Data Center News

Google opens quantum computer data center and R&D lab, plans commercial system by 2029

Google

Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a c...

Core Scientific to invest more than $100 million in new North Dakota data center

Core Scientific: Grand Forks

Core Scientific has announced that it will build a new data center based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after securing a $269,000 loan from the Grand Forks Growth Fund.In partnership with Nodak Electric Cooperative and Minnkota Power Cooperative, the blockchain company has said it plans to inve...

South Australia to receive new $ 70 million data center from DCI

DCI Data Centers

DCI Data Centers recently announced plans to launch South Australia’s first Tier-Ready III data center. With a AU$70 million (US$54 million) investment, the company says that the facility will support local businesses and governments.Currently, the company has two data centers in the country. ...

Data Center Review conducted in Prince William County

Northern Virginia

Prince William County, Virginia, may see more data centers being built in the region after County supervisors approved moves that could expand the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. This “overlay district” is the area where building data facilities is permitted.Established back in ...

Penta Infra Group acquires 2nd Hamburg data center

Penta Infra Group just acquired a data center in Hamburg for $16.4 million. The acquisition was financed by Dutch NIBC Bank N.V., which is the fourth data center acquisition Dutch NIBC Bank has financed for Penta Infra.The new data center will also be joining an existing 8MW Hamburg data cent...

Google plans to use greener energy by moving workloads between data centers

Google

Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware ...

GDS Holdings reportedly considering acquisition of GLP’s data centers

China

According to a report by Bloomberg, GDS Holdings is considering acquiring GLP Pte’s data centers business. The value of the assets is substantial and estimated to be between $8-10 billion. If the prospective deal goes forward, it will enable the Chinese firm to expand its footprint, while GLP ...

Foxconn opens globe-shaped data center at Wisconsin facility

Foxconn Industrial Internet Wisconsin

Foxconn has just opened its Globe Data Center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The data center building is 34,000 square feet in size and, it includes a 100 feet steel sphere as part of its design. The facility’s steel globe frame was initially completed in September 2020 before the installation ...

Odata To Build a $217 Million Data Center In Chile

ODATA Chile ST01

Odata has announced that it is planning to build its first data center in Chile. This new data center will sit on a 6-hectare site, and it will house over 40,000 square meters of data center buildings. Upon completion, the data center will have a capacity of 28MW. Odata also says it will be in...

Google to use Geothermal Energy for Nevada Data Center Campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has announced that it would soon start using geothermal energy to power its Nevada data center. The announcement will see Google become the first hyper-scale cloud operator to use the earth’s heat to power its servers. Fervo Energy, a clean energy startup, will be helping Google develop...

ERG To Provide Italian Telco TIM With 3.4 Terawatt Hours of Green Energy

TIM Group

TIM, an Italian Telco, has announced its new ten-year deal with ERG. The deal will see ERG provide TIM with 3.4 Terawatt hours of green energy across the country through its wind farms. The deal is expected to start next year, and it would see 20% of TIM’s total energy usage come from renewab...

Google buys 30 hectares to build data center in Uruguay

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has announced that, through its subsidiary, Eleanor Applications SRL, it has acquired 30 hectares of land in Canelones, Uruguay, to build a data center. According to El Observador, the company may have spent $818,000 on the plot, with a view to invest up to $100 million.The tech compan...

KT Corporation opens data center in Seoul, South Korea

KT Corporation

KT Corp has just launched its new data center in Guro, Seoul, South Korea. The new data center would be its 14th one and would accommodate 335 racks. Although KT Corp usually operates its own data centers, KT Corp would be leasing the new facility from Dreammark One, a local colocation provid...

Google Cloud and SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Secure, Global Connectivity

Google

Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to cus...

Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers

Frankfurt

Frankfurt has proposed a development plan to regulate data centers in the area. The plan, it says, will prevent the “uncontrolled growth” of data centers. The city is the hub of the data center industry in Germany, and one of the four largest hubs in Europe, taking up 64 hectares (640,000 sqm...

Rolls-Royce set to power Madrid data center in outages

Madrid

Rolls-Royce has announced that it has installed and commissioned eight mtu emergency gensets with 9.2MWe power output at a major bank in Madrid. The installation was made to secure power supply in case of a public power grid failure in the region. Rolls-Royce will ensure power s...

China Telecom inaugurates data center in Jinchang, China

China Telecom: Jinchang

China Telecom has just opened its new data center in Jinchang, in China’s Northeastern Gansu province. The Company invested $10.8 million for this data center. The data center would be supporting 203 racks, 34,000 core VCPU, and 260 servers at the moment. It can also be expanded in the future...

LG Uplus plans to build a new data center in South Korea for $267.9 million

LG CNS

LG Uplus Corp, a South Korean telecom operator, has announced its plans to build a new data center. The new facility is expected to cost over $267.9 million. Plans are in place for the construction of the data center to start in June of this year and to be completed by December 2023. The new d...

Questions raised over Loudoun County data center proposal

Northern Virginia

BlackChamber Group’s application to build a 530,000 sq ft (49,000 sq m) data center in Loudoun County has split the county’s board of supervisors. According to a report published in Washington Business Journal, the group’s proposal to build two facilities on the 23-acre plot could be rejected ...

QTS expands its connectivity ecosystem with Telia Carrier

QTS Irving

Telia Carrier has announced that it has deployed its full suite of connectivity services in QTS' Piscataway, New Jersey and Irving, Texas data centers. Telia is also deployed to QTS Richmond, Chicago, Miami, Hillsboro, and Atlanta.The 'full suite' of network services includes DWDM, DDoS, IP Tr...