Data Center News

Hines Group acquires Digital Group's San Jose data center for $60m

150 S 1st

According to reports from BizJournal, The Hines Group has acquired Digital Realty’s data center in San Jose, California. The data center in question is a 179,800 square foot, two-story building at 150 S. First Street. The purchase price is said to be $59.6 million. The building sits on a 2.4-a...

Lancium makes investment in renewable energy-powered data center campus

Houston-based Lancium recently announced that over the next 20 years, it plans on investing $2.4 billion in the construction of its Clean Compute Campus, a large-scale renewable energy-powered data center in Abilene, Texas.According to the Development Corporation of Abilene (DCOA), the facilit...

Proximity Data Centers opens new facility in Birmingham, UK

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Proximity Data Centres has announced that it has opened its Birmingham facility near the new HS2 rail station and BBC campus. The company outlines the facility site spans, with 63,000 sq ft (5,800 sq m) available in the actual facility with space for 2000 racks located across three data halls....

Launch of TikTok's €420m Irish data center Postponed to Late 2022

Republic of Ireland

TikTok has revealed that its planned data center opening in Ireland will be delayed due to issues caused by the pandemic. The company revealed to Business Post Ireland €420 million ($473m) that the facility will be launched in late 2022 instead of the planned early 2022 launch. CSO of TikTok, ...

Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia

Reports have it that Prologis has filed for permission to convert an industrial site in Sterling, Northern Virginia, into a data center. The company aims to develop a 500,000 square feet data center on its existing 19.5-acre industrial site. The development project is referred to as Prologis N...

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW turb...

San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has sold its San Jose data center to developer Hines. Documents filed on December 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office outline that Hines paid just under $60 million ($59.6 million) for the complex. The building spans 179,800 sqft; meanwhile, th...

H5 Data Centers to expand its Atlanta data center

H5 Atlanta

H5 Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its facility in Atlanta. The firm revealed that its data center at 345 Court will be have an expansion of over 1,900 square meters (20,000 square feet). The facility will also be increased by over 3MW. The CEO and founder of H5 Data Centers, J...

Meta/Facebook got permission to develop Netherlands' largest data center in Zeewolde

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta has been granted permission to build the Netherlands’ largest data center for its Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp applications in the small town of Zeewolde. Reports have it that the facility will use 200MW of electrical power and have five data center halls. The town council had a meet...

T-Mobile opens a new facility in Warsaw, Poland

T-Mobile Warszawa-Szlachecka

T-Mobile has opened a new data center in Warsaw, Poland. The new 46,200 square feet (4,300 square meters) data center has three stories, and it offers 18,300 square feet (1,700 square meters) of colocation space across eight data halls. T-Mobile claims to have secured a top business customer a...

Oracle developing Swedish and Italian cloud regions

Oracle

Oracle has announced that it has opened new cloud regions in Milan, Italy, and Stockholm, Sweden. These regions are Oracle’s first regions in Italy and Sweden. The regions are also the company’s first in the Nordic region. Under normal circumstances, Oracle always targets having two separate r...

China's Guangdong to move data centers undersea

China

China's Guangdong province recently announced its five-year plan for its marine economy. Part of this plan will see "high energy consuming data centers" submerged in the sea to reduce energy consumption. As per the plan, cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai will relocate their data ce...

Telstra expands Ashburn footprint

Telstra

Telstra is expanding its footprint at its primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Its DC21 facility is managed by Equinix, and according to the company, this expansion will be almost triple the size of the facility now. Telstra says that the expansion at Ashburn, also “adds extra layers of ...

Equinix partners with Nasdaq

Equinix

Equinix has formed a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq, Inc, which will help the company scale its NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This will also support the build-out of Nasdaq's cloud infrastructure.Tal Cohen, Executive Vice President, Head of North American Markets at Nasdaq, sa...

DataBank to expand Plano data center

DataBank Plano DFW3

DataBank has announced that it is expanding its presence in Dallas, Texas, with the addition of two data halls to its Plano facility. This adds 22,000 sqft of space and a capacity of 3MW. According to the company, the two data halls (Data Halls 5 and 6) are expected to be completed by the sec...

Meta/Facebook's Altoona campus to be its largest after latest expansion

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta/Facebook has revealed that it is expanding its Altoona, Iowa data center facility again. The company announced that it is developing two new buildings at the campus that will bring the facility to five million square feet. Meta noted that the expansion will be its seventh, and by so do...

DataBank Expands Atlanta Facility

DataBank Atlanta ATL3

DataBank will be expanding its data center in Atlanta, Georgia. This will be the company’s second expansion announcement this week, as it announced the expansion of its Plano facility earlier. DataBank will be adding over 22,000 square feet of data center space to its ATL3 facility. The com...

Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney

Sydney

Australian real estate company Trifalga is starting a data center unit with plans to have a largescale data center campus in Sydney. Trifalga and Trifalga DC’s first data center project will be an 800,000 square feet data center in Rouse Hill, Sydney. However, Trifalga did not reveal when the ...

Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has broken ground on additional campuses in two of its existing strategic EMEA markets in both Frankfurt and Berlin. The Berlin campus will have 32MW of critical IT capacity and is due to be operational in the summer of 2022. Meanwhile, the Frankfurt...

H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition

H5 Data Centers

H5 Data Centers has completed the acquisition of a data center at 925 Dalton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. The 107,000 square feet (9,940 square meters) purpose-built data center was built to Tier III standards. It currently has a 2MW capacity, but it can be expanded to 6MW upon full buildout. ...