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Spencer Building Carrier Hotel to build data center in Harbour Centre

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel is to build a new facility in Vancouver's Harbour Centre. When fully built out, the company says the facility will span 43,000 sqft, with a capacity of 10MW, supporting 20kW+ per cabinet, and over 20,000 connected fibers. According to Director of Data Center ...

January 19, 2022

Vancouver

DataGrid to expand in New Zealand

Following the purchase of a 43-hectare site in North Makarewa near Invercargill, Datagrid, is moving forward with its plans to construct a hyperscale facility there, the first of its kind in the area.According to reports, the company will build up to ten 6,500 sqm (70,000 sq ft) modules totali...

January 18, 2022

New Zealand

Paris to house Equinix's tenth data center

Equinix is adding a tenth data center into Paris on its Paris Equinix's Saint-Denis campus, with the new site named PA10. In the first phase of construction, the project will offer 3,775 sqm and 1,525 cabinets of capacity. Meanwhile, it will offer 5,775 sqm (62,100 sq ft) of colocation space a...

January 18, 2022

Equinix Saint-Denis PA10

BBT Has Selected MCFI's Genius Data Center Solution

Mission Critical Facilities International (MCFI) has announced that it has deployed its GENIUS Modular Data Center in Midland, Texas. Midland is in the epicenter of the most productive oil and gas production locality in the whole of North America. BBT selected MCFI’s GENIUS Modular Data Center...

January 18, 2022

BBT Midland 1

Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

This week, Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister made an announcement that the country's moratorium on new data center builds, which was introduced back in 2019. Minister Gan Kim Yong said that going forward, a "more selective" approach to new builds will be taken.In a written reply to a par...

January 17, 2022

Singapore

AREP to invest in six data centers

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that, with Harrison Street, it is investing $1bn (€864m) in six data centres in the US. According to reports, this development plan will total 2.1m sqft of data centre space in Data Center Alley in Ashburn and Arcola, Virginia.Speaking about t...

January 17, 2022

Ashburn: Data Center Alley

Stack makes progress at its Hillsboro campus

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has made progress at its new Hillsboro campus in Oregon with the completion of its first building. Spanning 180,000 sqft, with a capacity of 24MW, that said, only half of that capacity (12MW) is available due to pre-leasing activity.The facility, POR0...

January 17, 2022

STACK Portland POR03

Eirgrid report makes decision on data centers in Ireland

EirGrid has made a decision on data center building in Ireland. The state-owned electric power transmission operator has outlined that it will not accept any further applications to build facilities in Dublin for "the foreseeable future" and perhaps not until 2028. That said, the data center a...

January 14, 2022

Republic of Ireland

Telehouse moves into Bangkok

Telehouse has announced that it is introducing a new data center to Bangkok, Thailand, which according to the company, is the first of its kind in the area, and will launch the company's third location in Southeast Asia.Spanning 9,000 sqm (97,000 sq ft), the facility, based in the Rama 9 busin...

January 14, 2022

Telehouse Bangkok

Gibtelecom initiates tree planting scheme in Wales

Gibtelecom has teamed up with the charity Protect Earth for a forestation project. Already, it has planted over 600 native British trees at the Pantpurlais farm, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, including 12 species of native saplings, including 100 Silver Birch, 50 Common Alder, 25 Bird Cherry, and ...

January 14, 2022

Wales

Verne Global to expand its Iceland data center

Verne Global has announced that it will be expanding its campus in Iceland. According to the company, this expansion will take place over the next year with a $93 million additional investment from Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), following its acquisition of Verne Global in September 2021.The ...

January 12, 2022

Verne: Keflavik Campus

More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

More people are speaking out against proposed data centers along Pageland Lane, near Manassas National Battlefield. The latest to outline his opposition to the construction plans is documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. In a letter to Prince William County Board of Supervisors, Burns expressed "fea...

January 12, 2022

Northern Virginia

Akwa Ibom State to be site for technological development and data centers

Akwa Ibom is becoming an emerging technology and innovation hub in Africa. Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Committee on Foreign Direct Investment Commission, Gabriel Ukpeh, said that the state government is working to ensure that undersea cable lands are in the works in the next 12 to 24 month...

January 12, 2022

Africa

Virginia's $124.5 million offering on tax breaks to data centers

In Virginia's recently released Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, it was revealed that it offered $124.5 million in tax breaks to data centers last year. Comparatively, this is $14 million higher than the amount offered in 2020, which totaled $110.5 million, a figure that has gradually ri...

January 10, 2022

Virginia

Five 9s Digital sells Kannapolis data center for $11.4 million

Five 9s Digital has sold a facility in Kannapolis, North Carolina, for $11.4 million. LD DI Assetco LLC is the buying company. BizJournal first reported the sale late last year. Five 9s acquired the property in question for $8.4 million in May 2020 from Castle & Cooke. The data center h...

January 10, 2022

Segra: Charlotte

Internet blackouts in Kazakhstan following protests

Kazakhstan is experiencing internet blackouts as its government implements nationwide cuts. These blackouts follow fuel and anti-government protests; however, president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has called protestors "plotters," arguing that they are "financially motivated".According to NetBlocks,...

January 07, 2022

Kazakhstan

Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

Interxion's latest data center in Frankfurt, Germany, FRA16, has been completed, it has announced. Located on the company's Ostend campus at Hanauer Landstrasse, the facility spans 4,800 sqm (51,600 sq ft) of white space, with a capacity of 16.5MW. The data center is expected to go live later...

January 07, 2022

Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus

Telia Lietuva to invest EUR 10 million Lithuanian data center

Telia Lietuva has announced that it is to invest EUR 10 million in the construction of a data center located in Raisteniškės, next to the Vilnius-Panevėžys highway. This facility will join two Telia Lietuva other data centers in Vilnius, which will mean it will be the largest data center infra...

January 07, 2022

Telia Lietuva Raisteniškės

TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

Taoping Inc (TOAP) has announced that it is expanding its Taoping G Cloud Hong Kong Data Center (the "Center") in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022.The facility, built in May 2021, will have an estimated total hash rate of 700GH/s, and i...

January 06, 2022

Hong Kong

Sustainability goals outlined by Alibaba

Alibaba has announced its sustainability goals to meet the rest of the industry in its push to go green. According to Alibaba's Chairman and CEO, Daniel Zhang, this announcement aligns with the company's aspiration to become a force for "positive, innovative change in society." Zhang says that...

January 06, 2022

China

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