World Data Center News

Carter Funds acquires data center in Collierville, Tennessee

This week, Aphorio Carter Fund Management Company, the critical infrastructure and data center division of Carter Funds, announced that it had acquired a fully leased enterprise data center property in Collierville for about $13 million. John Regan, chief investment officer of Aphorio Carter, ...

November 11, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tennessee

Upstack acquires technology advisory firm PCM

Data center directory firm Upstack has acquired technology advisory firm Progressive Communications Management (PCM), which specializes in advising enterprise and midmarket organizations on cloud, network, and communications solutions. Following this acquisition, PCM co-founders Bob Matthews a...

November 11, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Palisade Infrastructure acquires ISP Rainier Connect

Australian infrastructure investment firm Palisade Infrastructure this week completed the acquisition of 100 percent of the equity interests in Mashell, Ranier's parent company. Following this acquisition, Rainier Connect has been rebranded as Lightcurve with immediate effect. Mike Reynolds, m...

November 11, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Washington

Hausbank München to relocate German data centers to Kyndryl premises

IT services firm Kyndryl announced this week that it will be helping German cooperative bank Hausbank München to relocate two of its data centers from on-premise facilities to Kyndryl’s own facilities in Frankfurt. Kyndryl will rebuild the dedicated server infrastructure, establish a moderniz...

November 10, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Naver launches 270MW data center in Sejong, South Korea

South Korean technology firm Naver held an opening event for the first phase of its Sejong campus, its second major campus in Korea. This campus, currently spanning 290,000 square meters, is expected to reach 270MW of capacity at densities of 20kW and can reportedly hold 600,000 servers, runni...

November 09, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Korea

Paratus secures $31 million debt facility to fund expansion plans

Pan-African firm Paratus has secured a new debt facility worth $31 million from Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, and its fund manager, Ninety One. This credit facility dedicated to the expansion of its fiber and data center ...

November 09, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Angola

Small modular reactor project in Idaho to be canceled

The power utility Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), and the reactor company NuScale, have announced intentions to cancel the Carbon Free Power Project, a small modular reactor (SMR) project they planned to build at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). David Schlissel, director o...

November 09, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Idaho

Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary signs solar energy in Germany

Power and Air Condition Solution Management GmbH (PASM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, has signed a long-term PPA with energy group EnBW. Following this 15-year agreement, PASM will offtake 100MW from the 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Construction of the...

November 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

UK gov pours $36 million into district heating system to heat 10,000 homes

The UK Government has awarded £36 million to a district heating system in West London, which will share data center waste heat with up to 10,000 new homes. The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) will be paid this fund to create the heating system to harness waste heat betwee...

November 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

SiTime Corporation acquires time-related IP for $148 million

SiTime Corporation announced this week that it agreed with Aura Semiconductor to purchase its clock products and license all its clock IPs. This agreement between both companies allows SiTime to hold exclusive, perpetual, and irrevocable rights to sell existing and new products based on Aura’s...

November 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Goodman says it has capacity for 3.7GW of data centers

Real estate group Goodman has over 3GW of potential data center capacity in its pipeline, according to a Q1 2024 operational update published yesterday. The company notes that this is an opportunity worth tens of billions of dollars as it outlines its ambitions for the data center space. The ...

November 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Liberty Latin to acquire Dish's spectrum assets in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands

Liberty Latin America Ltd has struck a deal with Dish Network to acquire Dish's spectrum assets in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands, including 120,000 prepaid mobile subscribers in those markets, for $256 million. This amount will be paid in four annual installments commencing ...

November 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Puerto Rico

Companies plan new “Fuel cell-powered” data center in Ireland

SK Ecoplant and Lumcloon Energy are planning to create a new age data center in Ireland that will depend on gas-powered fuel cells rather than the regular grid connection. The Irish development company and SK Group’s construction subsidiary signed this agreement this week during a trade missi...

November 03, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Gaw & Sinar Primera to construct new DC facility in Batam, Indonesia

Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners and Indonesian developer Sinar Primera announced a partnership this week to build a data center in Batam, Indonesia. Gaw will be acting as the primary investor in this partnership with Sinar Primera as the development manager will take a min...

November 03, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Batam

Dominion to construct the largest-ever authorized wind project in the US

Utility Dominion Energy has recently received permission from the US Interior Department for a 2.6 gigawatt offshore wind farm near the Virginia coast, the largest-ever wind project to be authorized in the US. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said, “The Interior Department is committed to...

November 03, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Biden orders companies to report large compute deployments to US gov

Biden has imposed an executive order focused on artificial intelligence, mandating all large computing clusters to be registered with the federal government. Following this order, "companies, individuals, or other organizations or entities that acquire, develop, or possess a potential large-...

November 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

X claims $100m annual savings upon exiting Sacramento data center

X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, claims to have saved $100 million annually after exiting its Sacramento data center via a post on the platform. X further claimed to have saved a significant amount by repatriating some of its workloads to on-prem data centers. The company...

November 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sacramento

Gaza completely loses Internet access again after another outage

Internet services have now returned in Gaza after another outage, which took the connectivity in the entire country down for several hours. This disruption occurred just before 3:00 a.m. local time, with Palestinian telco Paltelco announcing that connectivity to the Gaza Strip had been cut off...

November 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Israel

Mira Aerospace successfully completes 5G trial from the stratosphere

High altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) firm Mira Aerospace has successfully conducted a 5G connectivity trial from the stratosphere - which ranges from 4-12 miles (6-20 km) above the Earth's surface to around 31 miles (50km). Mira said in an announcement last week, “Our team is excited to anno...

October 31, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Abu Dhabi

Cirion Technologies expands DC facility in São Paulo, Brazil

Cirion Technologies has expanded its SAO1 data center campus in São Paulo with a new data center building spanning 3,600 square meters, increasing its capacity by 50 percent. The two data center facilities in Cotia, São Paulo, share a 20MW power substation, are carrier-neutral, and have receiv...

October 31, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Brazil / Brasil

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