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Read Skybox Datacenters Plans to Build a 100 Acre Data Center Campus in Lancaster, Texas
Skybox Datacenters Plans to Build a 100 Acre Data Center Campus in Lancaster, Texas

Skybox Datacenters Plans to Build a 100 Acre Data Center Campus in Lancaster, Texas

April 19, 2023 Skybox Datacenters

Skybox's data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, a co-development with Prologis, is located on the site of a former industrial complex. Bandera Ventures and Skybox Datacenters, both based in Dallas, intend to construct a multi-building data center complex in Lancaster, Texas. The proposed...

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Read DataBank to expand one of its Seattle, Washington facilities
DataBank to expand one of its  Seattle, Washington facilities

DataBank to expand one of its Seattle, Washington facilities

April 18, 2023 DataBank

DataBank has announced it is expanding one of its Seattle, Washington facilities. The company plans to increase the floor space to 27,900 square feet (2,590 sqm) and up the available critical IT power to 3MW. “We decided to expand our footprint in the Seattle area based on how fast its digital...

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Read Aligned Acquires 177k Sq. Ft. Office Building in Chicago for New Data Center Campus
Aligned Acquires 177k Sq. Ft. Office Building in Chicago for New Data Center Campus

Aligned Acquires 177k Sq. Ft. Office Building in Chicago for New Data Center Campus

April 18, 2023 Aligned

Aligned bought an office property in the Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Elk Grove. It is currently unknown whether the company intends to convert the facility occupied by CitiBank into a data center. The Real Deal reports, citing Cook County public records, that Aligned purchased 50 Northwest...

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Read Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements
Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

April 14, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a number of renewable energy deals in line with its net zero and sustainability goals. In Australia the company has signed a renewable electricity supply contract with Origin Energy. The colocation company will procure energy from the Origin...

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Read Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium
Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

April 13, 2023 Google

Google has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with Luminus to source wind energy in Belgium. The 12-year deal will see the tech giant acquire 23.8MW of energy from the Belgium energy company, sourced from four new onshore wind projects. According to Google, the PPA in Belgium will keep...

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Read GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty
GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty

GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty

April 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has sold GI Partners a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. According to Dgtl Infra, Digital Realty has sold the property at 43915 Devin Shafron Drive in Loudoun County to a private equity company. The single-story, 9 MW, 132,280 square foot building, also known as Building A,...

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Read Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership
Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership

Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership

April 11, 2023 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership, which aims to encourage organizations to voluntarily utilize green power for the benefit of the planet and human health. Through signing up for the Green Power Partnership,...

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Read Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta
Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

April 11, 2023 Equinix

Astra has joined Equinix's plans to develop a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This week, Astra and the colocation company announced a new joint venture, with Equinix holding 75 % of the new endeavor. The initial proposal for this joint venture is to build and operate a JK1 International...

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Read DataBank Obtains Credit Facility of $325 Million
DataBank Obtains Credit Facility of $325 Million

DataBank Obtains Credit Facility of $325 Million

April 07, 2023 DataBank

To help support its development aspirations, US colocation provider DataBank has obtained a new $325 million credit line. The facility, led by TD Securities, consists of a $50 million conventional credit line, a $125 million deferred draw term loan, and a $175 million five-year term loan. The...

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Read NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency
NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency

NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency

April 07, 2023 NTT

The Retirement Systems of Alabama has renewed NTT's contract with them until 2033. NTT Data will manage the data center for the state pension agency for an extra eight years as part of the arrangement. The contract's worth wasn't shared. The downtown Montgomery data center has 300 racks and a...

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Read Equinix expands footprint in Canada
Equinix expands footprint in Canada

Equinix expands footprint in Canada

April 06, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced plans for a facility in Montreal, Canada. Known as MT2, the new facility is projected to be operational in the second half of 2023. In the first phase of the project, the facility will offer 500 racks from Q3, phase two, meanwhile, will add a further 500 racks by the fourth...

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Read Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia
Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia

Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia

April 06, 2023 Ashburn: Data Center Alley

Direct Line Global has announced that it has signed the lease for a 17,040-square-foot research and development space within Ashburn Crossing, an 80-acre business park in Ashburn, Virginia. Through this move, the company has tripled its presence in the area. Speaking about this expansion, Vern...

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Read Vantage Creates a New Investment Group in EMEA
Vantage Creates a New Investment Group in EMEA

Vantage Creates a New Investment Group in EMEA

April 06, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

With the formation of a new investment partnership, Vantage Data Centers has added new investors to its roster along with DigitalBridge. This week, the company disclosed that it has signed a legally binding agreement to establish an investment partnership with a group of investors, including...

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Read Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar
Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar

Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar

April 04, 2023 Google

Google has announced that it has launched a new cloud region located in Doha, Qatar, following the tech giant first announcing plans for expansion in this regard in 2020. The cloud region, the second that Google has launched this year, also launches alongside three availability zones and the...

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Read Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year
Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year

Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year

April 04, 2023 Google

Recent figures from S&P Global have revealed that the amount of renewable power purchased by data center operators has surged 50 percent in just a year. This latest figure now means that the sector utilizes two-thirds of the renewable power available to corporates in the US. The report...

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Read Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas
Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

April 03, 2023 Equinix

After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property. The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 sq...

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Read NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations
NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

April 03, 2023 NTT

On April 3, NTT East and NTT West, subsidiaries of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), were impacted by a network outage in Japan. NTT had a significant network outage that morning at about 7:10 local time, according to reports from regional media outlets, albeit the impacted services have...

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Read Google's new RFP system to reduce process time required for PPAs
Google's new RFP system to reduce process time required for PPAs

Google's new RFP system to reduce process time required for PPAs

March 27, 2023 Google

Google has announced the development of a new Request for Proposal (RFP) system in collaboration with LevelTen Energy which it said will reduce the time required to sign a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). This development comes from Google to simplify RFPs for PPAs which it said are "lengthy,...

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Read Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion
Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

March 27, 2023 Equinix

Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Martin...

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Read A New Google Cloud Platform Region Has Been Launched in Turin, Italy
A New Google Cloud Platform Region Has Been Launched in Turin, Italy

A New Google Cloud Platform Region Has Been Launched in Turin, Italy

March 24, 2023 Google

Google has introduced a new cloud region in Turin, Italy. The company did not disclose the new region's details or specs, although it did note that it has three availability zones and offers standard GCP services. After a busy 2022, it is the first new region the company has introduced in 2023....

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