Data Center News

Brazilian government clamps down on federal data centers over energy usage, amid drought

Brazil / Brasil

The Brazilian government is clamping down on excessive energy use amid a drought across the country. As part of this, the government is introducing measures such as a mandate to federal data centres to moderate power use. According to a source speaking to Reuters, these measures are being made...

DataBank announces it has started construction on sixth Salt Lake data center

DataBank

DataBank has broken ground on its sixth Salt Lake data center, SLC6. The facility will see DataBank increase capacity to meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure in the Salt Lake City and Utah market. The site is located in Bluffdale, between Utah’s Silicon Slopes a...

Teraco announces completion of its JB3 data center on Isando campus, Johannesburg

Teraco JB3

African data center firm Teraco has announced its third data center on its Isando campus in Johannesburg. The facility named JB3 has 480,000 square feet of building structure, with 130,000 square feet of data hall space. It also has a capacity of 29MW. With this added capacity, Teraco’s capaci...

Equinix opens SG5 data center in Singapore

Equinix Singapore SG5

Equinix has finally announced the opening of its fifth data center in Singapore. The SG5 data center is a nine-story facility built with $144 million in Tanjong Kling, which used to be known as the Singapore Data Center Park. Besides, the nine-story facility is the tallest data center in th...

2.7 million square feet data center campus proposed in Westfield, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

According to Westfield News, a data center campus with 2.7 million square feet of floor space is being proposed in Westfield, Massachusetts. The campus will be at 199 Servistar Industrial Way. This campus will have ten three-story data center buildings. It would also be built over 13-18 years....

Aligned announces $1.35 billion in securitized notes under its Green Finance framework

Aligned

Aligned just announced $1.35 billion in securitized notes, which is issued under its new Green Finance Framework. The Company said the notes issued were the first-ever green data securitization as well as the largest ever inaugural data center securitization. Anubhav Raj, CFO of Aligned, sa...

VPLS acquires 18.8-acre land and data center in Texas

Evocative: DAL1

VPLS has acquired land and data center in Texas. The land it acquired is an 18.8-acre plot, and it has a 75,000 square foot, 10MW facility. However, the facility is currently leased to an anonymous data and technology Company. The facility also supports 2.5MW of critical IT load, and it can b...

Raxio chooses Master Power to build multiple data centers in Africa

Raxio Group

Raxio Group has appointed South Africa-based Master Power Technologies to help develop its data centers. Master Power Technologies is a private company founded in 1999 which provides data center and turnkey power solutions across Africa. Master Power will help design, supply, install and co...

QTS shareholders finally approve $10bn Blackstone acquisition

QTS Data Centers

The shareholders of QTS Realty Trust have finally approved the Company’s acquisition by Blackstone. The deal is expected to be close before the end of August. The two companies first agreed on a deal in June. However, there was a 40-day period in which QTS was given to look for alternative off...

Swindon Borough Council approves Amazon data center on former Hewlett-Packard (HP) data center site

Amazon AWS

According to authentic published documents, the Swindon Borough Council has approved Amazon Web Services’ application to build a data center on a site that Hewlett-Packard (HP) used to occupy. The application was lodged in April 2021. It shows that a new 27MW four-hall facility will be buil...

Legal action launched against EngineNode data center in County Meath over environmental concerns

EngineNode

A High Court challenge has been launched against An Bord Pleanala over its decision to give EngineNode's data center the green light in County Meath, Ireland. Planning permission for the 180MW data center campus was granted back in July, despite a wave of opposition from locals and environment...

The Shannon LNG project undermines climate goals in Ireland, say critics

Northern Ireland

With the upcoming COP26 meeting in Glasgow, there is an increasing focus on outlining net-zero pledges and a push towards sustainability targets. Of course, Ireland is included here and is currently seeing two climate bills pass through the Assembly. One seeks net-zero by 2045, and the other i...

Digital Realty files application for data centers in Clondalkin, Ireland

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has filed for permission to build data centers in Clondalkin, Ireland. According to Digital Realty’s application, the Company wants 10-year permission to build two data center buildings called DUB15 and DUB16 close to its existing facilities in Clondalkin. These buildings wil...

Vital Energi joins new energy business park and data center project in Yorkshire

Vital Energi, a UK renewable energy firm, is the latest investor to join the £200 million ($274.4m) energy park development in East Riding, Yorkshire, UK. The park will span a 212-acres and feature energy generation, battery storage, substation office and startup space, education center. A Tie...

Wyoming Hyperscale White Box teams up with Lumen Technologies to create sustainable data centers

Prometheus Hyperscale

Wyoming Hyperscale White Box has teamed up with Lumen Technologies to create sustainable data centers. Wyoming Hyperscale plans to launch its first development site in Aspen, Wyoming, in early 2022, with the help of Lumen, which will provide "accessible, clean, and reliable" technology solutio...

Princeton Digital Group to build a $150m data center in Jakarta, Indonesia

Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced that it is investing $150 million to build a data center in Indonesia. The facility (Jakarta Cibitung- JC2) will have 22MW of power, and it will be built in the same campus that hosts PDG’s JC1 data center. Upon completion, the facility can still ...

Equinix files application for data centers in Clondalkin, Ireland

Equinix

Equinix filed for permission to build a data center in Profile Park, Clondalkin, Ireland. The Company filed for permission to build a three-story data center in July. It is going to call the facility DB8. The facility will be built within a 2.65 hectare of land. The facility will also have ...

The projects leading the research into data center cooling

Europe

In the data center industry, there is an increasing emphasis placed on developing data center cooling innovation. With good reason, too, as research shows that a 1 MW data center that uses traditional cooling can guzzle 25 million litres of water each year, which is unsustainable. Moreover, co...

Indian data center boom to see industry capacity double by 2023

India / Bhārata

India's data center industry is growing at a rapid rate following a rise in digitalisation and the "ambitious growth plans of data centre operators." As a result, the market is anticipated to double by 2023, reaching over 1,000 MW, that's according to JLL's 'H1 2021 India Data Center Market Up...

Dropbox data centers meet sustainability goes through achieving 100% renewable energy

In its effort to drive towards a greener future, DropBox has announced that it has already reached some of its sustainability goals. It has achieved this in part by fuelling all its data centers with 100% renewable energy.Commenting on this milestone, Bart Volkmer, Chief Legal Officer at Dropb...