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August 01, 2026
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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