Data Center News

New state data center for Springfield's east side

Illinois

The State of Illinois has announced the purchase of 9.4 acres of land at the Dirksen Business Park in the 2900 block of Dotmar Drive, which will be home to a new data center. The $80.5 million facility will be run by the state Department of Innovation and Technology and will reportedly enable ...

AdaniConneX to introduce Mumbai Data Center Limited

EdgeConneX

The Adani-EdgeConneX Indian Joint Venture, AdaniConneX, has announced that it has introduced a wholly-owned subsidiary named Mumbai Data Center Limited, which will reportedly develop, operate, maintain, and deal with data centers. Further to this, operations are expected to begin shortly.In Fe...

Apple's planned data center in Waukee goes before commission

Apple

It has been five years since Apple announced its $1.3 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa; however, it is finally going before the city's planning commission on Today.  At the time of announcing the facility, Tim Cook, CEO of apple, said the data center would help "drive Apple's future," but s...

BNP Paribas Real Estate launches UK data center team

United Kingdom

BNP Paribas Real Estate has announced that it has launched a new data center team in the UK, with ​​Michael Umfreville as the lead. It will be responsible for leasing and land acquisitions. This launch is reportedly in response to REITs, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds and infr...

QST to Develop 300MW of Data Centers in Partnership With The Saudi Government

Saudi Arabia

Quantum Switch Tamasuk (QST) has revealed plans to develop data centers with up to 300MW capacity for the Saudi Arabian government. The goal is to entice hyperscale customers to come into the country to host public sector data. Interestingly, it has already broken ground on two data centers. Q...

QTS Planning To Expand Its Piscataway data center in New Jersey

QTS Piscataway

Plans are in place for QTS to expand its Piscataway facility in New Jersey. My Central Jersey reports that the company has filed for preliminary and final site plan approval to develop a two-story building to the data center campus at 101 Possumtown Road. By so doing, QTS plans to add up to 45...

Hotwon Group Plans To Raise $300 million To Fund Expansion

China

According to Bloomberg, Hotwon Group is looking to raise up to $300 million in funding. The Chinese data center developer hopes to use the money raised to expand its footprint across the country. Once successful, Hotwon’s valuation will increase to $1.5 billion. Reports also show that the comp...

Equinix Opens New $90 million Data Center In Munich

Equinix Munich MU4

Equinix has announced the opening of a new facility in Ascheim, outside Munich, Germany. The company unveiled the opening of the International Business Exchange (IBX) called MU4. Equinix invested $90 million in the development of MU4’s first phase. The facility offers over 24,200 square feet (...

Kao Data opens 16MW data center in Slough, UK

Kao Data Slough

Kao Data has announced that it has opened a new data center in Slough, UK. The UK data center operator revealed that it opened the 16MW facility to the west of London. The data center will match the operational blueprint and design of Kao’s Harlow campus. In addition, it will also provide a PU...

SpaceDC to build the largest hyperscale data center in the Philippines

SpaceDC

SpaceDC has announced that it is launching a new 72MW data center campus in Cainta, part of Greater Manila, Philippines. Named MNL1, the campus will span 43,000 sqm with 12 four-story buildings and four data halls. In total, there will be 48 data halls, delivering up to 1,500kW of power each. ...

DICE to add six international data centers to its portfolio

DICE has announced that it is significantly expanding its data center footprint with the addition of six new facilities outside of the US and Canada, which will serve the markets in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and expanded footprints in North America. In addition to this, reports indicate tha...

Bharti Airtel has commissions 21 MW solar power plant

Bharti Airtel

Bharti Airtel is expanding its renewable energy offerings with the commissioning of a 21 MW solar power plant in Bhuldana, Maharashtra. According to the company, this solar power energy will be used by Nxtra's data centers, and projections are that the solar-powered unit will reduce 25,517 ton...

AtNorth Mulling Over Location For ‘50MW mega-site’ in Northern Europe

atNorth

AtNorth has revealed that it is mulling over locations for a potential 50MW data center campus. It also hopes to decide before the end of Q1 2022. The CEO of AtNorth, Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson, discussed the company’s plans in an interview with He said Stockholm is the company’s first invest...

Saudi’s STC To Create a New Subsidiary Focussing on Data Center and Cable Business

Saudi Telecom Company

Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has revealed its plans to separate its data center business into a new subsidiary. The company says it will be transferring its international points of presence assets, international submarine cables, and data centers to the new wholly-owned subsidiary. The new comp...

Strategic Datasphere Acquires Data Center In Georgia For $80million

Strategic Datasphere

According to Biz Journal, Strategic Datasphere has completed the acquisition of a data center in Alpharetta, Georgia, for $80 million. The 165,000 square feet (15,300 square meters) facility is leased to E*Trade. This is Datasphere’s first acquisition since it was recently formed. The CEO o...

Neom Reveals More Details For Planned Hyperscale Data Centers In New City

Saudi Arabia

Earlier in the week, Neom announced more details surrounding the development of data centers it planned in the new city of Neom, Saudi Arabia. The firm said it would be developing the data centers in partnership with Ezdihar Advanced Company for Information Technology (EzdiTek). In addition...

Meta's Q4 2021 Capex Stands at $5.5bn- Also Loses $200b in Valuation

Meta

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has released its Q4 2021 financial reports. The report shows that the social media giant has spent $5.5 billion on capital expenditure in Q4 2021. The investment was in servers, office facilities, data centers, and network infrastructure. The company has inves...

DataBank Acquires Its Occupied DEN2 Data Center Site

DataBank

DataBank has announced the acquisition of a data center it was leasing in Denver, Colorado. The company plans to develop a new data center campus at the DEN2 facility. The data center is located at 6900 South Peoria Street, Colorado. DataBank did not reveal the details of the transaction. A...

AtlasEdge Acquires Cornelius House Data Center in Leeds, UK

AtlasEdge

AtlasEdge Data Centers has announced the acquisition of a data center in Leeds, UK. It bought Cornelius House from Leeds Data Centre LLP. The facility is the largest purpose-built data center in the whole of Yorkshire city. The 11,000 square feet (1,020 square meters) facility has been in o...

Singapore and Silicon Valley tie second place in data center rankings

Singapore

According to Cushman & Wakefield's 2022 Global Data Center Market Comparison report, Singapore now ties with the US's Silicon Valley in its league table of the top data center markets. This means that Singapore is now the top market for data centers in Asia-Pacific, beating Hong Kong (6th ...