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Grid vulnerability warnings in Texas

There are growing concerns around grid availability in Texas after the announcement that as much as 5,000MW of cryptocurrency load could be added to the grid by 2023. According to reports, operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) will oversee 3,000-5,000 MW added in addition to t...

November 22, 2021

Texas

Prime Data Centers expands at its Sacramento, California Campus

Prime Data Centers has announced the development of its second data center at its Sacramento, California campus, based at the McClellan Park business complex. Its second facility will be based adjacent to its existing facility and will have 16MW of critical capacity, spanning 150,000 sqft. Mo...

November 19, 2021

Prime Sacramento

Neom reveals plans for Oxagon floating industrial district that will house a data center

Saudi Arabia’s new Neom city has revealed plans to have a hyperscale data center on a floating industrial district. Neom is a development project with the aim to develop a large smart city on the Red Sea coast in the Saudi province of Tabuk. Crown Prince and Chairman of the Neom Company Boa...

November 19, 2021

Saudi Arabia

Cellnex buys Red Bee Media data center in the Netherlands

Cellnex has completed the acquisition of Der Bee Media’s Media Gateway data center in Hilversum in the Netherlands. The acquired facility is 15,000 square feet (1,400 square meters) in size. It provides connectivity and colocation for commercial and public broadcasters. It also provides servic...

November 19, 2021

Netherlands

Digital Realty opens new data center in Hong Kong

Digital Realty has announced the opening of a new data center in Hong Kong. The company first announced that it was constructing the facility in July 2020. The HKG11 facility is a 210,000 square feet (21,000 square meters) building with 24MW of capacity. In addition, the building has twelve fl...

November 18, 2021

Digital Realty Kwai Chung HKG11

Ar Telecom to invest €10 million ($11.3m) in developing a data center in Lisbon, Portugal

Portuguese telecommunication company Ar Telecom has revealed its plans for a new data center in Lisbon, Portugal. According to Eco, the telco wants to invest up to €10 million ($11.3m) in developing a 15,000 square feet (1,400 square meters) facility in Lisbon. Reports have it that the facilit...

November 18, 2021

Portugal

Chayora to open new 54MW data center campus in Shanghai, China

Chinese developer Chayora has revealed plans to build a data center campus in Shanghai, China. The data center campus will sit on an 8.5-acre site. In addition, the campus will have three five-story buildings with a capacity of up to 10,000 racks. Chayora also revealed that the campus would...

November 18, 2021

Shanghai

SteelWave buys data center and office building from Metronest in Boulder, Colorado

A real estate firm called SteelWave has acquired a data center and office complex belonging to Metronest. The property is located at 1450 Infinite Drive in Louisville, Boulder County. The building is a multi-tenant one, and it occupies 154,000 square feet of space. It also sits on a 20.3-a...

November 18, 2021

Colorado (CO)

Climate protestors gather outside Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin

People Before Profit, is calling for an end to new data centers being buillt in Ireland, and picketed outside Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin on 16 November in protest of the dangerous and continual expansion of data center building in Ireland.The protest held outside the annual data ce...

November 17, 2021

Republic of Ireland

Verne Global to expand data center campus 10MW

Verne Global, a provider of sustainable data center solutions, has announced that it is expanding its 40-acre data center campus by 10MW of capacity. This will be funded by $50m from Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9), the investment trust which recently acquired Verne. In an effort to “optimi...

November 16, 2021

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

Former FBI data center in West Virginia available for sale/lease

A former data center occupied by the FBI in Clarksburg, West Virginia, has been put up for sale. The facility has been put up for sale for $1.5 million; however, real estate company RealCorp said the facility is available to lease. The building has 26,397 square feet of space, and it sits o...

November 15, 2021

FBI Clarksburg

Unoccupied NortonLifeLock data center in Arizona up for sale

NortonLifeLock Inc. is putting up an unoccupied data center in Tucson, Arizona, for sale. The facility sits upon 8.5 acres of land, and it is located at 3701 E. Columbia Street. It has 133,452 square feet of space with 40,793 square feet of raised floor within three data halls. In addition, th...

November 12, 2021

Arizona

Ascent's Plano, Texas data center available to lease

Ascent’s data center in Plano, Texas, has been put up for lease by Cushman & Wakefield. The data center is at 1500 East Plano Parkway, and it is listed as a single-tenant facility. The 43,000 square feet data center sits on 4.5 acres of land. It was built in 1992, and it was last renova...

November 12, 2021

Ascent Dallas DAL1

Blackstone acquires Equinix-occupied data center in London for £196.5 million

Land Securities Group has announced the sale of an office and data center property located in the Canary Wharf side of London. The sale price of the property is £196.5 million ($262.82 million). Equinix is currently occupying the property as its LD8 IBX data center. Land Securities Group so...

November 12, 2021

Equinix London LD8 Harbour Exchange (Docklands)

Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center

Prince William County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to pause the development of a Gainesville data center until late January. CTP-II LLC proposed the data center project in question. CTP-II LLC wanted 22.72 acres of land to be rezoned from business and light industrial to data center con...

November 12, 2021

Northern Virginia

COP26 and OpenUK's 'Patchwork Kilt' Edge data center blueprint

At the COP26 event in Glasgow, OpenUK shared its net-zero data center blueprint. The not-for-profit organisation's "Patchwork Kilt" framework aims to make new Edge data centers more sustainable and promote the curricular economy. The project proposes using derelict building stock and creating ...

November 12, 2021

Glasgow

True IDC to expand its Bangkok campus in Thailand

True IDC has announced that it is expanding its True IDC-East Bangna facility in Bangkok. The data center firm had a ceremony last week to break ground on the second building on the site. True IDC planned four buildings with a total capacity of 15MW upon full buildout on the site. The facility...

November 11, 2021

True IDC: Midtown Ratchada

Netrality requests $36 million in bonds for new data center in Kansas City

According to BizJournal, Netrality has applied to the Shawnee City Council for $36 million in federally taxable private activity revenue bonds. Bizjournal says Netrality plans to use the bonds to finance construction materials, equipment, fixtures, and labor for the renovation of 7801 Nieman R...

November 11, 2021

Netrality: Kansas City 7801 Nieman

Government of Galicia plans data center outside Santiago, Spain

The Regional Government of Galicia has plans to build a new data center in the Galicia region of Spain. According to reports, the planned facility will double Galicia's digital capacity. The government first announced a data center called Gaiás Integral Data Processing Center in 2011. The faci...

November 11, 2021

Spain

DITO planning hyperscale data center in the Philippines

DITO has revealed its plans to develop hyperscale data centers in the Philippines. DITO CME Holdings Corp, the parent company of DITO Telecommunity, is in talks with some hyperscale firms about developing a data center in the Philippines. President and Director of DITO CME, Ernesto Alberto, to...

November 10, 2021

Philippines

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