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Russian mobile provider Rostelcom is apparently interested in acquiring Megafon, according to local publications. The prospective agreement is being explored at the government level, according to CNews. Rostelcom already controls another Russian mobile provider, Tele2, and is the sole propriet...

In a cost-cutting effort, Meta claims to have rebuilt its data centers to be less expensive and quicker to build. Meta canceled or paused data centers worldwide and redesigned them for additional artificial intelligence demands late last year. Facebook's Danish data center development and Texa...

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...

BAM Digital Realty has begun construction on its first data center in India. This week, the company, a partnership between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, revealed that building of a data center in Chennai has begun and is on schedule to be completed by the end of the year. MA...

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...

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...

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 ...

Syntagma Capital has entered into exclusive discussions with fiber optic manufacturer Nexans to buy its LAN/data center (LAN/DC) and Telecom /Fiber (FTTx) divisions. The financials of the transaction were not disclosed, but it is anticipated that a deal would be finalized by the end of the fir...

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...

Vantage Data Centers has filed for a Loudoun County campus near Ashburn. Vantage applied for federal and state approvals for its VA3 data center facility with the US Army Corps of Engineers district commander. Vantage plans to build a "large-scale data center complex" on 134 acres west of B...

Datum Group, a UK-based data center company, is working on building two new facilities in the country's south and northwest. This week, the firm revealed its intention to establish two new data centers in Farnborough and Manchester in the year 2024. The two new centers (FRN2 and MCR2) will ...

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...

Microsoft will construct a new Azure cloud region and data center in Saudi Arabia. This week, the company revealed plans to build a new cloud data facility in Saudi Arabia. The news was made at the Riyadh conference LEAP 2023. Microsoft stated that the new cloud region will provide enterpri...

iliad has announced that it has signed a 15-year PPA with Engie SA to purchase energy generation from the Labrit solar farm located in the Landes region in southwestern France. The farm is a 60,000-panel solar park, pegged to produce over 20 GWh of electricity per year, with a capacity of 16 M...

Colocation service provider atNorth will construct a new data center in the Helsinki region of Finland. This week, the firm revealed that it has struck a deal to acquire a new site in Finland, which would become its third data center in the nation. The facility, which was acquired from the loc...

Teraco, a provider of data centers in South Africa, has been given a $678 million loan. Absa Group, a South African lender, led the loan. The business stated that "many big financial institutions" provided the cash, but did not identify them. Teraco, a subsidiary of Digital Realty, will utiliz...

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...

Bulk Data Centers has announced that it will provide its customers with 100 percent renewable energy 24/7. This, it has outlined, will be achieved by matching hourly consumption with local hydropower. Customers at Bulk's OS-IX facility in Oslo, Norway, will be able to choose to have renewable...