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Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam

Great Grey Investment has acquired the uncompleted Westpoort Data Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data center was bought from Caransa Group. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tikehu Capital provided financing to Great Grey Investments and Westpoort Datacenter through ...

September 17, 2021

Amsterdam

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors approves zoning of 196-acre of land for data center use in Gainesville, Northern Virginia

196-acres of land has been rezoned for data center purposes in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. This is after the Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted that a 196-acre land off Linton Hall Road should be zoned for data center use. A 1 million square feet data center campus will also ...

September 15, 2021

Northern Virginia

Iron Mountain files to expand its data center campus in Virginia campus

Iron Mountain is reportedly expanding its Virginia data center campus. According to Inside Nova, a firm with the name KH Data Capital Development is applying to revise the condition of the industrial zoning on its 37-acre property off Wellington Road, which is between Manassas and Gainesvil...

September 15, 2021

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

What does the US $1 trillion Infrastructure Bill mean for the data center industry?

There’s a lot of discussion around what the new bipartisan Infrastructure Bill means for the data center industry, and many are anticipating significant changes on the horizon.The bill, which is currently passing through Congress, would lend a hand to the industry’s decarbonization efforts, wi...

September 14, 2021

North America

Element Critical acquires data center in Austin, Texas

Element Critical has announced it is expanding into the Austin market after acquiring a 62,000 square feet data center in Austin, Texas. It named the new facility Austin One. It is also the Company’s second data center facility in Texas. Austin One is designed to support up to 7MW of critical ...

September 14, 2021

Element Critical Austin

Baxtel’s Self-Service Advertising Platform Reaches Data Center Audiences Faster

We are thrilled to announce we recently launched our self-service advertising platform! Our targeted ad platform gives you an e-commerce experience that is optimized to reach data center audiences faster. As a self-service advertising platform, companies can launch ads quickly and more ef...

September 13, 2021

North America

Sberbank to build 82MW data center in Balakovo, Russia

Sberbank is planning to build a large data center facility in Saratov Oblast, Russia. Sberbank is a state-owned banking and financial services company that is based in Moscow. It has broken ground on the new facility in Balakovo. According to the Company, the facility will have a total space o...

September 10, 2021

Russia / Россия

Resident challenges Apple Galway data center planning extension in court

Even after winning over 20 appeals, there seem to be more lawsuits against the planning permission for Apple’s data center in Athenry, Galway, Ireland. In August 2021, Apple secured five-year planning permission for the site from the Galway County Council even after ceasing plans for the pr...

September 10, 2021

Apple Athenry

Virginia Beach City data center redevelopment faces delays

A Virginia Beach City data center construction project is facing delays after design enhancements have postponed plans by several months. These plans include relocating the Virginia Beach Municipal Center's data center to the building’s third floor will now be delayed by seven months. First re...

September 09, 2021

Virginia Beach

Techno Electric & Engineering Company plans $1bn data center development across India

Techno Electric & Engineering Company (TEECL) has announced big plans for investment across India. The Indian power infrastructure firm is reportedly planning to invest $1 billion (Rs 7,310 crore) in developing data centers in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, National Capital Area (NCR) Chennai, a...

September 09, 2021

India / Bhārata

Chinese authorities push ahead with plans underwater data centers

Underwater data centers are increasingly being looked to solve the industry’s sustainability issue. Submerging data centers underwater is reportedly more energy-efficient, addresses space scarcity, and sees facilities encounter fewer failures. Now, authorities in China are planning to invest ...

September 08, 2021

China

Keppel DC REIT acquires data center in Netherlands

Keppel Data Center REIT has acquired a data center in the Netherlands. The data center firm acquired 100% of the property, which has two data center buildings in De Hurk business Park, Eindhoven. Keppel paid €37.2 million ($44.1m) to a fund affiliated with MCAP Global Finance (UK) for the p...

September 06, 2021

Keppel Eindhoven Campus

Digital 9 acquires Verne Global as it strives for sustainability

Verne Global, which operates a 100% renewable powered data center campus in Iceland, has been acquired by Digital 9, following an investment of £231m (€271m).The purchase of the 40-acre, 24MW campus, is a first for Digital 9, being the only deal to involve a data center operator to date. Acco...

September 06, 2021

Verne: Keflavik Campus

China's data centers and climate change

China's data center market has seen incredible growth over the last few years. Back in 2019, the market was valued at USD 13.01 billion but is forecast to reach a value of USD 36.18 billion by 2025. It is also registering a CAGR of 19.2% from 2020 to 2025. While this is good news economically...

September 06, 2021

China

The importance of geographical diversification for Indian data centers

India's data center market is forecast to grow by a CAGR of around 12% between 2020−2026, which means the country is undoubtedly witnessing a data center boom. That said, as the country's data center footprint grows, industry veterans have warned that India must learn from the past mistakes o...

September 06, 2021

India / Bhārata

Prince William County officials to decide on data center in Northern Virginia

Prince William’s Board of County Supervisors is going to hold a public hearing on a proposed data center facility in Northern Virginia later this week. The purpose of the meeting is to decide whether to rezone the 196.28 acres of land across three properties from agricultural to industrial use...

September 06, 2021

Northern Virginia

Equinix completes acquisition of GPX India

Equinix has finally completed the acquisition of the Indian operations of GPX Global Systems for $161 million. The purchase sees Equinix add two data centers in Mumbai to its portfolio. These facilities named Equinix MB1 and MB2 provide a combined 1,350 cabinets, with an additional 500 cabi...

September 03, 2021

Equinix Mumbai MB1

Interxion opens PAR12 on the East side of Paris

Interxion has announced the opening of its new data center outside Paris, France. Besides, the data center is also the Company’s 12th in the French capital region. The PAR12 facility is located 30km to the east of Paris in Ferrières-en-Brie. It has up to 12MW of IT capacity. It also has over 6...

September 03, 2021

Digital Realty: PAR12 Ferrières-en-Brie

EdgeConneX Portland Data Center Campus Now Enabled with 100Gbps AWS Direct Connect Offering

EdgeConnex has announced that it has deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect 100Gbps capability at its Portland data center. The Company has been an AWS Partner Network since 2016. It has now expanded its connection options from 1Gbps and 10Gbps to 100Gbps. The expansion will enab...

September 01, 2021

EdgeConneX Portland

International Telecoms Week 2021 discusses the growing data center ecosystem in West Africa

International Telecoms Week 2021 was recently held, with 1,500 attendees in National Harbor and over 5,000 attending virtually. A number of experts from the data center industry came together and discussed data center expansion in Africa, and the current disparity between data centers and popu...

September 01, 2021

Africa Data Centres

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