Data Center News

Blue Owl Closes $7 billion Digital Infrastructure Fund

Alternative asset manager Blue Owl Capital Inc. announced today the final close of its latest digital infrastructure fund, Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Fund III (ODI III), with $7 billion of total capital commitments. ODI III exceeded the original target of $4 billion and hit its hard cap. ...

Angela Rayner Overturns Decision to Block Data Center Planned for Hertfordshire, UK

UK deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has overruled local councillors and given the green light to a £1 billion ($1.32bn) data center in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire.Rayner made her decision based on a report from planning inspector Thomas Hatfield, who recommended that the development, prop...

Equinix Launches First Indonesian Data Center in Jakarta

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Equinix this week inaugurated its first International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Jakarta via a joint venture with PT Astra International Tbk. JK1 is an eight-story facility offering 550 cabinets in the first phase. At full build-out, the facility will offer a total capacity of 1,60...

UniCredit to use Google Cloud infrastructure in 13 markets

Pan-European bank UniCredit has signed a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google Cloud which will see UniCredit using Google's infrastructure, AI, and data analytics solutions in its 13 core markets."This strategic partnership with Google Cloud is a pivotal step in our strategy t...

Telekom Malaysia Inks Solar PPA with Gentari

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has signed a series of Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with solar developer Gentari Renewables to power six of its sites in Malaysia. Under the terms of the PPA, Gentari will design, install, and operate 4.3MW of solar projects at the TM facilities, which will generate 4....

Cooling fluids firm Arteco Moves into Data Centers

Industrial lubricants company Arteco recently announced its expansion into the data center and electronics market with its Zitrec EC brand. The company has traditionally been known for engine coolants and heat transfer fluids for applications such as heat pumps, air conditioning, refrigeration...

PepsiCo Signs Multi-Year Contract with AWS

PepsiCo, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation will migrate its applications and workloads to AWS' cloud platform as part of its "cloud-first" strategy."A cloud-first approach has been essential t...

Colovore Secures $925m Debt Facility from Blackstone

Liquid-cooled data center firm Colovore has secured almost $1 billion in new debt funding to fuel its ongoing roll-out across the US. The new financing will fast-track Colovore’s national expansion of its liquid-cooled data centers across the US. Initial expansions are planned for Reno, Nevada...

Akamai Completes Edgio Customer Migration

Akamai has completed the migration of customers from bankrupt CDN firm Edgio. Akamai Technologies' CEO Tom Leighton said that of those customer accounts acquired from Edgio, the company has seen a $16 million commitment over the next three years. In total, Akamai saw a revenue of $1.015 billio...

NTT to Launch and List REIT in Singapore

NTT aims to establish and list a new data center real estate investment trust on the Singapore Stock Exchange, to be seeded with six NTT-owned data centers.The company said it aims to transfer six NTT Limited-owned data centers to a proposed Singapore real estate investment trust NTT DC REIT. ...

Thunderhead and HMC to deliver up to 1.5GW of offgrid natural gas power for US data centers

Thunderhead Energy Solutions, a US-based behind-the-meter natural gas power developer, has secured funding from Harbert Management Corporation (HMC) to develop up to 1.5GW of power generation capacity for the data center market.The collaboration will focus specifically on onsite natural gas-po...

Top Data Center News For Baxtel 5th- 9th of May 2025

1. Amazon to Invest $4billion in the Chile RegionAmazon Web Services has committed to investing over $4 billion in developing a cloud region in Chile to support the construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of data centers in the country2. Prometheus Hyperscale to Power Wyoming Data...

Bahnhof Plans Bunker Data Center in Gothenburg, Sweden

Swedish data center firm Bahnhof this week announced plans for the Bunkerberget data center in central Gothenburg’s Gamlestaden. The site has been acquired from Bunkeberget AB, but terms weren’t shared.Bunkerberget was first blasted during World War II as a shelter for the citizens of Gothenbu...

Start Campus and Schneider Electric to Deliver 26MW data center in Sines, Portugal

Schneider Electric has helped deliver the first stage of the Start Campus data center development in Portugal. Located on repurposed industrial land in Sines, Portugal, Start Campus could eventually become Europe’s biggest data center campus, with 1.2GW of power secured by the developer.“Start...

Robi Axiata to Develop 100MW Solar Project in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi telco Robi Axiata has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two renewable energy companies to develop a 100MW solar project to power its operations in the country. The three parties will form a special-purpose vehicle (SPV) to finance, build, and operate the solar park.De...

UniSC Plans Migration to Microsoft Azure

Australia's University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC is planning to start moving its core infrastructure workloads to the cloud out of two on-premises data centers by the second half of this year. Initially, the project will be a "lift and shift" migration according to the university, which wil...

Portus to Build 5.5MW Data Center in Munich, Germany

European operator Portus Data Centers is his week announced an expansion of its Munich colocation campus with the construction of an additional 5.5MW facility - Portus Data Centers Munich 2 (MUC2). The new data center will add 2,200 sqm (23,680 sq ft) of white space and increase the site’s tot...

Microsoft to Purchase 3m Carbon Removal Credits from EFM

Microsoft has signed a deal with sustainable forest management firm EFM to purchase three million carbon removal credits. The deal includes an offtake agreement for 700,000 credits through 2035, generated from a 68,000-acre project in Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula that EFM is transition...

Gcore and AzInTelecom Partner on Sovereign Cloud in Azerbaijan

Edge AI and cloud provider Gcore is teaming up with AzInTelecom LLC for a sovereign cloud offering in Azerbaijan. AzInTelecom will work with Gcore to develop a cloud platform that meets Azerbaijan's data regulations. The offering, dubbed the "AzInCloud" platform, will be a public cloud service...

Prometheus Hyperscale to Power Wyoming Data Center with Natural Gas

US data center developer, Prometheus Hyperscale, has signed a partnership agreement to power its Wyoming data center with a natural gas power solution tied to carbon removal credits. The agreement will see the deployment of a natural gas power solution at its 1.2GW hyperscale data center campu...