Weekly Data Centre News - 24/06/22

Weekly Update! A fairly busy week this week with major news announcements across all regions. Great to see South America making an appearance..

What has happened this week?

EMEA

Serverfarm is expanding its LON1 (Feltham) data center with the addition of 10MW of power. Read here.

The development of a 700,000 sq ft data centre campus in Sutton, Cambridgeshire, has taken a step forward after the site's owners agreed a new funding package. Read here.

Google has purchased 50 hectares of land next to the existing Hamina (Finland) data centre. Read here.

TeleData announced plans to open a second data centre in Manchester, UK. Read here.

Digital Realty is to bring the Interxion brand into the Digital Realty brand. Read here.

Aruba is to open an 800.000 sqft data center in Rome in 2023. Read here.

BitRiver partners with Gazprom Neft for flared gas data centers. Read here.

Oracle has opened a new cloud region on Paris. Read here.

Aramco and Cognite launched CNTXT, a joint data centre venture in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Khazna is to commence construction of a 31.8MW data centre in Abu Dhabi. Read here.

APAC

Keppel Data Centre REIT confirmed plans to buy two data centres in Southern China. Read here.

Tencent is to open a third data centre in Japan. Read here.

CapitaLand has announced the launch of its hyperscale data centre in Hyderabad. Read here.

New York-based private equity group Angelo Gordon is looking to develop a 20MW 17-story data center in Hong Kong. Read here.

Linde, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, YTL PowerSeraya Pte. Limited and YTL Data Center Holdings Pte. Ltd. entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on a clean hydrogen energy proof-of-concept that will contribute to Singapore’s sustainability efforts. Read here.

North America

Skybox has broken ground on a 30MW data center in Austin, Texas. Read here.

Edgeconnex has secured in excess of $1bn sustainability linked financing. Read here.

Amazon has purchased a 58acre plot of land in Prince William County, Virginia. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers have announced plans to develop a 100MW data center on its existing hyperscale campus in West Jordan, Utah. Read here.

Netrality Data Centers announced plans to expand capacity with the addition of two Data Halls in St. Louis. Read here.

Quantum Loophole has broken ground on its Maryland campus and is planning data center cities to serve the Dallas, Chicago and Silicon Valley markets. Read here.

Google has broken ground on the Columbus Ohio data center. Read here.

Dartpoints is to expand its Greenville (South Carolina) Data Center. Read here.

South America

Layer 9 closes series A, plans 64MW data centre campus in Mexico. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers. Read here.

Why Data Centers Are Setting Up Shop in Austin, Texas. Read here.

Singapore Data Centre Moratorium Lifted; What next? Read here

Amsterdam data centre market explained. Read here.

Big Tech Gets Caught Up in Europe’s Energy Politics. Read here.

US Government Vs Data Centers. Read here.

Spain now a key data center hub for Southern Europe. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

In this weeks episode I am joined by Tony Grayson from Compass Quantum. Listen here.

Have a great week.