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Hines Group acquires Digital Group's San Jose data center for $60m

According to reports from BizJournal, The Hines Group has acquired Digital Realty’s data center in San Jose, California. The data center in question is a 179,800 square foot, two-story building at 150 S. First Street. The purchase price is said to be $59.6 million. The building sits on a 2.4-a...

December 23, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

150 S 1st

Launch of TikTok's €420m Irish data center Postponed to Late 2022

TikTok has revealed that its planned data center opening in Ireland will be delayed due to issues caused by the pandemic. The company revealed to Business Post Ireland €420 million ($473m) that the facility will be launched in late 2022 instead of the planned early 2022 launch. CSO of TikTok, ...

December 21, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Republic of Ireland

Proximity Data Centers opens new facility in Birmingham, UK

Proximity Data Centres has announced that it has opened its Birmingham facility near the new HS2 rail station and BBC campus. The company outlines the facility site spans, with 63,000 sq ft (5,800 sq m) available in the actual facility with space for 2000 racks located across three data halls....

December 21, 2021

nLighten Edge 8 Birmingham

Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

Reports have it that Prologis has filed for permission to convert an industrial site in Sterling, Northern Virginia, into a data center. The company aims to develop a 500,000 square feet data center on its existing 19.5-acre industrial site. The development project is referred to as Prologis N...

December 19, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

H5 Data Centers to expand its Atlanta data center

H5 Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its facility in Atlanta. The firm revealed that its data center at 345 Court will be have an expansion of over 1,900 square meters (20,000 square feet). The facility will also be increased by over 3MW. The CEO and founder of H5 Data Centers, J...

December 17, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

H5 Atlanta

Meta/Facebook got permission to develop Netherlands' largest data center in Zeewolde

Meta has been granted permission to build the Netherlands’ largest data center for its Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp applications in the small town of Zeewolde. Reports have it that the facility will use 200MW of electrical power and have five data center halls. The town council had a meet...

December 17, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Zeewolde

T-Mobile opens a new facility in Warsaw, Poland

T-Mobile has opened a new data center in Warsaw, Poland. The new 46,200 square feet (4,300 square meters) data center has three stories, and it offers 18,300 square feet (1,700 square meters) of colocation space across eight data halls. T-Mobile claims to have secured a top business customer a...

December 17, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

T-Mobile Warszawa-Szlachecka

DataBank to expand Plano data center

DataBank has announced that it is expanding its presence in Dallas, Texas, with the addition of two data halls to its Plano facility. This adds 22,000 sqft of space and a capacity of 3MW. According to the company, the two data halls (Data Halls 5 and 6) are expected to be completed by the sec...

December 16, 2021

DataBank Plano DFW3

Meta/Facebook's Altoona campus to be its largest after latest expansion

Meta/Facebook has revealed that it is expanding its Altoona, Iowa data center facility again. The company announced that it is developing two new buildings at the campus that will bring the facility to five million square feet. Meta noted that the expansion will be its seventh, and by so do...

December 16, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Altoona Iowa

DataBank Expands Atlanta Facility

DataBank will be expanding its data center in Atlanta, Georgia. This will be the company’s second expansion announcement this week, as it announced the expansion of its Plano facility earlier. DataBank will be adding over 22,000 square feet of data center space to its ATL3 facility. The com...

December 16, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank Atlanta ATL3

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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

Ascenty opens two data centers in Rio & Hortolândia, Brazil

Ascenty has announced the opening of two new data centers in Hortolândia and Janeiro, Brazil. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty jointly own the data center firm. Ascenty opened its second data center at its RIO campus with 3MW of power and 3,000 square meters (32,300 square...

December 15, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ascenty Rio de Janeiro

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

China

Severfarm moves into Middle East

Severfarm has announced its expansion into the Middle East with the development of ISR3, its first hyperscale facility in Israel. The facility will have 9MW of critical capacity, supporting Israel's "accelerating digital economy" and launch in the latter half of 2022.Currently, the company's o...

December 14, 2021

Serverfarm Israel ISR3

Meta/Facebook is expanding its Odense data center campus in Denmark

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, plans to expand its Odense data center campus in Denmark. Meta says it will be adding two buildings with a total space of 969,000 square feet (90,000 square meters). The addition will bring the total floor space at the facility to up to 2.1 million square m...

December 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Odense Denmark

Empyrion DC buys a 12.5MW data center in Singapore

Empyrion DC of Singapore has completed the acquisition of Dodid Pte. Ltd. and its data center in Singapore. The data center acquired offers 113,000 square feet (10,500 square meters) of space. It is also a Tier III certified data center with 12.5MW of capacity. Although the terms of the deal w...

December 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Empyrion (DoDid) Singapore

Digital Edge signs joint venture to develop a 10MW data center in the Philippines

Digital Edge is forming a joint venture with the Philippines real estate company Threadborne Group to develop a 10MW data center in Manila, the Philippines. Both companies will be investing $100 million in the under-construction Digital Edge facility scheduled to be in operation in 2022. The f...

December 10, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Edge Narra1 (MNL1)

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Melbourne

Ericsson develops new data center in the Seychelles

Ericsson has announced that it is to develop a data center for Airtel Africa; however, specific details on capacity and dimensions have not been revealed. This facility will be located in the Seychelles.Dina Amadou, CEO of Airtel Seychelles, said that the partnership will help the company to m...

December 10, 2021

Airtel Africa Seychelles

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