Data Center News

Equinix completes acquisition of GPX India

Equinix Mumbai MB1

Equinix has finally completed the acquisition of the Indian operations of GPX Global Systems for $161 million. The purchase sees Equinix add two data centers in Mumbai to its portfolio. These facilities named Equinix MB1 and MB2 provide a combined 1,350 cabinets, with an additional 500 cabi...

Interxion opens PAR12 on the East side of Paris

Digital Realty: PAR12 Ferrières-en-Brie

Interxion has announced the opening of its new data center outside Paris, France. Besides, the data center is also the Company’s 12th in the French capital region. The PAR12 facility is located 30km to the east of Paris in Ferrières-en-Brie. It has up to 12MW of IT capacity. It also has over 6...

Google plans to invest €1 billion ($1.18bn) in Frankfurt and Berlin

Google

Google is looking to expand its data center operations in Germany with €1 billion ($1.18bn) worth of investments. The tech giant announced that it would launch a new region in Berlin-Brandenburg. It would also expand its Cloud Region in Frankfurt in a new facility in Hanau. The Company reveale...

NTT plans to grow its data center footprint by 20% in the next 18 months

NTT

NTT ltd has announced it plans to increase its data center footprint in the next 18 months by 20%. The Company would be expanding some of its existing data centers and adding 300MW of capacity and 600,000 sqm (6.5 million square feet) of space within 18months. This expansion will be in 20 c...

Keppel DC REIT sells iseek data center in Brisbane, Australia for AU$34.5 million

Keppel DC REIT has completed the sale of its iseek-operated data center in Brisbane, Australia. Amber Infrastructure Group first acquired the majority stake in iseek in June. In July, Keppel announced that it had granted the Australian data center company iseek the option to purchase its 10...

International Telecoms Week 2021 discusses the growing data center ecosystem in West Africa

Africa Data Centres

International Telecoms Week 2021 was recently held, with 1,500 attendees in National Harbor and over 5,000 attending virtually. A number of experts from the data center industry came together and discussed data center expansion in Africa, and the current disparity between data centers and popu...

EdgeConneX Portland Data Center Campus Now Enabled with 100Gbps AWS Direct Connect Offering

EdgeConneX Portland

EdgeConnex has announced that it has deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect 100Gbps capability at its Portland data center. The Company has been an AWS Partner Network since 2016. It has now expanded its connection options from 1Gbps and 10Gbps to 100Gbps. The expansion will enab...

Colt Data Centre Services announce 45MW data center outside Osaka, Japan

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services has broken ground on a new 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft) data center outside Osaka, Japan. The facility will have 45MW of capacity, and it will be in Keihanna Science City. According to the Company, the facility will be in operations by 2023. VP Head of APAC at Colt ...

DCI acquires land for ADL03 facility in Adelaide, Australia

DCI Data Centers

To expand its data center footprint, DCI Data Centers has acquired land in Adelaide, Australia, for its new data center. The site is located in Technology Park, Mawson Lakes. It will be home to DCI’s ADL03 data center. DCI Data Centers announced that it had secured Development Approval for the...

€1 billion (US$1.18bn) Horizeo project to produce green hydrogen and a data center

France

Horizeo, a 1GW solar project from Engie and Neoen, is open for public debate in France. Proposed for Saucats in Gironde, in the Nouvell-Aquitaine region, the project is estimated at €1 billion (US$1.18bn), spanning 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres).Commencing 9 September and running until 9 January...

Novva Data Centers acquires Colorado Springs Campus

NOVVA Colorado Springs

Novva Data Centers has announced that it has acquired a 37-acre campus and 190k sqft of data center and supporting facilities, which features a Tier 3+ data center and industrial building in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The data center has a 6 MW designed capacity, but Novva will inject $200 mi...

Google gets $54 million tax abatement in for Columbus, Ohio, data center

Google

The Columbus City Council has voted 6 to 1 to approve over $54 million in tax breaks for Google’s proposed data center in Ohio. In return, the Company will have to provide 20 full-time jobs. Google first announced the facility in March. It was said to be a 150,000 square foot data center th...

Lake Parime plans 10MW data center near Clyde, New Zealand

Lake Parime has announced plans to build a 10MW data center near Clyde, New Zealand, which Contact Energy's Simply Energy subsidiary will power. However, unlike other data centers, the company would only run this facility when variable renewable energy sources are available in excess. When ava...

Brazilian government clamps down on federal data centers over energy usage, amid drought

Brazil / Brasil

The Brazilian government is clamping down on excessive energy use amid a drought across the country. As part of this, the government is introducing measures such as a mandate to federal data centres to moderate power use. According to a source speaking to Reuters, these measures are being made...

DataBank announces it has started construction on sixth Salt Lake data center

DataBank

DataBank has broken ground on its sixth Salt Lake data center, SLC6. The facility will see DataBank increase capacity to meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure in the Salt Lake City and Utah market. The site is located in Bluffdale, between Utah’s Silicon Slopes a...

Teraco announces completion of its JB3 data center on Isando campus, Johannesburg

Teraco JB3

African data center firm Teraco has announced its third data center on its Isando campus in Johannesburg. The facility named JB3 has 480,000 square feet of building structure, with 130,000 square feet of data hall space. It also has a capacity of 29MW. With this added capacity, Teraco’s capaci...

Equinix opens SG5 data center in Singapore

Equinix Singapore SG5

Equinix has finally announced the opening of its fifth data center in Singapore. The SG5 data center is a nine-story facility built with $144 million in Tanjong Kling, which used to be known as the Singapore Data Center Park. Besides, the nine-story facility is the tallest data center in th...

2.7 million square feet data center campus proposed in Westfield, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

According to Westfield News, a data center campus with 2.7 million square feet of floor space is being proposed in Westfield, Massachusetts. The campus will be at 199 Servistar Industrial Way. This campus will have ten three-story data center buildings. It would also be built over 13-18 years....

Aligned announces $1.35 billion in securitized notes under its Green Finance framework

Aligned

Aligned just announced $1.35 billion in securitized notes, which is issued under its new Green Finance Framework. The Company said the notes issued were the first-ever green data securitization as well as the largest ever inaugural data center securitization. Anubhav Raj, CFO of Aligned, sa...

VPLS acquires 18.8-acre land and data center in Texas

Evocative: DAL1

VPLS has acquired land and data center in Texas. The land it acquired is an 18.8-acre plot, and it has a 75,000 square foot, 10MW facility. However, the facility is currently leased to an anonymous data and technology Company. The facility also supports 2.5MW of critical IT load, and it can b...