Data Center News

Russian Federation to launch a cryptocurrency mining plant worth $12.3 million

Russia / Россия

The Russian Federation has announced its intent to launch a crypto-mining facility worth over $12.3 million (900 million rubles) in the coming months. To be situated in Buryatia, a Russian republic in eastern Siberia, the facility, upon completion, is pegged to contain 30,000 mining devices.Ac...

Blackbaud Shuts Down Four Data Centers As It Transitions To The Cloud

As part of its ongoing transition to the cloud, Software-as-a-Service provider Blackbaud has terminated four colocation data center deployments. The company creates CRM, SQL databases, and analytics software for charitable organizations, . However, Blackbaud has been covertly laying off employ...

Telstra Exchange Facility and Property for Sale Near Melbourne, Australia.

Melbourne

Under a sale-leaseback agreement, Telstra is offering a minor exchange facility in the environs of Melbourne for sale. The east Melbourne neighborhood of Rowville's 12 Lambourne Avenue is being put up for sale by the Australian telecom. A brick structure of 1,430 square feet on one story, sitt...

Roblox Constructs Ashburn Data Center and Edge Facilities for $400m

Northern Virginia

Roblox, a maker of video games, invested hundreds of millions of dollars on data center and edge infrastructure in 2022 to serve its own gaming platform. Roblox reported earnings that were higher than forecasted and a rising user base, which caused the company's shares to increase by 25%. Robl...

Amazon Approved For Warrenton Data Facility in Fauquier County, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon has been approved to build a data center in Fauquier, Virginia. Amazon Data Services' proposal for a special-use permit to build a 220,000-square-foot data center near the junction of Blackwell Road and Lee Highway in Warrenton was approved this week by the Warrenton Town Council 4-3. A...

Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

Equinix

Currently, Equinix is planning to construct a second data center in Barcelona, Spain. Last week, the colocation giant revealed its intentions to build BA2, an International Business Exchange (IBX) facility right next to its current BA1 location. We were not given any information on the proj...

LEW TelNet to build new green data center in Augsburg

Germany / Deutschland

LEW TelNet has announced the construction of a new green data center in Augsburg, Germany, which will operate with a PUE of 1.2. Work on the facility, which is located on Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse, will begin in summer 2023, with the first phase of the two-phase project going live mid-next year...

Cyfuture expands in Chennai, India

India / Bhārata

Cyfuture is constructing a new data center in Chennai, India, its fifth facility in the country. To be located on a one-acre plot in Tembaran, Chennai, it is pegged to offer 500 racks in its first phase. While the company already data centers in Noida, Jaipur, and Raipur, it has also announced...

Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment

Google

Following the successful introduction of Arm server processors by Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud is preparing two Arm CPUs for its cloud service. Before launching the cloud service in 2025, the firm made a significant stride and will put them into trial operation this year. The cloud servers...

Tackling misleading "100 percent carbon-free energy" claims and the rising costs of PPAs

United States

It seems like every day, there is another announcement of a tech company signing a new PPA and in 2023, projections are that there are more to come. Research shows that in 2022 alone, the number of PPAs purchased in the first three quarters, surpassed the total volume recorded across the whole...

Compugen Buys New Albany, Ohio data Facilities

AWS US East (Ohio)

A data center in New Albany, Ohio, has been purchased by Canadian IT company Compugen. According to local property documents cited by BizJournal, Compugen Real Estate Holdings recently purchased a property in Franklin County, northeast of Columbus, at 7000 Souder Road. The former data cente...

Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers

Google

Uber Technologies wants to close its data center facilities after signing two significant cloud contracts. In two seven-year contracts, it will migrate over 95% of its IT to Google Cloud and Oracle from its own data centers. After 11 months of analysis, the taxi and delivery startup opted to u...

Edgnex Rebrands as Damac Data Centres, Promises Additional Projects

Dubai

The new data center company Edgnex, founded by the Dubai real estate company Damac, has changed its name to Damac Data Centres and revealed plans for a 35MW data center. This week, the company announced that Edgnex had changed its name to Damac Data Centres to serve its clients better and upho...

NuScale receives regulatory approval in US

United States

NuScale Power has received regulatory approval for a small modular reactor (SMR) which experts say could be utilized to power data centers at a later date. This makes it the first SMR to obtain this kind of approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for deployment in the US.Speaking...

Iron Mountain inks deal for 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain has announced that, through a partnership with RPD Energy, it has made a "landmark series of transactions" meaning that the company will obtain 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement. The US renewable provider RPD Energy will be the lead architect of renewable ene...

Echelon Data Centers-linked firm planning battery storage facility in Dublin

Echelon Data Centres

Over the last few years, Ireland has witnessed a significant data center boom, so much so, that Ireland introduced a moratorium in Dublin to halt the development of further data centers in the city. As part of this de facto moratorium, EirGrid has outlined that no new grid connection applicati...

Datacom goes 100% renewable in New Zealand

New Zealand

Datacom has announced that all its facilities in New Zealand are now powered by renewable energy. This is part of a ten-year contract with Mercury Energy, through which its data centers will run on geothermal, wind, and hydro energy sources from the company.As per the deal, the company has sig...

Fortune 500 Firm Partners With COPT For Two Virginia Build-to-suit Data enters

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT)

A new tenant has been secured for two planned build-to-suit data facilities in Northern Virginia by Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT). Last week, the company disclosed that it had signed two long-term leasing agreements for two build-to-suit facilities in Northern Virginia in January...

Arrcus Secures $50m for 5G, Data Center, And Multi-cloud Networking

During the most recent round of financial fundraising for the company, networking provider Arrcus received $50 million in capital. Prosperity7 Ventures has been a supporter of the business, and it took the lead in the Series D financing round. This new amount of funding, according to Arrcus, w...

Yotta Has Plans To Build a Data Center Park in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Yotta Infrastructure, an Indian data center company, intends to operate in Bangladesh. According to reports, the Hiranandani-owned business plans to spend $190.5 million over the next four to six years building a hyperscale data center park in Dhaka. The new campus will include two data cen...