World Data Center News

Highlander completes first underwater facility and looks to develop net-zero wind-powered data center

According to a report by ChinaDaily, Highlander, one of the companies driving innovation in the underwater data center space, has announced that work on its first commercial facility is complete, for which it is now looking for export buyers. Further to this announcement, the company has outli...

April 06, 2023

China

WIOCC's Planned Data - Center Facility to Increase Africa's 1% Contribution

In order to establish Africa's first data center hub, West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) will invest $500 million over the course of the next five years in the construction of data centers there. Africa's data center market size by investment was estimated at $2 billion in 2020 and is pro...

April 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Africa

Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

With the construction of its dark fiber network, Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is enhancing connection options for the San Francisco Bay Area's densely populated area of data centers. Critical fiber infrastructure is now available from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

April 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

San Francisco Bay Area

A $188 Million Data Center is Being Built at Auckland Air Force Base by The New Zealand Government

The New Zealand government has been constructing a $188 million data center in secrecy at its Auckland air force station. Defense and GCSB Minister Andrew Little made the announcement of the project, noting that the location originally received the money in 2019. 150 construction workers have ...

April 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Zealand

AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric

Atlas Edge has announced that it has partnered with PacketFabric, to expand cloud access across its network. The strategic partnership will see the company’s facilities connect to PacketFabric’s TruNaas Converge Platform, which will reportedly allow AtlasEdge customers to access PacketFabric’s...

April 05, 2023

Berlin

MN Holdings partners with China's DC-Science for Malaysian data center

MN Holdings Bhd has announced a partnership with China's Shanghai DC-Science Co Ltd to construct a high-performance data center in Malaysia. This is the latter's first location outside of China. The MoU signed on April 1, 2023, will see a facility, which will span across a 20-acre site at the ...

April 05, 2023

Malaysia

Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

InMotion Hosting has announced the opening of its first international data center in Europe. The three-story data center is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will reportedly offer customers NVMe Hardware, 99.99% Network Uptime and Security Monitoring, refined UltraStack Server Configuratio...

April 03, 2023

Amsterdam

SES is in Merger Negotiations With Intelsat

Last week, SES said that it had been in merger negotiations with Intelsat, a competitor in the satellite industry. Luxembourg-based SES made the statements in reaction to a Bloomberg article claiming that a merger worth $10 billion is in the works. In a statement released in reaction to market...

April 03, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Luxembourg

OVHcloud announces it will report on Scope 3 emissions to customers

OVHcloud has announced that it will release a full report of Scope 3 emissions produced by its cloud usage beginning this summer. Scope 3 emissions are those which are produced by a company indirectly up and down its value chain, and are increasingly coming under scrutiny. Despite flying under...

March 31, 2023

France

Ammunition firm accuses TikTok data center of using too much power in Norway, preventing expansion

Nammo, one of the largest manufacturers of ammunition, co-owned by the Norwegian government and a Finnish state-controlled defense company, has claimed that it is being prevented from expansion, due to TikTok's data centers guzzling the electricity in the area. Elvia, the local energy company,...

March 30, 2023

Norway

HOCHTIEF and Palladio Partners to build and operate sustainable data center in Heiligenhaus, Germany

HOCHTIEF and infrastructure investor Palladio Partners have announced they have partnered to jointly build and operate a sustainable data center in Heiligenhaus, located in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Work on the 9,000-square-meter site in the Heiligenhaus Innovation Park is to commence t...

March 30, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.

PowerHouse anticipates that the 265,000-square-foot building will be occupied by tenants in July, with complete construction scheduled for completion in October. Nonetheless, there is a pervasive power issue. Buddy Rizer, head of Loudoun County Economic Development, stated that each project ha...

March 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Fire at The Building Site of The AdaniConneX Data Center

A relatively modest fire broke out at an AdaniConneX data center that was still under construction in Noida, India. The fire was quickly put out after the incident, which occurred on Tuesday at 11:20 p.m. local time and was caused by welding work being performed at the site. Nobody was hurt in...

March 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AdaniConneX Noida

Keepit powers all its data centers in the Americas and EMEA with 100% renewable energy

Keepit has announced it has achieved 100% renewable energy across its data centers located in the Americas and EMEA; it currently operates ten data centers across the U.S., Canada, Germany, the UK, and Denmark. The energy sources that will be utilized come under local renewable energy guarante...

March 29, 2023

Americas

Actis Plans to Purchase 11 Data Centers Around the Americas

Actis and Nabiax, a European data center provider owned by Asterion Industrial Partners and Telefónica, have agreed for Actis to purchase 11 data centers spread across six countries in South America and the US. Actis will take complete ownership of the data centers upon settlement. Actis will ...

March 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Americas

Battery System Suspected to be Cause of Fire at Maxnod Data Center in France

A massive fire at a Maxnod-run data center forced the closure of the French facility and seriously damaged the infrastructure. No casualties have been reported; however, it is believed that one firefighter suffered just minor injuries. According to the local government Ain, the Saint-Trivie...

March 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Mexico Will See an Increase in Data Centers Because of Tesla's Influence

The introduction of Tesla in Mexico and the pursuit of automation will exert pressure not just on the automobile sector but also on Data Centers and telecom networks. The electrification of automobiles will need the construction of a higher number of chargers. With the use of data centers, inf...

March 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Mexico City / Ciudad de México

Du opens two data centers in the UAE

Du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has announced the opening of two new data centers, Kizad Abu Dhabi and DSO Dubai. These facilities have been built to expand its nationwide data center footprint and create better infrastructure for local businesses.According to...

March 29, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Damac plans to build data center in Amman, Jordan

Following an agreement with King Hussein Business Park, Dubai property firm Damac (previously Edgnex) has announced its plans to build a new data center in Amman, Jordan. Specific details regarding the project have not yet been shared, although they are expected to follow shortly. ...

March 28, 2023

Dubai

The Green Grid (TGG)'s new tool to tackle data center power consumption

The Green Grid (TGG) recently announced the launch of its updated tool, which it says will boost data center power consumption by 50%. Total Cost of Ownership Calculation Tool – dubbed tggTCO, reportedly enables the analysis of different liquid cooling methods' impact on a data center's financ...

March 28, 2023

United States

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