Data Center News

KDDI and Telehouse discuss sustainability and targets

Telehouse

KDDI and its data center subsidiary Telehouse recently made their latest sustainability announcements and set a number of target dates to achieve carbon neutrality. Alongside this, they published the details of number of initiatives that will help them to achieve their green goals. Currently, ...

'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's ...

Rowan Green Data Gets Green Light For its 500MW Campus Plans in Temple, Texas

Rowan: Moriah DC

Rowan Green Data can finally go ahead with its data center development in Temple, Texas after city council officials have approved its zoning request. The company announced late last year that it wants to develop 12,500 square meters (135,000 square feet of data center buildings on a site i...

CMC Telecom To Open a New Data Center This Month

CMC Telecom

CMC Telecom has announced that it will be opening a new data center in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam before the month runs out. The new data center will be called TÂN THUẬN, and it will offer up to 107,600 square feet (10,000 square meters) of data center space. It will also have a capacity for 1,20...

Compute North Starts Work on its 300MW Facility in Granbury, Texas

Compute North has announced that it has started constructing its 300MW data center. The facility is located at a gas-fired power plant in the lone star state of Texas. The CEO and co-founder of the company, Dave Perrill, said Compute North is thrilled to break ground on its new data center....

SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota

Singapore

Although back in 2019,  Singapore introduced a data center moratorium following concerns around energy supplies, in 2022, this moratorium was lifted - with conditions. Part of these conditions was that the country would be more selective over future data center projects. Further details around...

ClusterPower opens its first Romanian hyperscale facility

ClusterPower Craiova

ClusterPower has announced the opening of Romania's largest data center. Located in Mischii, Dolj County, the hyperscale facility saw an investment of €40 million. Its 25,400 sqm (273,400 sq ft) campus is expected to house five buildings. In total, the ClusterPower Technology Campus will have ...

PRP Buys Land in Manassas To Develop Three Data Centers

Northern Virginia

According to BizJournal, PRP has completed the acquisition of 22 acres of land in Prince William County, Virginia. The property is located at 7816 Bethlehem Road in Manassas. The Real estate firm paid $22 million to Allan Myers for the property. It is also negotiating for another 13 acres with...

Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

Amsterdam

In Amsterdam, an argument around data center energy usage has been brewing for some time. Back in 2019, in response to the amounts of energy being used up by data centers, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer announced a moratorium on new projects. This was eventually lifted, but...

Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma

Meta

Meta has recently signed another power purchase agreement (PPA) with TransAlta Corporation. Through this deal, Meta will be provided with 200MW from the upcoming Horizon Hill Wind Power Project, which is to be based in Oklahoma. Construction on the project, which will be located on 25,000 acr...

atNorth expands data center footprint in Iceland

atNorth

atNorth has announced that it is to build a third data center campus in Iceland, on a plot of land in Akureyri in the northern part of the country. Named IC03, the site will span 4,000 sqm (43,000 sq ft), and include six data halls with 12MW of capacity. According to Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinss...

CircuBAT: The project reducing Lithium-ion battery waste

Switzerland

In a bid to make lithium-ion batteries more sustainable and long lasting, a new research program has been launched. CircuBAT, a Swiss project of Innosuisse, led by Bern University of Applied Sciences Technology, will be joined by Green Cubes Technology, a company that makes lithium-ion batteri...

Edge Centres Completes Series A Funding, Plans Edge Facilities in Malaysia

Edge Centres

Edge Centres has announced the close of a Series A funding round. It is now planning to deploy facilities in Malaysia and other parts of Asia Pacific (APAC). The Australian Edge data center company closed the AU$12 million (US$8.95m) Series A fundraise. The funding was led by Cloud Link Sol...

Patria Looking To Sell its Odata Data Center Firm

ODATA SA

According to Valor Economico, Patria Investments is mulling over the sale of its data center firm Odata. The report has it that the Brazilian asset manager is in advanced talks with investment banks and international merger & acquisition firms to determine who will handle the transactio...

Cyxtera Mulling Over Sale

Cyxtera Technologies

According to Bloomberg, Cyxtera Technologies is mulling over a sale just a year after it went public. The report shows that the company is looking into different strategic options, which also include a potential sale. Cyxtera is also working with advisers to consider the best choice for the...

Three Gorges Group's Hubei Data Center First Phase Completed

China

Three Gorges Group has announced the completion of the Dongyuemiao data center project's first phase in Yichang, Hubei. The Chinese energy company revealed that the project's first phase cost RMB 845 million ($132.7m). The project has also been in development since February last year. This ...

Former Waste Management Plant in Tuscany, Italy To Become a Data Center

Italy

The Rural Vivaistico Ornamentale District of Pistoia and The CNA Toscana Centro have proposed to develop a data center on a former waste management plant in Tuscany, Italy. Claudio Bettazi, CNA Toscana Centro’s President, said developing a data center in the locality through an excellent publi...

Equinix’s MainOne Launches Lekki II Data Center in Lagos, Nigeria

MainOne MDX-i

MaineOne has announced the opening of its second facility in Lagos, Nigeria. The West African data center firm recently acquired by Equinix opened the Lekki II data center earlier in the week. MDXi, a subsidiary of MainOne, first announced it was developing the data center in October last y...

Telecom Italia Dishonors' KKR's Due Diligence Request For $12bn Takeover Bid

TIM Group

Telecom Italia (TIM) has refused KKR access to its accounts in line with the latter’s due diligence request for a potential takeover. In November 2021, Telecom Italia was approached by KKR with a non-binding offer worth €10.8 billion ($11.8 billion). However, talks only started last month. Acc...

Gaw Capital Partners Acquires Building For Data Center in Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo

Gaw Capital Partners has announced the acquisition of a building in Tokyo, Japan. The real estate private equity firm also plans to transform the building into a data center. The Fuchu Building it acquired is next to Meito Sangyo Building in Fuchu Intelligent Park. Gaw will demolish the 59,...