Global Data Center News

June 02, 2022

CIM Group Invests $355m in Novva Data Centers

Novva Data Centers

CIM Group has announced that it is pumping $355 million into Novva Data Centers. The fund will be geared towards achieving Novva’s goal of offering 1,000MW of designed data center capacity in the next five years. Novva Data Centers was launched in 2020 with a $100m backing from CIM Group. A...

June 02, 2022

Alecta and Brookfield Acquire Significant Stake in Telia's Swedish Tower Business

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Alecta and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners have announced the acquisition of a 49 percent stake in Telia Company’s tower business in Sweden. The acquisition comes after the firms acquired 49 percent of Telia’s tower business in Norway and Finland. The deal is worth $560 million, and it was ...

June 01, 2022

Colt technology expands into South Korea

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt has announced its expansion into the South Korean market, with the establishment of network hubs in four key carrier-neutral data centers in the Seoul Metropolitan area, which will offer speeds of up to 40G Ethernet Service. Masato Hoshino, representative director & president/head of ...

June 01, 2022

Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however...

May 31, 2022

UK government launches eight-week consultation on data centers and the cloud

United Kingdom

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport recently announced the commencement of an eight-week consultation, part of the National Data Strategy, to explore strengthening the security and resiliency of the UK's data centers and cloud services. Specifically, it is calling for view...

May 31, 2022

Winter power cuts ahead for the UK?

United Kingdom

The UK government has hit back at rumors that this winter, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK could experience blackouts. The government has said that this would be a "worst-case scenario" and a result of Russia cutting off more supplies to the EU. Commenting on whether or ...

May 30, 2022

GMT To Develop Crypto Mining Data Center in The UAE

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

GMT has announced its plans to develop a data center in the UAE. The Singapore-based crypto mining company revealed in a Medium post that it would be investing heavily in developing a data center in the region. According to GMT, there’s no exact location for the data center yet, but more in...

May 30, 2022

US Air Force Developing Data Center on New South Korean HQ

South Korea

The US Air Force’s 51st Communications Squadron has started work on its new HQ at the 51st Fighter Wing Osan Air Base in South Korea. The new headquarters will feature a data center with updated network operations. In addition, the data center will also serve as the alternate action team, f...

May 30, 2022

Bristow Officials To Allow Data Center Development on Stanley Martin’s Devlin Technology Park

Northern Virginia

Bristow’s officials have voted in favor of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment. This amendment could see the development of a 4.25 million square feet data center campus in the area. Stanley Martin, a Virginia-based developer, is looking to have over 250 acres in Prince William County rezoned. T...

May 30, 2022

Telefónica Announces €1 Billion Sustainability-Linked Senior Bond

Telefonica

Telefonica has announced that it has issued its first senior sustainable bond. The bond will be used to sponsor sustainability initiatives and projects. The nine-year bond amounts to €1 billion ($1.06 billion). Telefonica saw immense success with the bond as it was over subscribed by more t...

May 27, 2022

Best Wonder Business (BWB) to develop a data center powered entirely by solar power in Aragon, Spain

Spain

Best Wonder Business (BWB) has announced its intentions to develop a 16MW data center, powered solely by solar power, and located at the Huesca Logistics Platform (Plhus) business park outside Huesca, in the Aragon region. Reported to be worth €230 million ($264m); the company hopes the facili...

May 27, 2022

AWS, biometrics and human rights

Amazon AWS

AWS is under pressure to drop a contract it holds with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which will see it host the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric database, which, according to a recent report by Mijente, Just Futures Law and the Immigrant Defense Project, h...

May 27, 2022

Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro

Intel

Intel has announced that it is developing a $700 million research lab in Hillsboro, Oregon, which will focus on sustainable data center technology. To be located at the company’s Jones Farm campus, the lab will span 200,000 sq ft (18,580 sqm) and is expected to open next year. According to th...

May 27, 2022

Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion

Spain

Telefónica has announced that it has successfully issued its first senior sustainable bond to fund sustainability projects and initiatives amounting to €1 billion ($1.06bn) with a term of nine years. Telefónica has now made five ESG issuances in the last three years totaling €4.25 billion ($4...

May 27, 2022

České Radiokomunikace To Develop Largest Data Center in The Czech Republic

Czech Republic

České Radiokomunikace has announced that it is looking to develop a new data center in Prague, Czech Republic. HN first announced the plans of the Czech telecommunication firm before the company confirmed it. Although Miloš Mastník, CR’s sales director, didn’t share details of the data center,...

May 26, 2022

Avanti set to build ground station at Free data center in Senegal

Senegal

A new ground station is set to be built at a Free-operated data center in Senegal, satellite firm Avanti has announced. This announcement comes following the signing of a five-year partnership agreement between the two companies, through which the telco will build and host a new satellite gate...

May 25, 2022

NTT Opens Data Center in Madrid, Spain

NTT Madrid 1

NTT has announced the opening of its first facility in Spain. The data center is located in Las Rozas, outside Madrid. According to NTT, the data center sits on 134,720 square feet (12,516 square meters) of land in the Europolis Business and Technology Park. Currently, the facility offers 3...

May 25, 2022

Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region

Google

Google has announced the launch of its new cloud region in Columbus, Ohio. The company noted that the new cloud region (us-east5) would provide users with the availability and speed needed to serve local customers, innovate quicker, and develop high-performing applications. Google first ann...

May 24, 2022

Increased risk of grid blackouts ahead warns North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC)

United States

The North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) has sounded the alarm that this summer, a number of states in the central and upper midwest, Texas, and Southern California, might be hit with blackouts due to the increased risk of power outages. This risk was outlined in the nonprofit's ann...

May 24, 2022

New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact

Google

Over the last few years, tech giants have made big claims regarding carbon emissions and their sustainability efforts, yet, despite many of them claiming to be carbon neutral, a new report has found that their investments' carbon footprint is, in fact, greater than all the emissions created by...

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