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Data center approval sought by Finmarc for Telos HQ campus

Finmarc Management Inc. has reportedly applied six years in advance for a data center development. Some have suggested that this is to avoid being halted by future restrictions imposed by legislation; others have argued it's due to energy capacity limitations in the Ashburn area.Although Loudo...

February 17, 2023

Northern Virginia

Digital DEWA launches in Dubai

Digital DEWA subsidiary Moro Hub has announced the launch of its 16,030 sqm (172,566 sq ft) Dubai data center, the world's largest solar-powered data center. It will have a capacity of 100MW, which be 100 percent powered by solar power from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park in Saih...

February 17, 2023

Dubai

PDG: Geothermal energy for Indonesian data centers

PDG has announced that it has bought renewable energy certificates (RECs) from state-owned electricity firm, PLN, for geothermal energy for the operation of three data centers in Jakarta, Bandung, and Pekanbaru, in Indonesia. This further cements the company's partnership with PLN, from whom i...

February 16, 2023

Indonesia

Spotsylvania in the spotlight: Officials discuss data centers

As the spotlight circles around Spotsylvania County for data center development, the Board of Supervisors is discussing how the county could be affected and how to plan accordingly. So far, one proposal in the region, filed by SpotsyTechnoCampus LLC, could bring forth a new facility in Spotsyl...

February 16, 2023

Northern Virginia

Russian Federation to launch a cryptocurrency mining plant worth $12.3 million

The Russian Federation has announced its intent to launch a crypto-mining facility worth over $12.3 million (900 million rubles) in the coming months. To be situated in Buryatia, a Russian republic in eastern Siberia, the facility, upon completion, is pegged to contain 30,000 mining devices.Ac...

February 16, 2023

Russia / Россия

Roblox Constructs Ashburn Data Center and Edge Facilities for $400m

Roblox, a maker of video games, invested hundreds of millions of dollars on data center and edge infrastructure in 2022 to serve its own gaming platform. Roblox reported earnings that were higher than forecasted and a rising user base, which caused the company's shares to increase by 25%. Robl...

February 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Telstra Exchange Facility and Property for Sale Near Melbourne, Australia.

Under a sale-leaseback agreement, Telstra is offering a minor exchange facility in the environs of Melbourne for sale. The east Melbourne neighborhood of Rowville's 12 Lambourne Avenue is being put up for sale by the Australian telecom. A brick structure of 1,430 square feet on one story, sitt...

February 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Melbourne

LEW TelNet to build new green data center in Augsburg

LEW TelNet has announced the construction of a new green data center in Augsburg, Germany, which will operate with a PUE of 1.2. Work on the facility, which is located on Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse, will begin in summer 2023, with the first phase of the two-phase project going live mid-next year...

February 15, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Cyfuture expands in Chennai, India

Cyfuture is constructing a new data center in Chennai, India, its fifth facility in the country. To be located on a one-acre plot in Tembaran, Chennai, it is pegged to offer 500 racks in its first phase. While the company already data centers in Noida, Jaipur, and Raipur, it has also announced...

February 15, 2023

India / Bhārata

Tackling misleading "100 percent carbon-free energy" claims and the rising costs of PPAs

It seems like every day, there is another announcement of a tech company signing a new PPA and in 2023, projections are that there are more to come. Research shows that in 2022 alone, the number of PPAs purchased in the first three quarters, surpassed the total volume recorded across the whole...

February 14, 2023

United States

Compugen Buys New Albany, Ohio data Facilities

A data center in New Albany, Ohio, has been purchased by Canadian IT company Compugen. According to local property documents cited by BizJournal, Compugen Real Estate Holdings recently purchased a property in Franklin County, northeast of Columbus, at 7000 Souder Road. The former data cente...

February 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AWS US East (Ohio)

Edgnex Rebrands as Damac Data Centres, Promises Additional Projects

The new data center company Edgnex, founded by the Dubai real estate company Damac, has changed its name to Damac Data Centres and revealed plans for a 35MW data center. This week, the company announced that Edgnex had changed its name to Damac Data Centres to serve its clients better and upho...

February 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Dubai

NuScale receives regulatory approval in US

NuScale Power has received regulatory approval for a small modular reactor (SMR) which experts say could be utilized to power data centers at a later date. This makes it the first SMR to obtain this kind of approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for deployment in the US.Speaking...

February 13, 2023

United States

Datacom goes 100% renewable in New Zealand

Datacom has announced that all its facilities in New Zealand are now powered by renewable energy. This is part of a ten-year contract with Mercury Energy, through which its data centers will run on geothermal, wind, and hydro energy sources from the company.As per the deal, the company has sig...

February 13, 2023

New Zealand

Harrisonburg Data Facility Receives $44 Million Loan From Valley National Bank

A Virginia facility has negotiated a $44 million loan for a data center owner. According to The Commercial Observer, AC DataCom Digital Infrastructure Investments has obtained permanent financing of $43.8 million to construct a data center in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The 100,000-square-foot dat...

February 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Data Centers Represent 20% Of Sales at Dominion Virginia, Which Reached a Record in December

In its most recent earnings call, utility Dominion Energy highlighted the dependability of its service and discussed measures to increase capacity. However, the business, which reported a $42 million loss for the quarter, did not mention how its transmission problems hampered Virginia data ...

February 10, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ) decision on data center backup generators

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that it is considering giving data centers more leeway with regard to using backup energy. This, it said, will reportedly preserve data center reliability and is a precautionary measure to protect the region's power grid. It ...

February 09, 2023

Virginia

NRB Group Purchases The Wallonia Data Center in Belgium

Belgian IT services provider Win and its data center affiliate Wallonia Data Center have been bought by Belgian ICT company NRB Group. This week, the business disclosed that it had purchased Nethys, a telecom owned by Enodia, as well as Win and its affiliate Wallonia Data Center (WDC). The ...

February 09, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Belgium

Bristow Data Center Park Approval Delayed by Prince William County Officials

Officials from Prince William County have postponed the vote on a data center construction plan. Following a lengthy discussion that ended at 3 am this Thursday, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors unanimously decided to postpone the Devlin Technology Park proposal until March 7....

February 09, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Hanwha and SKS Credit: Big investment in green data centers for South Korea

Hanwha has announced that it will invest in 'green' data centers following signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with SKS Credit, an ESG professional manager (PEF), for joint development of data centers and logistics centers linked to new and renewable energy. Through the agreement, the ...

February 08, 2023

South Korea

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