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Aurum Initiates a $250m Global Private Equity Data Facility Fund

Aurum Equity Partners, an Indian investment firm, plans to establish a new fund to invest in data center facilities and other infrastructure. The newly-formed digital infrastructure real estate investor announced last week the launch of its $250 million global private equity fund, which will c...

May 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

India / Bhārata

CLAR Intends to Acquire The Seagate Singapore R&D Facility And Data Center

CapitaLand Ascendas REIT (CLAR) is seeking to acquire Seagate Singapore's research and development facility, which includes a data center, for $163.14 million. The facility, known as 'The Shugart' and located in the one-north district of Singapore, was constructed only eight years ago and was ...

May 19, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

Batelco of The Beyon Group Plans to Invest in Two cables And an Additional Data Center

The Bahraini technology company Beyon Group intends to invest $250 million in two undersea cables and a new data center. The company announced this week that its telecommunications subsidiary Batelco had joined the SEA-ME-WE 6 consortium (Southeast Asia – Middle East – Western Europe). Batelco...

May 19, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Bahrain

Atlas and Hicloud partner for underwater data centers

Atlas and Shenzhen Hicloud Data Center Technology (Hicloud) have announced their partnership to explore reducing data center energy consumption. Through this deal, Atlas, an international group providing blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service, is now the first commercial Web3 user of the Under...

May 18, 2023

China

Sonic Edge partners with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods across the UK

Sonic Edge has announced a partnership with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods at locations across the UK this year and in early 2024. According to the company, these 50 deployments will range from 50kW to 2MW, while the partnership with Deep Green will power them with low-cost, carbon-free ...

May 18, 2023

United Kingdom

DRFortress Completes Fourth Major Data Center Development

This week, DRFortress, the foremost carrier-neutral data center and cloud platform in Hawaii, announced that it has wrapped up the fourth expansion of its data center facility in Honolulu, which will be available for service on June 1, 2023. With this most recent expansion, the facility's 65,0...

May 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DRFortress Honolulu

UK High Court Judges Invested in a Data Center Project Suspected of Tax Evasion

Two British High Court justices were investors in a contested data center project allegedly used as a tax scheme. The Financial Times discovered the investment, along with several other investments made by judges in similar ventures. The money invested by Justices Simon Bryan and Martin Griffi...

May 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

QuiX Quantum Along With QMware Are Constructing a Quantum Data Facility in Enschede

QuiX Quantum, a Dutch company specializing in quantum computing, plans to construct a data center at its headquarters in Enschede. The partnership between the business and QMware, announced this week, will create the "first fully integrated, hybrid quantum-classical platform." The native quant...

May 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Netherlands

AI Startup Uses Maine Air Force Data Facility for Quantum Computers

A Maine data center has been set up by an AI and quantum computing startup to house quantum computers. This week, Eternal Mind, Inc. conducted a grand opening ceremony at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone. WagmTV reports that the company occupies the former Air Force data center at...

May 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Maine

BlackLine Launches Data Center, Expands APAC

BlackLine, Inc., a leader in accounting automation software, revealed it is expanding its operations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region by establishing a new office and unveiling a data center in Sydney. BlackLine has relocated its APAC regional headquarters to new offices on Sydney's Castlerea...

May 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

AT&T inks 15.6MW solar deal in New York

AT&T has announced its plans to procure solar energy from five projects in Upstate New York from DSD Renewables (DSD). The deal will see AT&T serve as an anchor tenant subscriber for a five-project community solar portfolio; the company will offtake 15.5MW of the larger 24.1MW portfoli...

May 17, 2023

New York

Financial Concerns Caused Surfline Ghana to Close Data Center

Surfline Communications, a Ghanaian 4G LTE company, has been compelled to close its data center and radio access network (RAN) due to financial difficulties. The National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana revealed to the Daily Graphic that the company was experiencing significant financi...

May 17, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ghana

The Newburyport, Massachusetts Mayor Recommends a $925,000 Data Facility Reconstruction

Newburyport, Massachusetts's mayor, Sean Reardon, seeks to reconstruct the city data center for $925,000. The proposal is part of Reardon's $134 million five-year capital improvement plan beginning in 2024, which includes the construction of a reservoir pipeline, the enhancement of downtown li...

May 17, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Massachusetts

Océinde Starts Construction on New Facility on Reunion Island

The island of Reunion will receive a new carrier-neutral data center. Local conglomerate Océinde is scheduled to construct a data center in the French department in the Indian Ocean, as first reported by DC Mag. Last week, construction began on the new facility in the Le Port Commune in the is...

May 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Area31 Invests $67.5m in Depok Data Facility

D-Insights reports that data center operator Area31 plans to spend $67.5 million on its Depok, Indonesia, data facility over the next 5 years. The data center is located in the Cimanggis neighborhood of Depok, West Java. The first development phase has been concluded, and 600 racks have been ...

May 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indonesia

Poll in Northern Virginia reveals local opposition to data center development near national parks

A poll of Northern Virginia residents by the National Parks Conservation Association has found that the majority oppose the development of data centers near public land, including national parks. The survey polled 300 voters from several Northern Virginia jurisdictions.Of those polled, 77% sup...

May 15, 2023

Northern Virginia

Netrality Data Centers to expand capacity in Houston

Netrality Data Centers has announced that it is expanding capacity at its Houston data center at 1301 Fannin Street. The company has shared that it will add two new data center halls spanning 17,000 square feet and offering over 2.5 megawatts of critical capacity.Due to come online at the end ...

May 15, 2023

Houston

Proteus's underwater lab and data center get the green light

Proteus’s underwater lab and accompanying data center have been given the green light. This follows the signing of a deal with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which saw the two agree a 2026 deployment and to conduct research together.The lab would span 2,000 sq ft (...

May 15, 2023

Caribbean

Old Virginia Government Data CenterUp For Sale

Prospective purchasers and lessees can access a data center in Chesterfield County, Virginia. JLL is offering for lease or sale at 11751 Meadowville Lane in Chester, south of Richmond. The Virginia IT agency had been based there until it left last year. The 192,600 sq ft facility, which was co...

May 15, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Sentech Plans Data Center Business in South Africa

State-owned South African broadcast infrastructure corporation intends to enter the colocation data center market. Sentech's chief executive officer, Mlamli Booi, told ITWeb this past week that the company will upgrade its current footprint and expand nationwide. According to ITWeb's intervie...

May 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Africa

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