Data Center News

AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers

Amazon AWS

The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...

50% of Digital Realty's global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced in its third ESG report that half of its global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy. It did this by increasing the portfolio of its data centers being powered by renewable energy by 20% in 2020. Impressively, it also increased its energy consump...

DataBank completes the expansion of its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh

DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

DataBank has expanded its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by adding 25,000 square feet of raised floor space to the facility. The company also added an extra 2.5MW capacity to the facility to bring its total floor space and capacity to 40,000 square feet and 4.5MW respectively. T...

LOGOS and Pure Data Centers to build a 20MW data center in Indonesia

Pure Data Centres Group

LOGOS and Pure Data Centers are partnering to build a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The data center will have 215,000 square feet of space with a 20MW capacity. LOGOS said the facility is already under construction and that it would be ready in the first quarter of 2022. LOGOS is ...

Digital Edge now the single largest shareholder in Indonet through $165 million investment

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has acquired the major stake in Indonesian telco PT Indointernet for $165 million. The acquisition of the major stake was backed by the Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners private firm. This move is Digital Edge’s first in Indonesia. After completing the deal, the CEO of Digital Edg...

OVHcloud to go public by end of 2021

OVH Group

OVHcloud has officially confirmed that it would be going public on the Euronext stock exchange. Although OVHcloud hasn’t confirmed the date, but it will happen before the year runs out. Also, it did not say how much it expects to raise through the IPO, but it said the founder’s family, Octave...

STT GDC announces new data center in Noida, India

STT Noida 1

STT Global Data Centers India (STT GDC) has announced that the construction of its new data center in Noida, India is underway. The Company plans to invest 1100 crore ($150 million) in building the facility. The data center will be on a five-acre site, and it will have a 35MW capacity upon fu...

Cyxtera breaks the lease of its Moses Lake data center in Washington

Cyxtera has decided to break the lease of the data center it is occupying in Moses Lake, Washington. Cyxtera communicated this decision to the landlord of the site in February 2021. However, Cyxtera will have to pay between $57 - $62 million as a charge for breaking the lease.The data center ...

Deutsche Telekom opens twin data centers in the Netherlands

T-Systems International GmbH

German telecom firm, Deutsche Telecom just announced that it is opening two new data centers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Company confirmed that the data centers have a combined floor space of 226,000 square feet. It also said that the two facilities would serve its Open Telekom Cloud of...

Lincoln Rackhouse sells T-Mobile Everglades data center for $25 million

T-Mobile Everglades MSO

According to reports from BizJournal, Lincoln Rackhouse has completed the sale of T-Mobile’s Everglades MSO data center in Miami, Florida, for $26 million. USPP Sunrise DC LLC, managed by Principal Real Estate Investors is reportedly the buyer of the facility. The 45,571 square feet facility w...

Singapore government and Facebook back $S17m project for sustainable tropical data centers

Singapore

It has been announced that social media giant Facebook and the Singapore government are joining forces to fund a $17 million (S$23m) project to address the need to boost the number of sustainable data centers built in tropical climates. The programme is also being funded by Singapore's Nationa...

LG Uplus building a $268 million data center in Anyang City, South Korea

LG Uplus Pyeongchon 2

LG Uplus, a South Korean telco, is building a new hyperscale data center. The new facility, named Pyeongchon 2 Center, would be located in Anyang City in Gyeonggi Province, south of Seoul. The specific location has not been released. The building will have 12 stories with a floor area of 435,4...

Dutch province of Flevoland gives temporary data center moratorium the go-ahead

Netherlands

Flevoland, a province in the Netherlands, has joined the likes of Amsterdam, Haarlemmermeer and Singapore with the announcement of a moratorium on the building of new data centers for an undisclosed period of time. The temporary suspension was given the go-ahead after a vote of 30-9. The durat...

LCL Acquires The ENGIE Solutions Data Center In Wallonia, Belgium

LCL Wallonia One

LCL data center Company has acquired ENGIE Solution’s data center in Gembloux. By doing so, the data center now becomes LCL’s first data center in Wallonia, Belgium. The acquisition of ENGIE Solutions’ data center in Gembloux includes the employees and the center’s solar park responsible for ...

UK Brent Council plans to upgrade data center with £3.8 million ($5.3 million)

London

Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...

Equinix partners with GIC to invest additional $3.9 billion in its Hyperscale Program

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has signed agreements for additional joint ventures with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, which will add $3.9 billion to expand its data center program.The agreements come in the form of limited liability partnerships with GIC. The close, which is expected...

Microsoft launches new Azure region in Arizona

Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft just launched its new Azure cloud region in Arizona. The region would be made up of three facilities or Availability Zones. Also, the zones will be sited in Goodyear, El Mirage, and outside Phoenix. Microsoft said the reason for choosing Arizona for the Azure cloud data center is bec...

Inmark Asset Management Wants To Sell Woolworths Sydney HQ and data center

Woolworths

Inmark Asset Management wants to sell Woolworths’ headquarters in Sydney, Australia. It is looking for buyers for the 483,400 square feet site on 1 Woolworths Way, Bella Vista. The 9-hectare site includes three different office buildings that are linked with a foyer. Furthermore, you’ll also f...

Digital Edge Expands into Indonesia with Strategic Investment in PT IndoInternet Tbk

Digital Edge: EDGE1

The partnership takes Digital Edge’s regional footprint to seven data centers across three countries Singapore – June 15, 2021 – Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd. (“Digital Edge”) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Digital Edge (Hong Kong) Ltd., has acquired a control...

Amazon's second data center in Drogheda, Ireland approved

Hyperscale Data Center

Amazon’s second data center in Drogheda, Ireland is going ahead after County Meath Council approved the two-story, 28,566 sqm (307,400 sq ft) facility to be built. Based at the Drogheda IDA Business & Technology Park, the facility will reportedly receive an investment of €350 million ($424...