January 07, 2022 Telia Lietuva Raisteniškės
Telia Lietuva has announced that it is to invest EUR 10 million in the construction of a data center located in Raisteniškės, next to the Vilnius-Panevėžys highway. This facility will join two Telia Lietuva other data centers in Vilnius, which will mean it will be the largest data center...
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January 06, 2022 Hong Kong
Taoping Inc (TOAP) has announced that it is expanding its Taoping G Cloud Hong Kong Data Center (the "Center") in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022. The facility, built in May 2021, will have an estimated total hash rate of 700GH/s, and its...
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January 06, 2022 China
Alibaba has announced its sustainability goals to meet the rest of the industry in its push to go green. According to Alibaba's Chairman and CEO, Daniel Zhang, this announcement aligns with the company's aspiration to become a force for "positive, innovative change in society." Zhang says that...
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January 06, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Controversy is looming around Facebook's new data center in the Netherlands. Critics of the facility argue that Meta's 166-hectare complex at Zeewolde will undermine the country's sustainability targets. This is because the data center is predicted to use around 1,380GWh hours of energy a year....
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January 05, 2022 Wales
Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales has announced that it is relocating its primary data center to L block in the Llandaff Learning Centre. According to the university, the reasoning behind this move is due to its School of Technologies expanding into A block in January. The relocation also...
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January 05, 2022 Republic of Ireland
There is an ongoing power issue in Ireland as the data center industry in the country continues to boom. Being the host of 70 data centers it is now the fastest-growing data center market in Europe. However, with data centers accounting for 11% of Ireland’s total energy supply, there are...
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January 04, 2022 Dubai
Dubai Internet City has entered into a deal with Khazna Data Centers to construct two ‘state-of-the-art’ data centers in Dubai. The two facilities will employ Khazna’s data center pod design for rapid scaling, something which will reportedly offer both partners long-term growth benefits. This...
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January 04, 2022 AWS EU Frankfurt Region (eu-central-1)
Amplitude has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint into Germany with a facility in Frankfurt. The data center, which is certified in ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, will be hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), for both its “privacy” and “security.” Speaking about its move into...
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December 31, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Polmer LLC has reportedly signed an economic development agreement with Temple (Bell County) to build one or more new data centers in the area, accompanied by associated facilities. In addition, the company which was recently incorporated has entered into a tax abatement and water and wastewater...
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December 31, 2021 Kazakhstan
In recent years, Kazakhstan has become a hotspot for mining data centers, with the country becoming the second-largest producer of Bitcoin; however, alongside this developmental surge, there has also been a lack of infrastructure to support these energy-hungry coin minting facilities. Reports...
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December 31, 2021 China
According to reports, China is planning to introduce four large clusters of data centers situated outside the ‘main population centers’ in the north and west of the country. This announcement comes following China laying out its sustainability commitments and key targets as per its 2060...
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December 30, 2021 Empyrion (DoDid) Singapore
YTL, with the acquisition of Dodid Pte Ltd, now has access to the startup’s data center based in Tagore Industrial Ave, as it expands its footprint outside of Malaysia for the first time. Dodid’s facility is a 12.5-megawatt Tier-3 hyperscale data center, spanning 39,000 square feet of space. The...
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December 28, 2021 China
Sanya, a coastal city on the south of Hainan Island, is to receive the world's first commercial demonstration underwater data center, with an investment of over 5.6 billion yuan ($880 million). This news comes following Hainan provincial authorities announcing they had reached a strategic...
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December 28, 2021 Corscale: Gainesville 1
Corscale has been revealed to be behind the development of a new data center campus in Prince William County. The Nascent hyperscale data center developer revealed on its website that it would be developing the data center campus in the county. It will be developing a 130-acre 300MW Gainesville...
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December 27, 2021 Dubai
Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has announced that it has commenced work on a 100MW facility solar-powered data center located at EWA's 3,000MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The facility, located southeast...
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December 25, 2021 Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)
Digital Realty has announced the opening of its first data center in Seoul, South Korea. The new Digital Realty data center is called Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10). The 12MW capacity data center has multiple stories, and it covers a space of 22,000 square feet. This facility is also located in Seoul’s...
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December 24, 2021 Northern Virginia
Recently, Prince William County’s environmental officials announced that they were recommending that the request to replan 2,133-acres in the rural crescent for data centers should be rejected. The watershed management division has argued that the replan would be significantly detrimental to the...
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December 23, 2021 150 S 1st
According to reports from BizJournal, The Hines Group has acquired Digital Realty’s data center in San Jose, California. The data center in question is a 179,800 square foot, two-story building at 150 S. First Street. The purchase price is said to be $59.6 million. The building sits on a 2.4-acre...
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December 21, 2021 Republic of Ireland
TikTok has revealed that its planned data center opening in Ireland will be delayed due to issues caused by the pandemic. The company revealed to Business Post Ireland €420 million ($473m) that the facility will be launched in late 2022 instead of the planned early 2022 launch. CSO of TikTok,...
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December 21, 2021 nLighten Edge 8 Birmingham
Proximity Data Centres has announced that it has opened its Birmingham facility near the new HS2 rail station and BBC campus. The company outlines the facility site spans, with 63,000 sq ft (5,800 sq m) available in the actual facility with space for 2000 racks located across three data halls....
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