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Iron Mountain to expand EMEA Data Center footprint with new facility in Sough

Iron Mountain London LON-2

Iron Mountain has announced its plans for a 27MW data center in Slough, East of London. The new data center dubbed LON-2 will be a three-story building with up to 25,000 sq m of space. It will also have a capacity of 27MW at full buildout. Moreover, the building will have three 9MW data halls,...

Switch raises $500 million in senior notes to fund the Data Foundry acquisition

Switch

Switch will borrow $500 million to pay for its recent acquisition of Data Foundry for $420 million. Switch will be borrowing $500 million in senior notes. Senior notes are less risky, and the lender gets to pay lower interest. However, senior notes are a priority over other types of debt. Thi...

Schneider launches Edge container data center with Iceotope liquid cooling

Schneider Electric just launched its already fabricated Edge data center with an inbuilt Iceotope’s Ku:l 2 liquid cooling. This data center supports up to 60kW power as standard. However, it can be expanded to 336kW according to request. Also, Schneider Electric promises that this single rack ...

Yondr plans two data centers in Slough, UK- initial phase to cost £450 million ($637 million)

Yondr Group

Yondr is planning to build two data centers in Slough, England. The Company recently applied to build the data centers at former Uxbridge Road Gas Works and the former Akzo Nobel paint factory. Plans for the data centers have been in the works since January 2021. If the applications were appr...

Lefdal Mine Datacenter secures €50 million funding through UBS to expand facility

Lefdal Mine Datacenter

Lefdal Mine Datacenter just announced that it had secured €50 million ($61.1 million) funding with UBS Asset Management to finance the expansion of a facility. The Company will use the five-year financing deal to expand its colocation space in Norway past its existing 20MW capacity. Jørn Skaa...

DCI Indonesia launches new data center in Cibitung

DCI Indonesia: H1-JK5

DCI Indonesia has announced the launch of its JK5 data center building, located in Cibitung, West Java. This addition brings the company’s total to four, and with a capacity of 15MW, the new building takes its total capacity to 37MW. Indonesia’s digital economy is expected to reach a market v...

DivcoWest acquires New York carrier hotel in New York; H5 will manage interconnection and colocation

H5: 325 Hudson Street

DivcoWest, a real estate investment firm based in San Francisco, has announced that it has acquired a 10-story, mixed-used building carrier hotel from Jamestown Properties for $135 million. The building is located at 325 Hudson St., in Hudson Square. In concert with this transaction, H5 Data ...

Rostelecom opens data center in St. Petersburg, Russia

Rostelecom

Rostelecom has announced the opening of its new data center in St. Petersburg, Russia. Besides, the new data center is a 4,000 square meter facility, and Rostelecom built it to Tier III standards. It has a power capacity of 7.4MW and a total capacity of 800 racks. In addition, Rostelecom said...

Microsoft Begins Using Eco-Diesel in Data Center Generators

Hyperscale Data Center

Ahead of its 2030 goal of eliminating its reliance on diesel fuel for backup power, Microsoft has announced that it would be the first to use a lower carbon renewable fuel for backup power in its Sweden datacenter region. Microsoft’s backup generators in the Sweden region will run on Preem Evo...

Wipro sells stake in Ensono for $76 million

Wipro has announced that it has sold its entire stake in data center firm Ensono for $76.24 million. This move comes after private equity firm KKR announced the acquisition of Ensono back in April for a reported $1.7 billion. In 2018, Wipro had invested $55 million for a 10.2% stake in the bus...

Telia Company's divestment of Telia Carrier completed

Telia Company

STOCKHOLM, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Telia Company has today completed the divestment of Telia Carrier to Polhem Infra as all conditions, including regulatory approvals, have been met. On October 6, 2020, Telia Company announced the divestment of its subsidiary Telia Carrier to Polhem Infr...

European Investment Bank loans TIM €350 million for fiber and data center expansion

The European Investment Bank will be providing TIM with €350 million ($428 million) in loans. The loan will finance the expansion and modernization of its fiber and data centers in Italy and Greece. Moreover, the loans will be split into two parts. The first loan will be €230 million ($281.1 ...

German firm q.beyond explores divesting its colocation business

q.beyond is considering the sale of its colocation business. The Company has been based at IP Exchange GmbH since 1st January 2021. It operates 3 data centers in Nuremberg and Munich, and it has a total of 51 employees. In a press release, the Company said the Management Board has decided to ...

QTS Realty Trust launches new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions

QTS Data Centers

QTS Realty Trust has announced its new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions. The Smart Family solution is built on advanced tech, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and preemptive understanding into customers’ colocation environment.QTS Smart family solutio...

Philippines on the road to become an APAC data center hub

Philippines

The Philippines (PH), recognized as one of the world's emerging data center markets, is pinned to become Asia's next data center hub. While other hubs in Southeast Asia, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, have taken a hit due to geopolitical risks and governmental restrictions, PH's impressive d...

NetActuate completes Dubai Data Center expansion

NetActuate

NetActuate has announced that it has completed the expansion of its Dubai data center, adding infrastructure capacity for bare metal, colocation and VMs. In addition to this, it has also increased low latency IP bandwidth in response to growing demand.The data center’s location is a hub for in...

Singtel announces ‘strategic reset,' looks to sell off data centers and other infrastructure

Singtel

Singtel has announced that it would be selling off some of its infrastructures. Some of these include satellites, data centers, and subsea cables. This is all part of the Company’s strategic reset that will see Singtel focus on delivering 5G and digital services. This reset and reorganization...

STT GDC launches 72MW data center joint venture with Triputra and Temasek Holdings in Indonesia

STT Jakarta 1

ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC), a Singapore-based center service provider, has announced a partnership with an Indonesian firm, Triputra Group, and an investment company, Temasek Holdings, to launch a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Construction of the first phase of the 72...

AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago...

Facebook announces another data center expansion in Altoona, Iowa

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has announced that it would be expanding its Altoona data center campus. The expansion will see Facebook add two more buildings to its existing eight buildings at the facility. The expansion will also see the total area space to 4.1 million square feet. Facebook initially announced it...