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4iG acquires Israeli satellite operator, SpaceCom for $65 million

4iG has completed the acquisition of SpaceCom, a satellite operator, for $65 million. 4iG is a Hungarian IT firm specializing in software development, cybersecurity, data center, and cloud management offerings. SpaceCom, on the other hand, is an Israeli satellite firm. The president of 4iG, G...

Intermarket seeks approval for 100,000 square feet data center in Canada

Toronto

Intermarket Properties wants to build a data center in Cambridge, Canada. According to Canada Construct Connect, the Company is seeking approval for a 100,000 square feet data center. The proposed data center site is a 40 acre Waterloo Corporate Campus with mixed-use redevelopment that consist...

Sabey secures $250 million refinancing deal for 375 Pearl Street

Sabey Intergate.Manhattan

Sabey has secured a $250 million refinancing deal for its office and data center at 375 Pearl Street, New York City. According to Commercial Observer, J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo will be providing a $220 million, 10-year, fixed-rate CMBS loan and a further $30 million mezzanine debt. Sabey ...

Data center plans discussed for NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New Yorksite

Buffalo

Discussions have begun around the transformation of the disused NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New York, into a new data center. The 76-acre site was operational from the 1950s to 2015 has been pinned as a potential location in a report by the City of Dunkirk and Chautauqua County. Dunkirk is nea...

Amber Infrastructure Group acquires majority stake in iseek

iseek Communications

Amber Infrastructure Group has acquired the majority stake in iseek, an Australian data center Company. Amber Infrastructure Group is an investment management firm, while iseek offers cloud and connectivity services from five data centers in Australia. Acquiring the major stake in iseek shows ...

Microsoft intends to open four data centers in China by in 2022

Microsoft Azure

According to reports from Bloomberg, Microsoft is looking to add four new data centers in China by Q1 of 2022. The report states that Microsoft wants to expand its service across Asia and opening data centers in China is a step towards achieving that. Asides from that, the Company also intends...

Panattoni and Pure DC to build 50MW data center in Borehamwood, London

Pure Data Centres Group

Panattoni, an industrial construction giant, will build a data center facility with Pure DC in Borehamwood, North London, UK. The decision was made after the Hertsmere Borough Council approved its application last week. The data center will be a 449,500 square feet (41,763 sqm) facility. ...

Converge to build new a PHP 1 billion ($20.8 million) data center in Mandaue, Philippines

Converge ICT: Mandaue P1

Converge ICT Solutions is going to build a PHP 1 billion ($20.8 million) data center in Mandaue, Philippines. The new facility, named "P1", will be a six-story building with initial 300 racks. It will also have a customer contact center in the building. Converge ICT Solutions also said that th...

Equinix promises to cut emissions by 50 percent before 2030

Equinix

Equinix has promised that it would reduce its emissions by 50% before 2030. It would also be reducing emissions created by its electricity supply by 50% before 2030. This promise comes few days after Greenpeace criticized the Company for not having trustworthy timelines on the use of renewable...

DataBank completes the expansion of its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh

DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

DataBank has expanded its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by adding 25,000 square feet of raised floor space to the facility. The company also added an extra 2.5MW capacity to the facility to bring its total floor space and capacity to 40,000 square feet and 4.5MW respectively. T...

50% of Digital Realty's global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced in its third ESG report that half of its global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy. It did this by increasing the portfolio of its data centers being powered by renewable energy by 20% in 2020. Impressively, it also increased its energy consump...

Global Technical Realty and KKR to build a data center campus in Slough, UK

GTR: Slough

Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it would be building a data center campus in Slough, UK. The campus will have three interconnected data centers, with each having more than 57,900 square feet of floor space and 13.5MW of capacity. SEGRO, a UK real estate investment and develop...

AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers

Amazon AWS

The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...

Tokyo Century partners with NTT for data center business in India

NTT

NTT and Tokyo Century are coming together to form a data center partnership in India. Tokyo Century is a finance company that specializes in equipment leasing, mobility and fleet management, and specialty financing centered on aviation and real estate. NTT, on the other hand, specializes in d...

Million square foot data center given the go-ahead in Haymarket, North Virginia

Northern Virginia

A one million square foot data center has been given the go-ahead just outside the town of Haymarket, following the Prince William Board of County Supervisors approving a rezoning and special use permit. Locals, however, have voiced their concerns that minority communities may be negatively i...

LOGOS and Pure Data Centers to build a 20MW data center in Indonesia

Pure Data Centres Group

LOGOS and Pure Data Centers are partnering to build a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The data center will have 215,000 square feet of space with a 20MW capacity. LOGOS said the facility is already under construction and that it would be ready in the first quarter of 2022. LOGOS is ...

Digital Edge now the single largest shareholder in Indonet through $165 million investment

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has acquired the major stake in Indonesian telco PT Indointernet for $165 million. The acquisition of the major stake was backed by the Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners private firm. This move is Digital Edge’s first in Indonesia. After completing the deal, the CEO of Digital Edg...

OVHcloud to go public by end of 2021

OVH Group

OVHcloud has officially confirmed that it would be going public on the Euronext stock exchange. Although OVHcloud hasn’t confirmed the date, but it will happen before the year runs out. Also, it did not say how much it expects to raise through the IPO, but it said the founder’s family, Octave...

STT GDC announces new data center in Noida, India

STT Noida 1

STT Global Data Centers India (STT GDC) has announced that the construction of its new data center in Noida, India is underway. The Company plans to invest 1100 crore ($150 million) in building the facility. The data center will be on a five-acre site, and it will have a 35MW capacity upon fu...

Cyxtera breaks the lease of its Moses Lake data center in Washington

Cyxtera has decided to break the lease of the data center it is occupying in Moses Lake, Washington. Cyxtera communicated this decision to the landlord of the site in February 2021. However, Cyxtera will have to pay between $57 - $62 million as a charge for breaking the lease.The data center ...