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Read Raxio opens Tier III data center in Uganda
Raxio opens Tier III data center in Uganda

Raxio opens Tier III data center in Uganda

May 27, 2021 Raxio 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, spoke...

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Read icolo.io announces new data center in Mombasa, Kenya
icolo.io announces new data center in Mombasa, Kenya

icolo.io announces new data center in Mombasa, Kenya

May 26, 2021 Digital Realty: Mombasa MBA2

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 completed...

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

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

May 26, 2021 Northern Virginia

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. Besides,...

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

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

May 26, 2021 Saudi Arabia

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 least...

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

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

May 26, 2021 China

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 smart...

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

May 26, 2021 Phoenix

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 bring...

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Read DUG plans 200 petaflops supercomputing center in Western Australia
DUG plans 200 petaflops supercomputing center in Western Australia

DUG plans 200 petaflops supercomputing center in Western Australia

May 26, 2021 DUG Geraldton

DUG Technology just announced that it plans to build the world’s first carbon-free High-Performance Computing (HPC) data center in Geraldton, Australia. The Company said that the new facility would have an earlier compute capacity of over 200 petaflops. It will also have space for multi-exaflop...

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Read Ethio telecom launches Huawei-built modular data centre in Ethopia
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Ethio telecom launches Huawei-built modular data centre in Ethopia

May 25, 2021 Africa

Ethio telecom has announced the launch of its new Tier III-ready modular data center based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. According to the operator, the facility, located in the Gola Sefer area, is the largest in Ethiopia, capable of holding up to 800 servers. The data center has a power usage...

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Read Facebook boosts capacity with multi-storey data center design
Facebook boosts capacity with multi-storey data center design

Facebook boosts capacity with multi-storey data center design

May 25, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Following the trend of building taller buildings, Facebook has revealed that it is boosting its capacity with a new multi-storey data center design as part of its global infrastructure expansion. The design is being rolled out in its Prineville, Oregon campus, deployed in two new facilities. The...

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Read DataBank expands SLC5 data center in Salt Lake City
DataBank expands SLC5 data center in Salt Lake City

DataBank expands SLC5 data center in Salt Lake City

May 25, 2021 DataBank SLC5

DataBank has announced its recent expansion, adding a third data hall at its SLC5 data center. Based in Bluffdale, Utah, at its Granite Point North campus complex, the new addition takes its current capacity to 30,000 sq ft (2,790 sq m), with a 6MW of critical IT load. The center first opened...

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Read Adam launches Madrid data center
Adam launches Madrid data center

Adam launches Madrid data center

May 25, 2021 Adam MAD Alcala

Adam, a data center Company in Spain, announced that it would be opening a new data center in Madrid, Spain's capital. The new facility will be Adam’s third and will be situated in the Tecnoalcala Technology Park. The facility will be built in phases, and the first phase will have 3,500 square...

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Read BIT Mining Limited to Invest in a Cryptocurrency Data Center in Kazakhstan
BIT Mining Limited to Invest in a Cryptocurrency Data Center in Kazakhstan

BIT Mining Limited to Invest in a Cryptocurrency Data Center in Kazakhstan

May 25, 2021 Kazakhstan

BIT Mining Limited, has announced that it has joined forces with a Kazakhstan-based firm in a binding investment sheet, to invest in a cryptocurrency mining data center in Kazakhstan. The company is investing $9.33 million to construct the facility, which will have an expected 100MW of capacity....

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Read 3S Group announces new data center in Poland
3S Group announces new data center in Poland

3S Group announces new data center in Poland

May 24, 2021 3S Katowice

3S Group has announced it is building a new data center in Katowice, Poland. Its largest data center on the complex yet, the DC3 facility will span 2,200 sq m (23,600 sq ft), built next to its DC1 and DC2 facilities. Based in Southern Poland, the addition of the new data center brings the group’s...

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Read Garanti BBVA Data Center awarded Tier IV Gold Certification
Garanti BBVA Data Center awarded Tier IV Gold Certification

Garanti BBVA Data Center awarded Tier IV Gold Certification

May 24, 2021 Garanti BBVA Bank Technology Campus

Garanti BBVA has announced that its data center has become one of the sixteen data centers in the world to be awarded Tier IV Gold Certification in Operational Sustainability from the Uptime Institute. Commenting on receiving the award, Ilker Kuruoz, Executive Vice President of Engineering and...

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Read Big Data Exchange completes 2MW expansion of Singapore facility, plans further 8MW upgrade
Big Data Exchange completes 2MW expansion of Singapore facility, plans further 8MW upgrade

Big Data Exchange completes 2MW expansion of Singapore facility, plans further 8MW upgrade

May 24, 2021 BDx Singapore SIN1

Big Data Exchange has completed an upgrade to its SIN1 data center Facility in Paya Lebar, Singapore. The Company also plans to increase capacity before the year runs out. The completed upgrade sees the Company add 2MW capacity to the SIN1 facility. Big Data Exchange will also add four more...

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Read Underwater data center moves ahead in Hainan China
Underwater data center moves ahead in Hainan China

Underwater data center moves ahead in Hainan China

May 24, 2021 China

Hainan Port’s investment Company, Hainan Xintou, announced that it would launch its commercial undersea data center. The data center will run in 100 airtight pressure vessels on the sea bed close to China’s Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant. Beijing Highlander, a marine specialist, tested the...

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Read Microsoft plans to use rainwater to cool Dutch data centers after facing protests
Microsoft plans to use rainwater to cool Dutch data centers after facing protests

Microsoft plans to use rainwater to cool Dutch data centers after facing protests

May 24, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

After facing backlash from the resident of the Hollands-Kroon province, Netherlands, that its data center in the region could cause a shortage of drinking water, Microsoft has announced that it would now be using rainwater. Microsoft promised on TV that it would be using rainwater to cool its...

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Read Lunar data center on the horizon
Lunar data center on the horizon

Lunar data center on the horizon

May 24, 2021 Paris

While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility...

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Read Etisalat announces new data center in Kalba, UAE to serve as a CLS for Africa-1
Etisalat announces new data center in Kalba, UAE to serve as a CLS for Africa-1

Etisalat announces new data center in Kalba, UAE to serve as a CLS for Africa-1

May 24, 2021 Etisalat Kalba

Etisalat just announced its new data center in the city of Kalba, northeast of the country. The data center named SmartHub Kalba, scheduled to open in Q1 of 2022, is Etisalat’s third wholesale data center as it opened two facilities in 2020. Besides, the Kaba facility is built to Tier III...

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Read Yondr Group Announces $2 Billion Investment in Data Centers in the Americas
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Yondr Group Announces $2 Billion Investment in Data Centers in the Americas

May 20, 2021 North America

Yondr Group has announced a major $2 billion expansion plan to deliver data infrastructures spanning across the US, Canada, Central, and South America as part of its global scaling strategy. By 2024, the group plans to deliver data centers across five continents. Yondr Group has appointed Éanna...

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