Data Center News

Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK

Equinix

Equinix has revealed its plans for a new data center in Manchester, UK. The MA5 facility is the company’s fifth IBX facility in Manchester. It is situated in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford. The first phase of the facility will provide up to 3,600 square meters of colocation space. It...

The Dalles grants Google tax breaks for new facilities

Google

The city council of The Dalles has voted to grant Google new property tax breaks. The tax breaks are for Google’s two new data centers. However, before Google commences work on its new data centers, it also hopes to increase its water usage significantly with a new agreement. The city counc...

Bank of Israel's data center project reaches completion

Israel

The Bank of Israel's Information Technology Department has announced the completion of its data center project. The facility is built to Tier 4 standard and is reportedly close to receiving its official certification from the Uptime Institute. The data center has also been built with green tec...

Digital Realty forms JW with Pembani Remgro to acquire Nigeria's Medallion Data Centres

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has formed a joint venture with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to acquire Medallion Data Centres. Medallion is Nigeria’s top interconnection and colocation provider. The company operates two data centers in the country. One of the facilities is in Abuja...

Raxio Group to open first carrier neutral Tier III data center in the Ivory Coast

Raxio Group

Raxio Group has announced its plans to develop a Tier III data center in Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The data center will be located at the village of Innovation and Technology, 30KM from Abidjan. Raxio is developing the facility in collaboration with Master Power Technologies. The facilit...

Africell opens data center in Angola

Angola

Africell has announced the opening of its new data center in Luanda, Angola. This is after it signed a new partnership with Angola Cables. According to Africell, the new facility will be in the Kings Tower building in the center of Luanda. CEO of Africell, Cristopher Lundh, said the company is...

Ooredoo selects BDx as preferred bidder for Indonesian data centers

BDx Data Centers

PT Indosat, part of Qatar's Ooredoo QPSC, has announced that it has selected Big Data Exchange (BDx) as its "preferred bidder" for the majority stake in its data centers business.As reported by Bloomberg, BDx has emerged as the preferred buyer for a 75% stake in the company's data center asset...

Plans for Swansea seafront data center and the $2.8 billion Blue Eden Project

Wales

DST Innovations, in association with several other business partners, with support from Swansea Council and Associated British Ports, have announced a £1.7 billion ($2,3 billion) project: Blue Eden project. On Swansea's seafront, Wales, this project will include a newly-designed tidal lagoon, ...

Under the microscope: Ameren's new data center

Missouri

Ameren's new data center, fuelled by one of its coal-fired power plants in Missouri, has come under the microscope, garnering concerns from those in the local community and beyond.While the company says that the $1 million facility will help to stabilize demand for electricity, critics aren't ...

Hydrogen powered data centers: Research begins in County Offaly

Republic of Ireland

Ireland's County Offaly is investigating hydrogen as a green energy that could power data centers. The study, 'Exploring Data Centre Integration with Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen in the Midlands', will look into the feasibility of integrating data centres with renewable energy and will ...

STC Solutions signs contract worth $53.66m for NEOM data center

Saudi Telecom Company

Following the General Authority of Competition in Saudi Arabia giving data center builds the go-ahead in Neom, the Arabian Internet and Telecommunication Company (Solutions) has announced it has awarded the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) a contract, worth SAR 201.3 million (USD 53.6 million). ...

Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. opens first data center site

Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. has announced that its first Australian site will be online this month and powered by 100% renewable energy. This will be achieved in partnership with Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners.Based in New South Wales, Australia, the site will have a capacity of 20MW, ...

Tesla Finally opens a data center in China

China

Tesla has finally opened its data center in Shanghai, China. It first announced the facility in April after Chinese regulators started making rules that would require Chinese subsidiaries to store data in China. Tesla did not reveal many details about the data center as the electric vehicle ma...

Quebec: The power of green

Quebec Province

Just two years ago, Quebec had just 39 data centers; now, this number has shot up to 50. So, what’s driving this growth? Well, the Canadian city offers vast amounts of low-cost and green energy, generated mainly from hydro dams, which gives it the big green tick.Of course, while it’s no Virgin...

Digital Realty acquires Medallion Data Centres (PR)

Medallion Communications

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions and Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund announced today the formation of a joint venture to acquire Medallion ...

Piemonte Holding and Goldman Sachs sign agreement for Digital infrastructure development in Brazil

Piemonte Holdings

Piemonte Holding has announced that it has signed an agreement with Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The deal will see Goldman Sachs invest in Piemonte Holding’s Brazilian edge data center wing, Elea Digital. The completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals like that of the ...

DataBank has expanded its KC3 facility in Kansas City

DataBank Kansas City MCI3

DataBank has announced that it has expanded its KC3 facility in Kansas City. The expansion sees DataBank expanding its digital footprint in Kansas. DataBank has built out two new Data Halls; Halls 2 and 3. Hall 2 adds 9,300 square feet of space, while Hall 3 adds 8,050 square feet of space....

US army to further reduce its data centers

United States

The US army has announced that it will further its data center reduction to six over the next seven years. Army CIO Raj Lyer made the announcement on Thursday and said the move is an effort to transfer more data to cloud-based systems to enhance security. This includes moving complex enterpris...

North Bay welcomes new power-to-data center

Validus Power: North Bay

Today, the new owners of the former Atlantic Power Corp. power plant in North Bay, Ontario, Validus Power Corp and Hut 8 Mining, held a ground- breaking ceremony signalling the start of development on the site. The proposed 32,000-square-foot data center will see an injection of over $100 mill...

An IBM-occupied data center in Dallas has been sold for $41 million

Kyndryl

Five 9s Digital has revealed that it advised the owner of an IBM-leased data center in Dallas, Texas, to sell it off. The unnamed owner sold the facility for $41 million. However, the exact data center the firm sold can’t be identified at this moment as IBM has many data centers in Dallas. IBM...