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Edgnex Rebrands as Damac Data Centres, Promises Additional Projects

The new data center company Edgnex, founded by the Dubai real estate company Damac, has changed its name to Damac Data Centres and revealed plans for a 35MW data center. This week, the company announced that Edgnex had changed its name to Damac Data Centres to serve its clients better and upho...

February 14, 2023

Dubai

NuScale receives regulatory approval in US

NuScale Power has received regulatory approval for a small modular reactor (SMR) which experts say could be utilized to power data centers at a later date. This makes it the first SMR to obtain this kind of approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for deployment in the US.Speaking...

February 13, 2023

United States

Datacom goes 100% renewable in New Zealand

Datacom has announced that all its facilities in New Zealand are now powered by renewable energy. This is part of a ten-year contract with Mercury Energy, through which its data centers will run on geothermal, wind, and hydro energy sources from the company.As per the deal, the company has sig...

February 13, 2023

New Zealand

Harrisonburg Data Facility Receives $44 Million Loan From Valley National Bank

A Virginia facility has negotiated a $44 million loan for a data center owner. According to The Commercial Observer, AC DataCom Digital Infrastructure Investments has obtained permanent financing of $43.8 million to construct a data center in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The 100,000-square-foot dat...

February 13, 2023

Virginia

Data Centers Represent 20% Of Sales at Dominion Virginia, Which Reached a Record in December

In its most recent earnings call, utility Dominion Energy highlighted the dependability of its service and discussed measures to increase capacity. However, the business, which reported a $42 million loss for the quarter, did not mention how its transmission problems hampered Virginia data ...

February 10, 2023

Virginia

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ) decision on data center backup generators

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that it is considering giving data centers more leeway with regard to using backup energy. This, it said, will reportedly preserve data center reliability and is a precautionary measure to protect the region's power grid. It ...

February 09, 2023

Virginia

NRB Group Purchases The Wallonia Data Center in Belgium

Belgian IT services provider Win and its data center affiliate Wallonia Data Center have been bought by Belgian ICT company NRB Group. This week, the business disclosed that it had purchased Nethys, a telecom owned by Enodia, as well as Win and its affiliate Wallonia Data Center (WDC). The ...

February 09, 2023

Belgium

Bristow Data Center Park Approval Delayed by Prince William County Officials

Officials from Prince William County have postponed the vote on a data center construction plan. Following a lengthy discussion that ended at 3 am this Thursday, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors unanimously decided to postpone the Devlin Technology Park proposal until March 7....

February 09, 2023

Northern Virginia

Hanwha and SKS Credit: Big investment in green data centers for South Korea

Hanwha has announced that it will invest in 'green' data centers following signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with SKS Credit, an ESG professional manager (PEF), for joint development of data centers and logistics centers linked to new and renewable energy. Through the agreement, the ...

February 08, 2023

South Korea

New clean energy standards for data centers in Oregon ahead; Washington to follow

The Oregon state legislature has introduced a new bill which would require data centers and crypto miners in the state to comply with clean energy standards or be faced with a penalty. The 2023 'House Bill 2816' outlines that high-energy use facilities must reduce their emissions associated wi...

February 08, 2023

Oregon

NetEase Breaks Ground On Guizhou Data Center

NetEase Inc., a Chinese Internet business, has begun construction on a new data facility in Guizhou province. According to China Daily, this month the company began work on its first large data center in Guian New Area in southwest China. The campus, situated on 7,3 hectares, will support NetE...

February 08, 2023

China

PLDT Upgrading Makati and Parañaqu Data Centers

The Philippine telco PLDT's facility and cloud subsidiary, ePLDT, is growing a number of its existing sites. The development of VITRO Makati 2 and Paraaque will add 1,820 service-ready racks and an additional 14MW by March of this year. Victor S. Genuino, president and chief executive officer ...

February 08, 2023

PLDT VITRO Makati 2

WIOCC Completes 2Africa Undersea Cable Landing at OADC Facility in Durban, South Africa

WIOCC has successfully connected the 2Africa cable to the Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Durban facility in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In April 2022, OADC's 4MW, 43,050 sq ft facility in the Amanzimtoti neighborhood of Durban debuted with 21,525 sq ft of white space. The 2Africa cable was a...

February 08, 2023

South Africa

German Edge Data Center Company nLighten Launched by I squared Capital

I Squared Capital's latest portfolio company, nLighten, is introducing an Edge network in Germany. This week, the company disclosed plans for a formal debut in Germany across 10 sites later this year. Exa Infrastructure, another I Squared Capital venture, sold its initial data centers to nLigh...

February 08, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

V.tal Launches New 4MW Facility In Fortaleza, Brazil

GlobeNet subsidiary V.tal, a Brazilian fiber company, has opened a brand-new Edge data center in Fortaleza. The facility, dubbed the 'Big Lobster,' will launch with a 4MW capacity over four data halls that can house a total of 400 racks. The innovative data center is connected to the company's...

February 07, 2023

Brazil / Brasil

GenH2 to offer mobile liquid hydrogen source for data center tests

GenH2 has announced that it has produced a mobile liquid hydrogen plant, which it has said can be deployed to support pilot projects and tests for applications such as data centers.The company has outlined that the LS20 mobile liquid hydrogen system is an end-to-end liquefaction and storage sy...

February 07, 2023

United States

Citigroup Is Equipping Two Of Its Data Centers in Texas With Battery Rooms

CitiGroup is initiating two data center expansion projects in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth regions of Texas. Two applications for 'Battery Room Buildouts' have been submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). Its Georgetown Data Center is located at 201 Blue Ridge...

February 06, 2023

Texas

WIOCC's OADC Breaks Ground On Data Center in Kinshasha, DRC

WIOCC's new data center platform, Open Access Data Centres (OADC), has commenced constructing a data center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This Monday, the firm announced on LinkedIn that its latest core plant in the DRC will be located in Kinshasa. The construction of the w...

February 06, 2023

Africa

Key Point opens data center in eastern Siberia

Key Point has announced the launch of a new data center in Primorsky Krai in far east Russia. The Russian data center developer has outlined that at full build-out, the facility will have capacity for 880 racks and 10MW. Its first phase saw the construction of two modules with a total capacity...

February 06, 2023

Russia / Россия

NTT Third Building at its Vienna Data Center Comes Online

NTT has opened a brand-new facility on its Vienna, Austria data center campus. The extension, which was announced in October 2021, increases the site's size to 92,500 square feet and its capacity to 15.2 megawatts. In 2015, NTT purchased the Austrian data center when it purchased German firm e...

February 06, 2023

NTT Vienna

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