Weekly Data Centre News - 14/04/23

Weekly Update! Back with another update from the world of data centres.. This week we had M&A activity, new data centre announcements, and the opening of new facilities. It is never quiet in the world of data centres..

What has happened this week?

Europe

Brookfield agrees to acquire France's data centre firm Data4. Read here.

Panattoni announced plans to build a 48MW data center campus outside Barcelona. Read here.

Finland based Digita has opened a new data centre in Helsinki. Read here.

Russian engineering systems integrator DataDome is to build a new data center in Kyrgyzstan’s capital city, Bishkek. Read here.

Iron Mountain has signed a solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in the Netherlands with local energy company Sunrock. Read here.

Google has signed new Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure wind energy in Belgium and the Netherlands. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Network and infrastructure solutions provider NetActuate has established a new data centre footprint in Accra, Ghana. Read here.

Lion Investment Bidco acquires majority stake in IXAfrica Data Centre. Read here.

APAC

BDX Indonesia officially held the ground-breaking ceremony for its greenfield data center, CGK3A, in TB Simatupang, South Jakarta. Read here.

India’s data centre industry to drive 9.1 million sq ft realty demand by 2025. Read here.

Equinix and Astra have teamed up to establish and manage JK1, a data center at Jakarta’s International Business Exchange. Read here.

Empyrion DC Pte. Ltd. has announced that it has secured financing from three major Korean financial institutions for the construction of the 29MW Gangnam Data Center. Read here.

Spark gears up to supersize its Takanini (New Zealand) data centre. Read here.

Malaysia data center market to grow at a CAGR of 9.41% from 2022-2028. Read here.

Digital Realty has signed a wind energy deal in Australia. Read here.

North America

DataBank has completed the 4MW expansion of a data center in Irvine, California. Read here.

Microsoft has filed to build a six building data center campus in Southern Virginia’s Mecklenburg County. Read here.

Private alternatives investment firm GI Partners has acquired two data centre facilities in the US. Read here.

Texas-based Aligned, a data center operator, spent $29M to buy Elk Grove Village asset. Read here.

Aligned has joined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Green Power Partnership. Read here.

GI Partners acquired a 139,000-square-foot data center in Ashburn for $150 million from Nova DC Fee Owner LP. Read here.

South America

Latin American digital infrastructure firm Cirion is planning three new data centers in the region. Read here.

Other interesting articles

AI rises as hyperscale and edge drive data centre demand, finds JLL. Read here.

Irish data centre giants will have to publish energy performance details under new EU law. Read here.

Can We Use Computer Heat to Grow Food? Read here.

A tidal wave of regulations. Read here.

Amazon Web Services’ Center for Quantum Networking has joined forces with De Beers Group’s Element Six division to develop synthetic diamonds. Read here.

Automation in Data Centers: A One-Size-Fits-All Solution? Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

In this weeks episode I am joined by Neal Elinski from Cologix. Listen here.

Have a great week.