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Read DataVolt intends to construct a data facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
DataVolt intends to construct a data facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

DataVolt intends to construct a data facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

September 19, 2023 Bangladesh

DataVolt, a new Saudi company, is planning a data center campus outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Local media report that the company intends to invest $100 million to construct a data center on three acres of land in the Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City in the Kaliakair district of Gazpur. The announcement was...

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Read KKR is to pay $807 million for a stake in SingTel's regional data centre operation
KKR is to pay $807 million for a stake in SingTel's regional data centre operation

KKR is to pay $807 million for a stake in SingTel's regional data centre operation

September 19, 2023 Asia-Pacific (APAC)

On Monday, SingTel announced that KKR will buy a 20% share in its regional data center business for $806.87 million. SingTel and KKR said in a joint statement that the agreement values SingTel's regional data center business at $4.03 billion and will be utilized to develop in Southeast Asian...

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Read New HPC data center to be built at the University of Alabama
New HPC data center to be built at the University of Alabama

New HPC data center to be built at the University of Alabama

September 19, 2023 Alabama

The University of Alabama (UA) will receive a new data center to house supercomputers. The UA System Board of Trustees has approved the first phase of construction for a new high-performance computing (HPC) data facility on the Tuscaloosa campus. The initiative is predicted to need $96 million in...

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Read Compass Datacenters Acquires Former Sears HQ for $194M to Build Data Center Campus
Compass Datacenters Acquires Former Sears HQ for $194M to Build Data Center Campus

Compass Datacenters Acquires Former Sears HQ for $194M to Build Data Center Campus

September 18, 2023 Compass Hoffman Estates

Compass Datacenters has acquired the former Sears headquarters, spanning 197 acres in the Chicago area, for $194 million. As Sears continues to downsize its operations, Compass plans to replace the existing 2.4 million square-foot campus with data centers, reflecting the growing demand for cloud...

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Read Nigeria's NIPSS requests that customs establish a data facility
Nigeria's NIPSS requests that customs establish a data facility

Nigeria's NIPSS requests that customs establish a data facility

September 18, 2023 Nigeria

The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies suggests the Nigeria Customs Service create a trade modeling data center. They have also advocated for establishing a pension institute for retired officials. NIPSS Director General Prof. Ayo Omotayo made this assertion during a courtesy...

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Read EdgeConneX secures $403.8m sustainability-linked financing for Indonesia data center
EdgeConneX secures $403.8m sustainability-linked financing for Indonesia data center

EdgeConneX secures $403.8m sustainability-linked financing for Indonesia data center

September 14, 2023 Indonesia

EdgeConneX has shared that it has secured $403.8 million in sustainability-linked financing (SLF). This loan is for its 120MW data center campus development in Jakarta, Indonesia.The deal leverages EdgeConneX's Sustainability Strategy and will reportedly use offshore US dollar borrowing. It...

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Read A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale
A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale

A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale

September 14, 2023 Detroit

A data center outside of Detroit, Michigan, is available for purchase. Lee & Associates, a real estate agency, has listed 21420 Melrose in Southfield, Oakland County, as available. The 1986-built, 15,956-square-foot property is available for $1.34m. “This building is extremely well maintained...

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Read Michigan's Kmart headquarters and data center will be demolished
Michigan's Kmart headquarters and data center will be demolished

Michigan's Kmart headquarters and data center will be demolished

September 14, 2023 Michigan

The Troy, Michigan, Kmart corporate office and data center will be destroyed soon. The 906,000-square-foot facility is located at 3100 W. Big Beaver Road on a 40-acre lot. No post-demolition arrangements for the site have been revealed publicly at this time. The head offices have been vacant...

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Read Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is considering selling its fiber assets for $1 billion.
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is considering selling its fiber assets for $1 billion.

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is considering selling its fiber assets for $1 billion.

September 14, 2023 Indonesia

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) is contemplating selling its Indonesian fiber assets. The Indonesian telco is reportedly assessing its strategy for its fiber business, as Bloomberg reported last week. The assets could be valued at more than $1 billion, according to Bloomberg, which reported...

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Read Morrow County, Oregon, rezones Percheron data center land
Morrow County, Oregon, rezones Percheron data center land

Morrow County, Oregon, rezones Percheron data center land

September 12, 2023 Oregon

Land 11 miles southwest of Boardman in Oregon's Morrow County has been zoned from agricultural to industrial, and the board of commissioners has given authorization. The change in zoning will permit the construction of data centers on the site. There are proposals to construct a 50MW solar farm...

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Read Water tech company AquaTech and new Saudi firm DataVolt collaborate for data centers
Water tech company AquaTech and new Saudi firm DataVolt collaborate for data centers

Water tech company AquaTech and new Saudi firm DataVolt collaborate for data centers

September 12, 2023 Saudi Arabia

DataVolt is collaborating with AquaTech Systems, an Indian firm specializing in water technology, to construct water-efficient data centers. The two companies revealed this week that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation and services in water conditioning and...

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Read CyrusOne plans expansion in Frankfurt with seventh data center campus
CyrusOne plans expansion in Frankfurt with seventh data center campus

CyrusOne plans expansion in Frankfurt with seventh data center campus

September 11, 2023 CyrusOne Frankfurt FRA7

CyrusOne is set to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA7, this is the company’s seventh data center campus in Frankfurt. Construction is set to begin in the third quarter of 2024, with an expected delivery date of the second quarter of 2026. Based on a 63,000 sqm (678,125...

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Read SK ecoplant plans new 120MW data center campus
SK ecoplant plans new 120MW data center campus

SK ecoplant plans new 120MW data center campus

September 11, 2023 SK ecoplant: Pohang

SK ecoplant has shared plans for a new 120MW data center campus and landing station in Pohang, South Korea. This will reportedly be the first in Pohang City, and will see four data centers developed with a capacity of 30MW each, to be built by 2027.This comes following the signing of an...

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Read Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council
Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council

Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council

September 11, 2023 Virginia

Culpeper Town Council is debating whether to rezon a land on East Chandler Street to create a six-building, 4.3 million-square-foot data center facility and substation in Culpeper County, Virginia. The 116-acre lot is zoned Residential-2 following 15 years of planning for a 490-home project. Such...

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Read Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers
Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers

Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers

September 11, 2023 Sweden

Karnfull Next, a Swedish nuclear corporation, has announced plans for a campus of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Swedish coast that will power data centers. The company intends to construct the facility in Nykoping, on the Swedish east coast, where the nuclear software company Studsvik...

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Read Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers
Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers

Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers

September 11, 2023 Philippines

Axiata Group is done with the transfer of the remaining towers from PLDT's subsidiaries to its Philippine subsidiary. Thus, the Malaysian company has finalized an agreement to acquire and lease back 2,710 sites. The company declared that the final transfer of the six sites under its agreement...

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Read V.tal intends to construct a 6MW data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil
V.tal intends to construct a 6MW data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil

V.tal intends to construct a 6MW data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil

September 08, 2023 Brazil / Brasil

V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, revealed plans for a new facility in Porto Alegre. The data center will accommodate 400 racks of servers in two data halls spanning 75,350 square feet. This year is anticipated to be the start of construction for an H2 2024 completion date. The company...

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Read Operations commence at TikTok's Irish data center
Operations commence at TikTok's Irish data center

Operations commence at TikTok's Irish data center

September 07, 2023 Republic of Ireland

Operations have begun at TikTok's long-planned data center in Ireland, it has announced. This is its first in Ireland. It is also working on opening two more data centers in Europe, a second in Ireland and another in Norway. This move is a bid to please regulators, and ease spying fears, as part...

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Read Digital Realty to expand in Italy
Digital Realty to expand in Italy

Digital Realty to expand in Italy

September 07, 2023 Italy

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to...

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Read V.tal expands datacenter footprint in southern Brazil
V.tal expands datacenter footprint in southern Brazil

V.tal expands datacenter footprint in southern Brazil

September 07, 2023 Brazil / Brasil

V.tal has shared that it is expanding its footprint in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Set to be the company’s first in the country’s south region and fifth overall, the development (dubbed V.OA) will see an investment of 250mn reais (US$50.7mn), as part of the company’s wider expansion plan in Brazil and...

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