Global Data Center News

August 15, 2022

Elisa to share heat from its data center in Helsinki

Elisa Corporation

According to reports, Finish telco Elisa is the latest company to employ circular economy principles in order to make use of waste heat from its data center in Helsinki. The company recently announced that it has connected to an open district heating system run by energy company Helen, to help...

August 15, 2022

Namibia: Paratus launches data center in Windhoek

Africa

Paratus has announced the launch of a new data center in Namibia, located in the capital city, Windhoek, its first facility in the country. The company has called the facility ‘Armada,' and although further details around the facility are yet to be released, it will reportedly be built to Tier...

August 15, 2022

Protests arise in opposition to recently approved €450m Ennis data center

Republic of Ireland

Environmental group Futureproof Clare is opposing the approval of a €450 million ($464.3m) data center project in Ennis, in the West of Ireland, over concerns around public health, and a projected use of "inordinate amounts of water and electricity."The facility, an Art Data Centres project, w...

August 15, 2022

Eurofiber Cloud Infra employs circular economy principles

Netherlands

Eurofiber Cloud Infra has announced that it is exploring employing circular economy principles in association with housing corporation Volkshuisvesting, infra-specialist for new energy Firan, and Eurofiber-owned Dataplace, for its data center in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The three have partnere...

August 15, 2022

Digital 9 Infrastructure Increases Credit Facility By £75m ($91m)

Digital 9 Infrastructure

Digital 9 Infrastructure has announced an increase to its revolving credit facility by £75 million ($91m). This brings its total credit to £375m ($454m). According to D9, it still has the capacity to increase its credit facility by another £125m ($151m). The company is managed by Triple Point....

August 15, 2022

Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For $205m

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced the sale of a “mature” data center. The move is to ensure that more capital is available for new projects. Notably, the company did not reveal which building it sold or who acquired the facility. According to a release from the company, it has disposed of the prope...

August 12, 2022

Lincoln Rackhouse and Principal Real Estate Investors Acquire 7MW Data Center in Atlanta

Lincoln Property Company

Principal Real Estate Investors and Lincoln Rack have acquired a data center in Atlanta. The data center spans 185,000 square feet (17,200 square meters). It also sits on 38 acres of land. The facility has a capacity of 7MW. It can also be expanded to 13MW upon full build out. According to ...

August 11, 2022

Colt planning 50MW West London campus

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt is reportedly planning to build a new data center campus in Hayes, West London, after receiving approval for the project in April. The proposal will see the development of the former Optimum Data Centre, neighboring Tudor Works and Veetec Motor Group facilities, into a new data center ca...

August 11, 2022

Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft embroiled in gold mine controversy

Amazon AWS

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, have all made big claims regarding sustainability and social responsibility, however, recently, the three giants have been embroiled in a c ontroversy relating to buying so-called "blood gold." According to reports, the three, alongside Apple, bought gold from an...

August 11, 2022

Ooredoo announces ground breaking of three data centers in Oman

Qatar

Qatari telecoms firm Ooredoo has announced plans to build three more data centers in Barka, Salalah, and Suhar. Each will be Tier 3 and have 500 racks capacity, the two former will provide landing points for the upcoming 2Africa cable. “Ooredoo has begun construction on three new state-of-the-...

August 11, 2022

Amazon's emissions increase

Amazon AWS

Despite Amazon's lofty promises of securing carbon neutral status before 2040, the latest statistics from its sustainability report, reveal that the giant's carbon emissions actually increased by 18%, from 60.64 million metric tons to 71.54 million metric tons, the equivalent of 19 coal-fired ...

August 10, 2022

Google experiences widespread outage

Google

This week, Google was down after experiencing an outage that impacted systems worldwide. As reported by DCD, this outage occurred shortly after an explosion at Google’s data center in Iowa - however, currently, it is unknown whether the two are related. According to Down Detector, the ou...

August 10, 2022

Nation Data Center To Develop Second Data Center in France

France

French data center company Nation Data Center has revealed it will be developing a second data center. The facility will be located in Val-de-Reuil in Normandy. According to a LinkedIn post from the company, it says it is proud to announce its second data, which it referred to as a fortress...

August 10, 2022

New York Internet Doubles Its Data Center Presence By Taking Over Equinix's Space at 60 Hudson Street

Equinix New York NY8

New York Internet has announced the takeover of space at the Hudson Street carrier hotel. Equinix formerly occupied the space. NYI is an infrastructure and managed services provider. It also had a presence at the building before expanding to Equinix's former space. The deal is a result of a...

August 10, 2022

Several Companies Including QTS, DAMAC, Prime DC, and Pure Looking To Expand into Spain

Spain

Many US data center firms and developers are looking to enter the Spanish data center market. They are looking to develop or acquire the facilities in the country. According to Cinco Dias, Blackstone – through QTS, Prime DC, Pure, and DAMAC are exploring options to buy land and build data cent...

August 10, 2022

Microsoft's hydrogen fuel test successful

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that its hydrogen fuel cell tests have been successful. The giant recently trialed the energy source for its backup generators to support its data center, in what has been called a “moon landing” moment for the data center industry. Microsoft director of data center re...

August 10, 2022

Huawei to finalize data center location in Saudi Arabia

Huawei Cloud

Huawei is reportedly set to finalize its data center location in Saudi Arabia, the giant’s second in the Middle East, following the establishment of a first in Abu Dhabi. In a statement, Frank Dai, President of Huawei Cloud M.E, said: “We are in the final stages of the Saudi decision — the ...

August 09, 2022

Segro applies to build new data center park in Slough, UK

London: Slough

Segro has announced that it has applied to build a new data center park, near Slough, UK. Details outline that the park will span 65,000 sqm (700,000 sq ft) and be located within the Thorney Business Park in Iver. According to the planning statement, the proposed building (DC1) is also accompa...

August 09, 2022

Chindata and Vertiv make big claims about waterless 'X-Cooling' technology

Chindata Group

Chindata and Vertiv have announced what they're calling x-cooling, the "world's first waterless cooling technology," which they say enables data centers to operate without consuming any water, working at a WUE (water usage effectiveness) of zero. The announcement of the technology was reported...

August 09, 2022

Eirgrid energy decision domino effect: Dataplex enters voluntary liquidation

DataPlex Group

As covered by DCD, Dataplex has gone into voluntary liquidation, which it said is due to the company having to wait 12 months for grid power approval from Eirgrid, only to be declined. The company had planned to develop brownfield projects, which would have seen the retrofitting of existing st...

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Protests arise in opposition to recently approved €450m Ennis data center

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Digital 9 Infrastructure Increases Credit Facility By £75m ($91m)

Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For $205m