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New clean energy standards for data centers in Oregon ahead; Washington to follow

The Oregon state legislature has introduced a new bill which would require data centers and crypto miners in the state to comply with clean energy standards or be faced with a penalty. The 2023 'House Bill 2816' outlines that high-energy use facilities must reduce their emissions associated wi...

February 08, 2023

Oregon

NetEase Breaks Ground On Guizhou Data Center

NetEase Inc., a Chinese Internet business, has begun construction on a new data facility in Guizhou province. According to China Daily, this month the company began work on its first large data center in Guian New Area in southwest China. The campus, situated on 7,3 hectares, will support NetE...

February 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

China

PLDT Upgrading Makati and Parañaqu Data Centers

The Philippine telco PLDT's facility and cloud subsidiary, ePLDT, is growing a number of its existing sites. The development of VITRO Makati 2 and Paraaque will add 1,820 service-ready racks and an additional 14MW by March of this year. Victor S. Genuino, president and chief executive officer ...

February 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

PLDT VITRO Makati 2

WIOCC Completes 2Africa Undersea Cable Landing at OADC Facility in Durban, South Africa

WIOCC has successfully connected the 2Africa cable to the Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Durban facility in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In April 2022, OADC's 4MW, 43,050 sq ft facility in the Amanzimtoti neighborhood of Durban debuted with 21,525 sq ft of white space. The 2Africa cable was a...

February 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Africa

German Edge Data Center Company nLighten Launched by I squared Capital

I Squared Capital's latest portfolio company, nLighten, is introducing an Edge network in Germany. This week, the company disclosed plans for a formal debut in Germany across 10 sites later this year. Exa Infrastructure, another I Squared Capital venture, sold its initial data centers to nLigh...

February 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

V.tal Launches New 4MW Facility In Fortaleza, Brazil

GlobeNet subsidiary V.tal, a Brazilian fiber company, has opened a brand-new Edge data center in Fortaleza. The facility, dubbed the 'Big Lobster,' will launch with a 4MW capacity over four data halls that can house a total of 400 racks. The innovative data center is connected to the company's...

February 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Brazil / Brasil

GenH2 to offer mobile liquid hydrogen source for data center tests

GenH2 has announced that it has produced a mobile liquid hydrogen plant, which it has said can be deployed to support pilot projects and tests for applications such as data centers.The company has outlined that the LS20 mobile liquid hydrogen system is an end-to-end liquefaction and storage sy...

February 07, 2023

United States

Citigroup Is Equipping Two Of Its Data Centers in Texas With Battery Rooms

CitiGroup is initiating two data center expansion projects in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth regions of Texas. Two applications for 'Battery Room Buildouts' have been submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). Its Georgetown Data Center is located at 201 Blue Ridge...

February 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

WIOCC's OADC Breaks Ground On Data Center in Kinshasha, DRC

WIOCC's new data center platform, Open Access Data Centres (OADC), has commenced constructing a data center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This Monday, the firm announced on LinkedIn that its latest core plant in the DRC will be located in Kinshasa. The construction of the w...

February 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Africa

Key Point opens data center in eastern Siberia

Key Point has announced the launch of a new data center in Primorsky Krai in far east Russia. The Russian data center developer has outlined that at full build-out, the facility will have capacity for 880 racks and 10MW. Its first phase saw the construction of two modules with a total capacity...

February 06, 2023

Russia / Россия

NTT Third Building at its Vienna Data Center Comes Online

NTT has opened a brand-new facility on its Vienna, Austria data center campus. The extension, which was announced in October 2021, increases the site's size to 92,500 square feet and its capacity to 15.2 megawatts. In 2015, NTT purchased the Austrian data center when it purchased German firm e...

February 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT Vienna

DTiX Proposing New Facility in Chalon-sur-Saône, France

DTiX, a French data center operator, is constructing a major data center in Chalon-sur-Saône, France. The company is constructing a second facility in the Saône-et-Loire department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. There will be enough for 100 racks in two data rooms spanning around 7,...

February 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

IIJ announces sustainability efforts with rooftop solar power system

Japanese ISP Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has announced its sustainability efforts with the installation of a 336kWp rooftop solar power system at its Shiroi data center campus in Chiba Prefecture. The solar panels, primed to generate approximately 373MWh annually, 3 percent of the fac...

February 03, 2023

Japan

A 1.4 Million-square-foot Data Center Campus Outside Austin, Texas In Works

In Texas, a proposal for four data centers has been submitted on the location of a long-proposed private airport. The application for the 'Bastrop Project' data center was submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) this month. The application is for a new construct...

February 03, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Austin

Fort Worth Data Center For Sale Following Bankruptcy

Following a bankruptcy filing, a recently converted data center is for auction. This week, Hilco Real Estate declared March 23, 2023, as the deadline for qualifying bids for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy sale of a newly converted flex industrial facility into a data center. Built in 2018 on a 13.7...

February 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Dallas

Luck Stone, Plans a 2 million Sq Ft Data Center Facility Near Leesburg

In Ashburn, Loudoun County, the Virginia quarry business Luck Stone Corp. is building a new data center facility. According to BizJournal, the company has requested to rezone a portion of its Ashburn property to accommodate up to 2 million square feet of additional data centers. This mont...

February 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

The Spanish Tax IT Agency Allotted $76m For an Innovative HQ and Data Center

The Department of Tax Information Technology (DIT) of Spain has been awarded $76.2 million for a new headquarters in Madrid, which will include a new on-premises data center. The facility will be located at 480 Calle Alcala and will contain the DIT, allowing for the creation, installation, ...

February 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

The Maharashtra government signs $3.9bn MoUs for two facilities located in Pune

The regional Maharashtra government, in India, announced at the World Economic Forum (WEF) that it has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with two companies to build data centers in the city of Pune, in western India. The deals, worth ~$3.9 billion or Rs 32,414 crore, are with RCube/Ark ...

January 31, 2023

India / Bhārata

Soluti expands in Goiânia, Brazil

Soluti is launching a new data center, it has announced, to be located in Goiânia, Brazil. This announcement comes after the company completed the installation of the first Tier III quality data center in the Midwest Region of Brazil. Soluti Thus far, further specifications ...

January 31, 2023

Brazil / Brasil

Bradford Data Center To Become A College Institute

A British office and data center will be converted into a college teaching facility. This week, CECOS College was awarded permission to convert data center on 8 Currer Street in Bradford, West Yorkshire, into an IT teaching facility. The City Council of Bradford accepted a change of use propo...

January 31, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

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