Data Center News

New Tennessee solar farm to provide Facebook data center with 110MW of renewable energy

Hyperscale Data Center

The Tennessee Valley Authority has just announced a deal with RWE Renewables and Facebook to build a 150MW solar facility near Millington TN. The solar facility will provide Facebook with 110MW of energy for its data centers in Gallatin, Tennessee, and across the Tennessee Valley. The solar f...

Microsoft gains approval for data center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft just gained approval from Hoffman Estates village board members to build a data center outside of Chicago, Illinois. The approved data center building is one of the two planned buildings at the 53-acre site. A 250,000 square feet building would be erected at the first phase while the...

NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT to launch data center in space

NTT

Is space the new edge? NTT is planning to develop a data center in space. NTT will be working with SKY Perfect Holdings, a Japanese satellite company, to develop the project. Plans are in place for trials to start in 2022, launch in 2025, and for operations to begin in 2026. The orbiting data ...

OneWeb partners with Rock Networks to serve Canadian Armed Forces

OneWeb has announced an essential distribution partnership in Canada with Rock Networks. With this deal, OneWeb will use its Low Earth Orbit in conjunction with Rock Network’s state-of-the-art devices to bring reliable and robust connectivity to Canada’s national defense and security protocol...

Sila agrees to sell all its data centers to Mapletree for $1.3bn

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

Sila Realty Trust announced that it has agreed to sell all its 29 data centers in the US to Mapletree Investment Trust for $1.3 billion. The 29 data centers are all the data centers in Sila’s portfolio which means upon completion; it will be an exit from the data center industry for Sila. ...

Vertiv launches micro data center solution in EMEA

Vertiv

Vertiv just launched its already assembled micro data center system in Europe. The data center system is designed for the Edge and small IT locations. This system is called VRC-S, and it includes a UPS, monitor sensors, a rack power distribution system, and software. It also has up to 3.5KW of...

STACK to run on 100 percent renewable energy by end of 2021

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it would be running 100% on renewable energy by the end of 2021. The Company made the promise of running all its current and future data centers with 100% green energy while launching its new social responsibility program. The Chief strategy officer at S...

Google opens quantum computer data center and R&D lab, plans commercial system by 2029

Google

Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a c...

Core Scientific to invest more than $100 million in new North Dakota data center

Core Scientific: Grand Forks

Core Scientific has announced that it will build a new data center based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after securing a $269,000 loan from the Grand Forks Growth Fund.In partnership with Nodak Electric Cooperative and Minnkota Power Cooperative, the blockchain company has said it plans to inve...

South Australia to receive new $ 70 million data center from DCI

DCI Data Centers

DCI Data Centers recently announced plans to launch South Australia’s first Tier-Ready III data center. With a AU$70 million (US$54 million) investment, the company says that the facility will support local businesses and governments.Currently, the company has two data centers in the country. ...

Data Center Review conducted in Prince William County

Northern Virginia

Prince William County, Virginia, may see more data centers being built in the region after County supervisors approved moves that could expand the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. This “overlay district” is the area where building data facilities is permitted.Established back in ...

Penta Infra Group acquires 2nd Hamburg data center

Penta Infra Group just acquired a data center in Hamburg for $16.4 million. The acquisition was financed by Dutch NIBC Bank N.V., which is the fourth data center acquisition Dutch NIBC Bank has financed for Penta Infra.The new data center will also be joining an existing 8MW Hamburg data cent...

Google plans to use greener energy by moving workloads between data centers

Google

Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware ...

GDS Holdings reportedly considering acquisition of GLP’s data centers

China

According to a report by Bloomberg, GDS Holdings is considering acquiring GLP Pte’s data centers business. The value of the assets is substantial and estimated to be between $8-10 billion. If the prospective deal goes forward, it will enable the Chinese firm to expand its footprint, while GLP ...

Foxconn opens globe-shaped data center at Wisconsin facility

Foxconn Industrial Internet Wisconsin

Foxconn has just opened its Globe Data Center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The data center building is 34,000 square feet in size and, it includes a 100 feet steel sphere as part of its design. The facility’s steel globe frame was initially completed in September 2020 before the installation ...

Odata To Build a $217 Million Data Center In Chile

ODATA Chile ST01

Odata has announced that it is planning to build its first data center in Chile. This new data center will sit on a 6-hectare site, and it will house over 40,000 square meters of data center buildings. Upon completion, the data center will have a capacity of 28MW. Odata also says it will be in...

Google to use Geothermal Energy for Nevada Data Center Campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has announced that it would soon start using geothermal energy to power its Nevada data center. The announcement will see Google become the first hyper-scale cloud operator to use the earth’s heat to power its servers. Fervo Energy, a clean energy startup, will be helping Google develop...

ERG To Provide Italian Telco TIM With 3.4 Terawatt Hours of Green Energy

TIM Group

TIM, an Italian Telco, has announced its new ten-year deal with ERG. The deal will see ERG provide TIM with 3.4 Terawatt hours of green energy across the country through its wind farms. The deal is expected to start next year, and it would see 20% of TIM’s total energy usage come from renewab...

Google buys 30 hectares to build data center in Uruguay

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has announced that, through its subsidiary, Eleanor Applications SRL, it has acquired 30 hectares of land in Canelones, Uruguay, to build a data center. According to El Observador, the company may have spent $818,000 on the plot, with a view to invest up to $100 million.The tech compan...

KT Corporation opens data center in Seoul, South Korea

KT Corporation

KT Corp has just launched its new data center in Guro, Seoul, South Korea. The new data center would be its 14th one and would accommodate 335 racks. Although KT Corp usually operates its own data centers, KT Corp would be leasing the new facility from Dreammark One, a local colocation provid...