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Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For $205m

Digital Realty has announced the sale of a “mature” data center. The move is to ensure that more capital is available for new projects. Notably, the company did not reveal which building it sold or who acquired the facility. According to a release from the company, it has disposed of the prope...

August 15, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Google experiences widespread outage

This week, Google was down after experiencing an outage that impacted systems worldwide. As reported by DCD, this outage occurred shortly after an explosion at Google’s data center in Iowa - however, currently, it is unknown whether the two are related. According to Down Detector, the ou...

August 10, 2022

Google

365 Data Centers To Acquire Major Stake in Sungard US for $52.5m

365 Data Centers is looking to acquire the major stake in Sungard's US networking and colocation business. Earlier in the year, Sungard US, Canadian, and UK operations filed for bankruptcy. The company also sold most of its UK operations to MSP Redcentric and UK telecommunication company Daisy...

August 04, 2022

365 Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers opens Johannesburg Data Center

Vantage Data Centers has announced the ground-breaking of its first facility on its 80MW Johannesburg campus, a project which launched in 2021. The two-story facility called JHB11 reportedly offers 16MW of capacity of 130,000sqft square feet (12,000 square meters). According to the company, t...

July 28, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

QTS releases annual ESG report renewing commitment to sustainability and social responsibility

QTS recently published its annual ESG report, in which it highlighted its sustainability achievements and the different projects and initiatives it's pursuing in order to expand its commitment to social and environmental responsibility. This follows the company being named as one of America's ...

July 26, 2022

QTS Data Centers

Equinix signs wind PPA with Neoen

Equinix has announced that it has signed a second PPA with Neoen in Finland in a 10-year deal. The deal will see Neoen (which owns an 80% stake in the project) and project developer Prokon (owning 20%) provide at least 42MW of wind capacity from the 53MW Lumivaara wind park which is currently ...

July 26, 2022

Equinix

Equinix sued over alleged patent infringement

Equinix is being faced with a lawsuit from Cloud Conductor LLC, a multi-cloud management firm, over accusations that the colocation giant stole its technology that was placed in one of its data centers. According to the filing, Equinix began offering a cloud connectivity service identical to ...

July 25, 2022

Equinix

UK data center operators battle the heat with hosepipes, while Google and Oracle face service disruption

The UK’s heatwave pushed temperatures to a record-breaking 40C this week, causing transport delays and service disruptions. To battle the heat, some data center operators have been using hose pipes to cool their facilities. According to a report by Bloomberg, staff in London have been spraying...

July 20, 2022

Google

Vantage secures green loan for Virginia data enter

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has secured a $300 million green loan for its upcoming 44MW sustainability-designed data center in Virginia. Structured and arranged by Societe Generale, the loan recognizes the facility’s sustainable features and will, according to the company, “exp...

July 19, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

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

Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn

Stonepeak has revealed that it is acquiring a 29 percent stake in American Tower’s Coresite data center business. The investment firm will pay $2.5 billion for the stake in the business. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. According to an annou...

July 15, 2022

American Tower Corporation

American Tower Partners With Stonepeak in U.S. Data Center Business

BOSTON & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) and Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, today announced that Stonepeak, on behalf of certain affiliated investment vehicles, will acquire an ownership int...

July 11, 2022

American Tower Corporation

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

Landmark Dividend Acquires Data Center For Undisclosed Fee

Landmark Dividend, a subsidiary of DigitalBridge, has acquired an office and data center from GI Partners in Broomfield, Colorado. According to BizWest, An affiliate of Landmark Dividend, LD DI Assetco acquired the property from GI TC Broomfield LLC, an affiliate of GI Partners. The property i...

July 08, 2022

TIAA: Broomfield

Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU

Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporatio...

July 06, 2022

Equinix

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

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

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

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

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