Data Center News

AirTrunk begins the 70MW expansion of the SYD2 facility in Sydney, Australia

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

AirTrunk, an APAC data center developer, has begun constructing a 70MW expansion to one of its Sydney, Australia campuses. The organization announced this week that construction has begun on the final two stages of its SYD2 facility. The two-phase development is anticipated to be completed in...

Wingu.Africa opens a data center in Ethiopia

Africa

Wingu.Africa, a data center corporation based in Djibouti, launched its data center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. When fully functional, the data center will be located in the Ethio ICT park, constructed on a 161,500-square-foot tract of land, with a capacity of 10MW across 800 racks. Minister of...

The founders of Chayora introduce a digital infrastructure investment

Chayora

The co-founders of China-focused data center developer Chayora have established Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC), a new investment platform. Oliver Jones and Jonathan Berney established AIC to invest in and offer access to venture capital for digital infrastructure programs in second a...

Brazilian company Petrobras issues a tender for data center operation

Brazil / Brasil

Petrobras, a state-owned oil and gas corporation in Brazil, has issued a request for proposals worth $17.2 million for the running and maintenance of its data center facilities. The company is accepting bids until August 11, and per Petrobras, the winning bidder will be the one with the finest...

Google signs PPA with Kronos Solar EDPR in the Netherlands

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has signed a new PPA for solar energy with Kronos Solar EDPR. The 15-year PPA will see the giant offtake part of the output from the company's four photovoltaic plans currently in the works in the municipalities of Smallingerland in the province of Friesland, Lochem and Berkelland, bot...

Sabey Data Centers announces completion of its Quincy data center expansion

Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Data Centers has completed the expansion of its Quincy data center, it has announced. The facility now features two buildings, offering over 85 MW; it also incorporated construction methods that reportedly reduce reliance on carbon-intensive concrete. Spanning 525,000 sqft across five b...

Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations

Scotland

The Scottish authorities are still trying to attract data center developers to their country. Twenty potential data center sites in the nation have been identified in a report created by Host in Scotland in support of the Scottish Authorities, including five additional spots not mentioned in a...

Pantheon Infrastructure raises revolving credit to $146m

The management board of Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), based in the United Kingdom, has authorized a $66.56 million increase to the company's revolving credit facility (RCF). This increase will bring the total to $145,8 million, allowing PINT's investment platforms to offer additional liquidi...

Macquarie Technology Group is attempting to raise $88 million for a new data facility

Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP)

Macquarie Technology Group is raising 88 million dollars to finance its Sydney data center. The company is raising capital through a non-underwritten institutional placement to increase its liquidity and free float. The business offers 2.22 million additional fully paid shares at $39.61 per sh...

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

London

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the co...

As amber energy alert is issued in Ireland, government has no plan to pause data center growth

Republic of Ireland

Startling new figures released by the Central Statistics Office have revealed that in just a year, data center power consumption in Ireland has increased by 31 percent; 18 percent of all electricity used in 2022. Yet, Ireland's government is not intending to reduce the number being built in th...

External construction work on Digital Realty’s latest Frankfurt data center now complete

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty’s new data center, FRA33 facility in Hattersheim, Frankfurt, Germany, has now been completed, it has been announced. The new facility will reportedly offer 40MW of IT capacity spanning 16,000 square meters (172,222 sq ft) of white space. The construction firm that worked on the...

NTT and Prestige to develop 100MW data center in Bangalore

NTT

NTT has announced that it has partnered with Prestige Group for a new 100 MW data center in Bangalore, India. The deal will see the company develop a one million square feet area spread across multiple buildings and constructed in three phases. According to the companies, the first building i...

Quantum Loophole Maryland campus paused amid environmental concerns

Quantum Loophole

Quantum Loophole has confirmed that it has agreed with state officials this week to pause construction of its data center campus in Maryland, having racked up "numerous environmental violations" over the past five months. According to a report by Frederick News-Post, the Maryland Department o...

More data center proposals in Spotsylvania; AWS files for four rezoning requests for data centers

Amazon AWS

More data centers are set to arrive in Spotsylvania County, as applications continue to pile up. Amazon is one of the key drivers here, planning four new data center campuses in Virginia's Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, equating to more than 10 million square feet of development.Amazon ha...

Horizon Equity will buy Covilhã’s Portugal data center from Altice for $107m

Altice Portugal (Portugal Telecom)

According to reports, the French telco Altice is almost ready to sell its core data center in Portugal. According to Jornal Económico, the company is discussing selling its Covilh data facility for $107.8m. Horizon Equity Partners, a Portuguese infrastructure investor, is reportedly the most p...

AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.

atNorth

AtNorth's newest 12MW data center in Iceland is now running. The colocation company announced on June 12 that ICE03, its third facility in Iceland, has begun operations. The site's initial plans were released in April 2022. The data center is located in the northern Icelandic city of Akureyri...

Yondr and Apollo forms strategic Partnership

Yondr Group

Apollo Global Management and Yondr Group have formed a strategic partnership. This week, the data center developer announced that it had agreed on a "strategic relationship partnership" in which Apollo will invest in Yondr.Yondr, which Cathexis, a single-family investment office, owns, stated ...

Evolution DC and Central Pattana build Bangkok data center

Bangkok / Krung Thep

Evolution Data Centres has partnered with Central Pattana PCL, a Thai property developer, to construct a new data center in Bangkok. Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, the two corporations will construct a 34MW carrier-neutral data center in central Bangkok, Thailand. Phase 1 of t...

Digita Oy launches an independent data center business

Digita Oy

Digita, a Finnish tower operator, is separating its data center operations into a new company dubbed Digita Data Centers Oy. The new company will function as a subsidiary of Digita, which DigitalBridge owns. Digital Data Centers Oy will provide colocation, cloud, and connectivity services to e...