July 07, 2023 Africa
Shapoorji Pallonji has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gabonese state for a national data center project.Reports note that the project has been underway for a number of months, with the company first visiting Gabon in March 2023. While further details...
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July 07, 2023 Houston
On Friday, July 7, UH Energy will host an educational symposium with a focus on hydrocarbon basin analysis, policy changes, and hydrocarbon opportunities in India to mark the opening of the new University of Houston (UH) - Directorate General for Hydrocarbon (DGH) Center for Hydrocarbon...
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July 07, 2023 North America
Navégalo, a Latin American data center company, will soon open a new facility in Costa Rica. This week, the company announced that the 300-rack facility will launch on August 15. Phase one will provide 5MW, and the data center will be expandable to 15MW. The new facility is ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 3,...
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July 06, 2023 Abu Dhabi
The Mubadala Investment Company of Abu Dhabi disclosed earlier this year that it had invested in liquid cooling company CoolIT. In May 2023, the company invested alongside KKR in the Canadian company, with the latter acquiring the majority of the cooling business. The terms of the acquisition...
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July 06, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, has acquired land in Fortaleza, Brazil, to construct a data center. The facility, which will have 20MW of IT capacity, has been named Mega Lobster. It will also be the first hyperscale-oriented initiative for the company. The size, cost, and construction...
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July 05, 2023 London
Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up to...
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July 04, 2023 Atlanta
Construction on Edge Energy's Atlanta, Georgia data center is underway, with the company commencing work on July 1st. Located at Tilford Yard, the company bought the 158 acre-site back in July 2021; 70 acres will be dedicated to data center development. In January 2023, it filed a building permit...
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July 03, 2023 New York
In New York City, Brooklyn, a bathhouse and spa named Bathhouse has shared that it is now heating its pools with mining, with the water from the pool, then going on to cool the hardware. The bathhouse and spa also Bitcoin payments. The company shared the news in an Instagram post: "Enjoy a hot...
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July 03, 2023 Connecticut
At a planning meeting this week in Groton, Groton's Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved regulations to limit the size of data centers after a year-long moratorium. Under the ruling, while local enterprises will be permitted to build their own on-premises facilities, hyperscale...
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July 03, 2023 AirTrunk Tokyo TOK1
AirTrunk has begun work on an expansion of its Tokyo, Japan, TOK1 campus. Senior AirTrunker personnel and construction partners attended a traditional "jichinsai" Shinto launching ceremony to spiritually sanctify the land in preparation for safe and efficient construction. No timelines for...
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June 30, 2023 Asia-Pacific (APAC)
The widespread use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential growth for the data center industry, according to JLL's new Global Data Centre Outlook. Hyperscalers and edge data centers, which account for 79% of total demand, are the fastest-developing segments of...
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June 30, 2023 Asia-Pacific (APAC)
The widespread use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential growth for the data center industry, according to JLL's new Global Data Centre Outlook. Hyperscalers and edge data centers, which account for 79% of total demand, are the fastest-developing segments of...
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June 29, 2023 Chicago
The Chicago, Illinois data center of commercial real estate finance firm Metro Edge Development Partners has been granted site approval. The corporation received site plan approval for its IMD1 data center from the Chicago Department of Planning and Development this month. IMD1 will be a...
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June 28, 2023 DataBank Kansas City MCI3
DataBank's development of the MC13 data center in Lenexa, Kansas, is complete. The company has added 17,000 square feet and 1.8 MW of IT capacity to its MC13 data center, bringing the total build-out to 42,000 square feet and 4.6 MW. In October 2021, DataBank first announced intentions to expand...
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June 28, 2023 Northern Virginia
Residents of Prince William County, Virginia, are attempting to sell their land to an unidentified data center developer. According to InsideNoVa, residents of Sanders Lane near Gainesville are attempting to sell their land to a data center developer. The residents appear to be attempting to...
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June 28, 2023 India / Bhārata
RailTel, an IT infrastructure provider, has been awarded a $35.9 million contract by TASMAC, a Tamil state-owned beverage corporation. RailTel will provide TASMAC with end-to-end automation and connectivity five years into the contract. This will extend to RailTel providing the project's...
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June 28, 2023 Maryland
In Frederick County, a place which has become a highly attractive data center zone and is the location site of Quantum Loophole’s massive and recently paused data center campus, Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater has formed a workgroup for data centers. Fitzwater formed the group in...
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June 28, 2023 Angola
Paratus Group has announced plans to construct Angola’s first Tier-IV-by-design data centre in Luanda. This is the company’s third in the country, and Angola’s first Tier-IV by design.According to Chief Technical Officer at Paratus, Rolf Mendelsohn, the new facility will be constructed on a...
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June 27, 2023 Connecticut
In Groton, a data center moratorium has been in place for a year. This was introduced to give the town the time to formulate regulations for data centers, amidst concerns regarding environmental and noise impacts. Now the proposed regulations are set to go to a public hearing. As per the proposed...
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June 27, 2023 Chile
GTD pulled from a non-binding offer previously accepted from investment firm Macquarie Capital. The transaction would have involved purchasing 49 percent of a new subsidiary encompassing the telecommunications company's data centers in Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Fernando Gana, the general manager...
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