January 21, 2022 One Wilshire Building
JLL’s Capital Markets Group has announced that it has helped GI Partners refinance the One Wilshire carrier hotel in California. The group said it arranged a $390 million refinancing for One Wilshire’s 30-story, multi-tenant, 660,000 square foot data center and office building. Executive managing...
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January 19, 2022 QTS: Augusta Campus
T5 Data Centers has announced it is planning the development of a 140 acre, 200 MW government and enterprise cloud data center campus located in Augusta, Georgia, adjacent to Fort Gordon and the U.S. Army's Cyber Command Headquarters. Commenting on the location's suitability, Pete Marin, T5's...
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January 19, 2022 Prime Santa Clara (Martin)
Prime Data Centers has announced plans to develop a new 119,000 square-foot data center in Silicon Valley, in Santa Clara, California. When complete, the facility will deliver a capacity of 9MW, and construction on the facility will commence in the second half of 2023. The facility will be...
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January 19, 2022 Vancouver
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...
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January 18, 2022 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 totaling...
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January 18, 2022 Equinix Saint-Denis PA10
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 and...
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January 18, 2022 BBT Midland 1
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...
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January 17, 2022 Singapore
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...
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January 17, 2022 Ashburn: Data Center Alley
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 the...
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January 17, 2022 STACK: POR03A
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, POR03,...
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January 14, 2022 Republic of 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...
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January 14, 2022 Telehouse 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...
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January 14, 2022 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...
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January 12, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus
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...
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January 12, 2022 Northern Virginia
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 "fear"...
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January 12, 2022 Africa
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 months...
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January 10, 2022 Virginia
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 risen...
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January 10, 2022 Segra: Charlotte
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 has...
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January 07, 2022 Kazakhstan
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,...
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January 07, 2022 Digital Realty: FRA1
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...
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