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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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Read Singtel Commences Construction Of Thailand Data Center
Singtel Commences Construction Of Thailand Data Center

Singtel Commences Construction Of Thailand Data Center

February 08, 2023 Singtel

Singtel, AIS, and Gulf recently broke ground on a new data facility in Thailand. This week, the firms revealed that the building of a new data center had begun near Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. The data center will be run by their partnership, GSA Data Center Company Limited (GSA). The 20 MW...

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Read Digital Realty and Brookfield Start Data Center Construction in Chennai, India
Digital Realty and Brookfield Start Data Center Construction in Chennai, India

Digital Realty and Brookfield Start Data Center Construction in Chennai, India

February 08, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

BAM Digital Realty has begun construction on its first data center in India. This week, the company, a partnership between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, revealed that building of a data center in Chennai has begun and is on schedule to be completed by the end of the year. MAA10,...

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Read Application Submitted by Vantage For a 134-acre Data Center Facility in Ashburn, Virginia
Application Submitted by Vantage For a 134-acre Data Center Facility in Ashburn, Virginia

Application Submitted by Vantage For a 134-acre Data Center Facility in Ashburn, Virginia

February 07, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has filed for a Loudoun County campus near Ashburn. Vantage applied for federal and state approvals for its VA3 data center facility with the US Army Corps of Engineers district commander. Vantage plans to build a "large-scale data center complex" on 134 acres west of Belmont...

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Read BDx To Develop a 16MW Hong Kong Data Center
BDx To Develop a 16MW Hong Kong Data Center

BDx To Develop a 16MW Hong Kong Data Center

February 03, 2023 BDx Data Centers

Big Data Exchange (BDx), a pan-Asian data center company, will construct a new data center in Hong Kong. This week, the business revealed its intention to construct a second 16MW plant in an impending high-tech industrial area built by Hong Kong's Sino Group. The new facility, situated in the...

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Read Digital Realty explores biofuel for backup energy in Spain
Digital Realty explores biofuel for backup energy in Spain

Digital Realty explores biofuel for backup energy in Spain

January 31, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is the latest data center company to explore the use of biofuel for backup energy. Through partnering with Spanish energy company Repsol, the company has announced the first data center to switch out fossil fuels for biofuel is its MAD3 facility in Spain, which offers 5.8MW of...

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Read Digital Realty joins forces with Mainova for district heating scheme in Frankfurt
Digital Realty joins forces with Mainova for district heating scheme in Frankfurt

Digital Realty joins forces with Mainova for district heating scheme in Frankfurt

January 24, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty and Mainova AG have signed a letter of intent for a joint project to explore a potential waste heat project in Frankfurt, which could heat approximately 3,600 households. In partnership, the data center firm, and German energy firm are conducting a feasibility study to decipher...

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Read AirTrunk to develop 150MW campus in Johor, Malaysia
AirTrunk to develop 150MW campus in Johor, Malaysia

AirTrunk to develop 150MW campus in Johor, Malaysia

January 23, 2023 AirTrunk

AirTrunk is expanding into Malaysia, with its first data center in the country. The facility, JHB1, will be in the Johor Bahru area, and span 21,900 sqm (235,750 sq ft) of space across 20 data halls, offering more than 150MW of capacity. In addition to this, it will have 370 sqm (4,000 sqm) of...

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Read Global Switch granted permission for a new data center in East London
Global Switch granted permission for a new data center in East London

Global Switch granted permission for a new data center in East London

January 20, 2023 Global Switch

At a Tower Hamlets Council meeting, the Strategic Development Committee in London has granted Global Switch permission to develop a new data center. Located on a car park adjacent to its existing London East and London North buildings at East India Dock House, 240 East India Dock Road, the...

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Read NTT to expand in Texas
NTT to expand in Texas

NTT to expand in Texas

January 18, 2023 NTT

NTT has announced that it is expanding in Texas with the addition of a new data center, dubbed ‘TX3 Data Center’. According to the company, the development will span 230,000 sq ft (21,350 sqm) and include a two-story office alongside the data center. The development has been filed with the Texas...

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Read New data center platform CleanArc Data Centers launches
New data center platform CleanArc Data Centers launches

New data center platform CleanArc Data Centers launches

January 16, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

CleanArc Data Centers, a new data center platform, has just launched, as a product of 547 Energy, a clean energy investment firm and led by Vantage Data Centers founder Jim Trout. According to the company, it will offer hyperscale customers green developments via bundling new data center campuses...

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Read Vantage Data Centers to enter the London market
Vantage Data Centers to enter the London market

Vantage Data Centers to enter the London market

January 12, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is to develop a 48MW data center campus in London. This move will see the company enter the London market for the first time with this £500 million ($600 million) project, its 11th EMEA campus. The company has announced that LHR, will total 430,000 sq ft...

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Read Equinix signs another PPA in Finland
Equinix signs another PPA in Finland

Equinix signs another PPA in Finland

January 09, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has signed a third power purchase agreement (PPA) in Finland with Neoen, totaling 129MW. Through the ten-year deal, the company will obtain 60% of the output and guarantees of origin to be produced by the future 95MW Storbötet wind farm from the French renewable...

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Read Equinix To Develop Data Center in Johannesburg
Equinix To Develop Data Center in Johannesburg

Equinix To Develop Data Center in Johannesburg

December 14, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has announced its plan to venture into the South African data center market with a data center development. The company plans to invest $160m to develop a data center campus in Johannesburg. The 4MW data center called JN1 will have over 20,000 gross square feet of colocation space and a...

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Read Vantage To Develop Second Data Center Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa
Vantage To Develop Second Data Center Campus in  Johannesburg, South Africa

Vantage To Develop Second Data Center Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa

December 14, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced plans for a second data center campus in Johannesburg, Japan. The facility called JNB2 will be located in Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg. JNB2’s first building will feature a two-story, 33,000 square meter (355,000 square foot), 20MW data center. It is scheduled to...

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Read Equinix announces plan to make its Ashburn data center more aesthetically pleasing
Equinix announces plan to make its Ashburn data center more aesthetically pleasing

Equinix announces plan to make its Ashburn data center more aesthetically pleasing

December 13, 2022 Equinix

Following approval from the Loudoun Board of Supervisors last week, data center company Equinix has announced that it will be adding multi-colored LED lights to the exterior of one of its data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. This addition to DC21, located at 22175 Beaumeade Circle in Ashburn,...

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Read Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers
Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers

Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers

December 12, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has announced, in line with a broader commitment to reduce its overall power, it will adjust its data center thermostats, shifting temperatures closer to 27°C (80°F) across its global data center fleet. This change, the company said, will lead to less energy used in 'unnecessary data...

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Read Digital Realty’s Lamda Hellix Developing Fourth Data Center in Athens, Greece
Digital Realty’s Lamda Hellix Developing Fourth Data Center in Athens, Greece

Digital Realty’s Lamda Hellix Developing Fourth Data Center in Athens, Greece

December 09, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty's Greek data center unit Lamda Helix has announced plans to develop its fourth data center in Athens, Greece. The company's data center campus currently has two carrier-neutral data centers with a total capacity of 22 MW. It is also developing two more on the site. Lamda Helix...

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Read T4 Group Signs Partnership With NTT New Zealand
T4 Group Signs Partnership With NTT New Zealand

T4 Group Signs Partnership With NTT New Zealand

December 08, 2022 NTT

T4 Group and NTT Ltd have signed an agreement that will see the former provide data center infrastructure for the latter. T4 Group is a colocation provider with data centers in Auckland and Whangarei, New Zealand. It also has a third facility under development on New Zealand’s South Island. The...

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Read Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering
Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering

Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering

December 02, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it is offering a $350 million note to the public. In addition, its Digital Core Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), listed in Singapore, will buy a stake in a Digital Realty-owned data center in Germany. The company noted that it is priced an underwritten PO of...

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