Data Center News

Russia's MTS and South Korea's KT Corp Are Partnering Up

MTS Group

South Korea’s KT Corp and Russia’s MTS have announced that they formed a partnership to build data centers in Russia. The companies said they signed a strategic agreement to develop new business directions, including joint AI-based solutions, data centers, and media content projects. The te...

Element Critical partner up with NextEra Energy for renewables

Element Critical

​​Element Critical has inked a clean energy deal with NextEra Energy Resources, which will provide the data center company with renewable energy. The power purchase agreement (PPA) between the two companies, will see Element Critical provided with power from an ERCOT-connected, Texas-based win...

Mitsubishi Estate data center subsidiary turns to renewable energy for Tokyo data centers

Marunouchi Direct Access ltd

Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary Marunouchi Direct Access (MDA) has announced its decision to make three of its Tokyo data centers more sustainable by switching to renewable energy. This switch happened in early February 2022 and was made through the RE100 climate plan using conforming feed-in tar...

Centenary Group moves into Masaka

Centenary Group, a Ugandan banking group, has announced that it has plans to build a new Tier III data center in Masaka. Further details around specifications are yet to be released. According to the company, this facility, the first outside Kampala, is part of its mission to harness financial...

Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) for Interxion backup generators

InterXion

Interxion is one of the latest companies to turn to Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) for its data center backup generator needs. The company is using HVO100 fuel and the first site in its French portfolio to make the change was its new PAR8 site, in La Courneuve, Paris. The fuel is made f...

Sophos plans new data center in Mumbai, India

Sophos has announced that it is entering the Indian market by introducing a new data center in Mumbai. According to reports, development on the facility will start in March 2022. Speaking about the opportunities the facility will bring for the area, Sunil Sharma, managing director of sales for...

Avaio and Adam Real Estate Form JV For Hyperscale Data Center Development in Quebec, Canada

Quebec City

Adam Real Estate and Avaio have come together to form a new hyperscale joint venture in Quebec, Canada. The joint venture will be called Gatineau Data Hub (GDH) to develop a new, sustainable, hyperscale facility in Gatineau, Quebec. Gatineau is located to the north of Ottawa. The partnership w...

Compute North Secures $385 Million In Strategic Funding

Compute North has announced the closing of its next growth capital round of $385 million. The capital raised comprises $300 million in debt financing and $85 million in initial Series C equity closing, led by Generate Capital and Mercuria. Compute North will fund the development of new project...

Dutch government outlines its position on hyperscale data centers

Netherlands

The newly formed Dutch government has announced that going forward, it will impose environmental controls on hyperscale data centers, which it said is in response to protests around Facebook’s proposed 166 hectare hyperscale data center in Zeewolde. The proposal received an outcry of oppos...

Google Has Still Not Acquired Land For Data Center in Sherburne County

Google

Google has still not started work on its proposed $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota. The search engine giant announced plans for the data center in 2019, yet, the two companies involved said they hadn’t abandoned the project. At the time of the announcement, Google said it was mull...

Plaza Realty Files For Rezoning of Land For a 1 million sq ft Data Center in Prince William County

Northern Virginia

The development of a large-scale data center in Prince William County, Virginia, is being proposed by developers. Developers submitted plans to have a site at 14854 Dumfries Road to the west of Dale City and the east of the Northern Virginia county be rezoned. They want to develop a 1 million ...

Data centers and the supply chain: Challenges on the horizon?

The global supply chain crisis has had a devastating impact on industries worldwide, but one sector that has remained seemingly unscathed for the most part is the data center industry. The building boom has continued, but now, as the crisis drags on, experts are trying to gauge whether this wi...

Metro Connect: The highlights

This year, Metro Connect kick-started on the 31st January. The three-day in-person conference was held at a South Beach Hotel in Miami and brought together big names in digital infrastructure, tech and private equity and featured a number of high-profile keynote speakers, presentations and dis...

New state data center for Springfield's east side

Illinois

The State of Illinois has announced the purchase of 9.4 acres of land at the Dirksen Business Park in the 2900 block of Dotmar Drive, which will be home to a new data center. The $80.5 million facility will be run by the state Department of Innovation and Technology and will reportedly enable ...

AdaniConneX to introduce Mumbai Data Center Limited

EdgeConneX

The Adani-EdgeConneX Indian Joint Venture, AdaniConneX, has announced that it has introduced a wholly-owned subsidiary named Mumbai Data Center Limited, which will reportedly develop, operate, maintain, and deal with data centers. Further to this, operations are expected to begin shortly.In Fe...

Apple's planned data center in Waukee goes before commission

Apple

It has been five years since Apple announced its $1.3 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa; however, it is finally going before the city's planning commission on Today.  At the time of announcing the facility, Tim Cook, CEO of apple, said the data center would help "drive Apple's future," but s...

BNP Paribas Real Estate launches UK data center team

United Kingdom

BNP Paribas Real Estate has announced that it has launched a new data center team in the UK, with ​​Michael Umfreville as the lead. It will be responsible for leasing and land acquisitions. This launch is reportedly in response to REITs, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds and infr...

QST to Develop 300MW of Data Centers in Partnership With The Saudi Government

Saudi Arabia

Quantum Switch Tamasuk (QST) has revealed plans to develop data centers with up to 300MW capacity for the Saudi Arabian government. The goal is to entice hyperscale customers to come into the country to host public sector data. Interestingly, it has already broken ground on two data centers. Q...

QTS Planning To Expand Its Piscataway data center in New Jersey

QTS Piscataway

Plans are in place for QTS to expand its Piscataway facility in New Jersey. My Central Jersey reports that the company has filed for preliminary and final site plan approval to develop a two-story building to the data center campus at 101 Possumtown Road. By so doing, QTS plans to add up to 45...

Hotwon Group Plans To Raise $300 million To Fund Expansion

China

According to Bloomberg, Hotwon Group is looking to raise up to $300 million in funding. The Chinese data center developer hopes to use the money raised to expand its footprint across the country. Once successful, Hotwon’s valuation will increase to $1.5 billion. Reports also show that the comp...