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Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has started work on a new facility in Virginia. The groundbreaking ceremony of the NVAL3 hyperscale data center campus took place this week. The data center’s first phase will deliver 36MW of capacity in a single building by Q1 2024. In addition, t...

AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of new Local Zones in Denmark, Oman, Argentina, and Denmark. The launch sees AWS’ total international Local Zones outside the US reach eight. Local Zones serve the purpose of Edge locations for hosting applications that need low latency to on-premis...

India’s Kotak Bank To Launch a New $1 Billion Data Center Fund

India / Bhārata

India’s Kotak Mahindra Bank’s investment arm Kotak Alternate Assets, has launched a new data center fund. The company announced the appointment of Subhamkar Das as the Chief Operating Officer of its new Kotak Data Centre platform. Kotak Alternate Assets is managed by Kotak Investment Advisors ...

AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced its goal of becoming water positive by 2030, which, according to AWS, will see it returning more water to the communities that it uses in its operations. It also promised to report on its WUE each year. Through this announcement, it joins the likes of other tech giants, Go...

CorScale Plans to File FOr Permission To Develop a 140MW Facility in Iver, Buckinhamshire

Corscale

New data center company CorScale is looking to develop its first international data center in the UK. According to the Senior Vice President of CorScale, the company is a few days away from filing for planning permission to develop the facility in Iver, outside London. CorScale noted that the ...

Canberra DC Plans Expansion of its Auckland Campuses in New Zealand After Land Purchase

Canberra Data Centres (CDC)

Canberra Data Centres has announced that it has bought more land in New Zealand. The company acquired the land in Hobsonville and Silverdale, Auckland. The plan is to expand its existing data center campuses in Auckland with the acquired land.  The Founder and CEO of CDC, Greg Boorer, said...

Africa Data Centres Announces New Data Center in Kigali, Rwanda

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has announced that it is developing its first data center in Kigali, Rwanda. According to the company, the purpose-built data center will offer 2MW of capacity. ADC also revealed that it would break ground on the data center in Q1 2023. It, however, did not reveal the ex...

Meta To Expand its Data Center Campus in Richmond, Virginia

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta is looking to expand its data center campus in Richmond, Virginia. According to Richmond BizSense, Meta acquired 475 acres of land close to its existing facility within White Oak Technology Park in Henrico County. The social media company plans to develop new data centers under the umbrel...

Ennis Data Centre appeal reaches next stage

Republic of Ireland

The appeal against the Ennis Data Centre is reportedly moving to the next stage, according to a report by local newspaper, the Clare Herald. A response from the developer has been passed on from An Bord Pleanála, Ireland's national independent planning body, to the appellants, which include th...

More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

Northern Virginia

In recent years, Chuck Kuhn, the founder, and CEO of JK Moving, has become a big player in the data center real estate market scene in Northern Virginia. Now, it appears that he’s looking to develop a new facility in Loudoun County, following the application for a large data center and warehou...

Brazil’s Zeittec To Develop Data Center for Federal University of Espírito Santo

Brazil / Brasil

Zeittec plans to develop a new data center for the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Vitoria, Espirito Santo. The Brazilian firm plans to develop the facility in seven months. The first phase will see Zeittec renovate UFES to allow it to receive servers and all needed data cent...

Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia

Amazon AWS

AWS has announced that it has signed a PPA with Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to procure solar power for its operations in Indonesia. The state-owned electric utility will buy electricity from 210 MW of solar projects (four solar projects located in Bali and Java Island.)PLN stated that the ...

LCL to deploy more solar panels at its data center in Gembloux

Belgium

LCL has announced that it is deploying more solar panels at one of its data centers, at the LCL Wallonia One site in Gembloux. Currently, the park has 2,000, but this expansion will see an addition of 1,300, taking the site’s generating capacity to 1.6MW. According to the Belgian data center f...

Irish government confirms terms and conditions for ORESS 1

Dublin

Following the Irish government's approval of the terms and conditions of ORESS 1, a huge auction for offshore wind, 2.5GW of renewable energy could be added to the grid, enough to power 2.5 million Irish homes with green electricity. According to reports, at least three offshore energy auction...

Floating data centers on the agenda

France

As the data center industry increasingly searches for low-carbon and less water-intensive ways to cool facilities, a number of different methods have been proposed, with everything from underwater to orbital data centers suggested. Denv-R, a French startup, proposes to float data centers on ur...

Allied Properties REIT Planning to Sell its Toronto Data Center Portfolio

Allied Properties REIT

Allied Properties REIT is looking to sell its data center portfolio in Toronto. The company announced that it is exploring options for a sale of the portfolio. Allied REIT currently owns three data center facilities in downtown Toronto. The properties also include the 151 Front Street West ...

Struggling Compute North Sells Two Data Centers to Foundry Digital

Compute North has sold two of its data centers to crypto mining firm Foundry Digital amidst bankruptcy. Compute North provides data center hosting services for blockchain and crypto mining firms. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September due to owing over 200 creditors up to ...

Invesis Announces the Acquisition of UK’s Asanti

United Kingdom

UK data center company Asanti has been acquired by Investment firm Invesis. Asanti has also acquired five data center facilities from Daisy Group. The five data centers are located in Reading, Hamilton, Manchester, Farnborough, and Birstall. The five facilities have a capacity of over 1,500...

European Investment Bank Loans OVHcloud €200m

OVH Group

OVHcloud has secured a €200 million ($208m) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The loan will be used to fund future developments. OVHcloud's goal is to provide a sustainable cloud service alternative in Europe to replace US cloud providers. It aims to support European privacy standa...

Regional Group Acquires Data Center From Manulife Investment Management in Ottawa, Canada

Ottawa

Canadian real estate company Regional Group has acquired a data center and office complex in Ottawa, Canada. The property it acquired is Qualicum Centre, a three-building office campus located at 2932, 2934, and 2936 Baseline Road. The selling firm is Manulife Investment Management. The ter...