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The Indian real estate development company Anant Raj will enter the data center industry. The company announced on its social media and local publications that it will invest $1.2 billion to develop up to 300MW capacity in the county. The company has set up Anant Raj Cloud Pvt. Ltd. as a subsi...

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...

Bharti Airtel has announced that it will purchase 23,000 Mwh (Megawatt hour) of renewable energy by the fourth quarter of FY24 to power its data center company, Nxtra. It is facilitating this by acquiring stakes in two renewable energy companies, Continuum Green India and Vibrant Energy Holdin...

Google has announced that it has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland. The 14-year agreement is with Power Capital Renewable Energy for 58MW of new-to-the grid capacity from the Tullabeg Solar Farm in County Wexford.The solar project, currently under construction, spans 2...

EdgeConneX plans to establish a new data center facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to expand its presence there. According to BizJournal, the company has applied for Mesa's administrative and design reviews to construct a multi-phased campus near Elliot Road and Loop 202. EdgeConneX wants to build ...

CapMan Infra has acquired the Danish data center colocation company Fuzion. This week, the transaction via the CapMan Nordic Infrastructure II fund was announced. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Fuzion was founded in 2001 and operates out of four data centers in the Jutland region of...

On Saturday, September 2, a fire at a data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, shut down 911 services in the state's southeast. According to reports, the data center in issue was a Windstream facility in Lincoln. A transformer shorted and exploded due to a fire in the data center, cutting power to th...

The former location of an ADP office and data center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is up for auction. Outside of Ann Arbor, Colliers and Ten-X are selling the A2 West Technical Center in Scio Township. The auction is scheduled to begin at the midpoint of October with an opening bid of $1.6 million. ...

Vantage Data Centers has made its first land purchases in Texas, both in San Antonio. The San Antonio Report reads, based on public records from Bexar County, that Vantage has acquired 89 acres of land in San Antonio spread across two separate parcels.On August 9, the firm purchased 31 acres a...

Novva Data Centers has won an auction for a piece of land in Mesa, Arizona. This week, the company purchased 165 acres of state land in southeast Mesa for $62.7 million, according to BizJournal and AZCentral. Wes Swenson, the chief executive officer of Novva, was the sole bidder for the plot a...

Last week, a fire in a data center operated by the Belgian telecommunications company Proximus temporarily disrupted phone services for contacting emergency services.Last Wednesday morning, emergency numbers 112 (firefighters and ambulances in a hazardous situation) and 101 (police) were inacc...

A data center construction is proposed for the northern Ohio region outside Toledo. The Blade reports that preparations are underway to locate a data center on hundreds of acres in Middleton Township, west of Interstate 75 and near the intersection of State Routes 582 and 25. Details regarding...

A new government data center is proposed for the campus of the University of Guam. The government intends to construct a two-story, 15,000-square-foot data center/Office of Information Technology facility. The endeavor will see an investment of $15 million.The report notes that the 1992-built ...

Google will construct a second campus in Texas in the Red Oak neighborhood of Dallas. This week, the company announced intentions to invest $600 million in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas to build its second data center. The search, advertising, and cloud company stated that it would inv...

To enhance Internet quality, the government of Guam intends to construct a solar-powered Tier IV data center on the island. In addition, it intends to construct a new government data center on the University campus. This week, the Office of the Governor revealed the Guam Five-Year Action Plan ...

BlockQuarry, a Texas-based cryptocurrency mining company, is creating a high-performance computing (HPC) storage container with Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.  Based on a 40-foot shipping container, the pod will have an elevated floor for utility distribution usi...

Crusoe Energy will install data center modules at Utah oil wells and power the facilities with excess natural gas. This week, Crusoe Energy Systems and XCL Resources announced a new agreement to deploy Crusoe's Digital Flare Mitigation (DFM) technology at XCL sites in Utah's Uinta Basin. Large...

DXN recently set up a cable landing station (CLS) for the Meta/Google-led Echo subsea cable at Ngaradmau on the island of Palau. Last year, DXN announced that it had delivered a CLS module to the state-owned Belau Submarine Cable Company (BSCC) for a new cable run to Palau. According to the Ja...

The Indian River State College (IRSC) will construct a data center in Okeechobee County, Florida. The campus has been named Okee-One and will be on a 205-acre parcel containing the former Okeechobee "School for Boys." Okee-One will house multiple data centers, function as a learning laboratory...

Switch is preparing to construct a new data center facility in Bartow County, Georgia. Switch is preparing to build the "Switch KEEP 2.0 Atlanta North Campus" in Cartersville, according to the Developments of Regional Impact filings (DRI, 1-2).The 126-acre site is located in Cartersville, sout...