February 03, 2022 Northern Virginia
According to Biz Journal, Amazon Data Services Inc. has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. The buildings acquired are located at 46020. 46010, and 46000 Manekin Plaza. The Loudoun County deed records show that Amazon paid over $21 million for the properties. According to...
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February 02, 2022 Puerto Rico
Continent 8 Technologies has announced the opening of a data center in Puerto Rico. The firm offers hosting and data center solutions to online gambling and betting companies. Continent 8 did not reveal the details of the data center. The company’s general manager for Latin America, Gabriel...
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February 02, 2022 New York
An unoccupied data center in Hauppauge, New York, has been acquired for $21 million. According to Newsday, Link Logistics, a subsidiary of Blackstone, bought the property. Link Logistics plans to tear down the building and redevelop it as a Class A distribution center. The data center sits on...
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February 02, 2022 India / Bhārata
It is great news for data center companies, and investors in India as the country's government says it will classify data centers as infrastructure assets starting April 1, 2022. The development will help ensure that data center companies get better access to funds through loans or investments...
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February 02, 2022 Northern Virginia
The much-debated data center proposal located near Haymarket, Virginia, has made progress despite the Prince William County Planning Commission being unable to agree on a recommendation for the facility. The motion to recommend approval ended in a tie of 4:4, sending the proposal to the Board of...
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February 01, 2022 United States
The Federal Communications Commission has revoked China Unicom Americas’ operating license, citing national security risks, it has been announced. The vote was won 4-0, which means that within 60 days of the order’s publication, the company must cease all domestic interstate and international...
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January 31, 2022 Dublin
IDA Ireland Irish Development Agency (IDA) has announced that looking ahead, it is “unlikely” that any new data centres will be built in Dublin or along the east coast. However, Martin Shanahan, the head of the state’s development agency, has said it will build data centers if they are required...
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January 31, 2022 Equinix Manchester MA2
Equinix has announced that it will be closing its MA2 facility in Manchester, UK. The data center says it will no longer operate the facility when the lease on the property expires in June 2023. According to Equinix, the data center does not meet its evaluation criteria anymore. Besides, the...
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January 28, 2022 North Dakota
A huge data center is on its way to Williston, North Dakota. Atlas Power Data Center is the $1.9 billion project which will be built by Montana-based FX Solutions and owned and operated by Atlas Power. The first phase of the project is expected to be completed by 2024. Governor Doug Burgum The...
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January 28, 2022 Data4: Warsaw 1
Data4 has announced that it has broken ground on its first data center campus in Poland. The French data center company announced earlier in July last year that it would invest up to €200 million ($237m) in developing the data center campus in Warsaw, Poland. The company has now confirmed that it...
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January 28, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Facebook, now known as Meta, has plans to expand its Gallatin facility in Tennessee. Biz Journal was the first to report that the social media giant wants to construct another data center building at the Gallatin campus. The city council has also approved the plans for the development this week....
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January 27, 2022 CloudHQ Manassas Hornbaker
Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced that it sold a data center in Manassas, Virginia, for $222.5 million. The buying firm is CloudHQ’s investment arm. COPT revealed that it sold the DC-6 facility to Cloud Capital, CloudHQ’s affiliate company. The data center is a two-story...
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January 26, 2022 Madrid
Great news for Spain as plans for a 360MW data center campus in Madrid, Spain, is underway. The data center will be developed on a 700-hectare site, and investment is expected to reach up to €5 billion ($5.67bn). The Digital Valley project is to be a ‘reference model’ for sustainability in data...
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January 26, 2022 United Kingdom
UK data center company ServerChoice has announced the expansion of its facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The company added a new data hall which hosts 47 racks. In addition, the new hall uses hot aisle containment that ensures greater efficiency. In addition, the racks are backed up by a...
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January 26, 2022 Bangkok / Krung Thep
EtixEverywhere has announced that it has bought the majority interest in Genesis data center. The company revealed that it acquired a 67 percent stake in the Thai data center. The cost of the investment is pegged around AU$15.2 million (US$10.8m). Genesis operates a data center in Bang Chalong,...
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January 25, 2022 South Asia
Pakistan-based telecommunication company Jazz has launched a new data center facility in Islamabad, Pakistan. The 3MW data center cost the company $8 million. It currently has 300 racks, with a capacity to be expanded in the future to 450 racks. According to Jazz, the new facility is the largest...
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January 25, 2022 Belgium
Belgian infrastructure investment company TINC has made investments in Belgian data center firm Datacenter United. TINC says the €5 million ($5.6m) investment in Datacenter United is to fund the acquisition of DC Star. Datacenter United was founded in 2011. It currently operates three data...
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January 24, 2022 North Dakota
North Dakota is becoming a hotspot for cryptocurrency miners, with its cold temperatures attracting interest. According to John Weeda, director of the North Dakota Transmission Authority, there's lots of interest from a number of parties. Energy Services Manager Josh Schaffner said the company...
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January 24, 2022 Beijing
Multilateral bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), has announced that it is making a significant investment in new data center development, with $150 million. The Beijing-based company will direct the funds through the Keppel Data Centre Fund II (KDCF II). Current reports outline that...
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January 21, 2022 South Carolina
Students and staff at East Carolina University have voiced significant concerns around the potential arrival of a crypto mining facility in the Greenville area. This week, those opposing the proposed data center, came together to protest, with the slogan "Say No To Crypto." A number of protesters...
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