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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April 14, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Authomize, a leading cloud security and authorization platform, has announced that its services are now available in Microsoft data centers in Australia. This expansion brings Authomize's innovative platform closer to Australian businesses seeking advanced security solutions. According to the...
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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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April 12, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has filed plans to construct a new data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. This week, the Norfolk District of the US Army Corps of Engineers got a joint license application for Federal and State clearances from the corporation. According to the application – labeled LYH03 Bailey –...
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April 11, 2023 Microsoft Azure
As AI continues its rapid evolution, machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is sounding the alarm, arguing that AI should not only be paused, as recommended by the Future of Life Institute, but stopped entirely. Yudkowsky has been a vocal critic of AI for over two decades, and says that...
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April 06, 2023 DATA4 Group
Data4 is planning a new data center campus to the southwest of Paris, in Nozay in Essone. The campus, PAR3, will be built across a 22 hectare site, which was previously Nokia’s head office in France. The company has shared its plans to construct eight data centers on the site, with an injection...
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April 04, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Unilever has finished moving to the cloud. The business has shifted workloads for its 400+ brands to the cloud, using Azure as its main cloud platform, in what it calls the "biggest and most difficult cloud migration in the consumer products market." With the aid of Accenture, Microsoft, and...
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March 31, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Wisconsin, with a $1 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant. The plan, discussed at a recent closed session meeting, outlined that the campus will be situated on a 315-acre parcel of land owned by the Village of Mount Pleasant. Microsoft is set...
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March 29, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is the latest company to invest in the potential of carbon capture, with the recent announcement that it will buy "carbon removal credits" from CarbonCapture. The company is the owner of Project Bison, which is a direct air capture (DAC) plant in Wyoming, set to open next year. The...
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March 27, 2023 DATA4 Group
According to reports, Brookfield Asset Management is discussing purchasing European data center operator Data4. Brookfield is reportedly in 'exclusive discussions' to purchase a majority share in Paris-based Data4 that could value the operator at $3.77bn, according to unidentified sources...
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March 24, 2023 Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A.
At a recent union meeting, it was outlined that Telecom Italia intends to cut 2,000 jobs in Italy, in an effort to streamline its domestic operations. The job cuts will be executed through a voluntary early retirement scheme, following a meeting with the unions. Currently the company employs...
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March 24, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has revealed plans to build three data centers in Malaga, Washington, on Malaga Alcoa Highway in Chelan County. The Port Authority outlined in the fillings that it assumes the development will involve the construction of three buildings on the site by the end of 2025; further, there is...
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March 23, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is switching its cooling system for data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona, following an update of its development agreement. Further to this, it has pledged to invest more than $40 million to expand the city's wastewater capacity. While the giant purchased the site in...
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March 21, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is teaming up with Running Tide to remove 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from its operations. This will be done through Running Tide's carbon capture and removal technology, which utilizes photosynthesis and ocean alkalinity enhancement to fix carbon from the fast carbon cycle, and...
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March 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
At a data center in Switzerland, Digital Realty has installed a robotic dog to do routine inspections. Anybotics has detailed how Digital Realty has utilized its Anymal robot dog for data center checks for over a year in a published case study. Anymal is a quadruped robot that resembles Boston...
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March 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced its plans to invest $175.9 million in a massive new data center in San Antonio. Named “SAT40,” the facility was recently filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. According to the filing, the facility will be based at Lambda Drive in the Texas Research...
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March 01, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
With the extending of its collaboration with Options Technology, a top provider of capital markets services, Digital Realty, the top global provider of cloud or carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, has made its suite of managed financial markets services offered...
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February 26, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft wants to duplicate a Dublin data center battery-sharing agreement. In 2022, Eaton unveiled a lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) with grid-interactive UPS to exchange energy with the local grid. The corporation told a London conference that this technique was ideal for the...
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February 20, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Second Manassas LLC plans to build a 185,000-square-foot, one-story data center at 9905 Godwin Road in Manassas, as previously reported by Potomac Local News and InsideNoVa. The current Glen-Gary brickyard, which opened about 1964 and shut down in 2019, is being demolished for the...
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February 09, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty's iColo has announced that it has launched a new data center, located in Maputo, Mozambique, namely MPM1. The campus spans 9500 sqm, with 350 sqm of rentable space, equivalent to 80 racks in the first phase of development. The company has shared that the facility will be the local...
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