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Read NTT and Prestige to develop 100MW data center in Bangalore
NTT and Prestige to develop 100MW data center in Bangalore

NTT and Prestige to develop 100MW data center in Bangalore

June 13, 2023 NTT

NTT has announced that it has partnered with Prestige Group for a new 100 MW data center in Bangalore, India. The deal will see the company develop a one million square feet area spread across multiple buildings and constructed in three phases. According to the companies, the first building is...

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Read Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024
Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

June 12, 2023 Equinix

Equinix is expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, with plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur called KL1, which, the company said, will provide greater digital infrastructure capacity in the country. The new facility, which follows the company's announcement of JH1 in Johor, will...

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Read Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy
Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy

Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy

June 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced the availability of its first cloud region in Italy. Consisting of three data centers located in the Lombardy region, the company said it guarantees the highest levels of security, privacy and performance. The region is pegged to accelerate the digital transition of...

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Read Digital Realty designs data center on Marseille sugar silo site
Digital Realty designs data center on Marseille sugar silo site

Digital Realty designs data center on Marseille sugar silo site

June 09, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty will construct a new data center on the site of an ancient sugar silo at the Port of Marseille-Fos, having won a bid to acquire and develop the land. The new MRS5 facility will reportedly encompass approximately 107,640 square feet and will be operational by the end of 2025....

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Read Iron Mountain and Web Werks invest $170m in Navi Mumbai data facility
Iron Mountain and Web Werks invest $170m in Navi Mumbai data facility

Iron Mountain and Web Werks invest $170m in Navi Mumbai data facility

June 09, 2023 Iron Mountain

Web Werks and Iron Mountain plan to invest 170 million dollars in a data facility in Navi Mumbai, India. The envisioned facility, Mumbai-3, will have a 32MW capacity and be constructed to Tier III specifications. The JV already owns a five-acre parcel to develop the data center, which is...

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Read Digital Realty gets $1.1 billion, sells Texas and Illinois data facilities
Digital Realty gets $1.1 billion, sells Texas and Illinois data facilities

Digital Realty gets $1.1 billion, sells Texas and Illinois data facilities

June 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a US data center company, has had an eventful week raising money and selling data centers. The company announced that it had raised over $1 billion through the sale of shares, with the money going to be used for expansion and debt reduction. Digital is selling the vast majority...

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Read CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.
CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.

CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.

June 07, 2023 CloudHQ

CloudHQ has purchased land in San Antonio, Texas, to construct a data center campus. The company has acquired nearly 123 acres of land in the Texas Research Park, just down the street from Microsoft's Bexar County facilities. The University of Texas System sold CloudHQ the land bounded by Lambda...

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Read Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri
Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

June 06, 2023 Rackspace

A data center occupied by Rackspace is for sale in Kansas City, Missouri. Collers are offering 10828 NW Airworld Drive as a "long-term NNN lease investment opportunity." No sale price was disclosed. The two-story, 77,545-square-foot building was built 1982 on 5.2 acres and came with a...

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Read Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai
Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

May 31, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is opening its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai, which, at full build-out, will offer 1,800 cabinets of capacity across two phases or a total footprint of 12,000 square meters (135,000 square feet). The facility will support the...

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Read Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong
Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

May 31, 2023 Rackspace

Rackspace is presently experiencing an outage across its European and Asia-Pacific data centers. In their SYD2, LON5, LON3, and HKG5 data centers, they encountered connectivity issues. Later, Rackspace announced that it had been discovered that any affected Linux VMs (virtual machines) would...

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Read HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations
HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations

HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations

May 30, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Following Human Rights Watch’s call for Microsoft to suspend plans in Saudi Arabia, 17 more groups have now joined the campaign, citing human rights concerns. The human rights groups have highlighted the government’s track record of infiltrating technology programs for spying purposes and its...

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Read Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand
Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand

Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand

May 27, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Contact Energy for geothermal energy in New Zealand. The 10-year PPA was reportedly signed in September 2022 and will see Contact provide Microsoft with all the renewable energy attributes generated by Contact's new 51.4MW Te Huka Unit 3...

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Read Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles
Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

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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Read Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign
Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

May 25, 2023 Meta

After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data centers,...

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Read Aligned Data Centers Concludes the Purchase of Odata
Aligned Data Centers Concludes the Purchase of Odata

Aligned Data Centers Concludes the Purchase of Odata

May 25, 2023 Aligned

Odata, a LATAM provider of data centers, has been fully acquired by Aligned Data Centers. According to Aligned, the transaction places the company among the biggest private data center owners in the Americas, with more than 2.5GW of critical capacity throughout over 40 data centers at full...

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Read rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta
rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

May 24, 2023 Meta

rPlus Energies has announced that it has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Idaho Power, which has a special energy services agreement with Meta; output from the project will go into the same grid supporting Meta's new Kuna data center. The Ada County, Idaho solar farm, known as...

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Read PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell
PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell

PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell

May 23, 2023 CyrusOne

Earlier this month, PowerHouse Data Centers announced a 30-year lease agreement with CyrusOne, for a spec-built data center, ABX-1, located in Ashburn, Virginia. The company shared that substantial completion of the data center, a two-story, 265,000 SF powered shell, is scheduled for October....

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Read CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company
CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company

CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company

May 23, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced its partnership with Japanese energy firm Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) for the development of new data centers across Japan. The 50:50 joint venture, called CyrusOne KEP, will see at least one trillion yen ($7 billion) invested in the project over the next...

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Read Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm
Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm

Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm

May 22, 2023 ServerFarm Realty

Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM) bought the majority of Serverfarm's shares. This week, the investment firm announced that, on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II and its affiliates, it had signed an official contract to acquire a controlling stake in Serverfarm. The terms of...

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Read NTT Will Invest $11b Over Five Years in Data Centers
NTT Will Invest $11b Over Five Years in Data Centers

NTT Will Invest $11b Over Five Years in Data Centers

May 19, 2023 NTT

Over the next five years, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) intends to invest $59 billion in data centers, AI, and other "growth areas." At least $11 billion will be allocated to expanding or modernizing its data centers. The digital industry, which includes AI and robotics, receives at least...

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