March 26, 2023 Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Web Werks - Iron Mountain Data Centers (IMDC) Joint Venture has announced that it has launched its first data center on its campus in Bengaluru, India. Based in Whitefield, Bengaluru, the facility spans 80,000 square feet and is named the BLR-1. It is a Tier III-designed data center that can...
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March 24, 2023 Beijing
A company planning to construct a 3,200-rack data center in Huaili County, China, has been purchased by Chinese cloud provider CapitalOnline Data Service. This week, the company bought Huailai Wisdom Cloud Port Technology's entire equity stake. The company just recently received authorization to...
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March 24, 2023 Japan
Japan Industrial Partners Inc. (JIP), a Japanese investment firm, will take Toshiba private. Last week, the Japanese conglomerate revealed that TBJH Inc., an indirect subsidiary of JIP, would buy out all of the company's shares on the Tokyo and Nagoya Stock Exchanges and take the business...
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March 23, 2023 United Kingdom
EfficiencyIT, a UK data center company, has introduced its own line of prefabricated modular data centers. This week, the company unveiled ModularDC, a new line of adaptable, prefabricated data centers for on-premises, distributed IT, and edge computing settings that can be deployed in 12 to 16...
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March 23, 2023 Idaho
Idaho lawmakers are attempting to restrict the number of tax breaks new data center expansions can receive in the state. Last Monday, Bill 328 was introduced, and the House voted 59-9 to pass it. The Senate has now received the measure. The measure modifies the language in the state's urban...
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March 22, 2023 Netherlands
Nokia has outlined its involvement in a project to prevent ocean plastic pollution as part of The Ocean Cleanup project, which is a non-profit organisation that seeks to extract ocean plastic pollution through technological development. To help clear ocean plastic, the company has partnered with...
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March 22, 2023 South Asia
The Housing Development Corporation (HDC) has launched a new containerized data center in Hulhumale, the Maldives, which is to be operated under its SmartCom brand. Although specific details about the container are yet to be shared, it reportedly features a redundant battery backup system which...
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March 22, 2023 South Korea
Samsung SDS has announced the opening of a new data center in South Korea. This new addition is part of wider plans to expand its cloud offering, and make Samsung Cloud Platform (SCP) available to all customers. Its new Dongtan IDC, spans six floors with four server rooms, and will focus on AI...
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March 22, 2023 Northern Virginia
Residents in North Virginia had recently raised their concerns about the decision made by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to permit diesel generators to power data centers in the region. The DEQ announced that it would be looking into the permittance to preserve data center...
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March 22, 2023 Nordics
European investment company Cube Infrastructure Management has purchased a controlling share in the Nordic data center company Glesys. The agreement's terms were kept confidential. The purchase was completed through the Cube Infrastructure Fund III with funding from the VIA Equity Fond III, Glenn...
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March 22, 2023 Africa
Plans by the Egyptian government to sell a portion of the state-owned Telecom Egypt have been put on hold. According to Reuters, which cites people familiar with the situation, market factors are to blame for the suspension. It happened only a few weeks after rumors claimed that the Egyptian...
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March 21, 2023 Prague
Seznam.cz has launched a new data center outside Prague, in Benátky nad Jizerou, known as 'Nagoya'. The Czech Internet portal outlined that the facility spans around 1,200 square meters, with a capacity of 3MW across two data halls with 200 racks. Work began on construction in February 2022. The...
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March 21, 2023 London
Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The...
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March 20, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Eveo has announced that its new data center in the state of Paraná has gone live. Named PR1, this new facility is located in Curitiba, Brazil. Specifics regarding the capacity and size of the facility are yet to be shared. That being said, the company said that it had been built to Tier III...
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March 20, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
Data Grid Network has purchased a teleport outside of Hannover, Germany. This week, Data Grid, a Commercis firm, revealed that it had acquired the TechnoPark facility between the villages of Hamelin and Aerzen and teleport operator Onlime GmbH. The Talia Communications division of Commercis will...
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March 20, 2023 India / Bhārata
A brand-new Edge data center platform has launched in India. This month, MetaEdge debuted to serve Edge clients in tier-two cities nationwide. It was initially only available in three of India's largest metropolises. The firm has debuted in Indore, Mumbai, and Delhi by offering colocation, bare...
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March 20, 2023 Northern Virginia
Leesburg may create a data center alley. Last Tuesday, the Town Council authorized water and sewer connections for two two-story data centers proposed for the Compass Creek retail development along the Dulles Greenway north of Microsoft's data center facility. A 400,000-square-foot data center...
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March 17, 2023 United Kingdom
In Exmouth, Devon, a small Edge data center, named the "digital boiler" has been installed at a local leisure center by UK startup, Deep Green, to heat the swimming pool. While initially, the company planned to target seven swimming pools across the UK with the boilers, this has now been...
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March 17, 2023 Bulgaria
Yettel Bulgaria and CETIN Bulgaria, part of the PPF Telecom Group, have announced the signing of a 10-year solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Electrohold. Through this deal, the company will offtake energy from an upcoming unnamed 123 MW photovoltaic plant. This will reportedly cover...
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March 17, 2023 United Kingdom
Goonhilly, a UK ground station operator, has purchased two teleports in the US. Satcom Direct's SD Government and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. this week stated that they had agreed for the UK company to purchase the Comsat teleports located in Southbury, Connecticut and Santa Paula, California....
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