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Telia joins job-cut wave

Telia joins the big tech job cuts with the announcement that it is cutting 1,500 jobs this year, 1000 in the first quarter, and the rest throughout the year. According to the company, it has been aiming to reduce its workforce by around 1000 a year, since 2021, in line with its restructuring p...

February 01, 2023

Telia Company

Digital Realty explores biofuel for backup energy in Spain

Digital Realty is the latest data center company to explore the use of biofuel for backup energy. Through partnering with Spanish energy company Repsol, the company has announced the first data center to switch out fossil fuels for biofuel is its MAD3 facility in Spain, which offers 5.8MW of ...

January 31, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft expands in Des Moines, Iowa

Microsoft has announced that it is expanding in Iowa, following the issuing of a permit, valued at $255 million for a data center at 5855 SW Kerry St. As per the permit, the facility will span 250,000 sq ft.Described as the DSM 12 Buildout and located in West Des Moines, the SW Kerry Street s...

January 31, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty joins forces with Mainova for district heating scheme in Frankfurt

Digital Realty and Mainova AG have signed a letter of intent for a joint project to explore a potential waste heat project in Frankfurt, which could heat approximately 3,600 households. In partnership, the data center firm, and German energy firm are conducting a feasibility study to decipher...

January 24, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft forms cloud agreement with Suncorp

Suncorp Group and Microsoft have announced a three-year agreement, which will witness Suncorp increase its cloud footprint in Microsoft Azure while it winds down on-premise data centers. Suncorp has outlined its intentions to migrate 90% of workloads to the cloud by the end of this year. Its r...

January 19, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Historic black cemetery erased for Microsoft data center development

Following an extensive investigation by ProPublica, it has been found that Microsoft and local officials in rural Virginia helped erase a historic black cemetery by downplaying its cultural significance in order to pursue data center development.Back in 2014, when the giant was looking to expa...

January 10, 2023

Microsoft Azure

AtlasEdge To Develop Two Data Centers in Manchester, UK

AtlasEdge has announced its plan to build two data centers in Manchester, UK. The company secured permission for two data center buildings in Salford, Manchester. This will be the company’s first development since it was established in 2021. AtlasEdge filed for the buildings in May 2022 and...

December 16, 2022

AtlasEdge

Microsoft plans gas plant at Dublin Campus over energy constraint concerns

Microsoft has announced plans to build an 'unprecedentedly large-scale gas power plant' at its Grange Castle site, an upcoming data center development, due to its concerns about Ireland's energy grid constraints. According to the giant, plans are to build a 170 MW on-site power plant alongsid...

December 12, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty’s Lamda Hellix Developing Fourth Data Center in Athens, Greece

Digital Realty's Greek data center unit Lamda Helix has announced plans to develop its fourth data center in Athens, Greece. The company's data center campus currently has two carrier-neutral data centers with a total capacity of 22 MW. It is also developing two more on the site. Lamda Heli...

December 09, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft To Develop a $400m Data Center in Stone Ridge, Virginia

According to BizJournal, Microsoft has plans to develop a new data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The publication cited the Loudoun County records for its information. Microsoft’s plan is to develop a $400 million facility on a 67-acre land it owns in the Arcola Business Park. The IAD11 d...

December 06, 2022

Microsoft Azure

STACK Infrastructure and ESR Form JV To Develop 72MW Facility in Osaka

Stack Infrastructure has partnered with ESR Group Limited to develop a 72MW data center campus in Osaka, Japan. The JV will see the companies develop the facility in Keihanna, Osaka. Stack and ESR schedule that the development of the first of three buildings will start in Q4 2023. The build...

December 05, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering

Digital Realty has announced that it is offering a $350 million note to the public. In addition, its Digital Core Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), listed in Singapore, will buy a stake in a Digital Realty-owned data center in Germany. The company noted that it is priced an underwritten ...

December 02, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has started work on a new facility in Virginia. The groundbreaking ceremony of the NVAL3 hyperscale data center campus took place this week. The data center’s first phase will deliver 36MW of capacity in a single building by Q1 2024. In addition, t...

December 01, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Microsoft files to build two data centers in San Jose, California

Microsoft has filed to build two new data centers at a site in San Jose, California, it has been reported. The proposal details plans for two-building on a 632,000-square-foot campus on 22 vacant acres near the intersection of Orchard Parkway and Component Drive. These two new additions have ...

November 24, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs further PPAs in Ireland

Microsoft has signed CPPAs with Statkraft, Energia Group, and Power Capital Renewable Energy, for 900MW to cover its data center operations in Ireland and 28% of Ireland's renewable energy target for 2030. By 2025, the giant expects to power 100% of its Irish facilities with renewable energy....

November 24, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft To Invest $1 Billion on Four Data Centers in North Carolina

Microsoft has promised to invest a minimum of $1 billion in developing four data centers in North Carolina’s Catawba County. The company plans to spread the investment over the next 10 years. According to county officials, Microsoft will invest in the data centers in Maiden, Hickory, and Conov...

November 13, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs wind PPA with Potentia and Greengate

Microsoft has entered into a 15-year power-purchase agreement with Potentia Renewables Inc. (Potentia) and Greengate Power Corporation's (Greengate) Paintearth Wind Project LP. As per the PPA, Microsoft will procure wind energy from the 198MW Paintearth Wind Project in Paintearth County, Albe...

November 10, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Stack to develop new data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona

Stack has announced that it’s developing a new 230 MW data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring five buildings on a 50-acre site. This site, which will span 1.7 million square feet (157,935 sqm), is the company’s second in the state and will run on 100% renewable energy, built with a ...

November 08, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Lumen To Sell its EMEA Operation to Colt For $1.8 Billion

Lumen has announced that it will sell its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations to Colt in a $1.8 billion deal. The deal will see Lumen divest its EMEA business, including its data centers, terrestrial and subsea networks, and network equipment in the EMEA region, to Colt. The deal...

November 07, 2022

Lumen Technologies

Microsoft files for another Virginia campus

Microsoft has reportedly filed to build another data center campus in Clarksville, Virginia, with the US Army Corps Of Engineers’ Norfolk District. As per the application, the company is looking to develop on a 259.1-acre parcel of land at the Lakeside Commerce Park, at Commerce Drive in Sout...

October 28, 2022

Microsoft Azure

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