Weekly Data Centre News - 05/08/22

Weekly Update!! A lot of talk about development regulation this week. As power cost increases and demand outweighs supply are we going to see regulation fast-tracked?

What has happened this week?

EMEA

Aruba's 30MW data centre campus in Rome is expected to be completed in early 2023. Read here.

Qatar-based telecoms group Ooredoo has started work on three new data centres in Oman. Read here.

Macquarie Asset Management announced they have acquired a stake in ST Telemedias VIRTUS Data Centres. Read here.

Knight Frank completed a deal on behalf of Delta Properties to sell a data centre located in Bristol (UK) to Proximity Data Centres. Read here.

The French telecoms regulator, Arcep, announced it will begin measuring the environmental impact of data centers. Read here.

Real Estate firm Segro is looking to expand it's data centre business to Europe. Read here.

An Irish government data center project delayed to 2025. Read here.

Greater London Authority wants to change applications process to ease West London power crisis. Read here.

APAC

NTT is planning a sixth data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Read here.

DCI Data Centers announced they have secured land and power to develop a 20MW facility in Canberra, Australia. Read here.

PAG Real Estates data center platform (Flow Digital Infrastructure) is to acquire Australia’s DXN. Read here.

Keppel & Salim Group launched a 5MW data center in Bogor, Indonesia. Read here.

Empyrion DC is to Develop a 40MW Data Center in Gangnam, Seoul. Read here.

NEXTDC S3 Data Center in Sydney is to Open in September 2022. Read here.

Digital Realty closed the $3.5bn takeover of Teraco. Read here.

Amazon has leased 5.5 acres of land outside Mumbai which is expected to be for a data center development. Read here.

Ping An to trial China's first-ever financial data center with PUE<1.25. Read here.

North America

New York Internet is to take over Equinix space at 60 Hudson Street in New York. Read here.

Prince William County Officials have granted a rezoning request for a planned four million sq ft data center campus in Bristow. Read here.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $213 million contract for upgrade work to a datacenter connected with the F-35 fighter program at Eglin US Air Force Base in Florida. Read here.

A 73,000 sqft data center building leased to LexisNexis in Dayton, Ohio, has been purchased by Cincinnati IT consultant Encore Technologies. Read here.

Data Center Real Estate platform DataCenterHawk has been acquired by Simplify Compliance. Read here.

Other interesting articles..

Data Centres are facing a climate crisis. Read here.

West London's issue is the demand for digitization. Read here.

Google says it shut down a key data center to save it from London’s heatwave. Read here.

Small data center operators are worried that rising energy prices and rents could cause them to lose tenants. Read here.

The worlds top 10 data centre REIT's. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

In this weeks episode I discuss data centres with Afonso Salema of Start Campus. Listen here.

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Have a great week.