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Read Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa
Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

January 07, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has bought the majority stake in Teraco. The data center giant announced the acquisition of the South African data center company from a consortium of investors, including Permira and Berkshire Partners. The deal sees Teraco valued at about $3.5 billion. The transaction sees...

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Read TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center
TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

January 06, 2022 Hong Kong

Taoping Inc (TOAP) has announced that it is expanding its Taoping G Cloud Hong Kong Data Center (the "Center") in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022. The facility, built in May 2021, will have an estimated total hash rate of 700GH/s, and its...

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Read San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer
San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

December 17, 2021 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has sold its San Jose data center to developer Hines. Documents filed on December 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office outline that Hines paid just under $60 million ($59.6 million) for the complex. The building spans 179,800 sqft; meanwhile, the...

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Read Telstra expands Ashburn footprint
Telstra expands Ashburn footprint

Telstra expands Ashburn footprint

December 16, 2021 Telstra

Telstra is expanding its footprint at its primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Its DC21 facility is managed by Equinix, and according to the company, this expansion will be almost triple the size of the facility now. Telstra says that the expansion at Ashburn, also “adds extra layers of...

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Read Equinix partners with Nasdaq
Equinix partners with Nasdaq

Equinix partners with Nasdaq

December 16, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has formed a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq, Inc, which will help the company scale its NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This will also support the build-out of Nasdaq's cloud infrastructure. Tal Cohen, Executive Vice President, Head of North American Markets at Nasdaq, said...

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Read Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses
Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

December 15, 2021 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has broken ground on additional campuses in two of its existing strategic EMEA markets in both Frankfurt and Berlin. The Berlin campus will have 32MW of critical IT capacity and is due to be operational in the summer of 2022. Meanwhile, the Frankfurt...

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Read New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced
New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

December 15, 2021 Equinix

The European Clean Hydrogen Partnership has announced its €2.5 million EcoEdge PrimePower project (E2P2). The tech consortium making up the partnership includes Equinix, InfraPrime, RISE, Snam, SolidPower, TEC4FUELS and Vertiv. Together, they will pursue the development of low-carbon fuel cells,...

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Read Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022
Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022

Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022

December 14, 2021 NTT

NTT has announced that it is “on track” to complete the turnkey data center development of its Johannesburg 1 Data Centre, located at Centralpoint Innovation District in Samrand, by early next year. The facility, developed by Growthpoint, includes 6,000sqm of IT space and features “high-end...

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Read Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia
Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia

Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia

December 10, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has announced that its PE3 data center in Perth, Australia, has launched, the third IBX facility in the city. According to reports, the first phase of the project provides a capacity of 700 cabinets spanning 1,830 sqm (38,600 sqtf), following an investment of US$54 million (A$71.7...

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Read China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong
China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong

China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong

December 09, 2021 China Mobile

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) has started work on a new data center facility in Hong Kong, China. CMI is developing the facility on a 1 million square foot land in Fo Tan, Sha Tin. The facility will have multiple stories, and it will cover 103,660 square meters (1.1 million square...

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Read China Telecom leaving the US in January after appeal fails
China Telecom leaving the US in January after appeal fails

China Telecom leaving the US in January after appeal fails

December 08, 2021 China Telecom

News emerging is that China Telecom Americas will be leaving the United States. This comes after the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied China Telecom’s emergency motion to pause an FCC order that revoked its authorizations to continue operations in the country. By so...

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Read Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition
Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

December 07, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operation in...

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Read Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC
Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC

Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC

December 06, 2021 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers and its lead investor, Digital Bridge Group, have announced the acquisition of PCCW Ltd.’s data center business. The acquisition sees Vantage DC’s portfolio to include 100MW of existing and expansion capacity across many facilities in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Besides, the...

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Read Digital Realty teams up with CoolestDC for liquid cooling for SIN11 data center
Digital Realty teams up with CoolestDC for liquid cooling for SIN11 data center

Digital Realty teams up with CoolestDC for liquid cooling for SIN11 data center

November 30, 2021 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is partnering with Coolest DC to develop high-efficiency thermal management solutions for the industry following a pilot program supported by Temasek Foundation. The initial pilot scheme sought to improve energy consumption by data centers and enhance efficiency and had deployed:...

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Read Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing
Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing

Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing

November 25, 2021 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has "amended, extended, and upsized" its existing global revolving credit facility from $2.35 billion to $3.0 billion, which now feature a sustainability-linked pricing component. Moreover, the pricing will be "subject to adjustment" based on performance...

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Read ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong
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ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

November 25, 2021 Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which...

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Read Several firms are looking into $11bn Global Switch buyout
Several firms are looking into $11bn Global Switch buyout

Several firms are looking into $11bn Global Switch buyout

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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Read Digital Realty opens new data center in Hong Kong
Digital Realty opens new data center in Hong Kong

Digital Realty opens new data center in Hong Kong

November 18, 2021 Digital Realty Kwai Chung HKG11

Digital Realty has announced the opening of a new data center in Hong Kong. The company first announced that it was constructing the facility in July 2020. The HKG11 facility is a 210,000 square feet (21,000 square meters) building with 24MW of capacity. In addition, the building has twelve...

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Read AirTrunk to develop 320MW hyperscale data center in Sydney
AirTrunk to develop 320MW hyperscale data center in Sydney

AirTrunk to develop 320MW hyperscale data center in Sydney

November 05, 2021 AirTrunk

AirTrunk has revealed its plans for a new 320MW data center campus in Sydney. Upon completion, the facility will be the largest single hyperscale data center campus in the Asia Pacific region outside of China. The facility will be called SYD3, and it will be located in western Sydney. SYD3 will...

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Read Vantage Data Centers secures $530 million in financing
Vantage Data Centers secures $530 million in financing

Vantage Data Centers secures $530 million in financing

November 05, 2021 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has raised $530 million in securitized notes. The funds it raised would be used to refinance Vantage DC’s Variable Funding Note (VFN) facility. VFN was used to facilitate the purchase of CA22. Vantage Stabilized Data Centers, a joint venture Vantage DC...

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