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QTS Buys Properties in Phoenix and The Netherlands

QTS Realty Trust has acquired up to 400 acres of land in Phoenix, Arizona, for $255 million. The data center REIT also acquired land in the Netherlands for $9 million. QTS acquired the Phoenix property from First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. and Merit Partners Inc. QTS currently operates a ...

July 18, 2022

QTS Data Centers

Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software

Tech giants, Google and Microsoft, have announced that they've invested in the carbon accounting startup FlexiDAO, which has now raised €6.1 million for its service that monitors the renewable energy that companies buy and the associated carbon emissions hour-by-hour and 24/7. While both Googl...

July 08, 2022

Google

Alibaba strives to keep up with Microsoft, Amazon and Google with carbon counting

In an effort to keep up with the likes of tech rivals like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, Alibaba has announced that it is launching Energy Expert, a so-called 'sustainability platform' which will facilitate the organization's measuring, analyzing and managing of carbon emissions. This global l...

July 08, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen

As green hydrogen turns the heads of big investors, Amazon, Equinor, and others have announced they are backing energy startup Electric Hydrogen (EH2) with a $198 million round, led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech. EH2 is reportedly working on a ‘100MW-minimum’ electrolyzer technology for industria...

July 08, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity"

Microsoft Azure has announced that worldwide its data centers are now operating with a limited server capacity available to customers as a result of a global supply shortage. The company has over 200 data centers across the world, stretching across 60 regions - however, reports indicate that ...

July 07, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft To Launch New Azure Region in Qatar

Microsoft has announced that it will launch its Qatar Azure cloud region in two weeks. The general manager of Microsoft Qatar, Lana Khalaf, made this known at the launch of new offices in Doha, Qatar. He said: “In the coming two weeks we will be launching the region globally, but definitely th...

July 01, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Pantheon Invests $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers

Pantheon Infrastructure has announced that it will be investing $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers. The investment will be geared towards the data center company’s North American business for continued growth. Vantage has data center campuses in Quebec, Montreal, Phoenix, Ashburn, Quincy, and S...

July 01, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

Google's data plans in Saudi Arabia: Lives at risk

Back in December 2020, Google announced that it had signed an agreement with state-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco to set up a Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia and offer Enterprise Cloud services. From the outset, this was a controversial move. Saudi Arabia is notorious for its human rights...

June 28, 2022

Google

Lincoln and Harrison Street To Develop a 144MW Data Center Campus on New Site in New Albany

Lincoln Property Company and Harrison Street have announced that they have broken ground on a new property in New Albany, Ohio. The two companies acquired a 190-acre site last month to develop a multi-use technology and distribution park. The park will be designed for data center and industria...

June 28, 2022

Lincoln Property Company

DartPoints Is Expanding its Data Center in Greenville, South Carolina

DartPoints has announced that it is expanding its facility in Greenville, South Carolina. The company is upgrading the facility’s electrical systems and adding more capacity to the data center. According to DartPoints, the expansion will help local businesses. DartPoints will be upgrading i...

June 24, 2022

DartPoints

Sustainable financing for EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it has secured $1.7 billion in sustainability-linked debt financing, including the company's first-ever Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS) and multi-currency term loan (ESG Term Loan). The company will reportedly use this to finance its growth and keep up with eve...

June 23, 2022

EdgeConneX

Microsoft teams up with Eaton to enhance sustainability

Eaton has announced that it will expand its collaboration with Microsoft as part of a new strategic agreement between the two to address major industry developments, including "digital transformation, sustainability and the energy transition." According to the companies, a key feature of the p...

June 23, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Google Breaks Ground on Its $300m Ohio Data Center

Google has broken ground on a new facility in Columbus, Ohio. The site for the new data center was previously used for a snake oil farm. Last year, the company first revealed plans for the 14,000 square meters (150,000 square foot) data center. According to the company, the facility will cost ...

June 23, 2022

Google

Aligned To Develop a 100MW Facility in Salt Lake City, Utah

Aligned has announced that it is developing a new data center in Salt Lake, Utah. The data center will be called SLC-03, and it will be developed on its campus in West Jordan, Utah. The development will see Aligned add over 100MW capacity to the West Jordan campus. When this happens, it wil...

June 23, 2022

Aligned

Google Acquires Land in Finland For Possible Data Center Development

Google has acquired 50 hectares of land in Hamina, Finland, for €4.3 million ($4.5m). The land is also located next to the company’s existing sea-cooled data center. The existing data center was acquired from Stora Enso, a Finnish paper company in 2009. It also opened the data center in 201...

June 23, 2022

Google

Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM

Google has announced it has opened a cloud region, in Milan, Italy, in partnership with TIM, namely the Europe-west8 region, its first in this region, following both AWS and Microsoft doing the same. According to the giant, it will bring on a second in Turin, which will happen over the next f...

June 21, 2022

Google

AWS Acquires 58-Acre Land in Virginia For Data Center Development

According to BizJournal, Amazon Web Services has acquired a 58.5-acre land in Prince William County, Virginia, for $87.8m. Local County records also show that the land is located at 5845 Wellington Road, Gainesville. Interestingly, the company also acquired a 58.5-acre plot in April last year....

June 21, 2022

Amazon AWS

Vantage announces the opening data center campuses in Warsaw and Berlin

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has launched a data center campus in both Poland and Germany, the former is in Warsaw, and its first step into the Polish market, while the latter is its campus in Berlin, which is the company’s second venture into Germany. Vantage has now completed ...

June 17, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

Microsoft has announced that it will be using renewable natural gas to fuel its backup energy at its San Jose data center, which is currently under construction. This move aligns with the company’s target of being carbon negative by 2030, and the project will also provide power locally with em...

June 16, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future

AWS has announced its plans to launch hundreds of Local Zones to expand its Edge cloud network extensively. Local Zones serve as Edge locations hosting applications that need low latency to final users or on-premises installations. Some of the services the zone offers include database, storage...

June 15, 2022

Amazon AWS

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