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Data Center Development Coming To Nanaimo, Canada After Officials Granted Rezoning Request

Officials of Nanaimo city in British Columbia, Canada, have granted permission to rezone 2.3 hectares to give way for data center development. The land in question is located at 2086 and 2090 East Wellington Road. The rural area, which is primarily undeveloped, features two residential houses ...

November 02, 2022

Canada

Prime DC commences work on Santa Clara site

Prime Data Centers has begun work on its Santa Clara data center in California. Located at 2175 Martin Ave, the three-story facility is on a 1.6-acre plot and is designed as a turnkey build-to-suit facility offering 80,000 square feet (7,430 sqm) of purpose-built data center space and 9MW with...

November 02, 2022

Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development

Thor Equities has announced the acquisition of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Madrid, Spain. The site is planned for a data center campus development. Swiss real estate investment company Stoneweg completed the sale on behalf of the Icona Capital Group to Thor. None of the companies reve...

November 02, 2022

Madrid

Prince William Board of County Supervisors to vote on controversial data center development

Today the Prince William County Board of County Supervisors is set to vote on a much-anticipated and controversial data center development, "the PW Digital Gateway", which would introduce 26.7 million square feet of data center space to 2,100 acres next to rural land of historical and cult...

November 01, 2022

Northern Virginia

PhonePe launches its first Green Data Center in India

PhonePe has announced that it has launched its first green data center in India. According to the company, this addition will open up new opportunities from a data management perspective while bolstering data security, power efficiency, and cloud solutions, made possible by PhonePe leveraging ...

November 01, 2022

India / Bhārata

Metta DC Launches New Data Center in Jakarta, Indonesia

A new Indonesian data center firm called Metta DC has opened a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The facility is located in the Jababeka Industrial Estate. In addition, the three-story facility will offer up to 35MW of power upon completion. It also has a capacity for up to 3,000 racks. T...

November 01, 2022

Indonesia

London Docklands proposal rejected

According to reports, a proposal for a new data center at the London Docklands has been rejected on the grounds that the proposals were "bulky" and could have a negative impact on the nearby Naval Row Conservation Area. Although council planning officers had recommended the proposal, which wou...

October 31, 2022

London

LCL switches diesel for HVO at its Brussels-West data center

LCL has announced that it's replacing diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) for its backup generators at its Brussels-West data center in Aalst, after investing in six new 2.25 MVA generators. The company is reportedly the first to do so in Belgium, and it aims to have all the generator...

October 31, 2022

Brussels

Blackstone Data Services Plans 10-12MW Cryptomine Data Center in Tazewell County, Virginia

Blackstone Data Services has announced that it is developing a new crypto-mining data center. The new facility will be located in the Bluestone Business and Technology Park shell building in Virginia’s Tazewell County. Blackstone plans to invest up to $18 million in developing the facility. Ch...

October 31, 2022

Virginia

NextDC Launches M3 Data Center in Melbourne

NextDC has opened another data center in Melbourne, Australia. The facility sees the company more than double its existing capacity in Melbourne. M3 is located in West Footscray and spans 1 million square feet (100,000 square meters). It also offers 150MW of capacity. The facility offers 441,3...

October 30, 2022

NEXTDC West Footscray M3

Mainova Ventures into Data Centers With 30MW Facility in Frankfurt

German energy company Mainova is moving into the data center business. The company broke ground on the new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. Mainova WebHouse, a subsidiary of the energy company, announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place earlier in the month. The new...

October 27, 2022

Frankfurt

Vertiv releases its 'Data Center Sustainability' guide

Vertiv recently released its sustainability guide for the data center industry with the hope that it will help to decarbonize operations, improve water efficiency and reduce the industry’s overall environmental impact. The company, in its guide, highlighted figures from the International Energ...

October 26, 2022

United States

NTT Launches New Data Center in Johannesburg, South Africa

NTT has opened a new data center in South Africa. The facility is located at 21 Sterling Road in Samrand, Johannesburg. The Johannesburg 1 facility will offer 12MW of power across 64,600 square feet (6,000 square meters) upon full build-out. The data center’s first phase currently offers 32...

October 26, 2022

NTT Johannesburg 1

New report reveals countries in the EU with the cleanest energy and what it means for the data center industry

In August, cloud management platform Cirrus Nexus released a report which analyzed the carbon intensity of electricity across a number of E.U. countries, and revealed the most climate-friendly regions to operate data centers. The company obtained its answers by analyzing the amount of energy c...

October 25, 2022

Europe

Irish government seeks to edge out data centers that use only natural gas

According to RTE reports, the Irish government is trying to phase out data centers that are powered exclusively by natural gas, by closing a loophole. Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan, as per a letter, released to RTÉ News under Freedom of Information, instructed Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) that...

October 25, 2022

Republic of Ireland

DRFortress is Expanding its Honolulu Facility

DRFortress has announced its plans to expand its Honolulu data center. The Hawaiian colo company will add 130 cabinets to the data center located at 3375 Koapaka Street. The expansion will see the facility's total cabinet increase to 600. Its data center space will also increase to 5,000 sq...

October 25, 2022

DRFortress Honolulu

Further details emerge about GreenSquareDC's plans for Perth data center

Further information has emerged about GreenSquare's data center plans. The company, which describes itself as an ‘emerging sustainability-oriented data center provider,’ has obtained planning permission for a new 96MW data center in Perth, Australia, after its application was approved by Metr...

October 24, 2022

Perth

Preparation for potential blackouts begins as UK holds talks regarding major data centers

The UK government has reportedly held discussions with data center operators about what to do in a worst-case scenario this winter, as the country faces potential power shortages. The government is now considering rationing data centers' access to diesel fuel for backup generators and classif...

October 24, 2022

United Kingdom

Conapto Developing a 24MW Facility in Stockholm, Sweden

Data center firm Conapto has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center in Stockholm, Sweden. The Sweden data center company partnered with real estate firm Fastpartner to develop a 107,650 square feet (10,000 square meters) facility in Southern Stockholm. Upon full developmen...

October 24, 2022

Stockholm

Bridge Data Centres announces launch of new facility in Johor, Malaysia

Bridge Data Centres (BDC), a ChinData-owned company, has announced the opening of the first phase of the MY06 data center in Sedenak, located within the Sedenak Tech Park (STeP) in Johor, Malaysia. Part of its 110MW project, phase 1 covers the first of three buildings across the 38-acre site. ...

October 21, 2022

Bridge Kidex Sedenak MY06-01

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