Data Center News

Värde Provides $200 Million in Financing to GlobalStar

Satellite company GlobalStar has received a fresh note funding round. The company said last week that it had signed into a purchase contract with an affiliate of investment firm Varde Partners as well as others, allowing for the sale of $200 million in principal amount of 13 percent Senior Not...

Norwegian Authorities Increases Its Oversight of Data Center

Norway

The Norwegian government is making preparations to strengthen national supervision over data centers through proposed rules in the country's electronic communications law. All Norwegian data center operators will be required to register and provide details of their activities under the propose...

Nigerian President Unveils Kano's Tier 4 Data Center

Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the 41-terabyte countrywide tier-4 Data Center in Kano on Monday. During the ceremony, Prof. Ali Isa Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, stated that the data center was the first of its kind in northern Nigeria and the finest in the co...

Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying

Amazon AWS

House Bill 2816, which sought to impose greenhouse gas emissions standards to encourage data centers to cut their carbon emissions in Oregon, died in legislative committee this week. Amazon, which aggressively lobbied against the bill, has been cited as one of the major reasons for its defeat....

Green building regulations and data center sustainability in India

India / Bhārata

In India, an increased focus on green buildings, from a regulatory perspective, is pegged to give rise to more sustainable data centers being built in the country. Experts have outlined that the publishing of recommendations on by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in November o...

Headwaters rezone request in Catlett, Virginia could pave the way for between three to five data centers

Headwaters Site Development, a US real estate developer, has announced that it is seeking the development of a 66-acre industrially zoned property in Catlett, Virginia, for a new data center park. The ​​pre-application requests up to 1.4 million square feet (130,050 sqm) of data center develop...

Spark New Zealand announces new data center strategy

New Zealand

Spark New Zealand has outlined it will inject between $156 million to $189m into data center expansion, as part of a new three-year strategy. As part of this strategy, it will also work on new technologies, in order to open up new commercialisation opportunities across its core markets of mobi...

AWS inks another PPA in Spain with Grenergy Renovables SA

Amazon AWS

Amazon has signed another Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), this time with Grenergy Renovables SA, to procure solar energy in Spain. The 10-year deal will provide AWS with 469 MWp of solar energy. Grenergy Renovables is an independent power producer (IPP) involved in large-scale renewable energ...

New data Center For The Peruvian Police Force

New data center for Peruvian National Police (PNP). The data center would reportedly aid the PNP in battling organized crime and publicizing its efforts to do so, according to the Intelligence Directorate (Dirin). Vincente Romero, the interior minister, officially opened the facility, which ha...

NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency

NTT

The Retirement Systems of Alabama has renewed NTT's contract with them until 2033. NTT Data will manage the data center for the state pension agency for an extra eight years as part of the arrangement. The contract's worth wasn't shared. The downtown Montgomery data center has 300 racks and a ...

Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

Northern Virginia

This spring and summer, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is mulling over a proposal enabling data facilities in Loudoun County to draw power more routinely from on-site disaster diesel generators. The proposal aims to alleviate pressure on the transmission system, which transpo...

DataBank Obtains Credit Facility of $325 Million

DataBank

To help support its development aspirations, US colocation provider DataBank has obtained a new $325 million credit line. The facility, led by TD Securities, consists of a $50 million conventional credit line, a $125 million deferred draw term loan, and a $175 million five-year term loan. The ...

AWS to offtake from Mercury's Turitea wind farm to power new Auckland region

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has inked a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in New Zealand Mercury to procure wind energy. The giant will procure around half the output from the local energy company's 103MW Turitea South onshore wind farm; which is more than is required to fuel Amazon Web Ser...

Equinix expands footprint in Canada

Equinix

Equinix has announced plans for a facility in Montreal, Canada. Known as MT2, the new facility is projected to be operational in the second half of 2023. In the first phase of the project, the facility will offer 500 racks from Q3, phase two, meanwhile, will add a further 500 racks by the fou...

Data4 plans new campus in Paris

DATA4 Group

Data4 is planning a new data center campus to the southwest of Paris, in Nozay in Essone. The campus, PAR3, will be built across a 22 hectare site, which was previously Nokia’s head office in France. The company has shared its plans to construct eight data centers on the site, with an injecti...

Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia

Ashburn: Data Center Alley

Direct Line Global has announced that it has signed the lease for a 17,040-square-foot research and development space within Ashburn Crossing, an 80-acre business park in Ashburn, Virginia. Through this move, the company has tripled its presence in the area. Speaking about this expansion, Vern...

Highlander completes first underwater facility and looks to develop net-zero wind-powered data center

China

According to a report by ChinaDaily, Highlander, one of the companies driving innovation in the underwater data center space, has announced that work on its first commercial facility is complete, for which it is now looking for export buyers. Further to this announcement, the company has outli...

Vantage Creates a New Investment Group in EMEA

Vantage Data Centers

With the formation of a new investment partnership, Vantage Data Centers has added new investors to its roster along with DigitalBridge. This week, the company disclosed that it has signed a legally binding agreement to establish an investment partnership with a group of investors, includin...

Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

San Francisco Bay Area

With the construction of its dark fiber network, Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is enhancing connection options for the San Francisco Bay Area's densely populated area of data centers. Critical fiber infrastructure is now available from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

A $188 Million Data Center is Being Built at Auckland Air Force Base by The New Zealand Government

New Zealand

The New Zealand government has been constructing a $188 million data center in secrecy at its Auckland air force station. Defense and GCSB Minister Andrew Little made the announcement of the project, noting that the location originally received the money in 2019. 150 construction workers have ...