April 24, 2024 Kyndryl
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...
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April 24, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
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 frequency...
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April 23, 2024 Vantage Data Centers
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...
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April 22, 2024 Google
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...
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April 17, 2024 Colt Data Centre Services
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 the...
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April 13, 2024 Edged Energy
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...
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April 12, 2024 EdgeConneX
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 robust...
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April 11, 2024 Google
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 Digitization...
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April 10, 2024 Vantage Data Centers
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 a...
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April 09, 2024 CloudHQ
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 most...
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April 08, 2024 Google
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...
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April 06, 2024 Kyndryl
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...
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April 04, 2024 Google
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...
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March 29, 2024 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
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 acres....
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March 23, 2024 Equinix
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 least...
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March 21, 2024 Colt Data Centre Services
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 company...
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March 20, 2024 DATA4 Group
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 Paris....
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March 18, 2024 Google
Google has revealed its plans to invest $35 million into carbon capture projects, matching the US government's aim to purchase 35 million in carbon removal credits through the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase program. Google announced this week, “We’re proud to be the...
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March 16, 2024 Google
Google has signed a new renewable energy agreement to power its operations in Mesa, Arizona. The company mentioned that this new agreement includes a mix of dedicated wind power, solar energy, and battery storage from three facilities operated by NextEra Energy Resources on SRP’s power grid in...
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March 14, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 2020....
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