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Turkcell announces acquisition of 18MW wind farm in Turkey

Turkcell

Turkcell, a Turkish telecoms company with a portfolio of 26 data centers, has announced that its subsidiary Turkcell Enerji, has acquired Boyut Grup Enerji, which owns İzmir Karadağ Wind Power Plant.The deal worth $29.6 million means that Turkcell now has access to 18MW of wind farm energy. T...

Iron Mountain to buy Keppel's 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million)

Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-2

Iron Mountain has announced it will buy Keppel’s 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million). The Keppel DC FRA1 facility was initially announced in 2016 and opened in 2018. Keppel also paid €76m in 2016 to acquire the facility. Keppel DC FRA1 is a two-story building with 20,000 square m...

IPI Partners to buy Nordic data center firm, DigiPlex

IPI Partners

IPI Partners is to acquire DigiPlex, a Nordic data center operator. DigiPlex as a data center operator, has 8 data centers in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. These facilities have a total white space of 230,000 square feet (21,000 square meters) and 40MW of capacity. This acquisition comes aft...

AWS launches Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services just launched its new Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas. Customers can now deliver applications that need single-digit millisecond latency to both on-premises installations and end-users in Philadelphia and Dallas with these local zones. AWS Local Zones are infrastr...

Bailard sells Comcast-occupied data center in Maryland for $14.85 million

Comcast Nottingham

Bailard, an investment management firm, just sold a data center and office property in Maryland for $14.85 million. It is a two-story 66,000 square-foot property currently occupied by Comcast. The building is also located at 8031 Corporate Drive in White Marsh, Maryland.CEO of Bailard Real Est...

Amazon's second Drogheda data center jeopardizes environmental targets

Hyperscale Data Center

An Taisce, the Irish National Trust, have rallied against Amazon building its second data center on its Drogheda site in County Meath. Although the facility was given the go-ahead in June, the Irish planning board is now awaiting an appeal by the environmental group. It says that the authoriti...

STT Telemedia opens its 40MW data center in Loyang, Singapore

STT Singapore 6

St Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has finally opened its Loyang facility in Singapore. In 2018, the Company announced that it would open the facility in mid-2020. However, the coronavirus pandemic caused a lot of construction delays. However, STT GDC says it reduced the effects by pr...

Innit doubles data center capacity at Bulk’s Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility

Bulk: Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX)

Bulk Infrastructure has announced that integrator and software developer Innit has doubled its data center capacity at its Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility. The expansion plans were solidified on January 21st through the signing of a new order on the Master Service Agreement (MSA).Spea...

TDC Net expands eco-footprint with four solar farms

Denmark

TDC Net, the Danish telecoms firm, has announced that it is moving forward with four new solar parks. This comes following TDC Net signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Better Energy. By 2023, the four farms will be capable of supplying 140GWh of energy each year. By 2028, the company ...

Officials voted to rezone lands in Naas, Ireland for data centers

Republic of Ireland

The local officials in Naas, Kildare, Ireland, have rezoned two plots of land to host data centers. Earlier this week, the Kildare County council voted to rezone these lands for data center use as an update to the Naas 2021-2027 local area plan. The two sites are said to be 91 and 106 acres, w...

Evoque Data Centers acquires Foghorn Consulting

Csquare

Evoque Data Center Solutions has completed the acquisitions of Foghorn Consulting, a cloud consulting and engineering services company based in Silicon Valley. Evoque said acquiring Foghorn will help it serve its customers’ cloud needs better. With the acquisition, Evoque has expanded its appl...

MTS acquires GreenBush data center in Moscow

MTS Greenbush

Russian telco MTS has acquired Moscow based data center, GreenBush. MTS acquired 100% of GDTs Energy Group, which owns the GreenBush data center, for RUB 5.2 billion ($70.8 million). The GreenBush data center was first launched in 2018, and it was Tier III certified. At full build out, it will...

Ascendas India Trust to build a $162.4 million data center campus in Navi Mumbai, India

Ascendas Property Fund wants to invest up to R 12 billion ($162.4 million) to build and operate phase one of a campus in Airoli, Navi Mumbai. Ascendas Property Fund says it will complete the acquisition of the 6.6-acre site of the proposed data center in the third quarter of 2021. This campus ...

District Council approves AWS' Didcot, UK, data center

Hyperscale Data Center

AWS has secured the approval of its two-building data center development on the Didcot Power Station from the Vale of White Horse District Council’s planning committee. The data center project was first proposed in 2019. Following local feedback and Covid-19 delays, the Company decided to redu...

Ohio’s school retirement fund aims to invest in target data centers in future

Ohio

Ohio’s school retirement fund wants to invest in life science offices and data centers in 2022. The Ohio School Employees Retirement System plans to hire managers to look into real estate investment like data centers since it offers higher rent growth opportunities in its annual investment pla...

Vodafone Idea wants to sell fixed-line broadband subsidiary and land meant for data centers

Vodafone

Vodafone Idea, an Indian telecom operator, wants to sell its optic fiber unit, fixed-line broadband subsidiary, and data center business to settle its debts. According to the Company’s latest financial books, Vodafone Idea has a gross debt of Rs 1,803.1 billion ($2.4 billion). It is looking t...

Regulators instruct Facebook to review power purchase agreements in New Mexico

Hyperscale Data Center

Regulators have instructed Facebook to renegotiate the terms of its proposed power purchase agreements regarding solar energy and energy storage facilities in New Mexico.The agreement relates to 50MW of solar energy from Encino North Solar Energy Center, 190MW of solar from Sky Ranch Solar Fac...

MCIT looks towards massive data center expansion in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) in Saudi Arabia has announced large-scale data center development plans across the country. Included within these plans is the building of a hyperscale data center. By 2030, it is expected that an injection of $18 billion will be...

Amazon files an application to build four data centers in Manassas, Virginia

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Amazon has filed an application to build four data centers on land in Manassas, Virginia. It filed to build the data centers on empty land that’s between Sudley Road and Ashton Avenue. The piece of land is presently owned by the estate of Lewis Percival Ashby Jr., and it is being used as a ...

PT DCI Indonesia Tbk (DCI) Announces The Construction of the Second Location Hyperscale Data Center Campus (H2)

DCI Indonesia: H2-01

JAKARTA, June 21, 2021 - As part of PT DCI Indonesia Tbk (DCI)’s commitment in being the leading provider of data center services in Indonesia, officially announced the construction of a second location for DCI campus hyperscale data center in the Region Pertiwi Lestari Industrial Estate Karaw...