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Read Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London
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Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London

February 23, 2023 London

A 185,150-square-foot data center is projected for northeast London. Alandale Scaffolding has applied to Epping Forest District Council for permission to construct a new center in Loughton, close to the Debden station, as first revealed by EssexLive. The company intends to construct a...

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Read Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center
Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center

Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center

February 22, 2023 Tokyo

AirTrunk has announced that it has broken ground on the second phase of its TOK2 data center located in Tokyo, Japan. This follows the groundbreaking of the first phase only three months ago. The company has outlined that the new phase is scalable to approximately 50MW of capacity and...

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Read IIJ announces sustainability efforts with rooftop solar power system
IIJ announces sustainability efforts with rooftop solar power system

IIJ announces sustainability efforts with rooftop solar power system

February 03, 2023 Japan

Japanese ISP Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has announced its sustainability efforts with the installation of a 336kWp rooftop solar power system at its Shiroi data center campus in Chiba Prefecture. The solar panels, primed to generate approximately 373MWh annually, 3 percent of the...

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Read 3data expands footprint in Moscow
3data expands footprint in Moscow

3data expands footprint in Moscow

January 27, 2023 Moscow / Москва́

3data has announced its expansion in Moscow, after developing its 3data P6 data center, located at 125445, Moscow, ul. Pravoberezhnaya, 6A/5. According to the company, the facility is built to Tier III standards and accompanies its 20+ facilities dotted across the Moscow region.The company...

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Read Optage to build new data center in Osaka, Japan
Optage to build new data center in Osaka, Japan

Optage to build new data center in Osaka, Japan

January 27, 2023 Japan

Optage Inc. has announced plans to build a new data center in Osaka, Japan. Named the 'Optage Sonezaki Data Center', this facility will be the company's fifth, with work to commence in November 2023 and due to open in January 2026.The facility will be located in the Higashi-Umeda area of the...

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Read Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo
Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo

Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo

December 23, 2022 Tokyo

Alibaba has established a data center in Tokyo, Japan. The company stated in December 2022 that its Alibaba Cloud/Aliyun division had opened a third data center in Japan to "meet the transformation expectations" of clients. Unique Song, General Manager of Japan for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence,...

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Read 600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition
600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition

600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition

November 21, 2022 London

Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North...

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Read Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London
Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London

Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London

November 08, 2022 London

According to Havering Council, it is negotiating with a private sector developer, Digital Reef, to build a huge data center campus in the eastern London Borough of Havering. The London Data Freeport project would reportedly be 'Europe's largest data center' sitting on a site of 175 hectares....

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Read ESR Already Developing its 19.2MW OS1data center in Osaka, Japan
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ESR Already Developing its 19.2MW OS1data center in Osaka, Japan

November 08, 2022 Osaka

Asia’s ESR Group has started work on its 19.2MW facility in Osaka, Japan. The real estate company revealed that the Cosmosquare OS1 data center would be phase 1 of its three-phase facility at Nanko Kita. The company plans to develop a total of 96MW on the site. OS1 is scheduled to be completed in...

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Read London Docklands proposal rejected
London Docklands proposal rejected

London Docklands proposal rejected

October 31, 2022 London

According to reports, a proposal for a new data center at the London Docklands has been rejected on the grounds that the proposals were "bulky" and could have a negative impact on the nearby Naval Row Conservation Area. Although council planning officers had recommended the proposal, which would...

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Read Mainova Ventures into Data Centers With 30MW Facility in Frankfurt
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Mainova Ventures into Data Centers With 30MW Facility in Frankfurt

October 27, 2022 Frankfurt

German energy company Mainova is moving into the data center business. The company broke ground on the new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. Mainova WebHouse, a subsidiary of the energy company, announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place earlier in the month. The new data...

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Read New data center proposed in east London, UK
New data center proposed in east London, UK

New data center proposed in east London, UK

October 20, 2022 London

According to reports, a new data center is being proposed in east London, UK, on a 1.39-hectare site. Located on the western edge of the former East India Import Dock, the proposed facility could have a potential IT power of 30MW, with six halls each of 1,200 sqm (12,900 sq ft). It's also noted...

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Read Telehouse begins work on its Paris data center
Telehouse begins work on its Paris data center

Telehouse begins work on its Paris data center

October 05, 2022 Telehouse

Telehouse has announced that it has begun work on its new data center at its TH3 Paris Magny campus in France. The second on the site, the data center, is located on a former EADS military site and will provide 12,000 sqm (129,150 sq ft) of IT floor space and 18MW of capacity across five...

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Read Chayora finishes up work on the first data center on its new Shanghai Campus
Chayora finishes up work on the first data center on its new Shanghai Campus

Chayora finishes up work on the first data center on its new Shanghai Campus

October 03, 2022 Shanghai

Chayora, a Hong Kong-based data center operator, has announced that it has completed the construction of its first data center on its new Shanghai campus in China. The company first announced the campus back in November 2021, and in partnership with EdgeConneX, Edge will offer computing services...

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Read NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe
NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe

NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe

September 23, 2022 Japan

NEC Corporation has announced that it is establishing two new green data centers, in response to the growing demand. The first is the "NEC Kanagawa Data Center: Phase 2 Building" which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2023, and the second is "NEC Kobe Data Center: Phase 3 Building,"...

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Read Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London
Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

August 30, 2022 London

It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital, following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...

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Read Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated
Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

August 08, 2022 Frankfurt

Frankfurt recently announced an updated plan for commercial developments in the city, which will place a limitation on cloud and colocation data center buildings. This comes as a response to concerns around their land and energy usage. Alongside this announcement, the city also outlined its...

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Read The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity
The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity

The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity

August 02, 2022 London

In the wake of a housing crisis, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has informed developers must halt new housing projects, with talk of a potential ban that could last until 2035, in response to energy constraints caused by data centers. Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon, which contributed to 11%...

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Read Singapore authorities to begin taking applications for new data centers
Singapore authorities to begin taking applications for new data centers

Singapore authorities to begin taking applications for new data centers

July 22, 2022 Singapore

Singapore has announced the end of its data center moratorium and is now accepting new applications for facilities, following Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Economic Development Board's (EDB) pilot scheme launch. The moratorium was originally put in place back in 2019 due to...

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Read Are ammonia-powered data centers the future?
Are ammonia-powered data centers the future?

Are ammonia-powered data centers the future?

July 15, 2022 Japan

As the race for more sustainable power options continues in the data center industry, a raft of alternatives have been proposed, from solar to green hydrogen. However, perhaps one option that few expected is ammonia, which is now being pegged as the next major renewable fuel. Joel Moser, CEO of...

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