Data Center News

Zeittec announces data center for Santos Port Authority

São Paulo

Zeittec is building a new facility for the Santos Port Authority (SPA), in São Paulo, following the signing of a construction contract. Work is due to commence in January, with projections that works will be completed in mid-2023.The facility is part of a wider digitalization project of Porto ...

Equinix signs another PPA in Finland

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has signed a third power purchase agreement (PPA) in Finland with Neoen, totaling 129MW. Through the ten-year deal, the company will obtain 60% of the output and guarantees of origin to be produced by the future 95MW Storbötet wind farm from the French renewable ...

Digital Edge plans 300MW data center in Navi Mumbai, India

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has announced that it is expanding into India, with the addition of a new 300MW, 47-acre hyperscale facility in Navi Mumbai. This development is part of a partnership between the Singaporean company, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and AGP DC InvestCo Pte Ltd (...

Simplex opens Larnaca data center

Simplex has announced the official opening of its LCA1 facility in Larnaca, Cyprus, at a recent  inauguration ceremony. Although the facility has been operational since 2020, the pandemic and subsequent restrictions prevented the company from celebrating the opening. The facility, spanning 10,...

Application for a new 48MW data center site filed in Middlesborough, UK

United Kingdom

A new data center campus is being proposed just outside of Middlesbrough at the former Croda chemicals plant within the Wilton International complex, it has been announced. So far, Redcar and Cleveland Council has decided that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) isn’t required, after Cons...

Twitter closes its Sacramento data center

Sacramento

Microblogging social media platform Twitter has undergone extensive changes as of late since the takeover by Elon Musk. From the introduction of Musk's paid verification plan, slashing nearly half of the platform's workforce in November, and his massive cost-cutting exercise, Musk's tenure as ...

Key Point has announces plans for a new facility in Yekaterinburg

Russia / Россия

Keypoint is expanding in Yekaterinburg, it has announced, with the addition of a new facility, spanning 3,200 sqm (34,450 sq ft). It will reportedly be built inside an existing building and constructed with the aim of achieving Tier III certification, developed in partnership with Russian telc...

Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center

Google

Google is reportedly looking to expand its data center site development in Omaha, Nebraska after it first announced and filed to build a data center near State Street and Blair High Road to the northwest of the city in April. Now, according to reports, the giant has applied to rezone an addit...

Residents of The Dalles, Oregon gain access to Google's water consumption data following lawsuit settlement

Hyperscale Data Center

Those living in drought-prone The Dalles, Oregon, home to Google’s massive data centers, now know how much water the giant has consumed. This information, previously kept a secret by city officials, has been released following a legal fight funded by Google and launched by the city against The...

Meta's Kuna, Idaho, data center paused as part of wider AI redesign plans

Meta

The latest data center to take the hit in Meta's AI redesign rethink is its Kuna, Idaho, data center. The facility, an $800 million development, was only announced by the giant in February, with the company commencing work on the project in September. Kuna data center paused as p...

Supernap's Thailand data center to be powered with solar

Switch

Supernap has announced the launch of its first solar project, which will power its Thailand data center. Supernap, the first Tier IV, carrier-neutral, hyperscale data center in Thailand, chose WHA Utilities and Power Plc. (WHAUP) to install the solar power system. During the opening ceremony,...

Harrison Street & 1547 CSR Buys Texas Carrier Hotel

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

In McAllen, Texas, Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street have bought a carrier hotel. The two corporations have acquired Chase Tower in McAllen, a 17-story building with a total area of around 209,000 square feet. The specifics of the transaction were not made pu...

More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue

Dublin

According to reports, in the wake of the Dublin data center moratorium over grid issues, 21 new data centers are planned outside of the greater Dublin area. Sixteen of these facilities are large-scale data centers, while a further five smaller-scale data center projects are being discussed wit...

Green Mountain Expands its Oslo Data Center

Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

Green Mountain has finalized the expansion of its data center campus in Oslo, Norway. As a component of its OSL1-Enebakk complex, the Nordic data center provider has constructed a new 13.5MW data center, initially slated to debut in November 2022, as was announced at the end of 2021. Earlier i...

Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project

Google

Google has announced that it has canceled its $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota, after calling off its electric service agreement. First announced back in 2019, and based near the Sherco power plant, Google dragged its feet on the development for quite some time, and although it r...

New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches

Germany / Deutschland

Data Castle, a new data center joint venture between Angelo Gordon and data center development management company DCD Data Center Developers, has announced plans to build and operate facilities in Germany. The JV will begin work on its plans in the town of Schwalbach am Taunus, just outside of...

INNIO and NorthC Datacenters partner to build First Hydrogen Emergency Backup Power Solution

NorthC Datacenters

NorthC Datacenters (NorthC) has partnered up with INNIO to use its Jenbacher Ready for H2 engine technology to deliver an emergency backup power solution for its newest data center, set to be constructed in Eindhoven, Netherlands. According to the company, if it is faced with electricity grid...

Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo

Tokyo

Alibaba has established a data center in Tokyo, Japan. The company stated in December 2022 that its Alibaba Cloud/Aliyun division had opened a third data center in Japan to "meet the transformation expectations" of clients. Unique Song, General Manager of Japan for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, ...

QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project

QTS Data Centers

QTS has announced that it has connected its Groningen data center to the Dutch city's new district heating project. The heating project has been built by local utility WarmteStad, which is projected to produce heat for more than 10,000 households, buildings, and knowledge institutions by 2026...

Singtel partners with Telkom to enter Indonesia data center market

Indonesia

Singtel has announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with Telkom and energy company Medco Power for its first data center project in Indonesia. The data center campus will reportedly be developed in three phases on an 8-hectare site. With a total capacity of 51 MW when fully built...