Data Center News

Bit Origin Enter Agreement To Develop a 75MW Cryptominine Data Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Cheyenne

Bit Origin Limited has announced that it will be developing a cryptomine data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The company revealed that it had entered some agreements to invest up to $3m in a private crypto mining fund. The fund will then be used to develop a cryptomine with up to 75MW capacity i...

San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

California

Microsoft has announced that it will be using renewable natural gas to fuel its backup energy at its San Jose data center, which is currently under construction. This move aligns with the company’s target of being carbon negative by 2030, and the project will also provide power locally with em...

Cloudoon To Develop Kenya's Largest Data Center

Kenya

Cloudoon has plans to develop a large data center in Kenya. According to People Daily, the cloud hosting company secured up to 6 billion Kenyan Shillings ($51.1m) to develop the facility. The data center will be built on a 10-acre campus near a Forks Hydro-power station in the country. Acco...

Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 30...

NTT Acquires Land For 336MW Campus in Northern Virginia

NTT

NTT Ltd. Has revealed that it had completed the acquisition of 103 acres of land in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. According to reports, the company paid around $257.4 million to Lerner Enterprises for the land. NTT will be using the land acquired to develop a data center campus. The compa...

Euronext announces completion of data center migration from UK to Italy

Italy

Euronext has announced it has completed its data center migration project, which involved moving its data infrastructure from the UK to Italy, (Basildon, UK, to the Aruba Global Cloud data center IT3 in Bergamo, Italy.) According to the company, the new core data center will be completely powe...

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate open data centre in Sydney

Equinix

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have announced the opening of SY9x, the first xScale data center in Sydney, following the closing of the two parties' US$575 million joint venture. Located in Rosehill, and adjacent to the Western Sydney CBD of Parramatta, this facility, will be accompanied by a s...

Hyperco Acquires Equinix and Thales-Occupied Data Center in Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki

Hyperco has made its first acquisition as it takes over a property belonging to TS-Yhtyma. The company paid more than €35 million ($36.4m) for the property. The building is located at Myllynkivenkuja 4 in Vantaa, Helsinki, Finland. Thales and Equinix are also occupying the property. The bui...

Africa Data Centres To Develop Second Facility in Cape Town, South Africa

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has announced its plans to expand its presence in South Africa. The company revealed that it would be developing a 20MW data center in the country. The data center will span 15,000 square meters (161,458 square feet) across eight data halls. According to ADC, the data cente...

Lendlease begins construction on 100 MW data center campus in Japan for Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced that Lendlease has commenced work on its 100MW data center campus. The two held a groundbreaking ceremony in Saitama City, north of Tokyo, to mark the occasion. According to reports, the data center is pegged to be one of the largest in Japan and wi...

Virginia's Culpeper County Could See Development of 765,000 Sq ft Data Center Campus

Virginia

The president of AttoTek, a software development firm, David Martin, has filed for rezoning in Culpeper County, Virginia. The filing details involve rezoning 88 acres of his property around Stevensburg Road and Brandy Road. Once approved, it can lead to over 700,000 square feet (65,000 square ...

3data and Alias Group Form Partnership To Develop Data Center in Krasnodar, Russia

Russia / Россия

Russian investment firm Alias Group and data center firm 3data will develop a data center in Krasnodar, Russia. The data center firm revealed that the data center would come online towards the end of next year. It will also use a franchise model with Alias Group. The Krasnodar territory is ...

Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future

Amazon AWS

AWS has announced its plans to launch hundreds of Local Zones to expand its Edge cloud network extensively. Local Zones serve as Edge locations hosting applications that need low latency to final users or on-premises installations. Some of the services the zone offers include database, storage...

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Announces Nine More Edge Facilities in South Africa

South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is looking to launch nine Edge data centers across South Africa. The company announced that it would deploy Edge facilities in East London, Paarl, New Germany, Pietermaritzburg, Beaufort West, Mount Edgecombe, Kimberley, George, and Brits in a few months. Upon c...

Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 mill...

Cloud at Work Opens New Data Center in Toronto

Toronto

Cloud at Work has announced the launch of a new data center in Toronto, Canada. The move sees the company expand into the Canadian market as it already has two world-class data centers in the US. According to Cloud at Work, the new facility will ensure that its customers in Canada have access ...

Dutch Government Decide Not To Sell Zeewolde Land To Meta

Hyperscale Data Center

The Dutch Government has revealed that it will not be selling the land in Zeewolde to Meta. Meta had initially earmarked the land to develop a massive data center. The Dutch Government partially owns the land in question. However, Meta hoped to reach an agreement to take over the land to devel...

New legislation to enable UK financial watchdog to visit and regulate cloud data centers and other "critical third parties"

United Kingdom

HM Treasury has published a policy paper which is proposing a new regulatory framework, whereby the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would have powers to visit and regulate the cloud sector. The ministry outlined that currently, over 65% of UK banking and insuran...

Gaw To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City

Gaw Capital Partners has announced that it will build a data center in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. The Hong Kong real estate firm revealed that it acquired 65,200 square feet (6,056 square meters) of greenfield land at the Saigon Hi-Tech Park. Gaw Capital Partners is looking to develop a facility...

CLP Power signs MoU with ESR

CLP Power Hong Kong Limited has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ESR HK Limited, through which it will develop sustainable data centers and logistics centers in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area (GBA), which it said will support "Hong Kong and the GBA to a...