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Data centers: AI, automation and robotics

Automation is slowly but surely gaining more of a presence in the data center industry. According to reports, 86% of companies in the industry are expecting to dedicate more of their budgets for data-center network automation over the next two years. As data demand skyrockets, AI and automatio...

February 24, 2022

NTT

Carbon Sense launched by Google

Google Cloud has launched Carbon Sense, an updated version of its tool for reporting and reducing carbon emissions. This new suite features Carbon Footprint (launched last year), a tool that measures the carbon emissions of Google customers' cloud usage, and an expanded version of Active Assi...

February 22, 2022

Google

Digital Realty/Brookfield JV Buys Land for $30.8m in Chennai, India

According to India’s Economic Times. Digital Realty and Brookfield Asset Management’s joint venture in India has secured the purchase of 10 acres of land in Chennai. The companies acquired the land for over Rs 230 crore (~$30.8m). It is to be used for the development of a data center. One of t...

February 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

EdgeConneX Acquires Indonesia's GTN

EdgeConneX has acquired Graha Teknologi Nusantara (GTN). By so doing, it has taken over a data center in eastern Jakarta, Indonesia. The company did not reveal the details of the transaction. GTN was launched in 2016, and it currently operates a 5MW data center that can be expanded to 80MW ...

February 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX to expand in Dublin

The South Dublin County Council (SDCC) has granted EdgeConnex permission to build two single-story data centers and three gas-powered generation plant buildings at Dublin’s Grange Castle Business Park after it was initially proposed last year. The facilities span 2,800 sqm (137,700 sqft combin...

February 16, 2022

EdgeConneX

CyrusOne makes headway on sustainability goals

CyrusOne has announced that in line with its ambition to become data climate-neutral by 2030, its Dallas, Texas headquarters is now powered by 100% renewable energy. It is also the latest part of its portfolio to be net-water positive. CyrusOne is also one of the signatories of the Climate Ne...

February 16, 2022

CyrusOne

Carbon accounting standards in the industry

A number of organizations and companies have come together to form an initiative called the Carbon Call, which is seeking to achieve "reliable and interoperable" carbon emissions accounting to ensure the world reaches net-zero by midcentury. Among the twenty organizations launching the call is...

February 15, 2022

Microsoft Azure

NorthC and green hydrogen

NorthC's data center in Groningen is to be the first in Europe to use green hydrogen fuel cells (H2), created through electrolysis. According to the company, the 1.5MW facility will have 500kW of fuel cells. This will reportedly save tens of thousands of liters of diesel a year, the equivalen...

February 15, 2022

NorthC Datacenters

Microsoft Signs Agreement With HTX To Develop Sovereign Cloud in Singapore

Microsoft has signed a strategic agreement with Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX). The deal will see Microsoft develop a sovereign cloud to speed up the digital transformation and innovation of Singapore’s HTX. It will also help sort Singapore’s Home Team Departments’ e...

February 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Big tech greenwashing: A failure to deliver on sustainability pledges

Nearly every day, it seems another tech company has made another big green pledge; however, according to the nonprofit NewClimate Institute, big tech's promises to deliver on sustainability are not leading to action. Lacking real substance, according to the report, even the companies that are ...

February 11, 2022

Google

Google Has Still Not Acquired Land For Data Center in Sherburne County

Google has still not started work on its proposed $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota. The search engine giant announced plans for the data center in 2019, yet, the two companies involved said they hadn’t abandoned the project. At the time of the announcement, Google said it was mull...

February 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

AdaniConneX to introduce Mumbai Data Center Limited

The Adani-EdgeConneX Indian Joint Venture, AdaniConneX, has announced that it has introduced a wholly-owned subsidiary named Mumbai Data Center Limited, which will reportedly develop, operate, maintain, and deal with data centers. Further to this, operations are expected to begin shortly.In Fe...

February 08, 2022

EdgeConneX

AtlasEdge Acquires Cornelius House Data Center in Leeds, UK

AtlasEdge Data Centers has announced the acquisition of a data center in Leeds, UK. It bought Cornelius House from Leeds Data Centre LLP. The facility is the largest purpose-built data center in the whole of Yorkshire city. The 11,000 square feet (1,020 square meters) facility has been in o...

February 04, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AtlasEdge

Equinix unveils new sustainability initiatives

Equinix recently opened its Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) based near Washington, DC, which will be home to a number of trials focusing on the development of sustainable data center tech. At the facility, the company will partner with Bloom Energy, ZutaCore, Virtual Power Systems (VPS), and Natr...

February 03, 2022

Equinix

EdgeConneX Granted Property Tax Break For its 22MW data center in Elk Grove

EdgeConneX is developing a new data center in Elk Grove, Illinois. It has also been granted property tax breaks for the facility. The Elk Grove Village officials met last week and endorsed a proposed Cook County property tax for the company. EdgeConneX plans to develop a 22MW data center on...

February 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX

Microsoft to cut down 2,600 trees in San Antonio to make way for data center

Microsoft is to build a data center on a 33-acre plot in San Antonio, however, this will come at the expense of 2,642 trees. The move was recently given the go-ahead by the City Council, who voted 8-3 on Thursday, January 28, 2022. The giant will reportedly plant 833 trees around the data cen...

January 31, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Maincubes Plans To Develop Third Facility In Frankfurt and First One In Berlin

Maincubes has revealed its plans to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. It also wants to develop its first data center in Berlin, Germany. Maincubes first announced plans for the FRA02 data center in July 2021. It also broke ground on the data center while scheduling the faci...

January 28, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

maincubes one GmbH

Dutch Data Center Firm Penta Infra Secures €75 million in Funding

Penta Infra has announced that it has raised €75 million ($83.5m) in a financing deal tied to sustainability targets. Penta Infra is a Dutch data center firm with a focus on European data centers. It has facilities in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Penta owns 11 data centers across the...

January 28, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Penta Infra

Equinix Partners With GIC For another $525m Joint Venture

Equinix is making strategic partnerships as it announced that it had formed another joint venture with GIC. The data center company and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund aim to develop hyperscale facilities in South Korea. The companies announced the $525 million joint venture details earlie...

January 27, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

CloudHQ's Cloud Capital Buys COPT's Manassas Data Center For $222m

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced that it sold a data center in Manassas, Virginia, for $222.5 million. The buying firm is CloudHQ’s investment arm. COPT revealed that it sold the DC-6 facility to Cloud Capital, CloudHQ’s affiliate company. The data center is a two-stor...

January 27, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CloudHQ Manassas Hornbaker

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