Data Center News

Read Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments
Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

May 10, 2024 Atlanta

Atlanta City Councilmen Jason Dozier and Matt Westmoreland have introduced bills to block data center developments around certain areas of the Georgia city near transit stops and the Beltline. “Excited to introduce legislation alongside Matt Westmoreland to address the rapid growth of data...

Read more
Read Alibaba extends cloud price cut to international customers
Alibaba extends cloud price cut to international customers

Alibaba extends cloud price cut to international customers

April 09, 2024 Singapore

Alibaba has revealed that it is now slashing its prices by as much as 59 percent for customers "from the US to Singapore." This comes shortly after the company's March 2024 announcement that it would be cutting cloud costs for its Chinese customers by up to 55 percent with the hope of winning...

Read more
Read Asia-Pacific plans new data center acquisitions
  Asia-Pacific plans new data center acquisitions

Asia-Pacific plans new data center acquisitions

April 08, 2024 Singapore

Singaporean real-estate firm Asia-Pacific Strategic Investments Limited (APS) this week announced plans to acquire a 100 percent stake in Taiwanese sustainable data solutions provider, Mobii Genius Co., Ltd., for US$150 million. “Creating green data processing and storage facilities is of...

Read more
Read Telkom Indonesia consolidates Singapore data centers
Telkom Indonesia consolidates Singapore data centers

Telkom Indonesia consolidates Singapore data centers

March 05, 2024 Singapore

Telkom Indonesia has consolidated its Singapore data centers under one umbrella unit ahead of a potential sale. The company wrote on LinkedIn that this marks a “significant milestone in our journey toward becoming a regional powerhouse in the data center industry,” “The rationale behind this...

Read more
Read Empyrion DC secures S$133 million green loan
Empyrion DC secures S$133 million green loan

Empyrion DC secures S$133 million green loan

February 27, 2024 Singapore

Empyrion DC, a Singapore-based data center operator, has secured a green loan worth S$133 million (US$98 million) to refinance its SG1 Dodid data center in Singapore, with proceeds used to “support existing operations” at the 12.5MW facility. This financing was provided by the UOB bank. Mark...

Read more
Read Former Sungard data center is up for sale in New Jersey
Former Sungard data center is up for sale in New Jersey

Former Sungard data center is up for sale in New Jersey

February 14, 2024 New Jersey

Via RI Marketplace, Real estate firm Marcus & Millichap is offering 1008 Virgil Avenue in Ridgefield, a former Sungard data center field as up for sale via auction and bidding for this property is set to begin March 25, with $750,000 listed as a starting bid. The listing reads, “The property...

Read more
Read Singapore-based startup receives $12.5 million in funding for electricity transformers
Singapore-based startup receives $12.5 million in funding for electricity transformers

Singapore-based startup receives $12.5 million in funding for electricity transformers

February 09, 2024 Singapore

Singapore-based startup Amperesand, which makes SSTs that could replace standard transformers in electricity distribution, has been given $12.5 million in funding to develop solid-state transformers (SSTs), which could make electricity grids more efficient and flexible. "We are thrilled to...

Read more
Read Singapore considers making data centers and clouds "critical infrastructure"
Singapore considers making data centers and clouds "critical infrastructure"

Singapore considers making data centers and clouds "critical infrastructure"

December 22, 2023 Singapore

Singapore’s government is currently contemplating marking data centers and clouds as "critical infrastructure,” and extending oversight to cloud service providers and data center operators. A decision in this regard is expected to be made by January 15, 2024. Currently, the Cybersecurity Agency...

Read more
Read Seraya Partners reaches goal of $800 million APAC funding
Seraya Partners reaches goal of $800 million APAC funding

Seraya Partners reaches goal of $800 million APAC funding

December 14, 2023 Singapore

Singapore-based Seraya Partners has closed an $800 million fund dedicated to digital infrastructure and energy transition investments. Half of the fund has already been dedicated to three companies: data center operator Empyrion DC, offshore wind vessel operator Cyan Renewables, and solar, wind,...

Read more
Read OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO
OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

November 20, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI's co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, has quit the company after the board suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman last week. Brockman, who was initially made to step down as board chairman, has left the company. The board is yet to disclose the exact reason for firing Altman as the company...

Read more
Read OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

November 19, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of the artificial intelligence startup as the board denounces confidence in his leadership. In a statement released by the company, the board noted that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to lead.” Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology...

Read more
Read X claims $100m annual savings upon exiting Sacramento data center
X claims $100m annual savings upon exiting Sacramento data center

X claims $100m annual savings upon exiting Sacramento data center

November 02, 2023 Sacramento

X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, claims to have saved $100 million annually after exiting its Sacramento data center via a post on the platform. X further claimed to have saved a significant amount by repatriating some of its workloads to on-prem data centers. The company...

Read more
Read 6Estates launches Nvidia DGX BasePOD for AI offerings
6Estates launches Nvidia DGX BasePOD for AI offerings

6Estates launches Nvidia DGX BasePOD for AI offerings

October 11, 2023 Singapore

Singaporean large language model provider 6Estates recently launched an Nvidia DGX BasePOD based on Nvidia GCX H100 systems to develop its AI offerings. The company will use this BasePOD for its "Model Solutions" offering, which provides users with personalized large language models. The cluster...

Read more
Read AI Edge chip company Kneron raises additional $49m funds
AI Edge chip company Kneron raises additional $49m funds

AI Edge chip company Kneron raises additional $49m funds

September 30, 2023 San Diego

Kneron, a startup developing chips for AI inferencing, has raised $49 million from investors to scale up its hardware-developing efforts. Investors, including Foxconn HH-CTBC Partnership (Foxconn Co-GP Fund) and Alltek, made this additional investment, bringing the total Series B financing to...

Read more
Read A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale
A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale

A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale

September 14, 2023 Detroit

A data center outside of Detroit, Michigan, is available for purchase. Lee & Associates, a real estate agency, has listed 21420 Melrose in Southfield, Oakland County, as available. The 1986-built, 15,956-square-foot property is available for $1.34m. “This building is extremely well maintained...

Read more
Read Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development
Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

August 08, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an entertainment...

Read more
Read ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development
ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development

ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development

August 03, 2023 Hong Kong

ESR has secured a Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) to develop a data center in Hong Kong, it has announced. It has closed the first SLL in Hong Kong, worth HK$1.6 billion (US$205m), which will be used to convert a building in Kwai Chung into the 21.3MW ESR Kwai Chung Data Centre HK1.The company...

Read more
Read GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative
GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

July 24, 2023 Singapore

The sovereign wealth fund GIC of Singapore is soliciting funds for a data center outside Seoul, South Korea. According to Business Korea, institutional investors, such as GIC, are working with indigenous institutional investors, securities companies, and asset management firms to build a data...

Read more
Read Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment
Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

July 14, 2023 Singapore

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to be...

Read more
Read Bitdeer expands: Announces new data centers in Norway and Bhutan
Bitdeer expands: Announces new data centers in Norway and Bhutan

Bitdeer expands: Announces new data centers in Norway and Bhutan

July 12, 2023 Singapore

In Bitdeer Technologies Group's latest operations update, it shared details about its upcoming expansion. Linghui Kong, Chief Executive Officer of Bitdeer, noted that its 100MW Gedu mining data center in Bhutan, for example, is almost complete and is expected to be delivered in July. Further to...

Read more

Ready to Level up Your
Data Center Strategy?