Data Center News

Racial Harassment at Google Data Center Construction Site Cost Whiting-Turner $1.2m

Google

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the construction company Whiting-Turner alleging racial harassment and retaliation against former Black employees. The lawsuit centered on the company's role as the general contractor for the Google data center's...

AdaniConneX to Develop a New 200MW Data Center Facility in Andhra Pradesh, India

AdaniConneX

Adani Group is building a 200MW data center complex in Andhra Pradesh, India. The company's "Integrated Data Center and Technology Business Park" at Madhurawada, Vizag (Visakhapatnam), is the first of three technology zones intended for the city. The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Yeduguri ...

GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer

London: Slough

After breaking ground on its new Slough-based campus in January, KKR-funded Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it plans to launch the site before summer 2023. The $1 billion campus, GB One, comprises three independent facilities, each providing 5373 sqm of net technical space and...

North Holland province to prevent new facility in Uithoorn

North Holland

The Province of Noord-Holland (North Holland) has launched an objection against the development of a new data center project in De Kwakel, Uithoorn. This is the latest intergovernmental dispute over a data center in the Netherlands, where the climate is growing increasingly hostile to data cen...

Gartner: 75% of organizations will have data center infrastructure sustainability program by 2027

According to research by Gartner, by 2027, 75 per cent of organizations will have implemented a data center infrastructure sustainability program. This is a significant jump from the current figures; in 2022, only 5% had implemented such a program. The organization conducted a global survey of...

DE-CIX exchanges in Norway Bulk Data Centers go live

Norway

DE-CIX has announced that its new DE-CIX IXs are now available in Bulk data centers in Oslo (OS-IX) and Kristiansand (Campus N01). Its InterconnectionFLEX service will be available via the partnership with Bulk Infrastructure Group, through which customers will be provided with an interconnect...

Cyxtera Receives $50m Lifeline, Satisfies Debts, And Must Sell or Raise Capital

Cyxtera Technologies

A shaky US colocation provider has settled its debts with creditors. The business must find a buyer or investor to continue funding or go bankrupt and cede control to its owners. The company obtained $50 million in new funding from lenders holding over two-thirds of its existing term loan to s...

Google Will Build Two Additional Data Centers in Ohio

Google

Google and state officials announced on Wednesday that the company intends to construct two additional data centers in Ohio to support its artificial intelligence equipment and other tools. According to officials, with one data center already operational in the Columbus area, Google's total i...

Oppidan Submits Paperwork For a 99,000 sq ft Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee

Tennessee

The US real estate development company Oppidan has filed plans to construct a data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The company has filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development for permission to build a data center at 3900 S. Mendenhall Road. The permit encompasse...

Harbor Peak Starts Building a Fiber Conduit System to Connect Ashburn, Virginia Data Centers

Virginia

Harbor Peak, a joint venture specializing in carrier-neutral dark fiber, interconnect, and network planning services, has begun construction in Ashburn, Virginia, on a new middle-mile network infrastructure that will facilitate connectivity between numerous private and public data centers. In ...

Skybox and Prologis Propose 600-Megawatt Austin Data Center Facility

Skybox Datacenters

Skybox Datacenters and Prologis plan to construct a 600-megawatt campus offering up to 4 million sq ft of data center space near Austin, Texas. The project will increase momentum for the development of data centers in Austin, which has grown into an ideal location for tech companies. The Skyb...

Data Center Fire Causes Zenith Bank Disruption in Nigeria

Nigeria

Per a report by TechCabal, the power backup system at Zenith Bank in Nigeria was damaged by fire, which resulted in a blackout at the data center. The outage began at seven in the morning, affecting customers, and majority of the bank's services were down. According to TechCabal, the bank did ...

DataBank Begins Construction of a New Data Facility in Atlanta, Georgia

DataBank

DataBank has begun constructing a new data center in Atlanta, Georgia, and has completed an expansion in San Diego, California.The US-based business announced the start of construction on its ATL4 data center in Atlanta last week. The colocation facility, located at 200 Selig Drive, will incl...

DartPoints Buys Venyu, Incorporating Three Louisiana Data Centers

DartPoints

DartPoints, a frontrunner in the edge market colocation, cloud, and security service space, has acquired Venyu, the leading data center infrastructure and cloud services provider in Louisiana.  DartPoints now operates 11 data centers totaling over 325,000 sq ft of space and 20 MW throughout t...

AMD's Revenue Declines as PC CPU Sales Plummet And The Data Center Market stalls

AMD's revenues decreased year-over-year as sales of client CPUs dropped dramatically. Sales for its data center division stalled due to the general business slowdown. Overall, annual revenue was down 9.2 percent to $5.4 billion. Client CPUs, or consumer PCs, saw their revenue decline by 65 per...

Adani Group announces two data centers in Andhra Pradesh

India / Bhārata

Adani Group has announced that it is developing two data centers in Andhra Pradesh, located in Madhurawada and Kapuluppada.The projects will see an investment of INR 21,844 crore, with the first, in Madhurawada. Vizag Tech Park Private Limited, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, will be respon...

Macquarie Data Centres and Console Connect partner for new Point of Presence in Sydney

Sydney

Macquarie Data Centers has announced that it has partnered with Console Connect to add a new Point of Presence in Sydney. Through the partnership, Console Connect’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform will be available at the Macquarie Data Centres campus in Macquarie Park, Sydney. The two ha...

Vertiv launches single direct expansion thermal management unit for Indian data centers

Vertiv

Vertiv has announced the launch of the Vertiv Liebert PKDX, a solution aimed at making thermal management more efficient. The company highlights that thermal management is one of a data centers largest energy costs, traditionally accounting for an average of 40% of power consumption. This sol...

QTS reveals latest plans for campus in Prince William County's Digital Gateway

QTS Data Centers

Last week, QTS submitted the third draft of its plans for the controversial and hotly debated Prince William Digital Gateway to the Prince William County government. The updated plan shows the company's intention to increase the size of its proposed buildings. QTS has also requested a waiver t...

Navigating evolving data center security risks and requirements

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

In recent years, data center security has come to the fore, with an increase in firmware attacks and security failures. Research shows that 83 percent of businesses have experienced firmware attacks in recent years, and in February, GDS and STT GDC hit the headlines when hackers compromised tw...