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Michigan's Kmart headquarters and data center will be demolished

The Troy, Michigan, Kmart corporate office and data center will be destroyed soon. The 906,000-square-foot facility is located at 3100 W. Big Beaver Road on a 40-acre lot. No post-demolition arrangements for the site have been revealed publicly at this time. The head offices have been vacant s...

September 14, 2023

Michigan

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is considering selling its fiber assets for $1 billion.

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) is contemplating selling its Indonesian fiber assets. The Indonesian telco is reportedly assessing its strategy for its fiber business, as Bloomberg reported last week. The assets could be valued at more than $1 billion, according to Bloomberg, which reported in...

September 14, 2023

Indonesia

Morrow County, Oregon, rezones Percheron data center land

Land 11 miles southwest of Boardman in Oregon's Morrow County has been zoned from agricultural to industrial, and the board of commissioners has given authorization. The change in zoning will permit the construction of data centers on the site. There are proposals to construct a 50MW solar fa...

September 12, 2023

Oregon

Water tech company AquaTech and new Saudi firm DataVolt collaborate for data centers

DataVolt is collaborating with AquaTech Systems, an Indian firm specializing in water technology, to construct water-efficient data centers. The two companies revealed this week that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation and services in water conditioning and rec...

September 12, 2023

Saudi Arabia

CyrusOne plans expansion in Frankfurt with seventh data center campus

CyrusOne is set to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA7, this is the company’s seventh data center campus in Frankfurt. Construction is set to begin in the third quarter of 2024, with an expected delivery date of the second quarter of 2026. Based on a 63,000 sqm (678,1...

September 11, 2023

CyrusOne Frankfurt FRA7

SK ecoplant plans new 120MW data center campus

SK ecoplant has shared plans for a new 120MW data center campus and landing station in Pohang, South Korea. This will reportedly be the first in Pohang City, and will see four data centers developed with a capacity of 30MW each, to be built by 2027.This comes following the signing of an invest...

September 11, 2023

SK ecoplant: Pohang

Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council

Culpeper Town Council is debating whether to rezon a land on East Chandler Street to create a six-building, 4.3 million-square-foot data center facility and substation in Culpeper County, Virginia. The 116-acre lot is zoned Residential-2 following 15 years of planning for a 490-home project. S...

September 11, 2023

Virginia

Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers

Karnfull Next, a Swedish nuclear corporation, has announced plans for a campus of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Swedish coast that will power data centers. The company intends to construct the facility in Nykoping, on the Swedish east coast, where the nuclear software company Studsvik c...

September 11, 2023

Sweden

Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers

Axiata Group is done with the transfer of the remaining towers from PLDT's subsidiaries to its Philippine subsidiary. Thus, the Malaysian company has finalized an agreement to acquire and lease back 2,710 sites. The company declared that the final transfer of the six sites under its agreement ...

September 11, 2023

Philippines

V.tal intends to construct a 6MW data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil

V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, revealed plans for a new facility in Porto Alegre. The data center will accommodate 400 racks of servers in two data halls spanning 75,350 square feet. This year is anticipated to be the start of construction for an H2 2024 completion date. The company s...

September 08, 2023

Brazil / Brasil

Operations commence at TikTok's Irish data center

Operations have begun at TikTok's long-planned data center in Ireland, it has announced. This is its first in Ireland. It is also working on opening two more data centers in Europe, a second in Ireland and another in Norway. This move is a bid to please regulators, and ease spying fears, as pa...

September 07, 2023

Republic of Ireland

Digital Realty to expand in Italy

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to comm...

September 07, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

V.tal expands datacenter footprint in southern Brazil

V.tal has shared that it is expanding its footprint in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Set to be the company’s first in the country’s south region and fifth overall, the development (dubbed V.OA) will see an investment of 250mn reais (US$50.7mn), as part of the company’s wider expansion plan in Brazil a...

September 07, 2023

Brazil / Brasil

Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland

The Frederick County Government office building in Maryland, which includes a data center, is still under construction. The Prospect Center on Himes Avenue in Frederick will be converted as part of this undertaking. The county paid $20 million for the building in 2021, and it will house multip...

September 07, 2023

Maryland

ServerDomes plans dome-shaped data facilities across Mexican fiber line

US university subsidiary ServerDomes will build aluminum dome data centers along a new Mexican fiber route. ServerDomes, a 2017 geodesic design from Portland, has partnered with Mexican infrastructure provider Fermaca Infraestructura.Fermaca will have exclusive rights to create ServerDomes-de...

September 07, 2023

México

Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India

Nvidia has partnered with Reliance Industries and Tata Group, India's two largest firms by market cap. The two companies will construct internal and external AI supercomputers and cloud platforms using Nvidia hardware. With Reliance, Nvidia will construct AI infrastructure "over an order of ma...

September 07, 2023

India / Bhārata

Sydney, Australia data facility occupied by TPG Telecom available for purchase

TPG Telecom is selling part of its Sydney, Australia, data center and office space. Interest submissions can be submitted to Colliers for 30 Ross Street in the Forest Lodge neighborhood until October 3. The building is an "infrastructure-quality asset" with a working data center and extra offi...

September 06, 2023

Australia

LyonTech La Doua data center construction commences in France

Work has begun on the LyonTech La Doua Calculation and Data Center (CCDD) project in Villeurbanne, France. The University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1, collaborating with the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (Lyon INSA) on the facility, has begun earthwork and structural development....

September 06, 2023

France

Nestlé sells Swiss data center to local real estate firm

The multinational food conglomerate Nestlé has sold a Swiss data center. This week, Baker McKenzie Switzerland revealed that it advised Nestlé Global Real Estate on the transfer of its data center and office property to Orllati Real Estate SA. The site at Rte de Buyère 4 in Bussigny, canton of...

September 06, 2023

Switzerland

Google signs first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland

Google has announced that it has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland. The 14-year agreement is with Power Capital Renewable Energy for 58MW of new-to-the grid capacity from the Tullabeg Solar Farm in County Wexford.The solar project, currently under construction, spans 2...

September 05, 2023

Republic of Ireland

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