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Equinix signs new solar PPAs in Singapore

Colocation firm Equinix has signed long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Singapore fromSembcorp Industries. Following the agreements, Sembcorp Power will supply a maximum capacity of 75MWp from its solar assets and 30MW from its gas-power generation portfoli...

April 29, 2024

Equinix

IBM signs agreement with Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry

IBM has signed an agreement with both the Quebec government and the Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry. Following this agreement, IBM and the two governments invest C$187 million (US$137m) in the company’s Bromont plant in Quebec to bolster the country’s as...

April 29, 2024

IBM Cloud

Google announces new data center campus in Indiana

Google this week revealed plans to expand its footprint in Indiana with a $2 billion data center in Fort Wayne. It also announced a collaboration with Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M) to add clean energy to the local grid.“We are thrilled to announce our investment in Fort Wayne as the...

April 26, 2024

Google

IBM to buy Hashicorp for $6.4 billion

IBM is set to buy out HashiCorp, a vendor that makes software to help businesses manage digital infrastructure, for $6.4 billion. It will pay $35 per share for HashiCorp. The company’s stock had been trading at a price of $24.88 before the deal was announced."Enterprise clients are wrestling w...

April 24, 2024

IBM Cloud

Digital Realty to partner with Enel X for grid balancing UPS systems

Digital Realty has revealed that it will be partnering with energy firm Enel X to roll out grid-balancing UPS systems in Ireland. The integrated battery banks, housed within Digital Realty’s Irish data centers, will relieve grid dependence on fossil fuel power plants during periods of frequenc...

April 24, 2024

Digital Realty Trust

Vantage plansnew billion dollar data cener campus in Ireland

Vantage Data Centers has revealed that it will be spending €1 billion on a new data center campus development in Dublin. The campus will be built at Profile Park, Grange Castle, a data center hub nine miles south of Dublin which is already home to the likes of Google, Digital Realty, and Cyru...

April 23, 2024

Vantage Data Centers

Google fires 28 employees following series of internal protests

Google has terminated the employment of 28 employees on Wednesday. This comes after a series of internal protests about labor conditions and the company's contract with the Israeli government and military.The protests were led by the "No Tech For Apartheid" organization. One of the protestors ...

April 22, 2024

Google

Colt DCS plans expansion of planned data center in Hayes

Colt DCS, a company which provides hyperscale and large enterprise data center solutions, is set to double the size of its planned data center campus in Hayes, West London, after acquiring a fresh parcel of land.A Colt DCS statement said: “This will make the entire site one of the largest in ...

April 17, 2024

Colt Data Centre Services

Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas

Edged Energy announced this week that it was pressing ahead with building the data center in Irving. This comes after the Irving City Council voted unanimously in support of the development of a new data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas“Sustainability is at the core of our...

April 13, 2024

Edged Energy

EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robu...

April 12, 2024

EdgeConneX

Google invests in new subsea cables

Google has revealed its plans to invest $1 billion in creating two new subsea fiber cable routes between the US and Japan which will be called Proa and Taihei and will be built by Japan's NEC Corp. In a blog post, Google revealed that the investment is in support of Google's Japan Digitizatio...

April 11, 2024

Google

Vantage to unveil new data center campus in Switzerland

Vantage Data Centers this week announced that it will open a second Zurich campus (ZRH2) this summer. This new campus located 30 kilometers north of Zurich’s City Center in Glattfelden, will offer a total of 226,000 square feet (21,000 sqm) of space and 24MW of critical IT capacity. “Zurich is...

April 10, 2024

Vantage Data Centers

Cloudflare suffers second power outage in Oregon in six months

Content Delivery Network (CDN) company Cloudflare suffered a second data center power failure at its core facility in Portland, Oregon, within six months. As a result of the first incident which happened in November, Cloudflare introduced ‘Code Orange’; a new process where the company shifts m...

April 09, 2024

CloudHQ

Tape Ark migrates tape-based sports broadcast to Google Cloud

Tape Ark has moved a significant collection of tape-based sports video footage to Google Cloud. The cloud ingest of the collection measures over 40 petabytes of video footage. By moving it to the cloud, the broadcaster will be able save time and money on the maintenance of the collection inclu...

April 08, 2024

Google

IBM and RPI launch a new quantum computer in New York

IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have launched a quantum computer at RPI’s campus in New York. A chapel that the university repurposed in the 1960s, the quantum computer is be positioned next to a stained glass window and serves as a focal point of RPI’s new Curtis Priem Quantum ...

April 06, 2024

IBM Cloud

Google procures over 1.5GW of cleanenergy in 12 months

Google has signed more than 1.5GW worth of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in the last 12 months. The company bought this amoung of clean energy through a new PPA procurement process developed in partnership with LevelTen Energy, which has now been released via the energy broker. “LEAP is hel...

April 04, 2024

Google

Stack Infrastructure breaks ground on 60MW data center expansion in California

IPI-owned company Stack Infrastructure announced this week that it has broken ground on a 60MW data center expansion in Silicon Valley, California. The company plans to build two data centers to add 60MW of capacity, an advanced manufacturing facility, and a parking structure, spanning 19 acre...

March 29, 2024

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations

Short seller Hindenburg Research has accused data center REIT Equinix of "major accounting manipulations." The investigative reporting and researching company claims that Nadaq-listed Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs, by at leas...

March 23, 2024

Equinix

Colt DCS unveils new data center telemetry platform

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has launched a new data center telemetry platform which enables customers to use real-time telemetry data to support the management of their data center workloads. The company developed this platform in partnership with consulting firm Protiviti, the compan...

March 21, 2024

Colt Data Centre Services

Data4 launches new project which could use waste heat to grow algae

French data center operator Data4 has launched a new project exploring whether waste heat generated by one of its facilities can be used to grow algae. The company is working with the Université Paris-Saclay on the project at its Marcoussis data center campus in the Essonne region south of Par...

March 20, 2024

DATA4 Group

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