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Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software

Tech giants, Google and Microsoft, have announced that they've invested in the carbon accounting startup FlexiDAO, which has now raised €6.1 million for its service that monitors the renewable energy that companies buy and the associated carbon emissions hour-by-hour and 24/7. While both Googl...

July 08, 2022

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CloudHQ Acquires Land in Culpeper County For 60MW Data Center Campus

CloudHQ has completed the acquisition of 100 acres in Culpeper County, Virginia. The data center developer is looking to develop a build-to-suit data center campus with up to 60MW capacity spanning 2.1 million square feet. According to Daily Progress, CloudHQ acquired the property for $12 mill...

July 06, 2022

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Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU

Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporatio...

July 06, 2022

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Maincubes Starts Work at its FRA02 Facility

Maincubes has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center outside Frankfurt, Germany. The company laid the foundation stone of the FRA02 facility in Schwalbach, close to Frankfurt. Maincubes first revealed it would be developing the data center in July 2021. The development of ...

July 05, 2022

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Pantheon Invests $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers

Pantheon Infrastructure has announced that it will be investing $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers. The investment will be geared towards the data center company’s North American business for continued growth. Vantage has data center campuses in Quebec, Montreal, Phoenix, Ashburn, Quincy, and S...

July 01, 2022

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Green Mountain's Parent Acquires SDC Ltd.

Azrieli Group, the parent of Green Mountain has acquired Infinity SDC Ltd. The move sees the company take over SDC’s data center in Romford, East London. Green Mountain will be tasked with operating the data center. This will be Green Mountain’s first facility outside of Norway. Green Mountain...

June 29, 2022

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Google's data plans in Saudi Arabia: Lives at risk

Back in December 2020, Google announced that it had signed an agreement with state-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco to set up a Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia and offer Enterprise Cloud services. From the outset, this was a controversial move. Saudi Arabia is notorious for its human rights...

June 28, 2022

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Keppel DC REIT Buys Two Data Centers in China For $206m

Keppel DC REIT has announced the acquisition of two data centers in China. The Singaporean data center REIT entered into an agreement with Guangdong Bluesea Data Development Co. Ltd. to acquire two facilities in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province. The deal is worth RMB 1,380.6 million (~US$206m)....

June 24, 2022

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Sustainable financing for EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it has secured $1.7 billion in sustainability-linked debt financing, including the company's first-ever Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS) and multi-currency term loan (ESG Term Loan). The company will reportedly use this to finance its growth and keep up with eve...

June 23, 2022

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Green Mountain releases first sustainability report

Green Mountain has come forward with its first sustainability report, which focused on seven ESG areas: energy, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, water, biodiversity, social responsibility, and governance. Some of the highlights noted in the report included that all of its data centers now ope...

June 23, 2022

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Google Breaks Ground on Its $300m Ohio Data Center

Google has broken ground on a new facility in Columbus, Ohio. The site for the new data center was previously used for a snake oil farm. Last year, the company first revealed plans for the 14,000 square meters (150,000 square foot) data center. According to the company, the facility will cost ...

June 23, 2022

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Google Acquires Land in Finland For Possible Data Center Development

Google has acquired 50 hectares of land in Hamina, Finland, for €4.3 million ($4.5m). The land is also located next to the company’s existing sea-cooled data center. The existing data center was acquired from Stora Enso, a Finnish paper company in 2009. It also opened the data center in 201...

June 23, 2022

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Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM

Google has announced it has opened a cloud region, in Milan, Italy, in partnership with TIM, namely the Europe-west8 region, its first in this region, following both AWS and Microsoft doing the same. According to the giant, it will bring on a second in Turin, which will happen over the next f...

June 21, 2022

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NTT announces plans to adopt immersion cooling technology

NTT has announced its plan to adopt immersion cooling, after it ran a successful test of LiquidStack's two-phase immersion systems at its Mitaka Data Center East in Japan. According to the company, the IT kit ran stably, and used 97% less cooling energy than a traditional cooling system. The ...

June 17, 2022

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Vantage announces the opening data center campuses in Warsaw and Berlin

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has launched a data center campus in both Poland and Germany, the former is in Warsaw, and its first step into the Polish market, while the latter is its campus in Berlin, which is the company’s second venture into Germany. Vantage has now completed ...

June 17, 2022

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Equinix and PGIM Real Estate open data centre in Sydney

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have announced the opening of SY9x, the first xScale data center in Sydney, following the closing of the two parties' US$575 million joint venture. Located in Rosehill, and adjacent to the Western Sydney CBD of Parramatta, this facility, will be accompanied by a s...

June 16, 2022

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NTT Acquires Land For 336MW Campus in Northern Virginia

NTT Ltd. Has revealed that it had completed the acquisition of 103 acres of land in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. According to reports, the company paid around $257.4 million to Lerner Enterprises for the land. NTT will be using the land acquired to develop a data center campus. The compa...

June 16, 2022

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Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

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 30...

June 16, 2022

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Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

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 mill...

June 15, 2022

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Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Corp., currently three of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of clean power, have voiced their opposition to a nearly $4-billion, Warren Buffett-backed renewable-energy project proposed in Iowa. According to the three giants, the project, which would be the l...

June 13, 2022

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