Weekly Data Centre News - 07/04/23
Andy Davis
Creator of Data Centre Club: Are you in? | Data Centre Recruitment | Host of Inside Data Centre Podcast | Writer Weekly Data Centre News
Weekly Update! Your weekly news update as we head into the Easter weekend.. Data Centre Club has continued to grow throughout the week, as we look to build a community to create positive change across the sector. Are you in? Join here.
What has happened this week?
Europe
Revenues at Amazon’s data centre business here surged €1.17 billion to €4.85 billion last year. Read here.
Vantage Data Centers has formed a partnership with an investor consortium to accelerate growth in EMEA. Read here.
French data center firm Data4 has announced plans for a major new data center campus outside Paris. Read here.
Ireland’s first large-scale district heating system has begun operating in Tallaght, Co Dublin, using excess heat from a local data centre. Read here.
Privately held web hosting group InMotion Hosting has opened its first international data centre in Europe. Read here.
Aruba has bolstered its renewable energy capacity with the acquisition of two new hydroelectric power plants in Bergamo, near Ponte San Pietro. Read here.
The port of Alicante in Spain has given the go-ahead for its first subsea cable landing station (CLS). Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Open Access Data Centres has reiterated its commitment to fully implement its planned $500 million investment in data centre infrastructure in Africa. Read here.
center3 is to build Huawei cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Read here.
Google has launched a new cloud region in Doha, Qatar. Read here.
How JLW is helping to shape the future of data centres in the UAE. Read here.
Saudi Arabia's digital dream. Read here.
APAC
Spark New Zealand is to invest up to $189m in data centres over three years. Read here.
The New Zealand government is building a $300 million data centre in Auckland to protect information that needs high security. Read here.
MN Holdings is to build a $600million HPC data center in Malaysia. Read here.
MN Holdings Bhd has teamed up with China’s Shanghai DC-Science Co Ltd to build a 120MW data center in Malaysia. Read here.
AWS to invest $13.2 billion on Australian cloud infra by 2027. Read here.
North America
Equinix has announced plans for a new data center in Montreal, Canada. Read here.
A US real estate developer is looking to develop a 1.4million sqft new data center park in Virginia’s Fauquier County. Read here.
Databank has secured another $325 million in financing to fund the ongoing expansion of its edge data center footprint. Read here.
US data center developer EdgeCore is planning a new 36MW facility in Northern Virginia. Read here.
Edge Centres has acquired US hosting provider Hyson. Read here.
Peterson Companies has proposed 5.5 million sq ft data center park in Stafford County, Virginia. Read here.
South America
Acronis launched a new Cyber Cloud data center in Mexico City. Read here.
Scala Data Centers: Bringing hyperscale to the LATAM market. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Mini Data Center Market will rise due to increasing demand for data storage. Read here.
How data centres can manage their climate impact. Read here.
Understanding Ransomware Attacks And How Data Centers Can Protect Themselves. Read here.
Automation as a Critical Component of Modern Data Center Infrastructure. Read here.
Inside Data Centre Podcast
On this weeks episode I talk data centres with Walt Coulston, CEO & Founder of GreenSquareDC. Listen here.
Have a great week.