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365 Data Centers is looking to acquire the major stake in Sungard's US networking and colocation business. Earlier in the year, Sungard US, Canadian, and UK operations filed for bankruptcy. The company also sold most of its UK operations to MSP Redcentric and UK telecommunication company Daisy...

Amazon Data Services is leasing 5.5 acres of land from Larsen & Toubro Ltd outside Mumbai. The lease is to run for 21 years and 6 months. According to Propstack, the property documents show that Amazon is looking to develop a data center on the leased land. Amazon will be paying $451,532 p...

Aligned Data Centers has announced its expansion in Northern Virginia, with the addition of a new 72 MW four-story data center across 430,000 sqft based at its new campus in Sterling. This addition will be the company’s third in the area and part of phase one of the campus development. The fa...

After announcing plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years back in June, Bitzero has announced plans to redevelop a northeastern North Dakota anti-ballistic missile site into a data center. The $6 billion Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Comple...

Datum Datacentres is the latest data center company to announce it's switching to hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) to replace its diesel for its backup generators, and is working with Keysource to help its transition to this more sustainable energy option. This comes as a wider commitment to ...

In the wake of a housing crisis, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has informed developers must halt new housing projects, with talk of a potential ban that could last until 2035, in response to energy constraints caused by data centers. Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon, which contributed to 1...

Meta has announced that it will expand its Sarpy data center in Sarpy County, Nebraska, once again, with the introduction of a new building which will make it a nine-building, four million-square-foot (371,600 sqm) campus that will be fuelled with renewable energy sourced by wind farm projects...

NextDC has announced the launch of its S3 Sydney facility in Sydney, Australia. The Australian data center company announced on LinkedIn that S3 is now open and ready for customer tours. NextDC first started work on the S3 facility in March 2021. The company also revealed that it would have...

The number of companies looking to acquire Global Switch is increasing by the day as PAG has joined the long list of potential suitors. Global Switch is a London-based data center company founded in 1998 with 13 facilities across Asia, Europe, and Australia. Jiangsu Shagang, a Chinese steel co...

The Hilliard planning and zoning commission has approved Amazon Web Services’ proposal to develop a third data center campus in the city. The commission voted 4-3 to approve the proposal. The Board of Zoning Appeals also approved AWS’ request to increase the maximum building height to 63 feet ...

Dominion Energy, a Northern American utility company, has warned that it may be unable to serve new data center projects in Ashburn, Northern Virginia. According to reports, this could mean that projects, which have seen tens of millions of dollars worth of investment, are stalled and potentia...

According to Bloomberg, Private equity company MBK Partners is mulling over the acquisition of China’s Vnet. Vnet Group Inc., formerly known as 21Vianet, is a Chinese data center firm. MBK is in discussions with a partner over a joint offer for Vnet. Vnet had been an acquisition target for ...

The Malawian government has announced the launch of a national data center in Blantyre. The country partnered with Huawei for the development of the facility. Huawei was responsible for building the data center. The data center will also host all Malawian government systems. Specifications ...

Prince William County officials have begun to delve into the PW Digital Gateway data center proposal in its first public review. Since it was first proposed, the project has been controversial. Proponents argue that the project will bring significant financial gains for the area, while opponen...

Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was deve...

AWS has announced its plans to expand its footprint in Latin America with the development of a new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. Alongside this announcement, the company also explained that it had begun the process required to obtain an environmental permit for a $205 million data center i...

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that it has launched a new data center division named PowerHouse Data Centers, with Luke Kipfer  as Vice President of Data Center Development and Construction and Jarrett Appleby as Data Center Strategy Consultant and Senior Advisor. According...

Vantage Data Centers has announced the ground-breaking of its first facility on its 80MW Johannesburg campus, a project which launched in 2021. The two-story facility called JHB11 reportedly offers 16MW of capacity of 130,000sqft square feet (12,000 square meters). According to the company, t...

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP), a group of data center operators which includes 90% of the European data center sector, recently pledged to cut their water use by a maximum of 400ml per kWh of computer power by 2040. This proposal was taken to the European Commission in its third...