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More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

In recent years, Chuck Kuhn, the founder, and CEO of JK Moving, has become a big player in the data center real estate market scene in Northern Virginia. Now, it appears that he’s looking to develop a new facility in Loudoun County, following the application for a large data center and warehou...

November 28, 2022

Northern Virginia

LCL to deploy more solar panels at its data center in Gembloux

LCL has announced that it is deploying more solar panels at one of its data centers, at the LCL Wallonia One site in Gembloux. Currently, the park has 2,000, but this expansion will see an addition of 1,300, taking the site’s generating capacity to 1.6MW. According to the Belgian data center f...

November 25, 2022

Belgium

Irish government confirms terms and conditions for ORESS 1

Following the Irish government's approval of the terms and conditions of ORESS 1, a huge auction for offshore wind, 2.5GW of renewable energy could be added to the grid, enough to power 2.5 million Irish homes with green electricity. According to reports, at least three offshore energy auction...

November 25, 2022

Dublin

Floating data centers on the agenda

As the data center industry increasingly searches for low-carbon and less water-intensive ways to cool facilities, a number of different methods have been proposed, with everything from underwater to orbital data centers suggested. Denv-R, a French startup, proposes to float data centers on ur...

November 25, 2022

France

Invesis Announces the Acquisition of UK’s Asanti

UK data center company Asanti has been acquired by Investment firm Invesis. Asanti has also acquired five data center facilities from Daisy Group. The five data centers are located in Reading, Hamilton, Manchester, Farnborough, and Birstall. The five facilities have a capacity of over 1,500...

November 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Regional Group Acquires Data Center From Manulife Investment Management in Ottawa, Canada

Canadian real estate company Regional Group has acquired a data center and office complex in Ottawa, Canada. The property it acquired is Qualicum Centre, a three-building office campus located at 2932, 2934, and 2936 Baseline Road. The selling firm is Manulife Investment Management. The ter...

November 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ottawa

Former Large Turkey Farm in Loudoun County Seeks Rezoning for Potential Data Center

The owners of a former turkey farm in Leesburg, Northern Virginia, have plans to rezone part of the land for data center development. According to BizJournal, Orme Farm LLC, owners of up to 376 acres of land in Leesburg, Loudoun County, is working with an affiliate of real estate company Van M...

November 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Thales Alenia Space to lead the ASCEND feasibility study for data centers in orbit

As data demand continues to surge and countries ponder different ways to reach their respective climate goals, the European Commission has announced that it’s launching a feasibility study into putting data centers into orbit. Thales Alenia Space, an aerospace company has been chosen to lead t...

November 22, 2022

France

VueNow InfoTech Signs MoU Worth $1.6bn To Develop 750 Edge Data Centers in Uttar Pradesh, India

VueNow Infotech has announced that it has signed an MoU with the government of Uttar Pradesh, India. The deal will see VueNow develop the infrastructure for up to 750 Edge data centers in the state. The MoU is worth 13,500 crores (~US$1.6bn). VueNow Infotech Pvt Ltd’s MD, Sukhvinder Singh Khar...

November 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

India / Bhārata

Helios Announces Acquisition of Major Stakes in Maroc DC and IXAfrica

Helios Investment Partners has acquired two data center firms. The Africa-focused investment company also acquired majority stakes in Kenya’s IXAfrica and Morocco’s Maroc Datacenter (MDC). The company said in a statement that IXAfrica and MDC are in the correct position to play significant ...

November 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Africa

New report from the Cool-Data project assesses using waste heat from data centers in district heating

As part of the EU's Fit for 55 legislative package, it is pushing for data centers to be connected to surrounding district heating networks to use surplus heat. A new report from the Cool-Data project has comprehensively reviewed the rules and incentives around waste-heat recovery by data cent...

November 21, 2022

Denmark

600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition

Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North Oc...

November 21, 2022

London

Altice Looking to Dispose its Data Center Portfolio

France-based telecommunication firm Altice is mulling over selling its data center portfolio in France. According to L'informe, the telco has asked investment bank, Perella Weinberg, to find a buyer for its 92 data centers across the country. According to reports, Altice wants a minimum of $1 ...

November 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Türk Telekom Launches New Data center & Cloud Business

Turk Telekom, a Turkish telecommunication company, has formed its cloud and data center businesses into a new unit. The telco launched Turk Telekom earlier in the month as a stand-alone business offering a virtual data center, backup, server, storage, and disaster recovery solutions. The state...

November 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Turkey

Iron Mountain Acquires Madrid's XData Properties

Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of XData Properties, one of Madrid’s largest data center parks. The acquisition sees Iron Mountain expand its footprint considerably. The property reportedly has enough power to develop 79MW over the next years. The property currently hosts a 3MW dat...

November 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iron Mountain MAD-1

Bedrock and Raeden Partner Up For Small Carrier Hotel in Detroit

Real estate company Bedrock has announced its plan for a new carrier hotel data center in Detroit, Michigan. The company said it is partnering with Raeden, a digital infrastructure platform provider, to launch the independent carrier hotel in the city. The new carrier hotel will be located on ...

November 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Detroit

New Data Center Launched in Tibet

A new data center facility has been launched in Lhasa, in China’s Tibet autonomous region. The facility currently has the capacity to house 3,000 racks. According to reports, it also provides services for 491 systems from different levels of departments in the region. Tibet Ningsuan Techn...

November 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Southeast Asia

Dubai's Moro Hub named world's largest solar data center

The Guinness Book of World Records has awarded Dubai's Moro Hub the title of the largest solar-powered data center in the world. Owned by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), with a capacity of 100 MW data center, entirely fueled by DEWA-owned 3,000MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum So...

November 17, 2022

Dubai

Earth Wind & Power (EWP) to move 'green' data centers to oilfields in the Middle East

Earth Wind & Power (EWP) has announced that it has signed with services company Oilserv to place its "green" data centers in oil fields across the Middle East, including in Kuwait, Iraq, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates. The company utilizes excess energy from win...

November 16, 2022

Middle East

DigitalOcean announces new facility in Sydney

DigitalOcean has announced that it is expanding its digital footprint with a new data center in Sydney, Australia, namely SYD1. This new facility is reportedly connected to DigitalOcean's private internet edge and backbone network, providing 400 Gbps of on-net access to Asia, North America, an...

November 16, 2022

Sydney

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