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Read Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty
Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty

Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty

March 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

At a data center in Switzerland, Digital Realty has installed a robotic dog to do routine inspections. Anybotics has detailed how Digital Realty has utilized its Anymal robot dog for data center checks for over a year in a published case study. Anymal is a quadruped robot that resembles Boston...

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Read Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading
Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

March 01, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

With the extending of its collaboration with Options Technology, a top provider of capital markets services, Digital Realty, the top global provider of cloud or carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, has made its suite of managed financial markets services offered...

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Read A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.
A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.

A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.

February 20, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Second Manassas LLC plans to build a 185,000-square-foot, one-story data center at 9905 Godwin Road in Manassas, as previously reported by Potomac Local News and InsideNoVa. The current Glen-Gary brickyard, which opened about 1964 and shut down in 2019, is being demolished for the...

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Read iColo launches new facility in Maputo, Mozambique
iColo launches new facility in Maputo, Mozambique

iColo launches new facility in Maputo, Mozambique

February 09, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty's iColo has announced that it has launched a new data center, located in Maputo, Mozambique, namely MPM1. The campus spans 9500 sqm, with 350 sqm of rentable space, equivalent to 80 racks in the first phase of development. The company has shared that the facility will be the local...

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Read Digital Realty invests in photovoltaics through ENGIE PPA
Digital Realty invests in photovoltaics through ENGIE PPA

Digital Realty invests in photovoltaics through ENGIE PPA

February 08, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed an agreement with Engie to procure solar power. Through the 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) the company inked, it will have access to 116 megawatts (MW) of a new 154 MW ground-mounted solar photovoltaic project, which is currently under...

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Read Digital Realty and Brookfield Start Data Center Construction in Chennai, India
Digital Realty and Brookfield Start Data Center Construction in Chennai, India

Digital Realty and Brookfield Start Data Center Construction in Chennai, India

February 08, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

BAM Digital Realty has begun construction on its first data center in India. This week, the company, a partnership between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, revealed that building of a data center in Chennai has begun and is on schedule to be completed by the end of the year. MAA10,...

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Read Digital Realty explores biofuel for backup energy in Spain
Digital Realty explores biofuel for backup energy in Spain

Digital Realty explores biofuel for backup energy in Spain

January 31, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

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...

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

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

January 24, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

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...

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

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

December 09, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

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 Helix...

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Read Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering
Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering

Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering

December 02, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

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 PO of...

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Read NTT & Digital Realty To Develop Data Centers in Garland, Texas
NTT & Digital Realty To Develop Data Centers in Garland, Texas

NTT & Digital Realty To Develop Data Centers in Garland, Texas

October 25, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty and NTT are looking to develop new data centers in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The firms filed applications for the new data centers with the State’s Department of Licensing. The plots of land in question are within one mile of one another. Digital Realty plans to develop a...

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Read Digital Realty files to build data center in Chicago
Digital Realty files to build data center in Chicago

Digital Realty files to build data center in Chicago

September 28, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has reportedly filed to construct a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The application for construction on the facility outlines that it would span 565,000-square-foot (52,500 sqm) as a 13-story building at 321-337 E. 21st Street, which is opposite 350 E Cermak carrier hotel....

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Read Indoor vertical farm on the way for former Digital Realty data center in Herndon, Virginia
Indoor vertical farm on the way for former Digital Realty data center in Herndon, Virginia

Indoor vertical farm on the way for former Digital Realty data center in Herndon, Virginia

September 14, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

In Virginia, a former Digital Realty data center is gearing up for a dramatic transformation. Located in Herndon, the company’s old data center will become an agricultural facility, specifically a vertical farm. Vertical farms have similar power, water, and air conditioning requirements to data...

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Read Environmental group launches appeal against Interxion's proposal for two data centers in Dublin
Environmental group launches appeal against Interxion's proposal for two data centers in Dublin

Environmental group launches appeal against Interxion's proposal for two data centers in Dublin

September 09, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Environmentalists are appealing against two data centers Interxion is planning to build in Dublin. The appeal, lodged with An Bord Pleanála (ABP) by John Conway and Louth Environmental Group, argues that there are a "disproportionate" number of data centers in the area and that the facilities'...

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Read Digital Realty Expanding in Dallas, Texas With $59m Data Center
Digital Realty Expanding in Dallas, Texas With $59m Data Center

Digital Realty Expanding in Dallas, Texas With $59m Data Center

August 23, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has plans to develop a new facility in Dallas, Texas. The data center firm filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop the data center in the Lewisville area of Dallas. The company coined the development ‘Project Gold’ and is looking to invest up to $59m...

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Read Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For $205m
Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For  $205m

Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For $205m

August 15, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

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...

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Read Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta
Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

June 16, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 300,000...

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Read Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development
Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

June 15, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 million...

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Read Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs
Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

May 20, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for solar energy in California and another Georgia, with Terra-Gen and Georgia Power, respectively. The former is for a 12-year agreement with Terra-Gen, which will support the development of the 130MW Edwards...

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Read Digital Realty/Brookfield JV Buys Land for $30.8m in Chennai, India
Digital Realty/Brookfield JV Buys Land for $30.8m in Chennai, India

Digital Realty/Brookfield JV Buys Land for $30.8m in Chennai, India

February 21, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

According to India’s Economic Times. Digital Realty and Brookfield Asset Management’s joint venture in India has secured the purchase of 10 acres of land in Chennai. The companies acquired the land for over Rs 230 crore (~$30.8m). It is to be used for the development of a data center. One of the...

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