Data Center News

Principal Real Estate raises over half a billion for first dedicated US data center fund

United States

Principal Real Estate has announced that it has secured over half a billion dollars for its US data center fund, following the final investor close on 30 April. The $533 million comes from a total of 15 limited partners, including insurance companies, wealth managers, endowments, and foundatio...

DEAC switches to 100% renewable energy

Delska (DEAC, DLC Data Logistics Center)

DEAC has announced that it is going green by switching to 100% renewable energy for all its data centers. The renewable energy will be sourced from wind farms in Northern Europe.The Latvian data center firm currently owns two 2.3MW and 0.4MW data centers based in Riga, with a third 4MW facilit...

Regulators raise questions over the future of 30 proposed Irish data centers

Republic of Ireland

In Ireland, over 30 proposed data centers face uncertainty. This comes after the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) instructed national grid manager, Eirgrid and ESB Networks to prioritize applications for data centers in areas with reliable power supplies.As a result, Eirgrid has vo...

MIS's data center fund to start within six months

Saudi Arabia

Al Moammar Information Systems Co. (MIS) announced that it expects its data fund to commence development within the next six months. The fund will go towards the development, ownership and operation of data centers across Saudi Arabia. This follows MIS signing a Memorandum of Understanding (Mo...

Volcanic geothermal energy for Bitcoin mining data centers in El Salvador

El Salvador

Following El Salvador declaring Bitcoin as legal tender, the country's president Nayib Bukele has instructed state-owned geothermal electric company, LaGeo, to create a plan to offer geothermal energy to Bitcoin mining data centers.On Twitter, Bukele announced the news, saying: "I've just inst...

Vapor IO Partners With VMware To Launch a Multi-Cloud Services Grid

Vapor IO

Vapor IO is partnering with VMware to build a Multi-Cloud Services Grid that fuses the Vapor IO’s Kinetic Grid Platform with VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform. The new platform will help make Edge applications more reliable and cheaper. It does this by integrating multiple clouds and edge environ...

Wallingford data centers delayed after council postpones vote

Gotspace Data Partners' plans to build data centers in Wallingford have been delayed, following the Town Council's postponement of voting on a host agreement on Tuesday.If signed, it could generate up to $1.5 million yearly in new tax revenue. This postponement comes after council members stat...

Digital Realty considering $300 million Singapore Trust IPO

Digital Realty Trust

According to a report from Bloomberg, Digital Realty is considering an Initial Public Offer (IPO) of a Singaporean trust that could raise between $300 million to $400 million. The report says Digital Realty is working with its advisers on the listing, and they are looking to conclude the IPO b...

D9 Infrastructure raises £175 million for digital infrastructure acquisitions

United Kingdom

Digital 9 Infrastructure, a UK investment trust, has raised £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company initially offered an offering to raise £100 million through new ordinary shares. However, it was oversubscribed, and it raised a total of £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company says it p...

phoenixNAP to Expand its Data Center in Phoenix, Arizona

PhoenixNAP-Phoenix

PhoenixNAP just announced that it had acquired land to expand its data center in Phoenix, Arizona. The land it purchased is next to its flagship data center in Phoenix. Furthermore, the planned data center will support 10MW of capacity and, it could be expanded in the future. Phoenix also add...

Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

Sydney

Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due t...

EIC launches project to store energy for data centers in compressed and liquid air

Energy Internet Corporation (EIC), a startup for renewable energy for data centers, has teamed up with Lummus Technology to use compressed air to store excess energy. The Companies seek to use this stored energy when renewable energy sources like wind and solar aren’t available.EIC will be pr...

FiberLight announces fiber expansion in El Paso

MDC Data Centers

FiberLight has announced the completion of its fiber expansion in the greater El Paso, Texas market with a new Point of Presence (PoP) at the MDC El Paso facility. The fiber infrastructure provider can now connect El Paso with Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville. Moreover, this expansion will ena...

Colony Capital Rebrands as DigitalBridge, Sells non-digital Assets

DigitalBridge

Colony Capital announced that it has sold most of its non-digital assets to Fortress Investment group. It has also rebranded to DigitalBridge. This will see Colony Capital start using the Digital Bridge name after acquiring Digital Holdings in 2019. Asides from that, the Company will now focu...

Valterra Partners & 1547 CSR acquire Miami-based ColoHouse

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

Valterra Partners LLC and Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty LLC have acquired ColoHouse, a managed service provider with headquarters in Miami, Florida. Valterra Partners is an equity firm, while Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty is a data center Company. The deal also includes...

Facebook's Huntsville data center campus exceeds $1 billion

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook's Huntsville data center campus will reportedly top $1 billion following ongoing expansion. This announcement comes after the social media giant's initial investment of $750 million back in 2018.Once completed, the facility will employ over 200 people, two times its expectation three ...

Real estate firm Hickory enters the data center arena, with plans for a 36MW facility in Melbo

Melbourne

Hickory, an Australian real estate development firm, has announced that it is entering the data center arena with plans to construct a 36MW facility in Truganina, west Melbourne, following development approval from Wyndham City Council.The data center will be built on a 3.5-hectare site and ha...

UK DWP signs £27 million contract extension with Ark Data Centers

Ark Data Centres (UK)

The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended its contract with Ark Data Centers for £27 million ($38.1 million). The contract starts in June 2021 and would run till May 2026. Also, this deal will see DWP continue to occupy four 760kW dedicated data halls in Ark Data Center’s faci...

DigiPlex and CTS awarded the Data Center Construction Award 2021

DigiPlex Norway AS

DigiPlex, and one of its construction partners CTS have received the Data Center Construction Award at the Datacloud Global Awards 2021. The award recognizes excellence in data center construction and obstacles overcome during this.The two teamed up for a joint entry for the second and third ...

Maxihost expands footprint to Mexico City

Maxihost

Maxihost is partnering with KIO Networks, the leading provider of mission-critical IT infrastructures in Mexico and Central America, to launch a new Point of Presence for its platform in Mexico. The partnership will see Maxihost add a third location to its Latin America trail. Maxihost said t...