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QTS has revealed its plans to develop a data center on an 800-acre site in Prince William County, Virginia. The company’s plans are part of the controversial move by the county to rezone over 2,100 acres of land in Manassas, Northern Virginia, for developing data centers. A spokesperson for QT...

South Korea’s KT Corp and Russia’s MTS have announced that they formed a partnership to build data centers in Russia. The companies said they signed a strategic agreement to develop new business directions, including joint AI-based solutions, data centers, and media content projects. The te...

​​Element Critical has inked a clean energy deal with NextEra Energy Resources, which will provide the data center company with renewable energy. The power purchase agreement (PPA) between the two companies, will see Element Critical provided with power from an ERCOT-connected, Texas-based win...

Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary Marunouchi Direct Access (MDA) has announced its decision to make three of its Tokyo data centers more sustainable by switching to renewable energy. This switch happened in early February 2022 and was made through the RE100 climate plan using conforming feed-in tar...

Centenary Group, a Ugandan banking group, has announced that it has plans to build a new Tier III data center in Masaka. Further details around specifications are yet to be released. According to the company, this facility, the first outside Kampala, is part of its mission to harness financial...

Interxion is one of the latest companies to turn to Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) for its data center backup generator needs. The company is using HVO100 fuel and the first site in its French portfolio to make the change was its new PAR8 site, in La Courneuve, Paris. The fuel is made f...

Sophos has announced that it is entering the Indian market by introducing a new data center in Mumbai. According to reports, development on the facility will start in March 2022. Speaking about the opportunities the facility will bring for the area, Sunil Sharma, managing director of sales for...

The newly formed Dutch government has announced that going forward, it will impose environmental controls on hyperscale data centers, which it said is in response to protests around Facebook’s proposed 166 hectare hyperscale data center in Zeewolde. The proposal received an outcry of oppos...

Google has still not started work on its proposed $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota. The search engine giant announced plans for the data center in 2019, yet, the two companies involved said they hadn’t abandoned the project. At the time of the announcement, Google said it was mull...

Compute North has announced the closing of its next growth capital round of $385 million. The capital raised comprises $300 million in debt financing and $85 million in initial Series C equity closing, led by Generate Capital and Mercuria. Compute North will fund the development of new project...

The global supply chain crisis has had a devastating impact on industries worldwide, but one sector that has remained seemingly unscathed for the most part is the data center industry. The building boom has continued, but now, as the crisis drags on, experts are trying to gauge whether this wi...

This year, Metro Connect kick-started on the 31st January. The three-day in-person conference was held at a South Beach Hotel in Miami and brought together big names in digital infrastructure, tech and private equity and featured a number of high-profile keynote speakers, presentations and dis...

The State of Illinois has announced the purchase of 9.4 acres of land at the Dirksen Business Park in the 2900 block of Dotmar Drive, which will be home to a new data center. The $80.5 million facility will be run by the state Department of Innovation and Technology and will reportedly enable ...

The Adani-EdgeConneX Indian Joint Venture, AdaniConneX, has announced that it has introduced a wholly-owned subsidiary named Mumbai Data Center Limited, which will reportedly develop, operate, maintain, and deal with data centers. Further to this, operations are expected to begin shortly.In Fe...

It has been five years since Apple announced its $1.3 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa; however, it is finally going before the city's planning commission on Today.  At the time of announcing the facility, Tim Cook, CEO of apple, said the data center would help "drive Apple's future," but s...

Plans are in place for QTS to expand its Piscataway facility in New Jersey. My Central Jersey reports that the company has filed for preliminary and final site plan approval to develop a two-story building to the data center campus at 101 Possumtown Road. By so doing, QTS plans to add up to 45...

BNP Paribas Real Estate has announced that it has launched a new data center team in the UK, with ​​Michael Umfreville as the lead. It will be responsible for leasing and land acquisitions. This launch is reportedly in response to REITs, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds and infr...