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DCI Indonesia launches new data center in Cibitung

DCI Indonesia has announced the launch of its JK5 data center building, located in Cibitung, West Java. This addition brings the company’s total to four, and with a capacity of 15MW, the new building takes its total capacity to 37MW. Indonesia’s digital economy is expected to reach a market v...

June 01, 2021

Eric Bell

DCI Indonesia JK5

DivcoWest acquires New York carrier hotel in New York; H5 will manage interconnection and colocation

DivcoWest, a real estate investment firm based in San Francisco, has announced that it has acquired a 10-story, mixed-used building carrier hotel from Jamestown Properties for $135 million. The building is located at 325 Hudson St., in Hudson Square. In concert with this transaction, H5 Data ...

June 01, 2021

Eric Bell

H5: 325 Hudson Street

Microsoft Begins Using Eco-Diesel in Data Center Generators

Ahead of its 2030 goal of eliminating its reliance on diesel fuel for backup power, Microsoft has announced that it would be the first to use a lower carbon renewable fuel for backup power in its Sweden datacenter region. Microsoft’s backup generators in the Sweden region will run on Preem Evo...

June 01, 2021

Eric Bell

Microsoft Gävle, Sweden

Philippines on the road to become an APAC data center hub

The Philippines (PH), recognized as one of the world's emerging data center markets, is pinned to become Asia's next data center hub. While other hubs in Southeast Asia, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, have taken a hit due to geopolitical risks and governmental restrictions, PH's impressive d...

May 31, 2021

Eric Advinci

Philippines

STT GDC launches 72MW data center joint venture with Triputra and Temasek Holdings in Indonesia

ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC), a Singapore-based center service provider, has announced a partnership with an Indonesian firm, Triputra Group, and an investment company, Temasek Holdings, to launch a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Construction of the first phase of the 72...

May 28, 2021

Eric Bell

STT Jakarta 1

AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago...

May 28, 2021

Eric Bell

Amazon AWS

Facebook announces another data center expansion in Altoona, Iowa

Facebook has announced that it would be expanding its Altoona data center campus. The expansion will see Facebook add two more buildings to its existing eight buildings at the facility. The expansion will also see the total area space to 4.1 million square feet. Facebook initially announced it...

May 28, 2021

Eric Bell

Facebook Altoona Iowa

EPH proposes data center at Kilroot Power Station, Northern Ireland

EPH has announced that it is looking into the prospects of building a data center in Kilroot, Northern Ireland (NI). The company has commissioned TechRE to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of construction at NI’s last coal-fired power station due to close between 2023 and 2024. EPH ha...

May 27, 2021

Eric Bell

Northern Ireland

Digital Realty opens new Toronto facility and broke ground in Marseille

Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility.The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with redu...

May 27, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Realty 151 Front

Raxio opens Tier III data center in Uganda

Raxio Data Center just opened a new data center in Kampala, Uganda. The new facility was built to Tier III standards, and it has a colocation space of up to 400 racks. Plans were already in place for a data center in Uganda since 2018 and the data center general manager, James Byaruhanga, ...

May 27, 2021

Eric Bell

Raxio Uganda

American Tower acquires Cyber Wurx

American Tower just announced its Metro Data Center expansion at 55 Marietta, Atlanta, by acquiring the 16th-floor collocation space from Cyber Wurx. The acquisition sees American Tower Metro Data Center now occupying four floors of 55 Marietta with a total capacity of 6MW. This follows an in...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

American Tower: 55 Marrietta

icolo.io announces new data center in Mombasa, Kenya

Icolo.io, part of Digital Realty, has announced that it is constructing a new data center based in Nyali, Mombasa. The MBA2 facility will span 1,200 sq m of floor space, with a capacity of 1.6MW. It is the company’s second data center in the city, and it’s third in total.Expected to be comple...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Realty: Mombasa MBA2

Hanley Energy expands in Virginia, will base US headquarters in Loudoun County

Hanley Energy has decided to expand its operations in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Irish company will be leasing a 36,600 square foot building from Merritt Properties for this purpose. Merritt initially bought the 6.7-acre site with plans to build a light industrial building over it. Besi...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

Northern Virginia

39 human rights groups call on Google to cancel Saudi Arabian data center

Thirty-nine human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have called on Google to stop building data centers in Saudi Arabia. They also said Google should stop its plans to open a cloud region in the country in partnership with Saudi Aramco. These groups noted that Google should at le...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

Saudi Arabia

Tesla establishes a data center in China to store car data locally

Tesla has announced the establishment of its data center in China. The data center opening comes as a response to the criticisms from Chinese authorities that the cameras on Tesla vehicles may be used for spying. In April, the Chinese Government published some rules about data collection by sm...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

China

$800M Data Center Coming To Mesa, Arizona Amidst Water Concerns

The Mesa City Council just approved the development for a Company that plans to build a data center on Elliot and Ellsworth roads in the northwest corner of Eastmark. Although the Company remains in mystery, the Mayor of Mesa City said the mystery Company would be investing $800 million to bri...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

Phoenix

DUG plans 200 petaflops supercomputing center in Western Australia

DUG Technology just announced that it plans to build the world’s first carbon-free High-Performance Computing (HPC) data center in Geraldton, Australia. The Company said that the new facility would have an earlier compute capacity of over 200 petaflops. It will also have space for multi-exafl...

May 26, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DUG Geraldton

Ethio telecom launches Huawei-built modular data centre in Ethopia

Ethio telecom has announced the launch of its new Tier III-ready modular data center based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. According to the operator, the facility, located in the Gola Sefer area, is the largest in Ethiopia, capable of holding up to 800 servers. The data center has a power usage eff...

May 25, 2021

Eric Bell

Africa

Facebook boosts capacity with multi-storey data center design

Following the trend of building taller buildings, Facebook has revealed that it is boosting its capacity with a new multi-storey data center design as part of its global infrastructure expansion. The design is being rolled out in its Prineville, Oregon campus, deployed in two new facilities.Th...

May 25, 2021

Eric Advinci

Facebook Prineville

DataBank expands SLC5 data center in Salt Lake City

DataBank has announced its recent expansion, adding a third data hall at its SLC5 data center. Based in Bluffdale, Utah, at its Granite Point North campus complex, the new addition takes its current capacity to 30,000 sq ft (2,790 sq m), with a 6MW of critical IT load.The center first opened ...

May 25, 2021

Eric Bell

DataBank SLC5

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