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Telehouse to expand its largest existing DC facility

KDDI-owned global data center service provider Telehouse Europe has announced plans to upgrade its largest existing data center, Telehouse South in London. The company announced that Skanska will be the contractor to complete the first phase of this upgrade which is expected to be finalized by...

October 16, 2023

Telehouse

BCX partners with Alibaba to launch cloud products in Johannesburg, South Africa

Telkom subsidiary BCX, in partnership with Alibaba Cloud, officially launched its Africa Local Public (ALP) Cloud service from two Johannesburg-based data centers last week. Both companies entered a partnership that grants BCX exclusive rights to distribute Alibaba Cloud’s products and service...

October 13, 2023

Johannesburg

6Estates launches Nvidia DGX BasePOD for AI offerings

Singaporean large language model provider 6Estates recently launched an Nvidia DGX BasePOD based on Nvidia GCX H100 systems to develop its AI offerings. The company will use this BasePOD for its "Model Solutions" offering, which provides users with personalized large language models. The clust...

October 11, 2023

Singapore

Rosatom acquires a data center in development; the 36MW facility is set to open in 2024

The state-owned Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia has acquired a Moscow data center. C.News.ru reports that Rosatom's Atomdata Center division has acquired a Moscow data center under construction for $237 million. The Moscow-2 facility, situated on 215,280 square feet in the Southern Admini...

August 14, 2023

Moscow / Москва́

ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development

ESR has secured a Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) to develop a data center in Hong Kong, it has announced. It has closed the first SLL in Hong Kong, worth HK$1.6 billion (US$205m), which will be used to convert a building in Kwai Chung into the 21.3MW ESR Kwai Chung Data Centre HK1.The compan...

August 03, 2023

Hong Kong

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much wat...

July 27, 2023

London

Mitsubishi teams up with FNT to boost data center sustainability

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and FNT Software have announced the signing of an MoU to construct sustainable data centres to support decarbonization efforts. Through the MoU, MHI’s analysis and energy management solutions will be integrated into FNT’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM)...

July 27, 2023

Japan

GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

The sovereign wealth fund GIC of Singapore is soliciting funds for a data center outside Seoul, South Korea. According to Business Korea, institutional investors, such as GIC, are working with indigenous institutional investors, securities companies, and asset management firms to build a data ...

July 24, 2023

Singapore

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to b...

July 14, 2023

Equinix

Bitdeer expands: Announces new data centers in Norway and Bhutan

In Bitdeer Technologies Group's latest operations update, it shared details about its upcoming expansion. Linghui Kong, Chief Executive Officer of Bitdeer, noted that its 100MW Gedu mining data center in Bhutan, for example, is almost complete and is expected to be delivered in July. Further t...

July 12, 2023

Singapore

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up t...

July 05, 2023

London

Circularity controversy: Bitcoin operations heats bathhouse in Brooklyn

In New York City, Brooklyn, a bathhouse and spa named Bathhouse has shared that it is now heating its pools with mining, with the water from the pool, then going on to cool the hardware. The bathhouse and spa also Bitcoin payments. The company shared the news in an Instagram post: "Enjoy a hot...

July 03, 2023

New York

N-Ark's proposes floating cities with underwater Edge data centers

Japanese start-up N-Ark has unveiled designs for a floating city named ‘Dogen City,’ which, as the climate crisis worsens, looks to be a place of refuge for those who can afford to escape the effects of climate change. That said, the company also shared that it would also "accept and provide ...

June 22, 2023

Japan

Loblaw former data center in Canada bought by Grain & StratCap

Grain Management and StratCap bought a data center on the Canadian outskirts of Toronto. This week, the firms announced the formation of a joint venture to purchase 55 Hereford Street in Brampton, Ontario. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but per the joint venture contract, Str...

June 22, 2023

Toronto

Telehouse, a subsidiary of KDDI, buys Allied Properties' data center holdings for $1 billion

Telehouse has entered the Canadian market with the acquisition of three data centers. KDDI, the parent company of the data center company, announced this week that it had acquired three data centers and the associated assets in Toronto, Canada, from Allied Properties REIT. KDDI paid $1.02 bil...

June 22, 2023

Telehouse

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the co...

June 14, 2023

London

Evolution DC and Central Pattana build Bangkok data center

Evolution Data Centres has partnered with Central Pattana PCL, a Thai property developer, to construct a new data center in Bangkok. Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, the two corporations will construct a 34MW carrier-neutral data center in central Bangkok, Thailand. Phase 1 of t...

June 13, 2023

Bangkok / Krung Thep

Singapore's IMDA establishes tropical data facility sustainability benchmark

Singapore has introduced a standard for maximizing the energy efficacy of data centers (DCs) in tropical regions. The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) standard recommends operating centers at higher temperatures to save energy on cooling. Dr. Janil Puthucheary, Singapore's Senior Mi...

June 09, 2023

Singapore

SoftBank and NVIDIA Partner for AI Data Centers all through Japan

SoftBank Corp has partnered with the American multinational technology firm NVIDIA to set up a platform for dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G products. It is built on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, and SoftBank intends to deploy it in Japan's new distributed AI data cent...

May 31, 2023

Japan

Japan Seeks Subsidies for Hokkaido and Kyushu Data Centers

To encourage the development of data centers, which are essential to a digital society, in the Kyushu southwestern region and Hokkaido's most northern prefecture, Japan's industry ministry on Tuesday proposed offering subsidies.The ministry stated that Hokkaido and Kyushu are ideal locations f...

May 30, 2023

Japan

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