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Edge Centres has announced expansion into Thailand. The company said it is developing three locations in the country and work has started on the first one. The Australian Edge data center firm will deploy the EC61 Chiang Mai site first. EC62 Phuket and EC63 Khon Kaen will also follow in qui...

Involta has announced the expansion of its data center in Independent, Ohio. The data center company added 1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) of space to the facility. It also added 1MW of power to the data center. The facility is located at 7300 E Pleasant Valley Road. The expansion ...

Amazon Web Services has plans to develop an 83,600 square meter (900,000 square feet) data center campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia. The company has filed to rezone over 59 acres in Nokesville Road from A-1, Agricultural to Planned Business Development. This is for the sole purpose of devel...

India is currently experiencing a data center boom, an expansion that is only expected to grow. According to research, while the industry was previously fragmented, it is now evolving rapidly as the industry becomes more consolidated. Presently, there are 138 data centers spanning India, with ...

Scala Data Centers has announced the launch of its SP4 data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. SP4 is located on the company’s Tambore data center campus in the Barueri area of Sao Paulo. The company told BNAmericas that the data center is at its first stage and will provide up to 6MW of IT power...

Canberra Data Centres has announced the opening of two new facilities in Auckland, New Zealand. The Australian data center company launched the data centers in Auckland's Hobsonville and Silverdale areas. The Silverdale campus is called Auckland Campus One, while the Hobsonville data center is...

Microsoft has filed to develop a data center in San Antonio, Texas. The company is looking to develop the SAT15 facility at 3555 Westover Link in Bexar County, San Antonio. The new data center will span 245,000 square feet. Microsoft will also invest up to $215.9m in developing the facility. C...

Digital Realty has plans to develop a new facility in Dallas, Texas. The data center firm filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop the data center in the Lewisville area of Dallas. The company coined the development ‘Project Gold’ and is looking to invest up to $5...

International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced the investment of $35m into Odata. The company announced on LinkedIn that it is supporting the growth of the Brazilian data center firm with the capital infuse. Odata will use the capital to develop a second data center in Querétaro, Mex...

AWS has reportedly been granted permission to build two data centers in Dublin on the site of a former Ricoh building, which was once earmarked for T5’s first European facility. This approval has gone ahead despite mounting concerns around energy availability in Dublin, environmental concerns...

Despite there being what is being called “the crypto winter,” Validus Power Corp has announced that it is planning more cryptomining data centers at natural gas power stations in Ontario, Canada. This announcement comes after the company acquired the Iroquois Falls and Kingston Efficient Natur...

Echelon Data Centres has reportedly filed a legal challenge with the High Court against South Dublin County Council’s decision to ban new facilities in its function area during the lifetime of its 2022 to 2028 development. This legal action follows the motion tabled by the council’s People Be...

Dominion, the primary power provider in Loudoun county, has announced that although Loudoun County's data center industry outpaces its capacity to deliver electricity, there is a way forward. In a conversation with Biz Journals, Bob Blue, Dominion's president and CEO, said that the company had...

Microsoft has announced the launch of its first Azure cloud region in Doha, Qatar. The company said, “We are launching our newest data center region in Qatar. The new data center region includes Azure Availability Zones, which offer you additional resiliency for your applications by designing ...

Microsoft's data center in the province of North Holland has been exposed for its extreme water usage. It appears that the facility consumes significantly more water than original estimates, right as the country is faced with record temperatures. According to a report by local media company N...

CyrusOne has announced that it has received approval of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), reaffirming its commitment to the target of reducing absolute Scope 1 (fuels) and Scope 2 (electricity) GHG emissions by 38% by 2030 from ...

According to reports, a parcel of land in Fort Worth, Texas, has been rezoned for residential and light industrial developments. Previously, the 361 acres of land was set aside for digital infrastructure and data center development, however this was never capitalized on. Specifically, the land...