Global Data Center News

April 03, 2023

Huawei Plans More Latin American Data Centers as Cloud Demand Rises

Huawei Cloud

With Colombia set to be the next destination, Chinese technology giant Huawei says it is dedicated to establishing additional cloud regions (core data center hubs) and availability zones (AZs, minor data center hubs) throughout Latin America. Fernando Liu, president of the Latin American cloud...

April 03, 2023

NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

NTT

On April 3, NTT East and NTT West, subsidiaries of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), were impacted by a network outage in Japan. NTT had a significant network outage that morning at about 7:10 local time, according to reports from regional media outlets, albeit the impacted services have s...

April 03, 2023

SES is in Merger Negotiations With Intelsat

Luxembourg

Last week, SES said that it had been in merger negotiations with Intelsat, a competitor in the satellite industry. Luxembourg-based SES made the statements in reaction to a Bloomberg article claiming that a merger worth $10 billion is in the works. In a statement released in reaction to market...

April 02, 2023

Increasing Its Datacenter Operations, Angola Cables Has Reorganized Its Operations in Brazil

Angola Cables

Since the need for data storage and processing capacity and traffic levels continues to rise, Angola Cables, a provider of wholesale telecom services, data centers, and interconnectivity, is extending its infrastructure in Brazil and broadening its business portfolio. As part of the company's ...

March 31, 2023

Microsoft's $1bn Mount Pleasant facility receives Village Board approval

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Wisconsin, with a $1 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant. The plan, discussed at a recent closed session meeting, outlined that the campus will be situated on a 315-acre parcel of land owned by the Village of Mount Pleasant. Microsoft is...

March 31, 2023

Amazon and Oregon's clean energy bill

Amazon AWS

In Oregon, House Bill 2816, aims to require data centers to utilize renewable energy and reduce their carbon emissions and Amazon is fighting it. The giant has reportedly been lobbying against the bill since it was first introduced, despite its big green pledges and commitment to reach zero ca...

March 31, 2023

EdgeCore plans a new Loudoun data center

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure is reportedly working on a new data center with Penzance, a real estate investor and developer. The facility, which will be located at 1501 Moran Road in Sterling, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia will be three stories, spanning a 285,000-square-foot data cent...

March 31, 2023

OVHcloud announces it will report on Scope 3 emissions to customers

France

OVHcloud has announced that it will release a full report of Scope 3 emissions produced by its cloud usage beginning this summer. Scope 3 emissions are those which are produced by a company indirectly up and down its value chain, and are increasingly coming under scrutiny. Despite flying under...

March 30, 2023

Ammunition firm accuses TikTok data center of using too much power in Norway, preventing expansion

Norway

Nammo, one of the largest manufacturers of ammunition, co-owned by the Norwegian government and a Finnish state-controlled defense company, has claimed that it is being prevented from expansion, due to TikTok's data centers guzzling the electricity in the area. Elvia, the local energy company,...

March 30, 2023

HOCHTIEF and Palladio Partners to build and operate sustainable data center in Heiligenhaus, Germany

Germany / Deutschland

HOCHTIEF and infrastructure investor Palladio Partners have announced they have partnered to jointly build and operate a sustainable data center in Heiligenhaus, located in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Work on the 9,000-square-meter site in the Heiligenhaus Innovation Park is to commence t...

March 30, 2023

Ascenty joins UN Global Compact (Organization of United Nations) in Brazil

Ascenty

Ascenty is the latest signatory of the UN Global Compact (Organization of United Nations) in Brazil, it has been announced. The Global Compact is a voluntary initiative that launched back in 2000 which encourages companies to adopt and promote ten universally accepted principles on human righ...

March 30, 2023

Iberian Peninsula, Spain's Digital Infrastructure Receives a $42.5 million Investment From Exa Infrastructure

EXA Infrastructure

Since its founding in 2021, Exa Infrastructure has spent $42.5 million in digital infrastructure for the Iberian Peninsula, Spain. Sixty-two miles of Barcelona's metro network have been upgraded, linking various data centers, including those owned by Interxion, Equinix, Edge Energy, and EdgeCo...

March 30, 2023

Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.

Northern Virginia

PowerHouse anticipates that the 265,000-square-foot building will be occupied by tenants in July, with complete construction scheduled for completion in October. Nonetheless, there is a pervasive power issue. Buddy Rizer, head of Loudoun County Economic Development, stated that each project ha...

March 30, 2023

SUNeVision opens new data center in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong

iAdvantage (SUNeVision)

The Mega Gateway, SUNeVision's seventh data center, has opened in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The hyperscale data center is a component of SUNeVision's Mega Campus and is carrier- and cloud-neutral. The newest building on the campus, located at 1 Ma Kok Street in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, has a 20MW cap...

March 30, 2023

Fire at The Building Site of The AdaniConneX Data Center

AdaniConneX Noida

A relatively modest fire broke out at an AdaniConneX data center that was still under construction in Noida, India. The fire was quickly put out after the incident, which occurred on Tuesday at 11:20 p.m. local time and was caused by welding work being performed at the site. Nobody was hurt in...

March 29, 2023

Microsoft purchases carbon removal credits from CarbonCapture

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is the latest company to invest in the potential of carbon capture, with the recent announcement that it will buy "carbon removal credits" from CarbonCapture. The company is the owner of Project Bison, which is a direct air capture (DAC) plant in Wyoming, set to open next year. The ...

March 29, 2023

QScale signs deal with Energir Development (Energir) for waste heat recovery in Quebec, Canada

QScale

QScale has announced that it has partnered with Énergir Development for waste heat recovery at the Q01 Campus currently under construction in Lévis, Quebec, Canada. It aims to become one of the largest waste heat recovery providers of its kind in the region. QScale will reportedly supply free...

March 29, 2023

GDS and TNB announce partnership

GDS Services Ltd

GDS has announced that it has signed a supplemental agreement with Malaysia-based utility firm Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) to power its data center campus in Malaysia. Through the Electricity Supply Agreement (ESA), the company's Nusajaya Tech Park Phase 1 Data Centers will start operations ...

March 29, 2023

Keepit powers all its data centers in the Americas and EMEA with 100% renewable energy

Americas

Keepit has announced it has achieved 100% renewable energy across its data centers located in the Americas and EMEA; it currently operates ten data centers across the U.S., Canada, Germany, the UK, and Denmark. The energy sources that will be utilized come under local renewable energy guarante...

March 29, 2023

EdgeConneX secures $3.3 Billion in sustainability-linked financing

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it has successfully executed $3.3 billion in “innovative” sustainability-linked financing, which it said will enable the development of critical digital infrastructure to support customers' global data center requirements. For this, JGlobal awarded the company wi...

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