March 21, 2022 Miami
Publix has plans to develop a data center at a former FedEx building in Florida. According to reports, the Supermarket chain is looking to invest $40 million in the building located in Polk County, Florida. However, the details of the project aren’t concrete enough at this time, as Publix claims...
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March 21, 2022 Seoul
Pacific Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have formed a joint venture for the sole purpose of developing a hyperscale data center in Seoul, South Korea. The two companies announced that they would be investing KRW 200 billion (US$164.4 million) to develop the largest...
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March 21, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta’s data center proposal in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, appears to have hit another roadblock. The current Minister of Housing of the Netherlands, Hugo de Jonge, has revealed that he plans to prevent the development of the facility. Although the Zeewolde council has approved the zoning change...
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March 18, 2022 Hong Kong
Carrianna Group has announced the launch of a new data center in the Kwai Chang industrial area, Hong Kong. The Hong Kong property firm, Jun Gao Holdings Company Limited and Dr. Quentin Tsang jointly invested in the data center. The property has a gross floor area of 2,100 square meters (23,000...
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March 18, 2022 Warsaw
Polish telecommunications company, Korbank has revealed that it won’t be completing the construction of its Wroclaw data center till later. The data center was scheduled to be completed this month, but the date has been shifted to June of this year. The delay is happening because Korbank wants to...
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March 18, 2022 Georgia
Georgia is looking to extend its tax exemptions for data centers by another five years. Earlier in 2018, the US state introduced the current sales tax exemptions for data centers through HB 696. The bill provides tax exemptions if it meets certain job creation thresholds and investments over a...
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March 17, 2022 New Zealand
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...
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March 17, 2022 Wyoming
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 Thornocks...
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March 17, 2022 Bulgaria
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 as...
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March 15, 2022 Dublin
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, there...
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March 15, 2022 United Kingdom
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 projects...
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March 15, 2022 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 permit...
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March 15, 2022 Australia
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 interest...
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March 14, 2022 Washington
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...
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March 11, 2022 Republic of Ireland
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 Prendiville...
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March 11, 2022 EcoDataCenter Falun, 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...
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March 11, 2022 atNorth Stockholm SWE01
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, simulations,...
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March 10, 2022 India / Bhārata
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 two...
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March 10, 2022 India / Bhārata
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 data....
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March 10, 2022 Japan
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...
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