Data Center News

Oracle NetSuite Went Down Due to a Fire at a Cyxtera Facility

A fire at a Cyxtera data facility in Boston was the cause of a multi-day Oracle NetSuite outage. The issues, which started on February 14 and are now primarily addressed, affected NetSuite users in the US. When firefighters came, they immediately turned off the power, resulting in an outage. A...

Kentucky GE Data Facility For Sale or Lease

Kentucky

GE Appliances is offering its data center in Louisville, Kentucky, for purchase or lease. General Electric has hired JLL, according to a report this week, to market the data center at 4000 Buechel Bank Road in the 1,000-acre GE Appliance Park in Jefferson District for sale or lease. The GE Dat...

Kotak Invests $590m In India Data Center Venture

India / Bhārata

The initial closing of the data center fund by Kotak Alternate Assets has been revealed to be $590 million. The fund is based in the Gujurat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), and this amount represents about 74% of the company's initial $800 million aim. The investment division of In...

Dell'Oro Predicts That by 2027, Hyperscalers Will Account For 50% of Data Center Investment and Edge 8%

Global data center capital expenditure is expected to exceed $400 billion by 2027, according to market research company Dell'Oro Group. Dell'Oro claimed that hybrid cloud would create chances for the data center business to develop for both the hyperscale and enterprise sectors, even if hypers...

Kio Networks Begins Construction In Paterna, Spain

KIO Data Centers

A new data center for Kio Networks has begun construction in Paterna, a city in the Valencia region of Spain. This Thursday, the Valencian Generalitat revealed that construction on a new facility at the Paterna Tactical Park had started. The project will allegedly get $53.5 million from the co...

Compass Submits Revised PW Digital Gateway Data Center Campus Proposal

Compass Datacenters

Compass Data Centers has resubmitted its designs for a huge Prince William County data center project. The firm and QTS are developing more than 20 million sq ft of data centers for the PW Digital Gateway project. This month, Compass amended its June 2022 rezoning proposal with further deta...

ImpactData expands on $130m plan

North Carolina

ImpactData has announced it is expanding on its $130 million plan for a 115,000 sq ft mixed-use facility, named the "Dream Center." First announced in 2022 and to be located at Gateway Research Park South Campus, the space will provide commercial colocation, supercomputing, and, now, education...

MC Digital Realty expands Osaka footprint

MC Digital Realty

MC Digital Realty, the 50/50 joint venture (JV) between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty, launched to provide a full suite of data center solutions in Japan and this week announced the opening of the three-story KIX13. This is the fourth building on the 23,000sqm Osaka data center ca...

Data center approval sought by Finmarc for Telos HQ campus

Northern Virginia

Finmarc Management Inc. has reportedly applied six years in advance for a data center development. Some have suggested that this is to avoid being halted by future restrictions imposed by legislation; others have argued it's due to energy capacity limitations in the Ashburn area.Although Loudo...

Digital DEWA launches in Dubai

Dubai

Digital DEWA subsidiary Moro Hub has announced the launch of its 16,030 sqm (172,566 sq ft) Dubai data center, the world's largest solar-powered data center. It will have a capacity of 100MW, which be 100 percent powered by solar power from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park in Saih...

PDG: Geothermal energy for Indonesian data centers

Indonesia

PDG has announced that it has bought renewable energy certificates (RECs) from state-owned electricity firm, PLN, for geothermal energy for the operation of three data centers in Jakarta, Bandung, and Pekanbaru, in Indonesia. This further cements the company's partnership with PLN, from whom i...

Spotsylvania in the spotlight: Officials discuss data centers

Northern Virginia

As the spotlight circles around Spotsylvania County for data center development, the Board of Supervisors is discussing how the county could be affected and how to plan accordingly. So far, one proposal in the region, filed by SpotsyTechnoCampus LLC, could bring forth a new facility in Spotsyl...

Russian Federation to launch a cryptocurrency mining plant worth $12.3 million

Russia / Россия

The Russian Federation has announced its intent to launch a crypto-mining facility worth over $12.3 million (900 million rubles) in the coming months. To be situated in Buryatia, a Russian republic in eastern Siberia, the facility, upon completion, is pegged to contain 30,000 mining devices.Ac...

Roblox Constructs Ashburn Data Center and Edge Facilities for $400m

Northern Virginia

Roblox, a maker of video games, invested hundreds of millions of dollars on data center and edge infrastructure in 2022 to serve its own gaming platform. Roblox reported earnings that were higher than forecasted and a rising user base, which caused the company's shares to increase by 25%. Robl...

Blackbaud Shuts Down Four Data Centers As It Transitions To The Cloud

As part of its ongoing transition to the cloud, Software-as-a-Service provider Blackbaud has terminated four colocation data center deployments. The company creates CRM, SQL databases, and analytics software for charitable organizations, . However, Blackbaud has been covertly laying off employ...

Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

Equinix

Currently, Equinix is planning to construct a second data center in Barcelona, Spain. Last week, the colocation giant revealed its intentions to build BA2, an International Business Exchange (IBX) facility right next to its current BA1 location. We were not given any information on the proj...

Amazon Approved For Warrenton Data Facility in Fauquier County, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon has been approved to build a data center in Fauquier, Virginia. Amazon Data Services' proposal for a special-use permit to build a 220,000-square-foot data center near the junction of Blackwell Road and Lee Highway in Warrenton was approved this week by the Warrenton Town Council 4-3. A...

Telstra Exchange Facility and Property for Sale Near Melbourne, Australia.

Melbourne

Under a sale-leaseback agreement, Telstra is offering a minor exchange facility in the environs of Melbourne for sale. The east Melbourne neighborhood of Rowville's 12 Lambourne Avenue is being put up for sale by the Australian telecom. A brick structure of 1,430 square feet on one story, sitt...

LEW TelNet to build new green data center in Augsburg

Germany / Deutschland

LEW TelNet has announced the construction of a new green data center in Augsburg, Germany, which will operate with a PUE of 1.2. Work on the facility, which is located on Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse, will begin in summer 2023, with the first phase of the two-phase project going live mid-next year...

Cyfuture expands in Chennai, India

India / Bhārata

Cyfuture is constructing a new data center in Chennai, India, its fifth facility in the country. To be located on a one-acre plot in Tembaran, Chennai, it is pegged to offer 500 racks in its first phase. While the company already data centers in Noida, Jaipur, and Raipur, it has also announced...