Data Centres & Networks

Mantra Data Centres (MDC), an independent data centre platform and wholesale colocation provider, has announced plans to invest $1 billion to develop data centres across India.

Chinese multinational technology company Huawei Technologies has announced the launch of a new data processing centre in Russia.

Mumbai will be the first part of India to benefit from a major new data centre development agreement.

The Hong Kong-based telecom services provider PCCW has agreed to sell its data center business to a New York-listed infrastructure REIT DigitalBridge Group for $750 million, in a bid to focus on its main telecom business.

Russian company Big Data Platform (BDP), a joint venture by national long-distance telephone provider Rostelecom and the country's bank VTB, has completed tests of the new Big Data security platform.

Microsoft is in the final leg of talks with the Telangana state government in India to establish a data center in the state with an investment outlay of about $2 to 2.25 billion (INR 15,000 crore), local media reports say.

The government of Tamil Nadu has signed MoUs with two firms with the goal of constructing data centres in and near Chennai.

GDS Holdings, the largest carrier-neutral data center operator in China, announced the first step in the expansion of its portfolio to Southeast Asia with plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia.

Israeli real estate group Azrieli is acquiring 100% of Norway's data centre services firm Green Mountain for around $850 million, to expand its data centre activity.

Even more data centres are on the way to India following announcements from Digital Realty and Google, both of which have plans to build a number of such facilities in the country.

Eastern Europe is in the data centre news again, thanks to a new deal planned for Poland and potential investment by a recently established fund in even more data centres across the region.

The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) has launched a plan to build a network of large-scale data centres across the kingdom. The aim is to attract $18 billion worth of investment by 2030 as part of a drive to transform Saudi Arabia into the main data centre hub for the region.

Pan-African data centre developer and operator Raxio Group is establishing a carrier-neutral data centre in Mozambique.

Russia’s largest wireless carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has bought GDTs Energy Group for RUB 5.2 billion (USD 71 million), including net debt.

Singapore’s Ascendas Property Fund Trustee Pte. Ltd, the trustee-manager of Ascendas India Trust (a-iTrust), will build data centres in India and invest around INR 1,200 crore (USD 161 million) to develop phase one of its first data centre campus in the country.

Following a number of announcements from other parts of West Africa, Senegal is the latest country in the region to make headlines in the data centre world with the official announcement of plans to migrate all government data and applications to a new government data centre.

Hong Kong-headquartered Big Data Exchange (BDx) has opened the first phase of its 35MW NKG Data Center Campus in Nanjing, China.

Carrier-neutral data centre provider MainOne has announced the imminent launch of its new data centre in Appolonia City, Accra.

Atos, which describes itself as a global leader in digital transformation, is to build a new data centre in Kenya.

Romanian cloud service provider ClusterPower will build the largest data centre in Romania and one of the largest in Europe in the southern part of Craiova.

An interesting link between rail and telecoms has been announced in Russia, where operator Beeline has reportedly signed an agreement to develop digital services alongside Russian Railways, the state-owned railway carrier.

Brazilian regional ISP Mob Telecom has  announced an agreement with Angola Cables, a multinational operator in the fibre optic telecommunications sector, to strengthen its data centre offering.

Apple Inc. has officially put its first Chinese data center in the southwestern province of Guizhou into operation over three years after it started building the facility to store customer data within the country's borders.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon, plans to open an infrastructure region in the UAE in the first half of 2022.

Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC) entered the Indonesian data centre market, as part of a new joint venture with Jakarta-based Indonesian conglomerate Triputra Group and global investment firm Temasek.

Raxio has officially launched what it calls Uganda’s first state-of-the-art Tier III carrier-neutral data centre at its site in the Kampala Industrial and Business Park (KIBP).

UAE operator Etisalat has announced further expansion plans for its SmartHub ecosystem of interconnected communities with the planned launch of a new facility.

Latin American data centre specialist Odata is to expand into Chile; it plans to build a new facility in Santiago.

Scala Data Centres, a Brazil-based hyper-scalable data centre platform, has announced an agreement to acquire data centre and colocation operations in Campinas in the southeast of Brazil from Algar Tech, a company that offers business process solutions.

Citing a large demand for capacity, ODATA, already one of the leading data centre providers in Latin America, has announced plans to speed up the expansion of its data centre rollout in the region where it has been active since it began operations in 2015.

As in so many other regions, data centre openings are in the news in Latin America, most recently in Bolivia and Chile.

Bahrain Telecommunication Company (Batelco) has launched a second Global Zone site at its Hamala Data Centre following the launch of its first Global Zone site in 2019.

The latest in what appears to be a fast-growing number of data centre development plans in Indonesia has just been announced.