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GDS Starts Work on its RM1.38 Billion Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia

GDS Holdings has announced that it has started work on a data center campus in Malaysia. The company revealed that it would invest RM1.38 billion in developing the 242,200 square feet (22,500 square meters) at the Nusajaya Tech Park in Johor. The hyperscale data center campus will deliver 5...

April 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DayOne: Nusajaya Tech Park

Supernap Thailand announces signing of PPA to build solar plant

Supernap Thailand has announced that it has signed a PPA with WHA Utilities & Power, to build a solar plant alongside its data center just outside of Bangkok. The project, which will see an investment of THB 30 million (~$886,000), will take place on 10,000 sqm (107,600 sqft) of space. WHA...

April 25, 2022

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Brazil's State of Rio Grande do Sul To Invest to invest $18.3m in Disaster Recovery Data Center

The State of Rio Grande do Sul’s information and communication center plans to develop a disaster recovery data center. Procergs (Centro de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul SA), will be in charge of the project. The firm will receive BRL 87.9 million ($1...

April 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Brazil / Brasil

VueNow To Develop 40 Edge Facilities Across Bihar, India

VueNow has revealed that it plans to develop multiple Edge data centers across Bihar, India. According to Business Standard, Bihar’s IT department received a proposal from VueNow about an investment plan to develop data centers across the state. This investment is worth Rs817 crore ($107m). Ac...

April 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

India / Bhārata

YTL Corp To Develop a 500MW Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia

YTL Corp is looking to develop a 500MW data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. The Malaysian conglomerate announced that it wants to develop the solar-powered facility in the Iskandar region of Johor. According to the company, it will be the first data center park in the country to be solar-...

April 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

YTL Johor

Meta Expanding Campus in New Albany, Ohio

Meta has announced that it is expanding its data center campus in New Albany, Ohio. The company announced the decision in a Facebook post earlier in the week. The company revealed to BizJournal that it would be adding two buildings totaling 92,900 square meters (1 million square feet) to th...

April 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook New Albany Ohio

Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain

Thor Equities has announced its plans to move into data centers. The US real estate group, is also looking to develop its first data center in Madrid, Spain. Thor Equities will be doing this by launching a new data center division called Thor Digital. The new unit will be headed by Roy Gibbens...

April 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Madrid

Castle IT To Develop Data Centers in Reims and Aix-en-Provence

According to La Tribune, Castle IT is looking to develop two more data centers in 2023. The report shows that the French colocation firm plans to build these facilities in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône and Reims, Marne. The development will also cost the company up to €30 million ($32.3...

April 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

VPLS Buys Carrier-1's Facility in Dallas, Texas

VPLS has completed the acquisition of Carrier-1’s 106,000 square feet data center in Dallas, Texas. The facility offers 10MW in capacity, and it will become VPLS’ fourth data center in Dallas. The CEO of VPLS, Arman Khalili, said the company is happy to welcome the employees and customers o...

April 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Evocative

Kasi Cloud breaks ground on new Lagos hyperscale data center

Kasi Cloud has announced that it has broken ground on a new hyperscale data center in Lagos, Nigeria. A ceremony to celebrate this milestone was recently held in Lekki, Lagos, attended by the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Sovereign Inve...

April 21, 2022

Nigeria

Equinix Investing $86m To Expand its SG5 Facility in Singapore

Equinix has announced that it is expanding its SG5 International Business Exchange data center in Singapore. According to Equinix, the expansion will see it add more than 7,700 square meters (83,000 square feet) of colocation space and over 1,475 cabinets to the facility. Upon completion, t...

April 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix Singapore SG5

Franklin County Officials Reject Zoning Request For a Crypto Mining Data Center

The Franklin County Commission has denied a zoning request that would have allowed the development of a crypto data center. The Tullahoma Utilities Authority requested 9.12 acres of land at 6945 Spring Creek Road to be rezoned to a C-1 commercial restricted district from an R-2 general resi...

April 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tennessee

Interxion Developing New 13.6MW Data Center in Belgium

Digital Realty’s Interxion has broken ground on a new facility in Belgium. The company laid the first stone of the data center called BRU4, which will be located in Zaventem, Belgium. According to Interxion, the data center will offer 13.6MW of capacity. It will also offer 72,100 square feet (...

April 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty: BRU4

Fayetteville Georgia Looking To Annex Land For a $1 billion Data Center

Fayette County is looking to annex 412 acres of land for a $1 billion data center project in Fayetteville. The city council will meet before the week runs out to discuss annexing this land for a data center campus that can span 1.5 million square feet with 250MW of capacity. In recent years, d...

April 20, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Georgia

Aligned Finishes Work at ORD-01 Data Center, Breaks Ground on ORD-2

Aligned has announced the completion of work on the first data center at its campus in Chicagoland. In addition, the company has also broken ground on a new data center at the campus. Aligned completed the first phase of its ORD-01 data center, which is located in Northlake, Illinois. The d...

April 20, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Aligned Chicago ORD-01

Khazna Data Centers breaks ground on second data center in Masdar

Khazna Data Centers has announced it has broken ground on its second data center in Masdar, Abu Dhabi. The facility, named Khazna Abu Dhabi 6 (AUH 6), will have a capacity of 31.8 (MW) and is forecast to be completed by the third quarter of 2023. Speaking about the company's data center footpr...

April 18, 2022

Abu Dhabi

Vultr opens cloud data center in Mumbai

Vultr has announced that it has launched a cloud data center location in Mumbai, making the city its 25th global location. According to the company, it will enable businesses in India to innovate quicker and at a reduced cost.Commenting on the company’s expansion, Vinod Chacko, Business Develo...

April 18, 2022

Mumbai

American Realty Advisors Buys Property Housing Two Cyxtera-Occupied Facilities in Virginia

American Realty Advisors has completed the acquisition of two data centers in Loudoun County currently occupied by Cyxtera. An affiliate of American Realty Advisors known as ACPF Nova Data Center LLC paid $51 million to acquire a 12-acre site that holds two single-story data centers. One of...

April 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Centersquare: IAD2-A

The White Data Center (WDC): Sustainability and the circular economy

The White Data Center (WDC) in Japan's North Island of Hokkaido, is a research project run by the city of Babai. It initially ran between 2014-2019, in collaboration with Japan's NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) research body. Its aim was to research how sno...

April 14, 2022

Japan

TikTok's European data center encounters further delays

Further delays have been announced regarding TikTok’s first data center in Europe. Its Dublin-based facility was initially planned to be up and running by early 2022, but due to what the company said were delays related to Covid, the facility’s opening was pushed back to late 2022. Now the com...

April 14, 2022

Dublin

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