Data Center News

WIOCC's Planned Data - Center Facility to Increase Africa's 1% Contribution

Africa

In order to establish Africa's first data center hub, West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) will invest $500 million over the course of the next five years in the construction of data centers there. Africa's data center market size by investment was estimated at $2 billion in 2020 and is pro...

Lawsuit filed against Amazon data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia

Amazon AWS

As Amazon continues its seemingly unstoppable global expansionm, in Warrenton, North Virginia, home to the biggest data center hub in the world, environmentalists and local residents have launched a lawsuit to try and stop the behemoth's growth in the region. The environmental nonprofit Citize...

AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric

Berlin

Atlas Edge has announced that it has partnered with PacketFabric, to expand cloud access across its network. The strategic partnership will see the company’s facilities connect to PacketFabric’s TruNaas Converge Platform, which will reportedly allow AtlasEdge customers to access PacketFabric’s...

MN Holdings partners with China's DC-Science for Malaysian data center

Malaysia

MN Holdings Bhd has announced a partnership with China's Shanghai DC-Science Co Ltd to construct a high-performance data center in Malaysia. This is the latter's first location outside of China. The MoU signed on April 1, 2023, will see a facility, which will span across a 20-acre site at the ...

Arizton Debuts Database for Data Center

Arizton, a prominent market research organization, is pleased to announce its continuous success in offering thorough, trustworthy, and data-driven secondary and primary research. With over six years of expertise, Arizton's team of primary consultants and analysts has helped multiple Fortune 5...

Oracle Has a Second Cloud Region Planned For Singapore

Oracle

Oracle has announced the opening of a second OCI cloud region in Singapore. Oracle stated the new area will offer more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services and applications, albeit neither the location nor the timetable was disclosed. In November 2021, the company launched it...

Wesfarmers OneDigital Enters a Five-Year Contract With AWS

Amazon AWS

OneDigital, a division of the Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers, has inked a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to be its principal cloud provider. Amazon will also equip the Australian business with an AWS Skills Guild to educate and certify 500 workers. Wesfarmers, one of th...

DXN Receives AU$1m AngloAmerican Prefab Data Center Module Contract

DXN Limited

The Australian data center business DXN will provide AngloAmerican with a modular data center. Last week, the data center business said that it has secured an AU$1 million (US$677,200) deal with the mining company to produce and install a prefabricated module at a CapCoal mining site in Que...

Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar

Google

Google has announced that it has launched a new cloud region located in Doha, Qatar, following the tech giant first announcing plans for expansion in this regard in 2020. The cloud region, the second that Google has launched this year, also launches alongside three availability zones and the ...

Amazon signs PPAs with Iberdrola

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed another PPA with Iberdrola, through which it will be provided with wind and solar energy from its offshore wind farms in Germany for 1.1 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually. The wind farms, Baltic Eagle and Windanker, will have a total capacity of 476MW and 3...

Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year

Google

Recent figures from S&P Global have revealed that the amount of renewable power purchased by data center operators has surged  50 percent in just a year. This latest figure now means that the sector utilizes two-thirds of the renewable power available to corporates in the US. The report hi...

Green Mountain plans sustainable expansion in Frankfurt, Germany

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain and KMW have formed a 50:50 joint venture to develop a new campus outside of Frankfurt, Germany. The campus has received approval from local authorities, and it is expected that construction will begin on the 25,000 sqm (269,100 sq ft) site, FRA1-Main, in the third quarter of 2...

BT and TRIG partner for PPA

BT Global Services

BT has announced that it has signed a new 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) for renewable energy from the 35MW Blary Hill onshore wind farm, which is located in Kintyre, Scotland. This move aligns with the UK telco's net zero by 2031 target...

Using 800GE Routing Interfaces, Nokia Oyj Increases Connectivity at OpenColo's Data Centers

OpenColo

Yesterday, Nokia and OpenColo reported that the first commercial field testing to transmit a 1.6 Terabit/s traffic flow across an 800GE link aggregation group using 800GE FR4 optics had been successfully completed. OpenColo, a cutting-edge supplier of data center connection and colocation serv...

Edge Centres Completes The Acquisition of Hyson International

Edge Centres

Hyson, a US hosting company, has been bought by Edge Centres. Hyson International, located in Missouri, has been acquired by Edge, a company based in Australia, according to a report last week by M&A advisory firm Corum Group. The agreement's details weren't made public. As a supplier o...

All of Unilever's Workloads Are Moved to The Cloud, Mostly to Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure

Unilever has finished moving to the cloud. The business has shifted workloads for its 400+ brands to the cloud, using Azure as its main cloud platform, in what it calls the "biggest and most difficult cloud migration in the consumer products market." With the aid of Accenture, Microsoft, an...

Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

Equinix

After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property.The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 s...

Huawei reveals data center trend break down

Huawei Cloud

At the recent Top 10 Trends of Data Center Facilities conference, Huawei revealed its insights into emerging trends in the data center industry. With the theme of "Smart DC, Building the Green Future," the conference highlighted that to accommodate the exponential growth of data demand, which ...

MDC Data Centers (MDC) and FiberLight partner to launch a new facility in Eagle Pass, Texas

MDC Data Centers

FiberLight and MDC Data Center have partnered in Eagle Pass, Texas, to launch a new facility, located at 500 Bliss Street; the former will provide fiber services. The companies have outlined that the data center will "act as a bridge" between new fiber routes on the border, providing connectio...

Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

Amsterdam

InMotion Hosting has announced the opening of its first international data center in Europe. The three-story data center is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will reportedly offer customers NVMe Hardware, 99.99% Network Uptime and Security Monitoring, refined UltraStack Server Configuratio...