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DigiPlex opens third data center at its Fetsund Campus

DigiPlex has just opened its new data center in Norway. This is the Company’s third data center at its Fetsund Campus. With white space of 9,700 square feet and a 3MW capacity, this would bring the total floorspace at the Fetsund campus to 64,500 square feet. The campus’s total capacity is al...

June 13, 2021

STACK OSL03C

ClusterPower to develop first "hyperscale data center" in southern Romania

ClusterPower, a Romanian cloud services startup, has announced that it is building the first hyperscale data center in southern Romania, based near Craiova. The center is to be the first of five planned on 25,427 sq m of company-owned land in Mischii, Dolj county. The campus, powered by natu...

June 13, 2021

ClusterPower Craiova

Virgin Media data center in Leeds for sale for £7 million

Temple House in Leeds, Yorkshire, which houses a data center used by UK telco Virgin Media, is up for sale for £7 million ($9.9 million). The building spans 102,400 sq ft (9,500 sqm), with a combined 3.06 acres across two plots, 44,333 sq ft (4,100 sqm) of which is used by Virgin.Speaking abou...

June 12, 2021

Virgin Media Leeds (Temple House)

Comarch to build its first US data center in Mesa, Arizona

Comarch has announced plans to build its first data center in the US, located in Mesa, Arizona. The Polish software firm has said that construction on the 32,000 sq ft (3,000 sqm) facility is due to commence this month, and will be its flagship building.The data center, which will see a $22 mi...

June 11, 2021

Comarch Mesa

Principal Real Estate raises over half a billion for first dedicated US data center fund

Principal Real Estate has announced that it has secured over half a billion dollars for its US data center fund, following the final investor close on 30 April. The $533 million comes from a total of 15 limited partners, including insurance companies, wealth managers, endowments, and foundatio...

June 10, 2021

United States

Regulators raise questions over the future of 30 proposed Irish data centers

In Ireland, over 30 proposed data centers face uncertainty. This comes after the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) instructed national grid manager, Eirgrid and ESB Networks to prioritize applications for data centers in areas with reliable power supplies.As a result, Eirgrid has vo...

June 10, 2021

Republic of Ireland

MIS's data center fund to start within six months

Al Moammar Information Systems Co. (MIS) announced that it expects its data fund to commence development within the next six months. The fund will go towards the development, ownership and operation of data centers across Saudi Arabia. This follows MIS signing a Memorandum of Understanding (Mo...

June 10, 2021

Saudi Arabia

Volcanic geothermal energy for Bitcoin mining data centers in El Salvador

Following El Salvador declaring Bitcoin as legal tender, the country's president Nayib Bukele has instructed state-owned geothermal electric company, LaGeo, to create a plan to offer geothermal energy to Bitcoin mining data centers.On Twitter, Bukele announced the news, saying: "I've just inst...

June 10, 2021

El Salvador

D9 Infrastructure raises £175 million for digital infrastructure acquisitions

Digital 9 Infrastructure, a UK investment trust, has raised £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company initially offered an offering to raise £100 million through new ordinary shares. However, it was oversubscribed, and it raised a total of £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company says it p...

June 10, 2021

United Kingdom

phoenixNAP to Expand its Data Center in Phoenix, Arizona

PhoenixNAP just announced that it had acquired land to expand its data center in Phoenix, Arizona. The land it purchased is next to its flagship data center in Phoenix. Furthermore, the planned data center will support 10MW of capacity and, it could be expanded in the future. Phoenix also add...

June 10, 2021

PhoenixNAP-Phoenix

Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due t...

June 09, 2021

Sydney

Facebook's Huntsville data center campus exceeds $1 billion

Facebook's Huntsville data center campus will reportedly top $1 billion following ongoing expansion. This announcement comes after the social media giant's initial investment of $750 million back in 2018.Once completed, the facility will employ over 200 people, two times its expectation three ...

June 09, 2021

Meta Huntsville Campus

Real estate firm Hickory enters the data center arena, with plans for a 36MW facility in Melbo

Hickory, an Australian real estate development firm, has announced that it is entering the data center arena with plans to construct a 36MW facility in Truganina, west Melbourne, following development approval from Wyndham City Council.The data center will be built on a 3.5-hectare site and ha...

June 09, 2021

Melbourne

MeluXina supercomputer inaugurated in Luxembourg

Atos’s MeluXina supercomputer, first announced in September was inaugurated on June 7th, and will be hosted by LuxConnect’s data centers in Bissen. The MeluXina supercomputer The supercomputer is co-financed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and ...

June 07, 2021

Luxembourg

Thrive expands data center footprint with acquisition of UK firm Oni

Thrive has jumpstarted its expansion with the acquisition of data center services provider Oni. Backed by private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners, the deal gives the fast-growing MSP a European data center footprint.Although the deal's financial terms have not yet been disclosed, thi...

June 07, 2021

Thrive Luton

Togo inaugurates its first data center

The Ministry of the Digital of Economy and Digital Transformation recently announced the inauguration of Togo’s first data center. A Tier III+ facility built by CFAOP Technologies will provide sensitive data hosting as a neutral colocation facility.The facility took two and a half years to bui...

June 04, 2021

Togo

Scala Data Centers acquires Algar Tech data center

Scala has announced its acquisition of Algar Tech’s data center and colocation operations in Capinas near São Paulo for $183 million. The company plans to modernize and expand the Tier III building and use it as a base for a new data center campus.Once the facility, which utilizes photovoltaic...

June 04, 2021

Scala: Campinas SVCPCP01

DCI to build data center in Auckland, New Zealand

DCI Data Centers has announced that it is expanding to New Zealand. The Company was recently granted New Zealand Overseas Investment Office consent to buy land for building a data center in Auckland, New Zealand. DCI didn’t reveal the timeline for building the facility, but it is said that co...

June 04, 2021

DCI Auckland AKL01

Plans for Harvard's old Motorola factory to become solar-powered data center

The former Motorola manufacturing and distribution facility in Harvard, Illinois, may be given new life, with prospective planners looking into transforming the building into a solar-powered data center.Green Data Center Real Estate in Vancouver is reportedly working with Solar Alliance of Kno...

June 04, 2021

Illinois

Yondr purchases 270 acres for Northern Virginia data center campus

After announcing a major $2 billion American expansion plan back in May, Yondr has acquired 270 acres of land in Northern Virginia. Although the specific location details are still under wraps, the company has disclosed that the sites are “in close proximity to Northern Virginia’s major fiber ...

June 03, 2021

Yondr Arcola, VA

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