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According to Bloomberg, Amazon Web Services plans to open a new data center region in Mexico. The report claims AWS is close to signing a deal with the Mexican federal government over opening a new region in Queretaro. Although no date has been set, an official report is expected soon.Represen...

Ericsson has announced that it is to develop a data center for Airtel Africa; however, specific details on capacity and dimensions have not been revealed. This facility will be located in the Seychelles.Dina Amadou, CEO of Airtel Seychelles, said that the partnership will help the company to m...

Amazon Web Services has announced another Top Secret cloud region to host classified government data. The new region will operate workloads at the Top-Secret United States security classification level, which is the highest security classification in the US. The new Top-Secret West region will...

Green Mountain has announced that it is expanding its Oslo, Norway campus by building a new data center at the facility. Green Mountain revealed that it bought a 570,500 square foot (53,000 square meters) plot of land next to its DC3-Oslo data center campus. According to Green Mountain, the Os...

Netrality has revealed plans for a new facility in Shawnee, Kansas. The company announced that it acquired a property at 7801 Nieman Road. The facility will be Netrality’s second data center in Kansas as it currently operates one at 1102 Grand Blvd, Kansas. The new facility has up to 2MW of ca...

Deep Edge Realty is expanding in Reno following the signing of a long-term lease at Basin Street Properties 200 South Virginia building. The company’s data center will be located on the sixth floor and offer interconnections to over ten regional service providers as well as the Tahoe Internet ...

In light of the global push to reduce carbon emissions, Beijing outlined in a plan published on Wednesday that local governments in China should ensure that the "blind and disorderly development" of data centers is carefully monitored and prevented. Moreover, it stated that governments should ...

Microsoft has unveiled new availability zones in its Indian Central Azure cloud region. Usually, Azure regions launch with three availability zones. These zones are physically separated to provide higher redundancy, availability, and disaster recovery protection. However, there are cases where...

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) has started work on a new data center facility in Hong Kong, China. CMI is developing the facility on a 1 million square foot land in Fo Tan, Sha Tin. The facility will have multiple stories, and it will cover 103,660 square meters (1.1 million square f...

Plans to build data centers opposite the Manassas National Battlefield Park are being opposed. Critics are warning that the proposal, known as "PW Digital Gateway",  is the "Single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in nearly three decades," compromising the environmental in...

Africa Data Centres has announced that it has chosen Distributed Power Technologies (DPT) to provide its South African data centers with renewable energy and storage. This announcement follows news that the company recently secured nearly R4 billion to expand and develop its two data centers i...

Data center plans are moving ahead in Elk Grove Village as officials have announced their expectation to close on the sale of four parcels totaling 17.5 acres later this month. The sale will be made to Prime Data Centers Corp for $21.3 million. This follows planning commissioners voting unanim...

News emerging is that China Telecom Americas will be leaving the United States. This comes after the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied China Telecom’s emergency motion to pause an FCC order that revoked its authorizations to continue operations in the country. ...

Iron Mountain has announced that it has signed a 20MW lease agreement with an existing Fortune 100 customer for its Va-2 data center in Manassas, Virginia. The new lease agreement now sees Iron Mountain sign leases of up to 44MW since the beginning of the year. The new lease will start in phas...

Yondr is to build a new data center outside Frankfurt, Germany, it has announced. Located in the City of Bischofsheim, the facility will have a capacity of 40MW and comes as a response to increased cloud capacity demands. Speaking about the expansion near the southwest of Frankfurt, Pete Jone...

OneX, a data center newcomer, has announced that by the end of 2023, it plans to construct five data centers, with an investment of 75mn reais (US$13.2mn). The first of the five, based in the Vale do Aço (steel valley) region of Minas Gerais, was inaugurated on Tuesday. This data center, accor...