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Adam launches Madrid data center

Adam, a data center Company in Spain, announced that it would be opening a new data center in Madrid, Spain's capital. The new facility will be Adam’s third and will be situated in the Tecnoalcala Technology Park. The facility will be built in phases, and the first phase will have 3,500 squar...

May 25, 2021

Eric Bell

Adam MAD Alcala

BIT Mining Limited to Invest in a Cryptocurrency Data Center in Kazakhstan

BIT Mining Limited, has announced that it has joined forces with a Kazakhstan-based firm in a binding investment sheet, to invest in a cryptocurrency mining data center in Kazakhstan. The company is investing $9.33 million to construct the facility, which will have an expected 100MW of capacit...

May 25, 2021

Kazakhstan

3S Group announces new data center in Poland

3S Group has announced it is building a new data center in Katowice, Poland. Its largest data center on the complex yet, the DC3 facility will span 2,200 sq m (23,600 sq ft), built next to its DC1 and DC2 facilities.Based in Southern Poland, the addition of the new data center brings the grou...

May 24, 2021

Eric Bell

3S Katowice

Garanti BBVA Data Center awarded Tier IV Gold Certification

Garanti BBVA has announced that its data center has become one of the sixteen data centers in the world to be awarded Tier IV Gold Certification in Operational Sustainability from the Uptime Institute.Commenting on receiving the award, Ilker Kuruoz, Executive Vice President of Engineering and ...

May 24, 2021

Eric Bell

Garanti BBVA Bank Technology Campus

Big Data Exchange completes 2MW expansion of Singapore facility, plans further 8MW upgrade

Big Data Exchange has completed an upgrade to its SIN1 data center Facility in Paya Lebar, Singapore. The Company also plans to increase capacity before the year runs out. The completed upgrade sees the Company add 2MW capacity to the SIN1 facility. Big Data Exchange will also add four more f...

May 24, 2021

Eric Bell

BDx Singapore SIN1

Underwater data center moves ahead in Hainan China

Hainan Port’s investment Company, Hainan Xintou, announced that it would launch its commercial undersea data center. The data center will run in 100 airtight pressure vessels on the sea bed close to China’s Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant. Beijing Highlander, a marine specialist, tested the pro...

May 24, 2021

Eric Bell

China

Microsoft plans to use rainwater to cool Dutch data centers after facing protests

After facing backlash from the resident of the Hollands-Kroon province, Netherlands, that its data center in the region could cause a shortage of drinking water, Microsoft has announced that it would now be using rainwater. Microsoft promised on TV that it would be using rainwater to cool its ...

May 24, 2021

Eric Bell

Microsoft Amsterdam

Lunar data center on the horizon

While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility b...

May 24, 2021

Paris

Etisalat announces new data center in Kalba, UAE to serve as a CLS for Africa-1

Etisalat just announced its new data center in the city of Kalba, northeast of the country. The data center named SmartHub Kalba, scheduled to open in Q1 of 2022, is Etisalat’s third wholesale data center as it opened two facilities in 2020. Besides, the Kaba facility is built to Tier III stan...

May 24, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Etisalat Kalba

Yondr Group Announces $2 Billion Investment in Data Centers in the Americas

Yondr Group has announced a major $2 billion expansion plan to deliver data infrastructures spanning across the US, Canada, Central, and South America as part of its global scaling strategy. By 2024, the group plans to deliver data centers across five continents. Yondr Group has appointed Éann...

May 20, 2021

Eric Bell

North America

Microsoft gains approval for data center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Microsoft just gained approval from Hoffman Estates village board members to build a data center outside of Chicago, Illinois. The approved data center building is one of the two planned buildings at the 53-acre site. A 250,000 square feet building would be erected at the first phase while the...

May 20, 2021

Eric Bell

Microsoft Hoffman Estates 1

New Tennessee solar farm to provide Facebook data center with 110MW of renewable energy

The Tennessee Valley Authority has just announced a deal with RWE Renewables and Facebook to build a 150MW solar facility near Millington TN. The solar facility will provide Facebook with 110MW of energy for its data centers in Gallatin, Tennessee, and across the Tennessee Valley. The solar f...

May 20, 2021

Eric Bell

Facebook Gallatin TN

Data Center Review conducted in Prince William County

Prince William County, Virginia, may see more data centers being built in the region after County supervisors approved moves that could expand the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. This “overlay district” is the area where building data facilities is permitted.Established back in ...

May 19, 2021

Eric Bell

Northern Virginia

Core Scientific to invest more than $100 million in new North Dakota data center

Core Scientific has announced that it will build a new data center based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after securing a $269,000 loan from the Grand Forks Growth Fund.In partnership with Nodak Electric Cooperative and Minnkota Power Cooperative, the blockchain company has said it plans to inve...

May 19, 2021

Eric Bell

Core Scientific: Grand Forks

Odata To Build a $217 Million Data Center In Chile

Odata has announced that it is planning to build its first data center in Chile. This new data center will sit on a 6-hectare site, and it will house over 40,000 square meters of data center buildings. Upon completion, the data center will have a capacity of 28MW. Odata also says it will be in...

May 18, 2021

Eric Bell

ODATA Chile ST01

Foxconn opens globe-shaped data center at Wisconsin facility

Foxconn has just opened its Globe Data Center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The data center building is 34,000 square feet in size and, it includes a 100 feet steel sphere as part of its design. The facility’s steel globe frame was initially completed in September 2020 before the installation ...

May 18, 2021

Eric Bell

Foxconn Industrial Internet Wisconsin

Penta Infra Group acquires 2nd Hamburg data center

Penta Infra Group just acquired a data center in Hamburg for $16.4 million. The acquisition was financed by Dutch NIBC Bank N.V., which is the fourth data center acquisition Dutch NIBC Bank has financed for Penta Infra.The new data center will also be joining an existing 8MW Hamburg data cent...

May 18, 2021

Eric Bell

Penta Infra: HAM02

Google to use Geothermal Energy for Nevada Data Center Campus

Google has announced that it would soon start using geothermal energy to power its Nevada data center. The announcement will see Google become the first hyper-scale cloud operator to use the earth’s heat to power its servers. Fervo Energy, a clean energy startup, will be helping Google develop...

May 18, 2021

Eric Bell

Google Henderson NV

GDS Holdings reportedly considering acquisition of GLP’s data centers

According to a report by Bloomberg, GDS Holdings is considering acquiring GLP Pte’s data centers business. The value of the assets is substantial and estimated to be between $8-10 billion. If the prospective deal goes forward, it will enable the Chinese firm to expand its footprint, while GLP ...

May 18, 2021

China

Google buys 30 hectares to build data center in Uruguay

Google has announced that, through its subsidiary, Eleanor Applications SRL, it has acquired 30 hectares of land in Canelones, Uruguay, to build a data center. According to El Observador, the company may have spent $818,000 on the plot, with a view to invest up to $100 million.The tech compan...

May 17, 2021

Eric Bell

Google Canelones Uruguay

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