World Data Center News

NTT Opens its 24MW Berlin 2 Data Center Campus

NTT has opened a new data center campus in Berlin, Germany. The company announced that its Berlin 2 facility is now live. The facility is located at Lankwitzer Strasse 45-47 and currently houses two data centers. The facility will also provide an initial IT power of 24MW across 107,650 squa...

October 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT Berlin 2 (Marienpark)

Bloomberg Reports That Ooredoo is Mulling Over Sale of Qatari Data Centers

Ooredoo QPSC is looking to sell off its data centers in Qatar. The move comes after the company sold off its data centers in Indonesia to BDx. According to Bloomberg, Ooredoo is already speaking with banks on how to offload the assets. Potential bidders have not been identified.The company cur...

October 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Qatar

Penzance looks to develop data center in Chantilly in Northern Virginia

Penzance, a real estate investment firm, has announced that it is considering a site that was previously earmarked for an auto sales facility for a data center development instead. The company has reportedly applied to rezone a plot of land, located in Chantilly in Northern Virginia, just off ...

October 13, 2022

Northern Virginia

New company plans 96MW data center site in Perth, Australia

Urbis Pty Ltd, a design and planning firm, is reportedly applying to build an AU$600 million (US$379m) data center campus in the Belmont area of Perth, Australia, at 37 Abernethy Road. The application lists the client as GreenSquareDC, an “emerging sustainability-oriented data center provider’...

October 12, 2022

Perth

Vodacom South Africa to pilot sourcing energy from independent suppliers

As recently reported by Baxtel, South Africa has been facing significant energy challenges resulting in regular outages, with Eskom implementing Stage 6 power cuts. This has meant that South Africans have been faced with power cuts for at least six hours a day. These power outages have had a h...

October 12, 2022

South Africa

Iron Mountain To Develop another Data Center in its Manassas Campus

Iron Mountain is looking to develop a new facility at its Manassas campus in Prince William County, Virginia. According to a a filing, Iron Mountain plans to develop the data center on a 24-acre parcel. Iron Mountain will invest up to $100m to bring the data center to life. Although the spe...

October 12, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

HostDime Opens New Data Center in Bogota, Colombia

HostDime has announced the launch of its new data center in Bogota, Colombia. The CEO of HostDime, Manny Vivar, announced and posted a comment on LinkedIn about the development. He said: "As the sun settles tonight, we reflect with gratitude all the hard work our HostDime Colombia 🇨🇴 familia h...

October 12, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

HostDime Colombia

GTA begins work on its Alupang Data Center in Guam

GTA, a telecommunications company in Guam, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to signify the commencement of construction of its Alupang Data Center, under US-based Huntsman Family Investments (HFI) ownership. The facility and cable landing station will be built in Tamuning, Guam, and wil...

October 11, 2022

Guam

Oregon to revisit tax breaks for data center operators and tech companies

In September, it was announced that tax breaks for data centers in Oregon might be getting a serious re-examination. Over the years, through Oregon's enterprise zone program, tax incentives have made Oregon a haven for data center operators, with Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google saving aroun...

October 07, 2022

Oregon

BlackChamber Plans To Develop a Large Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia

According to BizJournal, Real estate investment company BlackChamber Group has plans to develop a 157,900 square meter (1.7 million square feet) data center campus in Arcola, Loudoun County, Virginia. The company is looking to build four data center buildings on its land on Belmont Ridge Road,...

October 06, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

US Department of Energy's data center cooling fund

The US Department of Energy has announced a $42million funding package to develop high-performance energy efficient cooling solutions for data centers. This announcement comes following record high temperatures across the US, and multiple reports that the industry is seriously lagging when it ...

October 05, 2022

United States

International Finance Corporation invests $30 million in WIOCC

International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced that it has invested $30m in Western Indian Cable Company Holding Ltd. IFC is affiliated with the World Bank. The organization says the fund will help support WIOCC's continued rollout of new subsea cables, terrestrial fiber-optic networks,...

October 04, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Africa

South Dublin County Council (SDCC) to comply with government scrapping ban on new data centers

After much back and forth, South Dublin County Council (SDCC) is now complying with the government's order to scrap plans to ban data centers in the area, despite serious concerns about the environmental impact of additional facilities and the extra pressure the would place on the grid. This c...

October 03, 2022

Dublin

Chayora finishes up work on the first data center on its new Shanghai Campus

Chayora, a Hong Kong-based data center operator, has announced that it has completed the construction of its first data center on its new Shanghai campus in China. The company first announced the campus back in November 2021, and in partnership with EdgeConneX, Edge will offer computing servic...

October 03, 2022

Shanghai

Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County

Dominion Energy has announced that some new data centers in Loudoun County, home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, will be reconnected, following concerns that transmission infrastructure restraints would halt new additions. Back in July, the energy utility had said that ne...

October 03, 2022

Northern Virginia

Arsenal Digital Holdings Acquires Data Center in Texas

Arsenal Digital Holdings has announced that it has an agreement in place to acquire a data center campus in Texas. The crypto mining holding firm didn’t reveal the terms of the deal nor the location of the site. However, it noted that the property sits on a 50-acre site. It also said the prope...

October 03, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Open Access Data Centres To Open Three New Edge Facilities in South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced its plan to launch three new Edge facilities in South Africa. The CEO of OADC, Dr. Ayotunde Coker, revealed in a statement that the company is further expanding its Edge data centers to more business hubs in the country to meet the demands of ISPs,...

October 03, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Africa

Metro Edge Development Partners To Develop 21MW Facility in Chicago

Metro Edge Development Partners has announced its plans to develop a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The real estate investment firm has already secured a 75-year lease on a 1.97-acre land in the Illinois Medical District (IMD). In addition, the company has the exclusive rights to dev...

October 03, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chicago

icolo.io Opens Second Data Center in Mombasa

Kenyan data center firm icolo.io has announced the completion and opening of its new facility in Mombasa, Kenya. The company posted on LinkedIn that the iColo MBA-2Nyali facility is open for business. The data center has 1.7MW of power and has 13,000 square feet (1,200 square meters) of floor ...

October 03, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Kenya

The Uptime Institute’s 2022 Global Data Center Survey reveals the industry must evolve its sustainability reporting practices and prevent costly outages

On September 20th, Uptime released its 12th Annual Global Data Center Survey, which analyzed the growth and sustainability efforts of the industry, as well as the challenges it is facing. The report noted that the industry is “growing, dynamic and increasingly resilient” but largely failing on...

September 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

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