Weekly Data Centre News - 31/03/03

Weekly Update! This week I launched Data Centre Club (it's not like I needed something else to do..). The vision is to create a community to enhance our ability to collaborate and develop. For this community to work I really need your help. It is time to change the game. Are you in?

What has happened this week?

Europe

Norwegian data center company, Green Mountain, has entered into an agreement with energy company, KMW, to establish a new 54 MW data center site in Mainz, 30 km outside Frankfurt. Read here.

maincubes has received a permit to build the new BER01 on Germany’s GoWest Campus by 2025. Read here.

AtlasEdge to connect Berlin and Hamburg data centres to PacketFabric. Read here.

Data center provider Sudlows has been awarded an ￡18 million ($22.1m) contract to deliver the mechanical and electrical services for a new high-performance computing (HPC) data center in the UK. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Dubai property firm Damac is planning a new data center in Amman, Jordan. Read here.

APAC

SUNeVision opened new data center in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. Read here.

China Mobile to move into Indonesia's data centre development boom. Read here.

ByteDance announced its commitment to achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. Read here.

Kedah Poised to Become the Next Data Center Hub in Malaysia? Read here.

Baidu, a Chinese web giant, has invested in StarFive, a Chinese RISC-V startup, to advance use of the open source processor design in the data center. Read here.

North America

Microsoft announced?plans to purchase 315-acres to build a $1 billion data center on the sprawling Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant. Read here. - This data centre has also received regional government approval. Read here.

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure is expanding its presence in?Northern Virginia?through the establishment of a partnership with Penzance, a?Washington, DC-based real estate developer, to co-develop 7.6 acres in Sterling. Read here.

Amazon lobbies against Oregon's data center clean energy bill. Read here.

The data center industry is continuing its massive spending spree on renewable energy, with contracts for 40GW of wind and solar power in the US. Read here.

Equinix plans $180m expansion to Dallas Infomart data center. Read here.

South America

Actis has agreed to acquire 11 data centres across six countries in Latin America and the US from Nabiax. Read here.

Kio has announced the signing of an agreement for the acquisition of a new data centre campus in Colombia. Read here.

Other interesting articles

These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft. Read here.

5 Ways AI Could Reshape Data Centers. Read here.

Are nuclear powered data centers on the horizon? Read here.

Underwater data centers making waves. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

This week I talk company culture with Scott Smyth of Soben. Listen here.

Have a great week.