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In Prince William County, NTT has filed for permission for a joint Federal and State permit from the Norfolk District of the US Army Corps of Engineers for a 336MW data center campus. The permit application, NTT VA10, outlines the project is named Grove at Gainesville and includes plans to bui...

PLDT Inc subsidiary, ePLDT, has announced that it has plans to increase data center market capacity with the introduction of its twelfth, set to offer at least 100 MW of capacity. Through this move, the company will further boost its 65% data center market capacity.Details regarding the locati...

AdaniConneX, an equal partnership between data center provider EdgeConneX with ports-to-power conglomerate Adani Enterprises Ltd, announced on Friday that it had secured a $213 million senior debt facility with input from international banks to fund its 67 MW of under-construction data center...

PLDT, a Philippine telecommunications company, is considering the construction of a 12th data center within the country. Victor S. Genuino, president and CEO of ePLDT, disclosed the company's intention to construct a new 100MW facility while delivering the keynote address at the W. Media Phili...

DCI Indonesia has inaugurated a second structure on its campus outside of Jakarta. With the incorporation of the 12MW H2-02, the H2 campus now offers 27MW between two buildings.  The H2 campus, located east of the capital city on 791 hectares in Karawang, has a total capacity of up to 600 MW....

Bridge Data Centres (BDC), a prominent provider of data center solutions in the Asia Pacific region, has announced plans to expand its hyperscale data center campus, MY03, in Kuala Lumpur's MRANTI Park. This expansion offers 48MW of IT power to Malaysian and Asia-Pacific hyperscalers and ente...

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has officially inaugurated its first data center facility in Indonesia. The company revealed the launch of STT Jakarta 1 in Bekasi, west of Jakarta, one week ago. The first structure offers 19.5MW across 198,850 square feet. The completed campus will ...

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new 24x7 hourly matching agreement with Powerex Corp for carbon-free energy at its new data center in Washington state. The energy company will match the giant's hourly demand with direct deliveries of carbon-free hydro, solar, and wind power on a ...

Van Caem, a Dutch developer, has shared its plans to develop a 100MW data center in Germany on a brownfield site near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. With an investment of €1 billion ($1bn), the facility is set to be the fifth largest in the country and the largest in Berlin.Earlier desi...

UK's Loughborough University has announced that it has completed its renovation project, upgrading two of its data centers in Leicestershire. Schneider Electric delivered the data center modernization on the Haslegrave and Holywell Park data centers, adding EcoStruxure Row Data Center, InRow C...

IonQ, a quantum computing company based in the United States, intends to deploy two of its facilities in Switzerland and establish a quantum data center in Europe. This week, the company disclosed its collaboration with QuantumBasel to deploy two quantum computers at QuantumBasel's Center of C...

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), a data centre provider based in APAC, has invested in Firmus Technologies and plans to collaborate to introduce a GPU-focused Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) named Sustainable Metal Cloud (SMC). Set to debut in Singapore, this service is tailored ...

Old Mutual Limited has announced that it has closed all of its on-premise data centers and moved its entire IT infrastructure to AWS. The company shared that through this move, it has been able to reduce downtime by 50 per cent. According to Old Mutual, which has been a customer of AWS since 2...

Ascenty is planning to expand its data center footprint following the purchasing of a 47,000 sqm (500,000 sq ft) parcel of land in Osasco, greater Sao Paulo. The company hasn’t shared further details about the scale of its development plans on this site, and is currently in the planning stage...

Japanese start-up N-Ark has unveiled designs for a floating city named ‘Dogen City,’ which, as the climate crisis worsens, looks to be a place of refuge for those who can afford to escape the effects of climate change.  That said, the company also shared that it would also "accept and provide ...

Telehouse has entered the Canadian market with the acquisition of three data centers. KDDI, the parent company of the data center company, announced this week that it had acquired three data centers and the associated assets in Toronto, Canada, from Allied Properties REIT. KDDI paid $1.02 bil...

DartPoints's May 2023 acquisition of Venyu was partly funded by Lafayette Square, a financial associate of data center provider DartPoints. Last month, DartPoints purchased the Louisiana-based operator, incorporating three data centers into its fleet and bringing the total number of data cente...

Grain Management and StratCap bought a data center on the Canadian outskirts of Toronto. This week, the firms announced the formation of a joint venture to purchase 55 Hereford Street in Brampton, Ontario. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but per the joint venture contract, Str...

Everest Infrastructure Partners has purchased TowerCo Blue Sites Telco in Portugal. It is the fourth global market in which Everest has invested, following the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Blue Sites Telco, established in 2017, is Portugal's largest communications tower lease agg...

Capitaland Ascendas REIT and Lunar Digital have signed a 15-year lease for the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company's intention to acquire Reynold House in the Manchester Technopark was announced for the first time in February 2023, less than a year after Equinix began exi...