November 24, 2021 Global Switch
Several data center and investment firms are mulling over the acquisition of data center firm Global Switch Holdings. According to Bloomberg, KKR and Blackstone Inc. are the likely forerunners of acquiring Global Switch. Equinix, Digital Realty, and DigitalBridge have also shown interest in...
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September 17, 2021 Amsterdam
Great Grey Investment has acquired the uncompleted Westpoort Data Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data center was bought from Caransa Group. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tikehu Capital provided financing to Great Grey Investments and Westpoort Datacenter through its...
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June 16, 2021 Singapore
It has been announced that social media giant Facebook and the Singapore government are joining forces to fund a $17 million (S$23m) project to address the need to boost the number of sustainable data centers built in tropical climates. The programme is also being funded by Singapore's National...
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June 15, 2021 London
Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...
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May 24, 2021 Paris
While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility...
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May 14, 2021 Frankfurt
Frankfurt has proposed a development plan to regulate data centers in the area. The plan, it says, will prevent the “uncontrolled growth” of data centers. The city is the hub of the data center industry in Germany, and one of the four largest hubs in Europe, taking up 64 hectares (640,000 sqm) of...
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May 14, 2021 Madrid
Rolls-Royce has announced that it has installed and commissioned eight mtu emergency gensets with 9.2MWe power output at a major bank in Madrid. The installation was made to secure power supply in case of a public power grid failure in the region. In total, there are two types of mtu-brand diesel...
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March 25, 2021 Global Switch Hong Kong
Global Switch has launched the final stage of its Hong Kong center, located in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate. The latest development provides an additional 35,600 sqm and 58MVA of utility. Now, the total infrastructure services of Global Switch Hong Kong's is 70,228 sqm, with a total...
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July 28, 2020 Global Switch
July 28, 2020 – PCCW Global today announced that its Console Connect Software-Defined Interconnection® (SDI®) platform is now available in many more data centres via an extended collaboration with Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large-scale carrier and cloud neutral data...
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June 24, 2020 Global Switch: Amsterdam West
AMSTERDAM- Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large scale network dense, carrier and cloud neutral multi-tenanted data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific has announced that in response to growing demand construction has started on the first stage of a new data centre in...
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March 07, 2019 Global Switch Singapore Woodlands
Global Switch formerly launched their Woodlands site. A couple quick facts: The site was built in partnership with China Telecom Global and Daily-Tech. The facility cost $280 million ($205 million USD) The facility has seven floors. (only 5 data center floors) 25,000 square meters (270,000 square...
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March 01, 2019 Global Switch
HONG KONG (Reuters) - UK-based data center operator Global Switch has chosen CLSA, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan as sponsors for its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) of up to $1 billion, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday. Founded in 1998 and owned by Britain’s...
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October 02, 2018 London
China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt. The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in the...
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July 13, 2018 Global Switch: Frankfurt South
Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Global Switch says it’s keen to add to its sites to support further demand. Construction has started on...
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July 11, 2018 Global Switch
A consortium of six Asian institutional and private investors has acquired a 24.99% stake in the Company in a transaction valued at £2.1 billion The investment by Strategic IDC Limited further diversifies Global Switch’s sources of equity capital, supports a continuation of the Company’s...
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September 21, 2016 Global Switch: London East
The Global Switch data center outage in the London Docklands earlier this month has been traced to a cable end box on a UPS system. The power interruption lasted less than a second, but it took at least one customer two days to fully recover. The 222 millisecond outage was caused by a fault in a...
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