Weekly Data Centre News - 05/05/23

Weekly Update! There are too many bank holidays in the UK in May.. I have no idea what day it is, and these updates seem to come around too fast.. Anyway, it has been another busy week in the world of data centres.

What happened this week?

Europe

Global Technical Realty readies inaugural UK data centre. Read here.

Virtus has announced they are to develop their first data centre outside of the UK. VIRTUS BERLIN1 will be located in Berlin, Germany. Read here.

Noord-Holland government lodges objection against planned data center in De Kwakel, Netherlands. Read here.

Host-IT has expanded its UK colocation, rack space, cloud and web hosting services with the opening of a data centre in Birmingham. Read here.

DXC Technology completed a major Data Center migration for the London insurance market. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Data center firm GPX Global Systems is to expand one of its data centers in Cairo, Egypt. Read here.

Oman’s data centre market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.6% during 2022-2028. Read here.

APAC

ASX-listed data center provider NextDC has confirmed it has its first New Zealand facility "in planning". Read here.

NextDC also have plans to develop data centers in Malaysia and Japan. Read here.

Adaniconnex commenced construction on India's first first integrated data centre and technology business park at Vizag in Andhra Pradesh. Read here.

Singtel announced the establishment of Digital InfraCo in major restructuring move. Read here.

PLDT announced plan for new subsea cable to boost data capacity up to 1 Petabit. Read here.

North America

Prime Data Centers announced plans to develop a 210MW Data Center Campus in Phoenix. Read here.

Skybox Datacenters and Prologis plan to build a massive 600-megawatt campus near Austin, Texas. Read here.

US data center firms Vantage and Prime have both acquired land plots in west Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Dartpoints acquired Louisiana’s Venyu – a data centre infrastructure and cloud services provider. Read here.

US property development firm Oppidan has filed to build a data center in Memphis, Tennessee. Read here.

Microsoft to build $1 billion data center on land once set aside for failed Foxconn deal. Read here.

Google is to develop two new data centers in Ohio. Read here.

Polish software firm Comarch has launched a 3000sqm data center in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

DataBank has broken ground on a new data center site in Atlanta, Georgia, and completed an expansion project in San Deigo, California. Read here.

A new 6100sqm data center is coming to Auburn City in Alabama. Read here.

Compass Datacenters has acquired 375 acres of undeveloped land in Dallas, Texas, more than doubling its existing landholdings in the area. Read here.

Continent 8 has completed the expansion of its Atlantic City data center in New Jersey. Read here.

Other interesting articles

5 Data Center Myths Debunked. Read here.

Navigating the data centre space as a women. Read here.

Data Center Acronyms Cheat Sheet. Read here.

ESG and Data Centre Industry: Challenges and Trends. Read here.

AI Powers China’s Smart Cities with Advanced Technologies across Industries. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk data centers in the Middle East & Africa with Ronald Philip of Agility. Listen here.

Have a great week.