Data Center News

Ethio telecom launches Huawei-built modular data centre in Ethopia

Africa

Ethio telecom has announced the launch of its new Tier III-ready modular data center based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. According to the operator, the facility, located in the Gola Sefer area, is the largest in Ethiopia, capable of holding up to 800 servers. The data center has a power usage eff...

BIT Mining Limited to Invest in a Cryptocurrency Data Center in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

BIT Mining Limited, has announced that it has joined forces with a Kazakhstan-based firm in a binding investment sheet, to invest in a cryptocurrency mining data center in Kazakhstan. The company is investing $9.33 million to construct the facility, which will have an expected 100MW of capacit...

Adam launches Madrid data center

Adam MAD Alcala

Adam, a data center Company in Spain, announced that it would be opening a new data center in Madrid, Spain's capital. The new facility will be Adam’s third and will be situated in the Tecnoalcala Technology Park. The facility will be built in phases, and the first phase will have 3,500 squar...

Facebook boosts capacity with multi-storey data center design

Hyperscale Data Center

Following the trend of building taller buildings, Facebook has revealed that it is boosting its capacity with a new multi-storey data center design as part of its global infrastructure expansion. The design is being rolled out in its Prineville, Oregon campus, deployed in two new facilities.Th...

DataBank expands SLC5 data center in Salt Lake City

DataBank SLC5

DataBank has announced its recent expansion, adding a third data hall at its SLC5 data center. Based in Bluffdale, Utah, at its Granite Point North campus complex, the new addition takes its current capacity to 30,000 sq ft (2,790 sq m), with a 6MW of critical IT load.The center first opened ...

MainOne to expand its data center footprint in West Africa

MainOne MDX-i

MainOne, a Nigerian Telco, has announced its plans to expand its data centers across West Africa. The Company plans to double its storage capacity over the next two years. The data center capacity will increase from 700 racks to 900 racks next year. It also plans to expand its racks by 300 ...

Garanti BBVA Data Center awarded Tier IV Gold Certification

Garanti BBVA Bank Technology Campus

Garanti BBVA has announced that its data center has become one of the sixteen data centers in the world to be awarded Tier IV Gold Certification in Operational Sustainability from the Uptime Institute.Commenting on receiving the award, Ilker Kuruoz, Executive Vice President of Engineering and ...

3S Group announces new data center in Poland

3S Katowice

3S Group has announced it is building a new data center in Katowice, Poland. Its largest data center on the complex yet, the DC3 facility will span 2,200 sq m (23,600 sq ft), built next to its DC1 and DC2 facilities.Based in Southern Poland, the addition of the new data center brings the grou...

Marathon Digital Holdings Announces Binding Letter of Intent with Compute North to Host 300-Megawatts of Bitcoin Mining at New Data Center

New Data Center to House Approximately 73,000 of Marathon’s Bitcoin Miners, Transitioning the Company’s Mining Operations to 70% Carbon NeutralLAS VEGAS, May 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In the news release issued under the same headline earlier today by Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ...

Lunar data center on the horizon

Paris

While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility b...

Underwater data center moves ahead in Hainan China

China

Hainan Port’s investment Company, Hainan Xintou, announced that it would launch its commercial undersea data center. The data center will run in 100 airtight pressure vessels on the sea bed close to China’s Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant. Beijing Highlander, a marine specialist, tested the pro...

Microsoft plans to use rainwater to cool Dutch data centers after facing protests

Hyperscale Data Center

After facing backlash from the resident of the Hollands-Kroon province, Netherlands, that its data center in the region could cause a shortage of drinking water, Microsoft has announced that it would now be using rainwater. Microsoft promised on TV that it would be using rainwater to cool its ...

Etisalat announces new data center in Kalba, UAE to serve as a CLS for Africa-1

Etisalat Kalba

Etisalat just announced its new data center in the city of Kalba, northeast of the country. The data center named SmartHub Kalba, scheduled to open in Q1 of 2022, is Etisalat’s third wholesale data center as it opened two facilities in 2020. Besides, the Kaba facility is built to Tier III stan...

Big Data Exchange completes 2MW expansion of Singapore facility, plans further 8MW upgrade

BDx Singapore SIN1

Big Data Exchange has completed an upgrade to its SIN1 data center Facility in Paya Lebar, Singapore. The Company also plans to increase capacity before the year runs out. The completed upgrade sees the Company add 2MW capacity to the SIN1 facility. Big Data Exchange will also add four more f...

HostDime breaks ground on Eatonville data center

HostDime

After a several delays, HostDime has announced that it has broken ground on its new 95,000 sqft data center in Eatonville. The development was subject to delays as a result of the pandemic, according to the company.The facility will be built on land which hasn’t seen development in nearly 100 ...

Liberty Global and Digital Colony launch AtlasEdge Data Centers

AtlasEdge

Liberty Global, a leading Telecoms Company and Digital Colony, a top investment firm focusing on digital infrastructure, has announced that they have joined forces to create AtlasEdge Data Centers, a European Edge data center business. The joint venture will see them operating over 100 Edge da...

Yondr Group Announces $2 Billion Investment in Data Centers in the Americas

North America

Yondr Group has announced a major $2 billion expansion plan to deliver data infrastructures spanning across the US, Canada, Central, and South America as part of its global scaling strategy. By 2024, the group plans to deliver data centers across five continents. Yondr Group has appointed Éann...

Alpha Federal to provide data center services to the US Geological Survey agency

Alpha Federal has won a contract valued at $20 million to deliver data center services to the US Geological Survey Agency. The contract is expected to run for five years. It also includes a one-year base period and four one-year options. Alpha Federal will be hosting the US Geological Survey ...

Digital Realty Completes Acquisition Of Ascenty (Press Release)

Digital Realty Trust

SAN FRANCISCO, May. 20, 2021 -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its Brazilian subsidiary, Stellar Participações Ltda., has completed the previously announced acquisition of Ascenty, the leading data...

GDS Holding continues expansion in China

GDS Services Ltd

GDS Holding has significantly expanded its footprint in China after commencing construction on five different facilities in its first quarter, with a view for further expansion.The company has closed two data center acquisitions in Beijing 15 and Tianjin 1. BJ15 brings over 19,000 sq m (204,00...