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Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

Microsoft has announced that it added new availability zones to its Zurich Azure region. Availability zones are data center locations that are physically separate but still within the same cloud region, offering redundancy against failures in a particular location. Typically, most new regions ...

June 08, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas

Google has announced a new cloud region in Dallas, Texas. In a statement by the company, it said it is happy to expand its presence in Texas by launching a new cloud region in Dallas, making it the second region in the central US and the eleventh in North America. This is the company’s firs...

June 08, 2022

Google

Engie & Google Cloud AI to predict wind power

French multinational utility company Engie has announced that it will be teaming up with Google Cloud to use AI to predict wind power and optimize its portfolio, making it the first customer of the giant's AI technology. Engie will be utilizing Google's DeepMind technology, which was first ann...

June 06, 2022

Google

Supernap Thailand Shareholders Mulling Over Sale

According to reports, Supernap Thailand investors are looking to sell their stake in the business. Some shareholders including Kasikornbank Pcl and Siam Commercial Bank are working with financial advisers to make the sale possible. Supernap Thailand is said to be worth up to $800m. Supern...

June 02, 2022

Switch

AWS, biometrics and human rights

AWS is under pressure to drop a contract it holds with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which will see it host the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric database, which, according to a recent report by Mijente, Just Futures Law and the Immigrant Defense Project, h...

May 27, 2022

Amazon AWS

Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region

Google has announced the launch of its new cloud region in Columbus, Ohio. The company noted that the new cloud region (us-east5) would provide users with the availability and speed needed to serve local customers, innovate quicker, and develop high-performing applications. Google first ann...

May 25, 2022

Google

New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact

Over the last few years, tech giants have made big claims regarding carbon emissions and their sustainability efforts, yet, despite many of them claiming to be carbon neutral, a new report has found that their investments' carbon footprint is, in fact, greater than all the emissions created by...

May 24, 2022

Google

Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for solar energy in California and another Georgia, with Terra-Gen and Georgia Power, respectively. The former is for a 12-year agreement with Terra-Gen, which will support the development of the 130MW Edwards Sa...

May 20, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

Investment and real estate firms Harrison Street and Lincoln Property Company plan to develop an industrial campus and data center in New Albany, Ohio. Both companies have formed a joint venture for this purpose. The JV has purchased a 190-acre site to develop a multipurpose technology and dis...

May 19, 2022

Ohio

AWS To Develop Third Campus in Hilliard, Ohio

BizJournal reports that Amazon Web Services is looking to develop a third data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio. Hilliard’s economic development director, David Meadows, told BizJournal, that AWS will start developing a 151-acre site located at 4120 Scioto Darby Road, near I-270. The planne...

May 19, 2022

Amazon AWS

GI Partners Buys Sentinel's 22262 Cloud Plaza in Sterling, Virginia

GI Partners has completed the acquisition of a data center in Sterling, Virginia. The investment firm announced that it acquired the 22262 Cloud Plaza from Sentinel Data Centers. The companies did not reveal the terms of the deal. 22262 Cloud Plaza was first launched and fully commissioned ...

May 19, 2022

GI Partners

DataBank To Develop a 40MW Data Center at Newly Acquired Property

DataBank has announced the acquisition of an existing data center and 18-acre land in Atlanta, Georgia. The property acquired is located at 200 Selig Drive, Atlanta. Although the company did not reveal the transaction terms, CoStar reports that DataBank paid $10.9 million for the property. ...

May 18, 2022

DataBank

Stream Data Centers Announces New Investment Vehicle For Data Centers

Stream Data Centers has announced the launch of a new investment vehicle to make investments in stabilized facilities across the United States. The company revealed that it would use the new investment platform to make wholly-owned investments in data center opportunities in the country, fo...

May 17, 2022

Stream Data Centers

Stream Data Centers makes moves in Texas

Stream Data Centers has announced that it is planning a new facility in Wilmer in Dallas County, Texas, near Interstate 45. That said, the company is yet to make an official announcement and news of the new development comes from planning filings picked up by Dallas News. As per the report pub...

May 16, 2022

Stream Data Centers

New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends

According to a newsletter from Christian Koch’s Foundations, New York Internet (NYI) will be taking over a space in 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel currently occupied by Equinix. Equinix announced in May 2021 that it would be exiting some of its leased data centers in the US. One of those fa...

May 16, 2022

Equinix

Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin

Equinix has announced its involvement in a new district heating system project in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The data center company is teaming up with Codema, the Dublin energy agency, which will begin by carrying out a feasibility study. The project will reportedly be based around Equinix's DB...

May 13, 2022

Equinix

Evoque To Develop a 100MW Facility in Nashville

Evoque has announced that it is developing a data center campus outside Nashville in Gallatin, Tennessee. Evoque is working with Archer Datacenters to provide data center capacity at an existing data center while expanding the site further. The 28.5-acre site is located at 1398 Gateway Driv...

May 13, 2022

Csquare

DigitalBridge and IFM Taking Switch Private For $11 billion

DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors have entered an agreement with Switch to take it private. The deal to take the US data center company private is worth $11 billion. The CEO and Founder of Switch, Rob Roy, said the development is a crucial moment in the company’s vision for its evolution a...

May 12, 2022

Switch

Culpeper County sued by neighbors over rezoning

According to reports, residents in Culpeper County, Virginia, are suing the county board after it approved the rezoning of a 230-acre property for an AWS data center. The giant is seeking to build two six-story data centers, a 12-acre power station and new power lines, however, six landowners ...

May 10, 2022

Amazon AWS

INAP Sells Its Network Business To Unitas Global

Unitas Global has bought INAP’s network business. By so doing, INAP will now become Unitas Global’s customer. Per the agreement, Unitas will take over INAP’s routing software called Managed Internet Route Optimizer (MIRO). MIRO will be integrated into Unitas’ global network Unitas Reach. Th...

May 10, 2022

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