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Leading Edge DC opens new data center in Tamworth, Australia

Australia

Leading Edge DC, an Australian Edge data center firm, has announced the opening of a new facility in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. The company revealed the development in a LinkedIn post. It said: "We're Open for Business in Tamworth! A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of t...

CIM Group sells four data centers to 1547 and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

CIM Group has completed the sale of four US data centers. The Real estate firm owned the portfolio of data centers with fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547). Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and 1547 bought the facilities from CIM Group. The facilities are located in Cheyenne, W...

Vantage Data Centers secures $530 million in financing

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has raised $530 million in securitized notes. The funds it raised would be used to refinance Vantage DC’s Variable Funding Note (VFN) facility. VFN was used to facilitate the purchase of CA22. Vantage Stabilized Data Centers, a joint venture Vantag...

NorthC group acquires IP Exchange

NorthC Datacenters

The largest regional colocation provider in the Netherlands, NorthC, has completed the acquisition of Germany’s IP Exchange. The acquisition sees NorthC expand into Germany for the first time. With the acquisition, NorthC has two data centers in Munich and Nuremberg. The purchase price for the...

Yondr Group announces plans for a 100MW data center campus in Slough, UK

Yondr: Slough Campus

Yondr Group has revealed its plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Slough, just outside London. The initial phase of the development of the data center campus will see Yondr develop a 30MW facility. This phase is scheduled to be in operation by the first quarter of 2023. In ad...

MC Digital Realty open data centers in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan

MC Digital Osaka Connected Campus (KIX)

The joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty called MC Digital Realty has opened data centers in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. The Tokyo facility is called NRT10, and it offers 38MW of capacity across 407,400 square feet (37,850 square meters). NRT10 is the company’s third ...

Tackling the water scarcity issue: Controversy and secrecy

Google

Water scarcity is increasingly becoming an issue globally, and data centers, which typically guzzle around 3-5 million gallons of water per day, the equivalent of the water usage by 30,000-50,000 people, are adding to the problem. As the climate issue worsens and big tech companies continue to...

Interxion works to promote a circular economy

InterXion

Interxion, Digital Realty's European arm, has announced that in a move to promote a circular economy, it will be using excess heat from its Schiphol AMS5 data center in the Netherlands, with business parks Schiphol-Rijk near Amsterdam. This is happening in cooperation with Polderwarmte, a Dutc...

Compute North turns its back on Pitt County facility following push back

Following mounting concerns from locals, the controversial data center heading for Pitt County is no longer happening. Compute North has announced that it has requested to withdraw its permit application for a data center that would have been located opposite the nearby Belvoir Elementary Scho...

Microsoft: Renewable energy deal signed with AES to power Virginia data centers

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced a new agreement with energy firm AES, whereby AES will provide the tech giant with renewable energy for all of its data centers in Virginia. This energy will be sourced 576MW of contracted renewable assets. These assets include wind and solar. This agreement aligns with...

Energia Group plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Dublin, Ireland

Dublin

Huntstown Power Company, a subsidiary of Energia Group, plans to build two data centers next to its Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. Hunstown has filed for planning permission with Fingal County Council. It is looking to build two data center buildings on 13.3 hectares of land. Each building ...

TIM considering selling stake in Noovle data center unit

TIM Group

According to Reuters, Italian telco TIM is mulling over reorganization and selling off its stake in Noovle Cloud and data center unit. The potential decision is based on the company’s financial struggles. TIM has been struggling with shrinking margins and revenue, price competition, and costs ...

KSSF invests in Sify for expansion and sustainability

Sify Technologies

KSSF will invest up to INR 1,000 crore (USD 135 million) in Sify Infinit Spaces Limited (SISL), a subsidiary of Sify.The investment from KSSF will be in the form of Compulsorily Convertible Debentures, developing new data centers across Mumbai, Noida, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Accordin...

Alibaba Cloud to open data center in Thailand next year

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Alibaba is planning to develop its first hyperscale data center in Thailand. The Thailand data center is scheduled to launch in 2022, and it will carry some of Alibaba’s services and solutions. Some of these include those that support Alibaba’s operation around fintech, logistics, retail, d...

Genesis Digital Assets expands data center footprint in West Texas

Texas

Genesis Digital Assets, a U.S.-based Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm, has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint in Texas. The facility will be industrial-scale with a capacity of 300MW.According to reports, the facility will also have sustainability at its core, with “sustainable ...

Switch and the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center to partner and create a water pipeline for recycled water

Reno

Switch and the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center have joined forces to create a regional water improvement pipeline. The project in Sparks, Nevada, will see the construction of a 16-mile pipeline that will transport 4,000 acre-feet of “treated effluent water” from the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamat...

DCI Indonesia opens first phase of 600MW data center in Kawarang

DCI Indonesia: H2-01

DCI has announced the opening of the first phase of its second data center campus in Karawang, Indonesia. Karawang is situated to the east of Jakarta. The facility called H2 sits on 791 hectares of land, and it has a potential capacity of 600MW. The completion of the first phase sees DCI add a...

Expedient acquires data center in Phoenix, Arizona

Expedient Data Centers

Expedient has acquired a data center in Phoenix, which Blue Cross Shield formerly owned. The facility it acquired is located at 2475 West Townley Avenue. It is a 2.4MW capacity data center with 45,000 square feet of space. Expedient says the facility was built to Tier III standards. Expedient’...

CloudHQ planning 240MW data center campus in France

CloudHQ

According to multiple reports, CloudHQ plans to build a 240MW data center campus in Lisses, France. The US data center firm wants to develop two data center buildings with 710,000 square feet (66,000 square meters) which will consist of 24 data halls each. The facility will be located in the L...

OneAsia is expanding into South Korea

South Korea

OneAsia, a Hong Kong-based data center firm, is expanding out of Greater China. The firm is planning to build a data center in Busan, South Korea. OneAsia says the data center will be developed in the Mieum Industrial Park in Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone. The data center campus will cover u...