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Equinix Sofia data center's phase 2 development completed

The expansion of one of Equinix's Bulgarian data centers in Sofia has been concluded. This week, the company announced the completion of the second phase of its SO2 data center in the capital of Bulgaria. The development, which doubles the site's capacity to 700 servers, cost $12 million, acco...

July 20, 2023

Equinix Sofia SO1

ClickUp announces localised data hosting at its EU data center in Ireland

ClickUp has announced that it is expanding its investment in Europe with localised data hosting in its European data center. Operated by Amazon Web Services, ClickUp's European data center is based in Ireland, and following this announcement, customers subscribed to its Enterprise plan will ha...

July 19, 2023

Europe

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel to begin work on data center

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel has shared that it has obtained the permits to begin work on its new data center in the heritage section of Vancouver's Harbour Centre. The company shared that the project is still in its preconstruction phase, but that construction will commence in August 2023, ...

July 19, 2023

Canada

Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the c...

July 19, 2023

Finland

Tonomus establishes data center in Saudi's Neom city

Tonomus, a digital corporation within the new Neom city in Saudi Arabia, opened a data center. Neom is a plan to build a massive new smart metropolis on the coast of the Red Sea in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk. The Public Investment Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund, owns 10...

July 19, 2023

Saudi Arabia

Norwegian government approves Green Mountain TikTok data facility

The government has granted Green Mountain permission to construct a data center campus for TikTok. However, stricter data center regulations may shortly be introduced in Norway. Green Mountain announced in March 2023 that it would construct three 90MW buildings in the Hamar region by November ...

July 19, 2023

Norway

Port of Valencia gives up data center proposals for docks building

The municipal council of Valencia has abandoned plans to construct a data center in a port docks building. More than a year had passed since the local government began considering multiple proposals for establishing a data center in a building on the Marina de Valencia. Nevertheless, this week...

July 18, 2023

Spain

Circularity in action: Obit shares data center/vertical farm plans

Obit has shared plans for a new data center in St. Petersburg, which will be located on a land plot home to a complex of vertical farms. The company is set to invest around two billion rubles ($22.1m) in the project, which will offer a capacity for 512 racks, with excess heat released from the...

July 17, 2023

Russia / Россия

Data center to be built by Edged Energy in Mesa, Arizona

Edged Energy intends to construct a new data center in the Phoenix, Arizona, neighborhood of Mesa. Edged Energy has submitted applications to Mesa's design review board and development and zoning board to construct a 126,000-square-foot data center on a 14-acre site near the Loop 202 interstat...

July 17, 2023

Arizona

India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar

PowerGrid, an Indian transmission corporation, plans to construct a data center on a substation site outside of Delhi. This week, PowerGrid's board authorized a revised investment proposal for the 'establishment of an experimental data center at PowerGrid Manesar Substation,' according to an a...

July 17, 2023

India / Bhārata

New green Panama data center launched by Sparkle

Sparkle, Telecom Italia's infrastructure unit, has launched the Panama Digital Gateway, a 3.5MW site offering the first "green data center" in Panama. Located in the Corozal area of Panama City, the site spans 5,500 square meters (59,200 sq ft) of space for up to 650 equivalent racks across fi...

July 14, 2023

Panamá

Ericsson sets up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy

Ericsson has announced that it has set up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy. Located in Plano, Texas, the site can be fully operated by solar energy and supported by integrated Lithium-ion batteries, for up to 24 hours. The Plano site includes Ericsson's Massive MIMO radio configurati...

July 14, 2023

Texas

Cologix reveals a new data space at the 511 carrier hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Cologix is expanding its data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by adding a new data hall. With the new MIN5 data center now available for pre-leasing, the company has increased its presence in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, market. Located in the 511 Building carrier hotel, also known as the Min...

July 14, 2023

Cologix

Switch Inc. receives $500m investment from Aware Super

The Australian pension fund Aware Super has invested in the data center company Switch Inc. This week, Switch proprietor DigitalBridge announced that Aware Super will make "a significant investment" in Switch. The deal's value wasn't made public in the initial publication, but DigitalBridge's ...

July 14, 2023

United States

Icelandic hydroelectric plant receives a micro data center installation from Japan's IIJ

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has installed a micro data center (MDC) at an Icelandic hydroelectric power station. In April 2023, IIJ announced intentions for a data center trial project in Iceland in collaboration with Landsvirkjun, the country's national power company.From April until...

July 14, 2023

Iceland

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to b...

July 14, 2023

Equinix

e& and Orange are contemplating bids for 45% of Ethio Telecom

Two operators are reportedly interested in acquiring a 45 percent stake in Ethio Telecom. e& of the United Arab Emirates and Orange of France are exploring opportunities surrounding state-owned Ethio, as per Bloomberg, which cited individuals with knowledge of the situation. The publicatio...

July 13, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Saudi IT company MIS establishes a subsidiary data center

Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS) of Saudi Arabia has established a new data center subsidiary. This week, the company's board of directors announced the establishment of a wholly-owned data center business in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The subsidiary will focus on administering, operating, and m...

July 13, 2023

Saudi Arabia

Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

In anticipation of a potential sale-leaseback transaction, Spanish insurance company Mapfre is listing its data center for sale. According to Cinco Dias, the company has hired CBRE to find a buyer for the Tales de Mileto building in the Alcalá de Henares neighborhood of Madrid.Mapfre launched ...

July 13, 2023

Madrid

Application filed for Oxfordshire data center stirs up controversy amongst locals

De Montalt Life Sciences is planning to build a campus comprising seven 25m high buildings, a data center, and two multi-story car parks on the outskirts of an Oxfordshire town in the UK. Planned at the former Wicklesham Quarry in Faringdon and spanning 42,286 sqm (455,163 sq ft), the proposal...

July 12, 2023

United Kingdom

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