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PubMatic announces its global data centers are now fully powered by renewable energy

PubMatic has reportedly achieved 100% renewable energy across all of its data centers globally, including in California, New Jersey, London, Amsterdam, and Singapore. Sourced from wind and solar power, this achievement is a significant one for the company, whose energy usage is 90% composed of...

June 23, 2022

California

Netrality Expands Its St. Louis Data Center

Netrality Data Centers has completed the expansion of its St Louis data center in Missouri. The facility is located at 210 North Tucker. Netrality added two new data halls with 1.2MW capacity across 1,077 square meters (11,600 square feet) of space. Netrality DC’s Chief Revenue Officer, A...

June 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

210 N Tucker (Netrality) St Louis Carrier Hotel

Layer 9 Plans 64MW Data Center in Mexico

Layer 9 Data Centers has completed a Series A investment round. The company is also planning to develop a 64MW data center in Mexico from the fund raised. However, it didn’t reveal the amount it raised. The Series A investment was led by a consortium of top-shots in the industry. Layer 9 DC...

June 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Mexico City / Ciudad de México

Boston Properties Sells Virginia-95 Business Park To Finmarc For $127.5m

Finmarc Management Inc. has completed the acquisition of the Virginia-95 Business Park from Boston Properties Inc. The property consists of data center buildings and industrial buildings. The purchase price is $127.5 million. The 740,000 square feet properties feature 11 buildings that compris...

June 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Minister Announces New Public Data Center in Greece

The Greek government has announced that it will develop a new data center powered by green energy. The data center will be called Knossos II. Greece's Minister of State and Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, made the data center announcement when he visited the University of Crete. Acco...

June 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Greece

Angelo Gordon To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Hong Kong

Angelo Gordon, a New York-based equity group, has plans to develop a data center in Hong Kong. According to Mingtiandi, the company has submitted an application with the town planning board to build a 20MW data center. The data center will be located at No. 3 Kin Tai Street, Tuen Mun, Hong ...

June 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hong Kong

Evolution Data Centres (EvoDC) launches new Sustainable Data Centre Charter

Evolution Data Centres has announced the launch of its new Sustainable Data Centre Charter, through which it measures its entire operations, with the aim of minimizing carbon intensity and limiting water usage as the company grows. The charter includes the target of emitting 20 tonnes of carbo...

June 20, 2022

Singapore

Virginia’s Warren County considers adding data centers to zoning laws

Virginia's Warren County officials have announced that they are considering a proposal to amend zoning laws which could lead to a new wave of data center development in the County, in the northwest of the state and west of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties. As per the proposal, an amendment would ...

June 17, 2022

Northern Virginia

DOE launches $8bn H2Hubs program

The US Department of Energy recently launched an $8 billion program through which it will develop a network of regional clean hydrogen hubs across America, to fast-track the use of hydrogen as a clean energy source.Although the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has outlined plans for at least four...

June 17, 2022

United States

Compass Data Centers announces plans for over 10 million sq ft of data centers

It has been confirmed that Compass Data Centers is one of the companies that is involved in the Prince William Digital Gateway Project in Virginia, a plan that is steeped in controversy and would see over 2,000 acres of land in the County used for data center construction. If the plan is given...

June 17, 2022

Northern Virginia

Transtelecom Develops Disaster Recovery Data Center for Sberbank in Kazakhstan

Transtelecom has announced that it developed a backup data center for Sberbank’s operations in Kazakhstan. Sberbank is a Russian bank, while Transtelecom is a Kazakhstani telecommunication company. The data center is located in Karaganda, to the northeast of Kazakhstan. The companies did not r...

June 17, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Kazakhstan

San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

Microsoft has announced that it will be using renewable natural gas to fuel its backup energy at its San Jose data center, which is currently under construction. This move aligns with the company’s target of being carbon negative by 2030, and the project will also provide power locally with em...

June 16, 2022

California

Euronext announces completion of data center migration from UK to Italy

Euronext has announced it has completed its data center migration project, which involved moving its data infrastructure from the UK to Italy, (Basildon, UK, to the Aruba Global Cloud data center IT3 in Bergamo, Italy.) According to the company, the new core data center will be completely powe...

June 16, 2022

Italy

Cloudoon To Develop Kenya's Largest Data Center

Cloudoon has plans to develop a large data center in Kenya. According to People Daily, the cloud hosting company secured up to 6 billion Kenyan Shillings ($51.1m) to develop the facility. The data center will be built on a 10-acre campus near a Forks Hydro-power station in the country. Acco...

June 16, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Kenya

Hyperco Acquires Equinix and Thales-Occupied Data Center in Helsinki, Finland

Hyperco has made its first acquisition as it takes over a property belonging to TS-Yhtyma. The company paid more than €35 million ($36.4m) for the property. The building is located at Myllynkivenkuja 4 in Vantaa, Helsinki, Finland. Thales and Equinix are also occupying the property. The bui...

June 16, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Helsinki

Bit Origin Enter Agreement To Develop a 75MW Cryptominine Data Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Bit Origin Limited has announced that it will be developing a cryptomine data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The company revealed that it had entered some agreements to invest up to $3m in a private crypto mining fund. The fund will then be used to develop a cryptomine with up to 75MW capacity i...

June 16, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Cheyenne

Cloud at Work Opens New Data Center in Toronto

Cloud at Work has announced the launch of a new data center in Toronto, Canada. The move sees the company expand into the Canadian market as it already has two world-class data centers in the US. According to Cloud at Work, the new facility will ensure that its customers in Canada have access ...

June 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Toronto

Virginia's Culpeper County Could See Development of 765,000 Sq ft Data Center Campus

The president of AttoTek, a software development firm, David Martin, has filed for rezoning in Culpeper County, Virginia. The filing details involve rezoning 88 acres of his property around Stevensburg Road and Brandy Road. Once approved, it can lead to over 700,000 square feet (65,000 square ...

June 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

3data and Alias Group Form Partnership To Develop Data Center in Krasnodar, Russia

Russian investment firm Alias Group and data center firm 3data will develop a data center in Krasnodar, Russia. The data center firm revealed that the data center would come online towards the end of next year. It will also use a franchise model with Alias Group. The Krasnodar territory is ...

June 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Russia / Россия

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Announces Nine More Edge Facilities in South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is looking to launch nine Edge data centers across South Africa. The company announced that it would deploy Edge facilities in East London, Paarl, New Germany, Pietermaritzburg, Beaufort West, Mount Edgecombe, Kimberley, George, and Brits in a few months. Upon c...

June 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Africa

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