Data Center News

Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment

Google

Following the successful introduction of Arm server processors by Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud is preparing two Arm CPUs for its cloud service. Before launching the cloud service in 2025, the firm made a significant stride and will put them into trial operation this year. The cloud servers...

Compugen Buys New Albany, Ohio data Facilities

AWS US East (Ohio)

A data center in New Albany, Ohio, has been purchased by Canadian IT company Compugen. According to local property documents cited by BizJournal, Compugen Real Estate Holdings recently purchased a property in Franklin County, northeast of Columbus, at 7000 Souder Road. The former data cente...

Edgnex Rebrands as Damac Data Centres, Promises Additional Projects

Dubai

The new data center company Edgnex, founded by the Dubai real estate company Damac, has changed its name to Damac Data Centres and revealed plans for a 35MW data center. This week, the company announced that Edgnex had changed its name to Damac Data Centres to serve its clients better and upho...

Tackling misleading "100 percent carbon-free energy" claims and the rising costs of PPAs

United States

It seems like every day, there is another announcement of a tech company signing a new PPA and in 2023, projections are that there are more to come. Research shows that in 2022 alone, the number of PPAs purchased in the first three quarters, surpassed the total volume recorded across the whole...

Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers

Google

Uber Technologies wants to close its data center facilities after signing two significant cloud contracts. In two seven-year contracts, it will migrate over 95% of its IT to Google Cloud and Oracle from its own data centers. After 11 months of analysis, the taxi and delivery startup opted to u...

NuScale receives regulatory approval in US

United States

NuScale Power has received regulatory approval for a small modular reactor (SMR) which experts say could be utilized to power data centers at a later date. This makes it the first SMR to obtain this kind of approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for deployment in the US.Speaking...

Iron Mountain inks deal for 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain has announced that, through a partnership with RPD Energy, it has made a "landmark series of transactions" meaning that the company will obtain 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement. The US renewable provider RPD Energy will be the lead architect of renewable ene...

Echelon Data Centers-linked firm planning battery storage facility in Dublin

Echelon Data Centres

Over the last few years, Ireland has witnessed a significant data center boom, so much so, that Ireland introduced a moratorium in Dublin to halt the development of further data centers in the city. As part of this de facto moratorium, EirGrid has outlined that no new grid connection applicati...

Datacom goes 100% renewable in New Zealand

New Zealand

Datacom has announced that all its facilities in New Zealand are now powered by renewable energy. This is part of a ten-year contract with Mercury Energy, through which its data centers will run on geothermal, wind, and hydro energy sources from the company.As per the deal, the company has sig...

Yotta Has Plans To Build a Data Center Park in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Yotta Infrastructure, an Indian data center company, intends to operate in Bangladesh. According to reports, the Hiranandani-owned business plans to spend $190.5 million over the next four to six years building a hyperscale data center park in Dhaka. The new campus will include two data cen...

Fortune 500 Firm Partners With COPT For Two Virginia Build-to-suit Data enters

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT)

A new tenant has been secured for two planned build-to-suit data facilities in Northern Virginia by Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT). Last week, the company disclosed that it had signed two long-term leasing agreements for two build-to-suit facilities in Northern Virginia in January...

Harrisonburg Data Facility Receives $44 Million Loan From Valley National Bank

Virginia

A Virginia facility has negotiated a $44 million loan for a data center owner. According to The Commercial Observer, AC DataCom Digital Infrastructure Investments has obtained permanent financing of $43.8 million to construct a data center in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The 100,000-square-foot dat...

Arrcus Secures $50m for 5G, Data Center, And Multi-cloud Networking

During the most recent round of financial fundraising for the company, networking provider Arrcus received $50 million in capital. Prosperity7 Ventures has been a supporter of the business, and it took the lead in the Series D financing round. This new amount of funding, according to Arrcus, w...

Edge Centres plans 1MW facilities in Missouri and Oregon

Edge Centres

Edge Centres is developing data centers in St. Louis, Missouri, and Portland, Oregon, it has announced. The facilities will be powered by renewable energy, with just under 1 MW of solar infrastructure, a 48-hour battery, and UPS backup equipment, supporting 64 1kW quarter racks.In a statement...

Residents raise concern about proposed data center facility in New Albany

Amazon AWS

According to reports, residents in Albany are concerned about an Amazon-proposed data center project, which outlines plans for sizable data centers on both sides of Beech Road. Back in January, the giant acquired nearly 400 acres of land at three connected plots on Beech Road; the development ...

Data Centers Represent 20% Of Sales at Dominion Virginia, Which Reached a Record in December

Virginia

In its most recent earnings call, utility Dominion Energy highlighted the dependability of its service and discussed measures to increase capacity. However, the business, which reported a $42 million loss for the quarter, did not mention how its transmission problems hampered Virginia data ...

iColo launches new facility in Maputo, Mozambique

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty's iColo has announced that it has launched a new data center, located in Maputo, Mozambique, namely MPM1. The campus spans 9500 sqm, with 350 sqm of rentable space, equivalent to 80 racks in the first phase of development. The company has shared that the facility will be the lo...

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ) decision on data center backup generators

Virginia

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that it is considering giving data centers more leeway with regard to using backup energy. This, it said, will reportedly preserve data center reliability and is a precautionary measure to protect the region's power grid. It ...

ZeroPoint raises funding to reduce energy consumption of data centers by more than 25%

ZeroPoint has announced that it has closed a EUR 3.2 million seed round, provided by Climentum Capital, Nordic VC Industrifonden, and Chalmers Ventures, through which it will further grow its offerings, including its technology that can reportedly reduce data center energy consumption by more ...

Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

Microsoft Azure

Cooling equipment at a Microsoft data center went down due to a utility data center power spike, which resulted in an outage. Customers hosted in the South East Asia cloud area experienced a variety of problems as a result of the outage. According to Microsoft's status page, when cooling ca...