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CtrlS has announced that it has started work on a new data center in India. The facility is located in the Tech City Park in Guwahati, Assam. CtrlS’ new data center will sit on a three-acre site, and it will have a capacity of 1,000 racks, expandable to 2,000 racks over the next 18 months. ...

Executives at Google have announced that the company will be investing $25 million in their data center in Montgomery County. Although the company did not reveal the development's exact details, it noted that the investment is part of its country-wide $9.5 billion investment cap for the year.G...

Evoque has announced that it is moving beyond a colocation provider to offering build-to-suit data center services. The company's senior director of communications, Kevin Fleming, revealed that it is pioneering a new development with its build-to-suit solutions for government, hyperscale, a...

Khazna Data Centers has announced it has broken ground on its second data center in Masdar, Abu Dhabi. The facility, named Khazna Abu Dhabi 6 (AUH 6), will have a capacity of 31.8 (MW) and is forecast to be completed by the third quarter of 2023. Speaking about the company's data center footpr...

Vultr has announced that it has launched a cloud data center location in Mumbai, making the city its 25th global location. According to the company, it will enable businesses in India to innovate quicker and at a reduced cost.Commenting on the company’s expansion, Vinod Chacko, Business Develo...

American Realty Advisors has completed the acquisition of two data centers in Loudoun County currently occupied by Cyxtera. An affiliate of American Realty Advisors known as ACPF Nova Data Center LLC paid $51 million to acquire a 12-acre site that holds two single-story data centers. One of...

Stack Infrastructure has announced its plans to develop an 84MW mega data center campus in Prince William County, North Virginia. The facility will be housed on a 34-acre site. It will also feature a minimum of two data center buildings spanning 602,000 square feet. Stack plans to deliver t...

D9 Infrastructure has completed the acquisition of UK data center company Volta. This is exciting news as the company recently acquired Iceland’s Verne Global. D9 announced earlier in the week that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire Volta Data Centres for £45m ($58.5). Volta owns ...

The White Data Center (WDC) in Japan's North Island of Hokkaido, is a research project run by the city of Babai. It initially ran between 2014-2019, in collaboration with Japan's NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) research body. Its aim was to research how sno...

Aligned Data Centers has announced the launch of a material tracing system called the OriginMark system. According to the company, this tracing system has been introduced to enhance and accelerate supply chain decarbonization. This will be achieved through the use of a unique identifier, simi...

Further delays have been announced regarding TikTok’s first data center in Europe. Its Dublin-based facility was initially planned to be up and running by early 2022, but due to what the company said were delays related to Covid, the facility’s opening was pushed back to late 2022. Now the com...

According to Bloomberg, True IDC is mulling over a partial sale of its company. The Thai data center firm is looking to raise up to $150 million by selling a minority stake in its business. The company currently operates one data center in Myanmar and four in Thailand. True IDC has seen sig...

Telecommunication firm Airtel has opened a new data center in the Lekki area of Lagos, Nigeria. The data center is called TIA 942, and it is Tier III certified. Airtel says it will be providing clod and hosting services from the facility for government and business. However, the company did...

Google has announced that it is going on a spending spree this year. The search engine giant plans to invest up to $9.5 billion across its US data centers and offices. This is an over 35% increase from its $7 billion spend last year. According to the company, the investment will create a mi...

Vnet, formerly known as 21Vianet has received unsolicited acquisition offers from two Chinese investment firms. Industrial Bank Co. ltd and Hina Group are looking to acquire the Chinese data center firm. The offer tabled is US$8 in cash per American depositary share. The offer can also be a...

HostDime has announced that to support its Paraíba data center in Brazil, it has installed a solar plant. The photovoltaic solar power plant, which has already had more than 2,000 photovoltaic modules installed, is located in a rural area of ​​the Pilar municipality in Paraíba, and saw an inv...