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Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW

ENGIE and Google are teaming up following the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA). The 12-year 100 MW PPA will see ENGIE deliver more than 5 TWh of green energy to Google from the Moray West project. The project is an offshore wind farm of nearly 900 MW, which is scheduled to...

December 02, 2022

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Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year PPA with German energy infrastructure developer ib vogt to procure solar energy in the province of Zamora in Spain. ib vogt began work on the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in September, which is expected to commence commercial operations i...

December 01, 2022

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Bedrock and Raeden Partner Up For Small Carrier Hotel in Detroit

Real estate company Bedrock has announced its plan for a new carrier hotel data center in Detroit, Michigan. The company said it is partnering with Raeden, a digital infrastructure platform provider, to launch the independent carrier hotel in the city. The new carrier hotel will be located on ...

November 18, 2022

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Adani, EdgeConneX JV AdaniConneX begin operations at hyperscale data center in Chennai

AdaniConneX, the joint venture between EdgeConneX and Adani Enterprises, has launched its first data center in Chennai, Chennai 1 Data Center. Its first phase will reportedly offer 17MW and 33MW of IT load at full build-out.“The wait is over! We proudly announce that our state-of-the-art Chenn...

November 09, 2022

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Google signs new PPA with SB Energy

This week, Google signed a 942 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with SB Energy to procure solar energy in Texas. The giant is set to purchase 75% of the renewable energy produced by four of the solar projects under development; the Orion 1-3 and Eiffel solar projects total 1.2GW and are proje...

November 07, 2022

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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

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Google Buys 36 Hectares in Belgium For Possible Data Center Development

Search engine and cloud Giant Google has acquired a 36-hectare plot outside Brussels, Belgium. According to a report, the land will likely be used for data center development. The terms of the acquisition were not revealed. The land is located in the Feluy Industrial Estate, 40KM south of Brus...

October 27, 2022

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EdgeConneX secures $150 Million in Sustainability-linked Financing for its Latin America expansion

EdgeConneX has reportedly secured $150 million in sustainability-linked financing for its expansion in Latin America. This follows the company obtaining a series of sustainability-linked financings earlier in 2022 totaling $1.7 Billion.The loan facility promotes EdgeConneX's sustainability ob...

October 18, 2022

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Google is Leasing a 464,000 Square Feet Data Center in Noida, India

Per information privy to CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm, Google has leased a 43,100 square meter (464,000 square feet) data center in Noida, India from Adani. The lease is to run for ten years and it will start with an annual rate of Rs130.98 crore ($16m). The agreement has alre...

October 13, 2022

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Google to open its first data center in Japan

Google is opening its first data center in Japan, it has announced. To be located in Inzai City, Chiba, the facility is part of the company's $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024 and is set to open by 2023. Google The data center, the company...

October 10, 2022

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EdgeConneX announces expansion plans in the Philippines

EdgeConneX has announced a partnership with Aboitiz, a local firm in the Philippines, alongside its plans to build two data centers around Manila; one near the National Capital Region of Manila and the second in the Greater Manila Area.Speaking about the partnership, Sabin Aboitiz, President,...

October 07, 2022

EdgeConneX

Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region

Google is reportedly close to buying a 30-hectare plot for its upcoming Berlin Google Cloud region in Germany having already signed corresponding preliminary contracts. According to reports by Maerkische Allgemeine, the site that it has chosen is in the Schenkendorf area of Mittenwalde, speci...

October 04, 2022

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T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1

Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the ...

September 26, 2022

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Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center

Google has announced that its land in Bissen, Luxemburg, has finally been reclassified for data center use. The company confirmed that construction can now begin on the land, which is planned for a €1 billion ($1bn) data center. Once completed, this will be one of the most significant const...

September 01, 2022

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Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore

Search engineer giant Google has announced opening of a new data center in Singapore. The company said in a statement: "We announced our first data center in Singapore in 2011, our second in 2015, and we recently hit another important milestone - with our third data center facility complete...

August 29, 2022

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Google To Launch Cloud Regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia

Google has announced its plans to launch three Cloud regions in the APAC region. The company plans to launch these regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia. Although its competitors like Microsoft Azure and AWS already have projects in the works in Malaysia and New Zealand, it is the fir...

August 17, 2022

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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

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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

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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

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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

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