Data Center News

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel to build data center in Harbour Centre

Vancouver

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel is to build a new facility in Vancouver's Harbour Centre. When fully built out, the company says the facility will span 43,000 sqft, with a capacity of 10MW, supporting 20kW+ per cabinet, and over 20,000 connected fibers. According to Director of Data Center ...

Continued environmental concerns around Wallingford data centers

Gotspace Data Partners LLC, the company seeking to build two data center campuses to Wallingford, is facing opposition from locals who argue that facilities in the area would cause detriment to the surrounding environment. At a recent Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, those living in the...

DataGrid to expand in New Zealand

New Zealand

Following the purchase of a 43-hectare site in North Makarewa near Invercargill, Datagrid, is moving forward with its plans to construct a hyperscale facility there, the first of its kind in the area.According to reports, the company will build up to ten 6,500 sqm (70,000 sq ft) modules totali...

Verizon expands in Colorado Springs

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon has announced that it is expanding its digital footprint with the addition of a second data center in Colorado Springs. The company has submitted a proposal for a 49,000 square-foot (4,500 sqm) data center on Arrowswest Drive in El Paso County, with plans for a potential second phase ...

Paris to house Equinix's tenth data center

Equinix Saint-Denis PA10

Equinix is adding a tenth data center into Paris on its Paris Equinix's Saint-Denis campus, with the new site named PA10. In the first phase of construction, the project will offer 3,775 sqm and 1,525 cabinets of capacity. Meanwhile, it will offer 5,775 sqm (62,100 sq ft) of colocation space a...

Orange and Engie partner to transform GOS

Orange

Orange has joined forces with Engie to transform its Ivory Coast, Tier III-certified GOS (Groupement Orange Services) data center and install solar panels. The site, located in Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, was first built in 2016, spanning 16,600 sqm (179,000 sq ft).This project comes in resp...

Facebook's DeKalb data center in first stage of construction

Meta

Facebook’s data center in DeKalb located east of Route 23 and south of Gurler Road, has almost reached its first phase of completion, while the second phase of construction has been approved. According to reports, an initial investment of $800 million has been made, a figure that is likely to ...

BBT Has Selected MCFI's Genius Data Center Solution

BBT Midland 1

Mission Critical Facilities International (MCFI) has announced that it has deployed its GENIUS Modular Data Center in Midland, Texas. Midland is in the epicenter of the most productive oil and gas production locality in the whole of North America. BBT selected MCFI’s GENIUS Modular Data Center...

DigiPlex signs up to the European Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres

DigiPlex Norway AS

DigiPlex has announced that it is the latest signatory to the European Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres. This will reportedly help the company benchmark its performance regarding sustainability and see it participate in carbon reduction initiatives to ensure it keeps a lo...

KKR’s Global Technical Realty moves ahead with UK data center

Global Technical Realty

KKR's Global Technical Realty has announced that it has begun work on its UK data center campus located in Slough. When fully built out, the campus will have a total capacity of 40.5MW, made up of three 13.5MW, 5,400 sq m (58,000 sq ft) data centers.Franek Sodzawiczny, Founder and CEO at Globa...

Skybox Datacenters finishes construction on Illinois data center

Skybox Datacenters

Construction on Skybox Datacenters's 189,000 sq ft (17,600 sq m) facility Elk Grove Village facility is complete, the company has announced. The project, first announced in March 2021, is the company's first outside of Texas and has a capacity of 30MW.Rob Morris, CEO of Skybox Datacenters, sai...

Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

Singapore

This week, Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister made an announcement that the country's moratorium on new data center builds, which was introduced back in 2019. Minister Gan Kim Yong said that going forward, a "more selective" approach to new builds will be taken.In a written reply to a par...

AREP to invest in six data centers

Ashburn: Data Center Alley

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that, with Harrison Street, it is investing $1bn (€864m) in six data centres in the US. According to reports, this development plan will total 2.1m sqft of data centre space in Data Center Alley in Ashburn and Arcola, Virginia.Speaking about t...

GTD Group to grow its presence in Peru

GTD Group is expanding its data center footprint in Lima, Peru, it has announced, with an investment of $50 million in a new facility. According to reports, the site will span 10,000 sqm (107,600 sq ft) with 2,000 sqm (21,500 sq ft) to accommodate 900 racks. $7 million of the $50 million inves...

Stack makes progress at its Hillsboro campus

STACK Portland POR03

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has made progress at its new Hillsboro campus in Oregon with the completion of its first building. Spanning 180,000 sqft, with a capacity of 24MW, that said, only half of that capacity (12MW) is available due to pre-leasing activity.The facility, POR0...

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into Japan with a 36MW campus

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed that it would be developing a 36MW data center campus in Japan. The facility will be located in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, just outside Tokyo. Stack Infrastructure will be partnering with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management LP on the project. The comp...

AIMS Data Centre buys a 13-story building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

AIMS Data Centre Sdn Bhd

Malaysia’s AIMS Data Centre has revealed that it acquired a 13-story building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The data center firm acquired the purpose-built office building for RM 62 million ($14.8m). The company reached an agreement with KWSP (Malaysia’s Employees Provident Fund Board) for the bu...

Gibtelecom initiates tree planting scheme in Wales

Wales

Gibtelecom has teamed up with the charity Protect Earth for a forestation project. Already, it has planted over 600 native British trees at the Pantpurlais farm, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, including 12 species of native saplings, including 100 Silver Birch, 50 Common Alder, 25 Bird Cherry, and ...

Telehouse moves into Bangkok

Telehouse Bangkok

Telehouse has announced that it is introducing a new data center to Bangkok, Thailand, which according to the company, is the first of its kind in the area, and will launch the company's third location in Southeast Asia.Spanning 9,000 sqm (97,000 sq ft), the facility, based in the Rama 9 busin...

Digital 9 is investing extra $93 million in Verne Global

Verne Global

Digital 9 Infrastructure has revealed that it is investing an extra $93 million in Iceland’s data center company Verne Global. The investment is to fund a further expansion of the data center firm. Triple Point Investment Management manages D9, and it acquired Verne Global in September last ye...