Data center construction stories
The relentless march of the hyperscalers continues with today's announcement that Google is committing a whopping €600 million to a new data centre in Denmark.
The company is confident Brexit will have no impact on the data centre market in London, with its total investment in the London metro area exceeding £930m.
The new infrastructure region is expected to be complete in early 2020 to enable customers to run workloads and store data in Italy with even lower latency.
NEXTDC's Sydney S2 data center has increased its contracted commitment by 9MW, taking up 47% of total planned capacity.
The new wholly owned subsidiary will completely handle data centre construction, asset management, and wholesale services.
In the first half of this year more than US$53b has been spent on hyperscale data centre development, with the bulk of that from just 5 companies.
A consortium of vendors has celebrated construction commencement of a project designed to test and validate the feasibility of new data centre tech.
Microsoft has successfully deployed a revolutionary data centre with tech based on a submarine that is now processing workloads on the seafloor.
Google has announced a further expansion to its data centre in south west Dublin with the estimated price tag of €150 million.
