Data Center News

PLDT Upgrading Makati and Parañaqu Data Centers

PLDT VITRO Makati 2

The Philippine telco PLDT's facility and cloud subsidiary, ePLDT, is growing a number of its existing sites. The development of VITRO Makati 2 and Paraaque will add 1,820 service-ready racks and an additional 14MW by March of this year. Victor S. Genuino, president and chief executive officer ...

German Edge Data Center Company nLighten Launched by I squared Capital

Germany / Deutschland

I Squared Capital's latest portfolio company, nLighten, is introducing an Edge network in Germany. This week, the company disclosed plans for a formal debut in Germany across 10 sites later this year. Exa Infrastructure, another I Squared Capital venture, sold its initial data centers to nLigh...

Digital Realty and Brookfield Start Data Center Construction in Chennai, India

Digital Realty Trust

BAM Digital Realty has begun construction on its first data center in India. This week, the company, a partnership between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, revealed that building of a data center in Chennai has begun and is on schedule to be completed by the end of the year. MA...

WIOCC Completes 2Africa Undersea Cable Landing at OADC Facility in Durban, South Africa

South Africa

WIOCC has successfully connected the 2Africa cable to the Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Durban facility in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In April 2022, OADC's 4MW, 43,050 sq ft facility in the Amanzimtoti neighborhood of Durban debuted with 21,525 sq ft of white space. The 2Africa cable was a...

NetEase Breaks Ground On Guizhou Data Center

China

NetEase Inc., a Chinese Internet business, has begun construction on a new data facility in Guizhou province. According to China Daily, this month the company began work on its first large data center in Guian New Area in southwest China. The campus, situated on 7,3 hectares, will support NetE...

Nexans' Holdings To be Acquired By Syntagma Capital

Syntagma Capital has entered into exclusive discussions with fiber optic manufacturer Nexans to buy its LAN/data center (LAN/DC) and Telecom /Fiber (FTTx) divisions. The financials of the transaction were not disclosed, but it is anticipated that a deal would be finalized by the end of the fir...

Iliad signs first off-site PPA in France

OpCore

iliad has announced that it has signed a 15-year PPA with Engie SA to purchase energy generation from the Labrit solar farm located in the Landes region in southwestern France. The farm is a 60,000-panel solar park, pegged to produce over 20 GWh of electricity per year, with a capacity of 16 M...

Finnish Company atNorth Plans To Construct a 15MW Data Center in Espoo

atNorth

Colocation service provider atNorth will construct a new data center in the Helsinki region of Finland. This week, the firm revealed that it has struck a deal to acquire a new site in Finland, which would become its third data center in the nation. The facility, which was acquired from the loc...

Microsoft Plans to Build a Data Facility and Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will construct a new Azure cloud region and data center in Saudi Arabia. This week, the company revealed plans to build a new cloud data facility in Saudi Arabia. The news was made at the Riyadh conference LEAP 2023. Microsoft stated that the new cloud region will provide enterpri...

Application Submitted by Vantage For a 134-acre Data Center Facility in Ashburn, Virginia

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has filed for a Loudoun County campus near Ashburn. Vantage applied for federal and state approvals for its VA3 data center facility with the US Army Corps of Engineers district commander. Vantage plans to build a "large-scale data center complex" on 134 acres west of B...

Plans For Two New Datum Data Centers In The UK

Datum Datacentres Limited

Datum Group, a UK-based data center company, is working on building two new facilities in the country's south and northwest. This week, the firm revealed its intention to establish two new data centers in Farnborough and Manchester in the year 2024. The two new centers (FRN2 and MCR2) will ...

GenH2 to offer mobile liquid hydrogen source for data center tests

United States

GenH2 has announced that it has produced a mobile liquid hydrogen plant, which it has said can be deployed to support pilot projects and tests for applications such as data centers.The company has outlined that the LS20 mobile liquid hydrogen system is an end-to-end liquefaction and storage sy...

V.tal Launches New 4MW Facility In Fortaleza, Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

GlobeNet subsidiary V.tal, a Brazilian fiber company, has opened a brand-new Edge data center in Fortaleza. The facility, dubbed the 'Big Lobster,' will launch with a 4MW capacity over four data halls that can house a total of 400 racks. The innovative data center is connected to the company's...

Teraco Secures $678m Loan For Expansion

Teraco Data Environments

Teraco, a provider of data centers in South Africa, has been given a $678 million loan. Absa Group, a South African lender, led the loan. The business stated that "many big financial institutions" provided the cash, but did not identify them. Teraco, a subsidiary of Digital Realty, will utiliz...

Record Breaking Data Center M&A Purchases In 2022

Private equity drove the great majority of data center mergers and acquisitions in a massive year for such transactions. The overall value of the 187 data center-related M&A transactions tracked by Synergy Research in 2022 was $48 billion, which was slightly less than the record of $49 bil...

Citigroup Is Equipping Two Of Its Data Centers in Texas With Battery Rooms

Texas

CitiGroup is initiating two data center expansion projects in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth regions of Texas. Two applications for 'Battery Room Buildouts' have been submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). Its Georgetown Data Center is located at 201 Blue Ridge...

WIOCC's OADC Breaks Ground On Data Center in Kinshasha, DRC

Africa

WIOCC's new data center platform, Open Access Data Centres (OADC), has commenced constructing a data center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This Monday, the firm announced on LinkedIn that its latest core plant in the DRC will be located in Kinshasa. The construction of the w...

Renewable energy commitments made by Bulk

Bulk Infrastructure AS

Bulk Data Centers has announced that it will provide its customers with 100 percent renewable energy 24/7. This, it has outlined, will be achieved by matching hourly consumption with local hydropower. Customers at Bulk's OS-IX facility in Oslo, Norway, will be able to choose to have renewable...

T-Mobile makes 2040 net-zero pledge

T-Mobile

 T-Mobile is the latest company to make a pledge to reach net-zero emissions by 2040, and claims it is the first US wireless to do so. According to the company, this pledge includes not only Scope 1 and 2 but also Scope 3 emissions that occur through the wider supply chain. It has also signed...

Key Point opens data center in eastern Siberia

Russia / Россия

Key Point has announced the launch of a new data center in Primorsky Krai in far east Russia. The Russian data center developer has outlined that at full build-out, the facility will have capacity for 880 racks and 10MW. Its first phase saw the construction of two modules with a total capacity...