Data Center News

Orion Data Centers Purchased by Edge Centre's Cybercon

Edge Centres

Cybercon, which Australian data center operator Edge Centres currently owns, has acquired Missouri data center company, Orion Data Centers. Last week, the business disclosed that it had successfully acquired Orion, expanding its regional coverage to include a facility in Columbia. The agreemen...

Bidding in Illinois for an unoccupied HSBC/CapitalOne facility

Illinois

Illinois's former HSBC data center will be auctioned off later this month. On June 6-8, Cushman & Wakefield will auction off a data center in Volo via LoopNet. According to the listing, the Volo Data Center is a 160,000-square-foot data facility on a 42-acre lot at 300 S Fish Lake Road. Vo...

Armenia to be the site of Rostelecom's 200-rack data center

Rostelecom

Rostelecom is proposing to build a new data center in Armenia. According to Tass, the Armenian subsidiary of Rostelecom, GNC-Alfa, intends to launch a 200-rack facility in Armenia at the beginning of 2024. Location and power capacity were not divulged. Last year, it was reported that Rosteleco...

Legrand Introduces the First Harmonic Distortion Measuring Power Distribution Units for Data Centers

Legrand, an international leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures, has introduced the latest version of smart rack Power Distribution Units (PDUs). The Server Technology PRO4X and Raritan PX4 rack PDUs are poised to revolutionize power management in data centers with superior...

nLighten takes over Euclyde Data Centers

The European data center company nLighten has acquired the French data center provider Euclyde Data Centers. The newly established corporation has acquired Euclyde and assumed control of six facilities in Sophia Antipolis, Lyon, Strasbourg, Besançon, and Paris. This agreement signifies nLighte...

The Segra Facility in Charlotte, North Carolina up for Sale or Lease.

North Carolina

A Charlotte, North Carolina, data center is available for purchase or lease. Currently, fiber provider Segra operates the data center, but the company will soon withdraw as its contract nears completion. Five 9s Digital is advertising the property for sale or lease. No sale or lease price was ...

Airtel plans to take data center arm Nxtra to Africa

Bharti Airtel

Airtel has announced that it will be taking Nxtra, its data center arm, to Africa. Vani Venkatesh, Chief Executive Officer at Airtel Global Business, explained that the company already has 40 edge data centers in Africa, used for internal uses, as well as two submarine cables to Africa, 2Afri...

Batelco announces Bahrain data center now 100% solar powered

Bahrain

Batelco, Beyon Group's telecoms unit, has announced that one of its facilities is now Bahrain's first 100 percent green-energy-powered data center.This news follows the completion of Phase 2 of the Solar Park at the Beyon Data Oasis at Hamala. The facility in Bahrain is now entirely powered by...

STT GDC Will Make a $242m Investment in a Pair of Data Centers in Pune, India

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

STT GDC is adding two new data centers to its Pune, India campus. The company intends to invest $241.9 million in the expansion, which will add 40MW to the campus' total capacity of 80MW across five buildings. The new data centers are anticipated to go live in phases over the next 12 to 24 mon...

Missouri Globe Building Data Center Property For Lease

Missouri

Data center space is available for lease at the Globe Building carrier hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The fourth floor of the structure at 710 North Tucker Blvd. has 28,700 square feet of floor space available, of which 16,000 square feet is built-out data center space, according to a listing b...

Pittsburgh Data Center up for Sale or Lease

Pittsburgh

A data center for sale or lease is available in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colliers and Five 9s Digital are offering the McKees Rock facility located at 615 McMichael Road. The site is listed for lease in Colliers' materials, but Five 9s claims it can be purchased or leased. The circa 1980-cons...

SZZT Electronics to build new facility for Henan Digital

According to MarketScreener, SZZT Electronics has signed a 263.2 million yuan contract to work on a new data center building for Henan Digital Central Plains Data located in Zhengzhou City, China.As per the deal, construction will run for 420 days and operations at the data center will not beg...

KIO aims to double capacity of data centers by 2025

KIO Data Centers

KIO has shared its plans to double its data center capacity over the next two years. "Our growth plan involves creating over the next two years the same capacity we have accumulated in the last 22 years. It will be a significant investment," commented Kio chief executive officer, Jorge Sapien...

Pure DC launches new facility in Jakarta, Indonesia

Indonesia

Pure Data Centres has launched a facility in Jakarta, Indonesia, its Director for Indonesian operations, Chandra Irawan, announced on LinkedIn this week. This is the company's first in the region. The facility will have a 20MW IT load capacity, spanning  20,000 square metres and will support d...

Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is opening its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai, which, at full build-out, will offer 1,800 cabinets of capacity across two phases or a total footprint of 12,000 square meters (135,000 square feet). The facility will support the co...

Megatelecom will Install a Fiber and Edge Data Center Network All Through Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

Megatelecom, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, intends to deploy scores of Edge data centers nationwide and expand its fiber backbone. Following the fiber expansion, the company will construct a data center at the site. Megatelecom plans to repeat this process until 2028 when the compan...

SoftBank and NVIDIA Partner for AI Data Centers all through Japan

Japan

SoftBank Corp has partnered with the American multinational technology firm NVIDIA to set up a platform for dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G products. It is built on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, and SoftBank intends to deploy it in Japan's new distributed AI data cent...

Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

Rackspace

Rackspace is presently experiencing an outage across its European and Asia-Pacific data centers. In their SYD2, LON5, LON3, and HKG5 data centers, they encountered connectivity issues. Later, Rackspace announced that it had been discovered that any affected Linux VMs (virtual machines) would r...

CtrlS Plans to Invest $18.1m on a Data Center in Odisha, India

CtrlS Dubai

CtrlS Datacenters will invest $18.1 million in a greenfield Edge data center in Odisha, India. On May 30, the corporation began work on the data center in the capital city of the state, Bhubaneswar. It is anticipated that approximately 110 jobs will be created in the city of Bhubaneswar as a r...

1.8 million-square-foot Data Center Campus Planned on RV site in Gainesville, Virginia

Virginia

Prince William County, Virginia, is considering the development of a new data center park. A developer has submitted designs for an 82-acre data center campus in Gainesville's Hillwood Camping Park. The 'Gardner Property' development could bring up to 1.8 million sq ft of data facilities and a...