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KPN agrees €1 billion ($1.176bn) sustainability-linked credit facility

Dutch telco KPN has agreed to a €1 billion ($1.176bn) sustainability-linked loan. The loan is linked with some sustainability performance in the next few years. The credit facility will be linked to three sustainability objectives. The first one is reducing its energy consumption, the secon...

August 04, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Netherlands

Report finds that APAC organisations could cut emissions by 78% by moving to cloud

There is an increasing awareness around the need to slash carbon emissions in the industry and push towards more sustainability. Yet, according to a recent UN report, around only 40% of the enterprises who have made sustainability commitments believe their targets are ambitious enough to meet ...

August 03, 2021

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Digital Realty expands in Seoul

Digital Realty has announced it is expanding its footprint in Seoul, South Korea, with a 64MW data center following the purchase of a land parcel in Gurae-dong, Gimpo City, in northwest Seoul. It is expected to be completed in the first half of 2023.The facility will span 970,000 square feet ...

July 30, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Seoul 2 (ICN11)

Flexential to spend $4.8m in expanding its data center in Franklin, Tennessee

BizJournal reports that Flexential is expanding its Franklin, Tennessee data center. The report states that Flexential has been granted building permits to expand its data center at 4600 Carothers Parkway. The Company is reportedly calling on Turner Construction for the project dubbed as ‘P...

July 30, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Flexential Franklin TN

NextDC buys land in west Sydney for new data center campus

NextDC just bought a plot of land covering 1,334,724 square feet in West Sydney for the development of a new data center. The site is located at Horsley Park, in New South Wales. This location will be NextDC’s fourth facility in the city, and it will be called S4. NextDC also says subject t...

July 30, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NextDC Sydney S4

Victorian swimming bathhouse in Manchester gets a digital transformation

Ashton Old Baths, a Victorian bathhouse in Manchester, has undergone a significant transformation into a council data center, and a tech hub spanning over 10,000 sq ft of office and coworking space.The historic Grade II-listed building, which first opened in 1870, is now in phase two of redeve...

July 29, 2021

Manchester

New report makes big data center recommendations for UK government

A new independent government report into the efficiency of UK government spending suggests that the UK government should introduce a central registry of all its data centers. According to the report, this recommendation comes in an effort to ensure “every pound is spent effectively and efficie...

July 29, 2021

United Kingdom

Piemonte Holding announces agreement to purchase Globo's data center in Rio de Janeiro

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The financial group Piemonte Holding, Globo Comunicação e Participações and Drammen Elea Digital, Piemonte's data center holding company, announced this Wednesday (28) that they have signed a sale and purchase agreement concerning Globo's data cent...

July 28, 2021

Eric Bell

Elea: Rio AI City RJO1

Round Rock votes to rezone land for Switch data center campus

This week, Round Rock City Council unanimously voted to approve the rezoning of two plots of land for Switch’s 'The Rock' data center, which will span 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m).The two plots of land totaL 35.71 acres, and are either side of Dell Technologies' global headquarters, ...

July 26, 2021

Switch Austin "The Rock"

Gaw Capital announces joint venture for building data center in Batam, Indonesia

Hong Kong-based real estate equity firm Gaw Capital Partners has announced a new joint venture with veteran Wong Ka Vin. The new company is Data Center First Pte Ltd. Gaw says the joint venture will focus exclusively on developing a data center campus in Batam, Indonesia.Kenneth Gaw, President...

July 23, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Batam

Merlin Properties to invest €100m ($118m) in its Barcelona data center

Merlin Properties will be having its first data center facility in Barcelona, Spain. The facility will have a capacity of 24MW. In April, Merlin Properties first announced that it would be developing four data center sites in Portugal and Spain. The announcement stated that the Company would b...

July 22, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Merlin Barcelona

Irish Water must insist data centres use technology to reduce energy usage and preserve water supply, say politicians

Irish Water is reportedly under pressure to insist existing data centers in Ireland should upgrade to more efficient cooling systems in an effort to reduce their environmental impact and draining effect on water and energy. According to reports, the cooling systems employed at data centers acr...

July 22, 2021

Northern Ireland

Logistics park and data center to go ahead in Winchester, Virginia, despite backlash

In Winchester, Virginia, local officials have voted to rezone more than 277 acres for a new data center and logistics park despite significant public backlash. The development project is known as One Logistics Park and has received. The land rezoned for the park The Winche...

July 21, 2021

Northern Virginia

Stro acquires office and data center building belonging to Bank of New York Mellon in New Jersey

Stro Companies has acquired an office and data center building owned by Bank of New York Mellon in Florham Park, New Jersey. It is reported that the Company acquired the buildings for $7.3 million. The acquired building also has 141,000 square feet of space. Jack Shulman, director of acquisiti...

July 21, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

BNY: 19 Vreeland Rd

Ark’s new data center shows commitment to a zero carbon future in the UK

Ark Data Centres is pushing towards a carbon-neutral future with the announcement of its Longcross facility, located in Chertsey South West. Due to come online in 2023, it is designed to minimize carbon emissions and reduce waste and water consumption.According to Ark, its new facility will b...

July 21, 2021

Ark: Longcross

Sophos sets its sights on expansion

As part of Sophos ongoing expansion, it has moved into Montreal, Canada, meaning the company now has a presence in the U.S., Germany, and Ireland, as well as Sydney, Australia and Tokyo, Japan. In a statement speaking about the rollout of these new data centers, the company said: "We're deligh...

July 21, 2021

Canada

Telkom Indonesia and Etisalat to develop $100m data center in Batam, Indonesia

According to Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for the Economy, Telkom Indonesia and Etisalat are joining forces to develop a new data center in northwest Indonesia. This announcement comes as the country undergoes a data center construction boom and is expected to reach a value of USD$ 3.07 b...

July 20, 2021

Batam

GDS plans 54MW hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia

GDS has announced plans to build a 22,500 sqm (242,200 sq ft), 54MW hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. This move follows the firm acquiring land in the Nusajaya Tech Park, Johor. According to the company, it plans to complete the project's first phase in early 2024, with a capa...

July 20, 2021

DayOne: Nusajaya Tech Park

Facebook's Eagle Mountain data center moves online

Facebook has announced that its data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah is now up and running. Although officially serving traffic, the site is still under construction, with a view to span to 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m). At the peak of construction, the site employed a total of 1,250 ...

July 16, 2021

Facebook Eagle Mountain Utah Campus

NTT reveals details of its 240 MW Phoenix data center campus

NTT has revealed plans for its new 240MW data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. It has also broken ground on the site. The facility is on a 102-acre site, and it is located on Elliot Road Technology Corridor, Mesa, Arizona. It will have a 240MW capacity and 1.5 million square feet of floor space...

July 15, 2021

Eric Advinci

NTT Phoenix Campus

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