Data Center News

Interxion plans to invest €1 billion ($1.15bn) in 130MW Paris data center campus

InterXion

According to Le Monde Informatique, Interxion has plans to build a new data center campus in the Essonne region of France. Interxion filed a building permit with the DDE asking to operate a 15-hectare land in Les Ulis/Villeiuste. The site will also have a power supply of 130MW. Although det...

Vantage is expanding into Johannesburg, South Africa

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding into Africa by breaking ground on a new 80MW campus in Johannesburg, South Africa. The campus will be developed in phases, with the first 16MW phase scheduled to be completed in 2022. The new facility is located in Waterfall City in Johannesburg. Also, the ...

Edge Centres expanding in Victoria, Australia

EC3 Bendigo

Edge Centres has announced that it has broken ground on a new edge facility center in Traralgon, Victoria. The new facility named EC8 will be Edge Centres’ second facility in Victoria after it opened EC3 in Bendigo, Victoria. Edge Centres plans to have four new facilities in operation by Novem...

Oracle opens underground data center in Jerusalem, Israel

Oracle

Oracle has announced that it has opened a Cloud region in Israel. With the underground data center opening in Jerusalem, Oracle has become the first hyperscale firm to open a Cloud region in the country. CEO of Oracle, Safra Katz, said organizations and government bodies need to transit to the...

Landmark Dividend buys 1.2 million square feet of data center space in Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia

Landmark Dividend, which DigitalBridge acquired earlier in the year, has acquired what it refers to as a “portfolio of assets” in Northern Virginia. It acquired 1.2 million square feet of data center space within the Quantum Park in Northern Virginia. According to Landmark Dividend, the proper...

CityFibre files for permission to develop data center cabins in Newark, Nottinghamshire

United Kingdom

UK fiber firm CityFibre has applied for permission to install two data center cabins in Newark, Nottinghamshire. It filed with Newark and Sherwood District Council to install two data center cabins and associated air conditioning units, meter cabinet and fence, and generators on land on Cliff ...

QazCloud launches data center in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

QazCloud has unveiled its new data center in Kosshy, in the Akmola region in Kazakhstan. The data center is built to Tier II standards with a total area of 2,787 square feet (259 square meters). The facility also has space for 100 racks. QazCloud was founded in 2018, and it provides hosting, c...

Oracle plans further expansion for its cloud region

Oracle

Oracle has announced the details for its 14 new cloud regions. The company plans to have 14 more cloud regions over the next year. By opening the new regions, Oracle will now have 44 cloud regions across the globe. The company has plans for new regions in Latin America, Middle East, Europe, an...

The Northern Virginia data center boom: Reactions from the local community are mixed

Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia is in the midst of a data center boom. This has partly developed due to a demand for new data centers resulting from the pandemic, which means that it currently has the highest density of data centers in the world. Loudoun County alone has over 100 data centers, with more tha...

Stack Infrastructure: Hyperscale data center goes online in Silicon Valley

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure’s latest data center facility in Silicon Valley (SVY02) is now live and is adjacent to the company’s existing SVY01 facility at its Silicon Valley Campus. This 3-story, 240,000 sqft facility brings 32MW of capacity to the region and is powered entirely by 100% renewable e...

Warsaw, Poland, to be the home to Orange's new data center

Orange

Orange has announced that it has opened a data center in Warsaw, Poland. The facility upon which construction began last year contains four 400 sq m (4,305 sq ft) data halls which will be used to host telco’s network infrastructure. It will also host services for customers.Speaking about the ...

MDXi Data Center expands Lekki Facility

MainOne MDX-i

MDXi, a MainOne company, has announced that four months after the launch of its Tier III facility in Appolonia City, Accra, Ghana, it is expanding its data center facilities in Lekki, Lagos.According to reports, the new Tier III data center is being deployed on a “very aggressive timeline.” M...

Microsoft expands adds South Korea and South Africa Azure regions

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it has added Availability Zones to its Cloud regions in South Korea and South Africa. It has also de-listed another region in South Africa. Each of the newly expanded Cloud regions in South Korea and South Africa now has three Availability Zones. Microsoft Cloud...

Oracle chooses Johannesburg for first Cloud region in Africa

Oracle

According to the South African Business Times, Oracle has selected Johannesburg as its first African and South African Cloud Region. Vice President of Oracle for cloud strategy in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Regis Louis, said firms are now grasping that they can’t rely on a single clo...

Start Campus and EllaLink team up

Start Campus has announced that it has signed an agreement with EllaLink, to strengthen connectivity between Europe, South America and Africa. The 'reinforced combination' of hyperscale data centers and submarine cables will ensure 99% of intercontinental digital connectivity through this part...

Dutch data centers: electricity gets pricey

Netherlands

Smaller data center companies in the Netherlands have voiced concerns over surging energy prices, which they say is creating a challenging financial climate. The Dutch Data Center Association is now asking for a cap on electricity prices, corporate tax breaks or subsidies for clean energy inve...

Carbon offsets under the microscope: Greenpeace reasserts its position

NEXTDC

Following its scathing 'Hero to Zero' report, Greenpeace has hit out again at large companies using carbon offsets to meet sustainability targets. At the Reuters Impact conference, Greenpeace's Executive Director Jennifer Morgan said there's "no time" for offsets and that the climate emergency...

What's in store at the Huawei Global Digital Power Summit 2021?

Huawei Cloud

The Huawei Global Digital Power Summit 2021 is to go ahead later this month (October 16) in Dubai. According to the event's press release, the summit will focus on the "race to net-zero," and emphasize that the target of carbon neutrality requires everyone to get involved, a "global coalition"...

What has the HoneyWell survey revealed about data centers?

North America

Yesterday, Honeywell released its most recent report, "Rethinking Data Centers as Resilient, Sustainable Facilities." The report explored a number of different factors, including the challenges, and priorities of facility managers in the sector across the United States, China, Germany and Saud...

Oracle, TIM (Telecom Italia) and Noovle to Offer Multi-cloud Services in Italy

TIM Group

TIM (Telecom Italia), Oracle, and Noovle, TIM Group’s cloud company, have announced that they have signed a partnership agreement. The agreement will see the companies offer multi-cloud services for public sector organizations and enterprises in Italy. TIM Group says it would help advance Ital...