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Cryptomine facility headed for New Zealand’s South Island

Contact Energy has received the green light to build a cryptomine data center in New Zealand after approval was granted for the company’s resource consent application. This comes despite the significant amount of controversy around proposals. Critics argue that the facility will not benefit Ce...

March 17, 2022

New Zealand

Upstack announces partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale for sustainable data center

Upstack has formed a strategic partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale White Box (WHWB). The partnership will see the company gain access to the Wyoming Hyperscale White Box facility due to open by the end of 2022. Located in a remote mountainous site southeast of Evanston, according to the Thorno...

March 17, 2022

Wyoming

A1 Bulgaria signs solar PPA with Renalfa

Telco A1 Bulgaria has announced that it has teamed up with the Bulgarian clean energy investment group Renalfa AD to sign Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The solar energy from the PPA will provide the company with 20,000 MWh of clean energy per annum across the next ten years.This news comes a...

March 17, 2022

Bulgaria

South Dublin passes motion to prevent data center builds

Continuing to pursue the ban on new data center builds in Dublin, People Before Profit Councillor Madeleine Johansson recently put forward an amendment to do just that, a motion, which was voted through by 18 votes to 13 against, with one abstention.Despite the vote to curb further builds, the...

March 15, 2022

Dublin

Lancaster University: carbon net-zero data center project

Lancaster University has announced the launch of its Blackpool Innovation Catalyst project, which seeks to bring together "dynamic organisations" and academics to develop effective "long-term solutions around clean growth and secure digitalisation for their industries."One of the latest projec...

March 15, 2022

United Kingdom

Nation Data Center moves in near Rennes, France

Nation Data Center (NDC) has announced it is to build a new 3,000 sqm (32,300 sq ft) data center based near Rennes, in France. The facility named the Roah Data Center, will accommodate 600 racks when fully built out. The facility was given the go-ahead after the company obtained a building per...

March 15, 2022

France

Hansen Technologies-Occupied Data Center in Australia Up For Sale

A Hansen-occupied three-story data center in Doncaster, Australia, is up for sale. The 39,900 square feet (3,707 square meters) data center is located on 2 Frederick Street in the Melbourne Suburb. Colliers and Fitzroys are responsible for offering the facility for sale. Expressions of inte...

March 15, 2022

Australia

Washington State Wants To Make Tax Exemptions For Data Center Development

Washington is looking to increase data center development in the state by passing some data center tax exemption bills. The HB 1846 bill, which was introduced by Democrats Alex Ramel and April Berg, would introduce tax exemptions on data center facilities developed in rural counties. The bill ...

March 14, 2022

Washington

Nautilus' floating data center faces opposition

The Irish socialist party People Before Profit (PBP) has voiced its opposition to Nautilus Data Technologies' floating data center at Limerick Docks, which was originally approved back in 2019. Although construction is due to commence on the facility, Limerick PBP representative Cian Prendivil...

March 11, 2022

Republic of Ireland

EcoDataCenter is Building a New Data Center at Its Falun Campus, Sweden

EcoDataCenter has announced that it is developing a new data center at its Falun campus, in Sweden. The company revealed that it would be investing up to SEK 1 billion ($102m) in the development of the new facility. The new facility will add 15MW to the campus. Worthy of note is that EcoDataCe...

March 11, 2022

EcoDataCenter Falun, Sweden

atNort's Data Center in Stockholm Finally Comes Online

atNorth has announced the launch of its first data center in Stockholm, Sweden. The Icelandic company revealed that its Kista data center is now up and running. According to atNorth, the facility is Sweden’s first data center designed for high-density workloads such as risk analysis, simula...

March 11, 2022

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

India's National Stock Exchange to relocate its data center

The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has announced plans to relocate its primary data center out of its Mumbai headquarters at the Bandra Kurla. This announcement comes following allegations that the NSE's former head was embroiled in a colocation scam that began in 2015, and ended with ...

March 10, 2022

India / Bhārata

India's National Stock Exchange is Moving To a New Data Center

India’s largest stock exchange- The National Stock Exchange will be moving its primary data center from the Mumbai headquarters. The NSE move comes the organization’s former head was arrested over an alleged colocation scam. The scam involved him giving a broker privileged access to market dat...

March 10, 2022

India / Bhārata

NEC and SCSK are Forming a Data Center Joint Venture

Two Japanese firms are coming together to form a data center joint venture. NEC and IT firm SCSK Corporation revealed that they are partnering up to strengthen their network and data center business involvement. The JW will see the firms create SCSK NEC Data Center Management, ltd. The new ...

March 10, 2022

Japan

Government building in Ontario, Canada to be transformed into a data center

The Norfolk County council building in Ontario, Canada, could be converted into a data center, it has been announced. The building recently sold for CA$725,000 (US$566,000) and spans 12,000 sq ft (1,100 sq ft) on under one acre. The announcement of the sale was originally made back in 2020, wi...

March 09, 2022

Canada

BitNile to expand the capacity of its Michigan data center

BitNile has announced plans to expand its data center in Michigan to reach a capacity of 300 MW. This decision to expand capacity comes as the company seeks to accommodate Bitcoin mining operations at the facility, enabling the operation of approximately 90,000 Bitcoin miners. This, according ...

March 09, 2022

Michigan

Empa begins research into data center waste heat

Swiss research body Empa has announced the launch of a new research project on data centers, namely ECO-Qube. The project is in response to the increasing demand for data and the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and the Internet of Things (IoT), which ...

March 08, 2022

Switzerland

Eastlink announces opening of network facility in Halifax, Canada

Eastlink has announced the opening of its new network data center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, following an investment of C$20 million (US$15.7m) and three years of construction. The facility spans 13,000 sqft (1,200 sqm). Speaking about the reason the company decided to build the new facility, Je...

March 07, 2022

Canada

Flexential Expanding Its Englewood Data Center in Denver

Flexential has announced its plans to expand the capacity of its Englewood data center in Denver, Colorado. The facility is located at 8636 S Peoria Street. Flexential says it will be adding 4.5MW capacity to the data center, bringing it to 11.25MW. The increase in capacity will be availabl...

March 04, 2022

Flexential Englewood

Pioneer Point Partners Closes €575 million ($640.9m) Fund

Pioneer Point Partners LLP has announced that it closed its maiden institutional fund. The fund is worth €575 million ($640.9m). The fund exceeded the company’s initial target of €500 million ($557m). Pioneer Point Partners attracted investments from 15 North American and European institutiona...

March 04, 2022

United Kingdom

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