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January 20, 2023

Global Switch granted permission for a new data center in East London

Global Switch

At a Tower Hamlets Council meeting, the Strategic Development Committee in London has granted Global Switch permission to develop a new data center. Located on a car park adjacent to its existing London East and London North buildings at East India Dock House, 240 East India Dock Road, the fac...

January 19, 2023

Cumulus Data completes work on first data center at Pennsylvania nuclear station

Pennsylvania

Cumulus Data, a Talen Energy subsidiary, has announced that it has finished construction of its first data center building at its nuclear-powered Susquehanna 475MW data center campus in Pennsylvania. According to the company, six facilities are planned on the campus, which have the option to s...

January 19, 2023

Raxio reveals expansion plans in Angola

Raxio Group

Raxio has announced that it is investing and establishing 'Raxio Angola,' a new 6MW data center, set to be the first carrier-neutral Tier III data center in the country. It will be located on the outskirts of Luanda, in the Cacuaco district.Robert Mullins, CEO of Raxio Group, said: "Our decis...

January 19, 2023

Microsoft forms cloud agreement with Suncorp

Microsoft Azure

Suncorp Group and Microsoft have announced a three-year agreement, which will witness Suncorp increase its cloud footprint in Microsoft Azure while it winds down on-premise data centers. Suncorp has outlined its intentions to migrate 90% of workloads to the cloud by the end of this year. Its r...

January 18, 2023

Atman announces offsetting efforts

Atman

Recently data center firm Atman outlined that from January 1st, its entire facility footprint’s energy use would be offset with renewable energy via guarantees of origin from energy firm RES.The Polish firm outlined that this includes: Equipment of colocation customers, Its farm of 3,000 dedi...

January 18, 2023

NTT to expand in Texas

NTT

NTT has announced that it is expanding in Texas with the addition of a new data center, dubbed ‘TX3 Data Center’. According to the company, the development will span 230,000 sq ft (21,350 sqm) and include a two-story office alongside the data center.The development has been filed with the Tex...

January 17, 2023

Crane Data Centers partners with Principal for new 100MW data center

Oregon

Crane Data Centers Inc. is partnering with Principal Asset Management through its real estate investment team, to build a 100+MW data center campus in the Forest Grove area, near Hillsboro.The campus, to be located in the Forest Grove area, will include a 300,000-square-foot facility on a 35-a...

January 17, 2023

CtrlS announces big expansion plans

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

CtrlS has made some big expansion announcements this week. The company, founded back in 2007, with a portfolio of eight operational data centers, spanning from Mumbai to Noida, has said it will triple its data center portfolio by 2025, taking its figure to 25. This will see the company expand...

January 17, 2023

Verizon signs four new PPAs

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon has announced that it has signed four new power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy, an aggregate of up to 410 MW of renewable energy capacity. According to the company, these new deals align with its broader goal to source or generate renewable energy equivalent to 50 per...

January 16, 2023

New data center platform CleanArc Data Centers launches

Vantage Data Centers

CleanArc Data Centers, a new data center platform, has just launched, as a product of 547 Energy, a clean energy investment firm and led by Vantage Data Centers founder Jim Trout. According to the company, it will offer hyperscale customers green developments via bundling new data center campu...

January 16, 2023

CKW announces launch of new data center in Rotkreuz, Switzerland

Switzerland

CKW Fiber Services has announced that it has launched a new data center in Rotkreuz, Switzerland. The facility, first announced back in October 2021, has 700 sqm (7,550 sq ft) of floorspace and is located next to the CKW Rotkreuz substation in Zug canton.Although the company has constructed th...

January 13, 2023

New firm Digital Halo launches with plans for 70MW facility in Manila

Manila

Arch Capital has announced that it is launching a new platform to invest in digital infrastructure in the APAC region. Digital Halo (DH), will reportedly invest in, develop, and operate digital infrastructure assets, including data centers, fiber, and towers, as well as renewable power. Furthe...

January 13, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches Local Zones in Chile and Australia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of two new Local Zones, one in Perth Australia, and the other in Santiago, Chile.In the announcement, the company outlined: “AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Perth and Santiago. You can now use these Local Zones to deli...

January 13, 2023

Philippines' Megawide plans first data center

Manila

Megawide Construction Corp, a construction company in the Philippines, has announced that it is planning a 30MW data center outside Manila, its first data center. Based to the south of Manila in Cavite, the facility will have a capacity of up to 30MW, with the first phase pegged to launch wi...

January 12, 2023

EdgeConnex plans another data center in Miami, Florida

EdgeConneX

EdgeConnex is reportedly planning a third data center in Miami, Florida, after acquiring a 6.250-acre plot of land. According to a report by BizJournal, this facility will be a two-story data center and located on the southwest corner of Northwest 106th Street and Northwest 112th Avenue.A pre...

January 12, 2023

Meta signs solar PPA with BP for solar farm in Ohio

January 12, 2023

Vantage Data Centers to enter the London market

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is to develop a 48MW data center campus in London. This move will see the company enter the London market for the first time with this £500 million ($600 million) project, its 11th EMEA campus.The company has announced that LHR, will total 430,000 sq...

January 11, 2023

Aligned plans 108MW Hillsboro campus

Aligned

Aligned has announced plans for an expansion into Hillsboro, Oregon, with a 27-acre, 108 MW data center campus. At the campus, the initial data center, PDX-01) is expected to offer 72MW of critical capacity and feature 12 6MW data halls across 27 acres. The company has shared that this site w...

January 10, 2023

Historic black cemetery erased for Microsoft data center development

Microsoft Azure

Following an extensive investigation by ProPublica, it has been found that Microsoft and local officials in rural Virginia helped erase a historic black cemetery by downplaying its cultural significance in order to pursue data center development.Back in 2014, when the giant was looking to expa...

January 10, 2023

Alibaba plans expansion near Turkish capital of Ankara

Turkey

Alibaba has announced that it is planning a data center near the Turkish capital Ankara. According to reports, the facility is part of a more than $1 billion investment in the country, which includes the development of a logistics hub at Istanbul Airport alongside the data center outside Ankar...

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