Data Center News

Oracle plans further expansion for its cloud region

Oracle

Oracle has announced the details for its 14 new cloud regions. The company plans to have 14 more cloud regions over the next year. By opening the new regions, Oracle will now have 44 cloud regions across the globe. The company has plans for new regions in Latin America, Middle East, Europe, an...

The Northern Virginia data center boom: Reactions from the local community are mixed

Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia is in the midst of a data center boom. This has partly developed due to a demand for new data centers resulting from the pandemic, which means that it currently has the highest density of data centers in the world. Loudoun County alone has over 100 data centers, with more tha...

Stack Infrastructure: Hyperscale data center goes online in Silicon Valley

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure’s latest data center facility in Silicon Valley (SVY02) is now live and is adjacent to the company’s existing SVY01 facility at its Silicon Valley Campus. This 3-story, 240,000 sqft facility brings 32MW of capacity to the region and is powered entirely by 100% renewable e...

Warsaw, Poland, to be the home to Orange's new data center

Orange

Orange has announced that it has opened a data center in Warsaw, Poland. The facility upon which construction began last year contains four 400 sq m (4,305 sq ft) data halls which will be used to host telco’s network infrastructure. It will also host services for customers.Speaking about the ...

MDXi Data Center expands Lekki Facility

MainOne MDX-i

MDXi, a MainOne company, has announced that four months after the launch of its Tier III facility in Appolonia City, Accra, Ghana, it is expanding its data center facilities in Lekki, Lagos.According to reports, the new Tier III data center is being deployed on a “very aggressive timeline.” M...

Microsoft expands adds South Korea and South Africa Azure regions

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it has added Availability Zones to its Cloud regions in South Korea and South Africa. It has also de-listed another region in South Africa. Each of the newly expanded Cloud regions in South Korea and South Africa now has three Availability Zones. Microsoft Cloud...

Oracle chooses Johannesburg for first Cloud region in Africa

Oracle

According to the South African Business Times, Oracle has selected Johannesburg as its first African and South African Cloud Region. Vice President of Oracle for cloud strategy in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Regis Louis, said firms are now grasping that they can’t rely on a single clo...

Start Campus and EllaLink team up

Start Campus has announced that it has signed an agreement with EllaLink, to strengthen connectivity between Europe, South America and Africa. The 'reinforced combination' of hyperscale data centers and submarine cables will ensure 99% of intercontinental digital connectivity through this part...

Dutch data centers: electricity gets pricey

Netherlands

Smaller data center companies in the Netherlands have voiced concerns over surging energy prices, which they say is creating a challenging financial climate. The Dutch Data Center Association is now asking for a cap on electricity prices, corporate tax breaks or subsidies for clean energy inve...

Carbon offsets under the microscope: Greenpeace reasserts its position

NEXTDC

Following its scathing 'Hero to Zero' report, Greenpeace has hit out again at large companies using carbon offsets to meet sustainability targets. At the Reuters Impact conference, Greenpeace's Executive Director Jennifer Morgan said there's "no time" for offsets and that the climate emergency...

What's in store at the Huawei Global Digital Power Summit 2021?

Huawei Cloud

The Huawei Global Digital Power Summit 2021 is to go ahead later this month (October 16) in Dubai. According to the event's press release, the summit will focus on the "race to net-zero," and emphasize that the target of carbon neutrality requires everyone to get involved, a "global coalition"...

What has the HoneyWell survey revealed about data centers?

North America

Yesterday, Honeywell released its most recent report, "Rethinking Data Centers as Resilient, Sustainable Facilities." The report explored a number of different factors, including the challenges, and priorities of facility managers in the sector across the United States, China, Germany and Saud...

Oracle, TIM (Telecom Italia) and Noovle to Offer Multi-cloud Services in Italy

TIM Group

TIM (Telecom Italia), Oracle, and Noovle, TIM Group’s cloud company, have announced that they have signed a partnership agreement. The agreement will see the companies offer multi-cloud services for public sector organizations and enterprises in Italy. TIM Group says it would help advance Ital...

Teraco completes CT2 data center in Cape Town, South Africa

Teraco Cape Town CT2

South African data center company Teraco has announced it completed the first phase of its CT2 facility in Cape Town, South Africa. CT2 is a new hyperscale data center in Brackenfell, Cape Town. Phase one has 25,000 square meters (269,000 square feet) of building structure, 18MW of capacity, a...

Google and Thales Partner to form French sovereign cloud service

Google

Google and Thales have announced a new Joint Venture that will offer a sovereign cloud service in France. The companies announced that they would develop a sovereign hyperscale cloud offering for France. The new company aims to provide cloud services to local private and public companies th...

STT GDC plans two data centers in Tokyo with 60MW capacity

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced that it plans to build two new data centers in Tokyo, Japan. STT GDC says the two data centers will be developed by and leased from Goodman Group. Goodman Group is an Australian property firm. The facilities will be located in Goodman...

American Tower acquires DataSite

American Tower Corporation

American Tower has announced that it has completed the acquisition of DataSite. American Tower has now added two new data centers to its portfolio of state-of-the-art colocation facilities with the purchases. In addition, the investment also means American Tower will now manage and operate ...

What can the data center industry learn from the Facebook blackout?

Meta

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram recently experienced a six-hour blackout, where users were unable to login, message, and peruse the platforms. But, users weren't the only ones whose access to the platform was interrupted. According to reports, tech giant Facebook also lo...

ADACEN moves in to Albuquerque

ADACEN has announced that it is relocating to Silver Spring, Maryland, in order to expand development. According to the company, this relocation is also a way for it to explore new technologies to make its data centers eco-efficient.Part of this exploration will see the company research renewa...

Nudging towards nuclear: Rolls Royce proposes powering data centers with nuclear

Rolls Royce is reportedly in talks with Amazon and other tech giants about exploring the possibility of powering data centers with small nuclear reactors (SMR). The project is under development by a consortium led by Rolls-Royce, and funded by a £215 million from the UK government grant last y...