Weekly Data Centre News - 10/02/23

Weekly Update! For the first time the Middle East & Africa has a separate section due to the amount of news in those regions this week. A sign of things to come?

What has happened this week?

Europe

Uptime Institute announced that it has completed its acquisition of Academia Group Limited and all of its global subsidiaries including CNet Training, Ltd. Read here.

atNorth is to develop a new 15MW data centre in Helsinki, Finland. Read here.

Datum Group, which acquired data centre operator Teledata last year, has announced plans to open two new data centre facilities, including sites in Manchester and Farnborough. Read here.

Belgian ICT firm NRB Group has acquired Belgian IT services company Win and its data center subsidiary Wallonia Data Center. Read here.

NTT opened a third building at Vienna campus in Austria. Read here.

French data center operator DTiX is building a new data center in Chalon-sur-Saône, in eastern France. Read here.

Russian data center developer Key Point has launched a new data center in Primorsky Krai in far east Russia. Read here.

I Squared Capital’s latest global infrastructure fund has invested over $500m to create an edge data centre platform (NLighten) in Europe. Read here.

Echelon Data Centers-linked firm planning battery storage facility in Dublin. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Microsoft plans new data center and cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Oracle is to establish a third Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) region in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Saudi Aramco has partnered with video conferencing company Zoom to build the company's first global data centre in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Damac is to expand Saudi data centres from 20MW to 55MW. Read here.

iColo: a Digital Realty company confirms the opening of its first data centre in Maputo, Mozambique (MPM1). Read here.

APAC

IGIS ASIA closed a second data centre fund at $151m. Read here.

Gulf Energy Development, Singtel, and Advanced Info Service have broken ground on a 20MW data centre in Bangkok, Thailand. Read here.

Yotta Data Services plans to build two hyperscale data centre buildings at Kaliakair, Bangladesh. Read here.

Cloud security platform Wiz has launched its first Australian data centre in Sydney. Read here.

North America

Vantage applies for 134-acre data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia. Read here.

ImpactData has expanded on its plan for a $130 million mixed-use facility providing commercial colocation, alongside supercomputing, and education services for North Carolina A&T State University. Read here.

Australian Edge data center firm Edge Centres is developing facilities in St. Louis, Missouri, and Portland, Oregon. Read here.

QTS may be set to occupy at least part of a Diode Ventures-owned data center in Kansas City, Missouri. Read here.

Cryptomining companies Hut 8 and US Bitcoin (USBTC) have announced an all-stock merger. Read here.

First Sabey Data Centers building in Austin completion expected in December. Read here.

South America

V.tal, a Brazilian fiber firm part of telco GlobeNet, has launched a new Edge data center in Fortaleza. Read here.

Microsoft prepares new data center region in Querétaro state, Mexico. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Data Center Site Selection: Global Hot Spots in 2023. Read here.

2023: These Are the World’s 12 Largest Hyperscalers. Read here.

Experts discuss how the cost-of-energy crisis is impacting the data centre industry. Read here.

Can we make the internet less thirsty? Read here.

Can Uber And The Military Help Solve The Data Center Labor Shortage? Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk data centres with Luke Kipfer of PowerHouse Data Centers. Listen here.

Have a great week.