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Agility CMS launches new EU data center

Agility CMS has announced that it has launched a new EU data center in an effort to improve the speed of content management access, and provide localized support for its customers in both Europe and the UK. This move also comes after a year in which sales doubled and is accompanied by the grow...

June 13, 2022

Europe

Mapletree Industrial Trust Announces Sale of Michigan Data Center

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) has announced the sale of its data center located at 19675 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, Michigan, to its tenant. The data center sits on 121,100 square feet (11,250 square meters) of land. In addition, the four-story facility has up to 52,940 square feet ...

June 13, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Mapletree: 19675 W Ten Mile

Schneider Electric research reveals "sustainability action gap" in data centres

Schneider Electric recently commissioned three independent research studies which sought to understand better the maturity of sustainability initiatives within both IT and data center organizations, and where the two industries are currently situated with regards to achieving a net zero vision...

June 10, 2022

France

Work begins on Africell data center

In Freetown, Sierra Leone, construction has commenced on Africell’s data center, and a groundbreaking ceremony was recently held in the country’s capital to mark the occasion. According to the company, this facility will become the “center of the Africell network” in Sierra Leone, where it wil...

June 10, 2022

Africa

Meta Adding Two More Buildings To Its Huntsville Facility in Alabama

Meta has announced that it is expanding its Huntsville facility in Alabama. The company revealed that it is adding two new buildings to the data center to allow the data center buildings to span 3.5 million square feet of space. According to Meta, its investment in the facility will exceed ...

June 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Meta Huntsville Campus

Apple's Hopes of Developing Its Athenry Data Center Dashed

Ireland’s High Court has rescinded a decision to allow more time for Apple to develop a data center in Athenry, Galway County. Earlier in 2021, the Galway County Council extended Apple’s planning permission for a data center development in the county. This extension happened at a time when ...

June 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Apple Athenry

iM Critical Opens Data Center in Miami

iM Critical has announced the opening of its new data center in Miami, Florida. The 9,290 square meter (100,000 square foot) data center building offers 5MW capacity and more than 5,575 square meters (60,000 square feet) of colocation space. The CEO of iM Critical, Michael Roark, said the Miam...

June 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

T4's South Island Data Center's Location Chosen

T4 Group has announced that it would house its planned Tier IV facility in New Zealand’s South Island at a hotel in Invercargill. The hotel will also use the data center’s waste heat. T4 first announced plans for the data center in March 2022. The company revealed that it would invest $30 m...

June 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Zealand

Neterra Opens SDC 2 in Sofia, Bulgaria

Telecommunication company, Neterra, has launched a new data center in Sofia, Bulgaria. The new data center is called Sofia Data Center 2 (SDC 2). SDC 2 is located next to Neterra’s existing SDC 1 data center. Neterra first announced plans for SDC 2 in April 2021. The data center is housed i...

June 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Bulgaria

President Biden cuts tax barriers on solar panel imports

On Monday, President Biden launched a clean energy push with the announcement that there will be a two-year break from tariffs on solar panels coming from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, in an effort to bolster clean energy projects in the U.S. Alongside issuing this executive order...

June 08, 2022

United States

Bitzero & investor Kevin O’Leary make big company announcements

Bitcoin mining company Bitzero, reportedly a "100% green company," recently made a number of announcements related to its expansion and headquarters location. Plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years were announced, and the state was also ch...

June 06, 2022

North Dakota

Etisalat Opens New Data Center in Kalba, UAE

e& and Etisalat- its subsidiary have opened a cable landing station and data center in Kalba, UAE. e& which used to be called Etisalat Group, opened SmartHub Kalba earlier. According to Telco Etisalat, the new data center was developed to Tier III standards. The data center will also p...

June 03, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Etisalat Kalba

Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however...

June 01, 2022

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

UK government launches eight-week consultation on data centers and the cloud

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport recently announced the commencement of an eight-week consultation, part of the National Data Strategy, to explore strengthening the security and resiliency of the UK's data centers and cloud services. Specifically, it is calling for view...

May 31, 2022

United Kingdom

Winter power cuts ahead for the UK?

The UK government has hit back at rumors that this winter, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK could experience blackouts. The government has said that this would be a "worst-case scenario" and a result of Russia cutting off more supplies to the EU. Commenting on whether or ...

May 31, 2022

United Kingdom

US Air Force Developing Data Center on New South Korean HQ

The US Air Force’s 51st Communications Squadron has started work on its new HQ at the 51st Fighter Wing Osan Air Base in South Korea. The new headquarters will feature a data center with updated network operations. In addition, the data center will also serve as the alternate action team, f...

May 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Korea

GMT To Develop Crypto Mining Data Center in The UAE

GMT has announced its plans to develop a data center in the UAE. The Singapore-based crypto mining company revealed in a Medium post that it would be investing heavily in developing a data center in the region. According to GMT, there’s no exact location for the data center yet, but more in...

May 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Bristow Officials To Allow Data Center Development on Stanley Martin’s Devlin Technology Park

Bristow’s officials have voted in favor of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment. This amendment could see the development of a 4.25 million square feet data center campus in the area. Stanley Martin, a Virginia-based developer, is looking to have over 250 acres in Prince William County rezoned. T...

May 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Best Wonder Business (BWB) to develop a data center powered entirely by solar power in Aragon, Spain

Best Wonder Business (BWB) has announced its intentions to develop a 16MW data center, powered solely by solar power, and located at the Huesca Logistics Platform (Plhus) business park outside Huesca, in the Aragon region. Reported to be worth €230 million ($264m); the company hopes the facili...

May 27, 2022

Spain

Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion

Telefónica has announced that it has successfully issued its first senior sustainable bond to fund sustainability projects and initiatives amounting to €1 billion ($1.06bn) with a term of nine years. Telefónica has now made five ESG issuances in the last three years totaling €4.25 billion ($4...

May 27, 2022

Spain

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