September 02, 2021 NTT
NTT ltd has announced it plans to increase its data center footprint in the next 18 months by 20%. The Company would be expanding some of its existing data centers and adding 300MW of capacity and 600,000 sqm (6.5 million square feet) of space within 18months. This expansion will be in 20...
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August 31, 2021 DCI Data Centers
To expand its data center footprint, DCI Data Centers has acquired land in Adelaide, Australia, for its new data center. The site is located in Technology Park, Mawson Lakes. It will be home to DCI’s ADL03 data center. DCI Data Centers announced that it had secured Development Approval for the...
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August 27, 2021 Amazon AWS
According to authentic published documents, the Swindon Borough Council has approved Amazon Web Services’ application to build a data center on a site that Hewlett-Packard (HP) used to occupy. The application was lodged in April 2021. It shows that a new 27MW four-hall facility will be built on...
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August 25, 2021 Princeton Digital Group
Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced that it is investing $150 million to build a data center in Indonesia. The facility (Jakarta Cibitung- JC2) will have 22MW of power, and it will be built in the same campus that hosts PDG’s JC1 data center. Upon completion, the facility can still be...
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August 25, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has filed for permission to build data centers in Clondalkin, Ireland. According to Digital Realty’s application, the Company wants 10-year permission to build two data center buildings called DUB15 and DUB16 close to its existing facilities in Clondalkin. These buildings will have...
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August 25, 2021 Equinix
Equinix filed for permission to build a data center in Profile Park, Clondalkin, Ireland. The Company filed for permission to build a three-story data center in July. It is going to call the facility DB8. The facility will be built within a 2.65 hectare of land. The facility will also have a...
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August 23, 2021 NTT
NTT has announced that following the opening of data centers in Chicago, Ill., Hillsboro, Ore., and Santa Clara, Calif.; it is building its seventh data center campus in Mesa. Estimated to open in early 2022, the 102-acre campus will contain seven data centers, with a total of 240 megawatts (MW)...
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August 23, 2021 Amazon AWS
Sophos has announced that its Australian data center, hosted by AWS, has gone online, the first of two openings in the Asia Pacific region in 2021. The second is scheduled for opening in Japan in September. This data center will provide local capacity to meet the growing demand for Sophos...
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August 18, 2021 Equinix
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently granted a group of businesses led by Equinix the right to form a renewable energy purchasing group. This formation will allow the group, which includes Nike, H&M, HSBC Bank, and Goldman Sachs, to negotiate access to cheaper...
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August 04, 2021 Keppel Data Center REIT
Keppel Corporation has offered to acquire the non-media part of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) for S$2.2 billion (USD 1.6 billion). This includes Keppel and SPH's jointly-owned data center and telco assets. The other parts of the business it wants to acquire include shopping malls, nursing homes,...
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July 30, 2021 Digital Seoul 2 (ICN11)
Digital Realty has announced it is expanding its footprint in Seoul, South Korea, with a 64MW data center following the purchase of a land parcel in Gurae-dong, Gimpo City, in northwest Seoul. It is expected to be completed in the first half of 2023. The facility will span 970,000 square feet and...
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July 29, 2021 Amazon AWS
Amazon, like many other big tech companies, is making big sustainability pledges. Some of these pledges include becoming net-zero carbon by 2040 and powering all of its operations with renewable energy by 2025. These targets are needed, too, considering the scale of the tech giant. Speaking to...
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July 28, 2021 Keppel Data Center REIT
Keppel DC REIT has completed the acquisition of its first data center in China. The firm completed the agreement with Guangdong Bluesea Data Development Co. Ltd. and its parent Company, Guangdong Bluesea Mobile Development Co., to acquire the Guangdong Data Center in Jiangmen. The deal costs RMB...
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July 28, 2021 Amazon AWS
AWS just announced the availability of local zones in Denver, Colorado. With the new local zones in Denver, customers can now deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to on-premises installations and end-users in Denver. Amazon Web Services said it is happy to announce...
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July 24, 2021 Equinix
The data center industry is a multibillion-dollar industry. According to Gartner, end-user spending on data center infrastructure for 2020 was $188 billion, a 10.3% decrease from 2019’s spending. With these figures, we can reach a consensus that there’s a massive market available for data center...
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July 23, 2021 Equinix
Back in June, Equinix committed to becoming climate-neutral by 2030; however, alongside this pledge, in recent years, it has undergone significant growth. Moreover, its environmental metrics reveal that between 2018-19, the company’s scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions, carbon intensity, and energy...
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July 23, 2021 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced that it is collaborating with tech company ABB to conduct an artificial intelligence (AI) energy optimization pilot in Singapore. The pilot is part of STT GDC’s vision for a greener future, and its pledge to be carbon neutral by 2030. The...
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July 21, 2021 Amazon AWS
In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power. Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...
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July 20, 2021 Amazon AWS
Amazon has announced that it is in negotiations with officials in Ceará, Brazil, to build a data center and a logistics warehouse in Maracanaú, in the region of Fortaleza. According to Diario do Nordeste, it is expected that an agreement with the state government will be closed in the second half...
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July 16, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced that it has entered into a 50/50 joint venture agreement with Brookfield Infrastructure to develop data centers in India. The brand name of the joint venture is BAM Digital Realty. Although precise details around the project are yet to be released, reports indicate...
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