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Sustainability goals outlined by Alibaba

Alibaba has announced its sustainability goals to meet the rest of the industry in its push to go green. According to Alibaba's Chairman and CEO, Daniel Zhang, this announcement aligns with the company's aspiration to become a force for "positive, innovative change in society." Zhang says that...

January 06, 2022

China

Four mega data center clusters ahead for China

According to reports, China is planning to introduce four large clusters of data centers situated outside the ‘main population centers’ in the north and west of the country. This announcement comes following China laying out its sustainability commitments and key targets as per its 2060 carbon...

December 31, 2021

China

Sanya to receive first underwater data center

Sanya, a coastal city on the south of Hainan Island, is to receive the world's first commercial demonstration underwater data center, with an investment of over 5.6 billion yuan ($880 million). This news comes following Hainan provincial authorities announcing they had reached a strategic agre...

December 28, 2021

China

Telstra expands Ashburn footprint

Telstra is expanding its footprint at its primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Its DC21 facility is managed by Equinix, and according to the company, this expansion will be almost triple the size of the facility now. Telstra says that the expansion at Ashburn, also “adds extra layers of ...

December 16, 2021

Telstra

Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney

Australian real estate company Trifalga is starting a data center unit with plans to have a largescale data center campus in Sydney. Trifalga and Trifalga DC’s first data center project will be an 800,000 square feet data center in Rouse Hill, Sydney. However, Trifalga did not reveal when the ...

December 16, 2021

Sydney

China's Guangdong to move data centers undersea

China's Guangdong province recently announced its five-year plan for its marine economy. Part of this plan will see "high energy consuming data centers" submerged in the sea to reduce energy consumption. As per the plan, cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai will relocate their data ce...

December 16, 2021

China

VNET to form JV with Sovereign Wealth Fund to develop hyperscale data centers in China

VNET, formerly known as 21Vianet, has launched a joint venture with an unrevealed sovereign wealth fund to build and operate hyperscale data centers in China. The agreement will see VNET create individual project companies that will develop each data center. Upon completing the data centers, V...

December 15, 2021

China

Hickory DC is developing a 72MW data center in Melbourne

Australian real estate development company Hickory has begun construction on its first data center in Melbourne. The company first revealed plans for the data center in June. The facility will be located on a 3.5-hectare site in Truganina, West Melbourne. The data center was to have 269,000 sq...

December 10, 2021

Melbourne

ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which w...

November 25, 2021

Hong Kong

Chayora to open new 54MW data center campus in Shanghai, China

Chinese developer Chayora has revealed plans to build a data center campus in Shanghai, China. The data center campus will sit on an 8.5-acre site. In addition, the campus will have three five-story buildings with a capacity of up to 10,000 racks. Chayora also revealed that the campus would...

November 18, 2021

Shanghai

Tesla Finally opens a data center in China

Tesla has finally opened its data center in Shanghai, China. It first announced the facility in April after Chinese regulators started making rules that would require Chinese subsidiaries to store data in China. Tesla did not reveal many details about the data center as the electric vehicle ma...

October 26, 2021

China

What's ahead for West China's Guian New District?

Guian New District's Big Data Development Service Center, has announced that China's Guian New District has 15 large and super-large data centers either underway or planned for future construction. By 2025, the project is expected to exceed 100 billion Yuan; however, in just the first quarter ...

September 17, 2021

China

Chinese authorities push ahead with plans underwater data centers

Underwater data centers are increasingly being looked to solve the industry’s sustainability issue. Submerging data centers underwater is reportedly more energy-efficient, addresses space scarcity, and sees facilities encounter fewer failures. Now, authorities in China are planning to invest ...

September 08, 2021

China

China's data centers and climate change

China's data center market has seen incredible growth over the last few years. Back in 2019, the market was valued at USD 13.01 billion but is forecast to reach a value of USD 36.18 billion by 2025. It is also registering a CAGR of 19.2% from 2020 to 2025. While this is good news economically...

September 06, 2021

China

Telstra converts two data centers into carrier-neutral colocation facilities

Telstra has announced the conversion of two of its data centers into carrier-neutral colocation facilities. Based in Sydney and Melbourne, both facilities have a PUE of 1.61 and 10MW power capacity.This move, according to reports, could be the first in a series of smaller data centers opening...

July 29, 2021

Telstra

CDH raises RNB 2 billion ($310 million) for a Chinese data center company

CDH Investments has announced that it has raised RNB 2 billion ($310 million) for a domestic data center Company. CDH Investments is a Beijing-based firm, and the funds it raised are said to be the first domestic fund in China that’s focused on investing in data centers. Ye Tao, managing dire...

June 29, 2021

China

Singapore government and Facebook back $S17m project for sustainable tropical data centers

It has been announced that social media giant Facebook and the Singapore government are joining forces to fund a $17 million (S$23m) project to address the need to boost the number of sustainable data centers built in tropical climates. The programme is also being funded by Singapore's Nationa...

June 16, 2021

Singapore

Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due t...

June 09, 2021

Sydney

Real estate firm Hickory enters the data center arena, with plans for a 36MW facility in Melbo

Hickory, an Australian real estate development firm, has announced that it is entering the data center arena with plans to construct a 36MW facility in Truganina, west Melbourne, following development approval from Wyndham City Council.The data center will be built on a 3.5-hectare site and ha...

June 09, 2021

Melbourne

Tesla establishes a data center in China to store car data locally

Tesla has announced the establishment of its data center in China. The data center opening comes as a response to the criticisms from Chinese authorities that the cameras on Tesla vehicles may be used for spying. In April, the Chinese Government published some rules about data collection by sm...

May 26, 2021

China

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