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NTT has revealed plans for its new 240MW data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. It has also broken ground on the site. The facility is on a 102-acre site, and it is located on Elliot Road Technology Corridor, Mesa, Arizona. It will have a 240MW capacity and 1.5 million square feet of floor space...

DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services, just announced the expansion of its DFW3, Dallas Fort Worth Data Center. It is expanding to meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure in the Dallas Fort Worth market. Th...

Prime Data Centers has announced that it is building a new 9MW data center on Martin Avenue in Santa Clara, California. With this new data center, it is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley as this is its second facility in Silicon Valley. Prime says it is strategically building the dat...

GI Partners has launched the GI Real Estate Essential Tech + Science Fund (ETS Fund), which will look to acquire data center properties and life sciences assets. The fund will also focus on always-on R&D facilities in the office and industrial sectors. Former president of Infomart, John...

Another environmental controversy has arisen in Ireland, as Ireland’s planning board, An Bord Pleanála dismissed complaints by locals and environmental groups, granting EngineNode permission to build data center in Bracetown and Gunnocks, County Meath, Ireland. The building plan first submitte...

Senegal has announced that it is moving all government and data applications into a new government data center to achieve “digital sovereignty”. Named the Diamniadio National Datacenter and worth 46 billion CFA francs ($18.2 million), it was financed with a Chinese loan.The facility has a host...

Planning documents recently revealed that Amazon is developing three data centers in Texas. The documents disclosed the project’s name as “Rockfish” and unveiled a plan to build a $56 million, 109,600 sqft (10,100 sq m) data center located on 11625 Old Corpus Christi Highway.This is not the on...

According to The Sunday Business Post, TikTok plans to lease space at the Echelon data center campus in Clondalkin for its new Irish data center. According to the different sources of the Sunday Business Post, TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, will use the Clondalkin campus as its m...

Telmex, a Mexican telco, has opened a new data center in Cancún, Mexico. The Company first announced that it was opening this data center in August 2020. Besides, according to El Economista, Telmex chose Cancún to access the Equinix-operated NAP of the Americas IEX in Miami via submarine cable...

French data center firm, Data4 is planning to invest up to €200 million ($237 million) in its new Poland campus. According to Les Echos, Data4 wants to expand in Poland, and it will be investing over €100 million ($118m) within three years. It will also be investing up to €200 million ($237...

Sabey Data Centers announced that it has raised $175 million by issuing securitized notes at a coupon rate of 1.881%. By offering the notes at 1.881%, Sabey has set a record for the lowest new issue spread to benchmark rates. Also, Sabey Data Centers says it is the only data center issuer t...

Unisys says it will be closing two of its data centers in New Zealand in 2022. The two data centers in question are the Kapiti and Auckland data centers. According to Reseller News, the Company said since new technologies evolve, it has to evolve too. Unisys was also quoted to have said, “T...

Raxio Group has announced that it will build a data center in Mozambique. The data center will be a 1.5MW capacity data center. It will also be the first privately owned Tier III carrier-neutral data center in the country. The facility will be in the Beluluane Industrial Park, outside Maput...

As part of its ongoing $2 billion European expansion plan, Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on data center campuses in Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. As part of this expansion plan, the Company has opened facilities in locations in Wales and Germany.The Warsaw facility dubbed the WA...

Turkcell, a Turkish telecoms company with a portfolio of 26 data centers, has announced that its subsidiary Turkcell Enerji, has acquired Boyut Grup Enerji, which owns İzmir Karadağ Wind Power Plant.The deal worth $29.6 million means that Turkcell now has access to 18MW of wind farm energy. T...

Amazon Web Services just launched its new Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas. Customers can now deliver applications that need single-digit millisecond latency to both on-premises installations and end-users in Philadelphia and Dallas with these local zones. AWS Local Zones are infrastr...

Iron Mountain has announced it will buy Keppel’s 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million). The Keppel DC FRA1 facility was initially announced in 2016 and opened in 2018. Keppel also paid €76m in 2016 to acquire the facility. Keppel DC FRA1 is a two-story building with 20,000 square m...

Bailard, an investment management firm, just sold a data center and office property in Maryland for $14.85 million. It is a two-story 66,000 square-foot property currently occupied by Comcast. The building is also located at 8031 Corporate Drive in White Marsh, Maryland.CEO of Bailard Real Est...