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Read DigitalBridge Selling Vantage Data Centers Minority Interest
DigitalBridge Selling Vantage Data Centers Minority Interest

DigitalBridge Selling Vantage Data Centers Minority Interest

March 09, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Inquiries are being made by DigitalBridge Group about selling a small portion of Vantage Data Centers. The CEO of DigitalBridge, Marc Ganzi, stated on the company's most recent quarterly results call that it wanted to raise more money while also focusing on the deconsolidation more of its...

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Read Exa And Colt Will Update The Channel Tunnel Route's Fiber Equipment
Exa And Colt Will Update The Channel Tunnel Route's Fiber Equipment

Exa And Colt Will Update The Channel Tunnel Route's Fiber Equipment

March 09, 2023 Colt Data Centre Services

Fiber infrastructure along the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, will be upgraded by Exa Infrastructure and Colt Technical Services. To provide clients with a cutting-edge G.652D cable route from London to Paris, the two telecom infrastructure providers will collaborate to update...

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Read Maincubes, a German Operator, Obtains a €1 Billion Funding Facility
Maincubes, a German Operator, Obtains a €1 Billion Funding Facility

Maincubes, a German Operator, Obtains a €1 Billion Funding Facility

March 08, 2023 maincubes one GmbH

The German data center company Maincubes has received debt funding in excess of $1.07 billion. The firm stated this week that it had inked a new $1.1 billion scalable financing facility, including $730 million in committed facilities and an additional $373 million in uncommitted accordion...

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Read Stack Infrastructure Will Raise $250 Million to Expand Its Data Center
Stack Infrastructure Will Raise $250 Million to Expand Its Data Center

Stack Infrastructure Will Raise $250 Million to Expand Its Data Center

March 08, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure plans to seek $250 million for data center expansion. The Stack Infrastructure Issuer will provide the funding, 2023-1, through the securitization of income connected to lease obligations and electrical capacity at 8 wholesale data centers in seven U.S. states. S&P Global...

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Read Keppel DC REIT Receives Credit Facilities Totaling $73 million
Keppel DC REIT Receives Credit Facilities Totaling $73 million

Keppel DC REIT Receives Credit Facilities Totaling $73 million

March 07, 2023 Keppel Data Center REIT

The DC REIT group of Keppel has received a new credit facility of over $70 million, guaranteed by the financial services firm Perpetual. Keppel DC REIT Fin. Company Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel DC REIT, has procured the Loan Facility guaranteed by Perpetual Ltd (Asia) in its...

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Read Colt Data Centre Services' new London 4 data center in Hayes to have sustainability focus
Colt Data Centre Services' new London 4 data center in Hayes to have sustainability focus

Colt Data Centre Services' new London 4 data center in Hayes to have sustainability focus

March 06, 2023 Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services has announced that it has broken ground on its new London 4 campus, located in Hayes. The company has outlined that the site will include two five-story buildings with a combined capacity of 57 MW, containing 18 data center halls across 30,000 sqm (322,900 sq ft). The...

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Read CloudHQ Has Begun Development of a 228MW Data Center Facility in Brazil's So Paulo
CloudHQ Has Begun Development of  a 228MW Data Center Facility in Brazil's  So Paulo

CloudHQ Has Begun Development of a 228MW Data Center Facility in Brazil's So Paulo

March 02, 2023 CloudHQ

A new hyperscale facility is being built by data center company CloudHQ in Brazil's state of So Paulo. A groundbreaking ceremony was performed by the company in Paulina. It will be CloudHQ's first location in the region and in South America. According to reports, the new 228MW complex will have...

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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 Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain
Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

February 28, 2023 Equinix

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 company...

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Read NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks
NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

February 24, 2023 NTT

NTT has created a prototype device that might boost data center and submarine cable connection rates. A crucial step toward 6G, the gadget can in-lab enhance a 100 Gigahertz (GHz) electrical signal. Although the commercial availability of the ultra-compact baseband amplifier IC module is years...

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Read MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India
MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

February 23, 2023 NTT

On February 22nd, NTT Global Data Centers revealed that its MIST subsea cable had arrived in Mumbai, India. The Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system has a length of approximately 5000 miles. It links Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as Mumbai and Chennai...

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Read Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington
Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington

Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington

February 20, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne is building a data center in Quincy, Washington. The corporation has a 45-acre block of land in the city of Washington State and has made it known that it intends to construct a campus there with built-to-suit buildings and a capacity of up to 96MW. The Columbia Basin Herald noted work...

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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 Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona
Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

February 16, 2023 Equinix

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 project's...

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Read Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment
Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment

Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment

February 15, 2023 Google

Following the successful introduction of Arm server processors by Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud is preparing two Arm CPUs for its cloud service. Before launching the cloud service in 2025, the firm made a significant stride and will put them into trial operation this year. The cloud servers...

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Read Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers
Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers

Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers

February 14, 2023 Google

Uber Technologies wants to close its data center facilities after signing two significant cloud contracts. In two seven-year contracts, it will migrate over 95% of its IT to Google Cloud and Oracle from its own data centers. After 11 months of analysis, the taxi and delivery startup opted to use...

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Read Iron Mountain inks deal for 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement
Iron Mountain inks deal for 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement

Iron Mountain inks deal for 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement

February 13, 2023 Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain has announced that, through a partnership with RPD Energy, it has made a "landmark series of transactions" meaning that the company will obtain 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement. The US renewable provider RPD Energy will be the lead architect of renewable energy...

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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 Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks
Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks

Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks

February 09, 2023 Google

Late on Wednesday, there was a Twitter outage that prevented users from Tweeting, following accounts, or sending direct messages. A notification stating that the "daily limit of tweets has been reached" was displayed to certain users. Elon Musk, the CEO and new owner, advised workers in an email...

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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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