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NTT has opened a new data center campus in Berlin, Germany. The company announced that its Berlin 2 facility is now live. The facility is located at Lankwitzer Strasse 45-47 and currently houses two data centers. The facility will also provide an initial IT power of 24MW across 107,650 squa...

AWS has announced a new collaboration project with American Rock Products (ARP), a concrete company, to develop a concrete mix for data centers that is more sustainable. Labeled the most destructive material on earth, concrete is fundamentally unsustainable and a significant contributor to cl...

EcoDataCenters has announced that it is teaming up with WA3RM to promote circular economy principles by sharing excess heat for large-scale cultivation in fish farms and greenhouses. While others in the industry have already pursued such opportunities within agriculture, it's noted that typic...

Edge Centres is looking to deploy an Edge data center in an office skyscraper in Los Angeles, California. The company announced on its LinkedIn page: "Work is underway in Los Angeles on EC101. Located at 707 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, EC101 will serve as Edge Centres' core location on the w...

Per information privy to CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm, Google has leased a 43,100 square meter (464,000 square feet) data center in Noida, India from Adani. The lease is to run for ten years and it will start with an annual rate of Rs130.98 crore ($16m). The agreement has alre...

Penzance, a real estate investment firm, has announced that it is considering a site that was previously earmarked for an auto sales facility for a data center development instead. The company has reportedly applied to rezone a plot of land, located in Chantilly in Northern Virginia, just off ...

Khazna Data Centers has announced that work has started on two new data centers in Dubai, UAE. The data centers are called DXB3 and DXB2, located in Ibn Battuta and Dubai Design District, respectively. DXB3 and DXB2 will have a combined data center capacity of 43MW. DXB2 will come online in...

AtlasEdge has announced that it has acquired Datacenter One (DC1) from Star Capital. AtlasEdge is a Liberty Global, DigitalBridge, and Digital Realty-backed company. The firm noted that the deal complements AtlasEdge’s existing data center operations in Hamburg and Berlin. The companies did...

HostDime has announced the launch of its new data center in Bogota, Colombia. The CEO of HostDime, Manny Vivar, announced and posted a comment on LinkedIn about the development. He said: "As the sun settles tonight, we reflect with gratitude all the hard work our HostDime Colombia 🇨🇴 familia h...

Iron Mountain is looking to develop a new facility at its Manassas campus in Prince William County, Virginia. According to a a filing, Iron Mountain plans to develop the data center on a 24-acre parcel. Iron Mountain will invest up to $100m to bring the data center to life. Although the spe...

As recently reported by Baxtel, South Africa has been facing significant energy challenges resulting in regular outages, with Eskom implementing Stage 6 power cuts. This has meant that South Africans have been faced with power cuts for at least six hours a day. These power outages have had a h...

Urbis Pty Ltd, a design and planning firm, is reportedly applying to build an AU$600 million (US$379m) data center campus in the Belmont area of Perth, Australia, at 37 Abernethy Road. The application lists the client as GreenSquareDC, an “emerging sustainability-oriented data center provider’...

QTS is expanding in Texas, with the addition of a new building to its Irving data center campus. The facility, namely DC5, is located at 6300 Longhorn Drive, and will see an investment of $180 million.According to the company, the facility, which will span 337,190 sq ft, is projected to be co...

GTA, a telecommunications company in Guam, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to signify the commencement of construction of its Alupang Data Center, under US-based Huntsman Family Investments (HFI) ownership. The facility and cable landing station will be built in Tamuning, Guam, and wil...

Equinix has revealed its plans to develop a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the company's first facility in the Asian country. Equinix noted that it would be investing $74m in developing the new IBX facility. The data center will be located in the Central Business Distri...

Scala Data Centers has announced its plans to develop a new facility in Porto Alegre, South Brazil. The Latin American data center company plans to invest R$250 million (US$48m) to bring the data center to life. Scala plans to use its new FastDeploy modular design for the data center. The f...

Stack Infrastructure has acquired two empty parcels of land in Manassas, Virginia. The land has been zoned for data center development. Per BizJournal, an affiliate of Stack Infrastructure paid $25.4m for 30.8 acres at 9530 Hornbaker Road, Manassas, last month. The company then bought anoth...

Orange recently released a number of sustainability measures to save energy and reduce electricity consumption in France. The company outlined that in the face of an energy crisis, with reports that Europe could face rolling blackouts, as a telecom business, it has a role to play in decreasin...

Google is opening its first data center in Japan, it has announced. To be located in Inzai City, Chiba, the facility is part of the company's $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024 and is set to open by 2023.  Google The data center, the company...