October 28, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has reportedly filed to build another data center campus in Clarksville, Virginia, with the US Army Corps Of Engineers’ Norfolk District. As per the application, the company is looking to develop on a 259.1-acre parcel of land at the Lakeside Commerce Park, at Commerce Drive in Southern...
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October 27, 2022 NTT
NTT has announced the opening of a new data center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Named the Johannesburg 1 Data Center, this new 12 MW facility will cover 6,000 sqm of IT space when fully built out, introduced to meet growing digital demand. Research shows that Africa is currently in the midst of...
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October 27, 2022 DataBank
DataBank has announced the opening of its latest Salt Lake City data center, SLC6. According to the company, the facility was built to meet the growing demand for increased capacity and mission-critical IT infrastructure.“We are pleased to open this new facility, providing additional capacity to...
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October 25, 2022 NTT
Digital Realty and NTT are looking to develop new data centers in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The firms filed applications for the new data centers with the State’s Department of Licensing. The plots of land in question are within one mile of one another. Digital Realty plans to develop a...
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October 25, 2022 Microsoft Azure
According to The Economic Times, Microsoft has acquired a plot of land for data center development in Pune, India. The company bought 25 acres of land in the Pimpri-Waghere area of Pune. Per reports, Microsoft made the deal by getting Finolex Industries to transfer its long-term lease on the land...
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October 24, 2022 DataBank
The Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) will invest around US$450m in DataBank. The Canadian firm signed an agreement to invest the funds as part of DataBank’s recapitalization process. DataBank is expected to close the deal in Q4 2022. The Chief Investment Officer of IMCO,...
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October 19, 2022 CyrusOne
CyrusOne has announced that it has begun work on its latest facility in Madrid, Spain, located in the municipality of Alcobendas, after acquiring the freehold purchase of the 5-acre site in 2022. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by executives from CyrusOne, construction company Itercon,...
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October 18, 2022 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has reportedly secured $150 million in sustainability-linked financing for its expansion in Latin America. This follows the company obtaining a series of sustainability-linked financings earlier in 2022 totaling $1.7 Billion. The loan facility promotes EdgeConneX's sustainability...
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October 17, 2022 Aligned
After acquiring two parcels of land in Arizona, Aligned Data Centers has announced plans for two new construction projects, mega campuses, spanning 400MW of IT load and approximately two million square feet. The facilities will reportedly prioritize sustainability, using Delta³ cooling technology...
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October 11, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has revealed its plans to develop a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the company's first facility in the Asian country. Equinix noted that it would be investing $74m in developing the new IBX facility. The data center will be located in the Central Business District of...
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October 11, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has acquired two empty parcels of land in Manassas, Virginia. The land has been zoned for data center development. Per BizJournal, an affiliate of Stack Infrastructure paid $25.4m for 30.8 acres at 9530 Hornbaker Road, Manassas, last month. The company then bought another...
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October 10, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has announced its plans to develop a large data center campus in Frankfurt. The company is looking to develop an 80MW facility in a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in the German city. Stack Infrastructure acquired the 17-acre parcel from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners...
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October 07, 2022 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced a partnership with Aboitiz, a local firm in the Philippines, alongside its plans to build two data centers around Manila; one near the National Capital Region of Manila and the second in the Greater Manila Area. Speaking about the partnership, Sabin Aboitiz, President,...
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October 04, 2022 Meta
Social media giant Meta has announced that it is expanding its footprint in Eagle Mountain, Utah, with the expansion of its data center campus. The company made this announcement of the new additions on Facebook, where it said the campus grow by 2 million square feet. According to the company,...
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October 04, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
In a bid to help the drastically declining bee population and push forward its ESG commitments, Stack has announced that it has deployed three beehives at its Milan campus in Italy. In its announcement on LinkedIn, the company outlined that while honeybees are responsible for 80% of the world's...
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September 30, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is the latest company in the industry to trial hydrogen fuel cells as a power source for data centers. The company will be working in partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and...
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September 30, 2022 NTT
NTT is building a new 30MW data center in the Kansai region of Japan, it has been announced. The facility, which is being constructed in Soraku-gun, Kyoto Prefecture, will be a four-story, seismic-isolated structure. The building will supply a total of 30 MW for IT load (starting at 6 MW and...
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September 28, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a new energy deal with Canadian energy firm Ontario Power Generation (OPG) as part of a strategic partnership targeted at tackling climate change and “driving sustainable growth” in Ontario. According to Microsoft, the giant will procure Clean Energy Credit sourced from OPG’s...
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September 28, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has reportedly filed to construct a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The application for construction on the facility outlines that it would span 565,000-square-foot (52,500 sqm) as a 13-story building at 321-337 E. 21st Street, which is opposite 350 E Cermak carrier hotel....
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September 26, 2022 Cogent Communications
Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the...
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