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American Tower to cut emissions intensity in African tower

American Tower Corporation (ATC) Africa has begun to progressively push its sustainability strategy as it announced that direct greenhouse emissions (GHG) per tower dropped by 21 percent against its 2019 baseline. ATC notes that this was down to an "increased deployment of on-site solar power...

October 16, 2023

American Tower Corporation

Microsoft plans new DC region in Aragon, Spain

Microsoft recently revealed plans to build a new data center campus in Aragon, in the northeastern region of Spain. The company is yet to share details about this development. However, local press have reported that Microsoft plans to develop three sites around Zaragoza; A 63-acre site in the ...

October 16, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and ...

October 16, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Digital Realty and Dutch college launches demonstration data center to teach students

Digital Realty has partnered with a Dutch vocational college in Amsterdam to launch a new demo data center to teach students data center skills. Students from the Cloud & Infrastructure Technician course opened the demo data center at MBO College Zuidoost this week. Melissa Scholten, senio...

October 13, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Google tests demand-response system to cut data center power consumption

Google has tested a demand-response system, which will reduce data center electricity consumption during grid problems and shift non-urgent tasks to other locations. The company notes that this is an extension of its plan to shift computing work to areas where energy is carbon-free.A blog post...

October 10, 2023

Google

Microsoft to build data center in Welsh factory

Global technology giant Microsoft revealed plans to develop a new data center campus in Newport Wales. In a post on its website, the company wrote, “Microsoft will be applying for planning permission for a data center in Newport, Wales. We are preparing a planning application for the site in t...

October 09, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft replaces diesel power with battery energy system at Swedish data center

Microsoft has replaced the criticized diesel backup generators used at a Swedish data center with a battery energy storage system (BESS). The BESS system supplied in June provides 16MWh of storage and black start capability to guarantee instant recovery of the power grid, all without greenhous...

October 09, 2023

Microsoft Azure

GIP invests $450 million into Vantage Data Centers

Independent infrastructure investor Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) along with its affiliates and co-investors, recently announced an investment in a term loan facility of up to $450 million in Vantage Data Centers. GIP acted as the lead investor in this transaction, with support from the...

October 07, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Digital Realty expands footprint in Zagreb, Croatia

Global cloud provider Digital Realty announced its acquisition of a land parcel in Zagreb, Croatia for the construction of a new data center campus as it plans to expand its footprints in Southeast Europe. This plot of land, located close to its existing data center campus can support up to 30...

October 06, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

DC Blox completes purchase of 27.5 acres in South Carolina for 45MW DC campus

Atlanta-based colocation provider DC Blox has completed the purchase of 27.5 acres in Berkeley County, SC, from Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, for a new data center campus. This new facility, to be constructed in the Camp Hall commerce park, will be the...

October 03, 2023

DC BLOX

Amazon plans four dc campuses in Mesa, Arizona

Amazon Web Services has begun plotting for four new data centers in Mesa, Arizona, on land already owned by the company, as it looks to increase its footprints in the East Valley. The company has filed pre-submittal documents with Mesa's planning office for two data centers about four miles ap...

October 03, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon Pours Billions to AI startup Anthropic, Becomes Primary cloud provider

Amazon will invest $4 billion in AI startup Antropic, becoming its primary cloud provider. This announcement comes after the giant tech companies worldwide raced to benefit from the breakthroughs Antropic could have on their businesses. Antropic, considered one of the world’s most promising AI...

October 02, 2023

Amazon AWS

Carbon Streaming Corp. signs carbon capture agreement with Microsoft

Carbon Streaming Corporation announced it had signed an agreement to provide Microsoft with biochar carbon removal credits from the Waverly Biochar project in Waverly, Virginia. The company noted that the Biochar project would deliver Microsoft up to 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal cre...

October 02, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Amazon files to develop 7-building DC campus in Louisa County, Virginia

Amazon Web Services has filed with the US Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District to develop a seven-building data center campus in Virginia’s Louisa County. In this filing, REB Investment Company LLC and Amazon Data Services seek permission to establish a new data center campus on 153 acres ...

September 30, 2023

Amazon AWS

Google data center pioneer Luiz André Barroso passes away

59-year-old data center luminary Luiz André Barroso unexpectedly passed away on September 16, 2023.The DC legend joined Google in 2001 and was fundamental in remodeling the company's DC design, impacting the industry. Before his journey with Google, Barroso worked at Digital Equipment Corporat...

September 28, 2023

Google

Google-affiliated company buys 143 acres in South Carolina

A Google-affiliated company has acquired 143 acres in Moncks Corner industrial site, Berkeley Country, where the Silicon Valley tech giant has operated a data center since 2007. Arum Composites LLC purchased this parcel, comprising five parcels across Mount Holly Commerce Park Cypress Gardens ...

September 26, 2023

Google

Microsoft to extend DC footprint to Naas, Ireland

Microsoft recently commenced plans to develop plans for a new Irish data center campus near Jigginstwon in Naas. Following reports by Kildare Nationalist, Microsoft has begun consultations with authorities for the proposed development of one of the two sites marked for DC usage in the Council’...

September 25, 2023

Microsoft Azure

DigitalBridge completes DataBank recapitalization

DigitalBridge Group recently revealed the completion of DataBank's recapitalization. The Group announced that DigitalBridge received an additional funding of $219 million, bringing the total costs of the recapitalization to $2.2 billion. This completed recapitalization will bring about a separ...

September 22, 2023

DataBank

QTS to establish operations in York County, South Carolina

The South Carolina Office of the Governor confirmed that DC firm QTS will establish operations in York Country, marking the company’s entry into the state. This comes after news of a major data center project in York County dubbed ‘Project Cobra’ surfaced in June 2023.Gov. Henry McMaster celeb...

September 22, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Stack inaugurates a data center in Toronto

Stack Infrastructure has established a data center in Toronto, Canada. This week, the company revealed the dispatch of the first 8MW phase of the 56MW Ontario campus. First Gulf, a Toronto-based developer, collaborated with Stack to execute the initial 8MW data center by refurbishing an existi...

September 22, 2023

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