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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 600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition
600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition

600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition

November 21, 2022 London

Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North...

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Read Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London
Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London

Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London

November 08, 2022 London

According to Havering Council, it is negotiating with a private sector developer, Digital Reef, to build a huge data center campus in the eastern London Borough of Havering. The London Data Freeport project would reportedly be 'Europe's largest data center' sitting on a site of 175 hectares....

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Read London Docklands proposal rejected
London Docklands proposal rejected

London Docklands proposal rejected

October 31, 2022 London

According to reports, a proposal for a new data center at the London Docklands has been rejected on the grounds that the proposals were "bulky" and could have a negative impact on the nearby Naval Row Conservation Area. Although council planning officers had recommended the proposal, which would...

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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 New data center proposed in east London, UK
New data center proposed in east London, UK

New data center proposed in east London, UK

October 20, 2022 London

According to reports, a new data center is being proposed in east London, UK, on a 1.39-hectare site. Located on the western edge of the former East India Import Dock, the proposed facility could have a potential IT power of 30MW, with six halls each of 1,200 sqm (12,900 sq ft). It's also noted...

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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 Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London
Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

August 30, 2022 London

It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital, following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...

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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 The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity
The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity

The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity

August 02, 2022 London

In the wake of a housing crisis, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has informed developers must halt new housing projects, with talk of a potential ban that could last until 2035, in response to energy constraints caused by data centers. Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon, which contributed to 11%...

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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 'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London
'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to  East London

'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

April 12, 2022 London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's...

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