Jul 01, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Oracle
Oracle has announced the launch of its new cloud region in Querétaro, Mexico. The company first revealed plans for the region in 2021. This is Oracle’s first region in the country. The senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Mexico, Maribel Dos Santos, said: “We are excited to e...
Jul 01, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Vantage Data Centers
Pantheon Infrastructure has announced that it will be investing $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers. The investment will be geared towards the data center company’s North American business for continued growth. Vantage has data center campuses in Quebec, Montreal, Phoenix, Ashburn, Quincy, and S...
Jul 01, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Philippines
Nautilus Data Technologies and Philippine-based IT firm DFNN Inc. are forming a partnership to develop a data center in the Philippines. The companies signed an MoU to partner up to develop the facility in the Freeport Area of Bataan. None of the companies shared the data center specificati...
Jul 01, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | FedEx
FedEx announced that it would close all its data centers while retiring its mainframes within the next two years. The CIO of FedEx, Rob Carter, said the company is gunning for a zero mainframe and zero data center environment based in the cloud. According to Carter, the development will sav...
Jun 30, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Sabey Data Centers
Sabey Data Centers has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by or before 2029 across its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. Following the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi) validating the company's target and methods to achieve a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, the Sa...
Jun 30, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | North Carolina
Residents in Fayette County have voiced concerns about the consideration of approval for the annexation of 412 acres in the center of the county, enabling the development of a data center. According to the city report: "If annexed, the properties would be zoned BP Business Park and designated ...
Jun 30, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | California
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that it has accelerated climate goals, bringing them down from 2050 to 2040, following its most recent Living Progress Report for Fiscal Year 2021, which it released this week. The tech giant said that it will facilitate this change by establishin...
Jun 30, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Malaysia
According to Bloomberg, many companies including BDx, DigitalBridge, STT GDC, Digital Edge, and STT GDC are exploring options of acquiring Time Dotcom’s data center assets. The long line of suitors are currently performing due diligence on the data center assets. Offer for the assets could be ...
Jun 30, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Netherlands
The Netherland's Hollands Kroon municipal is looking to prevent the development of more data centers in the area. The plan comes even after being one of the only two regions the country's government exempted from the ban on hyperscale data centers. The new coalition of Independent Hollands Kro...
Jun 30, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Sabey Data Centers
Sabey Data Centers is about to issue revenue notes to the tune of $250m. According to Asset Securitization, the company will issue the notes to securitize real estate and tenant lease payments on six of its hyperscale data center campuses across Washington, Virginia, and New York. S&P will...
Jun 30, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Kuala Lumpur
Edge Centres has started working on its Edge data center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Australian Edge data center company announced that it would be expanding into Asia. The first facility called EC31 is being developed in Malaysia. Edge Centres scheduled the site to be completed in July. Th...
Jun 29, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Colorado (CO)
Aspen Creek Digital Corp, a new company in the bitcoin space, has announced that it has opened a six-megawatt solar-powered facility in the western part of Colorado. This announcement comes despite the current crypto meltdown. The company has outlined that its mission is to "catalyze the deca...
Jun 29, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Green Mountain AS
Azrieli Group, the parent of Green Mountain has acquired Infinity SDC Ltd. The move sees the company take over SDC’s data center in Romford, East London. Green Mountain will be tasked with operating the data center. This will be Green Mountain’s first facility outside of Norway. Green Mountain...
Jun 29, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Virginia
Virginia’s Warrenton town could see the development of data centers skyrocket due to the change of zoning laws. Amazon Web Services has plans to develop a large data center in the town due to the zoning law change. The company filed to develop a 20,400 square meter (220,000 square feet) single...
Jun 29, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | India / Bhārata
The government of Uttar Pradesh, India, has approved the plan for four data center parks in the state. The government granted permission to Adani Enterprises Limited Project-1 and Adani Enterprises Limited Project-2, NIDP Developers Private Limited (an affiliate of Hiranandani Group), and NTT ...
Jun 29, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Facebook Zeewolde
Facebook has finally announced that it has canceled its plans for the Zeewolde data center. This move comes after it first announced a pause to the project in March. The data center was poised to be largest data center in the Netherlands. Facebook’s plan was to develop a 200MW data center acro...
Jun 29, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | New York
Urbacon and Niagara Falls Redevelopment (NFR) have announced plans for a $1.5 billion data center park on land in Niagara Falls, New York City. Urbacon is an Ontario-based construction company with an excellent track record of developing massive data center campuses in Richmond Hill, Montre...
Jun 29, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | United Kingdom
Camro Data Park has announced a refinancing deal with Topland Group. The property investment firm agreed to a two-year financing deal worth £9.25 million ($11.3m) with Camro Data Park. The new data center site is located within the Elean Business Park in Cambridgeshire. Camro already has pe...
Jun 29, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | BitRiver
BitRiver, a crypto mining company, is partnering up with Gazprom Neft, the third-largest oil producer in Russia and subsidiary of state-owned energy firm Gazprom, to power crypto mine data centers with flared gas, it has been announced. This comes following an MoU between the two signed at S...
Jun 28, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Google
Back in December 2020, Google announced that it had signed an agreement with state-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco to set up a Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia and offer Enterprise Cloud services. From the outset, this was a controversial move. Saudi Arabia is notorious for its human rights...