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South Korea Looking To Explore Efficient Underwater Data Centers

The Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology is looking into developing data centers underwater. The South Korean government is funding the project to allow KIOST to develop a submarine working and living space for people. The project will cost up to 37.3 billion won ($30.8 million). I...

April 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Korea

Three Gorges Group (CTG) completes first phase of Dongyuemiao data center project

Three Gorges Group has announced that it has completed the first phase of its Dongyuemiao data center project in Yichang, Hubei. Work began on the project back in February 2021. The Chinese energy company outlined that the facility's first phase saw an investment of RMB 845 million ($132.7m), ...

April 12, 2022

China

Rowan Green Data Gets Green Light For its 500MW Campus Plans in Temple, Texas

Rowan Green Data can finally go ahead with its data center development in Temple, Texas after city council officials have approved its zoning request. The company announced late last year that it wants to develop 12,500 square meters (135,000 square feet of data center buildings on a site i...

April 12, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Rowan: Temple, Moriah, TX

'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's ...

April 12, 2022

London

SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota

Although back in 2019, Singapore introduced a data center moratorium following concerns around energy supplies, in 2022, this moratorium was lifted - with conditions. Part of these conditions was that the country would be more selective over future data center projects. Further details around...

April 11, 2022

Singapore

ClusterPower opens its first Romanian hyperscale facility

ClusterPower has announced the opening of Romania's largest data center. Located in Mischii, Dolj County, the hyperscale facility saw an investment of €40 million. Its 25,400 sqm (273,400 sq ft) campus is expected to house five buildings. In total, the ClusterPower Technology Campus will have ...

April 11, 2022

ClusterPower Craiova

PRP Buys Land in Manassas To Develop Three Data Centers

According to BizJournal, PRP has completed the acquisition of 22 acres of land in Prince William County, Virginia. The property is located at 7816 Bethlehem Road in Manassas. The Real estate firm paid $22 million to Allan Myers for the property. It is also negotiating for another 13 acres with...

April 11, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

In Amsterdam, an argument around data center energy usage has been brewing for some time. Back in 2019, in response to the amounts of energy being used up by data centers, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer announced a moratorium on new projects. This was eventually lifted, but...

April 08, 2022

Amsterdam

CircuBAT: The project reducing Lithium-ion battery waste

In a bid to make lithium-ion batteries more sustainable and long lasting, a new research program has been launched. CircuBAT, a Swiss project of Innosuisse, led by Bern University of Applied Sciences Technology, will be joined by Green Cubes Technology, a company that makes lithium-ion batteri...

April 08, 2022

Switzerland

Three Gorges Group's Hubei Data Center First Phase Completed

Three Gorges Group has announced the completion of the Dongyuemiao data center project's first phase in Yichang, Hubei. The Chinese energy company revealed that the project's first phase cost RMB 845 million ($132.7m). The project has also been in development since February last year. This ...

April 08, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

China

Gaw Capital Partners Acquires Building For Data Center in Tokyo, Japan

Gaw Capital Partners has announced the acquisition of a building in Tokyo, Japan. The real estate private equity firm also plans to transform the building into a data center. The Fuchu Building it acquired is next to Meito Sangyo Building in Fuchu Intelligent Park. Gaw will demolish the 59,...

April 08, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tokyo

Former Waste Management Plant in Tuscany, Italy To Become a Data Center

The Rural Vivaistico Ornamentale District of Pistoia and The CNA Toscana Centro have proposed to develop a data center on a former waste management plant in Tuscany, Italy. Claudio Bettazi, CNA Toscana Centro’s President, said developing a data center in the locality through an excellent publi...

April 08, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

Arsat to expand in Bariloche, Argentina

Arsat has announced that it is investing $70 million to build a new HQ located at the Bariloche Technological Industrial Productive Park (PITBA). Alongside this announcement, the government-owned communications firm also said it will be developing a backup data center in Bariloche in the Patag...

April 07, 2022

Argentina

ESR to expand in Tokyo

ESR Cayman has announced its plans to develop a new 20MW data center in West Tokyo, Japan. This comes following the company’s acquisition of a data center asset in Higashi Kurume, which spans 20,900 sqm (225,00 sqft). Looking ahead, the company has said that its new facility will be operation...

April 07, 2022

Japan

New data center sewage project ahead for Samsung and partners

Tomorrow Water, a wastewater specialist, has announced that it has teamed with Samsung, Dohwa, and BNZ for a new sustainability initiative. This project will see the partners co-develop an architecture combining data centers with water treatment facilities. According to Tomorrow Water, pl...

April 07, 2022

United States

QTS TO Expand its Fort Worth Data Center Campus in Texas

According to BizJournal, QTS wants to expand its Dallas-Fort Worth facility in Texas. The company filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to expand the data center campus located at 14100 Park Vista Blvd in Tarrant County. Per the first filing, the company is looking to ...

April 07, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Dallas Fort Worth

Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million

A Vantage-occupied facility in Hong Kong has been acquired by the Asia Pacific Cities Fund (APCF). The complex acquired is located at 43 Container Port Road. It is also a fully occupied data center with a 14MW capacity across 270,000 square feet of gross floor area. The deal was worth HK$2....

April 07, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hong Kong

BET Investment To Acquire Prudential's Office and Data Center Building in Pennsylvania

According to Biz Journal, BET Investments Inc. is buying Prudential Insurance Co.’s property located at 2101 Welsh Road. The 90-acre campus in Pennsylvania has three interconnected office buildings totaling 80,000 square meters (861,000 square feet). The office buildings house a Tier III ce...

April 06, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Bahrain region to launch region's first data center park

Bahrain recently announced its plans to establish the region's largest technology park, which will include the region's first data center to meet the needs of those in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This vision will come into fruition through STC Bahrain partnering with the Mi...

April 05, 2022

Bahrain

NE Edge and Groton: Data center discussions cease

Although it looked like a new data center would be on its way to Groton, Connecticut, last week, the Town Council decided to end negotiations with NE Edge LLC. This announcement came following the council's vote (five to one) to discontinue efforts to pursue a municipal host fee agreement with...

April 05, 2022

Connecticut

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