Global Data Center News

QTS Chad Williams Steps Down after 20 years

QTS Data Centers founder and CEO Chad Williams is leaving the company after 20 years. Also, relinquishing the role of company chairman, he is returning to the post of CEO at the Quality Group of Companies (QGC), a real estate and business services family office investment firm which was spun o...

March 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Launches New Frankfurt Facility

Digital Realty this week announced the opening of a new facility FRA18 at its Digital Park Fechenheim campus along Hanauer Landstrasse. The facility offers 8,200 square meters of colocation space, launching with an initial capacity of 6.4MW in its first phase, with an additional 9.6MW expected...

March 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

University of Mannheim Breaks Ground on Data Center

The University of Mannheim has started work on a new data center and held a small ceremony for the new University IT Mannheim (UNIT) building on March 14. The facility is a three-story, 5,360 sqm (57,685 sq ft) building located in the A5 district along Bismarckstraße, which will be completed b...

March 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

KT Cloud to Establish AI Data Center Demonstration Center in Seoul

KT Cloud is set to establish an AI Data Center Demonstration Center in Seoul, South Korea which will be used to explore operation strategies for sustainable and efficient AI data centers. The demonstration center will be located at KT's Mok-dong DC 2 Center in the Yangcheon District of Seoul.F...

March 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Achieves 100 percent Renewable Coverage in Singapore

Colo data center developer and operator Digital Realty has claimed100 percent renewable energy coverage across its operations in Singapore. This comes after an offtake agreement with Tuas Power, one of Singapore’s largest power generation firms.“Tuas Power is pleased to partner with Digital Re...

March 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

T5 Plans New Facility in Chicago, Illinois

US data center firm T5 this week announced the acquisition of a site for its planned CHI V data center in Elk Grove Village. CHI V will see the development of a new 220,000 sq ft (20438 sqm), 36MW facility set to go live in 2028. Currently, the company lists Chicago I and II in Elk Grove offer...

March 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Switch Raises $3.for Refinance

US data center operator Switch has raised $3.5 billion, which it will use to refinance its existing debt. A statement from Switch said the company will use the cash to “refinance the majority of the company’s outstanding acquisition financing, which supported the take-private transaction led b...

March 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nexthop AI Launches with $110m Funding Round

A new networking solutions provider - Nexthop AI which uilds custom networking solutions for hyperscalers that integrate directly into their cloud stack has launched with $110 million in funding.The company launched on March 25, along with announcing a funding round of $110 million led by Lig...

March 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

700-acre Data Center in Bessemer, Alabama Approved

The Logistic Land Investments LLC planned 18-building data center campus near Rock Mountain Lake Road in Jefferson County has been approved by the planning and zoning commission despite concerns from local residents.The site requires a zoning change from agricultural to industrial. Thus far, t...

March 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nscale to Expand Glomfjord Data Center in Norway

AI cloud firm Nscale has partnered with prefab data center provider InfraPartners to add 30MW of capacity next to Nscale’s existing 30MW facility in the Glomfjord Industrial Park, Norway.“InfraPartners has developed the first fully modular data center for AI workloads. We are changing the way ...

March 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OADC Plans $240m Data Center in Lagos, Nigeria

Pan-Africa data center firm Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is set to spend $240 million on a 24MW data center in Lagos, Nigeria. Its CEO Dr. Ayotunde Coker mentioned to the press at an event held last week that the project would be built in two stages, with the first 12MW set to come online i...

March 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Eurazeo Partners with Metrobloks for €100m Data Center Push

European investment fund Eurazeo has announced a €100 million partnership with Metrobloks, a US-based developer and operator of data centers in metropolitan areas. The companies will acquire land and develop data centers in Europe’s Tier 1/FLAPD markets, as well as emerging Tier 2 markets such...

March 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataOne Secures Investment from US Concrete Firm

European data center firm DataOne has secured investment for its new US subsidiary from a concrete company Northeast Precast which has now taken a minority shareholder position in DataOne USA.Charles-Antoine Beyney, CEO of DataOne, said: “I have been fortunate to start and successfully exit se...

March 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Data Center Proposed in South Korea

Metavisio Thomson Computing, a French IT company, this week announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of a large-scale data center in Gangwon Province.The project, based at a Yeongwol-gun mining site in Gangwon Province, will leverage a 260MW power supply...

March 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Segro and Pure DC team up for Data Center Development in West London

Property investor Segro and Pure DC have formed a joint venture known as Segro Pure Premier Park Data Centre Limited to build a 56MW data center in West London. The JV will develop a 30,000 sqm (322,915 sq ft) data center at Premier Park, an industrial site owned by Segro located on Premier Pa...

March 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Apple Launches New Clean Energy Fund in China

US technology provider and manufacturer Apple has launched a new clean energy fund in China worth an estimated 720 million yuan ($99.26m). This marks the second clean energy fund the company has launched in the country.The fund has a goal of adding around 550,000MWh of wind and solar capacity ...

March 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Visa Plans Data Center in Nigeria

Global payments services company Visa Inc., is planning to develop a data center in Nigeria in addition to $1 billion the company has already invested in the country. Visa's regional president for central & eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Andrew Torre noted that while the company ...

March 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Colovore Launches Liquid-cooled Data Center in San Jose

Liquid-cooled data center firm Colovore has launched a new all-liquid facility in San Jose, California.The company launched its original single-story, 24,000 sq ft (2,230 sqm) facility at 1101 Space Park Drive in Santa Clara, California in 2014. Colovore then announced plans to build a second ...

March 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

MediaTek and Far EasTone Telecoms Sign PPAs in Taiwan

Chip company MediaTek and Taiwanese telco Far EasTone Telecommunications have signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure wind energy in Taiwan. Both companies have signed agreements with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to offtake from the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in T...

March 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Data Center News

QTS Chad Williams Steps Down after 20 years

Digital Realty Launches New Frankfurt Facility

University of Mannheim Breaks Ground on Data Center

KT Cloud to Establish AI Data Center Demonstration Center in Seoul

Digital Realty Achieves 100 percent Renewable Coverage in Singapore

T5 Plans New Facility in Chicago, Illinois

Switch Raises $3.for Refinance

Nexthop AI Launches with $110m Funding Round

700-acre Data Center in Bessemer, Alabama Approved

Nscale to Expand Glomfjord Data Center in Norway

OADC Plans $240m Data Center in Lagos, Nigeria

Eurazeo Partners with Metrobloks for €100m Data Center Push

DataOne Secures Investment from US Concrete Firm

New Data Center Proposed in South Korea

Segro and Pure DC team up for Data Center Development in West London

Apple Launches New Clean Energy Fund in China

Visa Plans Data Center in Nigeria

Colovore Launches Liquid-cooled Data Center in San Jose

MediaTek and Far EasTone Telecoms Sign PPAs in Taiwan

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