW facility while delivering the keynote address at the W. Media Phili...

DCI Indonesia inaugurates a second structure on its 600MW facility outside Jakarta

DCI Indonesia

DCI Indonesia has inaugurated a second structure on its campus outside of Jakarta. With the incorporation of the 12MW H2-02, the H2 campus now offers 27MW between two buildings.  The H2 campus, located east of the capital city on 791 hectares in Karawang, has a total capacity of up to 600 MW....

AdaniConneX gets $213 mn capital for data center assets

AdaniConneX

AdaniConneX, an equal partnership between data center provider EdgeConneX with ports-to-power conglomerate Adani Enterprises Ltd, announced on Friday that it had secured a $213 million senior debt facility with input from international banks to fund its 67 MW of under-construction data center...