May 26, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has applied to construct a new data center in Los Angeles, California. The company has applied to construct a thirteen-story data center at 727 S Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The prospective applicant is GIP 7th Street LLC, a well-known subsidiary of Digital Realty. At...
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May 22, 2023 Penta Infra
Penta Infra has finished an expansion initiative at its Copenhagen, Denmark, data center. Penta, an Amsterdam-based private equity fund specializing in European data centers with operations in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Denmark, was established in 2015. Through a new financing...
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May 12, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Direct liquid cooling (DLC) capabilities have been implemented at Digital Realty's La Courneuve data center in Paris, France. According to the company, its new facility is capable of high-performance computing (HPC). Fabrice Coquio, SVP and managing director – France at Digital Realty stated that...
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May 08, 2023 Google
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the construction company Whiting-Turner alleging racial harassment and retaliation against former Black employees. The lawsuit centered on the company's role as the general contractor for the Google data center's...
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May 05, 2023 Google
Google and state officials announced on Wednesday that the company intends to construct two additional data centers in Ohio to support its artificial intelligence equipment and other tools. According to officials, with one data center already operational in the Columbus area, Google's total...
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May 01, 2023 AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge has announced that it has secured a new €725 million ($800m) sustainability-linked credit facility, which will be tied to targets focused on efficiency and renewable energy usage. According to the company, the financing package consists of €525 million in committed debt financing and an...
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April 28, 2023 Google
The Paris data center of Global Switch caught fire, bringing down Google services in Europe. According to a post to the French Network Operators Group, the fire seems to have been started by a cooling system water pump malfunction that caused water to leak into the battery room, sparking the...
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April 25, 2023 Google
Google has announced that it has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), EDPR NA Distributed Generation (EDPR NA DG), for solar energy in the US. This deal is reportedly the largest-ever corporate sponsorship for distributed generation signed between two companies in the US. Over 80...
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April 25, 2023 Google
Google has announced a merger between its DeepMind subsidiary and Google Research's Brain division, dubbed 'Google DeepMind, as it pursues its big AI push. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai outlined that this move will "significantly accelerate" the company's AI progress. This move may come...
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April 25, 2023 EdgeConneX
The construction of a new facility in Rishon will allow EdgeConneX, an innovator in global Hyperlocal to Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, to increase its data center impact in Israel. The new data center will meet the region's growing demand from hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and...
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April 19, 2023 Google
Google has announced that it has signed a new 10-year PPA with Eneco, a Dutch utility company, for 0.5TW/h of power, with a capacity of 153MW across the lifespan of the deal. The two wind farms the energy will be sourced from are the Fryslân offshore wind farm and the Kroningswind onshore wind...
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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 13, 2023 Google
Google has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with Luminus to source wind energy in Belgium. The 12-year deal will see the tech giant acquire 23.8MW of energy from the Belgium energy company, sourced from four new onshore wind projects. According to Google, the PPA in Belgium will keep...
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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 04, 2023 Google
Google has announced that it has launched a new cloud region located in Doha, Qatar, following the tech giant first announcing plans for expansion in this regard in 2020. The cloud region, the second that Google has launched this year, also launches alongside three availability zones and the...
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April 04, 2023 Google
Recent figures from S&P Global have revealed that the amount of renewable power purchased by data center operators has surged 50 percent in just a year. This latest figure now means that the sector utilizes two-thirds of the renewable power available to corporates in the US. The report...
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March 29, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced that it has successfully executed $3.3 billion in “innovative” sustainability-linked financing, which it said will enable the development of critical digital infrastructure to support customers' global data center requirements. For this, JGlobal awarded the company with...
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March 27, 2023 Google
Google has announced the development of a new Request for Proposal (RFP) system in collaboration with LevelTen Energy which it said will reduce the time required to sign a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). This development comes from Google to simplify RFPs for PPAs which it said are "lengthy,...
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March 24, 2023 Google
Google has introduced a new cloud region in Turin, Italy. The company did not disclose the new region's details or specs, although it did note that it has three availability zones and offers standard GCP services. After a busy 2022, it is the first new region the company has introduced in 2023....
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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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