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Read DITO Opens New Data Center in Batangas, The Philippines
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DITO Opens New Data Center in Batangas, The Philippines

September 14, 2022 Philippines

Philippines telecommunication company DITO Telecommunity has opened a data center in Batangas City. DITO did not reveal the specifications for the data center, but it had a launch ceremony for the facility. From indications, the data center was developed in conjunction with Udenna- its parent...

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Read Data centers to receive VAT exemption in Thailand to energize investment
Data centers to receive VAT exemption in Thailand to energize investment

Data centers to receive VAT exemption in Thailand to energize investment

September 13, 2022 Thailand / Prathet Thai

In a move intended to encourage greater investment in data centers in Thailand, the Thai cabinet has approved the draft Royal Decree regarding data centers receiving a tax (VAT) exemption. At present, Thai VAT is levied at the rate of 7%.The decision, made to facilitate the country becoming a...

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Read Khazna and BEEAH Group to build data center and explore alternative energy sources
Khazna and BEEAH Group to build data center and explore alternative energy sources

Khazna and BEEAH Group to build data center and explore alternative energy sources

September 13, 2022 United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Khazna Data Centers has formed a joint venture with BEEAH Digital, BEEAH Group’s digital transformation and future technology business, to build a data center in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and explore alternative sources of energy to power its operations. The joint venture, One...

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Read Essential Twitter data center knocked offline by heat extremes
Essential Twitter data center knocked offline by heat extremes

Essential Twitter data center knocked offline by heat extremes

September 13, 2022 California

As heat extremes in California continue, Twitter has reportedly been left without one of its key data centers in Sacramento. First reported by CNN, an internal company memo outlined that the company experienced the loss of its Sacramento data center region on September 5th, with Carrie Fernandez,...

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Read OVH begins work on its new data center near Frankfurt, Germany
OVH begins work on its new data center near Frankfurt, Germany

OVH begins work on its new data center near Frankfurt, Germany

September 12, 2022 Germany / Deutschland

OVHcloud has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in Limburg, Germany, the company's second in the area. The facility, which will see an investment of around €100 million ($101m) over the next five years, will offer space for 40,000 servers on more than 6,000 square meters...

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Read PW Digital Gateway project: Approval looks likely
PW Digital Gateway project: Approval looks likely

PW Digital Gateway project: Approval looks likely

September 12, 2022 Northern Virginia

Prince William County planners have recommended the approval of the PW Digital Gateway project, it has been announced. Subsequently, the controversial project is likely to go ahead. If approved, the project would see the rezoning of over 2,000 acres of land for up to 27.6 million square feet of...

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Read Aligned Files To Triple its Data Center Footprint at its Plano Campus in Texas
Aligned Files To Triple its Data Center Footprint at its Plano Campus in Texas

Aligned Files To Triple its Data Center Footprint at its Plano Campus in Texas

September 12, 2022 Aligned: DFW-01

Aligned has plans for a massive expansion at its Plano data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas. The Dallas Morning News was the first to report the development. Aligned already filed with the Plano planning commission to develop a second building on its Plano campus. The company...

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

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

September 09, 2022 YTL 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...

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Read Backblaze Expands Data Center Portfolio with Nautilus
Backblaze Expands Data Center Portfolio with Nautilus

Backblaze Expands Data Center Portfolio with Nautilus

September 08, 2022 Nautilus Stockton

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...

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

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

September 07, 2022 Washington

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,...

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Read California officials declare statewide grid emergency due to continued heat wave
California officials declare statewide grid emergency due to continued heat wave

California officials declare statewide grid emergency due to continued heat wave

September 06, 2022 California

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 degrees...

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

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

September 06, 2022 Republic of Ireland

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...

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Read Vxchnge ceases operations
Vxchnge ceases operations

Vxchnge ceases operations

September 05, 2022 United States

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 part...

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Read iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium
iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium

iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium

September 05, 2022 Miami

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...

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Read Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center
Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center

Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center

September 05, 2022 Nigeria

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 base...

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

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

September 05, 2022 Teraco Johannesburg JB1

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 owns...

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

September 05, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

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 the...

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Read DataVita Announces Expansion Plan For its Fortis Data Center
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DataVita Announces Expansion Plan For its Fortis Data Center

September 02, 2022 DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

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: “The...

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Read Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled
Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled

Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled

September 02, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center

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 cloud...

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Read Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia
Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia

Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia

September 02, 2022 Equinix Melbourne ME2

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 total...

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