Data Center News

Sollensys Completes The Acquisition of a Data Center in Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock

Sollensys Corp has completed the acquisition of a data center in Little Rock, Arkansas. The data center acquired measures 468m (5,044 square feet), and it sits on one acre of land. According to the blockchain security company, the data center acquisition is part of multiple real estate acquisi...

Kazteleport To Develop Data Center in Uzbekistan

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Kazteleport has announced its plans to develop a data center in Uzbekistan. Representatives from the Kazakhstan IT firm met with Uzbekistan’s ministry for the Development of IT and Communications to discuss cooperation in the IT field. The parties plan to explore the development of knowledg...

Airtel Launches Tier III Data Center in Lagos, Nigeria

Airtel Africa

Telecommunication firm Airtel has opened a new data center in the Lekki area of Lagos, Nigeria. The data center is called TIA 942, and it is Tier III certified. Airtel says it will be providing clod and hosting services from the facility for government and business. However, the company did...

Google is Investing $9.5 Billion In Its US Data Centers and Offices

Google

Google has announced that it is going on a spending spree this year. The search engine giant plans to invest up to $9.5 billion across its US data centers and offices. This is an over 35% increase from its $7 billion spend last year. According to the company, the investment will create a mi...

Chinese Investment Firms Make Offers For Vnet

21Vianet

Vnet, formerly known as 21Vianet has received unsolicited acquisition offers from two Chinese investment firms. Industrial Bank Co. ltd and Hina Group are looking to acquire the Chinese data center firm. The offer tabled is US$8 in cash per American depositary share. The offer can also be a...

Solar panels to support HostDime's Paraíba data center

HostDime

HostDime has announced that to support its Paraíba data center in Brazil, it has installed a solar plant. The photovoltaic solar power plant, which has already had more than 2,000 photovoltaic modules installed, is located in a rural area of ​​the Pilar municipality in Paraíba, and saw an inv...

Three Gorges Group (CTG) completes first phase of Dongyuemiao data center project

China

Three Gorges Group has announced that it has completed the first phase of its Dongyuemiao data center project in Yichang, Hubei. Work began on the project back in February 2021. The Chinese energy company outlined that the facility's first phase saw an investment of RMB 845 million ($132.7m), ...

KDDI and Telehouse discuss sustainability and targets

Telehouse

KDDI and its data center subsidiary Telehouse recently made their latest sustainability announcements and set a number of target dates to achieve carbon neutrality. Alongside this, they published the details of number of initiatives that will help them to achieve their green goals. Currently, ...

'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's ...

Rowan Green Data Gets Green Light For its 500MW Campus Plans in Temple, Texas

Rowan: Moriah DC

Rowan Green Data can finally go ahead with its data center development in Temple, Texas after city council officials have approved its zoning request. The company announced late last year that it wants to develop 12,500 square meters (135,000 square feet of data center buildings on a site i...

CMC Telecom To Open a New Data Center This Month

CMC Telecom

CMC Telecom has announced that it will be opening a new data center in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam before the month runs out. The new data center will be called TÂN THUẬN, and it will offer up to 107,600 square feet (10,000 square meters) of data center space. It will also have a capacity for 1,20...

Compute North Starts Work on its 300MW Facility in Granbury, Texas

Compute North has announced that it has started constructing its 300MW data center. The facility is located at a gas-fired power plant in the lone star state of Texas. The CEO and co-founder of the company, Dave Perrill, said Compute North is thrilled to break ground on its new data center....

SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota

Singapore

Although back in 2019,  Singapore introduced a data center moratorium following concerns around energy supplies, in 2022, this moratorium was lifted - with conditions. Part of these conditions was that the country would be more selective over future data center projects. Further details around...

ClusterPower opens its first Romanian hyperscale facility

ClusterPower Craiova

ClusterPower has announced the opening of Romania's largest data center. Located in Mischii, Dolj County, the hyperscale facility saw an investment of €40 million. Its 25,400 sqm (273,400 sq ft) campus is expected to house five buildings. In total, the ClusterPower Technology Campus will have ...

PRP Buys Land in Manassas To Develop Three Data Centers

Northern Virginia

According to BizJournal, PRP has completed the acquisition of 22 acres of land in Prince William County, Virginia. The property is located at 7816 Bethlehem Road in Manassas. The Real estate firm paid $22 million to Allan Myers for the property. It is also negotiating for another 13 acres with...

Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

Amsterdam

In Amsterdam, an argument around data center energy usage has been brewing for some time. Back in 2019, in response to the amounts of energy being used up by data centers, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer announced a moratorium on new projects. This was eventually lifted, but...

Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma

Meta

Meta has recently signed another power purchase agreement (PPA) with TransAlta Corporation. Through this deal, Meta will be provided with 200MW from the upcoming Horizon Hill Wind Power Project, which is to be based in Oklahoma. Construction on the project, which will be located on 25,000 acr...

atNorth expands data center footprint in Iceland

atNorth

atNorth has announced that it is to build a third data center campus in Iceland, on a plot of land in Akureyri in the northern part of the country. Named IC03, the site will span 4,000 sqm (43,000 sq ft), and include six data halls with 12MW of capacity. According to Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinss...

CircuBAT: The project reducing Lithium-ion battery waste

Switzerland

In a bid to make lithium-ion batteries more sustainable and long lasting, a new research program has been launched. CircuBAT, a Swiss project of Innosuisse, led by Bern University of Applied Sciences Technology, will be joined by Green Cubes Technology, a company that makes lithium-ion batteri...

Edge Centres Completes Series A Funding, Plans Edge Facilities in Malaysia

Edge Centres

Edge Centres has announced the close of a Series A funding round. It is now planning to deploy facilities in Malaysia and other parts of Asia Pacific (APAC). The Australian Edge data center company closed the AU$12 million (US$8.95m) Series A fundraise. The funding was led by Cloud Link Sol...