Data Center News

Big tech greenwashing: A failure to deliver on sustainability pledges

Google

Nearly every day, it seems another tech company has made another big green pledge; however, according to the nonprofit NewClimate Institute, big tech's promises to deliver on sustainability are not leading to action. Lacking real substance, according to the report, even the companies that are ...

Data centers and the electrical grid

Research group Omdia recently published a survey on data centers and its ability to support the electric grid. The research revealed that within the next four years, data center operators will deploy uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) able to interact with the electric grid, supporting essen...

DC Alliance Looking To Develop First Tier-rated Facility in Palau

DC Alliance

DC Alliance has announced that it signed an MOU with Pacific Blockchain Corporation. The MOU will see the data center developer look into developing a Tier III rated data center in Palau. According to DC Alliance, the facility will have an initial capacity of 1MW while also accommodating 200 r...

AWS Reveals The Size of Properties Under Its Control

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it has over 26 million square feet (2,415,500 square meters) under its control. The company announced this through its latest 10-K filing. The filing further showed that the company owns 11.9 million square feet (1,105,500 square meters) and leases 14.1...

Oracle Partnering With Telefonica For Cloud Region in Madrid

Oracle

Oracle has announced a partnership with Telefónica. The agreement sees Oracle place its Spanish cloud region in Telefonica’s data center in Madrid, Spain. Per the agreement, the two firms will jointly offer cloud platform-as-a-service and applications to public sector organizations and enterpr...

Amazon Receives $4.7bn In Subsidies From Global Governments For The Development of Facilities

Amazon AWS

According to Good Jobs First, Amazon has received at least $4.7 billion in federal and state subsidies over the past decade around the world. The subsidies support the development of warehouses, call centers, data centers, offices, and film production projects. The watchdog group compiled data...

QTS Announces Interest in 800-acre Land In Prince William County For Data Center Development

QTS Data Centers

QTS has revealed its plans to develop a data center on an 800-acre site in Prince William County, Virginia. The company’s plans are part of the controversial move by the county to rezone over 2,100 acres of land in Manassas, Northern Virginia, for developing data centers. A spokesperson for QT...

Russia's MTS and South Korea's KT Corp Are Partnering Up

MTS Group

South Korea’s KT Corp and Russia’s MTS have announced that they formed a partnership to build data centers in Russia. The companies said they signed a strategic agreement to develop new business directions, including joint AI-based solutions, data centers, and media content projects. The te...

Element Critical partner up with NextEra Energy for renewables

Element Critical

​​Element Critical has inked a clean energy deal with NextEra Energy Resources, which will provide the data center company with renewable energy. The power purchase agreement (PPA) between the two companies, will see Element Critical provided with power from an ERCOT-connected, Texas-based win...

Mitsubishi Estate data center subsidiary turns to renewable energy for Tokyo data centers

Marunouchi Direct Access ltd

Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary Marunouchi Direct Access (MDA) has announced its decision to make three of its Tokyo data centers more sustainable by switching to renewable energy. This switch happened in early February 2022 and was made through the RE100 climate plan using conforming feed-in tar...

Centenary Group moves into Masaka

Centenary Group, a Ugandan banking group, has announced that it has plans to build a new Tier III data center in Masaka. Further details around specifications are yet to be released. According to the company, this facility, the first outside Kampala, is part of its mission to harness financial...

Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) for Interxion backup generators

InterXion

Interxion is one of the latest companies to turn to Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) for its data center backup generator needs. The company is using HVO100 fuel and the first site in its French portfolio to make the change was its new PAR8 site, in La Courneuve, Paris. The fuel is made f...

Sophos plans new data center in Mumbai, India

Sophos has announced that it is entering the Indian market by introducing a new data center in Mumbai. According to reports, development on the facility will start in March 2022. Speaking about the opportunities the facility will bring for the area, Sunil Sharma, managing director of sales for...

Avaio and Adam Real Estate Form JV For Hyperscale Data Center Development in Quebec, Canada

Quebec City

Adam Real Estate and Avaio have come together to form a new hyperscale joint venture in Quebec, Canada. The joint venture will be called Gatineau Data Hub (GDH) to develop a new, sustainable, hyperscale facility in Gatineau, Quebec. Gatineau is located to the north of Ottawa. The partnership w...

Compute North Secures $385 Million In Strategic Funding

Compute North has announced the closing of its next growth capital round of $385 million. The capital raised comprises $300 million in debt financing and $85 million in initial Series C equity closing, led by Generate Capital and Mercuria. Compute North will fund the development of new project...

Dutch government outlines its position on hyperscale data centers

Netherlands

The newly formed Dutch government has announced that going forward, it will impose environmental controls on hyperscale data centers, which it said is in response to protests around Facebook’s proposed 166 hectare hyperscale data center in Zeewolde. The proposal received an outcry of oppos...

Google Has Still Not Acquired Land For Data Center in Sherburne County

Google

Google has still not started work on its proposed $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota. The search engine giant announced plans for the data center in 2019, yet, the two companies involved said they hadn’t abandoned the project. At the time of the announcement, Google said it was mull...

Plaza Realty Files For Rezoning of Land For a 1 million sq ft Data Center in Prince William County

Northern Virginia

The development of a large-scale data center in Prince William County, Virginia, is being proposed by developers. Developers submitted plans to have a site at 14854 Dumfries Road to the west of Dale City and the east of the Northern Virginia county be rezoned. They want to develop a 1 million ...

Data centers and the supply chain: Challenges on the horizon?

The global supply chain crisis has had a devastating impact on industries worldwide, but one sector that has remained seemingly unscathed for the most part is the data center industry. The building boom has continued, but now, as the crisis drags on, experts are trying to gauge whether this wi...

Metro Connect: The highlights

This year, Metro Connect kick-started on the 31st January. The three-day in-person conference was held at a South Beach Hotel in Miami and brought together big names in digital infrastructure, tech and private equity and featured a number of high-profile keynote speakers, presentations and dis...