Weekly Data Centre News - 28/10/22

Weekly Update! This week we have had WhatsApp down, Apple outages, and Meta's share price crashing.. Who ever said data centres are not critical infrastructure?

What has happened this week?

EMEA

Google is to develop a cloud region and data centre in Austria. Read here.

Google also confirmed they have acquired a 36 hectare site located outside of Brussels, Belgium. Read here.

Russia’s Rostelecom is reportedly considering the development of a new data center in Armenia. Read here.

NTT unveiled their new South African data centre. Read here.

A data centre in East London may be delayed as a result of planning concerns over an associated project. Read here.

Nordic Capital closed a $9bn fund and is targeting digital infrastructure investments. Read here. Read here.

Rostelecom has launched commercial operations of a new data center in Murmansk, Russia. Read here.

Amazon has applied for an emission license to Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency to install 105 diesel generators at its new Dublin data center site. Read here.

APAC

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has officially launched the 9,800-kilometre subsea cable connecting Oman to Western Australia. Read here.

PhonePe launched its first Green Data Center in India with Dell Technologies & NTT. Read here.

AirTrunk announced its commitment to Net Zero emissions by 2030. Read here.

Amazon Data Services India has acquired a 54-acre parcel in Thane, near Mumbai. Read here.

Metta DC, a new Indonesian data center company, has launched its first facility in Jakarta. Read here.

Subsea Cables Connecting Taiwan to U.S. at risk. Read here.

North America

Meta stock downgraded as a result of reduced results and increased CAPEX forecast. Read here.

DataBank announced the opening of its latest Salt Lake City data centre, SLC6 – Granite Point. Read here.

Microsoft has filed to build another data center campus on 200 acres of land in Clarksville, Virginia. Read here.

Blackstone Data Services is to develop a new cryptomine data center in Tazewell County, Virginia. Read here.

Officials have granted permission to rezone land for a new data center in Nanaimo, in Canada’s British Columbia. Read here.

Digital Realty’s revenues for the period of January to September 30, 2022, have reached US$3.4 billion, roughly US$400 million more than the whole of 2021. Read here.

Cryptomining firm Core Scientific is facing potential bankruptcy. Read here.

South America

Elea Digital announced plans to develop data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Read here.

Other interesting articles..

Abandoned cold war ‘pyramid’ finds new purpose in crypto. Read here.

The Evolving Push and Pull Trends Affecting Data Center Site Selection. Read here.

5 Data Center Projects That Will Change Europe. Read here.

Data Centre Trends with Stephen Beard, Knight Frank. Watch here.

Enabling Digital Transformation in Southeast Asia. Read here.

Green Data Center Market to Reach $300B by 2031. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

In this weeks episode we share some breaking news from Business Critical Solutions. Listen here.

Have a great week.