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ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which w...

VPLS acquires Wave Broadband's data center Silicon Valley

Evocative

VPLS has completed the acquisition of its third data this year by buying Wave Broadband’s facility in Santa Clara, California. The 3MW, 30,000 square feet data center located at 3080 Raymond Street, was acquired for an undisclosed fee. VPLS will rename the data center to SV3. According to r...

Sustainability efforts: New data center at LNG terminal from Korea Gas and KT

KT Corporation

Korean telecoms company KT is looking into using the cold energy released during the regasification process from KOGAS’s natural gas to cool a facility at the LNG plant. This process deals with temperatures of -160oc, and if all goes ahead, this project will be the first of its kind. In Seoul,...

Tencent Cloud launches first internet data center in Brazil

Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud has announced that it has opened its first data center in São Paulo, Brazil. This means, Tencent Cloud now spans 68 available zones across the world, including 27 geographical areas. The expansion comes to meet the growing digitalization demand in the country. Poshu Yeung, Senior...

Utilizing waste heat: Nokia vLabs data center

Nokia's vLab data center in Tampere, Finland, will start to provide its waste heat to Tempere's district heating system in a move that promotes a secular economy. This heat project will commence at the beginning of 2022 and is a move towards a more sustainable future, in line with the company'...

KKR offers to acquire TIM/Telecom Italia for $12 billion

TIM Group

United States hedge fund KKR has offered to acquire Italian telco TIM/Telecom Italia for $12 billion. TIM revealed that its board of directors met this week to discuss the interest of KKR to take its company private. However, there’s no assurance or indication whether TIM’s board will accept K...

Vantage Data Centers tops-out of first data center in Goodyear, Arizona

Vantage: AZ11

Vantage Data Centers has expanded its data center campus in Goodyear, Arizona, by completing the construction of a new data center. The company revealed that it topped out its first 32MW data center on the Phoenix campus. Vantage acquired land in 2019 and began construction on the site. The...

Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) moves into Africa

Africa

Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) has announced that it is moving into Africa, after having signed Letters of Intent (LOI) for several projects, in the first steps towards collaboration with government ministries. This news follows African Energy Week. According to reports, EW&P is looking...

Nxtra launches 38MW hyperscale data center in Chennai

Nxtra Data Ltd

Nxtra by Airtel is expanding its data center footprint in Chennai. Its new data center will have a capacity of 38MW, spanning 270,000 sq. ft. The facility received its virtual inauguration by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.K.In a statement, the company said: "This will include setting up ...

Several firms are looking into $11bn Global Switch buyout

Global Switch

Several data center and investment firms are mulling over the acquisition of data center firm Global Switch Holdings. According to Bloomberg, KKR and Blackstone Inc. are the likely forerunners of acquiring Global Switch. Equinix, Digital Realty, and DigitalBridge have also shown interest in...

L&T to build data center at Kanchipuram

Tamil Nadu

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has announced that it is planning to build data centers in Kanchipuram following the signing of a pact with the Tamil Nadu government. Over the next five years, the company expects to establish 90 MW capacity data centers in "a phased manner." According to the com...

Chandler's new legislation proposal and what it means for data centers

Arizona

Chandler may introduce new legislation that will introduce a more rigorous process when it comes to building more data centers in the area. This news comes with the region coming out third nationally for data center construction in the first half of 2021; concerns are mainly rooted in the unsu...

atNorth opens its first Swedish data center

atNorth

atNorth has announced that it is opening its first data center in Sweden in Kista, northern Stockholm. The SWE01: SIF DC facility underwent the first phase of construction at the end of 2020, and plans are to build out the second phase of the project shortly.The second phase will see an additi...

Rostelecom to develop 55MW data center campus in Moscow

Rostelecom Biryulevo

Rostelecom has announced its plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Moscow, Russia. The company revealed that its subsidiary Rostelecom DPC acquired a facility at Nikopolskaya street. Rostelecom plans to develop four data center buildings at the site. The buildings will cover a to...

NextDC to acquire a 20 percent stake in AUCloud

NEXTDC

NextDC has acquired a 20 percent stake in Australian cloud provider AUCloud. Sovereign Cloud Holdings is trading under the name AUCloud. It offers sovereign cloud services targeting defense intelligence, the Australian Government, and Critical National Industry customers. NextDC invested $1...

Microsoft announces opening of two new data centers in Wyoming

Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft has announced the launch of two new data center facilities in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The facilities are located in Bison Business Park and the Cheyenne Business Parkway. The facilities will support Microsoft’s West Central US Azure region. VP of core operations for data centers at Micros...

Data center development at US Antarctic base in pushed back to 2023

New Zealand

The development of a data center at the US Antarctic base has been stalled with completion now scheduled to be in 2023. The data center is situated in the McMurdo Station research and logistics base in Ross Island, New Zealand. It is about 1,360 kilometers (850 miles) north of the South Pol...

Africa Data Centres to double capacity in Johannesburg, South Africa to 100MW

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has revealed its plans to more than double its capacity in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company says its footprint in the region would be increased to 100MW. ADC currently has two campuses in Johannesburg which will have 20MW of capacity each upon full build-out. In addi...

Interxion: Foresting project underway in Palencia, Spain

InterXion

Interxion has announced that it is sponsoring an afforestation project in Palencia, Spain, as part of its sustainability efforts. This project with Reforestum will see the planting of trees in non-wooded areas spanning 24 hectares.Unlike reforestation which replenishes forest growth in areas ...

CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead

CyrusOne Frankfurt V

CyrusOne has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint with the purchase of land in Hanau, East of Frankfurt. The company's plans outline that the facility will have an incoming power of 90MW and a critical power capacity of 63MW, once complete, spanning 18,000 sqm.According to...