SEVEN ARE EXPECTED TO GO LIVE IN 2020 The new global data centers division of NTT Ltd., has just announced the expansion of its worldwide co-location data center footprint with the development of nine new facilities across markets in India,…
EQUINIX MOVES FROM TENANT TO OWNER Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), a Singapore-listed real estate company, has entered into an agreement with Equinix Singapore Pte. Ltd., to sell its data center property located at 26A Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore. The proposed…
ADDING 33,000SQM OF GROSS AREA Polish data center operator Beyond.pl, has announced an investment for the expansion of its data center campus in Poznań, Poland. Located half way between Berlin and Warsaw, Beyond.pl mega expansion will increase the power capacity…
PLANS FOR 100% GREEN ENERGY Facebook has announced the commencement of construction for its seventeenth data center facility, sited in Gallatin, a city in Tennessee. The company plans to invest about $800 million in the development of the new data…
GOT GPX INDIA FOR US$161 MILLION Equinix has announced its acquisition of the India operations of GPX Global Systems, Inc. (GPX India) through an all-cash transaction that is valued at US$161 million. Under the agreement, the acquisition includes GPX India’s business…
EDGE DATA CENTERS ON THE RISE Multitenant Edge data center operator EdgePresence, has announced the deployment of its new Edge facility in Statesboro, Georgia. The new Statesboro Edge data center is SOC II certified and deployed to serve local businesses,…
TOWERCO GOES INTO DATA CENTER BUSINESS Network tower operator SBA Communications, has acquired the JaxNAP carrier hotel, a data center located in Jacksonville, Florida. This acquisition aligns with SBA’s plan to establish a distributed computing network through its recently-launched SBA…
SIXTH ORACLE-MICROSOFT INTERCONNECT LOCATION Oracle has just announced the opening of its new San Jose Cloud Region, marking the company’s 25th Cloud Region globally – 19 commercial and 6 government. The San Jose facility also hosts the sixth multi-cloud interconnection…
TWO DATA CENTERS FOR AU$417 MILLION Real estate investment trust (REIT) Centuria Industrial, has just bought a data center site in Melbourne from Australian telecommunications company Telstra for AU$417 million (US$300 million). The 3.2 hectare site contains two data centers,…
A CALL FOR DATA RESIDENCY The President of Egypt Abdel-Fattah El Sisi has endorsed the country’s new Personal Data Protection Law No. 151, and will now be implemented from 14 October 2020. The draft law had earlier been approved by…
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