Data Center News

Google to expand its New Albany data center campus in Ohio

Google

Google has announced that it will expand its New Albany data center campus in Ohio with an injection of $1 billion. It first broke ground on the campus back in 2019, and the project has seen $600 million of investment already. On top of its capacity expansion at the New Albany campus, the tec...

Equinix completes expansion of its SY5 data center in Sydney

Equinix Sydney SY5

Equinix has completed the expansion of its SY5 data center in Sydney. The expansion cost the Company $48 million (AU$66 million). Equinix started the expansion in February. Moreover, Equinix has added a total colocation space of 11,300 square meters (121,000 square feet) with this expansion...

Lendlease to build $600m hyperscale data center in Japan

Lendlease is penetrating the Japan data center market by announcing that it is developing its first data center in Japan. It will be making this development through its Lendlease Data Centre Partners (LLDCP) joint venture. This will be an hyperscale facility, and it will be on 33,000 sqm (355,...

NTT to expand its Zurich 1 data center

NTT Zurich 1

According to Zuercher Unterlaender, NTT has broken ground for expanding its Zurich 1 data center in Rümlang, Switzerland. The facility currently has 70,000 square feet (6,500 sqm) of space, and the expansion will see the Company add a new building B to the site. This new building will give the...

Green goals: Korea Telecom (KT) tests AI system to reduce energy use

KT Corporation

Korea Telecom (KT) has announced that it is pushing forward to a greener future with an investment in an AI Internet data center (IDC) operator. This technology reportedly minimizes energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. It is testing this AI system at its Mokdong IDC 2 facility, and its rec...

Equinix secures a cheaper, green future

Equinix

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently granted a group of businesses led by Equinix the right to form a renewable energy purchasing group. This formation will allow the group, which includes Nike, H&M, HSBC Bank, and Goldman Sachs, to negotiate access to cheaper...

Mapletree acquires Lumen’s Minnesota data center for $26 million

Lumen Minnetonka

As part of its acquisition of Sila Realty Trust’s data center portfolio, Mapletree Investment Trust has also acquired a Lumen data center in Minnesota. The facility is at 5400-5500 Feltl Road inside the Opus Business Park, Minnetonka. It is reported that Sila paid $26 million for the facility....

Microsoft plans to build 980,000 square feet data center in Douglasville, GA

Microsoft Azure

As part of its East US 3 Azure data center region, Microsoft wants to develop close to 1 million square feet of data center buildings in Douglasville, Georgia. Earlier in the year, Microsoft announced its plans for a new US Azure region. At the time of the announcement, the Company said it wou...

AWS buys 17 acres in Loudoun County, North Virginia for $32.5m

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

According to BizJournal, Amazon Web Services is looking to expand its data center footprint in Loudoun County, North Virginia, by acquiring more land in the county. The report states that AWS bought 17.15 acres of land in the county for $32.5 million. The plot of land is currently empty, an...

Vocus to close its Melbourne data center, to be replaced by $1.5bn office complex

Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]

Vocus has announced that it is closing its data center in the Melbourne central business district in September. The facility is going to be demolished and replaced with a massive office complex. Vocus noted that arrangements had been made with customers to move to other facilities. It has a...

EdgeConneX agrees to acquire Israel's Global Data Center

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX will be acquiring Israeli-based Global Data Center (GDC). Global Data Center was founded in 2013, and it operates two data centers in Petah Tikva and Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. The Petah Tikva and Herzliya facilities have 64,600 square feet and 48,400 square feet, respectively. GDC...

Facebook revealed as the company behind $800m Mesa project

Hyperscale Data Center

Last week, Facebook announced that it is the tech company behind the data center in Mesa. The 960,000 sqft facility will see a projected $800 million investment, and an estimated 100 operational jobs and 1,500 construction jobs. That said, the tech giant's plans haven't been without opposition...

Data center merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

2021 has been an eventful year in the data center industry as we’ve seen some major merger and acquisition activities as these firms look to expand their capacities. We are going to shine the spotlight on the top five merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021. We’ll be able to see wh...

Brookfield acquires 30-acres of land in Navi Mumbai for data center

Brookfield (BIP): Navi Mumbai

Brookfield Infrastructure has announced that it acquired a 30-acre land in Navi Mumbai with plans to build a data center on the site. The Company bought the land from real estate developer K Raheja Corp for Rs 600 crore ($81 million). Earlier in July, Brookfield and Digital Realty formed a joi...

Latvia's Tet formally opens data center in Riga

Tet

Tet has announced the formal opening of its sixth data center in Riga, in accordance with expansion plans to grow the business by 15% each year. A €1.4 million investment went into its latest facility, adding another 60 racks to support demand. Speaking about the development of ICT in Latvia, ...

Extinction Rebellion fights against €1.2bn data center expansion in Ennis

Art DC: Ennis Campus

Art Data Centres is facing backlash from climate protests over its plans to expand facility proposals in Clare, Ireland. The Ennis data center was first proposed back in 2019, at which point it was estimated to be a €450 million project. This has now jumped massively to €1.2 billion, encompass...

NextDC receives approval for its 150MW Melbourne data center

NEXTDC

The Melbourne City Council has granted NextDC planning approval for its M3 data center. The data center in question has 150MW of capacity, and it is on 100,000 sqm (1,076,400 sq ft) of land. It will also be built to serve hyperscale customers. NextDC sited the M3 facility in West Footscray,...

Galway County Council approves five-year planning extension for Apple Athenry data center

Hyperscale Data Center

Ireland’s Galway County Council has granted Apple a five-year planning permission extension for its Athenry data center. The facility had been canceled since 2019, but Apple applied to extend the site’s planning permission till November 2026. Apple first purchased the site in 2014 for $15 m...

Hines raises $650m for investing in properties including data centers

Hines Interests

US-based Real estate firm Hines has raised $650m for a new fund targeting properties including data centers within the United States. The firm is also targeting industrial, multifamily, and other property types. Fund manager Adriana de Alcantara was quoted to have said the firm wants to inv...

Beroe report: Green Data Center projects to grow 10%

World

Data center businesses are becoming increasingly environmentally conscious, realising that sustainability must be at the core of the industry going forward. As a result, green data center projects are on the rise. A recent study conducted by Beroe found that the global market for green data ce...