March 31, 2022 Macquarie: IC3 East
Macquarie Data Centres has announced the launch of its Intellicentre 3 East data center in Sydney, Australia. The facility is located at the Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus in North Sydney. According to Macquarie, the new facility cost over AU$85 million (US$63.9 million). The 16MW facility was...
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March 31, 2022 Seoul
Alibaba Cloud has announced the opening of a new data center in Seoul, South Korea. The company first revealed plans for a South Korean cloud region last year. It currently operates 82 Availability Zones and 26 regions across the globe. Alibaba’s head of Cloud Intelligence for Japan and Korea,...
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March 30, 2022 New Zealand
T4 Group has announced its plans to build a Tier IV-quality modular data center on New Zealand’s South Island. The facility, which will see a NZ$50 million ($34.6m) investment, will reportedly source its energy from Southland’s two hydro stations, in Lake Manapouri and Lake Monowai, making it the...
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March 30, 2022 Saudi Arabia
Edgnex has broken ground on its facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, it has announced. The data center, which will have a capacity of 20MW, is, according to the company, only the beginning of its expansion. Alongside this facility, the company will also develop 30MW to 40MW data centers in what it...
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March 30, 2022 Aligned Phoenix
Aligned Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its presence in the Phoenix data center market. The company will be developing a new data center called PHX-05 at its flagship hyperscale campus in Arizona. Aligned revealed that the data center would be developed under an aggressive and...
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March 29, 2022 United Kingdom
The former Royal Bank of Scotland data center in Stone Business Park could be demolished, it has been reported. This news comes as Stafford Borough Council announces it has received a demolition application for the 10,500 sqm (34,500 sq ft) facility. The town council has reportedly raised no...
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March 29, 2022 South Asia
Nepal-based telecommunication company Subisu has opened a new data center in Kathmandu. According to reports, the data center can withstand tremors up to 8 Richter Scale. Although the facility's specifications were not revealed, Vertiv supplied the facility with its switches and racks....
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March 28, 2022 Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s state-owned telecommunication company TelOne has opened a new data center in Mazowe, Zimbabwe. This is the company’s fourth data center. The managing director at TelOne, Chipo Mutasa revealed that the company has spent over US$4 million in the development of 14,000 square feet (1,300...
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March 28, 2022 United States
As the climate crisis reaches a tipping point, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new set of rules, which will require US companies with $25 million in assets to register with the SEC and include climate risks in their statutory reports. Part of this would see said...
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March 28, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta’s Plans for a data center in Zeewolde has suffered another major setback. Lawmakers in the Netherlands voted last week to prevent the company from continuing any groundwork on the site. This move comes after Meta received approval from the Zeewolde council for zoning changes and plans for...
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March 28, 2022 Mumbai
Indian Energy firm ZR Power Holdings has announced that it is investing more than Rs 1,700 crore ($223.2m) in a data center at Mahape in Navi Mumbai. The proposed facility would have a capacity of 50MW and span a 10-acre plot which the company is currently acquiring. Zain Ravadji, chairman, of ZR...
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March 28, 2022 Brittany
Stratosfair has announced that it has broken ground on its first data center based in the Lanester area of France to the tune of €800,000 ($900,000). The edge facility in the Northwest of the country spans 150 sqm (1,600 sq ft) and sits on a 500 sqm (5,380 sqft) site. Due to come online in June,...
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March 25, 2022 South Dakota
SDN Communications has announced that it is expanding its data center located at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The US broadband provider will add a 25,000 square foot (2,320 square meter) pod to the existing structure. This will increase the total space to 50,000 square feet. According to SDN, the...
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March 25, 2022 Telehouse South
Telehouse has announced the launch of its new data center in London, UK. This will be the company’s fifth data center in London. This data center is being built in stages. The first stage sees development of 2MW of capacity and up to 668 racks, across 18,300 square feet of space and two data...
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March 24, 2022 United Kingdom
Loughborough University has announced that it has filed to build a data center in its student village in Leicestershire, UK. According to the University, the IT facility, part of the Energy and Data Hub, will also be used to supply district heating services to local student housing. The hub,...
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March 22, 2022 Asia-Pacific (APAC)
According to a new report, the rate of data center market growth in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) now exceeds that in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) as the two continue to "jostle for supremacy." The DC Byte Q4 2021 Data Center Report found that In 2021, the region increased...
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March 22, 2022 United States
Honda has announced that it will be powering its US HQ data center in Torrance with a self-developed stationary fuel cell power station. The 1MW plant will be made from the same equipment utilized in its Clarity fuel cell-powered cars, providing the company with a zero-emission backup power...
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March 22, 2022 India / Bhārata
Sophos has announced that its Mumbai-based data center is now open. Hosted by AWS, the facility is the company's third in the Asia Pacific and Japan region.Speaking about the facility, Sunil Sharma, managing director of sales for India and SAARC, Sophos said: "With massive digital transformation...
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March 22, 2022 South Africa
Digital Parks Africa is expanding its Samrand data center campus in Centurion, South Africa. The company is expanding the facility to reach 22MVA. The company announced that it would be investing up to R500 million (US$33.7 million) in expanding the facility. DPA is making the investment to meet...
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March 22, 2022 DataBank San Diego SAN1
DataBank has announced that it is expanding its SAN1 facility in San Diego, California. The data center is located at 12270 World Trade Drive. DataBank will be adding 3,700 square meters (40,000 square feet) of raised floor space to the facility. By so doing, SAN1 will have a total capacity of...
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