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Lunar Digital Purchases Equinix's Manchester Facility

UK MSP Lunar Digital has acquired a Manchester data center owned by Equinix in the upcoming months. This week, Manchester-based Lunar Digital, a provider of managed cloud, data center, and cyber security solutions, revealed that it had bought Reynolds House, a leased Equinix building former...

February 21, 2023

Equinix Manchester MA2

Equinix Shuts Paris PA1 Data Center, Inks Pre-lease With Icade For New Site

Equinix has shut down a data center in Paris and inked a new pre-leasing agreement for new construction in the French city with French real estate firm Icade.In its Q4 2022 financial report issued last week, the colo company said PA1 had been shut down. The purpose-built facility at 167 Rue...

February 21, 2023

Equinix Paris PA1

Allied Energy Corp signs with Enerhash USA for flare gas crypto mines

Allied Energy has announced it has signed a definitive agreement with Enerhash USA and River Energy Group through which it will develop flare gas-powered crypto mines. According to the company, the first part of the project will be carried out at Allied's Thiel Well in Texas, which will be a b...

February 20, 2023

United States

Kentucky GE Data Facility For Sale or Lease

GE Appliances is offering its data center in Louisville, Kentucky, for purchase or lease. General Electric has hired JLL, according to a report this week, to market the data center at 4000 Buechel Bank Road in the 1,000-acre GE Appliance Park in Jefferson District for sale or lease. The GE Dat...

February 20, 2023

Kentucky

Data center impact study legislation defeated in Virginia

A piece of legislation that would have compelled the Virginia Department of Energy to study the impacts of data center development on the state’s environment, economy, energy resources and carbon-reduction goals has been defeated. A number of bills have been proposed by Del. Danica Roem, D-Pri...

February 20, 2023

Northern Virginia

Three Egyptian Data Center Campuses Are Being Planned by Gulf Data Hub & Elsewedy

Gulf Data Hub (GDH), a Middle Eastern data center company, intends to open additional campuses in Egypt. The company said this week that it had struck a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with engineering company Elsewedy Data Centers to build the biggest data center complex in Africa in Egy...

February 20, 2023

Africa

Onix Data Facilities Extends Operations to Dakar, Senegal

Onix, a data center company in West Africa, is growing into Senegal and providing colocation space in Dakar. This week, the corporation announced that the new data center is at the city's 2Africa Cable Landing Station (CLS). The Onix facility's specifications weren't disclosed. The corporation...

February 20, 2023

Senegal

Kotak Invests $590m In India Data Center Venture

The initial closing of the data center fund by Kotak Alternate Assets has been revealed to be $590 million. The fund is based in the Gujurat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), and this amount represents about 74% of the company's initial $800 million aim. The investment division of In...

February 18, 2023

India / Bhārata

ImpactData expands on $130m plan

ImpactData has announced it is expanding on its $130 million plan for a 115,000 sq ft mixed-use facility, named the "Dream Center." First announced in 2022 and to be located at Gateway Research Park South Campus, the space will provide commercial colocation, supercomputing, and, now, education...

February 17, 2023

North Carolina

Data center approval sought by Finmarc for Telos HQ campus

Finmarc Management Inc. has reportedly applied six years in advance for a data center development. Some have suggested that this is to avoid being halted by future restrictions imposed by legislation; others have argued it's due to energy capacity limitations in the Ashburn area.Although Loudo...

February 17, 2023

Northern Virginia

Digital DEWA launches in Dubai

Digital DEWA subsidiary Moro Hub has announced the launch of its 16,030 sqm (172,566 sq ft) Dubai data center, the world's largest solar-powered data center. It will have a capacity of 100MW, which be 100 percent powered by solar power from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park in Saih...

February 17, 2023

Dubai

PDG: Geothermal energy for Indonesian data centers

PDG has announced that it has bought renewable energy certificates (RECs) from state-owned electricity firm, PLN, for geothermal energy for the operation of three data centers in Jakarta, Bandung, and Pekanbaru, in Indonesia. This further cements the company's partnership with PLN, from whom i...

February 16, 2023

Indonesia

Spotsylvania in the spotlight: Officials discuss data centers

As the spotlight circles around Spotsylvania County for data center development, the Board of Supervisors is discussing how the county could be affected and how to plan accordingly. So far, one proposal in the region, filed by SpotsyTechnoCampus LLC, could bring forth a new facility in Spotsyl...

February 16, 2023

Northern Virginia

Russian Federation to launch a cryptocurrency mining plant worth $12.3 million

The Russian Federation has announced its intent to launch a crypto-mining facility worth over $12.3 million (900 million rubles) in the coming months. To be situated in Buryatia, a Russian republic in eastern Siberia, the facility, upon completion, is pegged to contain 30,000 mining devices.Ac...

February 16, 2023

Russia / Россия

Roblox Constructs Ashburn Data Center and Edge Facilities for $400m

Roblox, a maker of video games, invested hundreds of millions of dollars on data center and edge infrastructure in 2022 to serve its own gaming platform. Roblox reported earnings that were higher than forecasted and a rising user base, which caused the company's shares to increase by 25%. Robl...

February 16, 2023

Northern Virginia

Telstra Exchange Facility and Property for Sale Near Melbourne, Australia.

Under a sale-leaseback agreement, Telstra is offering a minor exchange facility in the environs of Melbourne for sale. The east Melbourne neighborhood of Rowville's 12 Lambourne Avenue is being put up for sale by the Australian telecom. A brick structure of 1,430 square feet on one story, sitt...

February 16, 2023

Melbourne

LEW TelNet to build new green data center in Augsburg

LEW TelNet has announced the construction of a new green data center in Augsburg, Germany, which will operate with a PUE of 1.2. Work on the facility, which is located on Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse, will begin in summer 2023, with the first phase of the two-phase project going live mid-next year...

February 15, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Cyfuture expands in Chennai, India

Cyfuture is constructing a new data center in Chennai, India, its fifth facility in the country. To be located on a one-acre plot in Tembaran, Chennai, it is pegged to offer 500 racks in its first phase. While the company already data centers in Noida, Jaipur, and Raipur, it has also announced...

February 15, 2023

India / Bhārata

Tackling misleading "100 percent carbon-free energy" claims and the rising costs of PPAs

It seems like every day, there is another announcement of a tech company signing a new PPA and in 2023, projections are that there are more to come. Research shows that in 2022 alone, the number of PPAs purchased in the first three quarters, surpassed the total volume recorded across the whole...

February 14, 2023

United States

Compugen Buys New Albany, Ohio data Facilities

A data center in New Albany, Ohio, has been purchased by Canadian IT company Compugen. According to local property documents cited by BizJournal, Compugen Real Estate Holdings recently purchased a property in Franklin County, northeast of Columbus, at 7000 Souder Road. The former data cente...

February 14, 2023

AWS US East (Ohio)

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