Global Data Center News

June 06, 2022

Faced with EU sanctions Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh resigns

Yandex NV

It has been announced that Arkady Volozh, co-founder Yandex, the largest Russian technology firm, has resigned as CEO of the company after being added to the EU's list of individuals sanctioned over the war in Ukraine. Volozh was named last week in the EU's sixth round of sanctions. Moreover, ...

June 06, 2022

Bitzero & investor Kevin O’Leary make big company announcements

North Dakota

Bitcoin mining company Bitzero, reportedly a "100% green company," recently made a number of announcements related to its expansion and headquarters location. Plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years were announced, and the state was also ch...

June 06, 2022

Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Foster Fuels, which will now serve as the data center company's "preferred green diesel provider," making it the first provider in the industry to use Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil-based biodiesel (HVO) to fuel its on-...

June 03, 2022

Nfinit Is Upgrading Two Facilities in San Diego

NFINIT

Nfinit has announced its plans to upgrade two facilities in San Diego for $8 million. The data center company was acquired by LightEdge earlier in April. Nfinit revealed that it would be updating the software and hardware of its cloud infrastructure. By so doing, it will be adding new chill...

June 03, 2022

Etisalat Opens New Data Center in Kalba, UAE

Etisalat Kalba

e& and Etisalat- its subsidiary have opened a cable landing station and data center in Kalba, UAE. e& which used to be called Etisalat Group, opened SmartHub Kalba earlier. According to Telco Etisalat, the new data center was developed to Tier III standards. The data center will also p...

June 02, 2022

Supernap Thailand Shareholders Mulling Over Sale

Switch

According to reports, Supernap Thailand investors are looking to sell their stake in the business. Some shareholders including Kasikornbank Pcl and Siam Commercial Bank are working with financial advisers to make the sale possible. Supernap Thailand is said to be worth up to $800m. Supern...

June 02, 2022

NextDC Looking To Buy Global Switch's APAC Portfolio

Global Switch

According to reports, NextDC is looking to acquire Global Switch’s Asia-Pacific arm. The Australian data center firm has contacted Macquarie Capital to find a financial partner for the purchase. Global Switch has been looking to sell its business for more than a year. Besides, it was in dis...

June 02, 2022

CIM Group Invests $355m in Novva Data Centers

Novva Data Centers

CIM Group has announced that it is pumping $355 million into Novva Data Centers. The fund will be geared towards achieving Novva’s goal of offering 1,000MW of designed data center capacity in the next five years. Novva Data Centers was launched in 2020 with a $100m backing from CIM Group. A...

June 02, 2022

Alecta and Brookfield Acquire Significant Stake in Telia's Swedish Tower Business

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Alecta and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners have announced the acquisition of a 49 percent stake in Telia Company’s tower business in Sweden. The acquisition comes after the firms acquired 49 percent of Telia’s tower business in Norway and Finland. The deal is worth $560 million, and it was ...

June 01, 2022

Colt technology expands into South Korea

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt has announced its expansion into the South Korean market, with the establishment of network hubs in four key carrier-neutral data centers in the Seoul Metropolitan area, which will offer speeds of up to 40G Ethernet Service. Masato Hoshino, representative director & president/head of ...

June 01, 2022

Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however...

May 31, 2022

UK government launches eight-week consultation on data centers and the cloud

United Kingdom

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport recently announced the commencement of an eight-week consultation, part of the National Data Strategy, to explore strengthening the security and resiliency of the UK's data centers and cloud services. Specifically, it is calling for view...

May 31, 2022

Winter power cuts ahead for the UK?

United Kingdom

The UK government has hit back at rumors that this winter, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK could experience blackouts. The government has said that this would be a "worst-case scenario" and a result of Russia cutting off more supplies to the EU. Commenting on whether or ...

May 30, 2022

GMT To Develop Crypto Mining Data Center in The UAE

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

GMT has announced its plans to develop a data center in the UAE. The Singapore-based crypto mining company revealed in a Medium post that it would be investing heavily in developing a data center in the region. According to GMT, there’s no exact location for the data center yet, but more in...

May 30, 2022

US Air Force Developing Data Center on New South Korean HQ

South Korea

The US Air Force’s 51st Communications Squadron has started work on its new HQ at the 51st Fighter Wing Osan Air Base in South Korea. The new headquarters will feature a data center with updated network operations. In addition, the data center will also serve as the alternate action team, f...

May 30, 2022

Bristow Officials To Allow Data Center Development on Stanley Martin’s Devlin Technology Park

Northern Virginia

Bristow’s officials have voted in favor of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment. This amendment could see the development of a 4.25 million square feet data center campus in the area. Stanley Martin, a Virginia-based developer, is looking to have over 250 acres in Prince William County rezoned. T...

May 30, 2022

Telefónica Announces €1 Billion Sustainability-Linked Senior Bond

Telefonica

Telefonica has announced that it has issued its first senior sustainable bond. The bond will be used to sponsor sustainability initiatives and projects. The nine-year bond amounts to €1 billion ($1.06 billion). Telefonica saw immense success with the bond as it was over subscribed by more t...

May 27, 2022

Best Wonder Business (BWB) to develop a data center powered entirely by solar power in Aragon, Spain

Spain

Best Wonder Business (BWB) has announced its intentions to develop a 16MW data center, powered solely by solar power, and located at the Huesca Logistics Platform (Plhus) business park outside Huesca, in the Aragon region. Reported to be worth €230 million ($264m); the company hopes the facili...

May 27, 2022

AWS, biometrics and human rights

Amazon AWS

AWS is under pressure to drop a contract it holds with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which will see it host the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric database, which, according to a recent report by Mijente, Just Futures Law and the Immigrant Defense Project, h...

May 27, 2022

Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro

Intel

Intel has announced that it is developing a $700 million research lab in Hillsboro, Oregon, which will focus on sustainable data center technology. To be located at the company’s Jones Farm campus, the lab will span 200,000 sq ft (18,580 sqm) and is expected to open next year. According to th...

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Data Centre Developer Sues New Jersey Town for $300m

Faced with EU sanctions Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh resigns

Bitzero & investor Kevin O’Leary make big company announcements

Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels

Nfinit Is Upgrading Two Facilities in San Diego

Etisalat Opens New Data Center in Kalba, UAE

Supernap Thailand Shareholders Mulling Over Sale

NextDC Looking To Buy Global Switch's APAC Portfolio

CIM Group Invests $355m in Novva Data Centers