August 31, 2021 Google
The Columbus City Council has voted 6 to 1 to approve over $54 million in tax breaks for Google’s proposed data center in Ohio. In return, the Company will have to provide 20 full-time jobs. Google first announced the facility in March. It was said to be a 150,000 square foot data center that...
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August 20, 2021 Meta
As the climate crisis reaches breaking point and the number of water-stressed regions across the US increase, Facebook, whose data centers consume huge amounts of water in areas plagued by water scarcity, has promised to reverse its environmental impact. According to Sylvia Lee, Facebook’s...
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August 20, 2021 Google
Google has announced that it will expand its New Albany data center campus in Ohio with an injection of $1 billion. It first broke ground on the campus back in 2019, and the project has seen $600 million of investment already. On top of its capacity expansion at the New Albany campus, the tech...
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August 17, 2021 Microsoft Azure
As part of its East US 3 Azure data center region, Microsoft wants to develop close to 1 million square feet of data center buildings in Douglasville, Georgia. Earlier in the year, Microsoft announced its plans for a new US Azure region. At the time of the announcement, the Company said it would...
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August 06, 2021 Microsoft Azure
With more and more data center companies committing to climate change initiatives, the industry is also looking at how it can make backup energy more sustainable too. For decades, diesel has served as the primary fuel for traditional backup generators - however, diesel fuels, whilst getting...
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August 06, 2021 Microsoft Azure
According to the principles of Moore’s law, technology will double in its capacity every two years. Although on the technological advancement front this is great news, with increased computer power comes challenges. The main challenge being increased excess heat and the need to cool it. A number...
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July 28, 2021 Google
Last month, the People Before Profit party in Ireland proposed an amendment to the Planning and Development act, to place a moratorium on new data centers being built. This proposal follows Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), launching a consultation on data center grid...
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July 24, 2021 GlobalConnect A / S
The data center industry is a multibillion-dollar industry. According to Gartner, end-user spending on data center infrastructure for 2020 was $188 billion, a 10.3% decrease from 2019’s spending. With these figures, we can reach a consensus that there’s a massive market available for data center...
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July 23, 2021 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is reportedly in talks with the Telangana government to construct one of its largest data centers with an investment of around USD$2- 2.25 billion (Rs 15,000 crore). If this goes ahead, it will make it one of the tech giant’s biggest investments outside of the US. According to Business...
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July 21, 2021 Microsoft Azure
In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power. Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...
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July 21, 2021 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is the latest company to pledge carbon-neutrality by 2030. Within the next 19 years, the tech giant promises to run all its global data centers and offices with zero-carbon energy. In a recent blog, written by Lucas Joppa, chief environmental officer and Noelle Walsh, CVP, cloud...
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July 06, 2021 Denmark
TDC Net, the Danish telecoms firm, has announced that it is moving forward with four new solar parks. This comes following TDC Net signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Better Energy. By 2023, the four farms will be capable of supplying 140GWh of energy each year. By 2028, the company...
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June 30, 2021 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud technology and intellectual property. It will also be making job offers to hundreds of AT&T engineers. As part of the deal, AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to Microsoft Azure. AT&T’s 5G core would be the starting point. This deal...
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June 29, 2021 Prime Data Centers
Prime Data Centers announces pre-lease of its new 9MW facility under construction in Santa Clara, California, to Cyxtera. Cyxtera will be leasing the entire four-story building facility with a total space of 121,000 square feet. Prime Data Centers first announced the facility's construction in...
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June 28, 2021 GlobalConnect A / S
GlobalConnect Group has announced that it has secured what it terms a ‘record debt refinancing’ worth €2.7 billion ($3.2 billion). A consortium of five Active Bookrunners, three Underwriters, and six Cornerstone Lenders coordinated by ING and SEB were responsible for the debt refinancing. The CFO...
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June 25, 2021 Prime Data Centers
Macquarie Capital has entered into a partnership with Prime Data Centers. It also made an undisclosed equity investment in Prime data center. However, both Companies claim that the partnership will give way for capital investments of over $5 billion over the next ten years. Furthermore, the...
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June 18, 2021 Microsoft Azure
According to reports from Bloomberg, Microsoft is looking to add four new data centers in China by Q1 of 2022. The report states that Microsoft wants to expand its service across Asia and opening data centers in China is a step towards achieving that. Asides from that, the Company also intends to...
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June 14, 2021 Penta Infra: Glostrup
Penta Infra has announced its expansion into the Nordics by acquiring Sentia Denmark's data center in Smedeland, Glostrup. Jakob Høholdt, Managing Director of Sentia Denmark, explained that the move to form a partnership with Penta Infra is due to the operating data center's not being Sentia's...
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June 04, 2021 Google
Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP). Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...
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June 01, 2021 Telia Company
STOCKHOLM, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Telia Company has today completed the divestment of Telia Carrier to Polhem Infra as all conditions, including regulatory approvals, have been met. On October 6, 2020, Telia Company announced the divestment of its subsidiary Telia Carrier to Polhem Infra,...
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