Data Center News

Africa Data Centres launches data center in Lagos

ADC Lagos LOS1

Africa Data Centres has announced the opening of a new data center in Lagos, Nigeria. The data center, namely LOS1 will have a capacity of 10MW, with six data halls, and spanning 6,000 sqm (64,500 sq ft). According to the company, the facility will serve as the West African Hub for the compan...

Hermosa Ranch data center pushback

Arizona

The proposed Hermosa Ranch data center in Avondale, Arizona, is being faced with pushback amid water concerns. TGV Investments Voting Trust and Rexco DC LLC are the companies proposing the construction of the Hermosa Ranch Tech Campus, which would involve changing city plans from installing a ...

Meeza expands in Qatar with fourth data center

Meeza

Meeza is launching its fourth data center building, namely M-Vault 4, which is to be the biggest in Qatar and due to host a new Microsoft cloud region in Doha. According to reports, this data center building will help to accelerate Qatar’s digital transformation agenda. Further details outlin...

Yotta to develop two data centers in its Greater Noida DC Park, India

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Yotta Infrastructure has announced its plans for developing two more data centers in Noida, India. The company revealed that it would be starting construction on the data centers in its Greater Noida Data Center Park by January 2022. The two data centers will have up to 30MW of capacity eac...

Chickasaw Defense Logistics to build data center at Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina

Chickasaw Defense Logistics is to build a data center at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg military base, which holds 54,000 military personnel. The federal contractor will construct the facility in building E-1351.According to reports, the contract is worth approximately $15,172,228. That said, its...

Meta (Facebook) confirms it's behind the 200MW data center in Zeewolde

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has confirmed that it is behind the development of the proposed 200MW data center in Zeewolde, the Netherlands. According to specifications, the facility could cover five data halls and have up to 200MW of capacity upon full buildout. However, the Zeewolde cit...

Infracrowd Capital signs MoU to develop $100 million data center in Vietnam

Vietnam

Singaporean infrastructure investment firm Infracrowd Capital has plans to develop a data center in Vietnam. Infracrowd signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nang IT Park Development Joint Stock Company for the data center development. The company will be developing a Tier III data c...

Rostec launches data center for Motovilikha Plants

Rostec has announced the launch of a new data center for Motovilikha Plants, a metallurgical and military equipment manufacturer. The Russian state-owned tech conglomerate outlined that this facility, developed with help from Technodinamika, will be used by MP for computing needs for the next ...

PLDT partners with Mpower to source renewable energy for its data centers

ePLDT

PLDT has announced that it has partnered with Mpower, a local energy firm, to become more sustainable and decarbonize its portfolio. Mpower will provide the renewable energy from its greenfield renewable energy plants. According to reports, Mpower will provide a “significant portion” of the co...

Microsoft to develop Azure data center region in Belgium

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced plans for an Azure data center region in Belgium. However, it didn’t share details of where the region will be or when it plans to develop it. Yet, just like Microsoft’s other regions, the Belgium Azure region will include three availability zones to enable better redun...

Supernap Italia opens second data center on its Siziano Campus

STACK Milan Campus

Supernap Italia has announced the opening of its second data center on its Siziano campus in Milan, Italy. The new data center has two independent data halls. With this, the facility now has 1 million square feet of space (100,000 square meters) and 40MW of capacity. CEO of Supernap Italia,...

Schneider Electric's blueprint for data center sustainability compliance

In response to the growing and urgent need for data centers to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Schneider Electric has revealed its framework for how data center operators can achieve this. Tony Kang, Business VP for Secure Power at Schneider Electric Philippines, commente...

VPLS acquires Wave Broadband's data center Silicon Valley

Evocative

VPLS has completed the acquisition of its third data this year by buying Wave Broadband’s facility in Santa Clara, California. The 3MW, 30,000 square feet data center located at 3080 Raymond Street, was acquired for an undisclosed fee. VPLS will rename the data center to SV3. According to r...

Sustainability efforts: New data center at LNG terminal from Korea Gas and KT

KT Corporation

Korean telecoms company KT is looking into using the cold energy released during the regasification process from KOGAS’s natural gas to cool a facility at the LNG plant. This process deals with temperatures of -160oc, and if all goes ahead, this project will be the first of its kind. In Seoul,...

Utilizing waste heat: Nokia vLabs data center

Nokia's vLab data center in Tampere, Finland, will start to provide its waste heat to Tempere's district heating system in a move that promotes a secular economy. This heat project will commence at the beginning of 2022 and is a move towards a more sustainable future, in line with the company'...

Tencent Cloud launches first internet data center in Brazil

Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud has announced that it has opened its first data center in São Paulo, Brazil. This means, Tencent Cloud now spans 68 available zones across the world, including 27 geographical areas. The expansion comes to meet the growing digitalization demand in the country. Poshu Yeung, Senior...

ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which w...

Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has "amended, extended, and upsized" its existing global revolving credit facility from $2.35 billion to $3.0 billion, which now feature a sustainability-linked pricing component. Moreover, the pricing will be "subject to adjustment" based on performance ta...

KKR offers to acquire TIM/Telecom Italia for $12 billion

TIM Group

United States hedge fund KKR has offered to acquire Italian telco TIM/Telecom Italia for $12 billion. TIM revealed that its board of directors met this week to discuss the interest of KKR to take its company private. However, there’s no assurance or indication whether TIM’s board will accept K...

Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) moves into Africa

Africa

Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) has announced that it is moving into Africa, after having signed Letters of Intent (LOI) for several projects, in the first steps towards collaboration with government ministries. This news follows African Energy Week. According to reports, EW&P is looking...