Weekly Data Centre News - 27/01/23

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What has happened this week?

EMEA

Amazon is to build three more data centers in Dublin. Read here.

Africa Data Centres to build 20MW Cape Town facility. Read here.

First Italian data centre association has been launched. Read here.

Swiss data center operator Green has launched a new data center campus in the Dielsdorf area in Zurich. Read here.

APAC

A regional government in India is getting external investment for two major new data centers. Read here.

Amazon launched new AWS Asia Pacific Region in Australia. Read here.

Optage announced plans to build its fifth data center in Osaka, Japan named ‘OPTAGE Sonezaki Data Center’. Read here.

Web Werks launched their 10MW Navi Mumbai data center. Read here.

Indian conglomerate Adani Group plans to spin off its data center firm before 2028. Read here.

Malaysian infrastructure and utilities company YTL Corporation Berhad (YTL) has obtained a $256 million green loan from a consortium of international and Malaysian banks for the construction of a new data centre in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

North America

AWS is to invest $35 billion to expand data centres in Virginia. Read here.

Amazon appears to be planning a massive data center campus in the New Albany area of Columbus, Ohio. Read here.

EdgeCore has broken ground on new 36MW Santa Clara data center. Read here.

A new 2.9 million sq ft technology park has been proposed in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Read here.

The New York state NFL team the Buffalo Bills will construct a brand new stadium in Erie, New York State which will incorporate an on-site data center. Read here.

Florida-based data centre operator and developer, HostDime, is rumoured to be seeking a cash injection for its near-term growth and expansion plans. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers achieved record growth in 2022. Read here.

Data center developers are turning their attention to Stafford County. Read here.

Other interesting articles

What you need to know about data centre construction. Read here.

Microsoft has confirmed that it is making a "multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment" in artificial intelligence company OpenAI. Read here.

Saving Water From the Digital Cloud: The Water-Energy Nexus in Data Centers. Read here.

ChatGPT Is Just The Start: AI Is Rewriting The Data Center Real Estate Map. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

In this weeks episode I talk data centres in the EMEA region with Andrew Fettes Brown of Rider Levett Bucknall RLB . Listen here.

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Have a great week.