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Alibaba Cloud's 2030 vision

Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba, has announced that it is on track to have its global data centers running entirely on clean, renewable energy by 2030. As part of its green pledge and push towards more sustainable operations, the company has announced that it is upgrading five of its hy...

March 01, 2022

China

Datagrid's new facility and its sustainability drive

Further details around Datagrid's plans to build a $1 billion carbon-neutral hyperscale data center have been released. To be located in Makarewa near Invercargill, the company's facility will have a capacity of 150 MW and powered by the Manapouri hydropower scheme - making it the first facili...

March 01, 2022

New Zealand

Russia's Liberum Navitas Selects Locations for First Three of 15 Facilities

Liberum Navitas has revealed the first three locations for the 15 data centers it planned to develop in Russia. The Russian IT firm first announced plans for the 15 data centers in October 2021. The company revealed that the data center development would cost 48.6 billion Rubles ($683.3m). Acc...

March 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Russia / Россия

The challenges of the Russia-Ukraine conflict

As the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues, reports are circulating around the impact on data, internet connectivity and power supplies. On February 24th, it was reported that Biden was being presented with a number of options relating to Russian cyberattacks, including disrupting internet conne...

February 28, 2022

Ukraine

KY lawmakers to introduce tax incentives for data center giants

Kentucky lawmakers are reportedly considering a proposal that would see millions of dollars in state sales tax breaks awarded to tech giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Google and others. This proposed huge tax break has, of course, garnered discussion and a wave of opposition from a number of v...

February 25, 2022

Kentucky

PLDT's data center in Santa Rosa to be largest in the Philippines

PLDT has announced that it is to build a 100MW data center in Santa Rosa, in the Philippines. This will be its 11th data center, named Vitro Sta. Rosa, and will be built on a five-hectare plot, making it the country's largest facility to date. Designed to be Tier III certified and Tier IV read...

February 25, 2022

Philippines

Incinerator-powered data center proposed for Reading, UK

An incinerator-powered data center could be heading to Reading, the UK, it has been announced. J Mould, a local demolition, decontamination, and recycling contracting firm, is proposing this innovative build to the tune of £80 million ($108m). If it goes ahead, the project will be built on a 6...

February 24, 2022

United Kingdom

What the America Competes Act means for data centers

In early February, the America Competes Act passed through the House (222-210 along party lines). The much-debated and somewhat controversial Act contains provisions relating to data centers, supercomputers, and quantum computing. Several sub-sections have been added to Section 304 of the Depa...

February 24, 2022

North America

Bitfury Opens 28MW Crypto Mining Data Center in Sarnia, Canada

Bitfury Group has announced the launch of a new crypto mining data center in Sarnia, Canada. The 28MW data center will begin operations with 16MW of capacity before the end of February. It will also add 12MW of capacity by the end of May. The company noted that the facility could be expanded t...

February 24, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Bitfury Sarnia

Optus-Occupied Facility Up For Sale in Sydney

According to ITNews, Fortius has listed its data center at 549 Harris Street, Sydney, Australia, for sale through JLL and CBRE. The data center is currently being occupied by Optus. Optus’ lease on the data center will expire in 2024 with no further option for expansion. This is a 60,300 sq...

February 24, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sydney

Energy Field Security Announce Plans For Edge Data Centers in Colorado

Energy Field Security (EFS) has revealed plans to build an Edge data center in Delta, Colorado. The Edge data center will help serve local healthcare and medical providers. EFS announced that it would be building the data center on a seven-acre site which is located to the north of Delta Healt...

February 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Colorado (CO)

China approves ten data center clusters

China has announced that it has approved a large-scale project to build eight national integrated computing hubs with ten data center clusters. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and three other central departments (the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Ind...

February 22, 2022

China

Loudoun Board: Data center development could be curtailed

Recently, a committee of the Board of Supervisors argued that data centers should be prevented from being built on the Route 7 corridor in northeastern Loudoun County. Already the area is home to 25 million square feet of data centers, with data center development booming in recent years, a bo...

February 22, 2022

Northern Virginia

Asterion Mulling Over Sale Of Its Latin American Data Centers

According to Expansion, Asterion Industrial Partners wants to sell its data centers in Latin America. Interestingly, the investment firm bought the facilities from Telefonica in 2019. The report has it that the company has contacted the services of Investment bank Greenhill & Co. to rai...

February 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Latin America

International crypto bans lead to more data center builds in the US

According to experts, there is an emerging trend towards more crypto data centers being built in the US as a result of other markets introducing bans. China banned cryptocurrency last year, and Russia, in January, proposed a ban, too. That's not all - Sweden is also seeking to ban mining in th...

February 21, 2022

United States

Pexapark forecasts changes to PPA

In its "European PPA Market Outlook 2022" report, Pexapark outlined that change is afoot regarding the way in which data center operators purchase renewable energy. The energy price volatility of 2021 will reportedly have a long-term impact on PPA deals, with larger consumers buying up big off...

February 21, 2022

Europe

GLP To Invest $12b in Developing Data Centers in Japan

GLP has revealed its plans to enter the Japanese data center market. The company is looking to develop data centers with up to 900MW of capacity over the next five years in the market. In addition, it will also invest up to $12 billion to bring facilities to live. By so doing, the Singapore...

February 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Japan

Russia, Ukraine and data centers

As more and more reports circulate that Russia is on the precipice of invading Ukraine, with no sign of withdrawal, those within the data center and digital infrastructure industry are discussing what it means for the sector. Omdia has outlined that potential conflict poses a threat to the ind...

February 18, 2022

Ukraine

Greenergy Opens a Data Center in Estonia

Greenergy Data Centers OÜ has announced that it opened its first data center in Estonia. The three-story facility spans 156,000 square feet (14,500 square meters) in the Saue Parish near Tallinn. Upon full build-out, the data center will have three buildings with a total capacity of 31.5MW. Gr...

February 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Estonia

Cloud Centers to Develop a 12MW Facility in The Philippines

YCO Cloud Centers has revealed that it is developing a 12MW data center in Batangas, the Philippines. The company is building this facility in the Light Industry and Science Park IV in Batangas. The data center called YCO Manila Digital will be housed in a two-story building. It will also s...

February 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

YCO: Batangas

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