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Read Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated
Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

August 08, 2022 Frankfurt

Frankfurt recently announced an updated plan for commercial developments in the city, which will place a limitation on cloud and colocation data center buildings. This comes as a response to concerns around their land and energy usage. Alongside this announcement, the city also outlined its...

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Read Stack Launches New Data Center at its Milan Campus
Stack Launches New Data Center at its Milan Campus

Stack Launches New Data Center at its Milan Campus

July 29, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was...

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Read Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory
Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

June 09, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it is expanding into Australia. The company is partnering with Hickory, an Australian real estate developer. In addition, the development will see Stack develop data centers in three cities in the country. Stack Australia is already developing a data center...

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Read Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany
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Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

May 17, 2022 Frankfurt

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European...

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Read Stack Infrastructure To Develop an 84MW Campus in Prince William County
Stack Infrastructure To Develop an 84MW Campus in Prince William County

Stack Infrastructure To Develop an 84MW Campus in Prince William County

April 15, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced its plans to develop an 84MW mega data center campus in Prince William County, North Virginia. The facility will be housed on a 34-acre site. It will also feature a minimum of two data center buildings spanning 602,000 square feet. Stack plans to deliver the...

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Read Stack Infrastructure announces global expansion
Stack Infrastructure announces global expansion

Stack Infrastructure announces global expansion

March 01, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

STACK Infrastructure has announced that it is expanding its global reach into the EMEA region. According to the company, this expansion makes it one of the largest private data center operators globally, with operations in 16 markets across three continents. Currently, STACK has over 400 MW under...

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Read AWS Buys Land and Data Center From IPI Partners After Selling Land To Its Subsidiary Stack
AWS Buys Land and Data Center From IPI Partners After Selling Land To Its Subsidiary Stack

AWS Buys Land and Data Center From IPI Partners After Selling Land To Its Subsidiary Stack

February 16, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Amazon Web Services has completed the sale of two plots of land in Prince William County, Virginia, to Stack Infrastructures. Interestingly, it also bought two parcels of land in Loudoun County, Virginia, from Stack Infrastructure’s owner, IPI Partners. According to BizJournal, AWS sold two plots...

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Read Stack Infrastructure is expanding into Japan with a 36MW campus
Stack Infrastructure is expanding into Japan with a 36MW campus

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into Japan with a 36MW campus

January 17, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed that it would be developing a 36MW data center campus in Japan. The facility will be located in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, just outside Tokyo. Stack Infrastructure will be partnering with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management LP on the project. The company...

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Read Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia
Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia

Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia

January 10, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed the development of a new 216MW data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia. The facility would be developed on an 80-acre site with three buildings with a combined space of 1 million square feet. The company revealed that the facility's first phase is scheduled to...

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Read Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed
Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

January 07, 2022 Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus

Interxion's latest data center in Frankfurt, Germany, FRA16, has been completed, it has announced. Located on the company's Ostend campus at Hanauer Landstrasse, the facility spans 4,800 sqm (51,600 sq ft) of white space, with a capacity of 16.5MW. The data center is expected to go live later...

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Read Amplitude branches out into Germany with new data center
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Amplitude branches out into Germany with new data center

January 04, 2022 AWS EU Frankfurt Region (eu-central-1)

Amplitude has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint into Germany with a facility in Frankfurt. The data center, which is certified in ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, will be hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), for both its “privacy” and “security.” Speaking about its move into...

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Read OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF
OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

December 15, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud has announced it has signed a 15-year renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Renewables, whereby the energy company will supply electricity from its 50MW solar power plant, located in the south of France. The solar plant is expected to be operational by 2024 “We are proud to...

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Read CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead
CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead

CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead

November 22, 2021 CyrusOne Frankfurt V

CyrusOne has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint with the purchase of land in Hanau, East of Frankfurt. The company's plans outline that the facility will have an incoming power of 90MW and a critical power capacity of 63MW, once complete, spanning 18,000 sqm. According to...

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Read OVHcloud goes public
OVHcloud goes public

OVHcloud goes public

October 18, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud has finally been listed on the stock exchange in France. It went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange. The company’s opening market capitalization was €3.48 billion ($4bn). It also raised €400 million ($469m). OVHcloud opened at €18.50 per share, dipped slightly, but its share...

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Read OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone
OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

October 13, 2021 OVH Group

French colocation and cloud provider OVHcloud has experienced a global outage. The company experienced an outage that lasted more than one hour when it started at around 7:00 UTC. OVH revealed that a maintenance reconfiguration error caused it. Besides, OVHcloud’s status page was brought down due...

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Read Stack Infrastructure is expanding into the Asia Pacific region
Stack Infrastructure is expanding into the Asia Pacific region

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into the Asia Pacific region

October 13, 2021 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed its plan to expand into the Asia Pacific region. The company is planning to open a regional headquarters in Singapore. It would also expand into Osaka and Tokyo immediately before entering into Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, and other Asia Pacific...

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Read Stack Infrastructure: Hyperscale data center goes online in Silicon Valley
Stack Infrastructure: Hyperscale data center goes online in Silicon Valley

Stack Infrastructure: Hyperscale data center goes online in Silicon Valley

October 12, 2021 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure’s latest data center facility in Silicon Valley (SVY02) is now live and is adjacent to the company’s existing SVY01 facility at its Silicon Valley Campus. This 3-story, 240,000 sqft facility brings 32MW of capacity to the region and is powered entirely by 100% renewable...

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Read Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)
Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)

Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)

October 01, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud could be seeing up to €105 million ($122m) leave its coffers because of the fire that destroyed its Strasbourg data center in March. The document the firm filed with a French financial authority is responsible for revealing this. Although insurance has covered most of the cost of the...

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Read Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt
Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt

Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt

October 01, 2021 Equinix Frankfurt FR8

Equinix has announced the opening of its new data center facility in Frankfurt, Germany. The facility is located to the west of Frankfurt, and it would be known as FR8. The facility's first phase has 51,600 square feet (4,800 square meters) of colocation space available. Equinix also revealed...

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Read OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in new IPO
OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in new IPO

OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in new IPO

September 22, 2021 OVH Group

According to the Wall Street Journal, French data center and cloud services provider OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in an IPO in Paris, France. According to the reports from WSJ, the listing could see the Company’s value rise to over $4.7 billion. OVHcloud was founded in 1999 as OVH...

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