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Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in...

April 27, 2023

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Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

Astra has joined Equinix's plans to develop a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This week, Astra and the colocation company announced a new joint venture, with Equinix holding 75 % of the new endeavor. The initial proposal for this joint venture is to build and operate a JK1 International ...

April 11, 2023

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Equinix expands footprint in Canada

Equinix has announced plans for a facility in Montreal, Canada. Known as MT2, the new facility is projected to be operational in the second half of 2023. In the first phase of the project, the facility will offer 500 racks from Q3, phase two, meanwhile, will add a further 500 racks by the fou...

April 06, 2023

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Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property.The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 s...

April 03, 2023

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Damac plans to build data center in Amman, Jordan

Following an agreement with King Hussein Business Park, Dubai property firm Damac (previously Edgnex) has announced its plans to build a new data center in Amman, Jordan. Specific details regarding the project have not yet been shared, although they are expected to follow shortly. ...

March 28, 2023

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Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Marti...

March 27, 2023

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Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

Equinix, in another move in alignment with its sustainability goals, has announced the opening of a rooftop urban farm at its PA10 data center in Paris, France. Promoting circular economy principles, the company will use its servers' waste heat to heat the greenhouse, which was built by Reid ...

March 17, 2023

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Subsea Cable For Oman Emirates Gateway Unveiled by Omantel and Du

A 171-mile underwater cable that would strengthen the connection between the two nations has been revealed by the UAE-based telecom Du and the Omani mobile provider Omantel. The cable, known as the Oman Emirates Gateway (OEG), will immediately link the two nations. Today, there are undersea an...

March 17, 2023

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Alibaba Cloud to upgrade its Dubai-based data center

Alibaba has announced that it has signed a deal to upgrade its Dubai-based data center. Through its long-term partner Dubai Holding, the company is set to revamp the facility, equipping it with state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure. It will also reportedly offer a wider range of products and s...

March 13, 2023

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Global Data Hub partners with KAUST to launch first-of-its-kind data center

Dubai-based Global Data Hub (GDH), has announced the launch of a new commercial tier-III data center, in partnership with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The facility will span 27,600 sqm and have a minimum capacity of 14.4 MW IT load. Further, the two parties outli...

March 10, 2023

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Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

Equinix has inked five new long-term PPAs in Spain from solar farms, totalling 225MW, which will be managed by IGNIS. This reportedly brings the company's contracted PPA capacity to 595 MW globally. While specific details regarding the location of the farms have not yet been shared, the compa...

February 28, 2023

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Digital DEWA launches in Dubai

Digital DEWA subsidiary Moro Hub has announced the launch of its 16,030 sqm (172,566 sq ft) Dubai data center, the world's largest solar-powered data center. It will have a capacity of 100MW, which be 100 percent powered by solar power from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park in Saih...

February 17, 2023

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Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

Currently, Equinix is planning to construct a second data center in Barcelona, Spain. Last week, the colocation giant revealed its intentions to build BA2, an International Business Exchange (IBX) facility right next to its current BA1 location. We were not given any information on the proj...

February 16, 2023

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Edgnex Rebrands as Damac Data Centres, Promises Additional Projects

The new data center company Edgnex, founded by the Dubai real estate company Damac, has changed its name to Damac Data Centres and revealed plans for a 35MW data center. This week, the company announced that Edgnex had changed its name to Damac Data Centres to serve its clients better and upho...

February 14, 2023

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CtrlS announces big expansion plans

CtrlS has made some big expansion announcements this week. The company, founded back in 2007, with a portfolio of eight operational data centers, spanning from Mumbai to Noida, has said it will triple its data center portfolio by 2025, taking its figure to 25. This will see the company expand...

January 17, 2023

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Equinix signs another PPA in Finland

Equinix has announced that it has signed a third power purchase agreement (PPA) in Finland with Neoen, totaling 129MW. Through the ten-year deal, the company will obtain 60% of the output and guarantees of origin to be produced by the future 95MW Storbötet wind farm from the French renewable ...

January 09, 2023

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Equinix To Develop Data Center in Johannesburg

Equinix has announced its plan to venture into the South African data center market with a data center development. The company plans to invest $160m to develop a data center campus in Johannesburg. The 4MW data center called JN1 will have over 20,000 gross square feet of colocation space and ...

December 14, 2022

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Equinix announces plan to make its Ashburn data center more aesthetically pleasing

Following approval from the Loudoun Board of Supervisors last week, data center company Equinix has announced that it will be adding multi-colored LED lights to the exterior of one of its data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. This addition to DC21, located at 22175 Beaumeade Circle in Ashburn, ac...

December 13, 2022

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Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers

Equinix has announced, in line with a broader commitment to reduce its overall power, it will adjust its data center thermostats, shifting temperatures closer to 27°C (80°F) across its global data center fleet. This change, the company said, will lead to less energy used in 'unnecessary data ...

December 12, 2022

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Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia

Equinix has announced its plan to develop a new International Business Exchange IBX data center in Johor, Malaysia. The data center company said it would invest up to $40m in the first stages of the data center. The JH1 data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q1 2024. The facility wi...

December 01, 2022

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