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India's data center market is forecast to grow by a CAGR of around 12% between 2020−2026, which means the country is undoubtedly witnessing a data center boom. That said, as the country's data center footprint grows, industry veterans have warned that India must learn from the past mistakes o...

Globenet is going to build another data center in Fortaleza, Brazil. The facility is scheduled to be in operation by 2022. The Company says the new facility will triple the racks and power available in its existing Fortaleza data center. However, Globenet didn’t reveal the exact specificati...

Equinix has finally completed the acquisition of the Indian operations of GPX Global Systems for $161 million. The purchase sees Equinix add two data centers in Mumbai to its portfolio. These facilities named Equinix MB1 and MB2 provide a combined 1,350 cabinets, with an additional 500 cabi...

Interxion has announced the opening of its new data center outside Paris, France. Besides, the data center is also the Company’s 12th in the French capital region. The PAR12 facility is located 30km to the east of Paris in Ferrières-en-Brie. It has up to 12MW of IT capacity. It also has over 6...

Google is looking to expand its data center operations in Germany with €1 billion ($1.18bn) worth of investments. The tech giant announced that it would launch a new region in Berlin-Brandenburg. It would also expand its Cloud Region in Frankfurt in a new facility in Hanau. The Company reveale...

NTT ltd has announced it plans to increase its data center footprint in the next 18 months by 20%. The Company would be expanding some of its existing data centers and adding 300MW of capacity and 600,000 sqm (6.5 million square feet) of space within 18months. This expansion will be in 20 c...

International Telecoms Week 2021 was recently held, with 1,500 attendees in National Harbor and over 5,000 attending virtually. A number of experts from the data center industry came together and discussed data center expansion in Africa, and the current disparity between data centers and popu...

EdgeConnex has announced that it has deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect 100Gbps capability at its Portland data center. The Company has been an AWS Partner Network since 2016. It has now expanded its connection options from 1Gbps and 10Gbps to 100Gbps. The expansion will enab...

Colt Data Centre Services has broken ground on a new 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft) data center outside Osaka, Japan. The facility will have 45MW of capacity, and it will be in Keihanna Science City. According to the Company, the facility will be in operations by 2023. VP Head of APAC at Colt ...

To expand its data center footprint, DCI Data Centers has acquired land in Adelaide, Australia, for its new data center. The site is located in Technology Park, Mawson Lakes. It will be home to DCI’s ADL03 data center. DCI Data Centers announced that it had secured Development Approval for the...

Horizeo, a 1GW solar project from Engie and Neoen, is open for public debate in France. Proposed for Saucats in Gironde, in the Nouvell-Aquitaine region, the project is estimated at €1 billion (US$1.18bn), spanning 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres).Commencing 9 September and running until 9 January...

Novva Data Centers has announced that it has acquired a 37-acre campus and 190k sqft of data center and supporting facilities, which features a Tier 3+ data center and industrial building in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The data center has a 6 MW designed capacity, but Novva will inject $200 mi...

The Columbus City Council has voted 6 to 1 to approve over $54 million in tax breaks for Google’s proposed data center in Ohio. In return, the Company will have to provide 20 full-time jobs. Google first announced the facility in March. It was said to be a 150,000 square foot data center th...

The Brazilian government is clamping down on excessive energy use amid a drought across the country. As part of this, the government is introducing measures such as a mandate to federal data centres to moderate power use. According to a source speaking to Reuters, these measures are being made...

DataBank has broken ground on its sixth Salt Lake data center, SLC6. The facility will see DataBank increase capacity to meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure in the Salt Lake City and Utah market. The site is located in Bluffdale, between Utah’s Silicon Slopes a...

African data center firm Teraco has announced its third data center on its Isando campus in Johannesburg. The facility named JB3 has 480,000 square feet of building structure, with 130,000 square feet of data hall space. It also has a capacity of 29MW. With this added capacity, Teraco’s capaci...

Equinix has finally announced the opening of its fifth data center in Singapore. The SG5 data center is a nine-story facility built with $144 million in Tanjong Kling, which used to be known as the Singapore Data Center Park. Besides, the nine-story facility is the tallest data center in th...