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Equinix plans to open $142m Silicon Valley data center this month

Equinix will be opening its new $142 million data center at its Silicon Valley on the 30th of June. The data center dubbed SV11 has a colocation space of 61,000 sqft with enough room for 1,450 cabinets. Also, Equinix plans to expand its existing Bloom Energy fuel cell deployment to use as a p...

June 03, 2021

Equinix SV11

Switch buys land from Dell for Austin data center campus

Switch has revealed the primary location of its Fifth Prime data center campus in Texas, following a purchase land agreement with Dell Technologies. The campus will be called "The Rock" and powered by 100% renewable energy.The land, located next to Dell's global headquarters in Round Rock, wil...

June 03, 2021

Switch Austin "The Rock"

COPT forms joint ventures with Blackstone, buys two data center shells

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced a new joint venture with funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate to purchase data center shells.The JV has acquired a 90% stake in two single-tenant data center shell properties totalling 432,000 square feet (40,100 sqm). The propert...

June 03, 2021

Maryland

Bechtel and Nautilus form partnership to build sustainable, high-performance data centers

Bechtel and Nautilus have formed a partnership to deliver data centers with better environmental footprints. The centers will reportedly be energy-intensive, delivering high-performance while prioritizing sustainability. The centers will use Total Resource Usage Effectiveness (TRUE) technology...

June 03, 2021

Americas

Iron Mountain to expand EMEA Data Center footprint with new facility in Sough

Iron Mountain has announced its plans for a 27MW data center in Slough, East of London. The new data center dubbed LON-2 will be a three-story building with up to 25,000 sq m of space. It will also have a capacity of 27MW at full buildout. Moreover, the building will have three 9MW data halls,...

June 02, 2021

Iron Mountain London LON-2

DCI Indonesia launches new data center in Cibitung

DCI Indonesia has announced the launch of its JK5 data center building, located in Cibitung, West Java. This addition brings the company’s total to four, and with a capacity of 15MW, the new building takes its total capacity to 37MW. Indonesia’s digital economy is expected to reach a market v...

June 01, 2021

DCI Indonesia: H1-JK5

DivcoWest acquires New York carrier hotel in New York; H5 will manage interconnection and colocation

DivcoWest, a real estate investment firm based in San Francisco, has announced that it has acquired a 10-story, mixed-used building carrier hotel from Jamestown Properties for $135 million. The building is located at 325 Hudson St., in Hudson Square. In concert with this transaction, H5 Data ...

June 01, 2021

H5: 325 Hudson Street

Microsoft Begins Using Eco-Diesel in Data Center Generators

Ahead of its 2030 goal of eliminating its reliance on diesel fuel for backup power, Microsoft has announced that it would be the first to use a lower carbon renewable fuel for backup power in its Sweden datacenter region. Microsoft’s backup generators in the Sweden region will run on Preem Evo...

June 01, 2021

Microsoft Gävle, Sweden

Philippines on the road to become an APAC data center hub

The Philippines (PH), recognized as one of the world's emerging data center markets, is pinned to become Asia's next data center hub. While other hubs in Southeast Asia, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, have taken a hit due to geopolitical risks and governmental restrictions, PH's impressive d...

May 31, 2021

Philippines

STT GDC launches 72MW data center joint venture with Triputra and Temasek Holdings in Indonesia

ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC), a Singapore-based center service provider, has announced a partnership with an Indonesian firm, Triputra Group, and an investment company, Temasek Holdings, to launch a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Construction of the first phase of the 72...

May 28, 2021

STT Jakarta 1

AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago...

May 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

Facebook announces another data center expansion in Altoona, Iowa

Facebook has announced that it would be expanding its Altoona data center campus. The expansion will see Facebook add two more buildings to its existing eight buildings at the facility. The expansion will also see the total area space to 4.1 million square feet. Facebook initially announced it...

May 28, 2021

Facebook Altoona Iowa

EPH proposes data center at Kilroot Power Station, Northern Ireland

EPH has announced that it is looking into the prospects of building a data center in Kilroot, Northern Ireland (NI). The company has commissioned TechRE to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of construction at NI’s last coal-fired power station due to close between 2023 and 2024. EPH ha...

May 27, 2021

Northern Ireland

Digital Realty opens new Toronto facility and broke ground in Marseille

Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility.The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with redu...

May 27, 2021

Digital Realty 151 Front

Raxio opens Tier III data center in Uganda

Raxio Data Center just opened a new data center in Kampala, Uganda. The new facility was built to Tier III standards, and it has a colocation space of up to 400 racks. Plans were already in place for a data center in Uganda since 2018 and the data center general manager, James Byaruhanga, ...

May 27, 2021

Raxio Uganda

icolo.io announces new data center in Mombasa, Kenya

Icolo.io, part of Digital Realty, has announced that it is constructing a new data center based in Nyali, Mombasa. The MBA2 facility will span 1,200 sq m of floor space, with a capacity of 1.6MW. It is the company’s second data center in the city, and it’s third in total.Expected to be comple...

May 26, 2021

Digital Realty: Mombasa MBA2

Hanley Energy expands in Virginia, will base US headquarters in Loudoun County

Hanley Energy has decided to expand its operations in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Irish company will be leasing a 36,600 square foot building from Merritt Properties for this purpose. Merritt initially bought the 6.7-acre site with plans to build a light industrial building over it. Besi...

May 26, 2021

Northern Virginia

39 human rights groups call on Google to cancel Saudi Arabian data center

Thirty-nine human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have called on Google to stop building data centers in Saudi Arabia. They also said Google should stop its plans to open a cloud region in the country in partnership with Saudi Aramco. These groups noted that Google should at le...

May 26, 2021

Saudi Arabia

Tesla establishes a data center in China to store car data locally

Tesla has announced the establishment of its data center in China. The data center opening comes as a response to the criticisms from Chinese authorities that the cameras on Tesla vehicles may be used for spying. In April, the Chinese Government published some rules about data collection by sm...

May 26, 2021

China

$800M Data Center Coming To Mesa, Arizona Amidst Water Concerns

The Mesa City Council just approved the development for a Company that plans to build a data center on Elliot and Ellsworth roads in the northwest corner of Eastmark. Although the Company remains in mystery, the Mayor of Mesa City said the mystery Company would be investing $800 million to bri...

May 26, 2021

Phoenix

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