Microsoft has bought 84.4 hectares in the Centrovía industrial estate in La Muela, near the city of Zaragoza, to develop a new data centre. According to local newspaper Heraldo de Aragón, the cloud computing hyperscaler has paid around €14 million for the land. The change in ownership of the land was registered on 2 October in the land registry of La Almunia de Doña...

Vantage Data Centers has announced its entrance into Taipei, Taiwan’s largest data center market. The company will open TPE1, a 16MW, 215,000 square foot (20,000 square meters) data center in mid-2024. Sited on two acres (one hectare), the new five-story facility will be located in Taiwan’s capital city just 35 minutes from the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport....

Despite challenges, the data centre colocation market in Indonesia continues to grow, buoyed by the growth of public cloud infrastructure. The rise of hyperscale data centres, particularly those built by global giants such as AWS and Microsoft, has had a significant impact on the market. However, sluggish growth from China-based hyperscalers like Alibaba, Tencent, and Hu...