Data Center News

Interxion works to promote a circular economy

InterXion

Interxion, Digital Realty's European arm, has announced that in a move to promote a circular economy, it will be using excess heat from its Schiphol AMS5 data center in the Netherlands, with business parks Schiphol-Rijk near Amsterdam. This is happening in cooperation with Polderwarmte, a Dutc...

Compute North turns its back on Pitt County facility following push back

Following mounting concerns from locals, the controversial data center heading for Pitt County is no longer happening. Compute North has announced that it has requested to withdraw its permit application for a data center that would have been located opposite the nearby Belvoir Elementary Scho...

Microsoft: Renewable energy deal signed with AES to power Virginia data centers

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced a new agreement with energy firm AES, whereby AES will provide the tech giant with renewable energy for all of its data centers in Virginia. This energy will be sourced 576MW of contracted renewable assets. These assets include wind and solar. This agreement aligns with...

Energia Group plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Dublin, Ireland

Dublin

Huntstown Power Company, a subsidiary of Energia Group, plans to build two data centers next to its Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. Hunstown has filed for planning permission with Fingal County Council. It is looking to build two data center buildings on 13.3 hectares of land. Each building ...

TIM considering selling stake in Noovle data center unit

TIM Group

According to Reuters, Italian telco TIM is mulling over reorganization and selling off its stake in Noovle Cloud and data center unit. The potential decision is based on the company’s financial struggles. TIM has been struggling with shrinking margins and revenue, price competition, and costs ...

KSSF invests in Sify for expansion and sustainability

Sify Technologies

KSSF will invest up to INR 1,000 crore (USD 135 million) in Sify Infinit Spaces Limited (SISL), a subsidiary of Sify.The investment from KSSF will be in the form of Compulsorily Convertible Debentures, developing new data centers across Mumbai, Noida, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Accordin...

Alibaba Cloud to open data center in Thailand next year

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Alibaba is planning to develop its first hyperscale data center in Thailand. The Thailand data center is scheduled to launch in 2022, and it will carry some of Alibaba’s services and solutions. Some of these include those that support Alibaba’s operation around fintech, logistics, retail, d...

Genesis Digital Assets expands data center footprint in West Texas

Texas

Genesis Digital Assets, a U.S.-based Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm, has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint in Texas. The facility will be industrial-scale with a capacity of 300MW.According to reports, the facility will also have sustainability at its core, with “sustainable ...

Switch and the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center to partner and create a water pipeline for recycled water

Reno

Switch and the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center have joined forces to create a regional water improvement pipeline. The project in Sparks, Nevada, will see the construction of a 16-mile pipeline that will transport 4,000 acre-feet of “treated effluent water” from the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamat...

DCI Indonesia opens first phase of 600MW data center in Kawarang

DCI Indonesia: H2-01

DCI has announced the opening of the first phase of its second data center campus in Karawang, Indonesia. Karawang is situated to the east of Jakarta. The facility called H2 sits on 791 hectares of land, and it has a potential capacity of 600MW. The completion of the first phase sees DCI add a...

Expedient acquires data center in Phoenix, Arizona

Expedient Data Centers

Expedient has acquired a data center in Phoenix, which Blue Cross Shield formerly owned. The facility it acquired is located at 2475 West Townley Avenue. It is a 2.4MW capacity data center with 45,000 square feet of space. Expedient says the facility was built to Tier III standards. Expedient’...

CloudHQ planning 240MW data center campus in France

CloudHQ

According to multiple reports, CloudHQ plans to build a 240MW data center campus in Lisses, France. The US data center firm wants to develop two data center buildings with 710,000 square feet (66,000 square meters) which will consist of 24 data halls each. The facility will be located in the L...

OneAsia is expanding into South Korea

South Korea

OneAsia, a Hong Kong-based data center firm, is expanding out of Greater China. The firm is planning to build a data center in Busan, South Korea. OneAsia says the data center will be developed in the Mieum Industrial Park in Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone. The data center campus will cover u...

NSA ordered to reevaluate $10bn AWS cloud contract

Amazon AWS

The National Security Agency (NSA) has been ordered to reevaluate a secret cloud contract worth $10 billion, awarded to Amazon Web Services. Microsoft led the protest and asked for the contract to be reviewed. The Government Accountability Office had to side with Microsoft after its protest an...

Colt completes sale of 12 colocation sites in Europe

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt has announced that it has completed the sale of a total of 12 of its colocation sites spanning across Europe with AtlasEdge Data Centres. This sale is part of a wider vision of Colt Data Centre Services to focus on “building and developing larger hyperscale data centre sites” in Europe a...

Amazon looks to further grow its footprint in Ireland

Amazon AWS

Amazon is planning further expansion in Ireland with an application for two more data centers in Dublin. The proposed facilities will be based in Clonshaugh Close, where there is already the former Ricoh building which Amazon is seeking to demolish and replace with 'Data Centre A' and 'Data Ce...

Green innovations: Microsoft research proposes algae, hemp and mushrooms to build data centers

Microsoft Azure

From underwater data centers to facilities that store carbon, Microsoft is leading the way when it comes to data center innovations. In its latest research project, the tech giant is looking into materials that can be used to build facilities that aren’t carbon-emitting but rather carbon-stori...

ScottishPower: Amazon-funded wind farm opens in Kintyre, Scotland

Amazon AWS

ScottishPower Renewables’ wind project, launched in association with and funded by Amazon, has come online. The 50MW Beinn an Tuirc 3 wind farm on the Kintyre peninsula has 15 turbines, and according to ScottishPower, it is the largest in its portfolio built without any government support.The ...

Data center expansion for Dataplex in Dublin, Ireland

DataPlex Group

Dataplex is another data center company looking to expand in Ireland. Dublin City Council has now received a permission request from the Irish company to both extend the building space on Willsborough Industrial Estate in the Clonshaugh Business and Technology Park and change its usage. As out...

Indonet’s Edge DC opens first data center in Jakarta, Indonesia

Digital Edge: EDGE1

Indonet’s subsidiary PT Ekagrata Data Gemilang (Edge DC) has opened its new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The new facility called EDGE1 is a five-story building with 6MW of capacity. It is also capable of accommodating 1,300 racks. PT Ekagrata says it has leased over half of the facility....