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Teraco completes CT2 data center in Cape Town, South Africa

Teraco Cape Town CT2

South African data center company Teraco has announced it completed the first phase of its CT2 facility in Cape Town, South Africa. CT2 is a new hyperscale data center in Brackenfell, Cape Town. Phase one has 25,000 square meters (269,000 square feet) of building structure, 18MW of capacity, a...

Google and Thales Partner to form French sovereign cloud service

Google

Google and Thales have announced a new Joint Venture that will offer a sovereign cloud service in France. The companies announced that they would develop a sovereign hyperscale cloud offering for France. The new company aims to provide cloud services to local private and public companies th...

STT GDC plans two data centers in Tokyo with 60MW capacity

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced that it plans to build two new data centers in Tokyo, Japan. STT GDC says the two data centers will be developed by and leased from Goodman Group. Goodman Group is an Australian property firm. The facilities will be located in Goodman...

American Tower acquires DataSite

American Tower Corporation

American Tower has announced that it has completed the acquisition of DataSite. American Tower has now added two new data centers to its portfolio of state-of-the-art colocation facilities with the purchases. In addition, the investment also means American Tower will now manage and operate ...

What can the data center industry learn from the Facebook blackout?

Meta

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram recently experienced a six-hour blackout, where users were unable to login, message, and peruse the platforms. But, users weren't the only ones whose access to the platform was interrupted. According to reports, tech giant Facebook also lo...

ADACEN moves in to Albuquerque

ADACEN has announced that it is relocating to Silver Spring, Maryland, in order to expand development. According to the company, this relocation is also a way for it to explore new technologies to make its data centers eco-efficient.Part of this exploration will see the company research renewa...

Nudging towards nuclear: Rolls Royce proposes powering data centers with nuclear

Rolls Royce is reportedly in talks with Amazon and other tech giants about exploring the possibility of powering data centers with small nuclear reactors (SMR). The project is under development by a consortium led by Rolls-Royce, and funded by a £215 million from the UK government grant last y...

Swoop acquires Countrytell in New South Wales, Australia

Australia

Australian telecommunication firm Swoop Holdings has acquired 100 percent of Countrytell Holdings for AU$4.2 million (US$3). Swoop paid half in cash and the other half in Swoop shares. Countrytell is a regional connectivity provider in Newcastle, New South Wales. Countrytell was founded in 200...

Core Scientific's 300MW Blockchain data center in Texas to be 100% net carbon-neutral

Core Scientific: Denton, TX

Core Scientific has announced a significant expansion in Denton, Texas. This expansion will see the construction of a 300- megawatt (MW) blockchain data center, and is in association with Tenaska Energy.This announcement was made in a statement by the company on Thursday, which outlined that t...

Rostelecom opens new data center in Moscow, Russia

NORD-6

Rostelecom has announced the opening of its new data center in Moscow, Russia. The latest data center was opened under its Rostelecom-DPC unit. The new NORD-6 facility is in the Rostelecom-DPC campus in Korovinskoe highway 37. It has a capacity of 5MW and two data rooms that will house 207 rac...

TierPoint Milwaukee data center sells for $4.66 million

TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham

According to Biz Times, investors group KCMJ Investments LLC has sold TierPoint’s Milwaukee data center to Milwaukee-based WSP Burnham LLC for $4.66 million. The deal includes the sale of a 3.3-acre plot with the facility. TierPoint’s Milwaukee data center has 70,000 square feet of space wi...

Westfield City Council developing cold feet over 40-year tax deal for proposed $2.7 billion data center

Massachusetts

Westfield’s City Council has become skeptical about the 40-year tax break deal it wants to grant the developers of the $2.7 billion data center in the city. The council sat on the matter on Monday, October 4, 2021, but they were not expected to make a final decision then. The project will get ...

Full steam ahead: Geoveda Srl, pushes ahead with geo-thermal fuelled data center

Italy

Italian Geoveda Srl has announced that it is pursuing the construction of a green data center in the province of Pisa in Tuscany, Italy. Sourcing geothermal energy from Larderello, the proposed data center will be net-zero and aim for a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) below 1.1.The project, in...

Cloud Exchange launches new data centre in Nigeria

Nigeria

Cloud Exchange has announced that it has teamed up with telecommunications giant, Huawei, to launch Africa’s first uptime institute tier IV modular prefabricated data center. The facility is located in Lagos, and Nigeria’s growing digital economy has driven its development. Commenting on t...

Equinix opens a new hyperscale data center in São Paulo, Brazil

Equinix Sao Paulo SP5x

Equinix has announced the opening of its new hyperscale data center facility in São Paulo, Brazil, called SP5x. The new facility is located next to Equinix’s SP3 IBX data center in Santana de Parnaíba. The facility has 5MW of capacity in its first phase. It is also expected to have a total cap...

DataBank acquires land for new data center campus in New York

DataBank Orangeburg LGA3

DataBank has announced that it has acquired 34 acres of land in Orangeburg, New York. The land it bought would be the home of its future data center in New York. Building the data center on the land will help the data center firm meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastruc...

Infratil buys 40 percent stake in UK's Kao Data

KAO Data

New Zealand investor Infratil has acquired a 40 percent stake in UK data center firm Kao Data. It has also acquired two data centers to add to the company’s portfolio. Infratil is paying £120-130 million” (US$163-177m) for the acquisition of the stakes in the company. CEO of Kao Data, Lee M...

IIJ: Micro data center moves in at Shiroi Data Center Campus

Japan

IIJ has announced that it has deployed a micro data center on the premises of Shiroi Data Center Campus (Shiroi DCC), the first of its kind in Japan. A 12U, the micro data center has an available range of 12U to 38U. The MDC also has a cooling unit, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), envir...

Google to move into Eagle Mountain, Utah?

Google

Google has reportedly purchased 300 acres in Eagle Mountain, Utah, which could potentially be home to a new data center. Google already has offices in the region, in Salt Lake City and Provo. The plot of land is located in the south on Pony Express Parkway, near Facebook’s 1.5 million-square-...

Peraton wins $2.7B contract from the Department of Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a $2.7 billion contract to Peraton. The contract will see Peraton manage DHS’s shift to the cloud from an on-premises computing environment. Although the award shows Perspecta as the winner of the contract, the firm was acquired for $7.1 bi...