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Iron Mountain To Develop another Data Center in its Manassas Campus

Iron Mountain is looking to develop a new facility at its Manassas campus in Prince William County, Virginia. According to a a filing, Iron Mountain plans to develop the data center on a 24-acre parcel. Iron Mountain will invest up to $100m to bring the data center to life. Although the spe...

October 12, 2022

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

HostDime Opens New Data Center in Bogota, Colombia

HostDime has announced the launch of its new data center in Bogota, Colombia. The CEO of HostDime, Manny Vivar, announced and posted a comment on LinkedIn about the development. He said: "As the sun settles tonight, we reflect with gratitude all the hard work our HostDime Colombia 🇨🇴 familia h...

October 12, 2022

HostDime Colombia

GTA begins work on its Alupang Data Center in Guam

GTA, a telecommunications company in Guam, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to signify the commencement of construction of its Alupang Data Center, under US-based Huntsman Family Investments (HFI) ownership. The facility and cable landing station will be built in Tamuning, Guam, and wil...

October 11, 2022

Guam

Oregon to revisit tax breaks for data center operators and tech companies

In September, it was announced that tax breaks for data centers in Oregon might be getting a serious re-examination. Over the years, through Oregon's enterprise zone program, tax incentives have made Oregon a haven for data center operators, with Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google saving aroun...

October 07, 2022

Oregon

BlackChamber Plans To Develop a Large Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia

According to BizJournal, Real estate investment company BlackChamber Group has plans to develop a 157,900 square meter (1.7 million square feet) data center campus in Arcola, Loudoun County, Virginia. The company is looking to build four data center buildings on its land on Belmont Ridge Road,...

October 06, 2022

Northern Virginia

US Department of Energy's data center cooling fund

The US Department of Energy has announced a $42million funding package to develop high-performance energy efficient cooling solutions for data centers. This announcement comes following record high temperatures across the US, and multiple reports that the industry is seriously lagging when it ...

October 05, 2022

United States

International Finance Corporation invests $30 million in WIOCC

International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced that it has invested $30m in Western Indian Cable Company Holding Ltd. IFC is affiliated with the World Bank. The organization says the fund will help support WIOCC's continued rollout of new subsea cables, terrestrial fiber-optic networks,...

October 04, 2022

Africa

South Dublin County Council (SDCC) to comply with government scrapping ban on new data centers

After much back and forth, South Dublin County Council (SDCC) is now complying with the government's order to scrap plans to ban data centers in the area, despite serious concerns about the environmental impact of additional facilities and the extra pressure the would place on the grid. This c...

October 03, 2022

Dublin

Chayora finishes up work on the first data center on its new Shanghai Campus

Chayora, a Hong Kong-based data center operator, has announced that it has completed the construction of its first data center on its new Shanghai campus in China. The company first announced the campus back in November 2021, and in partnership with EdgeConneX, Edge will offer computing servic...

October 03, 2022

Shanghai

Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County

Dominion Energy has announced that some new data centers in Loudoun County, home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, will be reconnected, following concerns that transmission infrastructure restraints would halt new additions. Back in July, the energy utility had said that ne...

October 03, 2022

Northern Virginia

Arsenal Digital Holdings Acquires Data Center in Texas

Arsenal Digital Holdings has announced that it has an agreement in place to acquire a data center campus in Texas. The crypto mining holding firm didn’t reveal the terms of the deal nor the location of the site. However, it noted that the property sits on a 50-acre site. It also said the prope...

October 03, 2022

Texas

Open Access Data Centres To Open Three New Edge Facilities in South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced its plan to launch three new Edge facilities in South Africa. The CEO of OADC, Dr. Ayotunde Coker, revealed in a statement that the company is further expanding its Edge data centers to more business hubs in the country to meet the demands of ISPs,...

October 03, 2022

South Africa

Metro Edge Development Partners To Develop 21MW Facility in Chicago

Metro Edge Development Partners has announced its plans to develop a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The real estate investment firm has already secured a 75-year lease on a 1.97-acre land in the Illinois Medical District (IMD). In addition, the company has the exclusive rights to dev...

October 03, 2022

Chicago

icolo.io Opens Second Data Center in Mombasa

Kenyan data center firm icolo.io has announced the completion and opening of its new facility in Mombasa, Kenya. The company posted on LinkedIn that the iColo MBA-2Nyali facility is open for business. The data center has 1.7MW of power and has 13,000 square feet (1,200 square meters) of floor ...

October 03, 2022

Kenya

The Uptime Institute’s 2022 Global Data Center Survey reveals the industry must evolve its sustainability reporting practices and prevent costly outages

On September 20th, Uptime released its 12th Annual Global Data Center Survey, which analyzed the growth and sustainability efforts of the industry, as well as the challenges it is facing. The report noted that the industry is “growing, dynamic and increasingly resilient” but largely failing on...

September 30, 2022

Europe

Enovum launches its phase 1 in Montreal

Enovum Data Centers has announced that the first phase of its Montreal facility has been launched. It will soon begin its second phase.With 70,000 sqft of infrastructure and move-in space availability for a total of 187,500 sqft, the facility's first phase also has a capacity of 1.5 MW. Once c...

September 29, 2022

Montreal

Widespread internet outages in Iran amid protests around the killing of Mahsa Amini

Amid mounting protests over the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, the Iranian government recently expanded its internet shutdown. Amini had been held in the custody of Tehran’s morality police for allegedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress code by wearing her headscarf too loosel...

September 28, 2022

Middle East

South Africa faces unprecedented power cuts

South Africa is reportedly facing unprecedented levels of nationwide power blackouts. These blackouts come as a result of state-owned power utility Eskom, which produces 95% of the country’s electricity, implementing Stage 6 load shedding, which means that homes and businesses go without elect...

September 26, 2022

South Africa

Safaricom to expand footprint in Ethiopia

Safaricom is to build a new data center outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, it has been announced. This comes following the signing of a developed land sublease agreement with Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) to build a new Tier-III quality ‘telco-cloud data center’. The facility wil...

September 26, 2022

Ethiopia

China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers

Back in May 2021, Greenpeace said that China's data center emissions were to double, with its energy usage expected to nearly quadruple by 2035 (increasing by an estimated 289%). "Explosive growth" in digital infrastructure was identified as a major contributing factor to this. Considering the...

September 26, 2022

China

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