Weekly Data Centre News - 28/04/23

Weekly Update! I am back from Monaco after a great week catching up with many contacts from the industry. The general consensus is the market is evolving, but remains very busy with many challenges ahead..

What has happened this week?

Europe

AtlasEdge secured a €725m sustainable-linked credit facility. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers is developing a second data center campus in London, UK. Read here.

Glencar is to develop a ￡125m Vantage Data Center in West London. Read here.

Data4 is developing a new data center building at its campus in Madrid, Spain. Read here.

Plans for a 15000 sqm Equinix data centre in Slough have been approved by local councillors. Read here.

Green Mountain signs 10 MW expansion in Norway. Read here.

Microsoft launched a new data centre in Poland. Read here.

Conapto has secured SEK 400m in funding for a new Stockholm data centre. Read here.

KIO Networks unveiled a new Tier IV data centre in Valencia, Spain. Read here.

Rai Way announced Rai Way Edge, a new Italian infrastructure of interconnected data centres. Read here.

UK data center operator Stellium Datacenters is implementing solar panels and battery storage at its Newcastle facility. Read here.

Edged Energy and Merlin Properties near completion of three ultraefficient data centres located on the highest capacity fibre connections in Europe. Read here.

i3 Solutions Group secured two US patents for Adaptable Redundant Power and greater Data Centre resiliency. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

EdgeConneX is to build a new data centre facility in Rishon, expanding its existing footprint in Israel. Read here.

Lagos government attracts over $1 billion investment in data centre facilities. Read here.

Wingu’s East Africa expansion gains momentum with several customer signings. Read here.

APAC

Keppel has received approval for floating data centre in Singapore. Read here.

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has started construction on its fourth major data centre in Inzai City, Japan. Read here.

India’s RMZ Corp is to expand into data centres. Read here.

Empyrion DC has secured financing for construction of Gangnam data center in South Korea. Read here.

Time dotCom Berhad has concluded a transaction with DigitalBridge Group, Inc. to establish a strategic partnership aimed at the expansion of its AIMS Group data center business throughout Asia. Read here.

Macquarie Data Centers, Console Connect add PoP in Sydney. Read here.

North America

Vantage is proposing to develop a data center adjacent to a number of Google buildings in San Jose, California. Read here.

Stack has filed for permission to add two buildings to its data center campus in San Jose, California. Read here.

Meta spent $7.1 billion on capital expenditure in the first quarter of 2023, primarily on data centers, servers, and networking equipment. Read here.

Meta's data center redesign is due to it scrapping AI chip rollout, turning to Nvidia GPUs. Read here.

Edgecore Digital Infrastructure announced the expansion of its Greater Phoenix campus, and also that it has received the Green Building Initiative's Green Globes for Existing Buildings certification. Read here.

QTS Data Centers has held back on a planned request for $45 million in tax breaks for its huge data center project near the Atlanta BeltLine's Westside Trail. Read here.

South America

Scala Data Center has commenced operations at its new Rio de Janeiro data center. Read here.

Other interesting articles

How data centers are changing the game in Malaysia. Read here.

Nuclear-Powered Data Centers: Practical or a Pipe Dream? Read here.

Data Center Sustainability in 2023: Top Stories So Far. Read here.

A New Front in the Water Wars: Your Internet Use. Read here.

AI to drive data center investments. Read here.

Mushrooms eat building waste at Meta's Gallatin data center. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

This week I am joined by Michael Morey, President & CEO of Bluebird Networks. Listen here.

Have a great week.