Global Data Center News

November 11, 2022

Ascenty Invests $290m To Develop Five Data Centers in Latin America

Ascenty

Ascenty has announced its plans to invest R$1.5 billion ($290 million) in Latin America. The funds will be used to develop five data centers in the region. The new facilities will be located in Colombia, Chile, and Brazil. Upon completion, Ascenty’s data center count in the region will hit ...

November 10, 2022

T5 begins work on the last phase of its Chicago facility

T5 Data Centers

T5 Data Centers has announced that it’s expanding its facility in Chicago, Illinois, in the final 20MW phase of its T5 Chicago facility at 200 Innovation Drive in Elk Grove. Acquired by T5 in 2016, the company first broke ground on an expansion back in 2017; its current expansion offers 140,0...

November 10, 2022

Former Barclays data center to undergo transformation and be brought back into service

Manchester

According to reports, Manchester City Council is looking to redevelop a former Barclays data center from the 1970s and bring it back into service. Currently, the council is looking for public feedback on its regeneration proposals for Wythenshawe town center, having already completed the acqui...

November 10, 2022

Microsoft signs wind PPA with Potentia and Greengate

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has entered into a 15-year power-purchase agreement with Potentia Renewables Inc. (Potentia) and Greengate Power Corporation's (Greengate) Paintearth Wind Project LP. As per the PPA, Microsoft will procure wind energy from the 198MW Paintearth Wind Project in Paintearth County, Albe...

November 10, 2022

Volkswagen AG announces climate-neutral plans

Green Mountain AS

Volkswagen AG, the first automaker to commit to the Paris climate agreement, has announced its new climate-neutral plans, which detail that its data center activities will be carbon-neutral by 2027. This is three years earlier than expected in the European Green Deal, which committed European ...

November 10, 2022

Google leases from Adani in Noida

Hyperscale Data Center

Tech giant Google has leased 464,000 square feet at an Adani Data centre in Noida for 10 years with starting annual rent of 130.98 crore, according to documents accessed by CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm.The deal has been signed between Dc Development Noida Private Limited, an e...

November 10, 2022

Digital Realty Develops New Substation For its Chicago Campus

Digital Chicago Franklin Park Campus on Grand Ave - Digital Realty

Digital Realty has partnered with local utility firm ComEd to open a new power substation at the former’s Franklin Park data center campus in Chicago. The substation was developed to support the future growth of the facility. The four-acre substation currently sits within Digital Realty’s d...

November 09, 2022

Adani, EdgeConneX JV AdaniConneX begin operations at hyperscale data center in Chennai

EdgeConneX

AdaniConneX, the joint venture between EdgeConneX and Adani Enterprises, has launched its first data center in Chennai, Chennai 1 Data Center. Its first phase will reportedly offer 17MW and 33MW of IT load at full build-out.“The wait is over! We proudly announce that our state-of-the-art Chenn...

November 09, 2022

Greenpeace: Supply chains found to be holding big tech back from achieving sustainability goals

Apple

Tech giants like Apple have made big pledges when it comes to going green and introducing net-zero and water-positive targets. However, when it comes to their wider supply chains, it turns out they're not so green. According to a recent report from Greenpeace, on average, 77% of technology man...

November 08, 2022

Stack to develop new data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack has announced that it’s developing a new 230 MW data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring five buildings on a 50-acre site. This site, which will span 1.7 million square feet (157,935 sqm), is the company’s second in the state and will run on 100% renewable energy, built with a ...

November 08, 2022

Raxio breaks ground on facility in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Raxio Group

The Raxio Group has announced that it has commenced work on its fifth data center in Côte d'Ivoire. This is reportedly the country's first Tier III-standard carrier-neutral colocation data center.The company held a ground-breaking ceremony at the site, located at the Village of Innovation and...

November 08, 2022

Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London

London

According to Havering Council, it is negotiating with a private sector developer, Digital Reef, to build a huge data center campus in the eastern London Borough of Havering. The London Data Freeport project would reportedly be 'Europe's largest data center' sitting on a site of 175 hectares. C...

November 08, 2022

ESR Already Developing its 19.2MW OS1data center in Osaka, Japan

Osaka

Asia’s ESR Group has started work on its 19.2MW facility in Osaka, Japan. The real estate company revealed that the Cosmosquare OS1 data center would be phase 1 of its three-phase facility at Nanko Kita. The company plans to develop a total of 96MW on the site. OS1 is scheduled to be comple...

November 07, 2022

Prince William board votes to approve PW Digital Gateway

Northern Virginia

After months of protests and deliberation, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a change to the county's comprehensive plan to allow a controversial data center development on the Digital Gateway lands. This vote of 5-2 permits 27 million square feet of data center s...

November 07, 2022

Google signs new PPA with SB Energy

Google

This week, Google signed a 942 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with SB Energy to procure solar energy in Texas. The giant is set to purchase 75% of the renewable energy produced by four of the solar projects under development; the Orion 1-3 and Eiffel solar projects total 1.2GW and are proje...

November 07, 2022

In a water reduction effort, Meta increases server room temperatures to 90 degrees F

November 07, 2022

Vodafone NZ Sells Towers For $1 Billion

Vodafone

Vodafone NZ has sold off its tower infrastructure business. The deal is reportedly worth NZ $1.7bn ($1bn). One of the owners of Vodafone NZ- Infratil said the conditions for the transaction has been met and the sale was completed in the first week of November. Co-investors in Vodafone NZ- Infr...

November 07, 2022

Lumen To Sell its EMEA Operation to Colt For $1.8 Billion

Lumen Technologies

Lumen has announced that it will sell its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations to Colt in a $1.8 billion deal. The deal will see Lumen divest its EMEA business, including its data centers, terrestrial and subsea networks, and network equipment in the EMEA region, to Colt. The deal...

November 04, 2022

Vantage Data Centers Opens Three New Facilities in Germany

Vantage Berlin BER1

Vantage Data Centers has opened three new facilities in Germany. The data center company announced the launch of these facilities in Frankfurt and Berlin. The new data centers see the company’s data center footprint in Germany rise by 72MW and 68,750 square meters (740,000 square feet). Van...

November 04, 2022

Iron Mountain Completes Acquisition of XData in Spain, Gets One Data Center in Madrid

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of XData Properties of Spain. The acquisition sees the company take over a data center in Madrid, Spain. Iron Mountain also acquired land in Phoenix, Arizona, and Mumbai, India in a separate acquisition . XData was developing the large data center be...

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Data Centre Developer Sues New Jersey Town for $300m

Ascenty Invests $290m To Develop Five Data Centers in Latin America

T5 begins work on the last phase of its Chicago facility

Former Barclays data center to undergo transformation and be brought back into service

Microsoft signs wind PPA with Potentia and Greengate