Data Center News

Harrisonburg Data Facility Receives $44 Million Loan From Valley National Bank

Virginia

A Virginia facility has negotiated a $44 million loan for a data center owner. According to The Commercial Observer, AC DataCom Digital Infrastructure Investments has obtained permanent financing of $43.8 million to construct a data center in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The 100,000-square-foot dat...

Residents raise concern about proposed data center facility in New Albany

Amazon AWS

According to reports, residents in Albany are concerned about an Amazon-proposed data center project, which outlines plans for sizable data centers on both sides of Beech Road. Back in January, the giant acquired nearly 400 acres of land at three connected plots on Beech Road; the development ...

Edge Centres plans 1MW facilities in Missouri and Oregon

Edge Centres

Edge Centres is developing data centers in St. Louis, Missouri, and Portland, Oregon, it has announced. The facilities will be powered by renewable energy, with just under 1 MW of solar infrastructure, a 48-hour battery, and UPS backup equipment, supporting 64 1kW quarter racks.In a statement...

Data Centers Represent 20% Of Sales at Dominion Virginia, Which Reached a Record in December

Virginia

In its most recent earnings call, utility Dominion Energy highlighted the dependability of its service and discussed measures to increase capacity. However, the business, which reported a $42 million loss for the quarter, did not mention how its transmission problems hampered Virginia data ...

iColo launches new facility in Maputo, Mozambique

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty's iColo has announced that it has launched a new data center, located in Maputo, Mozambique, namely MPM1. The campus spans 9500 sqm, with 350 sqm of rentable space, equivalent to 80 racks in the first phase of development. The company has shared that the facility will be the lo...

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ) decision on data center backup generators

Virginia

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that it is considering giving data centers more leeway with regard to using backup energy. This, it said, will reportedly preserve data center reliability and is a precautionary measure to protect the region's power grid. It ...

ZeroPoint raises funding to reduce energy consumption of data centers by more than 25%

ZeroPoint has announced that it has closed a EUR 3.2 million seed round, provided by Climentum Capital, Nordic VC Industrifonden, and Chalmers Ventures, through which it will further grow its offerings, including its technology that can reportedly reduce data center energy consumption by more ...

Teraco Purchases Cape Town's Great Westerford Property

Teraco Data Environments

The Great Westerford building in Cape Town, South Africa, has been purchased by Teraco. This week, the company controlled by Digital Realty declared that it had acquired the structure from Ingenuity Property Investments, which contains its 5MW CT1 data center. The office area in the Rondebo...

NRB Group Purchases The Wallonia Data Center in Belgium

Belgium

Belgian IT services provider Win and its data center affiliate Wallonia Data Center have been bought by Belgian ICT company NRB Group. This week, the business disclosed that it had purchased Nethys, a telecom owned by Enodia, as well as Win and its affiliate Wallonia Data Center (WDC). The ...

Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks

Google

Late on Wednesday, there was a Twitter outage that prevented users from Tweeting, following accounts, or sending direct messages. A notification stating that the "daily limit of tweets has been reached" was displayed to certain users. Elon Musk, the CEO and new owner, advised workers in an ema...

Bristow Data Center Park Approval Delayed by Prince William County Officials

Northern Virginia

Officials from Prince William County have postponed the vote on a data center construction plan. Following a lengthy discussion that ended at 3 am this Thursday, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors unanimously decided to postpone the Devlin Technology Park proposal until March 7....

Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

Microsoft Azure

Cooling equipment at a Microsoft data center went down due to a utility data center power spike, which resulted in an outage. Customers hosted in the South East Asia cloud area experienced a variety of problems as a result of the outage. According to Microsoft's status page, when cooling ca...

Reports Suggest QTS Will Join Diode's Kansas City Data Center Facility

QTS Data Centers

QTS may use a Diode Ventures data center in Kansas City, Missouri. In October, Diode signed two non-exclusive fiber easement with QTS Realty Trust Inc. to develop and maintain data transmission infrastructure at the site northeast of I-435 and Highway 169, according to BizJournal. Last year...

Hanwha and SKS Credit: Big investment in green data centers for South Korea

South Korea

Hanwha has announced that it will invest in 'green' data centers following signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with SKS Credit, an ESG professional manager (PEF), for joint development of data centers and logistics centers linked to new and renewable energy. Through the agreement, the ...

Digital Realty invests in photovoltaics through ENGIE PPA

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed an agreement with Engie to procure solar power. Through the 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) the company inked, it will have access to 116 megawatts (MW) of a new 154 MW ground-mounted solar photovoltaic project, which is currently under d...

STT GDC signs deal to procure renewable energy in India

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has signed a deal with O2 Power to procure renewable energy in India. As per the agreement, the company will obtain renewable energy under a captive structure to power STT GDC India’s Bengaluru facility, which is located in the state of Karnataka. O2...

New clean energy standards for data centers in Oregon ahead; Washington to follow

Oregon

The Oregon state legislature has introduced a new bill which would require data centers and crypto miners in the state to comply with clean energy standards or be faced with a penalty. The 2023 'House Bill 2816' outlines that high-energy use facilities must reduce their emissions associated wi...

Singtel Commences Construction Of Thailand Data Center

Singtel

Singtel, AIS, and Gulf recently broke ground on a new data facility in Thailand. This week, the firms revealed that the building of a new data center had begun near Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. The data center will be run by their partnership, GSA Data Center Company Limited (GSA). The 20...

Rostelcom Focused on Acquiring Megafon

Rostelecom

Russian mobile provider Rostelcom is apparently interested in acquiring Megafon, according to local publications. The prospective agreement is being explored at the government level, according to CNews. Rostelcom already controls another Russian mobile provider, Tele2, and is the sole propriet...

Meta Plans To Save $4bn On Data Centers And Create New AI Facilities Faster and Cheaper

Meta

In a cost-cutting effort, Meta claims to have rebuilt its data centers to be less expensive and quicker to build. Meta canceled or paused data centers worldwide and redesigned them for additional artificial intelligence demands late last year. Facebook's Danish data center development and Texa...