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Facebook is expanding its Los Lunas data center in New Mexico

Facebook announced this week that it is expanding its Los Lunas data center in New Mexico. Facebook plans to add another two buildings to the facility. Upon completion, the site will have almost 3.8 million square feet of space. The social media giant's investment in the facility will also ...

October 29, 2021

Meta Los Lunas Campus

Alibaba is Planning an Israeli cloud region

According to reports, Chinese firm Alibaba is considering setting up a cloud region in Israel. Globes says Alibaba has been considering the move for some years, but the covid-19 pandemic caused the delay. Besides, Alibaba is not thinking about building its own facility; instead, it will be hos...

October 29, 2021

Israel

Stack Infrastructure is expanding its Northern Virginia campus

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center on its Northern Virginia Campus in Manassas, Prince William County. According to Stack Infrastructure, the development will bring an additional 36MW of critical capacity with a goal of reaching 72MW. The firm ...

October 29, 2021

STACK Northern Virginia

Bank of Israel's data center project reaches completion

The Bank of Israel's Information Technology Department has announced the completion of its data center project. The facility is built to Tier 4 standard and is reportedly close to receiving its official certification from the Uptime Institute. The data center has also been built with green tec...

October 28, 2021

Israel

Africell opens data center in Angola

Africell has announced the opening of its new data center in Luanda, Angola. This is after it signed a new partnership with Angola Cables. According to Africell, the new facility will be in the Kings Tower building in the center of Luanda. CEO of Africell, Cristopher Lundh, said the company is...

October 27, 2021

Angola

Plans for Swansea seafront data center and the $2.8 billion Blue Eden Project

DST Innovations, in association with several other business partners, with support from Swansea Council and Associated British Ports, have announced a £1.7 billion ($2,3 billion) project: Blue Eden project. On Swansea's seafront, Wales, this project will include a newly-designed tidal lagoon, ...

October 26, 2021

Wales

Under the microscope: Ameren's new data center

Ameren's new data center, fuelled by one of its coal-fired power plants in Missouri, has come under the microscope, garnering concerns from those in the local community and beyond.While the company says that the $1 million facility will help to stabilize demand for electricity, critics aren't ...

October 26, 2021

Missouri

Hydrogen powered data centers: Research begins in County Offaly

Ireland's County Offaly is investigating hydrogen as a green energy that could power data centers. The study, 'Exploring Data Centre Integration with Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen in the Midlands', will look into the feasibility of integrating data centres with renewable energy and will ...

October 26, 2021

Republic of Ireland

Tesla Finally opens a data center in China

Tesla has finally opened its data center in Shanghai, China. It first announced the facility in April after Chinese regulators started making rules that would require Chinese subsidiaries to store data in China. Tesla did not reveal many details about the data center as the electric vehicle ma...

October 26, 2021

China

Quebec: The power of green

Just two years ago, Quebec had just 39 data centers; now, this number has shot up to 50. So, what’s driving this growth? Well, the Canadian city offers vast amounts of low-cost and green energy, generated mainly from hydro dams, which gives it the big green tick.Of course, while it’s no Virgin...

October 25, 2021

Quebec Province

Liberum Navitas to develop 15 data centers across Russia

Liberum Navitas, a Russian ICT firm, has announced its plans to build 15 data centers across Russia over the next two years. The ICT firm revealed that it is launching a federal investment project to develop the data centers while unifying them by a single fiber-optic communication line. The c...

October 22, 2021

Russia / Россия

DataBank has expanded its KC3 facility in Kansas City

DataBank has announced that it has expanded its KC3 facility in Kansas City. The expansion sees DataBank expanding its digital footprint in Kansas. DataBank has built out two new Data Halls; Halls 2 and 3. Hall 2 adds 9,300 square feet of space, while Hall 3 adds 8,050 square feet of space....

October 22, 2021

DataBank Kansas City MCI3

US army to further reduce its data centers

The US army has announced that it will further its data center reduction to six over the next seven years. Army CIO Raj Lyer made the announcement on Thursday and said the move is an effort to transfer more data to cloud-based systems to enhance security. This includes moving complex enterpris...

October 22, 2021

United States

North Bay welcomes new power-to-data center

Today, the new owners of the former Atlantic Power Corp. power plant in North Bay, Ontario, Validus Power Corp and Hut 8 Mining, held a ground- breaking ceremony signalling the start of development on the site. The proposed 32,000-square-foot data center will see an injection of over $100 mill...

October 22, 2021

Validus Power: North Bay

Alibaba expands in Asia

Alibaba has announced that as part of its global expansion plans, it is launching its first data centers in South Korea and Thailand next year in an effort to compete with the likes of US giants like Amazon and Microsoft.Commenting on the expansion, Selina Yuan, General Manager of Internationa...

October 21, 2021

Thailand / Prathet Thai

The Taliban takeover: What are telecoms looking like?

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has been devastating for millions. There has been radical transformation and destabilisation ever since. As part of the coup, Taliban forces targeted cell towers and critical infrastructure. According to figures from the ATRA in June, a total of 301 telecoms...

October 21, 2021

South Asia

Securing sustainability: Wipro teams up with National Grid to consolidate data centres

Wipro has reportedly signed “a multi-year global strategic IT and digital deal” with National Grid. Through the deal, Wipro will assist National Grid with digital transformation, while integrating its managed services, and consolidating multiple data centers across both the UK and US to next g...

October 21, 2021

United Kingdom

Office complex and data center auctioned for $15m in Orlando, Florida

Regency Commercial Properties, Inc. has completed the sale of Central Corporate Center at 5915-6035 South Rio Grande Ave in Orlando, Florida, for $15.1 million. This is a five-building office park with 318,516 square feet of space spread across 21.7 acres of land. The property firm sold the bu...

October 20, 2021

Orlando

Digital Edge reveals RFS date for OSA1 in Osaka, Japan

Digital Edge has announced its ready-for-service (RFS) date for launching its first self-build data center facility in Osaka, Japan. OSA1 is a 14MW facility located in the Osaka Central Business District. Digital Edge started the facility’s construction in April 2021 and is scheduled to be in ...

October 19, 2021

Digital Edge: Osaka OSA1

Saudi Arabia makes a big investment in digital infrastructure

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia has announced that it is forming four cooperation initiatives to build hyperscale data centers. This announcement is part of its achievement of the Kingdom Vision 2030 goals, which envisions the country becoming an “inno...

October 18, 2021

Saudi Arabia

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