Data Center News

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches Local Zones in Chile and Australia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of two new Local Zones, one in Perth Australia, and the other in Santiago, Chile.In the announcement, the company outlined: “AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Perth and Santiago. You can now use these Local Zones to deli...

Philippines' Megawide plans first data center

Manila

Megawide Construction Corp, a construction company in the Philippines, has announced that it is planning a 30MW data center outside Manila, its first data center. Based to the south of Manila in Cavite, the facility will have a capacity of up to ​​30MW, with the first phase pegged to launch wi...

EdgeConnex plans another data center in Miami, Florida

EdgeConneX

EdgeConnex is reportedly planning a third data center in Miami, Florida, after acquiring a 6.250-acre plot of land. According to a report by BizJournal, this facility will be a two-story data center and located on the southwest corner of Northwest 106th Street and Northwest 112th Avenue.A pre...

Meta signs solar PPA with BP for solar farm in Ohio

Meta

Meta has signed a PPA with BP to source renewable energy from an upcoming a 134MWdc (107MWac), 675-acre Arche Solar farm project in Ohio, developed by BP 50:50 joint-venture partner and subsidiary Lightsource BP. The social media company will reportedly receive 100% of the power from the site...

Vantage Data Centers to enter the London market

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is to develop a 48MW data center campus in London. This move will see the company enter the London market for the first time with this £500 million ($600 million) project, its 11th EMEA campus.The company has announced that LHR, will total 430,000 sq...

Aligned plans 108MW Hillsboro campus

Aligned

Aligned has announced plans for an expansion into Hillsboro, Oregon, with a 27-acre, 108 MW data center campus. At the campus, the initial data center, PDX-01) is expected to offer 72MW of critical capacity and feature 12 6MW data halls across 27 acres. The company has shared that this site w...

Alibaba plans expansion near Turkish capital of Ankara

Turkey

Alibaba has announced that it is planning a data center near the Turkish capital Ankara. According to reports, the facility is part of a more than $1 billion investment in the country, which includes the development of a logistics hub at Istanbul Airport alongside the data center outside Ankar...

Zeittec announces data center for Santos Port Authority

São Paulo

Zeittec is building a new facility for the Santos Port Authority (SPA), in São Paulo, following the signing of a construction contract. Work is due to commence in January, with projections that works will be completed in mid-2023.The facility is part of a wider digitalization project of Porto ...

Historic black cemetery erased for Microsoft data center development

Microsoft Azure

Following an extensive investigation by ProPublica, it has been found that Microsoft and local officials in rural Virginia helped erase a historic black cemetery by downplaying its cultural significance in order to pursue data center development.Back in 2014, when the giant was looking to expa...

Equinix signs another PPA in Finland

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has signed a third power purchase agreement (PPA) in Finland with Neoen, totaling 129MW. Through the ten-year deal, the company will obtain 60% of the output and guarantees of origin to be produced by the future 95MW Storbötet wind farm from the French renewable ...

Digital Edge plans 300MW data center in Navi Mumbai, India

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has announced that it is expanding into India, with the addition of a new 300MW, 47-acre hyperscale facility in Navi Mumbai. This development is part of a partnership between the Singaporean company, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and AGP DC InvestCo Pte Ltd (...

Simplex opens Larnaca data center

Simplex has announced the official opening of its LCA1 facility in Larnaca, Cyprus, at a recent  inauguration ceremony. Although the facility has been operational since 2020, the pandemic and subsequent restrictions prevented the company from celebrating the opening. The facility, spanning 10,...

Application for a new 48MW data center site filed in Middlesborough, UK

United Kingdom

A new data center campus is being proposed just outside of Middlesbrough at the former Croda chemicals plant within the Wilton International complex, it has been announced. So far, Redcar and Cleveland Council has decided that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) isn’t required, after Cons...

Twitter closes its Sacramento data center

Sacramento

Microblogging social media platform Twitter has undergone extensive changes as of late since the takeover by Elon Musk. From the introduction of Musk's paid verification plan, slashing nearly half of the platform's workforce in November, and his massive cost-cutting exercise, Musk's tenure as ...

Key Point has announces plans for a new facility in Yekaterinburg

Russia / Россия

Keypoint is expanding in Yekaterinburg, it has announced, with the addition of a new facility, spanning 3,200 sqm (34,450 sq ft). It will reportedly be built inside an existing building and constructed with the aim of achieving Tier III certification, developed in partnership with Russian telc...

Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center

Google

Google is reportedly looking to expand its data center site development in Omaha, Nebraska after it first announced and filed to build a data center near State Street and Blair High Road to the northwest of the city in April. Now, according to reports, the giant has applied to rezone an addit...

Residents of The Dalles, Oregon gain access to Google's water consumption data following lawsuit settlement

Hyperscale Data Center

Those living in drought-prone The Dalles, Oregon, home to Google’s massive data centers, now know how much water the giant has consumed. This information, previously kept a secret by city officials, has been released following a legal fight funded by Google and launched by the city against The...

Meta's Kuna, Idaho, data center paused as part of wider AI redesign plans

Meta

The latest data center to take the hit in Meta's AI redesign rethink is its Kuna, Idaho, data center. The facility, an $800 million development, was only announced by the giant in February, with the company commencing work on the project in September. Kuna data center paused as p...

Harrison Street & 1547 CSR Buys Texas Carrier Hotel

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

In McAllen, Texas, Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street have bought a carrier hotel. The two corporations have acquired Chase Tower in McAllen, a 17-story building with a total area of around 209,000 square feet. The specifics of the transaction were not made pu...

Supernap's Thailand data center to be powered with solar

Switch

Supernap has announced the launch of its first solar project, which will power its Thailand data center. Supernap, the first Tier IV, carrier-neutral, hyperscale data center in Thailand, chose WHA Utilities and Power Plc. (WHAUP) to install the solar power system. During the opening ceremony,...