December 20, 2023 Google
Google and AirTrunk have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy provider OX2 in Australia for the development of a new solar farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, from which Google and AirTrunk will receive 25MW of renewable power. Damien Spillane, AirTrunk chief customer...
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December 19, 2023 Yondr Group
Yondr Group has finally powered up its first data center in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, after breaking ground on the facility in October 2022. Once completed, this facility will be able to deliver 96MW of IT capacity across two buildings, with the potential for further expansion. Eanna...
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December 18, 2023 Google
Renewables transaction company LevelTen Energy has set up a marketplace for time-based energy certificates to support renewable energy commitments around he clock. The GC Trading Alliance, supported by Google, Microsoft, and others, will be a platform to exchange "granular certificates" that...
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December 14, 2023 Penta Infra
Penta Infra announced this week that it is looking to extend its footprints to Germany and has begun constructing a new colocation data center in Hamburg. Once completed, this facility will offer 4.4MW across 2,500 square meters of white space. It will also be able to offer heat re-use as the...
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December 11, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers is planning to expand data center operations into Taipei, Taiwan. The company announced this week that it is planning a new facility in Taipei called TPE1 data center and it is expected to be open in mid-2024. This new facility is being constructed on a 2-acre site. It is a...
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November 29, 2023 Google
Google recently announced that its data centers in Nevada will be powered by a new geothermal power plant. This project, originally announced by Google and Fervo in 2021, is a 5MW project that will use Google AI systems to help with its operations. Michael Terrell, senior director of energy and...
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November 28, 2023 Google
OpenAI has hired Google’s Todd Underwood to head a new Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads as it already has a functional team for the applied side working on inference and API products. The SRE concept originally started at Google, but has since spread...
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November 27, 2023 Google
OpenAI has hired Google’s Richard Ho as the head of hardware to lead the new division to help “influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings.” Ho had spent about 9 years at Google, leading one of the company’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units projects, with...
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November 22, 2023 Google
Mayor of the Skien municipality, Marius Roheim Aarvold has said claims that Google’s upcoming data center campus in Norway will require 860MW of power to support its planned data center campus in Gromstul, Skien municipality.are false. Local press had reported that Microsoft formerly applied for...
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November 14, 2023 Google
Google recently announced that it will be launching its Saudi Arabian cloud region this week. Anthony Cirot, Google Cloud’s EMEA South VP, posted on LinkedIn, “I'm thrilled to share an exciting milestone in Google Cloud's journey: the launch of our new cloud region in Saudi Arabia. This marks a...
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November 10, 2023 Lumen Technologies
The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is an...
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November 03, 2023 Google
Google has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure renewable energy in Poland . Following this agreement with Polsat Plus Group, Google will now offtake from the company’s wind farm in Przyrów to power Google Cloud’s operations. Tara Brady, president, Google Cloud EMEA said,...
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November 02, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has finalized an investment partnership with DigitalBridge and a consortium of investors led by MEAG and Infranity for some of its European data center assets. The collaboration between both companies consists of six data center facilities across Europe, valued at around €2.5...
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November 01, 2023 Vodafone
Vodafone has confirmed the sale of its Spanish business to UK investment firm Zegona for $5.3 billion. Once the transaction is completed, Vodafone will get about €4.1 billion in cash and up to €0.9bn in the Redeemable Preference Shares. Margherita Della Valle, chief executive of Vodafone, said,...
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October 30, 2023 Google
Cloud companies Proximus and LuxConnect recently launched a joint venture to offer Google Cloud services through a sovereign cloud. This venture called the Clarence JV, aims to provide a "disconnected sovereign cloud solution to governments, regulated companies, international organizations and...
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October 16, 2023 Lumen Technologies
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...
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October 10, 2023 Google
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...
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October 07, 2023 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...
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October 04, 2023 NTT
NTT Docomo has partnered with semiconductor company Nvidia to deploy a GPU-accelerated wireless solution in its network in Japan. This partnership will make it the first telco in the world to deploy a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network. A blog post by Nvidia noted that this partnership...
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October 04, 2023 NTT
NTT Docomo announced on September 26, 2023, that it has agreed with JTowers on a deal to share its current telecommunication tower infrastructure. This agreement enables an ownership transfer of an additional 1,552 Docomo towers to JTower for 17 billion yen ($114 million). This comes after Docomo...
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