Global Data Center News

September 26, 2022

Weserve Completes Acquisition of Datacenter Groningen

Datacenter Groningen BV

Dutch company Weserve has acquired colocation firm Datacenter Groningen. Weserve was founded in 2003, and it operates and provides fiber optics. It also manages its own hardware and network from 25 data centers across the country. On the other hand, Datacenter Groningen owns and operates one d...

September 26, 2022

T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1

Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the ...

September 23, 2022

Work on Meta's data center in Sarpy County halted following racist graffiti being found

September 23, 2022

Verne and Volta announce they're team up

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global and Volta Data Centres have announced that they have teamed up and will now be operating under the Verne Global brand, spanning from Iceland to the UK. Speaking about the decision to merge, Dominic Ward, CEO of Verne Global, said: “With two complementary, best-in-class data cente...

September 23, 2022

Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has invested in another wave of renewable energy projects, totaling 71. Altogether, these projects will take the giant total renewable energy production to 50,000GWh, the same amount required to power 4.6 million homes in the US annually. These projects include th...

September 23, 2022

Bosung Group to expand in South Korea

South Korea

Bosung Group is expanding its data center footprint in SolaSeaDo, South Korea, with the addition of a new 200MW data center campus in SolaSeaDo, to the south of the country in Jeonnam Province. These expansion plans come following the company partnering up with The Green Korea (TGK), a joint v...

September 23, 2022

NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe

Japan

NEC Corporation has announced that it is establishing two new green data centers, in response to the growing demand. The first is the "NEC Kanagawa Data Center: Phase 2 Building" which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2023, and the second is "NEC Kobe Data Center: Phase 3 Building," ...

September 23, 2022

Raxio Breaks Ground on its 1.5MW Kinshasa Data Center in The DRC

Raxio Group

Raxio has announced that it has begun constructing its new Kinshasa facility in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The company first announced the data center in March 2021. At the ground-breaking ceremony, Raxio noted that the facility is the DRC’s first Tier III rated carrier-neutral...

September 23, 2022

Borealis Data Center Buys Data Center For Undisclosed Fee in Reykjavík, Iceland

Iceland

Icelandic data center company Borealis Data Center has completed the acquisition of a data center just outside Reykjavik, Iceland. According to Visir, the company purchased the facility from Islandsbanki. However, the terms of the acquisition weren’t revealed. Borealis currently operates tw...

September 22, 2022

Tighter guidelines on data centre sustainability needed, new report says

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

There have been a number of recent reports that have highlighted that data center operators are falling short when it comes to sustainability tracking. Morningstar Sustainanalytics, Uptime Institute's 12th annual Global data center survey, and now Cushman & Wakefield's report 'Energy, Wate...

September 22, 2022

Stack's heat-sharing project in Oslo successful

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

STACK Infrastructure has successfully connected its data center to Hafslund Oslo Celsio System in Norway for city-wide heat reuse. This is the first time a project of this kind has taken place in the country. Now, after a one-year ramp-up, STACK's OSL01 data center is now providing heat and h...

September 22, 2022

Former CenturyLink data center to become residential development

CenturyLink

A former CenturyLink data center in Salt Lake City, Utah, is set to undergo a significant transformation. Unico Properties is reportedly seeking to convert the 350,000-square-foot (32,500 sqm) facility building into a mixed housing and retail development. This proposal has been in the works si...

September 22, 2022

DTCP Completes Acquisition of Main Stake in Maincubes

maincubes one GmbH

Maincubes has announced that investment management firm Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) has acquired a stake in its firm. The deal sees DTCP take over the shares of the former main shareholder Art-Invest Real Estate. Although the transaction details were not shared, Art-Inves...

September 21, 2022

Founder of Vnet, Josh Sheng Chen Looking To Acquire The Company

21Vianet

The founder of Vnet, Josh Sheng Chen, has offered to acquire the data center company. According to reports from the Chinese data center firm, a non-binding proposal has been received from Josh Sheng Chen. The proposal is to acquire all of Vnet’s outstanding ordinary shares. He proposed $8.2...

September 20, 2022

Equinix expands in Madrid, Spain

Equinix MD6

Equinix's new IBX facility, known as MD6, is almost ready for opening, the company has announced. The facility is set to span 1,466 sqm (15,780 sq ft), with a power capacity of 4.8 MW, and offers capacity for 600 racks. Located on Calle de la Pedriza, 12, Alcobendas, this new facility joins ...

September 20, 2022

Bite Lithuania announces opening of new data center

Lithuania

Bite Lithuania has announced that it has opened a new data center outside Vilnius in Lithuania, taking the company's total data center operations to six. According to the telco, the facility is Tier III certified, and powered by renewable energy. Speaking about the expansion, Gintas Butėnas, C...

September 20, 2022

New report reveals only 33 percent of operators have an adequate program to conserve water

Microsoft Azure

We are living in an era where water stress and water scarcity are serious global issues that are only worsening. A total of 25% of the world's population is facing water stress and scarcity, and it's forecast that by as early as 2025, this could increase to 50% and by 2050, as much as 75% of...

September 19, 2022

Um Telecom announces plans for new data center in Recife, Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

Brazilian telco Um Telecom has announced that it is investing R$40 million (US$7.6m) in a new data center in Recife in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. The facility, which is expected to achieve Tier III certification, will be based at the Technological Park of Electronics and Associated ...

September 19, 2022

AWS files to build data center in DeSoto, outside Dallas, Texas

Amazon AWS

AWS has announced its filing to build a new facility in DeSoto, outside Dallas, Texas. The data center will reportedly span 30,000 square foot (2,790 sq m), and work will commence early next year, with a view for completion in 2024. The facility is known as the Ezell Drive Campus and accord...

September 19, 2022

Zscaler announces carbon neutral status and aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2025

California

Zscaler has announced that it has achieved carbon neutral status, and said that it intends to reach net zero emissions by 2025. However, the company has not published a link to the emissions and carbon accounting data underlying this claim along with the announcement, and the data has not yet ...

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