Data Center News

Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

Equinix

Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Marti...

The Mexican Data Center Association Forecasts Investment of $8 Billion

Mexico City / Ciudad de México

Mexico's data center industry is poised to receive a significant boost, with the Mexican Association of Data Centers (MEXDC) announcing an $8 billion investment from major companies such as IBM, Oracle, and Equinix. The investment is expected to create over 20,000 jobs in the next few years...

Dell'Oro Group Predicts a Diversifying Landscape For Server CPUs To Include Data Centres

Dell'Oro Group announces the release of their new advanced research study on Data Center IT Semiconductors and Components. In April 2023, the first report will be issued. Baron Fung, Senior Research Director at Dell'Oro Group, stated that while data center hardware such as servers has grown co...

Brookfield is in Discussions to Buy Data4 in Europe

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

According to reports, Brookfield Asset Management is discussing purchasing European data center operator Data4. Brookfield is reportedly in 'exclusive discussions' to purchase a majority share in Paris-based Data4 that could value the operator at $3.77bn, according to unidentified sources f...

PG&E Power Failure Causes The Internet Archive Data Center to go Offline

United States

After a power failure knocked down its data center, the Internet Archive's digital library was offline for many hours. Free public entry to backups of websites, software programs, games, music, movies, photos, and millions of books is offered by the California-based non-profit. The Bay Area ha...

Web Werks-Iron Mountain JV announces launch of its first Bengaluru data center

Bengaluru (Bangalore)

Web Werks - Iron Mountain Data Centers (IMDC) Joint Venture has announced that it has launched its first data center on its campus in Bengaluru, India. Based in Whitefield, Bengaluru, the facility spans 80,000 square feet and is named the BLR-1. It is a Tier III-designed data center that can s...

Telecom Italia announces 2,000 job cuts

Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A.

At a recent union meeting, it was outlined that Telecom Italia intends to cut 2,000 jobs in Italy, in an effort to streamline its domestic operations. The job cuts will be executed through a voluntary early retirement scheme, following a meeting with the unions. Currently the company employs a...

Microsoft to expand in Washington

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed plans to build three data centers in Malaga, Washington, on Malaga Alcoa Highway in Chelan County. The Port Authority outlined in the fillings that it assumes the development will involve the construction of three buildings on the site by the end of 2025; further, there...

Toshiba Will be Purchased by Japan Industrial Partners For $15 billion

Japan

Japan Industrial Partners Inc. (JIP), a Japanese investment firm, will take Toshiba private. Last week, the Japanese conglomerate revealed that TBJH Inc., an indirect subsidiary of JIP, would buy out all of the company's shares on the Tokyo and Nagoya Stock Exchanges and take the business priv...

CapitalOnline Data Service Buys data Center Builder Outside Beijing

Beijing

A company planning to construct a 3,200-rack data center in Huaili County, China, has been purchased by Chinese cloud provider CapitalOnline Data Service. This week, the company bought Huailai Wisdom Cloud Port Technology's entire equity stake. The company just recently received authorization ...

A New Google Cloud Platform Region Has Been Launched in Turin, Italy

Google

Google has introduced a new cloud region in Turin, Italy. The company did not disclose the new region's details or specs, although it did note that it has three availability zones and offers standard GCP services. After a busy 2022, it is the first new region the company has introduced in 2023...

OVHcloud Opens New Data Center in Undisclosed Mumbai, India Location

OVH Group

A new facility has been opened by the data center company OVHcloud in Mumbai, India. The company announced the opening this week, but no information was given regarding the facility's location or specs. The facility uses OVHcloud's unique water cooling technology, which the company claimed ...

Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT

NTT

NTT will construct a new data center in Thailand. The company revealed this week that it will spend $90 million through NTT Global Data Centers to build a 12MW, 43,000 sq ft facility in Bangkok. The second half of 2024 will see the start of operations at the next data center, BKK3, which wi...

UK's Effectiveness IT Introduces a Range of Prefabricated Data Centers

United Kingdom

EfficiencyIT, a UK data center company, has introduced its own line of prefabricated modular data centers. This week, the company unveiled ModularDC, a new line of adaptable, prefabricated data centers for on-premises, distributed IT, and edge computing settings that can be deployed in 12 t...

Idaho Legislators Want Data Center Tax Benefits Limited Again

Idaho

Idaho lawmakers are attempting to restrict the number of tax breaks new data center expansions can receive in the state. Last Monday, Bill 328 was introduced, and the House voted 59-9 to pass it. The Senate has now received the measure. The measure modifies the language in the state's urban re...

Meta signs PPA in Texas

Meta

Meta has announced that it has signed a new PPA for solar energy. The PPA, with Avangrid, will see the giant source 240MW of energy from the True North solar farm which is currently under development in Falls County, Texas, the former's first in the state. The solar farm is set to launch in e...

Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is switching its cooling system for data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona, following an update of its development agreement. Further to this, it has pledged to invest more than $40 million to expand the city's wastewater capacity. While the giant purchased the site i...

Nokia involved in ocean plastic prevention project

Netherlands

Nokia has outlined its involvement in a project to prevent ocean plastic pollution as part of The Ocean Cleanup project, which is a non-profit organisation that seeks to extract ocean plastic pollution through technological development. To help clear ocean plastic, the company has partnered wi...

HDC announced the launch of a new container data center in Hulhumale, the Maldives

South Asia

The Housing Development Corporation (HDC) has launched a new containerized data center in Hulhumale, the Maldives, which is to be operated under its SmartCom brand. Although specific details about the container are yet to be shared, it reportedly features a redundant battery backup system whic...

Samsung SDS has launches a new data center in South Korea

South Korea

Samsung SDS has announced the opening of a new data center in South Korea. This new addition is part of wider plans to expand its cloud offering, and make Samsung Cloud Platform (SCP) available to all customers. Its new Dongtan IDC, spans six floors with four server rooms, and will focus on AI...