Weekly Data Centre News - 07/07/23

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What has happened this week?

Europe

Form8tion has broken ground on the first 24MW phase of it's 100MW data center in Madrid. Read here.

CyrusOne has announced plans to build its next data center in Frankfurt, named FRA6. Read here.

Developers set out need for huge 98MW Abbots Langley data centre. Read here.

De Montalt Life Sciences want to build seven 25M high blocks, a data centre, and two multi-story carparks at Wicklesham Quarry near Faringdon. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers is appealing the decision to refuse a data center application in Dublin, Ireland. Read here.

Profits rise at Winthrop due to busy pipeline of data centre projects. Read here.

Etix Everywhere to acquire five French data centres from Databank. Read here.

Nordic data center operator atNorth has signed a Power Purchase Agreement for a new facility in Iceland. Read here.

Start Campus and Exa Infrastructure are to connect the major Sines Campus with Madrid. Read here.

Cloud and Edge provider Gcore has launched an AI Cloud cluster in Newport, Wales. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Saudi Telecom subsidiary Center3 has expanded one of its data centers in Riyadh by adding a further 9.6MW. Read here.

$3.5 Billion In Investments: Unlocking Africa’s Data Center Potential. Read here.

Indian construction company Shapoorji Pallonji has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Gabonese state to build a data center in the African nation. Read here.

Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company revealed that it invested in liquid cooling company CoolIT earlier this year. Read here.

APAC

Equinix has launched a new hyperscale data center in Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

Finalto a financial services company, has announced the launch of its new data center in Singapore.?Read here.

Microsoft collaborates with Indigital and traditional owners on artwork and landscape design for its new Western Sydney data centre. Read here.

Microsoft has officially announced plans to develop a new data center campus in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has launched a second 10MW data center on a campus outside Tokyo. Read here.

Equinix has launched a second xScale data center in Tokyo. Read here.

Vietnam braces for surge in data centre demand as foreign players enter market. Read here.

North America

Edged Energy has broken ground on a new ultra-efficient, waterless Data Center Campus in Aurora. Read here.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd is to acquire Concentric LLC?from OnPoint Group. Read here.

Skanska AB has signed a contract amendment with an existing client to build a data centre in Arizona, USA. Read here.

Ubiquity has acquired Edge data center firm EdgePresence. Read here.

The 209,200 sqft Alliance Gateway Data Center in Fort Worth, Texas, has been put up for sale. Read here.

Sabre 56 a leading hosting provider and Bitcoin and digital asset mining consultancy, has signed a consultancy deal with?Arkon Energy for the management of Arkon's recently acquired data center in Hanniba. Read here.

The US government is reportedly exploring restricting US cloud providers providing services to Chinese companies. Read here.

South America

V.tal has acquired a plot of land in Fortaleza in Ceara (brazil) for what is expected to be its first hyperscale data centre. Read here.

Brazillian B2B telco Megatelecom has acquired G8 Telecomunica??es. Read here.

GTD board have approved construction of a second?US$50mn?datacenter in Peru, starting September. Read here.

Other interesting articles

How AI is set to accelerate demand for data centres. Read here.

Arizona’s Water Crisis and the Role of Big Tech Data Centers. Read here.

The AI inflection point for data centres. Read here.

Meta chapter and verse. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk Digital Construction in Data Centres with Joe Mady of DCT. Listen here.

Have a great week.