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Enovum launches its phase 1 in Montreal

Enovum Data Centers has announced that the first phase of its Montreal facility has been launched. It will soon begin its second phase.With 70,000 sqft of infrastructure and move-in space availability for a total of 187,500 sqft, the facility's first phase also has a capacity of 1.5 MW. Once c...

September 29, 2022

Montreal

Widespread internet outages in Iran amid protests around the killing of Mahsa Amini

Amid mounting protests over the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, the Iranian government recently expanded its internet shutdown. Amini had been held in the custody of Tehran’s morality police for allegedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress code by wearing her headscarf too loosel...

September 28, 2022

Middle East

South Africa faces unprecedented power cuts

South Africa is reportedly facing unprecedented levels of nationwide power blackouts. These blackouts come as a result of state-owned power utility Eskom, which produces 95% of the country’s electricity, implementing Stage 6 load shedding, which means that homes and businesses go without elect...

September 26, 2022

South Africa

Safaricom to expand footprint in Ethiopia

Safaricom is to build a new data center outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, it has been announced. This comes following the signing of a developed land sublease agreement with Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) to build a new Tier-III quality ‘telco-cloud data center’. The facility wil...

September 26, 2022

Ethiopia

China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers

Back in May 2021, Greenpeace said that China's data center emissions were to double, with its energy usage expected to nearly quadruple by 2035 (increasing by an estimated 289%). "Explosive growth" in digital infrastructure was identified as a major contributing factor to this. Considering the...

September 26, 2022

China

Cargill moves into the bio-industrial business with its plant-based immersion cooling

Cargill, an American food producer giant and the third largest meat producer in the world, has announced that it has created the world's first plant-based dielectric fluid for immersion cooling fluid in data centers. Named NatureCool 2000, the cooling liquid was designed for the data center an...

September 26, 2022

United States

OVHcloud Develops Facility on Strasbourg Site Ravaged By Fire in 2021

OVHcloud has announced opening of a new facility on the Strasbourg site ravaged by fire in 2021. The new data center named SBG5 cost the company €30 million ($30.5m). SBG5 data center is equipped with an automatic fire extinguishing system. Although this system is standard among modern data ce...

September 26, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Strasbourg Campus

Verne and Volta announce they're team up

Verne Global and Volta Data Centres have announced that they have teamed up and will now be operating under the Verne Global brand, spanning from Iceland to the UK. Speaking about the decision to merge, Dominic Ward, CEO of Verne Global, said: “With two complementary, best-in-class data cente...

September 23, 2022

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

Bosung Group to expand in South Korea

Bosung Group is expanding its data center footprint in SolaSeaDo, South Korea, with the addition of a new 200MW data center campus in SolaSeaDo, to the south of the country in Jeonnam Province. These expansion plans come following the company partnering up with The Green Korea (TGK), a joint v...

September 23, 2022

South Korea

NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe

NEC Corporation has announced that it is establishing two new green data centers, in response to the growing demand. The first is the "NEC Kanagawa Data Center: Phase 2 Building" which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2023, and the second is "NEC Kobe Data Center: Phase 3 Building," ...

September 23, 2022

Japan

Borealis Data Center Buys Data Center For Undisclosed Fee in Reykjavík, Iceland

Icelandic data center company Borealis Data Center has completed the acquisition of a data center just outside Reykjavik, Iceland. According to Visir, the company purchased the facility from Islandsbanki. However, the terms of the acquisition weren’t revealed. Borealis currently operates tw...

September 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iceland

Tighter guidelines on data centre sustainability needed, new report says

There have been a number of recent reports that have highlighted that data center operators are falling short when it comes to sustainability tracking. Morningstar Sustainanalytics, Uptime Institute's 12th annual Global data center survey, and now Cushman & Wakefield's report 'Energy, Wate...

September 22, 2022

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Equinix expands in Madrid, Spain

Equinix's new IBX facility, known as MD6, is almost ready for opening, the company has announced. The facility is set to span 1,466 sqm (15,780 sq ft), with a power capacity of 4.8 MW, and offers capacity for 600 racks. Located on Calle de la Pedriza, 12, Alcobendas, this new facility joins ...

September 20, 2022

Equinix MD6

Bite Lithuania announces opening of new data center

Bite Lithuania has announced that it has opened a new data center outside Vilnius in Lithuania, taking the company's total data center operations to six. According to the telco, the facility is Tier III certified, and powered by renewable energy. Speaking about the expansion, Gintas Butėnas, C...

September 20, 2022

Lithuania

Um Telecom announces plans for new data center in Recife, Brazil

Brazilian telco Um Telecom has announced that it is investing R$40 million (US$7.6m) in a new data center in Recife in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. The facility, which is expected to achieve Tier III certification, will be based at the Technological Park of Electronics and Associated ...

September 19, 2022

Brazil / Brasil

Zscaler announces carbon neutral status and aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2025

Zscaler has announced that it has achieved carbon neutral status, and said that it intends to reach net zero emissions by 2025. However, the company has not published a link to the emissions and carbon accounting data underlying this claim along with the announcement, and the data has not yet ...

September 19, 2022

California

Xcel property in Becker, Minnesota to house big data center project?

A $1 billion data center project could be on the way to Becker, Minnesota, as Xcel Energy Inc. announces plans to sell 348 acres of land at its Sherco location to an unknown data center company. This company is currently going by the name Elk River Technologies and was reportedly incorporated ...

September 15, 2022

Minnesota

Cape Verde data center to be completed by the end of the year

Cape Verde’s new data center is set to be completed by the end of 2022; it has been announced. According to reports, the first phase of construction of the Cabo Verde Technology Park’s main building is 85 percent complete and ready for operation by 2022’s end. The project, supported by African...

September 14, 2022

Africa

DITO Opens New Data Center in Batangas, The Philippines

Philippines telecommunication company DITO Telecommunity has opened a data center in Batangas City. DITO did not reveal the specifications for the data center, but it had a launch ceremony for the facility. From indications, the data center was developed in conjunction with Udenna- its pare...

September 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Philippines

Data centers to receive VAT exemption in Thailand to energize investment

In a move intended to encourage greater investment in data centers in Thailand, the Thai cabinet has approved the draft Royal Decree regarding data centers receiving a tax (VAT) exemption. At present, Thai VAT is levied at the rate of 7%.The decision, made to facilitate the country becoming a ...

September 13, 2022

Thailand / Prathet Thai

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