Data Center News

Safe Host Is Expanding its SH2 data center in Gland, Switzerland

STACK Gland GEN02

SafeHost, a Swiss colocation provider, has announced that it is expanding its SH2 data center facility in Gland, Switzerland. Webuild Group, through its subsidiary CSC Costruzioni SA, will be responsible for building the additional 18MW of capacity at the SH2 facility. The project will als...

Thésée DataCenters opens its first Tier IV data center in Aubergenville, France

Thésée: Aubergenville TDC01

Thésée DataCenters has opened its first data center in Aubergenville, France. The data center coined TDC01 has 64,500 square feet of floor space in two rooms. The Uptime Institute has also certified the facility as Tier IV. According to Thésée DataCenters' president, Christophe Bouniol, the C...

Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary, Marunouchi Direct Access opens 130-rack data center in Tokyo

Marunouchi: Otemachi II

Marunouchi Direct Access, a Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary, has opened its new data center in Tokyo, Japan. The Otemachi DC II facility is a 130-rack facility that’s built in the Tokyo Torch development. Marunouchi Direct Access is a joint venture between Mitsubishi Estate and Marubeni Corporat...

Bee Information Technology PH plans to build ‘largest carrier neutral data center in Philippines

Beeinfotech: The Hive

Bee Information Technology PH says it plans to build the largest carrier-neutral data center in the Philippines. The Company already leased out the entire Campus One building in the new Bridgetowne Destination Estate. The building it leases is a three-story one with leasable space of up to 205...

Google buys plot of land in the Netherlands for potential data center

Hyperscale Data Center

Google just bought a plot of land in Groningen province, the Netherlands, for €3 million ($3.5 million). The plot of land bought is the last one at the Hoogebrug Winschoten business park in the municipality of Oldambt. There are reports that Google is planning to build a data center on the pie...

Yandex enters 5-year renewable energy deal in Finland

Yandex NV

Yandex, Russia's largest search platform, has decided to make the push towards renewable energy by signing up for a five-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for wind power at its Mäntsälä data center. According to Yandex, the deal with Finland's Ilmatar Energy will mean that 20% of the compan...

Scala Data Centers awarded carbon neutral certification in Brazil

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has secured carbon-neutral certification in Brazil. This comes as the company reaches its net-zero carbon emissions targets, with 100% of its energy consumption deriving from renewable and certified sources. This makes Scala the first company of its kin...

Rocky Mountain Power to build 120MW solar farm in Utah for Facebook power

Hyperscale Data Center

Rocky Mountain Power has announced that it would be building a new 120MW solar farm in Iron County, Utah, for Facebook. The solar farm will power Facebook’s Eagle Mountain data center. Head of renewable energy at Facebook, Urvi Parekh, commented on the development. He said the Company is happ...

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building an operations center in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Grand Rapids MI

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building a new operations and communications center, which includes, a data center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The project will cost the Company $7.7 million. Gerald R. Ford International airport says the new facility will be on the east side of the airp...

Euronext is moving its data center infrastructure from London to Italy because of Brexit

Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Euronext, the largest stock exchange in Europe says it is moving its data center out of London to Italy because of Brexit. It says it made the decision because it needs a predictable regulatory environment which the UK can’t provide. Euronext initially moved its data center infrastructure from...

Microsoft to acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud; AT&T to move its 5G network to Azure

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud technology and intellectual property. It will also be making job offers to hundreds of AT&T engineers. As part of the deal, AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to Microsoft Azure. AT&T’s 5G core would be the starting point. This deal...

Zoot expands into Australia with new data center

Zoot Enterprises

Zoot has announced its expansion into Australia, with its new data center located in Sydney. The company already has operational facilities in Bozeman Montana, Billings Montana, Frankfurt, Germany and Amsterdam in The Netherlands, and this addition brings its total to five.In a statement, Tony...

NASA awards $2.5 billion IT & communications contract to Leidos Inc

NASA confirms that they have awarded a new agency-wide information technology and communications services contract for Advanced Enterprise Global Information Technology Solutions contract worth $2.5 billion to Leidos Inc. The contract will run for ten years, and it will see Leidos provide clou...

Prime Data Centers to lease 9MW data center in Santa Clara to Cyxtera

Prime Data Centers

Prime Data Centers announces pre-lease of its new 9MW facility under construction in Santa Clara, California, to Cyxtera. Cyxtera will be leasing the entire four-story building facility with a total space of 121,000 square feet. Prime Data Centers first announced the facility's construction in...

CDH raises RNB 2 billion ($310 million) for a Chinese data center company

China

CDH Investments has announced that it has raised RNB 2 billion ($310 million) for a domestic data center Company. CDH Investments is a Beijing-based firm, and the funds it raised are said to be the first domestic fund in China that’s focused on investing in data centers. Ye Tao, managing dire...

Princeton Digital Group announces $1 billion hyperscale campus in Tokyo, Japan

Princeton PDG TY1

Princeton Digital Group is building a 100MW hyperscale campus in Tokyo, Japan. Investments in the facility are also expected to reach $1 billion. The facility would be built on an eight-acre site in Saitama City, Tokyo. Princeton Digital Group will build the facility in two phases, with each ...

Cyxtera Technologies expands in Silicon Valley and Chicago

Cyxtera Technologies

Cyxtera has announced that it is expanding its data center data footprint in Silicon Valley and Chicago. This includes the leasing of a 9MW data center based in Santa Clara, which offers 121,000 sq ft across four floors. In addition to this, the company is also adding around 1.6 MW of capacity...

TPG teams up with Quantum Loophole to redevelop Old Alcoa Plant

TPG Real Estate: Frederick Campus

TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP) and Quantum Loophole have joined forces to acquire a 2,100-acre industrial site near Frederick, Maryland, for its first major campus. The joint venture will see the two redevelop the site of the Old Alcoa Plant and transform it into a gigawatt scale data center ...

Yotta partners with Piql to launch a long-term data storage

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Yotta, an Indian data center firm will be partnering with Piql to offer its clients long-term data storage. The companies partnered up to create Yotta Preserve, and the companies will use piqlFilm for their data storage. This film is designed by Piql and it is designed to last for 500 years...

Princeton Digital Group considers $400m fundraising ahead of potential IPO

Princeton Digital Group

According to reports from Bloomberg, Princeton Digital Group wants to raise funds from investors to the tune of $400 million. Princeton Digital Group invests, develops, and operates data centers across Asia in countries like Singapore, China, Indonesia, and India. It also has 18 data centers i...