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Namibia: Paratus launches data center in Windhoek

Paratus has announced the launch of a new data center in Namibia, located in the capital city, Windhoek, its first facility in the country. The company has called the facility ‘Armada,' and although further details around the facility are yet to be released, it will reportedly be built to Tier...

August 15, 2022

Africa

Protests arise in opposition to recently approved €450m Ennis data center

Environmental group Futureproof Clare is opposing the approval of a €450 million ($464.3m) data center project in Ennis, in the West of Ireland, over concerns around public health, and a projected use of "inordinate amounts of water and electricity."The facility, an Art Data Centres project, w...

August 15, 2022

Republic of Ireland

Eurofiber Cloud Infra employs circular economy principles

Eurofiber Cloud Infra has announced that it is exploring employing circular economy principles in association with housing corporation Volkshuisvesting, infra-specialist for new energy Firan, and Eurofiber-owned Dataplace, for its data center in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The three have partnere...

August 15, 2022

Netherlands

Ooredoo announces ground breaking of three data centers in Oman

Qatari telecoms firm Ooredoo has announced plans to build three more data centers in Barka, Salalah, and Suhar. Each will be Tier 3 and have 500 racks capacity, the two former will provide landing points for the upcoming 2Africa cable. “Ooredoo has begun construction on three new state-of-the-...

August 11, 2022

Qatar

Several Companies Including QTS, DAMAC, Prime DC, and Pure Looking To Expand into Spain

Many US data center firms and developers are looking to enter the Spanish data center market. They are looking to develop or acquire the facilities in the country. According to Cinco Dias, Blackstone – through QTS, Prime DC, Pure, and DAMAC are exploring options to buy land and build data cent...

August 10, 2022

Spain

New York Internet Doubles Its Data Center Presence By Taking Over Equinix's Space at 60 Hudson Street

New York Internet has announced the takeover of space at the Hudson Street carrier hotel. Equinix formerly occupied the space. NYI is an infrastructure and managed services provider. It also had a presence at the building before expanding to Equinix's former space. The deal is a result of a...

August 10, 2022

Equinix New York NY8

Nation Data Center To Develop Second Data Center in France

French data center company Nation Data Center has revealed it will be developing a second data center. The facility will be located in Val-de-Reuil in Normandy. According to a LinkedIn post from the company, it says it is proud to announce its second data, which it referred to as a fortress...

August 10, 2022

France

Segro applies to build new data center park in Slough, UK

Segro has announced that it has applied to build a new data center park, near Slough, UK. Details outline that the park will span 65,000 sqm (700,000 sq ft) and be located within the Thorney Business Park in Iver. According to the planning statement, the proposed building (DC1) is also accompa...

August 09, 2022

London: Slough

Keppel & Salim Group to launch 50MW data center in Bogor, Indonesia

Keppel & Salim Group have announced the launch of a new data center, a two-story facility, named IKDC1 in Bogor City, Indonesia. According to reports, the facility will be developed over three phases in a seven-hectare data center campus, with a capacity of 50MW. The company has outlined t...

August 08, 2022

IndoKeppel Data Centre 1 (IKDC 1)

Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

Frankfurt recently announced an updated plan for commercial developments in the city, which will place a limitation on cloud and colocation data center buildings. This comes as a response to concerns around their land and energy usage. Alongside this announcement, the city also outlined its in...

August 08, 2022

Frankfurt

Deutsche Telekom signs 150MW PPA

Deutsche Telekom has announced that it has signed a 150MW PPA with Statkraft and Power & Air Solutions, which will provide the company with energy from between 2023 to 2028. According to Statkraft, this deal means that 16 of its own wind farms that no longer receive EEG subsidies will cont...

August 08, 2022

Germany / Deutschland

US reports billions in savings following data center closures & announces the newly proposed FDCEA

According to the US government, through the Federal Data Center Optimization Initiative (FDCOI), which saw the closure of 6,000 data centers, $5.8 billion was saved over the course of 12 years. This is announcement coincides with the newly proposed Federal Data Center Enhancement Act of 2022, ...

August 05, 2022

United States

Data centers' environmental impact to be monitored by Arcep

Arcep, the French government telecom regulator, has announced that it will start measuring the greenhouse gas emissions emitted from data centers, alongside the volume of water and where that water is sourced from. This comes following the enactment of the Chaize Act, which awarded the regulat...

August 05, 2022

France

Prince William County officials grant rezoning request for four million sqft data center campus in Bristow

The ever-expanding data center hub in Prince William County is to see another addition, after Prince William County Officials voted 6-1 to grant a rezoning request for a planned four million sqft data center campus in Bristow. The data center developer is Stanley Martin, which, according to re...

August 04, 2022

Northern Virginia

Bitzero announces intention to purchase old North Dakota missile site for data center

After announcing plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years back in June, Bitzero has announced plans to redevelop a northeastern North Dakota anti-ballistic missile site into a data center. The $6 billion Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Comple...

August 03, 2022

North Dakota

The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity

In the wake of a housing crisis, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has informed developers must halt new housing projects, with talk of a potential ban that could last until 2035, in response to energy constraints caused by data centers. Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon, which contributed to 1...

August 02, 2022

London

NextDC Finally Launches S3 Facility in Sydney

NextDC has announced the launch of its S3 Sydney facility in Sydney, Australia. The Australian data center company announced on LinkedIn that S3 is now open and ready for customer tours. NextDC first started work on the S3 facility in March 2021. The company also revealed that it would have...

August 02, 2022

NextDC Sydney S3

Dominion Energy and data center capacity issues

Dominion Energy, a Northern American utility company, has warned that it may be unable to serve new data center projects in Ashburn, Northern Virginia. According to reports, this could mean that projects, which have seen tens of millions of dollars worth of investment, are stalled and potentia...

August 01, 2022

Northern Virginia

Prince William County Planning Commission delves into PW Digital Gateway data center proposal

Prince William County officials have begun to delve into the PW Digital Gateway data center proposal in its first public review. Since it was first proposed, the project has been controversial. Proponents argue that the project will bring significant financial gains for the area, while opponen...

July 29, 2022

Northern Virginia

Stack Launches New Data Center at its Milan Campus

Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was deve...

July 29, 2022

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