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Rackspace is presently experiencing an outage across its European and Asia-Pacific data centers. In their SYD2, LON5, LON3, and HKG5 data centers, they encountered connectivity issues. Later, Rackspace announced that it had been discovered that any affected Linux VMs (virtual machines) would r...

CtrlS Datacenters will invest $18.1 million in a greenfield Edge data center in Odisha, India. On May 30, the corporation began work on the data center in the capital city of the state, Bhubaneswar. It is anticipated that approximately 110 jobs will be created in the city of Bhubaneswar as a r...

Megatelecom, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, intends to deploy scores of Edge data centers nationwide and expand its fiber backbone. Following the fiber expansion, the company will construct a data center at the site. Megatelecom plans to repeat this process until 2028 when the compan...

SoftBank Corp has partnered with the American multinational technology firm NVIDIA to set up a platform for dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G products. It is built on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, and SoftBank intends to deploy it in Japan's new distributed AI data cent...

Prince William County, Virginia, is considering the development of a new data center park. A developer has submitted designs for an 82-acre data center campus in Gainesville's Hillwood Camping Park. The 'Gardner Property' development could bring up to 1.8 million sq ft of data facilities and a...

Following Human Rights Watch’s call for Microsoft to suspend plans in Saudi Arabia, 17 more groups have now joined the campaign, citing human rights concerns. The human rights groups have highlighted the government’s track record of infiltrating technology programs for spying purposes and its ...

In South Africa, state power utility Eskom has warned that energy issues will endure and even get worse by winter as the power crisis continues. According to Calib Cassim, Eskom’s acting chief executive, while the country is currently facing outages for more than 10 hours a day, going forward,...

Amazon's contentious $1 billion subsidy in Oregon is coming under fire from critics. The massive break was given the go-ahead following a unanimous vote by Port of Morrow's five commissioners which enabled the giant to secure the enterprise zone incentives. Locals were given just one day's no...

At the Executive Sessions on Digital Leadership in the Caribbean on May 16, nine Caribbean ministers and two senior advisors signed the 'Port of Spain Commitment on Digital Integration,' an agreement to pursue collaborative, sustainable digital transformation in the Caribbean.The commitment wa...

To encourage the development of data centers, which are essential to a digital society, in the Kyushu southwestern region and Hokkaido's most northern prefecture, Japan's industry ministry on Tuesday proposed offering subsidies.The ministry stated that Hokkaido and Kyushu are ideal locations f...

Telehouse opened its first data center in Thailand in Bangkok. The company owned by KDDI recently conducted a grand opening ceremony for the new Rama 9 location in Bangkok. The 97,000-square-foot facility with a capacity of 9.5MVA was announced in January 2022. The business reported investing ...

Along with companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Facebook (Meta), Equinix, Microsoft, Google, NTT Global Data Centers, Orange Business Services, etc., Neterra has been named one of the "Prominent Data Center Investors" in Europe. The classification appears in Arizton Advisory and Intellige...

According to new research by OVHcloud, hybrid liquid cooling technology has the power to reduce a data center's energy consumption by 20 percent when compared with using water cooling alone. The European cloud provider coupled up with the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne to test the cooli...

The Career and Technical Center (CTC) at State College Area High School in Pennsylvania is undergoing a $2.6 million upgrade to bring the district's data center to the campus. The school administration approved the renovation on May 15. The CTC will be utilized for online education, Reclaiming...

Cirion Technologies' data center in Carcelén, Quito, Ecuador, has obtained Tier III Certification from the Uptime Institute, it has announced. This certification means that the company's data center meets a number of requirements, including having in place rigorous preventive maintenance proce...

ClaroVTR has announced that it is expanding in Chile, with a US$320mn, 3,000m2 expansion of its 2,000m2 Liray data center in Colina municipality. This will bring the total footprint to 5,000 sqm (53,820 sq ft).According to reports, the building features three 1,000m2 clean rooms, anti-seismic ...

Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Contact Energy for geothermal energy in New Zealand. The 10-year PPA was reportedly signed in September 2022 and will see Contact provide Microsoft with all the renewable energy attributes generated by Contact's new 51.4MW Te Huka Uni...

Data4 has announced the launch of its new data center campus outside Warsaw in Poland. The Polish facility, at full build-out, will offer 60MW across 15,000 sqm. Data4's new data center, located in Jawczyce near Warsaw, was first announced back in July 2021 and has seen a total investment of ...

Singtel has announced that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy firm Sembcorp. The deal, worth S$180 million (US$133.2m), will see energy supplied to the Singaporean telco, from October 1, 2023. Its existing electricity supply agreement (also with Sembcorp) will ...

On Sunday, May 21st, a fire broke out at the LAX12 data center of Digital Realty in El Segundo, California. The fire led the facility to shut down two suites, and it incinerated an undisclosed number of servers, as well as cut power and locked out some users from the server space. A few days a...