May 27, 2021 Meta
A new study into the impacts of Facebook's renewable energy projects was recently released. The report, commissioned by Facebook, and conducted by RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, revealed the social media company's renewable energy efforts have had widespread positive economic...
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May 19, 2021 Google
Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a...
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May 18, 2021 Google
Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware...
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May 15, 2021 Google
Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to...
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December 08, 2020 atNorth
Advania Data Centers, a high-density computing technology company headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, announced today that it had changed its name and will now be known as atNorth. Among the other changes will be its logo, tagline, and domain name to atnorth.com. "Rebranding is a logical step...
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October 07, 2020 Apple
T5 has announced that it has acquired an enterprise data center in Newark, CA. The description matches an Apple data center near Fremont. It's a legacy site and Apple is continuing to build monster data center campuses, so it makes sense that the iPhone make would divest the property. The nearest...
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September 03, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center
Apple has announced that it has launched its Danish data center in Foulum just outside of Viborg. In the announcement, Apple also shared that it will invest in the construction of two large onshore wind turbines in Esbjerg to source clean power for the site. The Esbjerg wind project is in...
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April 15, 2020 Google
Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The...
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April 01, 2020 Microsoft Azure
SUNeVision Holdings Ltd, a Data centre provider in Hong Kong, has announced a new Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute on-ramp. Enterprises will have the ability to directly connect to Azure in MEGA-i, either through an onsite point of presence (PoP) or via telco partners, managed service providers or...
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December 03, 2019 Bulk Infrastructure: Esbjerg Denmark DK01
Bulk Infrastructure has opened a new data center campus in Esbjerg, on the west coast of Denmark. The 50 sqm campus can initially support to 20 megawatts and there is room for expansion. It took Bulk six months to build the first facility on the campus and anchor customers have already installed...
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June 11, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center
Apple has canceled plans to construct a data center in Kassø, Denmark citing 'business decision.' Apple also plans to sell the land, with no intention to construct anything else on the property, a statement from the municipality reads. It's unknown how this will impact the planned Google data...
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April 25, 2019 Apple
AppleInsider reports that Apple's spending on Amazon Web Services is declining. This makes sense, as Apple continues to build their own data centers, their reliance on 3rd party cloud services will decline. That said, Apple needs to work out a better "edge" CDN solution to deliver their content...
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March 25, 2019 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is reportedly building two new datacenters in Sweden, according to Swedish Newspaper Gefle Dagblad (via MSN). It was previously reported in December that the company had acquired 130 hectares of land in the municipalities of of Gävle and Sandviken, near the Swedish capital Stockholm....
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March 06, 2019 Meta
Facebook plans to sell excess fiber on its owned long haul routes that interconnect Facebook data centers. As part of the plan, Facebook will allow local and regional network providers to acquire capacity. Fast Facts: Initially, Facebook is focused on the network connecting their data centers in...
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February 07, 2019 Google
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Chile in...
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November 20, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center
Alphabet’s Google is to invest 600 million euros ($685.98 million) to build its first data center in Denmark.In a blog post, Google’s Vice President for Global Data Centers, Joe Kava, said the facility would be located just outside Fredericia, in the west of the country. Kava added that Google...
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November 30, 2017 Hyperscale Data Center
Google has acquired a 131 hectares of land in the Aabenraa Municipality of Denmark. “I am pleased and proud that Google has chosen Aabenraa Municipality. It confirms that we have the potential to become a data centre cluster for the world’s largest IT companies,” said Mayor Thomas Andresen. “We...
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June 30, 2017 GlobalConnect A / S
Global Connect has entered into an agreement to acquire Nianet, the Danish electricity companies' joint fibre net provider. Nianet was established in 2003 and owned jointly by 13 Danish energy companies. Nianet, which has approximately 150 employees, provides Internet and data center...
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May 22, 2017 Telia Company
Telia Company acquires 100 percent of Nebula Top Oy, a Finnish provider of cloud services to SME and SoHo customers, at an enterprise value of EUR 165 million on a cash and debt free basis. The transaction will ensure Telia’s competitive position in the SME and SoHo segments. Nebula Top Oy was...
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December 20, 2016 GlobalConnect A / S
EQT Infrastructure acquires GlobalConnect A/S, the leading alternative provider of B2B data communication services in Denmark GlobalConnect operates in the highly attractive fiber infrastructure sector, a core market for EQT where it holds significant industry expertise EQT Infrastructure is...
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