Weekly Data Centre News - 08/09/23

Weekly Update! I started the week in Antibes and ended the week inside a global tech giants data centre, it has been a busy one. The world of data centres is equally as busy with many new announcements across the world.

What has happened this week?

Reports

CBRE North America Data Center Trends H1 2023. Read here.

Europe

CyrusOne announced plans to develop a 81MW data center in Frankfurt. Read here.

VIRTUS unveiled a €3BN, 300MW Wustermark Megacampus project in the Berlin Brandenburg data centre region. Read here.

Plans for Ark Data Centres to expand its Wiltshire footprint by bringing forward a 64,800 sq ft development look set to be backed next week. Read here.

TikTok opens Dublin data centre to ease China spying fears. Read here.

UK based Proximity Data Centres has been acquired by nLighten. Read here.

Varonis opened a UK data centre to support SaaS customers. Read here.

Principal Asset Management’s European data centre fund has acquired 2 data centre assets in Ireland’s capital. Read here.

Altice are in negotiations to sell their $1bn data center portfolio to Morgan Stanley. Read here.

Digital Realty is to develop a new colocation and connectivity hub in Rome. Read here.

Start Campus is to partner with Nautilus Data Technologies for Sustainable Cooling Options at SINES Campus (Portugal). Read here.

Construction has commenced on the Calculation and Data Center LyonTech La Doua project in Villeurbanne, France. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Huawei announced plans to open a cloud data centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Extreme Networks launched a new regional data centre in UAE. Read here.

G42 and Microsoft are offering a sovereign cloud in the UAE. Read here.

Kenya woos global tech giants with green energy data centres. Read here.

APAC

GDS has partnered with Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund for Batam data center campus. Read here.

Indian real estate development firm Anant Raj is to move into the data center business. Read here.

ST Telemedia GDC India to invest $1 bn in expanding data centre capacity in India. Read here.

North America

Facebook parent company plans to build $700M data center in Rosemount. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers has asked Maryland's Public Service Commission to reconsider its decision to reject exemptions for diesels on the giant Quantum Loophole campus. Read here.

Manulife Investment Management announced that it has completed the acquisition of a controlling interest in Serverfarm. Read here.

Edged Energy has filed to develop a 15,100sqm data center in Irving, Texas. Read here.

Google details plans on its huge data center underway in Mesa. Read here.

Google announced this week it plans to invest $600 million in developing its second data center site in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. Read here.

EdgeConneX filed plans for a new 1 million sq ft data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. Read here.

The University of Minnesota Board of Regents has approved the sale of land to Meta for $39.7 million. Read here.

King George Country approved rezonings for massive data center complex. Read here.

South America

CloudHQ is to develop a new 36MW data center campus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read here.

V.tal has announced an investment of BRL 250 million in the construction of a new edge data centre in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Read here.

ServerDomes has signed a deal to deploy data centers in aluminum domes along a new Mexican fiber route. Read here.

Other interesting articles

The craziest places to find data centers. Read here.

AI ‘gold rush’ changing data center design. Read here.

Energy crisis expected to impact net zero plans - Schneider Electric. Read here.

Have a great week.