Weekly Data Centre News - 23/06/23
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! Here we go again, another round up of the latest news from across the data centre sector. Europe and North America are taking the lead this week with a lot of news announced across both regions.
What has happened this week?
Europe
Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor and local energy company Hafslund are establishing a joint venture to build three data centers in Oslo, Norway. Read here.
Dutch developer Van Caem is planning a 100MW data center 9km from the center of Berlin, Germany, scheduled to open in 2026. Read here.
The data centre industry in Europe is facing a huge labour and talent shortage which could limit the sector’s ability to grow. Read here.
IonQ announced plans quantum data center in Switzerland. Read here.
Offaly in the Irish Midlands ready to rival Europe’s key cities as green data centre hub. Read here.
French hosting and telecoms firm FullSave has opened a new data center in Auch, France. Read here.
A failure of back-up systems and a reliance on out of date kit were behind a number of IT outages suffered by the States of Guernsey. Read here.
Rural Spain could end up hosting infrastructure hubs for AI. Read here.
The UK's Loughborough University has completed an upgrade project for its two data centers in Leicestershire. Read here.
Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT) is investing $25 million in the pan-Nordic infrastructure operator, GlobalConnect. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Cisco announced plans to establish a data center for cloud-delivered security in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Read here.
Africa Data Centres has announced its collaboration?with the London Internet Exchange as a full point of presence for LINX Nairobi. Read here.
A new generation of data centers are being built in Africa’s smaller economies, fueling a $5 billion market opportunity on the world’s fastest growing continent. Read here.
APAC
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC Philippines) has announced plans to expand its capacity by 5.2MW by Q3 of 2023. Read here.
Borneo’s first major data centre to be developed in Kota Samarahan. Read here.
Bridge Data Centers announced that it will expand its hyperscale data center campus, named MY03, located at MRANTI Park, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Read here.
AdaniConneX raises $213m for its under-construction data centre assets. Read here.
North America
Data center firm Edge Centres has acquired a carrier hotel facility in Reston, Virginia. Read here.
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NTT has filed for permission for a previously announced 336MW data center campus in Virginia’s Prince William County. Read here.
Cologix has completed construction and leased a new 120MW data center in Virginia. Read here.
Sabey Data Centers revealed that the company has expanded its Quincy data centre campus by 85MW. Read here.
Brookfield and Ontario Teachers’ Plan are to acquire Compass Datacenters. Read here.
The Azrieli Group announced that it has entered into an agreement for the sale of its stake in US data center firm Compass Datacenters for about $900m. Read here.
365 Data Centers announced plans to expand their Tampa Campus. Read here.
Investment firm Invesco acquired an Equinix-operated data center in San Jose, California. Read here.
Investment firms Grain Management and StratCap have acquired a data center on the outskirts of Toronto, Canada. Read here.
KDDI Corporation has entered into an agreement with Allied Properties REIT to acquire three data centres and their accompanying assets in Toronto, Canada. Read here.
EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has brought on board three new Operating Directors to its board. Read here.
Elk Grove Village officials have given preliminary approval to a plan that would add a three-building data center campus.. Read here.
Hawaii's government is set to continue with a planned data center relocation despite budget cuts. Read here.
North Dakota county cuts power on $1.9B data center project. Read here.
South America
Mexican towers firm México Telecom Partners has launched a new data center in Mexico City. Read here.
Brazilian colocation provider Ascenty has acquired 47,000 sqm (500,000 sq ft) of land in Osasco, greater Sao Paulo for future data center developments. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Homes of data: Are data centers ruining or running the planet? Read here.
A current affair: Why more AI means more power. Read here.
Big Tech Tenants Blocking Key Reductions To Data Center Energy Use. Read here.
The auto industry is coming out of age as data centers on wheels. Read here.
Space and power: what’s really limiting data center capacity. Read here.
How Green Is Your Data Center? Optimize Code To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Read here.
Inside Data Centre Podcast
On this weeks episode we talk data centres with Jurg Van Vliet of Aknostic. Listen here.
Have a great week.
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