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Central and Eastern Europe Data Center Building Industry To Gain $1.05 Billion in 2028

As shown by Arizton's most recent research study, the market for data center building in Central and Eastern Europe would expand at a CAGR of 10.64% between 2022 and 2028. Sustained attempts to attract data center operators, expansion in 5G connectivity and construction of edge data centers, a...

February 24, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Powerhouse data center developments and sustainability

PowerHouse is one of the latest companies to enter Northern Virginia and join the data center boom. A division of American Real Estate Partners, and backed by investment firm Harrison Street, the company also recently joined the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord, becoming one of 1...

February 23, 2023

Northern Virginia

Deutsche Telekom deploys 300MWh battery storage rollout

Deutsche Telekom has announced its plans to rollout battery energy storage systems across Germany. The company has outlined that the systems will support 300MWh.The first system, which is a 1MW/6MWh unit, has already been deployed at Deutsche Telekom's head office in Munich. This is part of th...

February 23, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

CapitaLand's Beijing plans have green focus

CapitaLand has announced the launch of its China-focused data center development fund, namely CapitaLand China Data Centre Partners (CDCP), through which it is planning two new facilities located outside Beijing, with a focus on sustainability.According to the company, the two development proj...

February 23, 2023

China

Ne Edge: Developments announced at Millstone data center project

NE Edge Manager George McLaughlin III has announced plans for a data center in Connecticut at the Millstone nuclear power station. The two-building project contains one building with two 568,000 sqft stories, and a second with two 214,000 square foot stories. In total, the development would sp...

February 23, 2023

Connecticut

Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London

A 185,150-square-foot data center is projected for northeast London. Alandale Scaffolding has applied to Epping Forest District Council for permission to construct a new center in Loughton, close to the Debden station, as first revealed by EssexLive. The company intends to construct a three-st...

February 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London

Aphorio Carter Buys Fibertown Data Facility in Texas

Aphorio Carter, an infrastructure fund, has purchased a Bryan, Texas, data center that was leased to the colocation company Fibertown. The Fibertown Data Center at 110 N Main Street in Brazos County was purchased by the Aphorio Carter Fund Management Corporation, a critical infrastructure and ...

February 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Fibertown Bryan

Gaw Establishes New Data Center Company in Collaboration With A3

Gaw Capital Partners with A3 Capital has created a new Southeast Asia-focused data center joint venture platform. This week, real estate private equity company Gaw launched a joint venture to invest in greenfield and failing data center facilities in major Southeast Asian countries. Also, t...

February 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Malaysia

PLDT is Again Considering The Sale of a Share in The ePLDT/Vitro Data Center Company

PLDT is apparently considering selling a portion of its data center operations. Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the situation, that the telecommunications company is once again considering the sale of a "substantial minority share" in its data center holdings. The company is en...

February 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

PLDT VITRO Taguig

Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center

AirTrunk has announced that it has broken ground on the second phase of its TOK2 data center located in Tokyo, Japan. This follows the groundbreaking of the first phase only three months ago. The company has outlined that the new phase is scalable to approximately 50MW of capacity and custom-...

February 22, 2023

AirTrunk Tokyo TOK2

Varanium Launches Kudal, Maharashtra Containerized Edge Data enter

Varanium Cloud, an Indian digital technology startup, has opened a new Edge data center in Maharashtra. This week, the company's Hydra Web Services unit opened a containerized data facility in the municipality of Kudal in the Sindhudurg region. Although no details were provided, photos impl...

February 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

India / Bhārata

Northwestern Mutual Abandons Franklin, Wisconsin Facility And On-site Data Center

Northwestern Mutual is abandoning its campus in Franklin, Wisconsin, on the outskirts of Milwaukee, as part of a $500 million effort to relocate to an office complex in downtown Milwaukee. Per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this is partially due to the fact that the corporation no longer need...

February 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Wisconsin

South Korea launches data center for AI research

South Korea's science ministry recently announced the opening of a computing data center to conduct AI studies. The Research Data Center of AI Innovation Hub, in the Seoul campus of Korea University, is a computing lab with 35 petaFLOPS computers. It has been reported that this will permit up ...

February 21, 2023

South Korea

Techtonic planning 16MW underground data center

Techtonic is investing hundreds of millions of NIS ($55m+) in an underground data center, referred to as Titan 4, in Bet Shemesh, 20km east of Jerusalem. The facility will have a capacity of 16MW facility and pegged span an area of 15,000 square meters (161,450 sq ft) across 10 data halls. It ...

February 21, 2023

Israel

Lunar Digital Purchases Equinix's Manchester Facility

UK MSP Lunar Digital has acquired a Manchester data center owned by Equinix in the upcoming months. This week, Manchester-based Lunar Digital, a provider of managed cloud, data center, and cyber security solutions, revealed that it had bought Reynolds House, a leased Equinix building former...

February 21, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix Manchester MA2

Equinix Shuts Paris PA1 Data Center, Inks Pre-lease With Icade For New Site

Equinix has shut down a data center in Paris and inked a new pre-leasing agreement for new construction in the French city with French real estate firm Icade.In its Q4 2022 financial report issued last week, the colo company said PA1 had been shut down. The purpose-built facility at 167 Rue...

February 21, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix Paris PA1

Allied Energy Corp signs with Enerhash USA for flare gas crypto mines

Allied Energy has announced it has signed a definitive agreement with Enerhash USA and River Energy Group through which it will develop flare gas-powered crypto mines. According to the company, the first part of the project will be carried out at Allied's Thiel Well in Texas, which will be a b...

February 20, 2023

United States

Kentucky GE Data Facility For Sale or Lease

GE Appliances is offering its data center in Louisville, Kentucky, for purchase or lease. General Electric has hired JLL, according to a report this week, to market the data center at 4000 Buechel Bank Road in the 1,000-acre GE Appliance Park in Jefferson District for sale or lease. The GE Dat...

February 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Kentucky

Data center impact study legislation defeated in Virginia

A piece of legislation that would have compelled the Virginia Department of Energy to study the impacts of data center development on the state’s environment, economy, energy resources and carbon-reduction goals has been defeated. A number of bills have been proposed by Del. Danica Roem, D-Pri...

February 20, 2023

Northern Virginia

Three Egyptian Data Center Campuses Are Being Planned by Gulf Data Hub & Elsewedy

Gulf Data Hub (GDH), a Middle Eastern data center company, intends to open additional campuses in Egypt. The company said this week that it had struck a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with engineering company Elsewedy Data Centers to build the biggest data center complex in Africa in Egy...

February 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Africa

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