Data Center News

Tesla leases Sacramento Twitter data center Musk once blasted

Sacramento

Twitter formerly used the Sacramento site of NTT Global Data Centers, but now it is home to Musk's electric car company. Twitter departed the data center in late 2022, with the CEO disparaging the area. Tesla will now occupy the space as well as extra square footage.The data center will likely...

Serpro modular data center receives TIER 3 certification

Brazil / Brasil

Serpro has announced that its new data center in São Paulo has received TIER III certification. The facility has a total area of ​​1820 sqm and 503 sqm of prefabricated modules. The first three phases have been completed, with two further phases remaining, set to go ahead in early 2024. At ful...

Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

Equinix

Equinix is expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, with plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur called KL1, which, the company said, will provide greater digital infrastructure capacity in the country. The new facility, which follows the company's announcement of JH1 in Johor, wi...

atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics

atNorth

atNorth has announced that its third Iceland data center, ICE03, is now operational. The facility, located 250 km north of Reykjavík, offers an initial capacity of 12 MW, expandable to 50MW. Completed in just 11 months, the company now has a portfolio of six operational data centers, with an ...

University of York moves data to Sweden for sustainability

EcoDataCenter Falun, Sweden

The University of York has outlined that it is moving its data to Sweden in a bid to make its operations more sustainable. The UK university has chosen the EcoDataCenter in Falun, Sweden, to store its data, which it says has aided it in reducing its emissions from data by 98%. This has been ma...

SES will offer satellite connectivity for the AWS modular data facility

Amazon AWS

SES released a satellite connectivity solution for Department of Defense (DoD) clients using the new modular data center product from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This week, SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned division of SES, announced that satellite-powered network connectivity is now avai...

Empyrion DC commences construction of the Gangnam data facility in South Korea

Empyrion Digital

Empyrion DC has begun construction on its first data center in the Gangnam neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea. The 40MW facility, located in Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, will be the first to be built in the Gangnam region since around 2011. Interestingly enough, this is when Psy's song Gangnam-Sty...

The University of Turbat in Pakistan receives a new data center

South Asia

A new data center has been opened by the University of Turbat (UoT) in Balochistan, Pakistan. Governor Malik Abdul Wali Khan Kakar inaugurated the conclusion of the first phase and the first phase of the 1MW solar initiative at the university. The capacity of the data center is unknown at this...

Denver's former Neustar data facility for sale

The former Neustar data center in Denver, Colorado, is available for purchase. Through a LoopNet listing, Telaxis is offering a data center that is "plug and play ready" on 3.6 acres at 8532 Concord Center Drive in Englewood, Colorado. The facility was constructed in 2006 and turned into a dat...

Grant County in Washington is sued by Sabey Data Centers over $2 million in property taxes

Sabey Data Centers

Integrate Quincy of Sabey Data Centers is suing Grant County, Washington, over its real estate taxes. Over the past two years, the company claims to have paid $3.3 million in county tax payments under protest, reflecting nearly $2 million in excess charges for which it now requests a full reim...

Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced the availability of its first cloud region in Italy. Consisting of three data centers located in the Lombardy region, the company said it guarantees the highest levels of security, privacy and performance. The region is pegged to accelerate the digital transition of or...

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) signs PCA with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL)

Mumbai

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has signed a 25-year power consumption agreement (PCA) with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL) to procure solar energy in India. The deal will see the data center firm receive power generated by a solar project located in Nanded district, Maharashtra. Thi...

Iron Mountain and Web Werks invest $170m in Navi Mumbai data facility

Web Werks

Web Werks and Iron Mountain plan to invest 170 million dollars in a data facility in Navi Mumbai, India. The envisioned facility, Mumbai-3, will have a 32MW capacity and be constructed to Tier III specifications. The JV already owns a five-acre parcel to develop the data center, which is antic...

Accelevation acquires data center technology integrator Instor

Accelevation, an Ohio-based producer, bought data center machinery integrator Instor. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Baird Business Owner Solutions served as Instor's financial advisor. Instor has over 25 years of data center layout, structured cabling, electrical facilities,...

Singapore's IMDA establishes tropical data facility sustainability benchmark

Singapore

Singapore has introduced a standard for maximizing the energy efficacy of data centers (DCs) in tropical regions. The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) standard recommends operating centers at higher temperatures to save energy on cooling. Dr. Janil Puthucheary, Singapore's Senior Mi...

Digital Realty designs data center on Marseille sugar silo site

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty will construct a new data center on the site of an ancient sugar silo at the Port of Marseille-Fos, having won a bid to acquire and develop the land. The new MRS5 facility will reportedly encompass approximately 107,640 square feet and will be operational by the end of 2025. Acc...

Nabiax increases the capacity of the Alcala data facility in Spain to 22MW

Nabiax: Alcalá de Henares

The data center operator Nabiax has begun expanding its Alcala Data Center in Spain. The company plans to increase the facility's capacity by 47% by the end of the year, from 15.1MW to 22MW. The center is located northeast of Madrid in Alcalá de Henares. After the expansion process, the compan...

3data Partners With Key Point to Set up Data Facility Throughout Russia

By 2027, the Russian company Key Point intends to place 35 data centers in each nation's federal district, working with the data center chain 3data, according to Comnews.ru. It's expected that the data centers will meet Tier-3 requirements.According to the plans, a data center in Vladivostok w...

Evroc aims to raise $3.2 billion for tw hyperscale data centers

Sweden

A new Swedish startup called Evroc intends to open several large data centers throughout Europe. In its pre-seed round, the company raised $13.9 million, but it hopes to raise $3.2 billion in the following two years to build and run two hyperscale data centers in Europe. Long-term, Evroc aims ...

Bain seeks to privatize ChinData

Chindata Group

A bid to take Chinese data center operator ChinData private has been made by the investment firm Bain Capital. This week, ChinData announced that the investment firm, which is already investing in the data center firm, filed a preliminary, non-binding request letter to acquire all remaining or...