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Read Green Mountain its expanding Oslo campus with a 13.5MW data center
Green Mountain its expanding Oslo campus with a 13.5MW data center

Green Mountain its expanding Oslo campus with a 13.5MW data center

December 09, 2021 Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

Green Mountain has announced that it is expanding its Oslo, Norway campus by building a new data center at the facility. Green Mountain revealed that it bought a 570,500 square foot (53,000 square meters) plot of land next to its DC3-Oslo data center campus. According to Green Mountain, the Oslo...

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Read Netrality reveals new data center in Shawnee, Kansas
Netrality reveals new data center in Shawnee, Kansas

Netrality reveals new data center in Shawnee, Kansas

December 09, 2021 Netrality: Kansas City 7801 Nieman

Netrality has revealed plans for a new facility in Shawnee, Kansas. The company announced that it acquired a property at 7801 Nieman Road. The facility will be Netrality’s second data center in Kansas as it currently operates one at 1102 Grand Blvd, Kansas. The new facility has up to 2MW of...

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Read Deep Edge Realty expands in Reno
Deep Edge Realty expands in Reno

Deep Edge Realty expands in Reno

December 09, 2021 CENTRA: 200 S Virginia (RNO01)

Deep Edge Realty is expanding in Reno following the signing of a long-term lease at Basin Street Properties 200 South Virginia building. The company’s data center will be located on the sixth floor and offer interconnections to over ten regional service providers as well as the Tahoe Internet...

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Read Beijing warning over data center construction
Beijing warning over data center construction

Beijing warning over data center construction

December 09, 2021 Beijing

In light of the global push to reduce carbon emissions, Beijing outlined in a plan published on Wednesday that local governments in China should ensure that the "blind and disorderly development" of data centers is carefully monitored and prevented. Moreover, it stated that governments should...

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Read OADC to develop data centers in Nigeria and South Africa
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OADC to develop data centers in Nigeria and South Africa

December 09, 2021 Africa

A new data center firm called Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has revealed plans for its first two data centers in Nigeria and South Africa. Earlier in November, Wholesale fiber network company WIOCC revealed that it raised $200 million to launch a new data center based in Africa called OADC....

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Read Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics
Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

December 09, 2021 Northern Virginia

Plans to build data centers opposite the Manassas National Battlefield Park are being opposed. Critics are warning that the proposal, known as "PW Digital Gateway", is the "Single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in nearly three decades," compromising the environmental...

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Read Elk Grove Data Center rezone to go forward
Elk Grove Data Center rezone to go forward

Elk Grove Data Center rezone to go forward

December 09, 2021 Illinois

Data center plans are moving ahead in Elk Grove Village as officials have announced their expectation to close on the sale of four parcels totaling 17.5 acres later this month. The sale will be made to Prime Data Centers Corp for $21.3 million. This follows planning commissioners voting...

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Read Iron Mountain signs 20MW lease with existing customer at Va-2
Iron Mountain signs 20MW lease with existing customer at Va-2

Iron Mountain signs 20MW lease with existing customer at Va-2

December 08, 2021 Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Iron Mountain has announced that it has signed a 20MW lease agreement with an existing Fortune 100 customer for its Va-2 data center in Manassas, Virginia. The new lease agreement now sees Iron Mountain sign leases of up to 44MW since the beginning of the year. The new lease will start in phases...

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Read Connecticut towns plan to stop data center development projects
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Connecticut towns plan to stop data center development projects

December 08, 2021 Connecticut

Towns in Connecticut want to stop a new company from building data centers. Gotspace Data Partners LLC plans to build five data centers across Connecticut. The company plans to build data centers in Griswold, Groton, Wallingford, Bozrah, and Norwich. However, according to reports, the Wallingford...

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Read OneX announces expansion in Brazil
OneX announces expansion in Brazil

OneX announces expansion in Brazil

December 08, 2021 Brazil / Brasil

OneX, a data center newcomer, has announced that by the end of 2023, it plans to construct five data centers, with an investment of 75mn reais (US$13.2mn). The first of the five, based in the Vale do Aço (steel valley) region of Minas Gerais, was inaugurated on Tuesday. This data center,...

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Read Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies
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Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies

December 06, 2021 Stockholm

Vattenfall has formed a strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies in a joint sustainable data centre pilot project. Together, the companies will work to construct a facility at Vattenfall’s biomass-fired district heating plant in Jordbro, south of Stockholm. Speaking about the...

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Read Ctrl's earthquake and pollution-free data center
Ctrl's earthquake and pollution-free data center

Ctrl's earthquake and pollution-free data center

December 03, 2021 CtrlS Nodia

Ctrl's Noida data center is reportedly the most sustainable data center (DC) in northern India, with LEED v4.1 O+M Platinum certification and 100 % air pollution-free. On top of this, the facility is also designed to withstand earthquakes of 8.5 on the Richter scale. Sustainability was a key...

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Read A1 Croatia opens a Tier III Zagreb data center
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A1 Croatia opens a Tier III Zagreb data center

December 02, 2021 Zagreb

A1 Croatia has opened a new data center in Zagreb. The company began construction on the facility in October 2020. The 21,500 square feet (2,000 square meters) data center cost the company €11 million ($13m). In addition, the data center was designed to withstand earthquakes up to 9 on the...

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Read AirTrunk opens TOK1 data center in Japan
AirTrunk opens TOK1 data center in Japan

AirTrunk opens TOK1 data center in Japan

December 02, 2021 AirTrunk Tokyo TOK1

AirTrunk has announced the launch of its first data center in Japan. The new facility is located in Tokyo, and it is called TOK1. It will have an initial capacity of up to 60MW. The 13.25-hectare site is located in Inzai Chiba Prefecture in Tokyo. The data center campus is also scalable to 300MW...

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Read Rostelecom increases capacity of Yekaterinburg data center
Rostelecom increases capacity of Yekaterinburg data center

Rostelecom increases capacity of Yekaterinburg data center

December 01, 2021 Rostelecom Yekaterinburg

Rostelecom has increased the capacity of its Yekaterinburg data center in central Russia. The company revealed that it would be expanding the capacity of its facility on the Iset River in Sverdlovsk Oblast. With the new expansion, the facility has added an extra 216 racks and a total capacity of...

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Read India's Tamil Nadu government unveils new policies for data centers
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India's Tamil Nadu government unveils new policies for data centers

December 01, 2021 Tamil Nadu

The government of Tamil Nadu, India has revealed a new data center policy. According to the new policy, the Tamil Nadu government will provide connectivity incentives, land, and power to support the development of new data centers. However, for data center firms to receive these incentives, they...

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Read Codisa to develop a 3.5MW data center in El Salvador
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Codisa to develop a 3.5MW data center in El Salvador

December 01, 2021 El Salvador

Costa Rican firm Codisa has begun construction on a new data center in El Salvador. The IT firm will partner with real estate firm Aristos Group to develop the data center. The facility will have a total capacity of 3.5MW, and it will house 322 racks. The facility is named DataTrust and it is...

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Read Tamil Nadu Government signs data center MoUs with different data center firms
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Tamil Nadu Government signs data center MoUs with different data center firms

December 01, 2021 Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu Government has revealed that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with some data center firms to develop data centers in the Indian state. The MoU is worth up to Rs 35,208 crore ($4.7bn). Some of the companies in question include STT GDC, Adani Enterprises, L&T, Nxtra, and...

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Read Virginia Commonwealth University announced plans to build new data center in Richmond
Virginia Commonwealth University announced plans to build new data center in Richmond

Virginia Commonwealth University announced plans to build new data center in Richmond

November 30, 2021 Richmond

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has announced proposals for a data center located in Richmond, Virginia, at 707 W. Broad St. The planned facility will span 30,000-square-foot (2,800 sqm). According to reports, the data center will cost around $42-44 million and will be divided between both...

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Read Africa Data Centres launches data center in Lagos
Africa Data Centres launches data center in Lagos

Africa Data Centres launches data center in Lagos

November 30, 2021 ADC Lagos LOS1

Africa Data Centres has announced the opening of a new data center in Lagos, Nigeria. The data center, namely LOS1 will have a capacity of 10MW, with six data halls, and spanning 6,000 sqm (64,500 sq ft). According to the company, the facility will serve as the West African Hub for the company,...

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