Data Center News

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Announces Nine More Edge Facilities in South Africa

South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is looking to launch nine Edge data centers across South Africa. The company announced that it would deploy Edge facilities in East London, Paarl, New Germany, Pietermaritzburg, Beaufort West, Mount Edgecombe, Kimberley, George, and Brits in a few months. Upon c...

Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 mill...

Cloud at Work Opens New Data Center in Toronto

Toronto

Cloud at Work has announced the launch of a new data center in Toronto, Canada. The move sees the company expand into the Canadian market as it already has two world-class data centers in the US. According to Cloud at Work, the new facility will ensure that its customers in Canada have access ...

Dutch Government Decide Not To Sell Zeewolde Land To Meta

Hyperscale Data Center

The Dutch Government has revealed that it will not be selling the land in Zeewolde to Meta. Meta had initially earmarked the land to develop a massive data center. The Dutch Government partially owns the land in question. However, Meta hoped to reach an agreement to take over the land to devel...

New legislation to enable UK financial watchdog to visit and regulate cloud data centers and other "critical third parties"

United Kingdom

HM Treasury has published a policy paper which is proposing a new regulatory framework, whereby the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would have powers to visit and regulate the cloud sector. The ministry outlined that currently, over 65% of UK banking and insuran...

Gaw To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City

Gaw Capital Partners has announced that it will build a data center in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. The Hong Kong real estate firm revealed that it acquired 65,200 square feet (6,056 square meters) of greenfield land at the Saigon Hi-Tech Park. Gaw Capital Partners is looking to develop a facility...

CLP Power signs MoU with ESR

CLP Power Hong Kong Limited has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ESR HK Limited, through which it will develop sustainable data centers and logistics centers in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area (GBA), which it said will support "Hong Kong and the GBA to a...

Sify Technologies Announces $345m Data Center Investment in Noida, India

Sify Technologies

Sify Technologies will be developing new data centers in Noida, India. The company revealed that it would be investing Rs 2,692 crores ($345m) in the project. Sify announced the development at the Uttar Pradesh Investors summit. According to the company, this will be one of the largest data...

STC's Share Price Sees Major Surge After $8bn Capital Increase Announcement

Saudi Telecom Company

Saudi Telecom is mulling over increasing its share capital by $8 billion. The company revealed this in a statement earlier in the week. If it happens, STC will issue 30 billion new shares. Existing shareholders will also be offered 1.5 new shares for every share they own. According to Refin...

Material and labor shortages in the data center

San Francisco Bay Area

As the need for data grows and grows, demand for data center construction is as strong as ever, however, the boom is being hampered by a number of factors, including supply and labor shortages, and price hikes. In a recent report named 'Data center market conditions update - Q1, 2022,' constru...

Bill passed to ban cryptomining data centers that use fossil fuel power plants

New York

The New York Legislature has passed a landmark bill to ban cryptocurrency data centers that use fossil fuels to power their operations, in an effort to reduce statewide emissions by 85% by 2050. Specifically, the bill will impose a two-year moratorium on these activities, however, Governor Kat...

Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

Denmark

Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be en...

Agility CMS launches new EU data center

Europe

Agility CMS has announced that it has launched a new EU data center in an effort to improve the speed of content management access, and provide localized support for its customers in both Europe and the UK. This move also comes after a year in which sales doubled and is accompanied by the grow...

Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project

Google

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Corp., currently three of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of clean power, have voiced their opposition to a nearly $4-billion, Warren Buffett-backed renewable-energy project proposed in Iowa. According to the three giants, the project, which would be the l...

Mapletree Industrial Trust Announces Sale of Michigan Data Center

Mapletree: 19675 W Ten Mile

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) has announced the sale of its data center located at 19675 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, Michigan, to its tenant. The data center sits on 121,100 square feet (11,250 square meters) of land. In addition, the four-story facility has up to 52,940 square feet ...

Schneider Electric research reveals "sustainability action gap" in data centres

France

Schneider Electric recently commissioned three independent research studies which sought to understand better the maturity of sustainability initiatives within both IT and data center organizations, and where the two industries are currently situated with regards to achieving a net zero vision...

Work begins on Africell data center

Africa

In Freetown, Sierra Leone, construction has commenced on Africell’s data center, and a groundbreaking ceremony was recently held in the country’s capital to mark the occasion. According to the company, this facility will become the “center of the Africell network” in Sierra Leone, where it wil...

Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development

Meta

Meta has announced that it will be expanding its Gallatin data center campus, which is located in Tennessee. The plans for the campus, which will see an injection of $1B, were first announced back in 2020, and the campus will be powered in part by solar energy from a 110MW power purchase agre...

Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica, which will enable Vantage to supplement the local grid powering the company’s data center campus in Johannesburg (JNB1) with renewable energy. According to reports, the campus is set to open in Ju...

T4's South Island Data Center's Location Chosen

New Zealand

T4 Group has announced that it would house its planned Tier IV facility in New Zealand’s South Island at a hotel in Invercargill. The hotel will also use the data center’s waste heat. T4 first announced plans for the data center in March 2022. The company revealed that it would invest $30 m...