Data Center News

CapitaLand acquires land in India for 90MW data center campus

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

Singaporean real estate firm CapitaLand has bought a 6.6-acre land in Navi Mumbai, India, for the development of a data center campus. Earlier in July, the firm first announced that its Ascendas India Trust (a-iTrust) plans to build a 90MW data center in the country. CapitaLand’s Q3 2021 ea...

Atos: €800 million in sustainability-linked bonds raised

Atos has announced that it has raised €800 million ($916m) in sustainability-linked bonds with an 8-year maturity and a 1.0% coupon. Moreover, if Atos achieves a reduction in 2025 of its annual Greenhouse Gas CO2 emissions (Scopes 1, 2 & 3) by 50% compared to 2019, the coupon of the last t...

Google to expand in Israel amid calls for the tech giant to 'boycott' Israel

Google

Google has announced that it will be expanding its data center footprint in Israel, building its fourth facility in the Sharon region near Moshav Beit Yehoshua. This development has come about following the tech giant winning the government's Nimbus cloud tender. Google already has leases for ...

Ant Group reduces data center emissions by 394 tons

Ant Group has announced that, through using green computing technologies, during this year's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, lasting 11 days, it reduced its data center electricity usage by 640 megawatt-hours and its carbon emissions by 394 tonnes. This news follows the company's pledge to bec...

Saudi Telecom Co. to Invest $400 Million in data center expansion

Saudi Telecom Company

Saudi Telecom (STC) is developing a set of data centers in Saudi Arabia. According to The Saudi Press Agency, STC will build data centers with up to 125MW of capacity across 1.9 million square feet (180,000 square meters) of land. The project will also cost the telco SAR1.5 billion ($400 milli...

Canberra Data Centres set to build new 150MW Melbourne facility

Canberra Data Centres (CDC)

Canberra Data Centres (CDC) is building a new 150MW facility in Melbourne, Victoria. According to the company, its operating and development capacity now extends beyond 700MW, and in the next two years, the company plans to have 13 operational data centers in its portfolio.Speaking about the c...

Google's Oregon plans given the green light despite water concerns

Google

On Monday, The Dalles council unanimously approved a $28.5 million deal for Google to build two new data centers in the area. This approval has gone ahead despite water concerns; due to the area currently being drought-stricken and the proposed facilities potentially guzzling millions of gallo...

CoreSite exploring sale

CoreSite

According to Reuters, CoreSite is looking at the possibility of a sale. The real estate trust is working with an investment bank to see its options. CoreSite currently operates over 25 data centers across North America. It also has a market of over $8 billion. According to reports, CoreSite ha...

COP26 and OpenUK's 'Patchwork Kilt' Edge data center blueprint

Glasgow

At the COP26 event in Glasgow, OpenUK shared its net-zero data center blueprint. The not-for-profit organisation's "Patchwork Kilt" framework aims to make new Edge data centers more sustainable and promote the curricular economy. The project proposes using derelict building stock and creating ...

Blackstone acquires Equinix-occupied data center in London for £196.5 million

Equinix London LD8 Harbour Exchange (Docklands)

Land Securities Group has announced the sale of an office and data center property located in the Canary Wharf side of London. The sale price of the property is £196.5 million ($262.82 million). Equinix is currently occupying the property as its LD8 IBX data center. Land Securities Group so...

Former T5 data center in New York put up for sale

T5 Data Centers

The Lincoln Property Company is offering a former T5 data center at 600 Albany Post Rd, Briarcliff Manor, New York, for sale or lease. The data center has two stories, and it has 36,000 square feet of space while sitting on 9 acres of land. The facility has a capacity of 2MW, expandable to ...

Unoccupied NortonLifeLock data center in Arizona up for sale

Arizona

NortonLifeLock Inc. is putting up an unoccupied data center in Tucson, Arizona, for sale. The facility sits upon 8.5 acres of land, and it is located at 3701 E. Columbia Street. It has 133,452 square feet of space with 40,793 square feet of raised floor within three data halls. In addition, th...

Ascent's Plano, Texas data center available to lease

Fortinet Plano

Ascent’s data center in Plano, Texas, has been put up for lease by Cushman & Wakefield. The data center is at 1500 East Plano Parkway, and it is listed as a single-tenant facility. The 43,000 square feet data center sits on 4.5 acres of land. It was built in 1992, and it was last renova...

Africa Data Centres is developing two data centers in Nairobi, Kenya

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has revealed its plans for two new data centers in Nairobi, Kenya. The data center firm said it had begun work on a second data center with up to 20MW of IT capacity. It also says it is already securing land for a third data center. According to Africa Data Centres, the ...

IFC invests in DigitalBridge’s Digital Infrastructures

DigitalBridge

The International Finance Corporation has invested $100 million into DigitalBridge’s digital infrastructure. From the investment, IFC has already committed $75 million towards three of DigitalBridge’s portfolio companies. These companies include Brazilian tower firm Highline do Brasil, Indones...

Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center

Northern Virginia

Prince William County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to pause the development of a Gainesville data center until late January. CTP-II LLC proposed the data center project in question. CTP-II LLC wanted 22.72 acres of land to be rezoned from business and light industrial to data center con...

Fujitsu-occupied data center in Belfast, Northern Ireland up for sale

Fujitsu

A Fujitsu-occupied data center in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been put up for sale. The facility is located at Trident House, 301 Airport Road West, in the Belfast Harbour Estate. The facility sits on a 6-acre site, and it consists of two buildings with up to 36,956 square feet of space. Th...

Oracle opens cloud regions in Singapore and France

Oracle

Oracle has announced the opening of its new cloud regions in Singapore and Marseilles, France. The two regions are Oracle’s first in both countries. However, Oracle plans to open another cloud region in France next year. According to Oracle, the Marseille cloud region works with a “river cooli...

New Canadian cloud region for AWS

Amazon AWS

Calgary, Alberta, is to be home to AWS’s new Canadian cloud region, set to be available from late 2023 to early 2024. According to AWS, over the next few years, it will invest over $17 billion (CA$21 billion) in Canada, $3bn (CA$4bn) will go to the new Calgary region.Speaking about the announc...

True IDC to expand its Bangkok campus in Thailand

True IDC: Midtown Ratchada

True IDC has announced that it is expanding its True IDC-East Bangna facility in Bangkok. The data center firm had a ceremony last week to break ground on the second building on the site. True IDC planned four buildings with a total capacity of 15MW upon full buildout on the site. The facility...