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The YTL Green Data Centre Park and what it means for Johor

YTL Data Centre Holdings Pte Ltd and Sea Ltd recently held the ground-breaking ceremony for The Sea Data Centre, signifying the first phase of the 500MW YTL Green Data Center Park in Johor, Malaysia. The project represents an RM1.5 billion investment into the area over the next ten years, with...

September 09, 2022

YTL Johor

Backblaze Expands Data Center Portfolio with Nautilus

Backblaze, a storage cloud platform, has contracted with Nautilus Data Technologies for 1 Megawatt deployment at their Stockton Data Center in California. The move comes as part of Backblaze's plan to expand its data center portfolio and provide more scalable, efficient, and affordable cloud ...

September 08, 2022

Backblaze

Underwater data center off the US west coast could be operational by end of 2022

According to reports, the first commercial underwater data center off the US west coast could be operational by the end of 2022. Named the "Jules Verne Pod" and created by Subsea Cloud, the 20ft pod will reportedly have space for 16 datacenter racks, accommodate 800 servers, scalable to 100,...

September 07, 2022

Washington

California officials declare statewide grid emergency due to continued heat wave

California temperatures have soared to a record high, placing serious pressure on the power grid, and causing state officials to urge residents to limit their power usage. According to reports, the heat wave is most seriously affecting the Central Valley, which is projected to reach 115 degree...

September 06, 2022

California

TikTok requests clarification about Ireland's new data center policy statement

In Ireland, the data center expansion debate is bubbling over. A contentious matter in recent years, due to energy grid and environmental concerns, many have called for a moratorium or stricter rules around expansion. There has also recently been confusion around the country's new data center ...

September 06, 2022

Republic of Ireland

Vxchnge ceases operations

US data center operator Vxchnge has quietly ceased operations after selling off a number of sites over the last few years to both Cologix and Element Critical. The news was first confirmed by DCD, who outlined that although there was still one facility in Durham, North Carolina that wasn’t par...

September 05, 2022

United States

iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium

iM Data Centers, a manufacturer of modular data centers, has announced that it is joining the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord (ICA), a collaboration between digital infrastructure companies that have come together to push forward carbon neutrality initiatives. According to Dean ...

September 05, 2022

Miami

Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center

The Galaxy Backbone (GBB) has announced that it is launching a Tier IV data center into the public and private sector space, in order to boost its digital infrastructure. In a statement, the agency said: “The infrastructure has been specifically built to respond to the desire of its growing b...

September 05, 2022

Nigeria

Africa Data Centres To Add 30MW Capacity To Its Johannesburg Data Center

Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced that it has started expansion work on its Samrand data center. The expansion will see ADC add 30MW of power to one of its Johannesburg data center campuses. Africa Data Centres (ADC) is pan-African technology group business of Cassava Technologies. It ow...

September 05, 2022

Teraco Johannesburg JB1

CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco

JLL and CIM Group have listed a new purpose-built data center for lease. The data center is located at 400 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California. The data center offers 24MW of power across 182,250 square feet of two-story powered shell building on 7.3 acres. Per additional information in t...

September 05, 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

DataVita Announces Expansion Plan For its Fortis Data Center

DataVita has announced that it is expanding its Fortis data center in Scotland. The company plans to invest £8 million ($9.3m) in the facility. The plan is to add 400 racks and 5,380 square feet (500 square meters) of space to its flagship data center. The MD of DataVita, Danny Quinn, said:...

September 02, 2022

DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled

Microsoft has announced that it is no longer expanding one of its data centers in Sweden. Instead, it will explore other locations in the country to develop a new data center. Microsoft first announced a new Azure cloud region in Sweden in November 2020. It also officially opened the new cl...

September 02, 2022

Microsoft Sandviken, Sweden

Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia

Equinix has announced that it has completed the expansion of its second Melbourne data center in Australia. The expansion cost the company $23 million (US$ 15.7m). Equinix first opened the ME2 data center in February 2020. The company acquired 500 new cabinets to increase the data center’s tot...

September 02, 2022

Equinix Melbourne ME2

Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center

Amazon’s Manassas data center has come under fire over noise pollution. According to reports, activists in Prince William County, Virginia, have united to protest against the facility, citing that the “area is being overrun with data center development,” and subsequently, the constant noise i...

August 30, 2022

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital, following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...

August 30, 2022

London

India's data center boom: Growth and projections

India is currently experiencing a data center boom, an expansion that is only expected to grow. According to research, while the industry was previously fragmented, it is now evolving rapidly as the industry becomes more consolidated. Presently, there are 138 data centers spanning India, with ...

August 29, 2022

India / Bhārata

Involta Expands its Independence, Ohio Facility

Involta has announced the expansion of its data center in Independent, Ohio. The data center company added 1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) of space to the facility. It also added 1MW of power to the data center. The facility is located at 7300 E Pleasant Valley Road. The expansion ...

August 29, 2022

Ark: Independence

Scala Data Centers Announce The Launch of SP4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Scala Data Centers has announced the launch of its SP4 data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. SP4 is located on the company’s Tambore data center campus in the Barueri area of Sao Paulo. The company told BNAmericas that the data center is at its first stage and will provide up to 6MW of IT power...

August 26, 2022

Scala: SGRUTB01 Tamboré

Canberra Data Centres Opens Two New Data Centers in Auckland, New Zealand

Canberra Data Centres has announced the opening of two new facilities in Auckland, New Zealand. The Australian data center company launched the data centers in Auckland's Hobsonville and Silverdale areas. The Silverdale campus is called Auckland Campus One, while the Hobsonville data center is...

August 25, 2022

CDC: Hobsonville 1

Data Center in Florida Occupied By Sprint Up For Sale

A Sprint Telecom-occupied data center in Florida has been put up for sale. The data center is located at 360 S. Lake Destiny Drive, Orlando. According to a property listing, the data center spans 2,430 square meters (26,245 square feet). It also sits on a 3.11-acre of land. The facility cur...

August 23, 2022

Miami

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