Data Center News

Oracle to explore potential of new Cloud region in Serbia with MoU

Oracle

Oracle Cloud has signed an MoU with the Government of Serbia at the World Expo in Dubai this week. The purpose of the MoU is to explore the possibility of opening an Oracle data region within the State Data Center in Kragujevac. According to a press release by the Serbian Government, the new l...

Echelon breaks ground on LCY20 facility

Echelon Data Centres

Echelon Data Centres has confirmed that it is developing its second facility in the UK. The LCY20 facility will be located in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK. Echelon has broken ground on the facility, and it plans to complete it by Q2 of 2022. LCY20 will have 20MW of capacity. It will also ha...

Data Center First moves into Batam, Indonesia with new data center

Batam

Data Center First has announced that it is moving into Batam, Indonesia, with its first data center in the country. According to the company, the first phase will see the construction of a 30MW facility at Batam Island's Nongsa Digital Park, spanning 276,600 sq ft (25,700 sqm), and there is a ...

Wasabi Technologies launch APAC data center in Japan

Wasabi Technologies

Wasabi Technologies has announced that it is launching its first data center in the Asia Pacific, Japan, and is teaming up with Colt Technology Services, which will provide connectivity delivering on Wasabi Technologies cost and latency needs.Speaking about the company’s partnership with Colt ...

Telehouse's Marseille DC to begin operation in November

Telehouse Marseille THM1

Telehouse has confirmed that its first data center in Marseille will be in full operation by the beginning of November. Telehouse calls the new facility THM1, and it will give customers access to 160Tbps of capacity via subsea cables. The cables connect Marseille with Asia, the Middle East, an...

Saudi Arabia makes a big investment in digital infrastructure

Saudi Arabia

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia has announced that it is forming four cooperation initiatives to build hyperscale data centers. This announcement is part of its achievement of the Kingdom Vision 2030 goals, which envisions the country becoming an “inno...

New Taiwan data center hailed as a sign of greater things to come

Taiwan

Chief Telecom, an affiliate of Chunghwa Telecom, has launched its fourth Internet Data Center (IDC) in Taipei City, a move that has been projected to bring new opportunities for Taiwan's IDC and cloud industries.The unveiling ceremony was attended by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who outlined...

IDB provides $100 million loan to improve connectivity in Argentina

Argentina

The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a digital infrastructure loan of $100 million repayable in 25 years to improve connectivity in Argentina. With the loan, the development of digital connectivity in remote areas will become a reality. The loan will also be used to improve the cap...

Digital Realty makes strategic investment in AtlasEdge

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has reached an agreement to make a strategic investment in AtlasEdge Data Centres. The investment will also see Digital Realty’s Executive VP, Strategic & Business Segments, Giuliano Di Vitantonio, join AtlasEdge as CEO, starting January 2022. AtlasEdge delivers smooth, loca...

What's ahead for Talen Energy's cumulus data center project

Talen Energy’s Cumulus hyperscale data center in Salem Township was given the go-ahead by officials just a few two weeks ago and is pinned to bring thousands of new jobs and economic opportunities to the area. This includes $1-3 million in property taxes for the township. On top of these econo...

Lamda Hellix breaks ground on Athens-3 data center in Greece

Digital Realty: ATH3

Greece-based data center firm Lamda Hellix has begun work on a new data center close to Athens. Lamda Hellix revealed that the Athens-3 facility would have a capacity of 20MW. The size will also make it the largest data center in Greece. Athens-3 will also have 8,600 square meters (92,500 squa...

Groningen municipality: New large data center on the way?

Netherlands

Discussions are being had around the possibility of a new data center in the industrial district of Westpoort near Groningen, and whether or not it gets the go-ahead will be determined by Groningen City Council. According to a PDF document, the proposed data center would occupy 20 hectares, an...

Microsoft's transparency bid: Cloud emissions dashboard now generally available

Microsoft Azure

In its latest sustainability effort, Microsoft has announced that its Emissions Impact Dashboard, first announced in January 2020, is now widely available. According to the tech giant, this tool enables greater transparency and allows users to gain insight into greenhouse gas emissions associa...

Is a new data center to move into Pitt County?

As reported by WITN, there are murmurs in Pitt County that a data center may be on its way. This news has not been well received by locals, who have voiced concerns around the facility, which is to be proposed next to Belvoir Elementary School. Locals are apprehensive about potential noise pol...

Data centers at the Innovation Summit World Tour 2021

The Innovation Summit World Tour 2021 has been underway this week, where important discussions around how to cut CO2 emissions and accelerate climate change action are being had. The annual summit launched by Schneider Electric emphasized the urgent need to "act fast" to decarbonize. According...

OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

OVH Group

French colocation and cloud provider OVHcloud has experienced a global outage. The company experienced an outage that lasted more than one hour when it started at around 7:00 UTC. OVH revealed that a maintenance reconfiguration error caused it. Besides, OVHcloud’s status page was brought down ...

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into the Asia Pacific region

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed its plan to expand into the Asia Pacific region. The company is planning to open a regional headquarters in Singapore. It would also expand into Osaka and Tokyo immediately before entering into Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, and other Asia Pa...

MNC to partner with Infokom for data center development in Lido resort city Indonesia

Indonesia

MNC Land and Infokom have signed a deal to develop a data center in a new resort city south of Jakarta, Indonesia. MNC Land is a subsidiary of MNC Group, an Indonesian conglomerate. West Java, Lido City, is located to the south of Bogor City, and it is an MNC project to create a large resort a...

Facebook acquires land in Denmark for potential data center development

Meta

Facebook has acquired 212 hectares of land in Andrup in Esbjerg, Denmark, for DKK 277 million ($43 million). The Esbjerg municipal announced that Facebook could start planning and surveying the land for building a data center in the future. Mayor Jesper Frost Rasmussen of Esbjerg municipal was...

Google acquires land in Fredericia, Denmark for potential data center development

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has successfully bought more land in Denmark for potential data center developments. The search engine giant bought 1.29 million square feet (120,000 square meters) of land in Taulov, in Fredericia municipality, Denmark. Earlier in June 2017, Google bought a 73.2 hectare (7.8 million sq...