Oct 07, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Core Scientific: Denton, TX
Core Scientific has announced a significant expansion in Denton, Texas. This expansion will see the construction of a 300- megawatt (MW) blockchain data center, and is in association with Tenaska Energy.This announcement was made in a statement by the company on Thursday, which outlined that t...
Oct 07, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn
Rolls Royce is reportedly in talks with Amazon and other tech giants about exploring the possibility of powering data centers with small nuclear reactors (SMR). The project is under development by a consortium led by Rolls-Royce, and funded by a £215 million from the UK government grant last y...
Oct 07, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | NORD-6
Rostelecom has announced the opening of its new data center in Moscow, Russia. The latest data center was opened under its Rostelecom-DPC unit. The new NORD-6 facility is in the Rostelecom-DPC campus in Korovinskoe highway 37. It has a capacity of 5MW and two data rooms that will house 207 rac...
Oct 07, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn
ADACEN has announced that it is relocating to Silver Spring, Maryland, in order to expand development. According to the company, this relocation is also a way for it to explore new technologies to make its data centers eco-efficient.Part of this exploration will see the company research renewa...
Oct 07, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Meta
Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram recently experienced a six-hour blackout, where users were unable to login, message, and peruse the platforms. But, users weren't the only ones whose access to the platform was interrupted. According to reports, tech giant Facebook also lo...
Oct 07, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Australia
Australian telecommunication firm Swoop Holdings has acquired 100 percent of Countrytell Holdings for AU$4.2 million (US$3). Swoop paid half in cash and the other half in Swoop shares. Countrytell is a regional connectivity provider in Newcastle, New South Wales. Countrytell was founded in 200...
Oct 06, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham
According to Biz Times, investors group KCMJ Investments LLC has sold TierPoint’s Milwaukee data center to Milwaukee-based WSP Burnham LLC for $4.66 million. The deal includes the sale of a 3.3-acre plot with the facility. TierPoint’s Milwaukee data center has 70,000 square feet of space wi...
Oct 06, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Massachusetts
Westfield’s City Council has become skeptical about the 40-year tax break deal it wants to grant the developers of the $2.7 billion data center in the city. The council sat on the matter on Monday, October 4, 2021, but they were not expected to make a final decision then. The project will get ...
Oct 06, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Nigeria
Cloud Exchange has announced that it has teamed up with telecommunications giant, Huawei, to launch Africa’s first uptime institute tier IV modular prefabricated data center. The facility is located in Lagos, and Nigeria’s growing digital economy has driven its development. Commenting on t...
Oct 06, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Italy
Italian Geoveda Srl has announced that it is pursuing the construction of a green data center in the province of Pisa in Tuscany, Italy. Sourcing geothermal energy from Larderello, the proposed data center will be net-zero and aim for a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) below 1.1.The project, in...
Oct 06, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Equinix Sao Paulo SP5x
Equinix has announced the opening of its new hyperscale data center facility in São Paulo, Brazil, called SP5x. The new facility is located next to Equinix’s SP3 IBX data center in Santana de Parnaíba. The facility has 5MW of capacity in its first phase. It is also expected to have a total cap...
Oct 05, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | DataBank Orangeburg
DataBank has announced that it has acquired 34 acres of land in Orangeburg, New York. The land it bought would be the home of its future data center in New York. Building the data center on the land will help the data center firm meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastruc...
Oct 05, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | KAO Data
New Zealand investor Infratil has acquired a 40 percent stake in UK data center firm Kao Data. It has also acquired two data centers to add to the company’s portfolio. Infratil is paying £120-130 million” (US$163-177m) for the acquisition of the stakes in the company. CEO of Kao Data, Lee M...
Oct 05, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Rowan: Temple, Moriah, TX
Rowan Green Data has announced big plans. The developer and infrastructure builder is to build a 500-megawatt (MW) multi-tenant campus in Temple, Texas. $300 million of investment will go into the construction of 135,000 sqft of new buildings and data center space. The project will be complete...
Oct 05, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a $2.7 billion contract to Peraton. The contract will see Peraton manage DHS’s shift to the cloud from an on-premises computing environment. Although the award shows Perspecta as the winner of the contract, the firm was acquired for $7.1 bi...
Oct 05, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Japan
IIJ has announced that it has deployed a micro data center on the premises of Shiroi Data Center Campus (Shiroi DCC), the first of its kind in Japan. A 12U, the micro data center has an available range of 12U to 38U. The MDC also has a cooling unit, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), envir...
Oct 05, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Saudi Arabia
The General Authority of Competition in Saudi Arabia has reportedly given data centers in the new city-state of Neom, Saudi-Arabia, the go-ahead. This project will be a part of a joint venture between Neom and Fas Energy and will see the construction and operation of “sustainable” ultra-large...
Oct 05, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Google
Google has reportedly purchased 300 acres in Eagle Mountain, Utah, which could potentially be home to a new data center. Google already has offices in the region, in Salt Lake City and Provo. The plot of land is located in the south on Pony Express Parkway, near Facebook’s 1.5 million-square-...
Oct 01, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | AWS US East (Ohio)
Amazon Web Services plans to start the construction of its second data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio. The Company revealed that work would begin in the next few months. Hilliard Economic Development Director David Meadows said to BizJournals that AWS would start construction on its second...
Oct 01, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | OVH Group
OVHcloud could be seeing up to €105 million ($122m) leave its coffers because of the fire that destroyed its Strasbourg data center in March. The document the firm filed with a French financial authority is responsible for revealing this. Although insurance has covered most of the cost of t...