March 25, 2022 Google
Google Cloud and Japanese super bank Mizuho Financial Group have signed a strategic partnership. The agreement will see the Japanese firm shift some of its services to the cloud. This move comes after the company experienced multiple serious outages in 2021. The group CEO and president of Mizuho,...
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March 23, 2022 Google
Controversy continues to envelop Project Nimbus, with fresh allegations made against Google in its handling of dissenting employees. Project Nimbus is a contract that both Google and Amazon (AWS) have with the Israeli government to provide its agencies with cloud services. Since its announcement,...
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March 18, 2022 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its operations in Canada with significant developments. The company is looking to expand its existing facilities in Quebec and Montreal while developing a new campus in Montreal. It will be investing CAD$900 million (US$713m) in the...
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March 10, 2022 Google
Google has announced that it is acquiring Mandiant for $5.4 billion. This will be Google’s second-largest acquisition in history. Mandiant is a cybersecurity firm founded in 2004. The firm offers many threat detection and response services. Mandiant will also be joining Google Cloud upon the...
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February 25, 2022 NTT
On top of its Vienna 1 facility near Wienerberg, NTT is keeping bees. The company says that it decided to embark on this project based on the location of its facility, which is near a natural recreation area. Those on the team said that the project also allows the on-site team to “enjoy the...
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February 24, 2022 NTT
NTT has announced that in addition to opening its new data center, Hemel Hempstead 4, in London, it also intends to expand another of its facilities in the city. The company's newest facility opened in December 2021, with half of its capacity available. When fully built out beyond phase one, it...
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February 24, 2022 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage is commencing the second phase of development at its 55MW EU campus (FRA1) in Frankfurt, Germany. Located in Offenbach, this second phase will see the construction of a 16MW capacity, 13,000 square meters (140,000 square feet) facility, which will be operational in the first half of 2024....
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February 24, 2022 NTT
Automation is slowly but surely gaining more of a presence in the data center industry. According to reports, 86% of companies in the industry are expecting to dedicate more of their budgets for data-center network automation over the next two years. As data demand skyrockets, AI and automation...
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February 22, 2022 Google
Google Cloud has launched Carbon Sense, an updated version of its tool for reporting and reducing carbon emissions. This new suite features Carbon Footprint (launched last year), a tool that measures the carbon emissions of Google customers' cloud usage, and an expanded version of Active Assist,...
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February 15, 2022 NorthC Datacenters
NorthC's data center in Groningen is to be the first in Europe to use green hydrogen fuel cells (H2), created through electrolysis. According to the company, the 1.5MW facility will have 500kW of fuel cells. This will reportedly save tens of thousands of liters of diesel a year, the equivalent of...
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February 11, 2022 Google
Nearly every day, it seems another tech company has made another big green pledge; however, according to the nonprofit NewClimate Institute, big tech's promises to deliver on sustainability are not leading to action. Lacking real substance, according to the report, even the companies that are...
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February 10, 2022 Google
Google has still not started work on its proposed $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota. The search engine giant announced plans for the data center in 2019, yet, the two companies involved said they hadn’t abandoned the project. At the time of the announcement, Google said it was mulling...
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February 04, 2022 AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge Data Centers has announced the acquisition of a data center in Leeds, UK. It bought Cornelius House from Leeds Data Centre LLP. The facility is the largest purpose-built data center in the whole of Yorkshire city. The 11,000 square feet (1,020 square meters) facility has been in...
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January 28, 2022 maincubes one GmbH
Maincubes has revealed its plans to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. It also wants to develop its first data center in Berlin, Germany. Maincubes first announced plans for the FRA02 data center in July 2021. It also broke ground on the data center while scheduling the facility...
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January 28, 2022 Penta Infra
Penta Infra has announced that it has raised €75 million ($83.5m) in a financing deal tied to sustainability targets. Penta Infra is a Dutch data center firm with a focus on European data centers. It has facilities in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Penta owns 11 data centers across these...
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January 25, 2022 Google
Google's Council Bluffs data center is complete, it has announced. This means the giant's investment in the city has now reached $5 billion. Speaking about the company's investment in the area, Council Bluffs Mayor Matt Walsh said in a press release: "Google's $5 billion of capital investment...
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January 21, 2022 Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract from the US Department of Agriculture. Lumen is to deliver a fully integrated wide-area data transport service to over 9,500 US Department of Agriculture locations across the country and around the world. With this contract, Lumen will offer a...
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December 31, 2021 VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd
Construction firm Skanska has been awarded the contract of developing the Virtus London11 data center. The company is in charge of developing the £53 million ($70m) data center with work scheduled to begin on the site this month. The facility is also scheduled to be completed in the Spring of...
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December 27, 2021 Google
Google has completed the acquisition of hundreds of acres of lands in Kansas City’s Northland. The search engine giant plans to develop data centers at the site. According to Kansas City Business Journal, property records show that Google bought 236.4 acres of land to the north of Hunt Midwest....
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December 15, 2021 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has broken ground on additional campuses in two of its existing strategic EMEA markets in both Frankfurt and Berlin. The Berlin campus will have 32MW of critical IT capacity and is due to be operational in the summer of 2022. Meanwhile, the Frankfurt...
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