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ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced that it has opened its third building at its Singapore Defu campus in the east of the city-state. The facility, first announced back in April 2021, is a seven-story building with an IT load capacity of 15MW and spanning 156,000 square f...

Proximity Data Centres has announced the expansion of its data center footprint in the UK, with the addition of a new facility in Milton Keynes. Named Proximity Milton Keynes Edge 10, the facility is based on a 3.2-acre site and spans 8,000 sq ft (4459 sqm) across multiple data halls, offerin...

A dispute has arisen between Irish Minister for Planning Peter Burke and South Dublin County Councillors over its ban on new data centers in the county. Burke had claimed last month that the county’s decision to make data centers “not permitted” use in the new county development plan breached ...

Compass Datacenters has announced the acquisition of and in Milan. The company partnered with real estate firm Hines to acquire the property for the development of a 48MW data center campus. The move sees Compass venture into Europe for the first time. The land acquired by the two companies...

Google has announced its plans to launch three Cloud regions in the APAC region. The company plans to launch these regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia. Although its competitors like Microsoft Azure and AWS already have projects in the works in Malaysia and New Zealand, it is the fir...

Ascenty has announced the opening of its second data center in Santiago, Chile, the Santiago 2. Located in the Quilicura district of the capital, the facility will span 21,000 sqm (226,000 sq ft), with 31MW of IT load and a capacity for up to 3,550 racks.Plans were that the company would comm...

Riot Blockchain, one of the world’s largest bitcoin miners, has announced that it recently generated more money from energy credits allocated to the company for powering down than from actually mining cryptocurrency. During July, the company shut down its bitcoin mining rigs at its Texas faci...

According to reports, Finish telco Elisa is the latest company to employ circular economy principles in order to make use of waste heat from its data center in Helsinki. The company recently announced that it has connected to an open district heating system run by energy company Helen, to help...

Paratus has announced the launch of a new data center in Namibia, located in the capital city, Windhoek, its first facility in the country. The company has called the facility ‘Armada,' and although further details around the facility are yet to be released, it will reportedly be built to Tier...

Environmental group Futureproof Clare is opposing the approval of a €450 million ($464.3m) data center project in Ennis, in the West of Ireland, over concerns around public health, and a projected use of "inordinate amounts of water and electricity."The facility, an Art Data Centres project, w...

Eurofiber Cloud Infra has announced that it is exploring employing circular economy principles in association with housing corporation Volkshuisvesting, infra-specialist for new energy Firan, and Eurofiber-owned Dataplace, for its data center in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The three have partnere...

Digital Realty has announced the sale of a “mature” data center. The move is to ensure that more capital is available for new projects. Notably, the company did not reveal which building it sold or who acquired the facility. According to a release from the company, it has disposed of the prope...

Digital 9 Infrastructure has announced an increase to its revolving credit facility by £75 million ($91m). This brings its total credit to £375m ($454m). According to D9, it still has the capacity to increase its credit facility by another £125m ($151m). The company is managed by Triple Point....

Principal Real Estate Investors and Lincoln Rack have acquired a data center in Atlanta. The data center spans 185,000 square feet (17,200 square meters). It also sits on 38 acres of land. The facility has a capacity of 7MW. It can also be expanded to 13MW upon full build out. According to ...

Colt is reportedly planning to build a new data center campus in Hayes, West London, after receiving approval for the project in April. The proposal will see the development of the former Optimum Data Centre, neighboring Tudor Works and Veetec Motor Group facilities, into a new data center ca...

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, have all made big claims regarding sustainability and social responsibility, however, recently, the three giants have been embroiled in a c ontroversy relating to buying so-called "blood gold." According to reports, the three, alongside Apple, bought gold from an...

Qatari telecoms firm Ooredoo has announced plans to build three more data centers in Barka, Salalah, and Suhar. Each will be Tier 3 and have 500 racks capacity, the two former will provide landing points for the upcoming 2Africa cable. “Ooredoo has begun construction on three new state-of-the-...

Despite Amazon's lofty promises of securing carbon neutral status before 2040, the latest statistics from its sustainability report, reveal that the giant's carbon emissions actually increased by 18%, from 60.64 million metric tons to 71.54 million metric tons, the equivalent of 19 coal-fired ...