We know that China has pledged to hit peak carbon emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. But will the rush to develop data centres get in the way? It seems that central government thinks it could.
Two major names in their fields, LOGOS and Pure Data Centres, are planning to partner in order to develop data centres across the Asia Pacific region.
Vantage Data Centers, a global provider of large-scale data center campuses, along with Digital Bridge Group Inc., its lead investor, have completed the acquisition of PCCW’s data centre business (PCCW DC).
The Czech units of O2 and T-Mobile have confirmed that they shut down their 3G networks on 30th November.
Data centres and the cloud are again in the news in Latin America thanks to announcements from Google in Chile and Codisa in El Salvador.
Bridge Data Centres has announced plans to build another new data centre in Malaysia. The new facility will be located in the Kidex Sedenak business park in Sedenak, to the north of Johor, and will reportedly be the largest of its kind in Malaysia.
Is Africa a data centre opportunity or challenge? Either way, it is a market that is underserved relative to demand, so it may be no surprise that a new pan-African data centre company has announced its launch this week.
Nxtra by Airtel, Indian telecoms company Bharti Airtel's data centre subsidiary, has launched a new 38MW hyperscale data centre in Chennai, the capital of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The new facility is Nxtra’s third in Chennai.
Chayora, a data centre service provider based in Hong Kong, has launched its 54MW Shanghai hyperscale data centre campus, its second campus development in the portfolio.
The vast telecommunications company Saudi Telecom Co (STC) has announced plans to invest $400 million in expanding its data centre rollout.
Indian multinational telecommunications services company Bharti Airtel and Cloud service provider Oracle announced new Cloud and data centre deals to help boost the digital economy and empower more than 1 million enterprise customers, as data consumption explodes in India amid rapid Internet and smartphone penetration.
Two of the world’s leading telecommunications companies, Orange and Vodafone, have made major announcements in the regional press about planned undertakings in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital.
The overall addressable market for enterprise servers in Malaysia is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.6% between 2020-2025, driven by the ongoing expansion of data center capabilities by leading vendors coupled with high-speed computing by the enterprises.
DCI Indonesia, a leading data centre provider in Indonesia, has opened the first phase of its second data centre campus outside Jakarta. H2 campus, as it is known, is sited on 791 hectares and has a total capacity of up to 600MW.
Digital Realty, the world's largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, and Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund announced the formation of a joint venture to acquire Medallion Data Centres, Nigeria’s leading colocation and interconnection provider.
Raxio Group, which describes itself as Africa’s premier platform of carrier-neutral, colocation, Tier III data centres, has invested in the first carrier-neutral Tier III data centre in Cote d’Ivoire.
American multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs, through its Goldman Sachs Asset Management unit, signed a credit agreement with Elea Digital, the digital infrastructure unit of Brazilian group Piemonte Holding, to expand data centers.
The Arabian Internet and Communications Services Co, known as Solutions by STC, a Saudi end-to-end digital solutions innovator, is the latest big name to become involved in the development of the new Saudi Arabian city Neom.
Philippines telecoms giant PLDT has announced plans to build its largest and most powerful data centre. The aim, according to local news reports, is to attract global technology giants and cloud service providers to the Philippines.
The new mobile communications entrant in the Angolan market, Africell, says it has taken another major step towards launching services in Angola by opening a data centre in Luanda.
Etisalat Group, a leading telecom group in emerging markets, and AI and cloud computing company Group 42 have announced plans to merge their data centre businesses.
Arc Solutions, a joint venture between UAE's du and Bahrain's Batelco, has selected Nokia to provide a high-capacity data center interconnection solution in the Middle East.
MENA-based integrated networking services provider Arc Solutions has expanded its network footprint to Oman with a presence in Equinix’s International Business Exchange(IBX) data center in Muscat.
Interconnection platform provider Asteroid has announced the deployment of its modern internet exchange point (IXP) within the PAIX cloud-and-carrier neutral data centre in Nairobi, Kenya.
Orange Polska (Orange Poland), a Polish telecommunications provider, has launched a new data centre, the Warsaw Data Hub.
