Data Center News

AirTrunk opens TOK1 data center in Japan

AirTrunk Tokyo TOK1

AirTrunk has announced the launch of its first data center in Japan. The new facility is located in Tokyo, and it is called TOK1. It will have an initial capacity of up to 60MW. The 13.25-hectare site is located in Inzai Chiba Prefecture in Tokyo. The data center campus is also scalable to 300...

Richemont to close data centers in Europe, US, and Hong Kong, migrate to AWS

Amazon AWS

Luxury watch company Compagnie Financière Richemont has revealed that it is migrating its closing its European data centers and moving its IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. The group owns some luxury brands, including Montblanc, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, IWC, and Schaffhausen. R...

Rostelecom increases capacity of Yekaterinburg data center

Rostelecom Yekaterinburg

Rostelecom has increased the capacity of its Yekaterinburg data center in central Russia. The company revealed that it would be expanding the capacity of its facility on the Iset River in Sverdlovsk Oblast. With the new expansion, the facility has added an extra 216 racks and a total capacity ...

Infosys collaborates with Lefdal Mine Datacenter to push forward Daimler's sustainability goals

Lefdal Mine Datacenter

Infosys has announced that it is transferring Daimler's High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads to Lefdal Mine Datacenter in Norway. This move, according to the company, will help its sustainability goal to become carbon-neutral by 2039 and has been made possible through Infosys' Data Cente...

CoreSite’s VA3 Data Center goes green, powered by 100% renewables

CoreSite

CoreSite has announced that its VA3 data on its Northern Virginia campus is powered by 100% renewable energy. This move to green has been achieved through Dominion Energy’s 100% Renewable Energy Program, which has a portfolio of locally-sourced solar, hydroelectric, and biomass energy. Com...

Google joins Ørsted's offshore wind project

Google

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PAA) with Ørsted, a Danish offshore wind developer. According to reports, Google will have access to 50 MW of Ørsted’s planned 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 Offshore Wind Farm.This PPA is in line with Google’s goal to powe...

India's Tamil Nadu government unveils new policies for data centers

Tamil Nadu

The government of Tamil Nadu, India has revealed a new data center policy. According to the new policy, the Tamil Nadu government will provide connectivity incentives, land, and power to support the development of new data centers. However, for data center firms to receive these incentives, th...

Bridge Data Centres to develop 100MW data center in Malaysia

Bridge Data Centres

Bridge Data Centres has revealed plans for a new data center in Malaysia called MY06. The facility will be housed in the Kidex Sedenak business park in Sedenak. According to reports, the data center will be the biggest of its kind in Malaysia. The facility will be sited on 40 acres of land....

DE-CIX expands to the Nordics Region in partnership with Bulk Data Centers

Bulk Infrastructure AS

DE-CIX has revealed its plans to expand to the Nordic region. The company has partnered with Bulk Data Centers on this development. Bulk Data Centers will be housing DE-CIX’s IX platforms in Kristiansand, Norway (Campus N01), Oslo, Norway (OS-IX), and Esbjerg, Denmark (Campus DK01). In additio...

Tamil Nadu Government signs data center MoUs with different data center firms

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu Government has revealed that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with some data center firms to develop data centers in the Indian state. The MoU is worth up to Rs 35,208 crore ($4.7bn). Some of the companies in question include STT GDC, Adani Enterprises, L&T, Nxtra, and Ct...

Codisa to develop a 3.5MW data center in El Salvador

El Salvador

Costa Rican firm Codisa has begun construction on a new data center in El Salvador. The IT firm will partner with real estate firm Aristos Group to develop the data center. The facility will have a total capacity of 3.5MW, and it will house 322 racks. The facility is named DataTrust and it is ...

Digital Realty teams up with CoolestDC for liquid cooling for SIN11 data center

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is partnering with Coolest DC to develop high-efficiency thermal management solutions for the industry following a pilot program supported by Temasek Foundation. The initial pilot scheme sought to improve energy consumption by data centers and enhance efficiency and had deploye...

Virginia Commonwealth University announced plans to build new data center in Richmond

Richmond

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has announced proposals for a data center located in Richmond, Virginia, at 707 W. Broad St. The planned facility will span 30,000-square-foot (2,800 sqm).According to reports, the data center will cost around $42-44 million and will be divided between bo...

Africa Data Centres launches data center in Lagos

ADC Lagos LOS1

Africa Data Centres has announced the opening of a new data center in Lagos, Nigeria. The data center, namely LOS1 will have a capacity of 10MW, with six data halls, and spanning 6,000 sqm (64,500 sq ft). According to the company, the facility will serve as the West African Hub for the compan...

Hermosa Ranch data center pushback

Arizona

The proposed Hermosa Ranch data center in Avondale, Arizona, is being faced with pushback amid water concerns. TGV Investments Voting Trust and Rexco DC LLC are the companies proposing the construction of the Hermosa Ranch Tech Campus, which would involve changing city plans from installing a ...

Meeza expands in Qatar with fourth data center

Meeza

Meeza is launching its fourth data center building, namely M-Vault 4, which is to be the biggest in Qatar and due to host a new Microsoft cloud region in Doha. According to reports, this data center building will help to accelerate Qatar’s digital transformation agenda. Further details outlin...

Yotta to develop two data centers in its Greater Noida DC Park, India

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Yotta Infrastructure has announced its plans for developing two more data centers in Noida, India. The company revealed that it would be starting construction on the data centers in its Greater Noida Data Center Park by January 2022. The two data centers will have up to 30MW of capacity eac...

Chickasaw Defense Logistics to build data center at Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina

Chickasaw Defense Logistics is to build a data center at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg military base, which holds 54,000 military personnel. The federal contractor will construct the facility in building E-1351.According to reports, the contract is worth approximately $15,172,228. That said, its...

Meta (Facebook) confirms it's behind the 200MW data center in Zeewolde

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has confirmed that it is behind the development of the proposed 200MW data center in Zeewolde, the Netherlands. According to specifications, the facility could cover five data halls and have up to 200MW of capacity upon full buildout. However, the Zeewolde cit...

Infracrowd Capital signs MoU to develop $100 million data center in Vietnam

Vietnam

Singaporean infrastructure investment firm Infracrowd Capital has plans to develop a data center in Vietnam. Infracrowd signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nang IT Park Development Joint Stock Company for the data center development. The company will be developing a Tier III data c...