June 01, 2023 Bahrain
Batelco, Beyon Group's telecoms unit, has announced that one of its facilities is now Bahrain's first 100 percent green-energy-powered data center.This news follows the completion of Phase 2 of the Solar Park at the Beyon Data Oasis at Hamala. The facility in Bahrain is now entirely powered by...
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June 01, 2023 Pittsburgh
A data center for sale or lease is available in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colliers and Five 9s Digital are offering the McKees Rock facility located at 615 McMichael Road. The site is listed for lease in Colliers' materials, but Five 9s claims it can be purchased or leased. The circa...
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June 01, 2023 Missouri
Data center space is available for lease at the Globe Building carrier hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The fourth floor of the structure at 710 North Tucker Blvd. has 28,700 square feet of floor space available, of which 16,000 square feet is built-out data center space, according to a listing by...
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May 31, 2023 Indonesia
Pure Data Centres has launched a facility in Jakarta, Indonesia, its Director for Indonesian operations, Chandra Irawan, announced on LinkedIn this week. This is the company's first in the region. The facility will have a 20MW IT load capacity, spanning 20,000 square metres and will support...
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May 31, 2023 Japan
SoftBank Corp has partnered with the American multinational technology firm NVIDIA to set up a platform for dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G products. It is built on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, and SoftBank intends to deploy it in Japan's new distributed AI data...
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May 31, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Megatelecom, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, intends to deploy scores of Edge data centers nationwide and expand its fiber backbone. Following the fiber expansion, the company will construct a data center at the site. Megatelecom plans to repeat this process until 2028 when the company...
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May 31, 2023 CtrlS Dubai
CtrlS Datacenters will invest $18.1 million in a greenfield Edge data center in Odisha, India. On May 30, the corporation began work on the data center in the capital city of the state, Bhubaneswar. It is anticipated that approximately 110 jobs will be created in the city of Bhubaneswar as a...
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May 31, 2023 Virginia
Prince William County, Virginia, is considering the development of a new data center park. A developer has submitted designs for an 82-acre data center campus in Gainesville's Hillwood Camping Park. The 'Gardner Property' development could bring up to 1.8 million sq ft of data facilities and an...
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May 30, 2023 South Africa
In South Africa, state power utility Eskom has warned that energy issues will endure and even get worse by winter as the power crisis continues. According to Calib Cassim, Eskom’s acting chief executive, while the country is currently facing outages for more than 10 hours a day, going forward,...
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May 30, 2023 Caribbean
At the Executive Sessions on Digital Leadership in the Caribbean on May 16, nine Caribbean ministers and two senior advisors signed the 'Port of Spain Commitment on Digital Integration,' an agreement to pursue collaborative, sustainable digital transformation in the Caribbean.The commitment was...
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May 30, 2023 Japan
To encourage the development of data centers, which are essential to a digital society, in the Kyushu southwestern region and Hokkaido's most northern prefecture, Japan's industry ministry on Tuesday proposed offering subsidies. The ministry stated that Hokkaido and Kyushu are ideal locations for...
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May 29, 2023 Pennsylvania
The Career and Technical Center (CTC) at State College Area High School in Pennsylvania is undergoing a $2.6 million upgrade to bring the district's data center to the campus. The school administration approved the renovation on May 15. The CTC will be utilized for online education, Reclaiming...
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May 29, 2023 France
According to new research by OVHcloud, hybrid liquid cooling technology has the power to reduce a data center's energy consumption by 20 percent when compared with using water cooling alone. The European cloud provider coupled up with the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne to test the cooling...
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May 27, 2023 Ecuador
Cirion Technologies' data center in Carcelén, Quito, Ecuador, has obtained Tier III Certification from the Uptime Institute, it has announced. This certification means that the company's data center meets a number of requirements, including having in place rigorous preventive maintenance...
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May 27, 2023 Chile
ClaroVTR has announced that it is expanding in Chile, with a US$320mn, 3,000m2 expansion of its 2,000m2 Liray data center in Colina municipality. This will bring the total footprint to 5,000 sqm (53,820 sq ft).According to reports, the building features three 1,000m2 clean rooms, anti-seismic...
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May 26, 2023 2260 E El Segundo - Digital Realty
On Sunday, May 21st, a fire broke out at the LAX12 data center of Digital Realty in El Segundo, California. The fire led the facility to shut down two suites, and it incinerated an undisclosed number of servers, as well as cut power and locked out some users from the server space. A few days...
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May 26, 2023 United Kingdom
A hospital in the United Kingdom is undergoing a $494 million renovation that includes adding a data center. The House of Commons approved the reconstruction of Kettering General Hospital (KGH) in Northamptonshire. The KGH, which has occupied the same location for 126 years, will receive a $494m+...
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May 25, 2023 Chicago
Edged Energy has announced that work has commenced on its new facility in the Aurora area of west Chicago, Illinois.Together, with Seefried Industrial Properties, Inc., the company broke ground on the new 65-acre, multi-building data center campus, its first in Illinois, and nearby CyrusOne...
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May 25, 2023 Europe
In a bid to meet growing demands for data privacy and sovereignty, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Europe, Moveworks, a generative AI platform, has announced that it has opened its first regional data center in the European Union (EU).The company said that launching the...
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May 25, 2023 India / Bhārata
Lumina CloudInfra has announced it has broken ground on its new data center in Navi Mumbai. To be built on 6.3 acres, the company's Airoli site will offer a capacity of over 60 MW across two phases; the first of which is expected to be complete by 2025. Lumina CloudInfra is owned and managed by...
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