Singapore data centre REIT Digital Core REIT (SGX: DCRU), sponsored by Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), has entered into an agreement with Digital Realty to acquire a 25% interest in an institutional quality freehold data centre in Frankfurt, Germany, valued at €558 million, or approximately US$558 million (at 100% share), with the option to acquire up to an 89.9% interest in the...

Australian publicly traded data centre operator NEXTDC Limited (ASX: NXT) has quietly brought online its latest investment in north Sydney. The S3 facility has opened with 12MW of capacity and at full build will amount to 80MW and a capital expenditure (CAPEX) of more than AU$1 billion (US$662 million). The site comprises more than 26,000 sqm/28,000 sqft of gross floor s...

US REIT Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) has partnered with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and Engineering to explore technologies that enable the use of hydrogen as a green fuel source for mission-critical data centre infrastructure. The research project will compare the efficiency of ...