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Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center

Construction on Edge Energy's Atlanta, Georgia data center is underway, with the company commencing work on July 1st. Located at Tilford Yard, the company bought the 158 acre-site back in July 2021; 70 acres will be dedicated to data center development. In January 2023, it filed a building per...

July 04, 2023

Atlanta

Circularity controversy: Bitcoin operations heats bathhouse in Brooklyn

In New York City, Brooklyn, a bathhouse and spa named Bathhouse has shared that it is now heating its pools with mining, with the water from the pool, then going on to cool the hardware. The bathhouse and spa also Bitcoin payments. The company shared the news in an Instagram post: "Enjoy a hot...

July 03, 2023

New York

Groton votes unanimously to approve region's first data center regulations, blocking large scale data center projects

At a planning meeting this week in Groton, Groton's Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved regulations to limit the size of data centers after a year-long moratorium. Under the ruling, while local enterprises will be permitted to build their own on-premises facilities, hyperscale ...

July 03, 2023

Connecticut

AirTrunk officially starts the TOK1 facility expansion in Tokyo, Japan

AirTrunk has begun work on an expansion of its Tokyo, Japan, TOK1 campus. Senior AirTrunker personnel and construction partners attended a traditional "jichinsai" Shinto launching ceremony to spiritually sanctify the land in preparation for safe and efficient construction. No timelines for com...

July 03, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AirTrunk Tokyo TOK1

Asia-Pacific Data Center Market to beDriven by Rapid AI Development

The widespread use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential growth for the data center industry, according to JLL's new Global Data Centre Outlook. Hyperscalers and edge data centers, which account for 79% of total demand, are the fastest-developing segments o...

June 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Asia-Pacific Data Center Market to beDriven by Rapid AI Development

The widespread use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential growth for the data center industry, according to JLL's new Global Data Centre Outlook. Hyperscalers and edge data centers, which account for 79% of total demand, are the fastest-developing segments o...

June 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

The site plan for Metro Edge Development Partners' Chicago data center approved

The Chicago, Illinois data center of commercial real estate finance firm Metro Edge Development Partners has been granted site approval. The corporation received site plan approval for its IMD1 data center from the Chicago Department of Planning and Development this month.IMD1 will be a five-s...

June 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chicago

DataBank expands its data center in Kansas

DataBank's development of the MC13 data center in Lenexa, Kansas, is complete. The company has added 17,000 square feet and 1.8 MW of IT capacity to its MC13 data center, bringing the total build-out to 42,000 square feet and 4.6 MW. In October 2021, DataBank first announced intentions to expa...

June 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank Kansas City MCI3

Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville

Residents of Prince William County, Virginia, are attempting to sell their land to an unidentified data center developer. According to InsideNoVa, residents of Sanders Lane near Gainesville are attempting to sell their land to a data center developer. The residents appear to be attempting to r...

June 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

TASMAC awards RailTel a $35.9 million contract for an India data center

RailTel, an IT infrastructure provider, has been awarded a $35.9 million contract by TASMAC, a Tamil state-owned beverage corporation. RailTel will provide TASMAC with end-to-end automation and connectivity five years into the contract. This will extend to RailTel providing the project's facil...

June 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

India / Bhārata

Frederick County establishes work group to look at data centers

In Frederick County, a place which has become a highly attractive data center zone and is the location site of Quantum Loophole’s massive and recently paused data center campus, Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater has formed a workgroup for data centers. Fitzwater formed the group in ...

June 28, 2023

Maryland

Paratus Group announces plans for new facility in Angola

Paratus Group has announced plans to construct Angola’s first Tier-IV-by-design data centre in Luanda. This is the company’s third in the country, and Angola’s first Tier-IV by design.According to Chief Technical Officer at Paratus, Rolf Mendelsohn, the new facility will be constructed on a 30...

June 28, 2023

Angola

Groton's proposed data center regulations set to go to public hearing following year-long moratorium

In Groton, a data center moratorium has been in place for a year. This was introduced to give the town the time to formulate regulations for data centers, amidst concerns regarding environmental and noise impacts. Now the proposed regulations are set to go to a public hearing. As per the propo...

June 27, 2023

Connecticut

GTD leaves data center agreement with Macquarie

GTD pulled from a non-binding offer previously accepted from investment firm Macquarie Capital. The transaction would have involved purchasing 49 percent of a new subsidiary encompassing the telecommunications company's data centers in Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Fernando Gana, the general mana...

June 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chile

Phoenix Data center with 6 MW up for sale

A 6MW data facility is up for lease or purchase in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the desirable Deer Valley neighborhood, CBRE has listed 20435 North 26th Avenue for sale or lease. There was no listed pricing. The 6MW facility was completed in 2003 and sits on 3.66 acres of land, with a raised f...

June 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Phoenix

New 200 MW facility on the way to the island of Borneo

In Kota Samarahan on the island of Borneo, a new data center is the planning stage. Set to offer 200 MW, the facility will be built by FutureData Sdn Bhd, a new company formed by Cyclect Group and TSG Group.The data center will be the first major facility on the island; it's pegged to be carbo...

June 26, 2023

Southeast Asia

PLDT constructing a 100MW data facility in Philippines

PLDT, a Philippine telecommunications company, is considering the construction of a 12th data center within the country. Victor S. Genuino, president and CEO of ePLDT, disclosed the company's intention to construct a new 100MW facility while delivering the keynote address at the W. Media Phili...

June 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Philippines

UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers

UK's Loughborough University has announced that it has completed its renovation project, upgrading two of its data centers in Leicestershire. Schneider Electric delivered the data center modernization on the Haslegrave and Holywell Park data centers, adding EcoStruxure Row Data Center, InRow C...

June 23, 2023

United Kingdom

Van Caem shares plans for €1 billion data center in Berlin

Van Caem, a Dutch developer, has shared its plans to develop a 100MW data center in Germany on a brownfield site near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. With an investment of €1 billion ($1bn), the facility is set to be the fifth largest in the country and the largest in Berlin.Earlier desi...

June 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

IonQ proposes quantum data facility in Switzerland

IonQ, a quantum computing company based in the United States, intends to deploy two of its facilities in Switzerland and establish a quantum data center in Europe. This week, the company disclosed its collaboration with QuantumBasel to deploy two quantum computers at QuantumBasel's Center of C...

June 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Switzerland

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