World Data Center News

India's data center boom: Growth and projections

India is currently experiencing a data center boom, an expansion that is only expected to grow. According to research, while the industry was previously fragmented, it is now evolving rapidly as the industry becomes more consolidated. Presently, there are 138 data centers spanning India, with ...

August 29, 2022

India / Bhārata

Involta Expands its Independence, Ohio Facility

Involta has announced the expansion of its data center in Independent, Ohio. The data center company added 1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) of space to the facility. It also added 1MW of power to the data center. The facility is located at 7300 E Pleasant Valley Road. The expansion ...

August 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ark: Independence

Scala Data Centers Announce The Launch of SP4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Scala Data Centers has announced the launch of its SP4 data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. SP4 is located on the company’s Tambore data center campus in the Barueri area of Sao Paulo. The company told BNAmericas that the data center is at its first stage and will provide up to 6MW of IT power...

August 26, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Scala: SGRUTB01 Tamboré

Canberra Data Centres Opens Two New Data Centers in Auckland, New Zealand

Canberra Data Centres has announced the opening of two new facilities in Auckland, New Zealand. The Australian data center company launched the data centers in Auckland's Hobsonville and Silverdale areas. The Silverdale campus is called Auckland Campus One, while the Hobsonville data center is...

August 25, 2022

Eric Bell

CDC Auckland 2 Hobsonville

Data Center in Florida Occupied By Sprint Up For Sale

A Sprint Telecom-occupied data center in Florida has been put up for sale. The data center is located at 360 S. Lake Destiny Drive, Orlando. According to a property listing, the data center spans 2,430 square meters (26,245 square feet). It also sits on a 3.11-acre of land. The facility cur...

August 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

Kennedy Wilson To Develop a 73MW Data Center in Slough, UK

A 73MW data center campus is being planned outside Slough, UK. Developers plan to demolish many office buildings that are not commercially viable to develop the facility. Kennedy Wilson’s affiliate Kwere II filed with the South Buckinghamshire council to develop the data center campus at Frame...

August 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London: Slough

Poland To Develop National Data Center

The government of Poland is looking to develop a National Data Center. This will comprise three fiber-linked facilities. The development comes after a draft bill document was published highlighting plans to build a ‘National Data Processing Center.’ According to the document, the plan is to st...

August 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Poland

Dominion to reconnect new data center connections in eastern Loudoun

Dominion, the primary power provider in Loudoun county, has announced that although Loudoun County's data center industry outpaces its capacity to deliver electricity, there is a way forward. In a conversation with Biz Journals, Bob Blue, Dominion's president and CEO, said that the company had...

August 19, 2022

Northern Virginia

Land meant for data center infrastructure in Fort Worth rezoned

According to reports, a parcel of land in Fort Worth, Texas, has been rezoned for residential and light industrial developments. Previously, the 361 acres of land was set aside for digital infrastructure and data center development, however this was never capitalized on. Specifically, the land...

August 18, 2022

Texas

Saratoga Investama Invests in Indonesia's AtriaDC

Indonesian investment company Saratoga Investama has announced that it has pumped funds into AtriaDC, a local data center firm. The funds will help AtriaDC expand its data center to 30MW. AtriaDC operates a purpose-built data center it recently acquired in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to r...

August 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indonesia

South Dublin Council & Peter Burke in dispute over data center ban

A dispute has arisen between Irish Minister for Planning Peter Burke and South Dublin County Councillors over its ban on new data centers in the county. Burke had claimed last month that the county’s decision to make data centers “not permitted” use in the new county development plan breached ...

August 17, 2022

Dublin

Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Developing New Facility in Taoyuan, Taiwan

Taiwanese telecommunication company Chunghwa will be developing a new data center in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The company revealed that the board approved the development of the Lunping Internet Data Center. The new data center will feature five floors above ground and a basement. Its floor area will ...

August 17, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Taiwan

Namibia: Paratus launches data center in Windhoek

Paratus has announced the launch of a new data center in Namibia, located in the capital city, Windhoek, its first facility in the country. The company has called the facility ‘Armada,' and although further details around the facility are yet to be released, it will reportedly be built to Tier...

August 15, 2022

Africa

Protests arise in opposition to recently approved €450m Ennis data center

Environmental group Futureproof Clare is opposing the approval of a €450 million ($464.3m) data center project in Ennis, in the West of Ireland, over concerns around public health, and a projected use of "inordinate amounts of water and electricity."The facility, an Art Data Centres project, w...

August 15, 2022

Republic of Ireland

Eurofiber Cloud Infra employs circular economy principles

Eurofiber Cloud Infra has announced that it is exploring employing circular economy principles in association with housing corporation Volkshuisvesting, infra-specialist for new energy Firan, and Eurofiber-owned Dataplace, for its data center in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The three have partnere...

August 15, 2022

Netherlands

Ooredoo announces ground breaking of three data centers in Oman

Qatari telecoms firm Ooredoo has announced plans to build three more data centers in Barka, Salalah, and Suhar. Each will be Tier 3 and have 500 racks capacity, the two former will provide landing points for the upcoming 2Africa cable. “Ooredoo has begun construction on three new state-of-the-...

August 11, 2022

Qatar

Several Companies Including QTS, DAMAC, Prime DC, and Pure Looking To Expand into Spain

Many US data center firms and developers are looking to enter the Spanish data center market. They are looking to develop or acquire the facilities in the country. According to Cinco Dias, Blackstone – through QTS, Prime DC, Pure, and DAMAC are exploring options to buy land and build data cent...

August 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

New York Internet Doubles Its Data Center Presence By Taking Over Equinix's Space at 60 Hudson Street

New York Internet has announced the takeover of space at the Hudson Street carrier hotel. Equinix formerly occupied the space. NYI is an infrastructure and managed services provider. It also had a presence at the building before expanding to Equinix's former space. The deal is a result of a...

August 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix New York NY8

Nation Data Center To Develop Second Data Center in France

French data center company Nation Data Center has revealed it will be developing a second data center. The facility will be located in Val-de-Reuil in Normandy. According to a LinkedIn post from the company, it says it is proud to announce its second data, which it referred to as a fortress...

August 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Segro applies to build new data center park in Slough, UK

Segro has announced that it has applied to build a new data center park, near Slough, UK. Details outline that the park will span 65,000 sqm (700,000 sq ft) and be located within the Thorney Business Park in Iver. According to the planning statement, the proposed building (DC1) is also accompa...

August 09, 2022

London: Slough

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