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rPlus Energies has announced that it has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Idaho Power, which has a special energy services agreement with Meta; output from the project will go into the same grid supporting Meta's new Kuna data center. The Ada County, Idaho solar farm, known a...

CoreSite, a US-based data center company, has broadened in California with a new Silicon Valley data center and increasing the capacity of an existing facility in Denver, Colorado. California's Santa Clara will become the site of CoreSite's ninth data center. The new 240,000-square-foot SV9 fa...

Earlier this month, PowerHouse Data Centers announced a 30-year lease agreement with CyrusOne, for a spec-built data center, ABX-1, located in Ashburn, Virginia. The company shared that substantial completion of the data center, a two-story, 265,000 SF powered shell, is scheduled for October.A...

CyrusOne has announced its partnership with Japanese energy firm Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) for the development of new data centers across Japan. The 50:50 joint venture, called CyrusOne KEP, will see at least one trillion yen ($7 billion) invested in the project over the nex...

Africa Data Centres has shared that it has formed a strategic partnership with the London Internet Exchange (LINX) to pursue growth opportunities in current and new markets in Africa.ADC plans to launch in 10 of Africa's economic hubs, including South Africa, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Rwanda, E...

The Keppel Corporation is requesting that authorities develop environmentally friendly data centers. According to Nikkei Asia, Wong Wai Meng, the chief executive officer of Keppel's data center division, warned that the nation's capacity limitation is insufficient to meet current demand. The c...

Amazon will demolish several office buildings it purchased in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022 and rebuild those structures with four data centers. Amazon Data Services has submitted to Loudoun County proposals to tear down and replace nine office buildings in three sites in Sterling with four data...

Russia's Wildberries has announced the launch of its first data center, located in the Moscow region. Spanning 16,000 sqm, the facility offers 3.5 MW of capacity. The facility is the company's first and is based at its logistics hub.The project has seen an investment of 1.2 billion rubles and ...

Penta Infra has finished an expansion initiative at its Copenhagen, Denmark, data center. Penta, an Amsterdam-based private equity fund specializing in European data centers with operations in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Denmark, was established in 2015. Through a new financing agree...

Aurum Equity Partners, an Indian investment firm, plans to establish a new fund to invest in data center facilities and other infrastructure. The newly-formed digital infrastructure real estate investor announced last week the launch of its $250 million global private equity fund, which will c...

HPE is the very first anchor tenant at the Canada-based QScale QO1 HPC and AI-specialized data center. When completed, the QO1 campus will have a capacity of 142MW and be powered entirely by renewable energy. Construction on the campus started in June 2021. The campus utilizes liquid cooling, ...

Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM) bought the majority of Serverfarm's shares. This week, the investment firm announced that, on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II and its affiliates, it had signed an official contract to acquire a controlling stake in Serverfarm.The terms of ...

A new campus for data centers is being built by Princeton Digital Group in Johor, Malaysia. This week, the company announced that it had purchased 31 acres of land from JLand Group (JLG) to construct a 150MW campus in Sedenak Tech Park (SteP). The first 60MW phase, JH1, is expected to be opera...

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (Philippines) (STT GDC Philippines), a joint venture (JV) between Globe, Ayala Corporation, and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), has announced plans to develop the largest carrier-neutral data center in the Philippines.     The STT F...

At Tokyo Corporation is developing a new data center in Tokyo, Japan, it has announced. The facility, set to go live in early 2025, will offer 25 MW of capacity.Speaking about the news, Akira Nakamura, CEO of At Tokyo, said: "We're really excited to be opening this new facility." According to...

Africa Data Centres has announced that it is set to begin work on a new facility based on its recently acquired land in the Central Business District of Accra, Ghana, on a part of the former Trade Fair showgrounds site. The data center will begin with an initial 10 MW, expandable to 30MW, dep...

The Panama Digital Gateway data center from Telecom Italia's Sparkle is set to launch in June after significant delays caused by the pandemic and supply-chain issues.Initially, due to launch in 2022, Mauricio Traverso, executive VP for the Americas at Sparkle, said that the project, which comp...

Over the next five years, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) intends to invest $59 billion in data centers, AI, and other "growth areas." At least $11 billion will be allocated to expanding or modernizing its data centers. The digital industry, which includes AI and robotics, receives at lea...

The Malaysian city of Cyberjaya will soon be home to Vantage Data Centers' enormous new site. State-owned Cyberview, tasked with creating a digital cluster in Cyberjaya, recently shared that Vantage will invest $3 billion to build a second data center facility there. At a recent meeting in the...

The Australian company CDC Data Centres has purchased a 17-hectare plot in Sydney. According to RealEstateSource, the Australian real estate investment fund Roberts Jones Funds and Development purchased Burra Park in Badgerys Creek, west Sydney, for $99 million this week. Robert Jones mentions...