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Odata has reportedly acquired a minority stake in Omega Energia's 212MW Assuruá IV wind farm, in Bahia state's Xique-Xique municipality. Through this acquisition, the Brazil-based datacenter group will secure renewable energy for its data centers. Moreover, the company claims that the investm...

Vodafone has announced the signing of a new PPA with Centrica and Mytilineos for solar power in the UK. The 10-year deal signed by the companies will see the telco procure energy from five solar farms in Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Dorset. In total, the energ...

NTT Data has announced that it is pursuing a demonstration testing of film-type perovskite solar cells installed on the exterior walls of buildings in collaboration with Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. This is reportedly aligned with the company's pursuit of environmental measures for its data cen...

Nepali telecom Ncell has opened a new data center in Lalitpur. The Axiata-owned telecommunications company has reportedly established a new data center in the Nakkhu neighborhood of Lalitpur, just south of Kathmandu. The corporation invested over $15,1 million in the project, which it claims i...

Last week hackers gained access to two Asia-based data center firms, Shanghai-based GDS Holdings and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. This revelation, first published by Bloomberg, comes after endpoint security firm Resecurity found evidence they had been compromised. Cyber se...

TikTok has announced its plans to build two more data centers in Europe. The company said this addition will support its growth and meet data residency requirements. Speaking about this expansion, Rich Waterworth, TikTok's general manager of operations in Europe, said: "We're continuing to del...

Singapore-based Princeton Digital has announced plans to develop more data centers in Asia, in a bid to support operations in its global headquarters. To do this, the company is injecting an investment of $1 billion. With this, the company is expanding into Batam with a 96-megawatt facility, o...

DC Two, an Australian provider of data centers and cloud services, has received $2.02 million from DComm Infrastructure for its non-core infrastructure assets. DComm Ventures, a web 3.0 technology group of corporations in the blockchain sector, owns DComm Infrastructure as a subsidiary. Accord...

Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais S.A. (CEMIG), a Brazilian energy company, has sold its share of the local data center corporation Ativas to Sonda, a Chilean IT company, which now owns the majority of the company. In a recent announcement, CEMIG stated that a share purchase contract had...

Microsoft wants to duplicate a Dublin data center battery-sharing agreement. In 2022, Eaton unveiled a lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) with grid-interactive UPS to exchange energy with the local grid. The corporation told a London conference that this technique was ideal for t...

Following speculation that QTS Realty Trust Inc. was the company seeking new development within Rocky Branch Creek Technology Park, and later confirmation, it looks like the company's Northland data center plans have now fallen through.The company was reportedly set to acquire the property nor...

Valley Oak is pursuing a new data center in Fremont, California, it has been announced, to 'serve as a place for clients to either relocate their data servers or expand their data capacity.' The company submitted an application for a 490,000 square-foot (45,520 sqm) data center on approximatel...

Reports reveal that in recent months, a wave of Prince William County planning officials have resigned from their positions just as the data center development controversy heats up. County Planning Director Mark Buenavista, had only been in the job a month, but left his position last week. Sim...

As covered extensively by Baxtel, the PW Digital Gateway data center campus, planned outside Manassas, is the most controversial data center development in recent times. It has been opposed from many angles, with environmentalists arguing that it jeopardizes net-zero goals, and others arguing ...

Amazon's plans to expand its data center footprint in Northern Virginia, with a huge investment of $35 billion, is continuing to receive pushback from protestors and residents. Northern Virginia has the largest concentration of data centers in the world, being the epicenter of a data center bo...

Kio Networks, a Mexican data center company, is developing a third data center in Querétaro. The corporation revealed this week that it had purchased 261,100 square feet of land in Querétaro for the development of a new data center. QRO3 will be the company's third plant in the region, and ...

HostDime Mexico is delighted to report that GDL-IX, Guadalajara's inaugural peering exchange, will reside in its Guadalajara data center. So when HostDime's new Tier IV data center in Guadalajara is completed in the coming year, GDL-IX will be expanded to the new facility. By March 10, 2023, G...

NTT has created a prototype device that might boost data center and submarine cable connection rates. A crucial step toward 6G, the gadget can in-lab enhance a 100 Gigahertz (GHz) electrical signal. Although the commercial availability of the ultra-compact baseband amplifier IC module is years...

Chindata Group has announced that its Chindata Shanxi Lingqiu 220kV power transmission and transformation project became fully operational on February 13, 2023. The company outlined that the substation has a 360MW power supply capacity for Chindata's Taihang Mountain Energy and Information Te...

Data center company Etix Everywhere has received a $46.8 million investment from European private equity firm Eurazo. The funding was obtained by Etix Everywhere's French division through Eurazo's infrastructure strategy, according to a report this week from Global Data Centre Group (GDC), ...