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NextDC is Looking For $413.3m For Global Expansion

NextDC, an Australian data center company, will open projects in Kuala Lumpur and Auckland. They secretly added New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan data center proposals to its site last month. None of the locations had timelines or specifications. The company disclosed foreign expansion in an AS...

May 12, 2023

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NextDC Reveals New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan Data Center Initiatives

Plans for new data center projects in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan have been subtly added to NextDC's website. The prospective plans to expand in New Zealand were initially reported by Reseller News a few weeks ago. They stated that the company had purchased several blocks of land in centr...

May 08, 2023

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Edge Centres Completes The Acquisition of Hyson International

Hyson, a US hosting company, has been bought by Edge Centres. Hyson International, located in Missouri, has been acquired by Edge, a company based in Australia, according to a report last week by M&A advisory firm Corum Group. The agreement's details weren't made public. As a supplier o...

April 04, 2023

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Edge Centers launches in St. Louis, Missouri

Edge Centres has announced the launch of a new facility in St. Louis, Missouri, its first in the region. Traditionally, its off-grid facilities are powered by on-site wind and/or solar power, with each having 48-hour batteries, and UPS backup equipment supporting 64 1kW quarter racks. However...

March 22, 2023

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Edge Centres plans 1MW facilities in Missouri and Oregon

Edge Centres is developing data centers in St. Louis, Missouri, and Portland, Oregon, it has announced. The facilities will be powered by renewable energy, with just under 1 MW of solar infrastructure, a 48-hour battery, and UPS backup equipment, supporting 64 1kW quarter racks.In a statement...

February 12, 2023

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Edge Centres Announces Launch of New Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Edge Centres has opened a new data center in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. The company announced in a LinkedIn post that: “Today we launched our first location in Vietnam. Our first of 3 locations and the only data center to launch here this year. We would like to thank our partner USDC Technology ...

December 09, 2022

Edge Centres

Fujitsu to trial a private 5G network and robot datacenter inspector at data center

Currently, Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation Fujitsu has a lot in the works. It’s trialing a private 5G network at a data center so that a robot can carry out data center inspections and report on any anomalies it finds. ...

November 22, 2022

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Edge Centres to Launch Edge Facility in Aon Center, Los Angeles

Edge Centres is looking to deploy an Edge data center in an office skyscraper in Los Angeles, California. The company announced on its LinkedIn page: "Work is underway in Los Angeles on EC101. Located at 707 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, EC101 will serve as Edge Centres' core location on the w...

October 13, 2022

Edge Centres

Edge Centres Developing Edge Data Center in Thailand

Edge Centres has announced expansion into Thailand. The company said it is developing three locations in the country and work has started on the first one. The Australian Edge data center firm will deploy the EC61 Chiang Mai site first. EC62 Phuket and EC63 Khon Kaen will also follow in qui...

August 29, 2022

Edge Centres

NextDC Looking To Buy Global Switch's APAC Portfolio

According to reports, NextDC is looking to acquire Global Switch’s Asia-Pacific arm. The Australian data center firm has contacted Macquarie Capital to find a financial partner for the purchase. Global Switch has been looking to sell its business for more than a year. Besides, it was in dis...

June 02, 2022

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NextDC makes progress on S3 data center

Progress has been made on NEXTDC's S3 data center, it has been announced. Multiplex, the company working on the development, has outlined that it has begun 'topping out' the structure in the Artarmon on Sydney's lower North Shore. The facility spans 26,770 square meters of data halls and ancil...

May 12, 2022

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Edge Centres Completes Series A Funding, Plans Edge Facilities in Malaysia

Edge Centres has announced the close of a Series A funding round. It is now planning to deploy facilities in Malaysia and other parts of Asia Pacific (APAC). The Australian Edge data center company closed the AU$12 million (US$8.95m) Series A fundraise. The funding was led by Cloud Link Sol...

April 08, 2022

Edge Centres

NextDC Reveals Specifications For Its Planned D1 Facility in Darwin, Australia

NextDC has revealed more details of its Darwin data center in Australia. The Australian data center firm revealed its plans for an 8MW data center a while back. The facility will span across 32,300 square feet (3,000 square meters) of technical space. In addition, it will also have 15 data ...

March 29, 2022

NEXTDC

NextDC To Develop a Tier IV-Certified Data Center in Adelaide, Australia

NextDC has announced its plans to develop a data center in Adelaide, Australia. The Australian data center firm revealed that it had purchased land to develop a 10MW data center which will be called A1 Adelaide. The facility will be a Tier IV-certified data center. It will also develop a Missi...

February 18, 2022

NEXTDC

Australia's Edge Centres acquires its local Edge rival DC Matrix

Australia-based edge data center firm Edge Centres has completed the acquisition of its rival DC Matrix. DC Matrix is a local edge data center company based in Queensland. DC Matrix planned to roll out six facilities in Queensland before the acquisition. The CEO of Edge Centres, Jonathan Eaves...

January 21, 2022

Edge Centres

NextDC moves into Queensland's Sunshine Coast

NextDC has acquired an Edge data center site located in Maroochydore, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. The planned SC1 facility will have a capacity of 1MW. The facility will also be the landing station for the Sunshine Coast International Broadband Network (SCIBN), which connects to the 7000k...

December 14, 2021

NEXTDC

NextDC to acquire a 20 percent stake in AUCloud

NextDC has acquired a 20 percent stake in Australian cloud provider AUCloud. Sovereign Cloud Holdings is trading under the name AUCloud. It offers sovereign cloud services targeting defense intelligence, the Australian Government, and Critical National Industry customers. NextDC invested $1...

November 23, 2021

NEXTDC

Fujitsu-occupied data center in Belfast, Northern Ireland up for sale

A Fujitsu-occupied data center in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been put up for sale. The facility is located at Trident House, 301 Airport Road West, in the Belfast Harbour Estate. The facility sits on a 6-acre site, and it consists of two buildings with up to 36,956 square feet of space. Th...

November 12, 2021

Fujitsu

NextDC plans to build a data center in Darwin, Australia

NextDC has revealed its plan to expand to Darwin, Australia’s Northern Territory. It would be developing a Tier III data center called D1 in Darwin’s Central Business District. NextDC didn’t reveal the details of the facility’s specifications and the cost of the land it acquired. CEO of Ne...

October 29, 2021

NEXTDC

Carbon offsets under the microscope: Greenpeace reasserts its position

Following its scathing 'Hero to Zero' report, Greenpeace has hit out again at large companies using carbon offsets to meet sustainability targets. At the Reuters Impact conference, Greenpeace's Executive Director Jennifer Morgan said there's "no time" for offsets and that the climate emergency...

October 11, 2021

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