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APAC takes lead in data center growth, outperforming EMEA

According to a new report, the rate of data center market growth in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) now exceeds that in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) as the two continue to "jostle for supremacy." The DC Byte Q4 2021 Data Center Report found that In 2021, the region increased...

March 22, 2022

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Honda's fuel-cell system to power US HQ data center

Honda has announced that it will be powering its US HQ data center in Torrance with a self-developed stationary fuel cell power station. The 1MW plant will be made from the same equipment utilized in its Clarity fuel cell-powered cars, providing the company with a zero-emission backup power so...

March 22, 2022

United States

Sophos opens data center in India

Sophos has announced that its Mumbai-based data center is now open. Hosted by AWS, the facility is the company's third in the Asia Pacific and Japan region.Speaking about the facility, Sunil Sharma, managing director of sales for India and SAARC, Sophos said: "With massive digital transformati...

March 22, 2022

India / Bhārata

Digital Parks Africa Investing R500 million (US$33.7 million) in its Samrand campus in South Africa

Digital Parks Africa is expanding its Samrand data center campus in Centurion, South Africa. The company is expanding the facility to reach 22MVA. The company announced that it would be investing up to R500 million (US$33.7 million) in expanding the facility. DPA is making the investment to me...

March 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Africa

DataBank is Expanding SAN1 Data Center To Meet Demands

DataBank has announced that it is expanding its SAN1 facility in San Diego, California. The data center is located at 12270 World Trade Drive. DataBank will be adding 3,700 square meters (40,000 square feet) of raised floor space to the facility. By so doing, SAN1 will have a total capacity of...

March 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank San Diego SAN1

Publix Wants To Develop a $40 Million Data Center in Florida

Publix has plans to develop a data center at a former FedEx building in Florida. According to reports, the Supermarket chain is looking to invest $40 million in the building located in Polk County, Florida. However, the details of the project aren’t concrete enough at this time, as Publix c...

March 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

Pacific Asset Management and CPP Investments Are Teaming Up To Develop Hyperscale Data Center In Seoul

Pacific Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have formed a joint venture for the sole purpose of developing a hyperscale data center in Seoul, South Korea. The two companies announced that they would be investing KRW 200 billion (US$164.4 million) to develop the largest ca...

March 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Seoul

Housing Minister Opposing Meta's Zeewolde Data Center Development

Meta’s data center proposal in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, appears to have hit another roadblock. The current Minister of Housing of the Netherlands, Hugo de Jonge, has revealed that he plans to prevent the development of the facility. Although the Zeewolde council has approved the zoning chang...

March 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Zeewolde

Carrianna Group Sets Up Data Center in Hong Kong

Carrianna Group has announced the launch of a new data center in the Kwai Chang industrial area, Hong Kong. The Hong Kong property firm, Jun Gao Holdings Company Limited and Dr. Quentin Tsang jointly invested in the data center. The property has a gross floor area of 2,100 square meters (23,00...

March 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hong Kong

Korbank's Data Center Development in Warsaw Delayed Due To Specification Change

Polish telecommunications company, Korbank has revealed that it won’t be completing the construction of its Wroclaw data center till later. The data center was scheduled to be completed this month, but the date has been shifted to June of this year. The delay is happening because Korbank wants...

March 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Warsaw

Georgia Wants To Extend its Data Center Tax Exemptions Further

Georgia is looking to extend its tax exemptions for data centers by another five years. Earlier in 2018, the US state introduced the current sales tax exemptions for data centers through HB 696. The bill provides tax exemptions if it meets certain job creation thresholds and investments over a...

March 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Georgia

Cryptomine facility headed for New Zealand’s South Island

Contact Energy has received the green light to build a cryptomine data center in New Zealand after approval was granted for the company’s resource consent application. This comes despite the significant amount of controversy around proposals. Critics argue that the facility will not benefit Ce...

March 17, 2022

New Zealand

Upstack announces partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale for sustainable data center

Upstack has formed a strategic partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale White Box (WHWB). The partnership will see the company gain access to the Wyoming Hyperscale White Box facility due to open by the end of 2022. Located in a remote mountainous site southeast of Evanston, according to the Thorno...

March 17, 2022

Wyoming

A1 Bulgaria signs solar PPA with Renalfa

Telco A1 Bulgaria has announced that it has teamed up with the Bulgarian clean energy investment group Renalfa AD to sign Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The solar energy from the PPA will provide the company with 20,000 MWh of clean energy per annum across the next ten years.This news comes a...

March 17, 2022

Bulgaria

South Dublin passes motion to prevent data center builds

Continuing to pursue the ban on new data center builds in Dublin, People Before Profit Councillor Madeleine Johansson recently put forward an amendment to do just that, a motion, which was voted through by 18 votes to 13 against, with one abstention.Despite the vote to curb further builds, the...

March 15, 2022

Dublin

Lancaster University: carbon net-zero data center project

Lancaster University has announced the launch of its Blackpool Innovation Catalyst project, which seeks to bring together "dynamic organisations" and academics to develop effective "long-term solutions around clean growth and secure digitalisation for their industries."One of the latest projec...

March 15, 2022

United Kingdom

Nation Data Center moves in near Rennes, France

Nation Data Center (NDC) has announced it is to build a new 3,000 sqm (32,300 sq ft) data center based near Rennes, in France. The facility named the Roah Data Center, will accommodate 600 racks when fully built out. The facility was given the go-ahead after the company obtained a building per...

March 15, 2022

France

Hansen Technologies-Occupied Data Center in Australia Up For Sale

A Hansen-occupied three-story data center in Doncaster, Australia, is up for sale. The 39,900 square feet (3,707 square meters) data center is located on 2 Frederick Street in the Melbourne Suburb. Colliers and Fitzroys are responsible for offering the facility for sale. Expressions of inte...

March 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Australia

Washington State Wants To Make Tax Exemptions For Data Center Development

Washington is looking to increase data center development in the state by passing some data center tax exemption bills. The HB 1846 bill, which was introduced by Democrats Alex Ramel and April Berg, would introduce tax exemptions on data center facilities developed in rural counties. The bill ...

March 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Washington

Nautilus' floating data center faces opposition

The Irish socialist party People Before Profit (PBP) has voiced its opposition to Nautilus Data Technologies' floating data center at Limerick Docks, which was originally approved back in 2019. Although construction is due to commence on the facility, Limerick PBP representative Cian Prendivil...

March 11, 2022

Republic of Ireland

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