Data Center News

Defra Secures a $2 Million Contract With AWS

Amazon AWS

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have inked a $25 million contract. Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon will provide Defra with cloud hosting, its bring-your-own-license software management solution, as well as support, manage...

Vertiv Introduces a Chilled-water Thermal Wall For Slab-floor Data Facilities

Vertiv

Vertiv has introduced a new chilled water wall compatible with slab floor data centers. The CWA, announced in EMEA this week, is intended to increase the efficiency of chilled water cooling in data centers constructed without elevated floors, as is the present practice. The CWA chilled-water t...

Amazon Suspends It’s Headquarters Development in Northern Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon has temporarily halted the building of its massive new facility in Northern Virginia. Company officials stated that layoffs and the popularity of working from home were reasons for halting development. Metropolitan Park, a 2.1 million square foot building with two office towers, will be...

Bill signed for West Virginia renewable energy battery plant

West Virginia

West Virginia recently signed a bill for $105 million in state funding for a renewable energy battery plant in the former steel town, Weirton. In total the investment committed by the state is $290 million. This is a move that pushes the state to diversify its energy mix, in an area that has h...

TexAmericas Center announces initiative to develop green data center park

Texas

TexAmericas Center has announced its plan to develop green energy data centers, which it has said will be suitable for major companies eyeing expansion. The property pegged for this development has over 400 acres, which reports outline would be suitable for hyperscale, corporate, retail and  s...

Castrol Joins The ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program of GRC

United States

Castrol has joined GRC's certification program for alternate data center immersion tank cooling fluids.This week, the company announced that it had joined GRC's ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program, which makes its Castrol ON immersion cooling fluid compatible with GRC equipment. The companies st...

Maincubes, a German Operator, Obtains a €1 Billion Funding Facility

maincubes one GmbH

The German data center company Maincubes has received debt funding in excess of $1.07 billion. The firm stated this week that it had inked a new $1.1 billion scalable financing facility, including $730 million in committed facilities and an additional $373 million in uncommitted accordion c...

Stack Infrastructure Will Raise $250 Million to Expand Its Data Center

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure plans to seek $250 million for data center expansion. The Stack Infrastructure Issuer will provide the funding, 2023-1, through the securitization of income connected to lease obligations and electrical capacity at 8 wholesale data centers in seven U.S. states. S&P Glo...

Bahnhof Intends to Install a Nuclear Power Station at its Stockholm Facility

Stockholm

According to reports from Swedish news outlets, Bahnhof, a company that operates data centers, has plans to construct a nuclear reactor in order to power a new data center. Plans are being drafted for a small modular reactor (SMR) to be constructed on an industrial site in the Hjorthagen neigh...

Agility Envisions Data Center Facilities in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, & Ghana

Middle East

This week, Agility Logistics Parks (ALP), a developer of industrial and logistics properties in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, announced the inauguration of four tailored, master-planned data center campuses in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, and Ghana. ALP's current parks are being pre...

Inspur, China's Top Server Maker, Is Blacklisted by The US Government

United States

The US Department of Commerce's "Entity List" bans US corporations from interacting with Chinese server company Inspur. Inspur, one of the oldest Chinese IT businesses, has close relationships with western tech giants, particularly hyper-scale cloud providers. Inspur is the world's third-large...

Diode Ventures and ENDEC partner for data center development

Philippines

Diode Ventures and ENDEC have announced their partnership to build two data centers on the island of Luzon, the Philippines, in Tarlac province and New Clark City. Although details around the development are yet to be shared, Presidential Communications Office (PCO) secretary Cheloy Garafil sa...

Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers

Northern Virginia

Virginia's Prince William County officials are looking into amending the county's noise regulations around data centers, having passed a resolution to initiate amendments to the Design Construction Standards Manual (DCSM) and zoning ordinance. These will reportedly assist officials in addressi...

Wesco ventures into the data center business

Pennsylvania

Wesco has announced the launch of a data center group, namely Wesco Data Center Solutions. The company is set to be led by Rahi Systems founding member Tarun Raisoni, who will be senior vice president and general manager, following the recent acquisition of Rahi Systems Holdings.Speaking about...

Uptime Institute Says Data Center Personnel is a Big Priority For Operators

Research by the Uptime Institute revealed data center personnel to be a major concern. The company's "2022 Management and Operations Survey" found that 54%  of operators prioritize staffing, followed by 46%  who prioritize sustainability. The problem is also expanding, both in terms of new rec...

Lonestar Data Holdings Secures $5M For Moon-based Data Centers

United States

Lonestar Data Holdings has successfully completed a $5 million seed round. The funding was provided by Scout Ventures, Seldor Capital, The Veteran Fund, Atypical Ventures, Irongate Capital, 2 Future Holding, and KittyHawk Ventures. The startup intends to deploy small data centers on the Moon. ...

Keppel DC REIT Receives Credit Facilities Totaling $73 million

Keppel Data Center REIT

The DC REIT group of Keppel has received a new credit facility of over $70 million, guaranteed by the financial services firm Perpetual. Keppel DC REIT Fin. Company Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel DC REIT, has procured the Loan Facility guaranteed by Perpetual Ltd (Asia) in its ...

Colt Data Centre Services' new London 4 data center in Hayes to have sustainability focus

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services has announced that it has broken ground on its new London 4 campus, located in Hayes. The company has outlined that the site will include two five-story buildings with a combined capacity of 57 MW, containing 18 data center halls across 30,000 sqm (322,900 sq ft).The...

McLouth locals' concerns about crypto mining facility proposal results in application withdrawal & moratorium

Kansas

In McLouth, Kansas, residents recently raised their concerns about a proposed data center off of K-92 at a natural gas site. The proposal for this commercial data center went before the Jefferson County Regional Planning Commission last week, and was put forward by Crypto Colo Center Corp. (CC...

Amazon Stopped Paying For Ads Because Twitter Failed To Pay Its AWS Bill

Amazon AWS

After Elon Musk acquired Twitter, the company ceased paying landlords, cleaning, and software providers for services done. But, according to The Information, the corporation has failed to pay its Amazon Web Services payments for months, despite using the cloud provider for crucial components o...