Data Center News

Oracle's Linlithgow data center set to shutdown

Oracle

Oracle has announced that it will be closing its Linlithgow data center in Scotland early next year. The company acquired the former Sun Microsystems manufacturing facility back in 2009 and transformed the facility into a data center in 2012. It spans 160,000 sq ft (14,900 sqm), with a capacit...

Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operati...

LogicMonitor launches data center in Sydney

LogicMonitor has announced the launch of its first Australian data center based in Sydney, hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to the company, this new facility will provide local, in-country data storage for Australian customers.Commenting on its expansion into Australia, LogicMoni...

Bio-gas powered data center ahead for Adista and DataFarm Energy

Adista and Datafarm Energy are partnering to deliver a 250kW data center powered by bio-gas, which Adista will operate, and Datafarm will power with exclusively with renewable energies from the recovery of agricultural bio-waste.” The location of the facility is yet to be announced, and the so...

Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers and its lead investor, Digital Bridge Group, have announced the acquisition of PCCW Ltd.’s data center business. The acquisition sees Vantage DC’s portfolio to include 100MW of existing and expansion capacity across many facilities in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Besides, t...

Digital Edge acquires five data centers in Japan

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has completed the acquisition of five data centers in Japan. The company acquired the data centers from ICT Services company Itochu Techno-Solutions (CTC) for a fee of around $230 million. The report also shows that CTC will still be an anchor customer across all the data centers....

Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies

Stockholm

Vattenfall has formed a strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies in a joint sustainable data centre pilot project. Together, the companies will work to construct a facility at Vattenfall’s biomass-fired district heating plant in Jordbro, south of Stockholm.Speaking about the part...

AWS to launch more than 30 Local Zones globally

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is rolling out its Local Zones across the globe next year. The company will be opening 30 new locations across over 20 countries. Local Zones are used for Edge locations that host applications requiring low latency to end-users or on-premises installations. Each Local...

Flexential's sustainability-linked financing: $2.1 billion raised via inaugural securitization financing

Flexential

Flexential has announced the completion of a $2.1 billion securitization financing offer, which, according to the company, is the largest single asset-backed securities (ABS) issuance. On top of that, it is also the largest-ever green data center ABS financing. With this money, it will work to...

AWS announces 18 new renewable energy projects

Amazon AWS

This week, AWS has announced 18 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects spread across the US, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. This totals 2GW of clean energy capacity. This investment also makes Amazon the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.Commenting on this sign...

Google Cloud to develop its Saudi Arabian data center in Dammam

Google

Google has revealed that it is developing its first cloud region in Saudi Arabia in Dammam. In addition, Google will be operating the data center in partnership with the world’s largest oil producer Saudi Aramco. The search engine giant will also open an office in Riyadh to support the facilit...

Ctrl's earthquake and pollution-free data center

CtrlS Nodia

Ctrl's Noida data center is reportedly the most sustainable data center (DC) in northern India, with LEED v4.1 O+M Platinum certification and 100 % air pollution-free. On top of this, the facility is also designed to withstand earthquakes of 8.5 on the Richter scale. Sustainability was a key p...

Oni's new renewable energy deal with Acciona Energia

Oni, which Gigas acquired in 2020, has announced that it has signed a 5-year-renewable contract agreement with Acciona Energia. This agreement will see Oni provided with 100% renewable energy for its facilities in Lisbon and Porto, as well as its internal operations.Speaking about what this me...

Google opens cloud region in Chile

Google

Google has opened its new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. The company first announced plans for the region in December 2020. The region is now Google’s second cloud region in South America as it opened one in São Paulo in 2017. Just like all Google’s regions, the Chile region has three availa...

Nasdaq is migrating to AWS

Amazon AWS

US stock exchange Nasdaq has revealed plans to migrate to AWS infrastructure. It will also be bringing AWS infrastructure into its on-premise network. The plan is for Nasdaq to migrate its North American markets to AWS at the beginning of 2022. Nasdaq will be approaching the migration in stage...

A1 Croatia opens a Tier III Zagreb data center

Zagreb

A1 Croatia has opened a new data center in Zagreb. The company began construction on the facility in October 2020. The 21,500 square feet (2,000 square meters) data center cost the company €11 million ($13m). In addition, the data center was designed to withstand earthquakes up to 9 on the ...

Amazon to launch its first Georgia solar project in Burke County

Amazon AWS

Amazon is launching a 70-megawatt solar farm in Burke County - the first of its kind in Georgia. This move is part of a wider initiative, which will see the giant bring 18 new wind and solar projects online for an entirely renewable-powered company by 2025.The other projects include one in Oh...

LCL Data Centers pledges to cut carbon emissions

LCL Belgium n.v.

LCL Data Centers has announced that it has joined the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). It is now the first Belgium company to do so and signing up means that as a company, it will reduce its carbon emissions and work towards keeping the average increase in global temperatures below 1.5...

Interxion and river cooling

InterXion

In a move that bolsters sustainability and the circular economy, Interxion has announced that it has switched on its €15 million ($17m) river water cooling system in Marseille, France. The cooling system utilizes underground water from a former mine which is transported through 3km of buried p...

Edgeconnex expands in Benelux region

EdgeConneX

EdgeConnex has announced that it is to enter the Belgian market with the construction of a data center campus near Brussels in Ternat. The first facility will comprise 4 data halls supporting over 20MW of capacity. According to the company, the site is expected to be ready in the first quarte...