Data Center News

GlobalConnect secures €2.7bn ($3.2 billion) debt refinancing

GlobalConnect A / S

GlobalConnect Group has announced that it has secured what it terms a ‘record debt refinancing’ worth €2.7 billion ($3.2 billion). A consortium of five Active Bookrunners, three Underwriters, and six Cornerstone Lenders coordinated by ING and SEB were responsible for the debt refinancing. The ...

Green Mountain signs agreement to heat land-based trout farm

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain, the Norwegian colocation company, has entered into an agreement with Hima Seafood to reuse waste warm water from the company’s local data center to grow trout at the farm in Rjukan, Norway.The Recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility, located 800 meters from the DC2-Tel...

Swisscom named AWS as Preferred Public Cloud Provider to Accelerate Digital Transformation Strategy

Swisscom AG

Amazon Web Services has announced that the largest telecoms firm in Switzerland, Swisscom, has selected AWS as its public cloud provider for its enterprise IT. Swisscom wants to use AWS to improve IT agility and operational efficiency. They also intend to use AWS to accelerate the time to mark...

Wallingford council discloses details of data center host fee agreement

Following a series of delays, Wallingford council has revealed its revised host agreement with Gotspace Data Partners, the tech company that seeks to build a number of facilities on two properties in the town. The revised agreement comes as the council voted five to 4 for its approval.Gotspace...

Silicon Valley Power to build a substation for AWS's planned data center in Santa Clara

Hyperscale Data Center

Silicon Valley Power will build a new substation for AWS’s upcoming data center in Santa Clara. Oppidan Investment Company will develop and pay for the data center facility on behalf of Amazon Web Services. Besides, Amazon acquired the site for $100 million in 2020, which will make it AWS’s f...

Iron Mountain enters $178 million sale-leaseback deal with Intermediate Capital Group, and would use proceeds to invest in data centers

Iron Mountain

US Real Estate Investment Company Iron Mountain has announced that it sold five facilities in the greater London area to Intermediate Capital Group (ICG). The sale agreement also included a leaseback deal for the facilities. Iron Mountain will remain in the facilities for an initial 12 year pe...

Qatar's sovereign wealth fund wants to invest in data centers and warehouses

Qatar

The Qatar Investment Authority wants to start investing in data centers and warehouses. This is because the real estate sector is struggling because of the covid-19 pandemic. Chief Executive of the sovereign wealth fund, Mansoor bin Ebrahim al Mahmoud, told an economic forum organized by Bloom...

Digital Crossroad data center in Hammond to expand following a $28 million investment

Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

The Digital Crossroad data center based in Hammond has received a $28 million investment from Energy Solutions Group and United Leasing and Finance for further expansion. Currently, in its first phase, the Digital Crossroad site features 105,000 sq ft of space and 6MW of capacity and is repor...

Court grants Google's subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission for data center in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden’s Land and Environment Court at Nacka District Court has granted Google’s subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission to build a data center in Horndal, Sweden. Although Google said the land was a potential data center location when they acquired the 109-hectare site in 2017, they said...

Acronis launches first cloud data center in India

India / Bhārata

Acronis has announced that it is launching its first cloud data center in India. The facility in Mumbai is being launched with partners Compuage India, Ingram Micro and Crayon Software Experts India. This new data center is one of 111 new facilities that the company is launching globally. It w...

Macquarie Capital Partners with Prime Data Centers for potential $5 billion capital investment

Prime Data Centers

Macquarie Capital has entered into a partnership with Prime Data Centers. It also made an undisclosed equity investment in Prime data center. However, both Companies claim that the partnership will give way for capital investments of over $5 billion over the next ten years. Furthermore, the Co...

Dakota State University wants $6m for data center remodeling

South Dakota

Dakota State University (DSU) has requested $6 million and $1.8 million to replace its existing data center and IT hardware, respectively. The request was made during a meeting between South Dakota’s public university system and its governing body. DSU asked for funds to replace its existing d...

Apple seeks planning permission extension for Athenry data center

Hyperscale Data Center

Apple has applied to Galway County Council to extend its planning permission on its site in Athenry, Ireland. Apple plans to build a 363,800 square feet data center on the site by the end of the extension period. The data center will be a single-story building with a maintenance building, a lo...

Comcast Business forms partnership with Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Data Centers

Through the partnership, the telecommunications conglomerate will integrate its connectivity into data centers in Tukwila and Quincy, which will give businesses a private connection to regional Sabey data centers. According to Comcast, the move will help businesses in the local area provide be...

3D Pioneer Systems acquires Host Networks

Host Networks BNE1

3D Pioneer Systems-DPSM just acquired Host Group of Companies Pty Lt for $2.6 million. Host Group operates a data center on Brandl Street, Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane. Besides, the facility has a capacity of 125 cabinets, and it can be upgraded to 200 cabinets. Also, the data center offers clo...

MainOne opens data center in Appolonia, Accra, Ghana

Equinix Accra AC1

MainOne, a Nigerian telco firm, just opened its new data center in Appolonia City, outside Accra, Ghana. The Company first announced the construction of the data center in 2019. It is a 100-rack facility, and MDXi, MainOne’s subsidiary, would manage it. Interestingly, the facility is also Tier...

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

Europe

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, a movement launched in January 2021 to tackle data centers' environmental impact, has made big moves this week. Cloud and datacenter giants in the movement have taken 19 proposals to the European Union (EU), which outline their "ambitious targets" to make ...

Rostelecom merges 2 data center units

Rostelecom

Rostelecom is merging its two data center business units, Rostelecom-DPC and DataLine, into one. It will be forming a new Company called DPC technology Center. The Company said the merger would see the new Company combine its experience in managing data centers.In a statement issued by the Co...

vXchnge secures big win at annual 2021 IT World

vXchnge

vXchnge recently took home gold at the 16th Annual 2021 IT World Awards. The colocation company was recognized for its data center infrastructure management and received a Gold Globe. On top of this, it was also awarded two Bronze awards for Business Intelligence and Analytics and IT Service ...

Amazon overtakes Google to become largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the US after announcing 14 new renewable projects

Amazon AWS

Amazon has overtaken Google as the largest corporate buyer of green energy in the United States. It also holds the title of being the largest renewable energy buyer in Europe. This comes after the Company announced its fourteen new green energy projects in the Us, Spain, Finland, and Canada.Wi...