Data Center News

Microsoft To Invest $1 Billion on Four Data Centers in North Carolina

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has promised to invest a minimum of $1 billion in developing four data centers in North Carolina’s Catawba County. The company plans to spread the investment over the next 10 years. According to county officials, Microsoft will invest in the data centers in Maiden, Hickory, and Conov...

Google's 15-Year Tax Break on Oregon Data Center Expires

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has started paying property taxes at its Oregon data center- 15 years after it launched the facility. The company got a tax bill of $5.2m from Wasco County after its tax break expired. Google developed the data center in 2006. The tax bill might be small for Google, but it will signi...

Kio Acquires a 20MW Facility in Greater Mexico City Metro Area

KIO Data Centers

Kio Networks has announced the acquisition of a new data center campus in the greater Mexico City. The acquired data center is called KIO MEX6, which has a capacity of up to 20MW across 50,000 sqm. The facility is also capable of hosting telecom and critical IT services. Kio Networks also conf...

Ascenty Invests $290m To Develop Five Data Centers in Latin America

Ascenty

Ascenty has announced its plans to invest R$1.5 billion ($290 million) in Latin America. The funds will be used to develop five data centers in the region. The new facilities will be located in Colombia, Chile, and Brazil. Upon completion, Ascenty’s data center count in the region will hit ...

Helios Investment Partners Pumps $50 million into Kenya's IXAfrica

Kenya

Helios Investment Partners has announced a $50m investment into Kenyan data center company IXAfrica. The investment in the data center company is expected to close before the turn of the new year. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, which also include Kenyan regulatory ...

Partners Group Acquires EdgeCore Digital For $1.2 Billion

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

Partners Group has acquired edgeCore Digital Infrastructure. The equity company revealed that it would fund the $1.2 billion acquisition. The fund will help EdCore develop its existing and future data center facilities. EdgeCore was established in 2018. The data center company is backed by mor...

Telenor To Sell Its Pakistan Business For $1bn

Telenor Group

Telenor is looking to continue its plans to exit the Pakistan mobile market by selling off its business. The sale could be worth $1 billion. According to Bloomberg, the company is working with Citigroup to explore potential bidders for the Pakistan business. According to reports, there is inte...

Vodafone Sells Part of its Stake in Vantage Towers Unit to GIP and KKR

Vodafone

Vodafone has announced the sale of some of its stake in Vantage Towers to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and KKR while also creating a new joint venture with them. Per the deal, the tower unit is worth €16.1 billion ($16.1bn). The sale also sees Vodafone receive €3.2 billion ($3.2bn) ...

Telefónica Considering Selling its Stake in Cornerstone

Telefonica

Telefonica is mulling over selling its stake in Cornerstone, a UK mast operator. The Spanish operator has a 50% stake in the company which it considers a “disposable asset.” The other half is held by Vantage Towers. According to Reuters, the CEO of Telefonica said that the company has not yet ...

T5 begins work on the last phase of its Chicago facility

T5 Data Centers

T5 Data Centers has announced that it’s expanding its facility in Chicago, Illinois, in the final 20MW phase of its T5 Chicago facility at 200 Innovation Drive in Elk Grove. Acquired by T5 in 2016, the company first broke ground on an expansion back in 2017; its current expansion offers 140,0...

Former Barclays data center to undergo transformation and be brought back into service

Manchester

According to reports, Manchester City Council is looking to redevelop a former Barclays data center from the 1970s and bring it back into service. Currently, the council is looking for public feedback on its regeneration proposals for Wythenshawe town center, having already completed the acqui...

Microsoft signs wind PPA with Potentia and Greengate

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has entered into a 15-year power-purchase agreement with Potentia Renewables Inc. (Potentia) and Greengate Power Corporation's (Greengate) Paintearth Wind Project LP. As per the PPA, Microsoft will procure wind energy from the 198MW Paintearth Wind Project in Paintearth County, Albe...

Volkswagen AG announces climate-neutral plans

Green Mountain AS

Volkswagen AG, the first automaker to commit to the Paris climate agreement, has announced its new climate-neutral plans, which detail that its data center activities will be carbon-neutral by 2027. This is three years earlier than expected in the European Green Deal, which committed European ...

Google leases from Adani in Noida

Hyperscale Data Center

Tech giant Google has leased 464,000 square feet at an Adani Data centre in Noida for 10 years with starting annual rent of 130.98 crore, according to documents accessed by CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm.The deal has been signed between Dc Development Noida Private Limited, an e...

Digital Realty Develops New Substation For its Chicago Campus

Digital Realty has partnered with local utility firm ComEd to open a new power substation at the former’s Franklin Park data center campus in Chicago. The substation was developed to support the future growth of the facility. The four-acre substation currently sits within Digital Realty’s d...

Adani, EdgeConneX JV AdaniConneX begin operations at hyperscale data center in Chennai

EdgeConneX

AdaniConneX, the joint venture between EdgeConneX and Adani Enterprises, has launched its first data center in Chennai, Chennai 1 Data Center. Its first phase will reportedly offer 17MW and 33MW of IT load at full build-out.“The wait is over! We proudly announce that our state-of-the-art Chenn...

Greenpeace: Supply chains found to be holding big tech back from achieving sustainability goals

Apple

Tech giants like Apple have made big pledges when it comes to going green and introducing net-zero and water-positive targets. However, when it comes to their wider supply chains, it turns out they're not so green. According to a recent report from Greenpeace, on average, 77% of technology man...

Stack to develop new data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack has announced that it’s developing a new 230 MW data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring five buildings on a 50-acre site. This site, which will span 1.7 million square feet (157,935 sqm), is the company’s second in the state and will run on 100% renewable energy, built with a ...

Raxio breaks ground on facility in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Raxio Group

The Raxio Group has announced that it has commenced work on its fifth data center in Côte d'Ivoire. This is reportedly the country's first Tier III-standard carrier-neutral colocation data center.The company held a ground-breaking ceremony at the site, located at the Village of Innovation and...

Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London

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. C...