Data Center News

Yondr purchases 270 acres for Northern Virginia data center campus

Yondr Arcola, VA

After announcing a major $2 billion American expansion plan back in May, Yondr has acquired 270 acres of land in Northern Virginia. Although the specific location details are still under wraps, the company has disclosed that the sites are “in close proximity to Northern Virginia’s major fiber ...

Equinix plans to open $142m Silicon Valley data center this month

Equinix SV11

Equinix will be opening its new $142 million data center at its Silicon Valley on the 30th of June. The data center dubbed SV11 has a colocation space of 61,000 sqft with enough room for 1,450 cabinets. Also, Equinix plans to expand its existing Bloom Energy fuel cell deployment to use as a p...

Switch buys land from Dell for Austin data center campus

Switch Austin "The Rock"

Switch has revealed the primary location of its Fifth Prime data center campus in Texas, following a purchase land agreement with Dell Technologies. The campus will be called "The Rock" and powered by 100% renewable energy.The land, located next to Dell's global headquarters in Round Rock, wil...

TIM Brasil signs solar deal with Faro Energy

TIM Group

TIM Brasil and Faro Energy just announced that they had signed a renewable energy deal. The deal will see Faro Energy supply TIM Brasil with five solar power plants for its network infrastructure before 2021 runs out. Faro will be responsible for investing, constructing, operating, and mainta...

Bechtel and Nautilus form partnership to build sustainable, high-performance data centers

Americas

Bechtel and Nautilus have formed a partnership to deliver data centers with better environmental footprints. The centers will reportedly be energy-intensive, delivering high-performance while prioritizing sustainability. The centers will use Total Resource Usage Effectiveness (TRUE) technology...

COPT forms joint ventures with Blackstone, buys two data center shells

Maryland

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced a new joint venture with funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate to purchase data center shells.The JV has acquired a 90% stake in two single-tenant data center shell properties totalling 432,000 square feet (40,100 sqm). The propert...

CyrusOne’s European data center portfolio now 100 percent powered by renewable energy

CyrusOne

CyrusOne just announced that all of its data centers in Europe are now running on 100% renewable energy. The Company has facilities in Dublin, London, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam, currently operating on renewable tariffs. Besides, the Company recently promised to be carbon neutral by 2040, and t...

Iron Mountain to expand EMEA Data Center footprint with new facility in Sough

Iron Mountain London LON-2

Iron Mountain has announced its plans for a 27MW data center in Slough, East of London. The new data center dubbed LON-2 will be a three-story building with up to 25,000 sq m of space. It will also have a capacity of 27MW at full buildout. Moreover, the building will have three 9MW data halls,...

Switch raises $500 million in senior notes to fund the Data Foundry acquisition

Switch

Switch will borrow $500 million to pay for its recent acquisition of Data Foundry for $420 million. Switch will be borrowing $500 million in senior notes. Senior notes are less risky, and the lender gets to pay lower interest. However, senior notes are a priority over other types of debt. Thi...

Schneider launches Edge container data center with Iceotope liquid cooling

Schneider Electric just launched its already fabricated Edge data center with an inbuilt Iceotope’s Ku:l 2 liquid cooling. This data center supports up to 60kW power as standard. However, it can be expanded to 336kW according to request. Also, Schneider Electric promises that this single rack ...

Yondr plans two data centers in Slough, UK- initial phase to cost £450 million ($637 million)

Yondr Group

Yondr is planning to build two data centers in Slough, England. The Company recently applied to build the data centers at former Uxbridge Road Gas Works and the former Akzo Nobel paint factory. Plans for the data centers have been in the works since January 2021. If the applications were appr...

Lefdal Mine Datacenter secures €50 million funding through UBS to expand facility

Lefdal Mine Datacenter

Lefdal Mine Datacenter just announced that it had secured €50 million ($61.1 million) funding with UBS Asset Management to finance the expansion of a facility. The Company will use the five-year financing deal to expand its colocation space in Norway past its existing 20MW capacity. Jørn Skaa...

DCI Indonesia launches new data center in Cibitung

DCI Indonesia: H1-JK5

DCI Indonesia has announced the launch of its JK5 data center building, located in Cibitung, West Java. This addition brings the company’s total to four, and with a capacity of 15MW, the new building takes its total capacity to 37MW. Indonesia’s digital economy is expected to reach a market v...

DivcoWest acquires New York carrier hotel in New York; H5 will manage interconnection and colocation

H5: 325 Hudson Street

DivcoWest, a real estate investment firm based in San Francisco, has announced that it has acquired a 10-story, mixed-used building carrier hotel from Jamestown Properties for $135 million. The building is located at 325 Hudson St., in Hudson Square. In concert with this transaction, H5 Data ...

Rostelecom opens data center in St. Petersburg, Russia

Rostelecom

Rostelecom has announced the opening of its new data center in St. Petersburg, Russia. Besides, the new data center is a 4,000 square meter facility, and Rostelecom built it to Tier III standards. It has a power capacity of 7.4MW and a total capacity of 800 racks. In addition, Rostelecom said...

Microsoft Begins Using Eco-Diesel in Data Center Generators

Hyperscale Data Center

Ahead of its 2030 goal of eliminating its reliance on diesel fuel for backup power, Microsoft has announced that it would be the first to use a lower carbon renewable fuel for backup power in its Sweden datacenter region. Microsoft’s backup generators in the Sweden region will run on Preem Evo...

Wipro sells stake in Ensono for $76 million

Wipro has announced that it has sold its entire stake in data center firm Ensono for $76.24 million. This move comes after private equity firm KKR announced the acquisition of Ensono back in April for a reported $1.7 billion. In 2018, Wipro had invested $55 million for a 10.2% stake in the bus...

Telia Company's divestment of Telia Carrier completed

Telia Company

STOCKHOLM, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Telia Company has today completed the divestment of Telia Carrier to Polhem Infra as all conditions, including regulatory approvals, have been met. On October 6, 2020, Telia Company announced the divestment of its subsidiary Telia Carrier to Polhem Infr...

European Investment Bank loans TIM €350 million for fiber and data center expansion

The European Investment Bank will be providing TIM with €350 million ($428 million) in loans. The loan will finance the expansion and modernization of its fiber and data centers in Italy and Greece. Moreover, the loans will be split into two parts. The first loan will be €230 million ($281.1 ...

German firm q.beyond explores divesting its colocation business

q.beyond is considering the sale of its colocation business. The Company has been based at IP Exchange GmbH since 1st January 2021. It operates 3 data centers in Nuremberg and Munich, and it has a total of 51 employees. In a press release, the Company said the Management Board has decided to ...