Norwegian Gov’t OKs 150MW TikTok data centre  The Norwegian Government has this week given the thumbs up for the development of a hyperscale data centre campus to be used by Chinese social media app TikTok.  At a time when Western nations continue...

Indian construction company to build data center in Gabon  Indian construction company Shapoorji Pallonji has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gabonese state to build a data center in the African nation.  The national data center...

Equinix opens latest data centre under $8bn GIC JV  US data centre REIT Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) has brought online its second Tokyo-based xScale data centre.  The facility, dubbed TY13x, has been developed under the joint venture the group...

DCI Indonesia, Salim Group launch Indonesia's first solar-powered data centre  Indonesia’s data centre and colocation infrastructure investor and operator PT. DCI Indonesia Tbk, or DCI Indonesia, and PT Datacenter Indonesia Sukses Makmur (DISM),...

Hyperscaler AirTrunk publishes plans for largest single data centre expansion ever  APAC hyperscale data centre operator AirTrunk has released plans for a 70-megawatt (MW) expansion of its Sydney north facility, AirTrunk SYD2 (SYD2).  This will be...

Empyrion DC breaks ground on its first South Korean data centre in Seoul’s prime Gangnam district  Empyrion DC Pte. Ltd. (“Empyrion DC”), a Singapore-headquartered next-generation data centre operator, announced the groundbreaking of its first...

Rostelecom to build a 200-rack data center in Armenia Russian telecommunications company Rostelecom has announced plans to establish a new data center in Armenia. The subsidiary GNC-Alfa, based in Armenia, aims to launch a 200-rack facility in...

Scala launches 6MW data center in São Paulo, Brazil The company this week announced the launch of the 6MW single-tenant SGRUTB05 data center on its Tamboré campus in Barueri City. Spanning 6,700 sqm (72,670 sq ft), the five-story facility offers...

Manulife IM buys controlling interest in data centre operator Serverfarm  Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM), on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II and its affiliates, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a...

UK’s Kao Data to anchor $440m data centre campus in Manchester, first outside London region  UK-based high-performance data center operator Kao Data has unveiled plans to build a new 40-megawatt (MW) data center in Manchester, breaking away from...