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IPI Partners is to acquire DigiPlex, a Nordic data center operator. DigiPlex as a data center operator, has 8 data centers in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. These facilities have a total white space of 230,000 square feet (21,000 square meters) and 40MW of capacity. This acquisition comes aft...

St Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has finally opened its Loyang facility in Singapore. In 2018, the Company announced that it would open the facility in mid-2020. However, the coronavirus pandemic caused a lot of construction delays. However, STT GDC says it reduced the effects by pr...

An Taisce, the Irish National Trust, have rallied against Amazon building its second data center on its Drogheda site in County Meath. Although the facility was given the go-ahead in June, the Irish planning board is now awaiting an appeal by the environmental group. It says that the authoriti...

TDC Net, the Danish telecoms firm, has announced that it is moving forward with four new solar parks. This comes following TDC Net signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Better Energy. By 2023, the four farms will be capable of supplying 140GWh of energy each year. By 2028, the company ...

Russian telco MTS has acquired Moscow based data center, GreenBush. MTS acquired 100% of GDTs Energy Group, which owns the GreenBush data center, for RUB 5.2 billion ($70.8 million). The GreenBush data center was first launched in 2018, and it was Tier III certified. At full build out, it will...

Evoque Data Center Solutions has completed the acquisitions of Foghorn Consulting, a cloud consulting and engineering services company based in Silicon Valley. Evoque said acquiring Foghorn will help it serve its customers’ cloud needs better. With the acquisition, Evoque has expanded its appl...

Bulk Infrastructure has announced that integrator and software developer Innit has doubled its data center capacity at its Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility. The expansion plans were solidified on January 21st through the signing of a new order on the Master Service Agreement (MSA).Spea...

Ascendas Property Fund wants to invest up to R 12 billion ($162.4 million) to build and operate phase one of a campus in Airoli, Navi Mumbai. Ascendas Property Fund says it will complete the acquisition of the 6.6-acre site of the proposed data center in the third quarter of 2021. This campus ...

Ohio’s school retirement fund wants to invest in life science offices and data centers in 2022. The Ohio School Employees Retirement System plans to hire managers to look into real estate investment like data centers since it offers higher rent growth opportunities in its annual investment pla...

AWS has secured the approval of its two-building data center development on the Didcot Power Station from the Vale of White Horse District Council’s planning committee. The data center project was first proposed in 2019. Following local feedback and Covid-19 delays, the Company decided to redu...

Regulators have instructed Facebook to renegotiate the terms of its proposed power purchase agreements regarding solar energy and energy storage facilities in New Mexico.The agreement relates to 50MW of solar energy from Encino North Solar Energy Center, 190MW of solar from Sky Ranch Solar Fac...

Vodafone Idea, an Indian telecom operator, wants to sell its optic fiber unit, fixed-line broadband subsidiary, and data center business to settle its debts. According to the Company’s latest financial books, Vodafone Idea has a gross debt of Rs 1,803.1 billion ($2.4 billion). It is looking t...

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) in Saudi Arabia has announced large-scale data center development plans across the country. Included within these plans is the building of a hyperscale data center. By 2030, it is expected that an injection of $18 billion will be...

Amazon has filed an application to build four data centers on land in Manassas, Virginia. It filed to build the data centers on empty land that’s between Sudley Road and Ashton Avenue. The piece of land is presently owned by the estate of Lewis Percival Ashby Jr., and it is being used as a ...

JAKARTA, June 21, 2021 - As part of PT DCI Indonesia Tbk (DCI)’s commitment in being the leading provider of data center services in Indonesia, officially announced the construction of a second location for DCI campus hyperscale data center in the Region Pertiwi Lestari Industrial Estate Karaw...

SafeHost, a Swiss colocation provider, has announced that it is expanding its SH2 data center facility in Gland, Switzerland. Webuild Group, through its subsidiary CSC Costruzioni SA, will be responsible for building the additional 18MW of capacity at the SH2 facility. The project will als...

Google just bought a plot of land in Groningen province, the Netherlands, for €3 million ($3.5 million). The plot of land bought is the last one at the Hoogebrug Winschoten business park in the municipality of Oldambt. There are reports that Google is planning to build a data center on the pie...

Marunouchi Direct Access, a Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary, has opened its new data center in Tokyo, Japan. The Otemachi DC II facility is a 130-rack facility that’s built in the Tokyo Torch development. Marunouchi Direct Access is a joint venture between Mitsubishi Estate and Marubeni Corporat...

Yandex, Russia's largest search platform, has decided to make the push towards renewable energy by signing up for a five-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for wind power at its Mäntsälä data center. According to Yandex, the deal with Finland's Ilmatar Energy will mean that 20% of the compan...