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Telekom Malaysia: Green electricity tariff secured for three data centers

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has announced that it has secured a Green Electricity Tariff (GET) for three of its data centers: Klang Valley Core Data Centre (KVDC) in Cyberjaya, Iskandar Puteri Core Data Centre (IPDC) in Johor Baru, and KL City Data Centre (CTDC) in Brickfields. The GET from Tenaga N...

April 05, 2022

Malaysia

Stratosfair announces plans for its second facility

Stratosfair has announced plans for a second facility, located in Pontivy in Brittany, west of Rennes. Due to come online in the second quarter 2023, the Pontivy facility will span 500 sqm (5,380 sq ft) and be built from recovered containers. This announcement comes just a month after the comp...

April 04, 2022

Brittany

New data center on the way for Saint Kitts and Nevis

A new data center is on its way to Saint Kitts and Nevis, it has been announced. Saint Kitts and Nevis are neighboring islands to the east of Puerto Rico. Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, announced that a state-of-the-art facility would be built in the country in a plan...

April 04, 2022

Puerto Rico

Indonesia's Edge DC Secures Funding For Expansion

Edge DC of Indonesia has announced that it secured credit facilities with PT Bank Central Asia Tbk. The company aims to use the funds to expand its business. It secured working capital loans worth IDR 100 billion ($7m) and credit facilities worth IDR 2.7 trillion ($188m). The company currently...

April 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indonesia

NTT Opens New Data Center in Jakarta, Indonesia

NTT has announced the opening of a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The new Jakarta 3 Data Center is a four-story building with a 15.2MW capacity and 18,000 square meters of IT space. The data center will also reach 45MW of capacity upon full build-out. The President and Director of NTT ...

April 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT Jakarta 3 (JK3)

Macquarie Launches its New Intellicentre 3 East Facility in Sydney, Australia

Macquarie Data Centres has announced the launch of its Intellicentre 3 East data center in Sydney, Australia. The facility is located at the Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus in North Sydney. According to Macquarie, the new facility cost over AU$85 million (US$63.9 million). The 16MW facili...

March 31, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Macquarie: IC3 East

Alibaba Launches Data Center in Seoul, South Korea

Alibaba Cloud has announced the opening of a new data center in Seoul, South Korea. The company first revealed plans for a South Korean cloud region last year. It currently operates 82 Availability Zones and 26 regions across the globe. Alibaba’s head of Cloud Intelligence for Japan and Korea,...

March 31, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Seoul

T4 Group move in on New Zealand's South Island

T4 Group has announced its plans to build a Tier IV-quality modular data center on New Zealand’s South Island. The facility, which will see a NZ$50 million ($34.6m) investment, will reportedly source its energy from Southland’s two hydro stations, in Lake Manapouri and Lake Monowai, making it ...

March 30, 2022

New Zealand

Edgnex breaks ground on facility in Riyadh

Edgnex has broken ground on its facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, it has announced. The data center, which will have a capacity of 20MW, is, according to the company, only the beginning of its expansion. Alongside this facility, the company will also develop 30MW to 40MW data centers in what i...

March 30, 2022

Saudi Arabia

Aligned Expanding its Phoenix Data Center Campus

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its presence in the Phoenix data center market. The company will be developing a new data center called PHX-05 at its flagship hyperscale campus in Arizona. Aligned revealed that the data center would be developed under an aggressive a...

March 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Aligned Phoenix

Royal Bank of Scotland data center to be demolished

The former Royal Bank of Scotland data center in Stone Business Park could be demolished, it has been reported. This news comes as Stafford Borough Council announces it has received a demolition application for the 10,500 sqm (34,500 sq ft) facility.The town council has reportedly raised no ob...

March 29, 2022

United Kingdom

Subisu Launches Largest Data Center in Kathmandu, Nepal

Nepal-based telecommunication company Subisu has opened a new data center in Kathmandu. According to reports, the data center can withstand tremors up to 8 Richter Scale. Although the facility's specifications were not revealed, Vertiv supplied the facility with its switches and racks.Furtherm...

March 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Asia

TelOne Opens Fourth Data Center in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s state-owned telecommunication company TelOne has opened a new data center in Mazowe, Zimbabwe. This is the company’s fourth data center. The managing director at TelOne, Chipo Mutasa revealed that the company has spent over US$4 million in the development of 14,000 square feet (1,30...

March 28, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Zimbabwe

What SEC proposals mean for data centers

As the climate crisis reaches a tipping point, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new set of rules, which will require US companies with $25 million in assets to register with the SEC and include climate risks in their statutory reports. Part of this would see said ...

March 28, 2022

United States

The Netherlands' Senate Votes To Prevent Meta From Advancing Works at its Zeewolde Data Center Site

Meta’s Plans for a data center in Zeewolde has suffered another major setback. Lawmakers in the Netherlands voted last week to prevent the company from continuing any groundwork on the site. This move comes after Meta received approval from the Zeewolde council for zoning changes and plans for...

March 28, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Zeewolde

Energy firm ZR Power Holding's data center plans

Indian Energy firm ZR Power Holdings has announced that it is investing more than Rs 1,700 crore ($223.2m) in a data center at Mahape in Navi Mumbai.The proposed facility would have a capacity of 50MW and span a 10-acre plot which the company is currently acquiring. Zain Ravadji, chairman, of ...

March 28, 2022

Mumbai

Stratosfair breaks ground on Brittany Edge facility

Stratosfair has announced that it has broken ground on its first data center based in the Lanester area of France to the tune of €800,000 ($900,000). The edge facility in the Northwest of the country spans 150 sqm (1,600 sq ft) and sits on a 500 sqm (5,380 sqft) site. Due to come online in Jun...

March 28, 2022

Brittany

SDN Communications Is Expanding Its Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

SDN Communications has announced that it is expanding its data center located at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The US broadband provider will add a 25,000 square foot (2,320 square meter) pod to the existing structure. This will increase the total space to 50,000 square feet. According to SDN, th...

March 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Dakota

Telehouse Opens Fifth Data Center in London

Telehouse has announced the launch of its new data center in London, UK. This will be the company’s fifth data center in London. This data center is being built in stages. The first stage sees development of 2MW of capacity and up to 668 racks, across 18,300 square feet of space and two dat...

March 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Telehouse South

Loughborough University announces plans for data center

Loughborough University has announced that it has filed to build a data center in its student village in Leicestershire, UK. According to the University, the IT facility, part of the Energy and Data Hub, will also be used to supply district heating services to local student housing. The hub, ...

March 24, 2022

United Kingdom

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