September 17, 2021 London: Slough
According to multiple reports, Real estate firm AEW is close to selling a 1 million square feet (92,000 square meters) office park to an unidentified data center firm. AEW will be selling the Bath Road Central office campus for a fee of around £420 million ($579.5m). The real estate firm first...
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September 17, 2021 Indonesia
According to reports, an Indonesian conglomerate, Salim Group, wants to venture into data center development in the country. Per Bloomberg, Salim Group has plans to invest up to $500 million in developing these data centers. The Company is seeking a financial arrangement with banks to fund the...
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September 17, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Facebook's Huntsville data center is finally online, following delays caused by Covid-19. First announced back in 2018, the facility, which saw an investment of $1 billion, spans 2.5 million sqft and is also powered by renewable energy, with 227 megawatts of solar energy added to the Alabama...
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September 17, 2021 China
Guian New District's Big Data Development Service Center, has announced that China's Guian New District has 15 large and super-large data centers either underway or planned for future construction. By 2025, the project is expected to exceed 100 billion Yuan; however, in just the first quarter of...
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September 17, 2021 Northern Ireland
It has been rumoured that a new data center could be on its way to Offaly, Ireland. A senior official of Offaly County Council hinted at this last week at Offaly when discussing renewable energy targets. Andrew Murray, a senior planner, commented the data center industry could potentially...
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September 17, 2021 Bulgaria
An Indian data center firm with the name VueNow Infotech has plans to build data centers in Bulgaria. VueNow Infotech signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build up to seven data centers in the country. It will also be spending up to $12 million in the process. The Company will build a...
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September 17, 2021 Amsterdam
Great Grey Investment has acquired the uncompleted Westpoort Data Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data center was bought from Caransa Group. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tikehu Capital provided financing to Great Grey Investments and Westpoort Datacenter through its...
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September 15, 2021 Northern Virginia
196-acres of land has been rezoned for data center purposes in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. This is after the Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted that a 196-acre land off Linton Hall Road should be zoned for data center use. A 1 million square feet data center campus will also be...
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September 15, 2021 Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)
Iron Mountain is reportedly expanding its Virginia data center campus. According to Inside Nova, a firm with the name KH Data Capital Development is applying to revise the condition of the industrial zoning on its 37-acre property off Wellington Road, which is between Manassas and Gainesville. KH...
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September 14, 2021 North America
There’s a lot of discussion around what the new bipartisan Infrastructure Bill means for the data center industry, and many are anticipating significant changes on the horizon. The bill, which is currently passing through Congress, would lend a hand to the industry’s decarbonization efforts, with...
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September 14, 2021 Element Critical Austin
Element Critical has announced it is expanding into the Austin market after acquiring a 62,000 square feet data center in Austin, Texas. It named the new facility Austin One. It is also the Company’s second data center facility in Texas. Austin One is designed to support up to 7MW of critical IT...
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September 13, 2021 North America
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September 10, 2021 Russia / Россия
Sberbank is planning to build a large data center facility in Saratov Oblast, Russia. Sberbank is a state-owned banking and financial services company that is based in Moscow. It has broken ground on the new facility in Balakovo. According to the Company, the facility will have a total space of...
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September 10, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Even after winning over 20 appeals, there seem to be more lawsuits against the planning permission for Apple’s data center in Athenry, Galway, Ireland. In August 2021, Apple secured five-year planning permission for the site from the Galway County Council even after ceasing plans for the project...
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September 09, 2021 Virginia Beach
A Virginia Beach City data center construction project is facing delays after design enhancements have postponed plans by several months. These plans include relocating the Virginia Beach Municipal Center's data center to the building’s third floor will now be delayed by seven months. First...
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September 09, 2021 India / Bhārata
Techno Electric & Engineering Company (TEECL) has announced big plans for investment across India. The Indian power infrastructure firm is reportedly planning to invest $1 billion (Rs 7,310 crore) in developing data centers in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, National Capital Area (NCR) Chennai, and...
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September 08, 2021 China
Underwater data centers are increasingly being looked to solve the industry’s sustainability issue. Submerging data centers underwater is reportedly more energy-efficient, addresses space scarcity, and sees facilities encounter fewer failures. Now, authorities in China are planning to invest in...
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September 06, 2021 Keppel Eindhoven Campus
Keppel Data Center REIT has acquired a data center in the Netherlands. The data center firm acquired 100% of the property, which has two data center buildings in De Hurk business Park, Eindhoven. Keppel paid €37.2 million ($44.1m) to a fund affiliated with MCAP Global Finance (UK) for the...
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September 06, 2021 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global, which operates a 100% renewable powered data center campus in Iceland, has been acquired by Digital 9, following an investment of £231m (€271m). The purchase of the 40-acre, 24MW campus, is a first for Digital 9, being the only deal to involve a data center operator to date....
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September 06, 2021 China
China's data center market has seen incredible growth over the last few years. Back in 2019, the market was valued at USD 13.01 billion but is forecast to reach a value of USD 36.18 billion by 2025. It is also registering a CAGR of 19.2% from 2020 to 2025. While this is good news economically,...
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