Data Center News

Vantage Investing CAD$900 in Canada Expansion Spree

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its operations in Canada with significant developments. The company is looking to expand its existing facilities in Quebec and Montreal while developing a new campus in Montreal. It will be investing CAD$900 million (US$713m) in the ex...

Amazon's Closes MGM $8.5bn Acquisition

Amazon AWS

Amazon has closed the acquisition of the US media company Metro Goldwyn Meyer (MGM). The transaction was worth $8.5 billion. The primary goal of the deal is to strengthen its Prime Video division. However, it also secures another cloud contract for AWS. AWS and MGM started working together ...

Equinix Is Acquiring Four Data Centers In Chile and Peru From Entel For $705 million

Equinix

Equinix has acquired four data centers belonging to Entel in Peru and Chile for $705 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of the year. Per the deal, Equinix will take over one data center in Lima, Peru, and three facilities in Santiago, Chile. Under the terms of ...

PLDT No Longer in a Hurry To Sell Off Its Data Center Unit

ePLDT

According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, PLDT is having second thoughts over the sale of its data center unit. The Philippine telco has eased off its decision to sell its data center business after completing a deal to divest its cell tower asset. PLDT revealed earlier in the month that it ...

Cryptomine facility headed for New Zealand’s South Island

New Zealand

Contact Energy has received the green light to build a cryptomine data center in New Zealand after approval was granted for the company’s resource consent application. This comes despite the significant amount of controversy around proposals. Critics argue that the facility will not benefit Ce...

Upstack announces partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale for sustainable data center

Wyoming

Upstack has formed a strategic partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale White Box (WHWB). The partnership will see the company gain access to the Wyoming Hyperscale White Box facility due to open by the end of 2022. Located in a remote mountainous site southeast of Evanston, according to the Thorno...

A1 Bulgaria signs solar PPA with Renalfa

Bulgaria

Telco A1 Bulgaria has announced that it has teamed up with the Bulgarian clean energy investment group Renalfa AD to sign Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The solar energy from the PPA will provide the company with 20,000 MWh of clean energy per annum across the next ten years.This news comes a...

Elea Digital and Vertiv announce strategic alliance

Vertiv

Elea Digital and Vertiv have announced they have formed a partnership to deliver edge data center services in Brazil. As per the partnership agreement, the two will provide "operation and maintenance services" for Elea Digital data centers in key metro areas, including Porto Alegre, Curitiba, ...

Microsoft and its Scope 3 emissions

Microsoft Azure

According to the tech giant's most recent sustainability report, Microsoft's scope 3 emissions are jeopardizing its ability to meet its carbon neutrality targets, which in 2021 rose by 23% year over year. Some argue that this indicates Microsoft has set lofty aspirations that it cannot achieve...

South Dublin passes motion to prevent data center builds

Dublin

Continuing to pursue the ban on new data center builds in Dublin, People Before Profit Councillor Madeleine Johansson recently put forward an amendment to do just that, a motion, which was voted through by 18 votes to 13 against, with one abstention.Despite the vote to curb further builds, the...

Lancaster University: carbon net-zero data center project

United Kingdom

Lancaster University has announced the launch of its Blackpool Innovation Catalyst project, which seeks to bring together "dynamic organisations" and academics to develop effective "long-term solutions around clean growth and secure digitalisation for their industries."One of the latest projec...

Nation Data Center moves in near Rennes, France

France

Nation Data Center (NDC) has announced it is to build a new 3,000 sqm (32,300 sq ft) data center based near Rennes, in France. The facility named the Roah Data Center, will accommodate 600 racks when fully built out. The facility was given the go-ahead after the company obtained a building per...

Hansen Technologies-Occupied Data Center in Australia Up For Sale

Australia

A Hansen-occupied three-story data center in Doncaster, Australia, is up for sale. The 39,900 square feet (3,707 square meters) data center is located on 2 Frederick Street in the Melbourne Suburb. Colliers and Fitzroys are responsible for offering the facility for sale. Expressions of inte...

Microsoft Launches Fifth Chinese Azure Region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced its fifth Azure region in China. According to the company, the new Chinese Azure region launched on the first day of the month. This region will be operated by Vnet (formerly 21Vianet). The CEO of Microsoft’s Greater China Region, Dr. Hou Yang, said the company had seen...

Amazon Proposal For Land Rezoning in Culpeper County Denied

Amazon AWS

The Culpeper County Planning Commission has denied Amazon's proposal to rezone over 200 acres of land in Stevensburg, Virginia, for data center use. The commission voted 5-4 against the company's proposal. It wasn't an easy decision for the council as the discussions and decision took over 5 h...

Meta To Develop a €1bn Data Center in Toledo, Spain

Meta

Meta is developing a €1 billion ($1.1bn) data center campus in Spain. The social media giant says the facility will be developed near Talavera de la Reina, in the Toledo region. Emiliano Garcia-Page, the socialist president of Toledo, was happy about the development and said the project wou...

Washington State Wants To Make Tax Exemptions For Data Center Development

Washington

Washington is looking to increase data center development in the state by passing some data center tax exemption bills. The HB 1846 bill, which was introduced by Democrats Alex Ramel and April Berg, would introduce tax exemptions on data center facilities developed in rural counties. The bill ...

Huawei and XData sign an agreement to boost the Data Center industry

Huawei Cloud

Huawei Digital Power has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with XData Properties for collaboration in the data center industry.According to the two, through the MoU, they will “offer solutions for the development of intelligent, efficient and sustainable data ce...

Groton Town Council and NE Edge's data center proposal

NE Edge, a new company, formed by Thomas Quinn, the former CEO of GotSpace, is proposing the development of at least one data center at Flanders Road, just south of Interstate 95. Moreover, not content with the speed at which the proposal was advancing, the company convinced Groton Town Counci...

Skybox's Pflugerville data center could see up to $548M in investment

Skybox Datacenters

Skybox Data Centers has announced it is partnering with Prologis to develop a data center in Austin, Texas. This news comes following Pflugerville City Council approving an economic development performance agreement between the Pflugerville Community Development Corp. and Skybox. As per this ...