Data Center News

Meta/Facebook is Expanding Its Gallatin Data Center Campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook, now known as Meta, has plans to expand its Gallatin facility in Tennessee. Biz Journal was the first to report that the social media giant wants to construct another data center building at the Gallatin campus. The city council has also approved the plans for the development this ...

Acronis expands data center footprint into South Africa

Acronis has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint with the addition of its Acronis Cyber Cloud Data Center in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. According to the company, this new data center will provide customers with constant data availability and data sovereig...

DXN to build data center for new Covid-19 quarantine center in Perth, Western Australia

DXN Limited

DXN has announced that it has entered a partnership with the Australian Government’s Department of Finance and Multiplex to supply a modular data center and ten communications rooms for a new Covid-19 quarantine center being built in Perth, Western Australia. The company has agreed to this wor...

Equinix Partners With GIC For another $525m Joint Venture

Equinix

Equinix is making strategic partnerships as it announced that it had formed another joint venture with GIC. The data center company and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund aim to develop hyperscale facilities in South Korea. The companies announced the $525 million joint venture details earlie...

D9 Poised For Another Acquisition Spree After Raising Another £95m

Digital 9 Infrastructure

Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9) has announced that it has successfully raised another £95.2 million ($127.4m). It plans to use the money raised to finance its infrastructure acquisition run. D9 raised the finances through new Ordinary shares. The company has some digital infrastructures it is...

CloudHQ's Cloud Capital Buys COPT's Manassas Data Center For $222m

CloudHQ Manassas Hornbaker

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced that it sold a data center in Manassas, Virginia, for $222.5 million. The buying firm is CloudHQ’s investment arm. COPT revealed that it sold the DC-6 facility to Cloud Capital, CloudHQ’s affiliate company. The data center is a two-stor...

€5 billion ($5.67bn), 360MW data center campus coming to Madrid, Spain

Madrid

Great news for Spain as plans for a 360MW data center campus in Madrid, Spain, is underway. The data center will be developed on a 700-hectare site, and investment is expected to reach up to €5 billion ($5.67bn). The Digital Valley project is to be a ‘reference model’ for sustainability in dat...

Meta signs wind PPA in Iowa

Meta

In its latest move towards attaining more green credentials, Meta has announced the signing of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Apex for its 225-MW Great Pathfinder Wind project in Iowa. This is the energy company’s fifth deal with the social media giant. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg,...

SenseTime opens Shanghai data center

SenseTime has announced the opening of a new $880 million data center in Shanghai, China. The facility, which the company first broke ground on in July 2020, spans 130,000 square meters (1.4 million sq ft), with 5,000 computer racks.The Artificial Intelligence Data Center (AIDC) is located in ...

ServerChoice Adds New data hall to Its Stevenage, UK Facility

United Kingdom

UK data center company ServerChoice has announced the expansion of its facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The company added a new data hall which hosts 47 racks. In addition, the new hall uses hot aisle containment that ensures greater efficiency. In addition, the racks are backed up by a d...

IXcellerate Secures $190m In Funding

IXcellerate

IXcellerate announced this week that it has completed a new round of financing after raising $190 from existing and new investors. Some of the new investors include SberInvest, Mubadala Investment Company, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund. The company says the funds will be used to expan...

Etix Everywhere Acquires a 67% Stake In Thailand’s Genesis Data Centers

Bangkok / Krung Thep

EtixEverywhere has announced that it has bought the majority interest in Genesis data center. The company revealed that it acquired a 67 percent stake in the Thai data center. The cost of the investment is pegged around AU$15.2 million (US$10.8m). Genesis operates a data center in Bang Chalong...

The Dublin City Council Challenges AWS' Plans For Another Data Center

Amazon AWS

Plans for another Amazon Web Services data center in Dublin, Ireland, are at risk of being stopped by the local council. The council asked AWS for proof that another data center would not over-saturate the area. AWS plans to build some facilities in north Dublin near its existing data center w...

DCI To Develop Another Data Center in Auckland, New Zealand

DCI Data Centers

DCI Data Centers has revealed plans for a second facility in Auckland, New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Herald, Australia’s DCI Data Centers has acquired a five-hectare land to develop a 40MW data center. The facility will be called AKL02. DCI also plans to spend up to $600 million (~...

TINC invests €5 million ($5.6m) in Datacenter United, acquires DC Star

Belgium

Belgian infrastructure investment company TINC has made investments in Belgian data center firm Datacenter United. TINC says the €5 million ($5.6m) investment in Datacenter United is to fund the acquisition of DC Star. Datacenter United was founded in 2011. It currently operates three data cen...

Google's Council Bluffs data center complete

Google

Google's Council Bluffs data center is complete, it has announced. This means the giant's investment in the city has now reached $5 billion.Speaking about the company's investment in the area, Council Bluffs Mayor Matt Walsh said in a press release:​​ "Google's $5 billion of capital investment...

Microsoft to develop a $317m Chilean data center region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed plans to develop a data center in Santiago, Chile. The data center is to cost the company $317 million. Microsoft first revealed its plans for a data center region in the country in December 2020. It is now finally actualizing its plans by filing its SLC03 project for asses...

Jazz opens new Tier III data center in Pakistan

South Asia

Pakistan-based telecommunication company Jazz has launched a new data center facility in Islamabad, Pakistan. The 3MW data center cost the company $8 million. It currently has 300 racks, with a capacity to be expanded in the future to 450 racks. According to Jazz, the new facility is the large...

More cryptocurrency data centers to head to North Dakota?

North Dakota

North Dakota is becoming a hotspot for cryptocurrency miners, with its cold temperatures attracting interest. According to John Weeda, director of the North Dakota Transmission Authority, there's lots of interest from a number of parties. Energy Services Manager Josh Schaffner said the company...

AIIB to invest $150 million in new data centers

Beijing

Multilateral bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), has announced that it is making a significant investment in new data center development, with $150 million. The Beijing-based company will direct the funds through the Keppel Data Centre Fund II (KDCF II). Current reports outline t...