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V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, revealed plans for a new facility in Porto Alegre. The data center will accommodate 400 racks of servers in two data halls spanning 75,350 square feet. This year is anticipated to be the start of construction for an H2 2024 completion date. The company s...

Operations have begun at TikTok's long-planned data center in Ireland, it has announced. This is its first in Ireland. It is also working on opening two more data centers in Europe, a second in Ireland and another in Norway. This move is a bid to please regulators, and ease spying fears, as pa...

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to comm...

V.tal has shared that it is expanding its footprint in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Set to be the company’s first in the country’s south region and fifth overall, the development (dubbed V.OA) will see an investment of 250mn reais (US$50.7mn), as part of the company’s wider expansion plan in Brazil a...

The Frederick County Government office building in Maryland, which includes a data center, is still under construction. The Prospect Center on Himes Avenue in Frederick will be converted as part of this undertaking. The county paid $20 million for the building in 2021, and it will house multip...

The French telecommunications company Altice is nearing an agreement to sell its French data centers to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners. According to Los Echos, the two companies are in "advanced discussions," and a preliminary valuation agreement has been reached. The 92 data centers m...

Macquarie has made an investment in a Belgian data center developer. Allen & Overy announced this week that it advised Macquarie Capital on its investment in KevlinX Holding B.V. Allen & Overy reported that KevlinX HoldCo is creating a data center in Brussels via its indirect subsidiar...

Digital Realty plans to extend its operations into Italy and has already purchased land in Rome, the country's capital. Following the purchase of land in Rome and the subsequent pre-development planning for it, the company announced its entry into the Italian market last week.The ROM1 data cen...

US university subsidiary  ServerDomes will build aluminum dome data centers along a new Mexican fiber route. ServerDomes, a 2017 geodesic design from Portland, has partnered with Mexican infrastructure provider Fermaca Infraestructura.Fermaca will have exclusive rights to create ServerDomes-de...

Nvidia has partnered with Reliance Industries and Tata Group, India's two largest firms by market cap. The two companies will construct internal and external AI supercomputers and cloud platforms using Nvidia hardware. With Reliance, Nvidia will construct AI infrastructure "over an order of ma...

nLighten, a European Edge data center company, has acquired the United Kingdom's Proximity Data Centres. The agreement's terms were not disclosed. nLighten, owned by I Squared Capital, plans to retain its data center operations in the country.Proximity, founded in 2020, administers ten regiona...

Principal Asset Management bought two data centers located in Dublin, Ireland, that are leased. Principal European Data Centre Fund I has made its fourth and fifth investments in Europe, this time in the capital of Ireland, according to IPE Real Assets and PropertyEU. The company has acquired ...

TPG Telecom is selling part of its Sydney, Australia, data center and office space. Interest submissions can be submitted to Colliers for 30 Ross Street in the Forest Lodge neighborhood until October 3. The building is an "infrastructure-quality asset" with a working data center and extra offi...

The multinational food conglomerate Nestlé has sold a Swiss data center. This week, Baker McKenzie Switzerland revealed that it advised Nestlé Global Real Estate on the transfer of its data center and office property to Orllati Real Estate SA. The site at Rte de Buyère 4 in Bussigny, canton of...

Work has begun on the LyonTech La Doua Calculation and Data Center (CCDD) project in Villeurbanne, France. The University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1, collaborating with the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (Lyon INSA) on the facility, has begun earthwork and structural development....

Arm intends to price its initial public offering (IPO) between $47 and $51 per share, which could generate up to $4.9 billion for SoftBank. The IPO would value the semiconductor designer up to $52 billion, exceeding the $32 billion SoftBank paid for in 2016 but falling short of the $64 billion...

Huawei has announced the opening of a new cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The facility will reportedly support government services in the Kingdom, allowing for AI applications and language models in Arabic. Through the move, the Chinese tech giant will grow its online service offeri...

Virtus Data Centers plans to construct a new 300MW campus outside Berlin in Germany. This week, the company, a division of STT GDC, announced the Wustermark Megacampus in Brandenberg, west of the capital.The first phase of the campus in the municipality of Wustermark will encompass 3.7 million...

Google has shared further expansion plans, with the announcement of a new $600 million data center in Red Oak, near Dallas. The new facility will become the company’s second in the state of Texas. Back in 2020, the company purchased 165 acres of land in the area, which is believed to be the lo...

Social network Meta is supporting a new Minneapolis data center project. Late last week, a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission document confirmed Meta's $700 million Minneapolis data center project. Xcel Energy announced an 'enterprise data center' project with a Fortune 100 company in Novem...