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Sila Realty Trust announced that it has agreed to sell all its 29 data centers in the US to Mapletree Investment Trust for $1.3 billion. The 29 data centers are all the data centers in Sila’s portfolio which means upon completion; it will be an exit from the data center industry for Sila. ...

Vertiv just launched its already assembled micro data center system in Europe. The data center system is designed for the Edge and small IT locations. This system is called VRC-S, and it includes a UPS, monitor sensors, a rack power distribution system, and software. It also has up to 3.5KW of...

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it would be running 100% on renewable energy by the end of 2021. The Company made the promise of running all its current and future data centers with 100% green energy while launching its new social responsibility program. The Chief strategy officer at S...

Prince William County, Virginia, may see more data centers being built in the region after County supervisors approved moves that could expand the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. This “overlay district” is the area where building data facilities is permitted.Established back in ...

DCI Data Centers recently announced plans to launch South Australia’s first Tier-Ready III data center. With a AU$70 million (US$54 million) investment, the company says that the facility will support local businesses and governments.Currently, the company has two data centers in the country. ...

Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a c...

Core Scientific has announced that it will build a new data center based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after securing a $269,000 loan from the Grand Forks Growth Fund.In partnership with Nodak Electric Cooperative and Minnkota Power Cooperative, the blockchain company has said it plans to inve...

Odata has announced that it is planning to build its first data center in Chile. This new data center will sit on a 6-hectare site, and it will house over 40,000 square meters of data center buildings. Upon completion, the data center will have a capacity of 28MW. Odata also says it will be in...

Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware ...

Penta Infra Group just acquired a data center in Hamburg for $16.4 million. The acquisition was financed by Dutch NIBC Bank N.V., which is the fourth data center acquisition Dutch NIBC Bank has financed for Penta Infra.The new data center will also be joining an existing 8MW Hamburg data cent...

According to a report by Bloomberg, GDS Holdings is considering acquiring GLP Pte’s data centers business. The value of the assets is substantial and estimated to be between $8-10 billion. If the prospective deal goes forward, it will enable the Chinese firm to expand its footprint, while GLP ...

Google has announced that it would soon start using geothermal energy to power its Nevada data center. The announcement will see Google become the first hyper-scale cloud operator to use the earth’s heat to power its servers. Fervo Energy, a clean energy startup, will be helping Google develop...

Foxconn has just opened its Globe Data Center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The data center building is 34,000 square feet in size and, it includes a 100 feet steel sphere as part of its design. The facility’s steel globe frame was initially completed in September 2020 before the installation ...

TIM, an Italian Telco, has announced its new ten-year deal with ERG. The deal will see ERG provide TIM with 3.4 Terawatt hours of green energy across the country through its wind farms. The deal is expected to start next year, and it would see 20% of TIM’s total energy usage come from renewab...

Google has announced that, through its subsidiary, Eleanor Applications SRL, it has acquired 30 hectares of land in Canelones, Uruguay, to build a data center. According to El Observador, the company may have spent $818,000 on the plot, with a view to invest up to $100 million.The tech compan...

Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to cus...

KT Corp has just launched its new data center in Guro, Seoul, South Korea. The new data center would be its 14th one and would accommodate 335 racks. Although KT Corp usually operates its own data centers, KT Corp would be leasing the new facility from Dreammark One, a local colocation provid...

Rolls-Royce has announced that it has installed and commissioned eight mtu emergency gensets with 9.2MWe power output at a major bank in Madrid. The installation was made to secure power supply in case of a public power grid failure in the region. Rolls-Royce will ensure power s...

China Telecom has just opened its new data center in Jinchang, in China’s Northeastern Gansu province. The Company invested $10.8 million for this data center. The data center would be supporting 203 racks, 34,000 core VCPU, and 260 servers at the moment. It can also be expanded in the future...