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Solvay has received a containerized data center module from the French company Modul'Data Center. Modul, along with Rosenberger OSI and Eaton, recently delivered the container-sized module, as first reported by DCmag.fr. Remy Febvre, CEO of Modul's parent company IPenergy, stated on LinkedIn t...

Google has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in the Mesa area of Phoenix, Arizona. A $1 billion project, the facility will span 750,000 square feet (70,000 sqm) once fully built out.Previously known as "Redhawk," the project's first 288,530 sq ft (26,805 sqm) phase is due ...

Sparkle, Telecom Italia's infrastructure unit, has launched the Panama Digital Gateway, a 3.5MW site offering the first "green data center" in Panama. Located in the Corozal area of Panama City, the site spans 5,500 square meters (59,200 sq ft) of space for up to 650 equivalent racks across fi...

Ericsson has announced that it has set up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy. Located in Plano, Texas, the site can be fully operated by solar energy and supported by integrated Lithium-ion batteries, for up to 24 hours. The Plano site includes Ericsson's Massive MIMO radio configurati...

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has installed a micro data center (MDC) at an Icelandic hydroelectric power station. In April 2023, IIJ announced intentions for a data center trial project in Iceland in collaboration with Landsvirkjun, the country's national power company.From April until...

Bain Capital has informed ChinData that it will not sell the company to China Merchants because it is pursuing its own deal to take the data center operator private. Last week the company verified in an investor disclosure that it had received a preliminary non-binding acquisition proposal let...

Cologix is expanding its data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by adding a new data hall. With the new MIN5 data center now available for pre-leasing, the company has increased its presence in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, market. Located in the 511 Building carrier hotel, also known as the Min...

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to b...

StratCap has acquired essential digital infrastructure assets worth roughly $90 million, which include 13 cell towers and a data center. The acquisition was announced during the company's recent Q2 earnings report. StratCap has acquired cell towers in Missouri, Florida, Wisconsin, Tennessee, a...

The Australian pension fund Aware Super has invested in the data center company Switch Inc. This week, Switch proprietor DigitalBridge announced that Aware Super will make "a significant investment" in Switch. The deal's value wasn't made public in the initial publication, but DigitalBridge's ...

According to a new report by Synergy Research Group, hyperscale businesses now operate nearly  900 large data centers, constituting approximately 37 percent of the worldwide capacity. As per the research firm, non-hyper-scale colocation capacity covers approximately 23% of global capacity, whi...

Two operators are reportedly interested in acquiring a 45 percent stake in Ethio Telecom. e& of the United Arab Emirates and Orange of France are exploring opportunities surrounding state-owned Ethio, as per Bloomberg, which cited individuals with knowledge of the situation. The publicatio...

According to reports, Singtel is considering building a campus for data centers in Malaysia's Johor. Onn Hafiz Ghazi, the Menteri Besar of Johor, announced in a Facebook post this week that the Singaporean telco was seeking to develop a new campus in the Malaysian state following discussions w...

In anticipation of a potential sale-leaseback transaction, Spanish insurance company Mapfre is listing its data center for sale. According to Cinco Dias, the company has hired CBRE to find a buyer for the Tales de Mileto building in the Alcalá de Henares neighborhood of Madrid.Mapfre launched ...

Legal & General (L&G) has entered into a seven-year arrangement with Kyndryl to use the latter's hybrid cloud infrastructure (HCI). The association between Kyndryl, Microsoft, and Dell provides access to Dell servers via Azure Stack HCI. The deal between L&G and Kyndryl is valid un...

Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS) of Saudi Arabia has established a new data center subsidiary. This week, the company's board of directors announced the establishment of a wholly-owned data center business in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The subsidiary will focus on administering, operating, and m...

Digital Realty's KIX13, its newest data center in Osaka, Japan, has been certified as NVIDIA DGX H100-ready as part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program. The facility reportedly received this accreditation, the first Japanese facility to do so, based on its ability to provide a dedicat...

China Merchants Group has offered to acquire ChinData, a Chinese data center company. Existing investor Bain has already submitted a take-private proposal for the company. According to Bloomberg, a subsidiary of the state-owned conglomerate has submitted a $3.4 billion proposal to acquire Chin...

The South African telecommunications company Telkom has rejected a consortium commanded by its former CEO, Sipho Maseko. Telkom SA disclosed in a filing with the stock exchange last week that its board had considered the proposal from the Public Investment Corporation, a consortium consisting ...

In Bitdeer Technologies Group's latest operations update, it shared details about its upcoming expansion. Linghui Kong, Chief Executive Officer of Bitdeer, noted that its 100MW Gedu mining data center in Bhutan, for example, is almost complete and is expected to be delivered in July. Further t...