Tuesday Bytes: STACK, KIO, Greenhouse, IOEMA, Ark Data Centres

Four bits of data center news from two continents, one with a subsea cable involved:

STACK Infrastructure be busy building out some significant data center infrastructure in the southwestern USA. They announced recently that they will be delivering the infrastructure for Oracle’s upcoming Stargate campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s north and west of El Paso, Texas, an area that has been hot lately. The project is backed by Blue Owl Capital.

KIO Data Centers is planning to open a second data center in Guatemala. The new facility will be adjacent to and interconnected with their existing KIO GTM1 facility and will quadruple the company’s capacity in the country. The plan is to build out two 500kW rooms with room to build out an additional two when needed. KIO also operates in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic.

Greenhouse Datacenters will soon have some new subsea cable access. The IOEMA Project has selected the company as an additional landing partner for the landing of the IOEMA cable in Scheveningen/Rotterdam/The Hague. It’s the cable’s second landing point in the Netherlands, and seventh in northern Europe overall. IOEMA will connect five countries around the North Sea with fully armored cable as well as additional sensors and other technology and 24 fiber pairs.

And over in the UK, Ark Data Centres might be coming up for sale. According to a report from Reuters, Elliot Investment Management is exploring strategic options for the company, which it bought back in 2012. They did something similar two years ago without finding a buyer, but with the AI data center boom it is likely that market prices might reach the right threshold this time. Analysts suggest a $4B price tag for Ark, which runs 27 data centers totaling 560MW of capacity across the UK and Belgium.

 

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Categories: Datacenter · Mergers and Acquisitions · Undersea cables