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1 week ago | 
datacenterdynamics.com | Jason Ma
Malaysia is investigating an unnamed Chinese company’s potential usage of Nvidia chips that are banned under US export controls.
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1 week ago | 
datacenterdynamics.com | Jason Ma
A data center is to be built in Montenegro as part of an infrastructure deal with Hungary. Details about the facility's location, capacity, and size were not disclosed. The exact breakdown of both countries' roles in the project is also unclear.
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1 week ago | 
datacenterdynamics.com | Jason Ma
British pension fund Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is looking for a data center provider.
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1 week ago | 
datacenterdynamics.com | Jason Ma
Chile has signed an agreement with Google to lay a submarine cable connecting Chile to Oceania. Dessarollo Pais, a state-owned infrastructure developer, and the Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia will be responsible for installing the cable. Google joined the consortium in January 2024. There are currently no subsea cables laid across the South Pacific. The Humboldt Cable will establish a 14,000km (8,699 mile) cable from Valparaiso, Chile, to French Polynesia.
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1 week ago | 
datacenterdynamics.com | Jason Ma
The Chesapeake City Council has rejected a land rezoning proposal for a data center in Virginia. The rezoning proposal, from Emerald Lake Estates I Inc., received a recommendation of denial from the Chesapeake Planning Commission on May 15, but the final decision lay with the city council. – Emerald Lake Estates I, Inc.
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1 week ago | 
datacenterdynamics.com | Jason Ma
A land parcel around Tucson, Arizona, has been rezoned and sold to develop the ‘Project Blue’ data center. On June 18, the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 in favor of rezoning the 290-acre land parcel from ‘rural homestead’ to ‘light industrial’. The parcel will then be sold to San Francisco-based Beale Infrastructure, a data center developer backed by alternative investment asset company Blue Owl.
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1 week ago | 
datacenterdynamics.com | Jason Ma
Damac-backed data center operator Edgnex will invest $2.3bn in a data center in Indonesia. Located in the nation’s capital Jakarta, the data center will offer 144MW of capacity at completion. The land for the facility was acquired in March 2025, and the company estimates the first phase will be operational by December 2026. The exact location of the facility was not disclosed. This will be Edgnex’s second data center in Indonesia.
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1 week ago | 
datacenterdynamics.com | Jason Ma
Brazilian telco Century will invest R$150m ($27m) for its second data center in Contagem, Brazil. Announced in early June, the facility is estimated to become operational in the first half of 2026. Details about capacity were not made available. It will be located in the city of Contagem, which is west of Belo Horizonte, the state capital of Minas Gerais. The company’s first data center, which occupies 1,000 sqm (11,000 sq ft) and offers 120 racks, is also located in Contagem.
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1 week ago | 
infomoney.com.br | Jason Ma
Após Israel dizimar o comando das forças militares do Irã em sua primeira onda de ataques aéreos, relatos desde o último sábado indicaram que a infraestrutura energética iraniana estava sob ataque. Enquanto isso, Teerã alertou que o fechamento do Estreito de Ormuz, um ponto crítico no comércio global de energia, estava sendo considerado. Os preços do petróleo dispararam na última sexta-feira, e a escalada do conflito entre Israel e Irã pode elevá-los ainda mais nos próximos dias.
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1 week ago | 
datacenterdynamics.com | Jason Ma
UK telco VodafoneThree is considering laying a subsea cable system from Scotland to the Shetland Islands. The archipelago, located northeast of Scotland in the North Sea, is currently connected to the British mainland by way of one cable – SHEFA-2.
