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Liberum Navitas to develop 15 data centers across Russia

Russia / Россия

Liberum Navitas, a Russian ICT firm, has announced its plans to build 15 data centers across Russia over the next two years. The ICT firm revealed that it is launching a federal investment project to develop the data centers while unifying them by a single fiber-optic communication line. The c...

Alibaba expands in Asia

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Alibaba has announced that as part of its global expansion plans, it is launching its first data centers in South Korea and Thailand next year in an effort to compete with the likes of US giants like Amazon and Microsoft.Commenting on the expansion, Selina Yuan, General Manager of Internationa...

Etisalat Group and G42 team up to create UAE’s largest data center provider

etisalat and

Etisalat has announced that it has teamed up with Group 42 in a joint venture operating under Khazna Data Centers. They have come together to form the largest data center provider in the United Arab Emirates, with a capacity of 300MW.Eng. Hatem Dowidar, Chief Executive Officer of Etisalat Gro...

Sirius Computer Solutions to be acquired by CDW for $2.5 billion

CDW

CDW Corporation has revealed its plans to acquire Sirius Computer Solutions for $2.5 billion. Sirius was founded in 1980, and it is a provider of mission-critical technology-based solutions for close to 4,000 customers. According to CDW, the transaction will accelerate its services and solu...

Expedient expands with Addition of New Milwaukee Data Center

Expedient Data Centers

Expedient has acquired a new data center in Franklin City, Wisconsin. The facility has 28,500 square feet of space, and it offers 1.2MW of critical power. It also has the capacity for over 8,000 physical servers. The facility will help Expedient serve its growing customer demand for cloud-b...

Adani Group's renewable energy pledge

AdaniConneX

Adani Group has made a big investment relating to renewable energy, pledging to commit over USD 50-70 billion in the renewable energy value chain over the next ten years. Alongside this, the company announced that it is ‘incubating’ the first Indian data center that will fuel all its data cent...

The Taliban takeover: What are telecoms looking like?

South Asia

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has been devastating for millions. There has been radical transformation and destabilisation ever since. As part of the coup, Taliban forces targeted cell towers and critical infrastructure. According to figures from the ATRA in June, a total of 301 telecoms...

Securing sustainability: Wipro teams up with National Grid to consolidate data centres

United Kingdom

Wipro has reportedly signed “a multi-year global strategic IT and digital deal” with National Grid. Through the deal, Wipro will assist National Grid with digital transformation, while integrating its managed services, and consolidating multiple data centers across both the UK and US to next g...

Rostelecom to open the first Arctic data center in Russia

Rostelecom

Rostelecom has plans to develop a data center in the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia. The Murmansk region Government revealed that the Russian telco would open a new facility on the Kola Peninsula in 2022. Rostelecom also said it would be starting work on the new facility at the end of this year...

Orange plans to open five new Spanish data centers before 2023

Orange

According to El Economista, Orange has plans to invest €20 million ($23.2m) to develop five new data centers in Spain. The telco plans to complete the development of these data centers before 2023 runs out. Orange aims to break ground on these facilities in the next few months and have them...

Office complex and data center auctioned for $15m in Orlando, Florida

Orlando

Regency Commercial Properties, Inc. has completed the sale of Central Corporate Center at 5915-6035 South Rio Grande Ave in Orlando, Florida, for $15.1 million. This is a five-building office park with 318,516 square feet of space spread across 21.7 acres of land. The property firm sold the bu...

DigitalBridge and Columbia Capital to acquire some Superloop's asset for A$140m ($103.8 million)

DigitalBridge

DigitalBridge Group and Columbia Capital have announced that they have agreed to acquire some select assets from Superloop (Hong Kong) Limited and Superloop (Singapore) Pte Ltd. For A$140 million ($103.8 million). The deal sees Columbia Capital and DigitalBridge become Superloop’s strategic pa...

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate form a $575 Million Joint Venture to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in Australia

Equinix

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have formed a new $575 million joint venture with an aim to develop hyperscale data centers in Sydney, Australia. PGIM is the real estate investment and financing division of Prudential Financial. The facilities the companies will be developing under this JV are...

DCI secures land for cloud edge facility in Darwin, Australia

DCI Data Centers

DCI has revealed its plans for a new Edge facility in Darwin, Australia. The company acquired a 2.7-hectare site in Darwin Technology Park. It also has an option to expand the site up to 5 hectares if it wants. DCI says it will be developing a Tier III facility called DRW01 with 10MW capacity ...

Digital Edge reveals RFS date for OSA1 in Osaka, Japan

Digital Edge: Osaka OSA1

Digital Edge has announced its ready-for-service (RFS) date for launching its first self-build data center facility in Osaka, Japan. OSA1 is a 14MW facility located in the Osaka Central Business District. Digital Edge started the facility’s construction in April 2021 and is scheduled to be in ...

Dubai’s DAMAC Group buys stake in Ireland’s Dataplex

DataPlex Group

DAMAC Group has acquired a 45 percent stake in Dataplex Group Limited. The two companies will focus on brownfield projects that involve rebuilding existing structures. They will also focus on more significant greenfield projects while focusing on hyperscale and wholesale colocation customers. ...

PLDT Inc to build largest data center in Philippines

ePLDT

PLDT Inc has announced that it has plans to build the Philippines’ biggest data center. Although the size and location of the facility are yet to be released, according to the company, its capacity will be greater than its 10 VITRO data centers together. It will be Tier-3 certified and Tier-4 ...

Google's new 'green campus': What it is and what it means for the future of Google

Google

Google’s new Bay View campus, located east of the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, will reportedly be opened to a select number of employees by January and is reportedly a representative of the company’s wider goals and vision. According to Google, the campus itself is ...

FUJI's Sustainable Data Storage Initiative

Fuji recently announced the launch of its Sustainable Data Storage Initiative, which seeks to highlight the role that tape technology has to place in reducing electricity consumption and CO2 emissions relating to data storage.Speaking about the aims of the initiative, Hironobu Taketomi, Presid...

OVHcloud goes public

OVH Group

OVHcloud has finally been listed on the stock exchange in France. It went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange. The company’s opening market capitalization was €3.48 billion ($4bn). It also raised €400 million ($469m). OVHcloud opened at €18.50 per share, dipped slightly, but its sha...