Weekly Data Centre News - 24/02/23

Weekly Update! There have been a number of market reports this week and they all show that 2022 was a record year and that demand still outweighs supply. What will 2023 bring?

What has happened this week?

EMEA

The latest Knight Frank and DC Byte EMEA report has been released. Read here.

Equinix has closed a data center in Paris and signed a new pre-leasing deal with French real estate firm Icade for a new development in the French capital. Read here.

UK MSP Lunar Digital has acquired a data center in Manchester that Equinix is exiting in the coming months. Read here.

CBRE European data centre report has been released. Read here.

Global Data Centre Group (GDC) investee Etix Everywhere has raised $46.8 million to drive down debt and expand in Europe and Southeast Asia. Read here.

APAC

Airtrunk broke ground on the second phase of TOK2 data centre in West Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

Techtonic to invest over $140 million to build one of Israel's largest data centers. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has launched the SG+ strategy with the announcement of a US$1 billion, 96 MW data centre campus in Batam, Indonesia. Read here.

Chindata Group Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: CD) has priced its US$300 million in aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2026. Read here.

Gaw Capital Partners has formed a JV platform jointly with A3 Capital to invest into greenfield and under-performing data center assets across key markets in the Southeast Asia region. Read here.

Data center capacity in India to grow six-fold by 2029: ICRA. Read here.

CapitaLand China Data Centre Partners has committed to invest in two hyperscale data center development projects in Greater Beijing, and upon completion of the projects, will add approximately S$1 billion to CLI’s funds under management. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group to spend $1bn expanding into Malaysia and Indonesia. Read here.

Chinese data center firm GDS is reportedly looking to sell a small stake in its business. Read here.

North America

CBRE data center trends for North America report has been released. Read here.

QTS is reportedly dropping plans to move into a new Diode Ventures’ data center park in Kansas City, Missouri. Read here.

NE Edge has proposed a 1.5 million sq ft data center at nuclear power station in Connecticut. Read here.

DataBank is raising $715 million from the asset-backed securities (ABS) market to expand its data center footprint. Read here.

Meta has sold land in Mesa, Arizona, to data center developer company EdgeCore Internet Real Estate for ~$1.2 million. Read here.

South America

Mexico has announced the latest data centre association in the world in a bid to promote and entice digital infrastructure investment into the country. Read here.

V.tal has launched its second edge data center, in?Fortaleza, Brazil. Read here.

HostDime's Mexico Data Center to House GDL-IX, Latin America's Newest IXP. Read here.

KIO Networks has announced the acquisition of 25,000m2 of land for the construction of their third Data Center in Querétaro, Mexico. Read here.

According to Arizton's latest research report, the?Colombia Data Center Market will grow at a CAGR of 8.17% from 2022-2028. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Microsoft wants to replicate ‘proven’ data centre battery storage project worldwide. Read here.

Kickstart Europe – state of the data center market. Read here.

Publicly-listed data center firms Digital Realty, Equinix, and Iron Mountain have posted their quarterly earnings results for Q4 2022. Read here.

The proliferation of data centers is turning Virginia into ‘the Commonwealth of Amazon’. Read here.

Hong Kong’s maturing data centre market. Read here.

Gold hydrogen and green nuclear - it's all in the names. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk data centres with Paul Hammer of Uptime Punks. Listen here.

Have a great week.