Data Center News

Virginia’s Prince Edward County to lure data center firms with new data center tax

Virginia

Prince Edward County in Virginia has established a new tax for data centers. The reasoning behind this is to make the tax more competitive with the surrounding counties in Virginia. Earlier this week, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to create a different tax category for computer...

Greenpeace's 'The Hero to Zero' report explores the green work being done by the Australian tech industry

NEXTDC

Greenwashing is unfortunately prevalent in most industries these days. From McDonald's rolling out non-recyclable paper straws to Eni claiming that its palm oil-based diesel was 'green' - companies claiming they care about sustainability whilst failing to deliver on their promises is rife. As ...

Globenet starts work on second data center in Barranquilla

Tecto: Barranquilla 1

Just two weeks after announcing its new Edge data center in Fortaleza, Brazil, Globenet has announced the construction of a new Edge data center in Barranquilla, as it continues to expand to meet demand. By the end of 2022, the company plans to have a total of five Edge data center locations i...

Dublin: Heat created by Amazon data center to heat housing

Amazon AWS

An Amazon data center based in Tallaght in South Dublin is set to heat homes in the local area as part of Tallaght's pilot District Heating Scheme. As part of Dublin's Climate Action Week, locals were invited to inspect the progress that has been made with the scheme. The project is expected t...

I Squared Capital closes the acquisition of GTT, launches Exa Infrastructure

EXA Infrastructure

I Squared Capital has completed the acquisition of GTT’s infrastructure business. It has also launched a new Company with the name Exa Infrastructure in the process. I Squared Capital acquired GTT Communications’ subsea, data center assets, and terrestrial network infrastructure. The acquir...

AtlasEdge Data Centres officially launches

AtlasEdge

It has been announced that Liberty Global and DigitalBridge’s joint venture, AtlasEdge Data Centres, has officially launched. After being announced back in May, the deal closed this week and will be headed by executive chairman Josh Joshi, former CFO of Interxion and Telecity. Zahl Limbuwala, ...

Novva announces its 1.5 Million sq. ft. flagship Campus in Salt Lake City, Utah

Novva: West Jordan Campus

Novva Data Centers has announced the opening of its flagship data center campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. The facility is a 100-acre campus with a current data center space of 330,000 square feet. Upon completion, the facility will be expanded to 1.5 million square feet. This will make the f...

STT GDC officially opens its Bangkok 1 hyperscale data center

STT Bangkok 1

St Telemedia Global Data Centres (Thailand) has announced the opening of its first data center in Bangkok. The new facility STT Bangkok 1 is the first of two planned buildings for the STT Bangkok Data Centre Campus. STT Bangkok 1 is located in the Hua Mak business district. It is also a seven-...

UBS Asset Management completes the acquisition of Datum Datacentres

Datum Datacentres Limited

UBS Asset Management has completed the acquisition of UK data center firm Datum Datacentres. UBS says it has acquired a 100 percent stake in the data center company from Darwin Private Equity. Datum operates a 40,000 square feet facility called FRN1 in the QinetiQ Cody Technology Park in Fa...

Prime Data Centers to invest $1 billion in 150MW campus in Elk Grove, Chicago

Prime Data Centers

Prime Data Centers has revealed that it wants to build a new data center campus in Elk Grove, Illinois. The data center company says it has plans to invest up to $1 billion in developing a 150MW, 750,000 square feet campus that features three three-story facilities. The facility will be sit...

Facebook's Huntsville data center goes online

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook's Huntsville data center is finally online, following delays caused by Covid-19. First announced back in 2018, the facility, which saw an investment of $1 billion, spans 2.5 million sqft and is also powered by renewable energy, with 227 megawatts of solar energy added to the Alabama e...

Microsoft granted 'Tolerance decision' for construction of its Holland Kroon data center

Microsoft Azure

Permission has been granted to Microsoft to resume construction work on its Hollands Kroon data center in the Netherlands. But it would be doing so at its own risk. The Hollands Kroon municipality, through the North Sea Cana Area Environment Agency, has allowed Microsoft to continue work on it...

AEW close to selling 1 million sq ft office park in Slough to unnamed data center developer

Yondr Group

According to multiple reports, Real estate firm AEW is close to selling a 1 million square feet (92,000 square meters) office park to an unidentified data center firm. AEW will be selling the Bath Road Central office campus for a fee of around £420 million ($579.5m). The real estate firm fi...

What's ahead for West China's Guian New District?

China

Guian New District's Big Data Development Service Center, has announced that China's Guian New District has 15 large and super-large data centers either underway or planned for future construction. By 2025, the project is expected to exceed 100 billion Yuan; however, in just the first quarter ...

Offaly could be home to a new data center

Northern Ireland

It has been rumoured that a new data center could be on its way to Offaly, Ireland. ​​A senior official of Offaly County Council hinted at this last week at Offaly when discussing renewable energy targets. Andrew Murray, a senior planner, commented the data center industry could potentially ta...

VueNow InfoTech to build seven data centers in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

An Indian data center firm with the name VueNow Infotech has plans to build data centers in Bulgaria. VueNow Infotech signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build up to seven data centers in the country. It will also be spending up to $12 million in the process. The Company will build a...

Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Great Grey Investment has acquired the uncompleted Westpoort Data Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data center was bought from Caransa Group. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tikehu Capital provided financing to Great Grey Investments and Westpoort Datacenter through ...

Salim Group to invest $500 million in developing data centers in Indonesia

Indonesia

According to reports, an Indonesian conglomerate, Salim Group, wants to venture into data center development in the country. Per Bloomberg, Salim Group has plans to invest up to $500 million in developing these data centers. The Company is seeking a financial arrangement with banks to fund the...

Colt outlines 2030 carbon neutral goals for a greener future

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Group is the latest tech company to announce its green goals. It has outlined 2030 as its deadline to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across all its operations. Its goals have been informed by comprehensive, science-based emissions reduction targets, which were approved by the Science-B...

CleanSpark Joins teams up with Partnership Gwinnett

Cleanspark has announced its partnership with Partnership Gwinnett, which will see an expected capital and human investments of nearly $145 million over the next five years at CleanSpark's data center in Norcross, Georgia. The facility is forecast to be operational by the end of 2021.Speaking ...