Data Center News

Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility

Google

Luxemburg has instructed Google to decide on its planned data center in the country. The search engine giant bought land in 2017 to develop the facility, but development has been delayed due to local court cases and protests. Earlier in 2017, Google wanted to start the €1 billion ($1.1bn) p...

MTS Announces Data Center Subsidiary, Plans 15 New Facilities

MTS Group

MTS has announced that it is setting up a new data center unit (subsidiary). The Russian telco also revealed that it would develop four new facilities over the next 24 months. It also looks to develop up to 15 data centers across Russia under the new subsidiary. The new subsidiary will be c...

Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. plans to a network of data centers on the Moon

United States

St. Petersburg-based Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. has announced its plan to build a network of data centers on the Moon. The venture capital-funded startup, is operating out of the Maritime and Defense Technology Hub, and in December, intends to send equipment related to the space project throu...

Meta to expand at DeKalb data center campus and announces new sustainability projects

Meta

Meta has announced further expansion with an injection of over $1 billion into three new data centers at its cloud campus in DeKalb, Illinois. The data center will span nearly 2.4 million-square-foot. Speaking about the decision to expand its presence at the cloud campus, Darcy Nothnagle, Dir...

Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

Microsoft Azure

Infrastructure Masons, a body for large data center builders, has announced the formation of a new group, the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), to establish a standard for data centers' embodied carbon. So far, some of the hyperscalers involved in the project include AWS, Google, Meta, and Microso...

Aire Networks Opens New Data Center in The Malaga TechPark of Spain

Spain

Aire Networks has announced the opening of its new data center in Malaga, Spain. The new data center is located in the Malaga TechPark, and it cost the company spent €2.5 million ($2.6m) to develop. Aire Networks did not reveal the specifications of the data center.  A statement from the c...

Amazon To Develop New Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon is going to develop another data center in Chantilly, Virginia. The news was first broken by BizJournal. However, it has now been confirmed with local county records that the company has been granted permission to develop the data center at 3980 Virginia Mallory Drive. The filing did...

Riot Blockchain's 1GW cryptomining farm in Texas

Texas

Riot Blockchain Inc. has announced that it is going to build a new cryptomine data center in Texas, on a 265-acre site that will utilize 1GW of energy, with an initial capacity of 400MW. According to reports, if used at full capacity constantly, the facility would consume the same amount of en...

Yandex data center in Finland loses power

Yandex NV

According to circulating reports, Yandex's Finland data center has been disconnected from the electricity grid by Nivos Energia Oy. This news comes in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite the company, which is registered in the Netherlands, not being on a sanctions list. That said...

Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has shared its data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE) data for the first time. Overall, the giant achieved a high level of efficiency with regards to PUE, while when it came to WUE, it didn't quite meet its target, and there was room for impr...

Interxion data center to heat Vienna hospital

Digital Realty: Vienna

Interxion's Vienna data center campus is set to heat the nearby Floridsdorf Hospital, it has been announced. This will be facilitated by the Austrian government injecting €3.5 million ($3.7m) from environmental funds into the project, which will see the construction of an insulated pipe betwe...

Planned AWS data center in Dublin to go ahead despite challenge

Amazon AWS

After a prolonged battle by charity An Taisce to defeat Amazon's Co Meath 48 megawatt (MW) data center proposal at the IDA Business & Technology Park, it has been announced that the giant's plans have been given the green light. The charity had opposed the facility based on environmental c...

AWS Given Green Light To Purchase Land For New Zealand Cloud Region cloud region

Amazon AWS

It is good news for Amazon Web Services as it has been granted permission to acquire land for its planned data center development in New Zealand. In September last year, the company revealed plans to launch its new Cloud Region in the country in 2024. Consistent with Microsoft’s previous regio...

TelOne Opens New Data Center in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s state-owned telecommunication company TelOne has announced the opening of its new data center in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The 400kW, 120 rack data center is built to Tier 3 standard, and it is the first of its kind in Matabeleland, south of the country. The facility also offers redund...

Google Launches First Spanish Region in Madrid

Google

Google has announced that it has opened its first cloud region in Madrid, Spain. The company noted that the just opened cloud region is designed to meet the technological needs of businesses in Spain. In addition, it added that the region helps provide low latency cloud services with high data...

Yandex To Sell Its Media Arm To VKontakte

Yandex NV

Russia’s Yandex has decided to sell its Media unit to VKontakte. Yandex is usually considered Russia’s Google, while VKontakte is referred to as Russia’s Facebook. Yandex’s blogging platform Zen and its news sending service Yandex news are being disposed of for undisclosed fees. The reason ...

GDS and YTL To Jointly Develop Eight Data Centers With 168MW Capacity in Johor, Malaysia

GDS Services Ltd

GDS has announced its plan to develop multiple data centers in YTL’s data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. GDS Holdings and YTL Power International Berhad signed an agreement to co-build eight data centers at the YTL Green Data Center Park. The data centers developed will have a capacity o...

Start Campus Starts Work on Its 495MW Data Center Project

Start Campus has announced that it is starting development on a new data center campus in Portugal. Start Campus is owned by Pioneer Point Partners and Davidson Kempner. The company will break ground on the first phase of the Sines 4.0 facility. The data center is located in the Sines Indus...

Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is set to buy over 100 acres in Malaga, Washington. According to the county's officials, the company will be using the land to develop data centers. Commissioners of the Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority signed a sale and purchase agreement with Microsoft for 102.5 acres of l...

Flexential To Develop an 18MW Facility in Raleigh, North Carolina

Flexential

Flexential has announced that it plans to develop an 18MW data center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The data center will span 11,150 square meters (120,000 square feet). The first phase is expected to deliver 4.5MW capacity, and it is scheduled to come online in Q3 2023. Flexential has also r...