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Google signs first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland

Google has announced that it has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland. The 14-year agreement is with Power Capital Renewable Energy for 58MW of new-to-the grid capacity from the Tullabeg Solar Farm in County Wexford.The solar project, currently under construction, spans 2...

September 05, 2023

Republic of Ireland

Google shares plans for $600M data center in Red Oak, Texas

Google has shared further expansion plans, with the announcement of a new $600 million data center in Red Oak, near Dallas. The new facility will become the company’s second in the state of Texas. Back in 2020, the company purchased 165 acres of land in the area, which is believed to be the lo...

September 05, 2023

Google Red Oak TX

Huawei opens cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Huawei has announced the opening of a new cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The facility will reportedly support government services in the Kingdom, allowing for AI applications and language models in Arabic. Through the move, the Chinese tech giant will grow its online service offeri...

September 05, 2023

Saudi Arabia

Indian real estate developer Anant Raj proposes 300MW data center footprint

The Indian real estate development company Anant Raj will enter the data center industry. The company announced on its social media and local publications that it will invest $1.2 billion to develop up to 300MW capacity in the county. The company has set up Anant Raj Cloud Pvt. Ltd. as a subsi...

September 05, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

India / Bhārata

Michigan site of the former ADP data center is up for auction

The former location of an ADP office and data center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is up for auction. Outside of Ann Arbor, Colliers and Ten-X are selling the A2 West Technical Center in Scio Township. The auction is scheduled to begin at the midpoint of October with an opening bid of $1.6 million. ...

September 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Michigan

CapMan Infra takes over the Danish colocation company Fuzion

CapMan Infra has acquired the Danish data center colocation company Fuzion. This week, the transaction via the CapMan Nordic Infrastructure II fund was announced. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Fuzion was founded in 2001 and operates out of four data centers in the Jutland region of...

September 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Denmark

Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire

On Saturday, September 2, a fire at a data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, shut down 911 services in the state's southeast. According to reports, the data center in issue was a Windstream facility in Lincoln. A transformer shorted and exploded due to a fire in the data center, cutting power to th...

September 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nebraska

The Guam government will construct a Tier IV data center on the island

To enhance Internet quality, the government of Guam intends to construct a solar-powered Tier IV data center on the island. In addition, it intends to construct a new government data center on the University campus. This week, the Office of the Governor revealed the Guam Five-Year Action Plan ...

September 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Guam

Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center

A data center construction is proposed for the northern Ohio region outside Toledo. The Blade reports that preparations are underway to locate a data center on hundreds of acres in Middleton Township, west of Interstate 75 and near the intersection of State Routes 582 and 25. Details regarding...

September 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ohio

Indian River State College in Florida plans a data center

The Indian River State College (IRSC) will construct a data center in Okeechobee County, Florida. The campus has been named Okee-One and will be on a 205-acre parcel containing the former Okeechobee "School for Boys." Okee-One will house multiple data centers, function as a learning laboratory...

September 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

Belgian emergency services numbers go offline after Proximus data center fire

Last week, a fire in a data center operated by the Belgian telecommunications company Proximus temporarily disrupted phone services for contacting emergency services.Last Wednesday morning, emergency numbers 112 (firefighters and ambulances in a hazardous situation) and 101 (police) were inacc...

September 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Belgium

Guam University to receive new government data center

A new government data center is proposed for the campus of the University of Guam. The government intends to construct a two-story, 15,000-square-foot data center/Office of Information Technology facility. The endeavor will see an investment of $15 million.The report notes that the 1992-built ...

September 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Guam

Solar-powered data center to heat surfing lagoon in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Aventuur, a leisure park developer, has shared plans to heat a surfing lagoon using a solar-powered data center. The company is already in the process of building a surf park in Perth, Australia, which, it has outlined, is set to open in 2025. In Auckland, meanwhile, it's plann...

August 31, 2023

New Zealand

GTA receives clearance for new Guam cable landing station

Guam-based telecommunications company GTA TeleGuam has been permitted to construct a new cable landing station (CLS). In May, GTA submitted plans to construct a new CLS in Inalhan, southeast of the island. The Guam Daily Post reported last week that the Guam Hybrid Land Use Commission granted ...

August 31, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Guam

IIJ of Japan looks into data center set up in Kenya

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) is considering deploying a containerized modular data center in Kenya. This week, the company reported that the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has been exploring methods to "capture the vitality of the African market" and has decided to investigat...

August 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Kenya

Varonis Opens Data Center in the United Kingdom to Serve SaaS Customers

Varonis Systems, Inc., an industry leader in data security, has announced the opening of its first data center in the United Kingdom to support customers migrating to its SaaS offering. Varonis customers will be able to show compliance with national data protection laws and utilize Varonis' wo...

August 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

DataQube, a UK Edge data center firm, enters insolvency

Edge data center company DataQube Global Ltd of the United Kingdom has declared bankruptcy. Creditors convened today, August 29th, to deliberate a nomination of liquidators and, if necessary, appoint a liquidation committee. DataQube reps did not acknowledge requests for comment regarding the ...

August 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

APL Investments plans 150MW Kyushu data center facility

A new campus in the Japanese prefecture of Kyushu is being built by a US investment company that plans to expand into the data center industry. According to Nikkei Asia, the U.S.-based investment firm Asia Pacific Land (APL) intends to construct a $845 million facility in Kitakyushu. Per repor...

August 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea

The government of South Korea is planning a 1GW data center campus in the country's southwestern region. The New Industry and Distributed Energy Division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced this week that up to 25 40MW data centers will be constructed in the Salaseido neighborhood ...

August 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Korea

Sentinum builds Montana 20MW cryptomine data facility

Sentinum, Inc., previously known as BitNile, Inc., has broken ground in Montana on a new cryptomine data center. This week, Ault Alliance, the holding company and parent company of Sentinum, announced that construction had begun on a 20MW facility, which should be operational by the end of the...

August 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Montana

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