Read OADC Plans $240m Data Center in Lagos, Nigeria
OADC Plans $240m Data Center in Lagos, Nigeria
March 27, 2025

OADC Plans $240m Data Center in Lagos, Nigeria

Pan-Africa data center firm Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is set to spend $240 million on a 24MW data center in Lagos, Nigeria. Its CEO Dr. Ayotunde Coker mentioned to the press at an event held last week that the project would be built in two stages, with the first 12MW set to come online i...

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Read DataOne Secures Investment from US Concrete Firm
DataOne Secures Investment from US Concrete Firm
March 26, 2025

DataOne Secures Investment from US Concrete Firm

European data center firm DataOne has secured investment for its new US subsidiary from a concrete company Northeast Precast which has now taken a minority shareholder position in DataOne USA.Charles-Antoine Beyney, CEO of DataOne, said: “I have been fortunate to start and successfully exit se...

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Read Eurazeo Partners with Metrobloks for €100m Data Center Push
Eurazeo Partners with Metrobloks for €100m Data Center Push
March 26, 2025

Eurazeo Partners with Metrobloks for €100m Data Center Push

European investment fund Eurazeo has announced a €100 million partnership with Metrobloks, a US-based developer and operator of data centers in metropolitan areas. The companies will acquire land and develop data centers in Europe’s Tier 1/FLAPD markets, as well as emerging Tier 2 markets such...

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Read Segro and Pure DC team up for Data Center Development in West London
Segro and Pure DC team up for Data Center Development in West London
March 25, 2025

Segro and Pure DC team up for Data Center Development in West London

Property investor Segro and Pure DC have formed a joint venture known as Segro Pure Premier Park Data Centre Limited to build a 56MW data center in West London. The JV will develop a 30,000 sqm (322,915 sq ft) data center at Premier Park, an industrial site owned by Segro located on Premier Pa...

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Read Apple Launches New Clean Energy Fund in China
Apple Launches New Clean Energy Fund in China
March 25, 2025

Apple Launches New Clean Energy Fund in China

US technology provider and manufacturer Apple has launched a new clean energy fund in China worth an estimated 720 million yuan ($99.26m). This marks the second clean energy fund the company has launched in the country.The fund has a goal of adding around 550,000MWh of wind and solar capacity ...

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Read New Data Center Proposed in South Korea
New Data Center Proposed in South Korea
March 25, 2025

New Data Center Proposed in South Korea

Metavisio Thomson Computing, a French IT company, this week announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of a large-scale data center in Gangwon Province.The project, based at a Yeongwol-gun mining site in Gangwon Province, will leverage a 260MW power supply...

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Read Visa Plans Data Center in Nigeria
Visa Plans Data Center in Nigeria
March 24, 2025

Visa Plans Data Center in Nigeria

Global payments services company Visa Inc., is planning to develop a data center in Nigeria in addition to $1 billion the company has already invested in the country. Visa's regional president for central & eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Andrew Torre noted that while the company ...

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Read Colovore Launches Liquid-cooled Data Center in San Jose
Colovore Launches Liquid-cooled Data Center in San Jose
March 24, 2025

Colovore Launches Liquid-cooled Data Center in San Jose

Liquid-cooled data center firm Colovore has launched a new all-liquid facility in San Jose, California.The company launched its original single-story, 24,000 sq ft (2,230 sqm) facility at 1101 Space Park Drive in Santa Clara, California in 2014. Colovore then announced plans to build a second ...

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Read MediaTek and Far EasTone Telecoms Sign PPAs in Taiwan
MediaTek and Far EasTone Telecoms Sign PPAs in Taiwan
March 24, 2025

MediaTek and Far EasTone Telecoms Sign PPAs in Taiwan

Chip company MediaTek and Taiwanese telco Far EasTone Telecommunications have signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure wind energy in Taiwan. Both companies have signed agreements with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to offtake from the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in T...

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Read Top News Stories from 17th- 22nd March 2025
Top News Stories from 17th- 22nd March 2025
March 24, 2025

Top News Stories from 17th- 22nd March 2025

Looking to expand it’s footprint in Switzerland, European data center operator NorthC marked its fourth data center in the region after successfully re-launching a data center it acquired in Winterthur, Switzerland.Four new data centers will be coming to Saudi Arabia as Alfanar Global Developm...

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Read Oracle Expands Oracle Database@Azure offering
Oracle Expands Oracle Database@Azure offering
March 22, 2025

Oracle Expands Oracle Database@Azure offering

Oracle has expanded its Oracle Database@Azure offering. The company has now made its Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure available in these @Azure regions. The company has also added a new location to the offering at Microsoft Azure's East US 2 region, bringing the total...

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Read NorthC Launches Data Center in Switzerland
NorthC Launches Data Center in Switzerland
March 22, 2025

NorthC Launches Data Center in Switzerland

European data center operator NorthC has re-launched a data center it acquired in Winterthur, Switzerland, marking its fourth data center in Switzerland. This facility has a capacity of 1.8MW across 1,100 sqm (11,840 sq ft) and offers potential for expansion in the future.“Regionality is very ...

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Read SUB1 Secures Investment from Boultbee Brooks
SUB1 Secures Investment from Boultbee Brooks
March 21, 2025

SUB1 Secures Investment from Boultbee Brooks

A new UK data center developer SUB1 this week announced a major strategic investment from Boultbee Brooks Real Estate. The developer aims to focus on redeveloping brownfield sites on industrial estates and business parks with existing or potential on-site power to quickly deploy high-performan...

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Read Judicial Review of Art Data Centres Ennis campus is Dismissed
Judicial Review of Art Data Centres Ennis campus is Dismissed
March 21, 2025

Judicial Review of Art Data Centres Ennis campus is Dismissed

The request for a judicial review of Art Data Centres' campus in County Clare, Ireland, has been dismissed. The Ennis data center project was given planning permission in 2022, and approved by An Bord Pleanala in April 2024, but opponents to the project including the Clare Green Party called f...

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Read Telehouse Signs Wind PPA in UK
Telehouse Signs Wind PPA in UK
March 21, 2025

Telehouse Signs Wind PPA in UK

Data center firm Telehouse and RWE this week announced a 10-year PPA to offtake from the London Array wind farm. Under the agreement, RWE will supply a “substantial amount” of the renewable energy used at Telehouse’s London Docklands campus, until the end of 2035.Mushtaq Choudhary, head of pro...

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Read SoftBank to Acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5bn
SoftBank to Acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5bn
March 21, 2025

SoftBank to Acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5bn

SoftBank plans to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion. The company will now operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group and retain its name, while lead investors Carlyle and Oracle will sell their stakes.SoftBank, meanwhile, remains the single largest shareholder of Arm, which...

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Read DigitalOcean to Deploy GPUs at Flexential Data Center
DigitalOcean to Deploy GPUs at Flexential Data Center
March 21, 2025

DigitalOcean to Deploy GPUs at Flexential Data Center

Cloud company DigitalOcean has signed an agreement with Flexential to bring a high-density GPU deployment to the latter's Atlanta-Douglasville data center which will include DigitalOcean's "GPU Droplets" powered by Nvidia H200 and AMD Instinct GPUs, and will be deployed across two connected da...

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Read Microsoft Partners with Core42 for Sovereign Cloud and AI infrastructure for Abu Dhabi
Microsoft Partners with Core42 for Sovereign Cloud and AI infrastructure for Abu Dhabi
March 20, 2025

Microsoft Partners with Core42 for Sovereign Cloud and AI infrastructure for Abu Dhabi

The Abu Dhabi government is partnering with Microsoft and Core42 for AI infrastructure and a sovereign cloud offering in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Both companies aim to establish a sovereign cloud computing environment capable of processing more than 11 million digital interactions daily...

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Read OData Announces New Data Center in São Paulo
OData Announces New Data Center in São Paulo
March 20, 2025

OData Announces New Data Center in São Paulo

Latin American operator OData is developing a new data center in São Paulo, Brazil. The company aims to invest more than $450 million on the 48MW facility. DC SP04 is scheduled to become operational in April 2025.“We take great pride in operating with 100 percent renewable energy in Brazil, re...

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Read DSTA Partners with Oracle for Isolated Cloud Region
DSTA Partners with Oracle for  Isolated Cloud Region
March 20, 2025

DSTA Partners with Oracle for Isolated Cloud Region

Singapore's Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) has signed a contract with Oracle for an Oracle Cloud Isolated Region which will support both the Ministry of Defense (MINDEF) and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), giving them access to a high-performance, air-gapped, and secure sovereign c...

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