Data Center News

Amazon's second data center in Drogheda, Ireland approved

Hyperscale Data Center

Amazon’s second data center in Drogheda, Ireland is going ahead after County Meath Council approved the two-story, 28,566 sqm (307,400 sq ft) facility to be built. Based at the Drogheda IDA Business & Technology Park, the facility will reportedly receive an investment of €350 million ($424...

Amazon to open the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region by 2023

Hyperscale Data Center

Amazon Web Services has announced that it would be opening its new data center region in Israel. Jeff Barr, the Chief Evangelist for AWS, said that plans for the new data center region are in place and that it would open in the first half of 2023. He further added that the region would have th...

DigiPlex opens third data center at its Fetsund Campus

STACK OSL03C

DigiPlex has just opened its new data center in Norway. This is the Company’s third data center at its Fetsund Campus. With white space of 9,700 square feet and a 3MW capacity, this would bring the total floorspace at the Fetsund campus to 64,500 square feet. The campus’s total capacity is al...

ClusterPower to develop first "hyperscale data center" in southern Romania

ClusterPower Craiova

ClusterPower, a Romanian cloud services startup, has announced that it is building the first hyperscale data center in southern Romania, based near Craiova. The center is to be the first of five planned on ​​25,427 sq m of company-owned land in Mischii, Dolj county. The campus, powered by natu...

Virgin Media data center in Leeds for sale for £7 million

Virgin Media Leeds (Temple House)

Temple House in Leeds, Yorkshire, which houses a data center used by UK telco Virgin Media, is up for sale for £7 million ($9.9 million). The building spans 102,400 sq ft (9,500 sqm), with a combined 3.06 acres across two plots, 44,333 sq ft (4,100 sqm) of which is used by Virgin.Speaking abou...

Comarch to build its first US data center in Mesa, Arizona

Comarch Mesa

Comarch has announced plans to build its first data center in the US, located in Mesa, Arizona. The Polish software firm has said that construction on the 32,000 sq ft (3,000 sqm) facility is due to commence this month, and will be its flagship building.The data center, which will see a $22 mi...

Bit5ive and Manhattan Solar Partners plan a large Renewable Powered Crypto Mining Facility in Texas

Bit5ive

Manhattan Solar Partners, a joint venture between BIT5IVE LLC and GMine LLC, will be building the largest renewable energy data center in Texas. BIT5IVE LLC builds class A crypto mining centers while GMine explores the capabilities of using green energy in mining crypto. The new data centers b...

Principal Real Estate raises over half a billion for first dedicated US data center fund

United States

Principal Real Estate has announced that it has secured over half a billion dollars for its US data center fund, following the final investor close on 30 April. The $533 million comes from a total of 15 limited partners, including insurance companies, wealth managers, endowments, and foundatio...

DEAC switches to 100% renewable energy

Delska (DEAC, DLC Data Logistics Center)

DEAC has announced that it is going green by switching to 100% renewable energy for all its data centers. The renewable energy will be sourced from wind farms in Northern Europe.The Latvian data center firm currently owns two 2.3MW and 0.4MW data centers based in Riga, with a third 4MW facilit...

Regulators raise questions over the future of 30 proposed Irish data centers

Republic of Ireland

In Ireland, over 30 proposed data centers face uncertainty. This comes after the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) instructed national grid manager, Eirgrid and ESB Networks to prioritize applications for data centers in areas with reliable power supplies.As a result, Eirgrid has vo...

MIS's data center fund to start within six months

Saudi Arabia

Al Moammar Information Systems Co. (MIS) announced that it expects its data fund to commence development within the next six months. The fund will go towards the development, ownership and operation of data centers across Saudi Arabia. This follows MIS signing a Memorandum of Understanding (Mo...

Volcanic geothermal energy for Bitcoin mining data centers in El Salvador

El Salvador

Following El Salvador declaring Bitcoin as legal tender, the country's president Nayib Bukele has instructed state-owned geothermal electric company, LaGeo, to create a plan to offer geothermal energy to Bitcoin mining data centers.On Twitter, Bukele announced the news, saying: "I've just inst...

Vapor IO Partners With VMware To Launch a Multi-Cloud Services Grid

Vapor IO

Vapor IO is partnering with VMware to build a Multi-Cloud Services Grid that fuses the Vapor IO’s Kinetic Grid Platform with VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform. The new platform will help make Edge applications more reliable and cheaper. It does this by integrating multiple clouds and edge environ...

Wallingford data centers delayed after council postpones vote

Gotspace Data Partners' plans to build data centers in Wallingford have been delayed, following the Town Council's postponement of voting on a host agreement on Tuesday.If signed, it could generate up to $1.5 million yearly in new tax revenue. This postponement comes after council members stat...

Digital Realty considering $300 million Singapore Trust IPO

Digital Realty Trust

According to a report from Bloomberg, Digital Realty is considering an Initial Public Offer (IPO) of a Singaporean trust that could raise between $300 million to $400 million. The report says Digital Realty is working with its advisers on the listing, and they are looking to conclude the IPO b...

D9 Infrastructure raises £175 million for digital infrastructure acquisitions

United Kingdom

Digital 9 Infrastructure, a UK investment trust, has raised £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company initially offered an offering to raise £100 million through new ordinary shares. However, it was oversubscribed, and it raised a total of £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company says it p...

phoenixNAP to Expand its Data Center in Phoenix, Arizona

PhoenixNAP-Phoenix

PhoenixNAP just announced that it had acquired land to expand its data center in Phoenix, Arizona. The land it purchased is next to its flagship data center in Phoenix. Furthermore, the planned data center will support 10MW of capacity and, it could be expanded in the future. Phoenix also add...

Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

Sydney

Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due t...

EIC launches project to store energy for data centers in compressed and liquid air

Energy Internet Corporation (EIC), a startup for renewable energy for data centers, has teamed up with Lummus Technology to use compressed air to store excess energy. The Companies seek to use this stored energy when renewable energy sources like wind and solar aren’t available.EIC will be pr...

FiberLight announces fiber expansion in El Paso

MDC Data Centers

FiberLight has announced the completion of its fiber expansion in the greater El Paso, Texas market with a new Point of Presence (PoP) at the MDC El Paso facility. The fiber infrastructure provider can now connect El Paso with Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville. Moreover, this expansion will ena...