Data Center News

Plans for Swansea seafront data center and the $2.8 billion Blue Eden Project

Wales

DST Innovations, in association with several other business partners, with support from Swansea Council and Associated British Ports, have announced a £1.7 billion ($2,3 billion) project: Blue Eden project. On Swansea's seafront, Wales, this project will include a newly-designed tidal lagoon, ...

Under the microscope: Ameren's new data center

Missouri

Ameren's new data center, fuelled by one of its coal-fired power plants in Missouri, has come under the microscope, garnering concerns from those in the local community and beyond.While the company says that the $1 million facility will help to stabilize demand for electricity, critics aren't ...

Hydrogen powered data centers: Research begins in County Offaly

Republic of Ireland

Ireland's County Offaly is investigating hydrogen as a green energy that could power data centers. The study, 'Exploring Data Centre Integration with Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen in the Midlands', will look into the feasibility of integrating data centres with renewable energy and will ...

STC Solutions signs contract worth $53.66m for NEOM data center

Saudi Telecom Company

Following the General Authority of Competition in Saudi Arabia giving data center builds the go-ahead in Neom, the Arabian Internet and Telecommunication Company (Solutions) has announced it has awarded the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) a contract, worth SAR 201.3 million (USD 53.6 million). ...

Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. opens first data center site

Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. has announced that its first Australian site will be online this month and powered by 100% renewable energy. This will be achieved in partnership with Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners.Based in New South Wales, Australia, the site will have a capacity of 20MW, ...

Tesla Finally opens a data center in China

China

Tesla has finally opened its data center in Shanghai, China. It first announced the facility in April after Chinese regulators started making rules that would require Chinese subsidiaries to store data in China. Tesla did not reveal many details about the data center as the electric vehicle ma...

Quebec: The power of green

Quebec Province

Just two years ago, Quebec had just 39 data centers; now, this number has shot up to 50. So, what’s driving this growth? Well, the Canadian city offers vast amounts of low-cost and green energy, generated mainly from hydro dams, which gives it the big green tick.Of course, while it’s no Virgin...

Digital Realty acquires Medallion Data Centres (PR)

Medallion Communications

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions and Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund announced today the formation of a joint venture to acquire Medallion ...

Piemonte Holding and Goldman Sachs sign agreement for Digital infrastructure development in Brazil

Piemonte Holdings

Piemonte Holding has announced that it has signed an agreement with Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The deal will see Goldman Sachs invest in Piemonte Holding’s Brazilian edge data center wing, Elea Digital. The completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals like that of the ...

DataBank has expanded its KC3 facility in Kansas City

DataBank Kansas City MCI3

DataBank has announced that it has expanded its KC3 facility in Kansas City. The expansion sees DataBank expanding its digital footprint in Kansas. DataBank has built out two new Data Halls; Halls 2 and 3. Hall 2 adds 9,300 square feet of space, while Hall 3 adds 8,050 square feet of space....

US army to further reduce its data centers

United States

The US army has announced that it will further its data center reduction to six over the next seven years. Army CIO Raj Lyer made the announcement on Thursday and said the move is an effort to transfer more data to cloud-based systems to enhance security. This includes moving complex enterpris...

North Bay welcomes new power-to-data center

Validus Power: North Bay

Today, the new owners of the former Atlantic Power Corp. power plant in North Bay, Ontario, Validus Power Corp and Hut 8 Mining, held a ground- breaking ceremony signalling the start of development on the site. The proposed 32,000-square-foot data center will see an injection of over $100 mill...

An IBM-occupied data center in Dallas has been sold for $41 million

Kyndryl

Five 9s Digital has revealed that it advised the owner of an IBM-leased data center in Dallas, Texas, to sell it off. The unnamed owner sold the facility for $41 million. However, the exact data center the firm sold can’t be identified at this moment as IBM has many data centers in Dallas. IBM...

Liberum Navitas to develop 15 data centers across Russia

Russia / Россия

Liberum Navitas, a Russian ICT firm, has announced its plans to build 15 data centers across Russia over the next two years. The ICT firm revealed that it is launching a federal investment project to develop the data centers while unifying them by a single fiber-optic communication line. The c...

Alibaba expands in Asia

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Alibaba has announced that as part of its global expansion plans, it is launching its first data centers in South Korea and Thailand next year in an effort to compete with the likes of US giants like Amazon and Microsoft.Commenting on the expansion, Selina Yuan, General Manager of Internationa...

Etisalat Group and G42 team up to create UAE’s largest data center provider

etisalat and

Etisalat has announced that it has teamed up with Group 42 in a joint venture operating under Khazna Data Centers. They have come together to form the largest data center provider in the United Arab Emirates, with a capacity of 300MW.Eng. Hatem Dowidar, Chief Executive Officer of Etisalat Gro...

Sirius Computer Solutions to be acquired by CDW for $2.5 billion

CDW

CDW Corporation has revealed its plans to acquire Sirius Computer Solutions for $2.5 billion. Sirius was founded in 1980, and it is a provider of mission-critical technology-based solutions for close to 4,000 customers. According to CDW, the transaction will accelerate its services and solu...

Expedient expands with Addition of New Milwaukee Data Center

Expedient Data Centers

Expedient has acquired a new data center in Franklin City, Wisconsin. The facility has 28,500 square feet of space, and it offers 1.2MW of critical power. It also has the capacity for over 8,000 physical servers. The facility will help Expedient serve its growing customer demand for cloud-b...

Adani Group's renewable energy pledge

AdaniConneX

Adani Group has made a big investment relating to renewable energy, pledging to commit over USD 50-70 billion in the renewable energy value chain over the next ten years. Alongside this, the company announced that it is ‘incubating’ the first Indian data center that will fuel all its data cent...

The Taliban takeover: What are telecoms looking like?

South Asia

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has been devastating for millions. There has been radical transformation and destabilisation ever since. As part of the coup, Taliban forces targeted cell towers and critical infrastructure. According to figures from the ATRA in June, a total of 301 telecoms...