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Corscale is developing a 300MW data center campus in Prince William County

Corscale: Gainesville Crossing

Corscale has been revealed to be behind the development of a new data center campus in Prince William County. The Nascent hyperscale data center developer revealed on its website that it would be developing the data center campus in the county. It will be developing a 130-acre 300MW Gainesvill...

Google buys 236 acres of land in Kansas City

Google

Google has completed the acquisition of hundreds of acres of lands in Kansas City’s Northland. The search engine giant plans to develop data centers at the site. According to Kansas City Business Journal, property records show that Google bought 236.4 acres of land to the north of Hunt Midwest...

Moro Hub to build solar-powered data centre in Dubai

Dubai

Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has announced that it has commenced work on a 100MW facility solar-powered data center located at EWA's 3,000MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.The facility, located southeast...

Digital Realty Announces Opening Of First Data Center in South Korea

Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

Digital Realty has announced the opening of its first data center in Seoul, South Korea. The new Digital Realty data center is called Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10). The 12MW capacity data center has multiple stories, and it covers a space of 22,000 square feet. This facility is also located in Seoul...

Scala Data Centers to develop two hyperscale data centers in Brazil

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has broken ground on two new hyperscale facilities in Brazil. Scala DC was formed in 2020 by DigitalBridge for the sole purpose of developing hyperscale data centers in South America. Scala Data Centers will be developing the SP4 and SP5 hyperscale facilities in Barueri, Sao...

Keppel Data Centres' green hydrogen supply chain feasibility study

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Data Centres has announced it has teamed up with Woodside, Japan's Osaka Gas business division in Singapore, City Energy and City-OG Gas Energy Services, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), to study the feasibility of a liquid hydrogen supply chain from Western Aust...

Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

Northern Virginia

Recently, Prince William County’s environmental officials announced that they were recommending that the request to replan 2,133-acres in the rural crescent for data centers should be rejected. The watershed management division has argued that the replan would be significantly detrimental to t...

Hines Group acquires Digital Group's San Jose data center for $60m

150 S 1st

According to reports from BizJournal, The Hines Group has acquired Digital Realty’s data center in San Jose, California. The data center in question is a 179,800 square foot, two-story building at 150 S. First Street. The purchase price is said to be $59.6 million. The building sits on a 2.4-a...

Lancium makes investment in renewable energy-powered data center campus

Houston-based Lancium recently announced that over the next 20 years, it plans on investing $2.4 billion in the construction of its Clean Compute Campus, a large-scale renewable energy-powered data center in Abilene, Texas.According to the Development Corporation of Abilene (DCOA), the facilit...

Proximity Data Centers opens new facility in Birmingham, UK

nLighten Edge 8 Birmingham

Proximity Data Centres has announced that it has opened its Birmingham facility near the new HS2 rail station and BBC campus. The company outlines the facility site spans, with 63,000 sq ft (5,800 sq m) available in the actual facility with space for 2000 racks located across three data halls....

Launch of TikTok's €420m Irish data center Postponed to Late 2022

Republic of Ireland

TikTok has revealed that its planned data center opening in Ireland will be delayed due to issues caused by the pandemic. The company revealed to Business Post Ireland €420 million ($473m) that the facility will be launched in late 2022 instead of the planned early 2022 launch. CSO of TikTok, ...

Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia

Reports have it that Prologis has filed for permission to convert an industrial site in Sterling, Northern Virginia, into a data center. The company aims to develop a 500,000 square feet data center on its existing 19.5-acre industrial site. The development project is referred to as Prologis N...

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW turb...

San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has sold its San Jose data center to developer Hines. Documents filed on December 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office outline that Hines paid just under $60 million ($59.6 million) for the complex. The building spans 179,800 sqft; meanwhile, th...

H5 Data Centers to expand its Atlanta data center

H5 Atlanta

H5 Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its facility in Atlanta. The firm revealed that its data center at 345 Court will be have an expansion of over 1,900 square meters (20,000 square feet). The facility will also be increased by over 3MW. The CEO and founder of H5 Data Centers, J...

Meta/Facebook got permission to develop Netherlands' largest data center in Zeewolde

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta has been granted permission to build the Netherlands’ largest data center for its Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp applications in the small town of Zeewolde. Reports have it that the facility will use 200MW of electrical power and have five data center halls. The town council had a meet...

T-Mobile opens a new facility in Warsaw, Poland

T-Mobile Warszawa-Szlachecka

T-Mobile has opened a new data center in Warsaw, Poland. The new 46,200 square feet (4,300 square meters) data center has three stories, and it offers 18,300 square feet (1,700 square meters) of colocation space across eight data halls. T-Mobile claims to have secured a top business customer a...

Oracle developing Swedish and Italian cloud regions

Oracle

Oracle has announced that it has opened new cloud regions in Milan, Italy, and Stockholm, Sweden. These regions are Oracle’s first regions in Italy and Sweden. The regions are also the company’s first in the Nordic region. Under normal circumstances, Oracle always targets having two separate r...

China's Guangdong to move data centers undersea

China

China's Guangdong province recently announced its five-year plan for its marine economy. Part of this plan will see "high energy consuming data centers" submerged in the sea to reduce energy consumption. As per the plan, cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai will relocate their data ce...

Telstra expands Ashburn footprint

Telstra

Telstra is expanding its footprint at its primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Its DC21 facility is managed by Equinix, and according to the company, this expansion will be almost triple the size of the facility now. Telstra says that the expansion at Ashburn, also “adds extra layers of ...