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Qatar's sovereign wealth fund wants to invest in data centers and warehouses

The Qatar Investment Authority wants to start investing in data centers and warehouses. This is because the real estate sector is struggling because of the covid-19 pandemic. Chief Executive of the sovereign wealth fund, Mansoor bin Ebrahim al Mahmoud, told an economic forum organized by Bloom...

June 26, 2021

Qatar

Digital Crossroad data center in Hammond to expand following a $28 million investment

The Digital Crossroad data center based in Hammond has received a $28 million investment from Energy Solutions Group and United Leasing and Finance for further expansion. Currently, in its first phase, the Digital Crossroad site features 105,000 sq ft of space and 6MW of capacity and is repor...

June 25, 2021

Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

Apple seeks planning permission extension for Athenry data center

Apple has applied to Galway County Council to extend its planning permission on its site in Athenry, Ireland. Apple plans to build a 363,800 square feet data center on the site by the end of the extension period. The data center will be a single-story building with a maintenance building, a lo...

June 25, 2021

Apple Athenry

Dakota State University wants $6m for data center remodeling

Dakota State University (DSU) has requested $6 million and $1.8 million to replace its existing data center and IT hardware, respectively. The request was made during a meeting between South Dakota’s public university system and its governing body. DSU asked for funds to replace its existing d...

June 25, 2021

South Dakota

Acronis launches first cloud data center in India

Acronis has announced that it is launching its first cloud data center in India. The facility in Mumbai is being launched with partners Compuage India, Ingram Micro and Crayon Software Experts India. This new data center is one of 111 new facilities that the company is launching globally. It w...

June 25, 2021

India / Bhārata

Court grants Google's subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission for data center in Sweden

Sweden’s Land and Environment Court at Nacka District Court has granted Google’s subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission to build a data center in Horndal, Sweden. Although Google said the land was a potential data center location when they acquired the 109-hectare site in 2017, they said...

June 25, 2021

Sweden

3D Pioneer Systems acquires Host Networks

3D Pioneer Systems-DPSM just acquired Host Group of Companies Pty Lt for $2.6 million. Host Group operates a data center on Brandl Street, Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane. Besides, the facility has a capacity of 125 cabinets, and it can be upgraded to 200 cabinets. Also, the data center offers clo...

June 24, 2021

Host Networks BNE1

MainOne opens data center in Appolonia, Accra, Ghana

MainOne, a Nigerian telco firm, just opened its new data center in Appolonia City, outside Accra, Ghana. The Company first announced the construction of the data center in 2019. It is a 100-rack facility, and MDXi, MainOne’s subsidiary, would manage it. Interestingly, the facility is also Tier...

June 23, 2021

Equinix Accra AC1

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, a movement launched in January 2021 to tackle data centers' environmental impact, has made big moves this week. Cloud and datacenter giants in the movement have taken 19 proposals to the European Union (EU), which outline their "ambitious targets" to make ...

June 23, 2021

Europe

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, a movement launched in January 2021 to tackle data centers' environmental impact, has made big moves this week. Cloud and datacenter giants in the movement have taken 19 proposals to the European Union (EU), which outline their "ambitious targets" to make ...

June 23, 2021

Europe

Norway's data centers to set up Norsk Datasenterindustri, a new industry body

In Norway, the data center industry has made a significant move to create Norsk Datasenterindustri, its new industry body, to enable it to fulfil its potential. The association will examine sustainability and digital sovereignty while also offering education opportunities and international mar...

June 22, 2021

Norway

Cologix acquires Zayo's Vancouver facility and announces Toronto expansion

Cologix is branching out in Canada. It has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zayo's 65,000 sq ft (6,000 sqm) interconnection facility in Vancouver. Cologix will add 4.2MW of capacity to the site.In addition to this, the company has also announced plans to ad...

June 22, 2021

Cologix VAN4

Nvidia pledges over $100m for UK supercomputer as talks on its Arm acquisition reach regulators

Nvidia has announced that it is funneling over $100 million into its Cambridge-1 supercomputer, based at the Kao Data Campus in Harlow. This is $45 million more than its original pledge. This announcement came as the GPU company revealed their acquisition of Arm for $40 billion, which the comp...

June 22, 2021

Kao Data: Harlow KLON-01

BDx launches Phase One of its data center in Nanjing, China

Hong Kong-based data center firm, Big Data Exchange (BDx), announced the launch of the first phase of its NKG Data Center Campus in Nanjing, China. The construction of the facility started early last year. The data center campus will have a 35MW capacity once completed. BDx announced that the ...

June 22, 2021

BDx Nanjing

Intermarket seeks approval for 100,000 square feet data center in Canada

Intermarket Properties wants to build a data center in Cambridge, Canada. According to Canada Construct Connect, the Company is seeking approval for a 100,000 square feet data center. The proposed data center site is a 40 acre Waterloo Corporate Campus with mixed-use redevelopment that consist...

June 21, 2021

Toronto

Data center plans discussed for NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New Yorksite

Discussions have begun around the transformation of the disused NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New York, into a new data center. The 76-acre site was operational from the 1950s to 2015 has been pinned as a potential location in a report by the City of Dunkirk and Chautauqua County. Dunkirk is nea...

June 20, 2021

Buffalo

Sabey secures $250 million refinancing deal for 375 Pearl Street

Sabey has secured a $250 million refinancing deal for its office and data center at 375 Pearl Street, New York City. According to Commercial Observer, J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo will be providing a $220 million, 10-year, fixed-rate CMBS loan and a further $30 million mezzanine debt. Sabey ...

June 20, 2021

Sabey Intergate.Manhattan

Converge to build new a PHP 1 billion ($20.8 million) data center in Mandaue, Philippines

Converge ICT Solutions is going to build a PHP 1 billion ($20.8 million) data center in Mandaue, Philippines. The new facility, named "P1", will be a six-story building with initial 300 racks. It will also have a customer contact center in the building. Converge ICT Solutions also said that th...

June 18, 2021

Converge ICT: Mandaue P1

Global Technical Realty and KKR to build a data center campus in Slough, UK

Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it would be building a data center campus in Slough, UK. The campus will have three interconnected data centers, with each having more than 57,900 square feet of floor space and 13.5MW of capacity. SEGRO, a UK real estate investment and develop...

June 17, 2021

GTR: Slough

DataBank completes the expansion of its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh

DataBank has expanded its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by adding 25,000 square feet of raised floor space to the facility. The company also added an extra 2.5MW capacity to the facility to bring its total floor space and capacity to 40,000 square feet and 4.5MW respectively. T...

June 17, 2021

DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

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