June 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced the availability of its first cloud region in Italy. Consisting of three data centers located in the Lombardy region, the company said it guarantees the highest levels of security, privacy and performance. The region is pegged to accelerate the digital transition of...
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June 09, 2023 Iron Mountain
Web Werks and Iron Mountain plan to invest 170 million dollars in a data facility in Navi Mumbai, India. The envisioned facility, Mumbai-3, will have a 32MW capacity and be constructed to Tier III specifications. The JV already owns a five-acre parcel to develop the data center, which is...
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June 02, 2023 Amazon AWS
Chris Vonderhaar, head of data center design, planning, construction, and operation, has made an abrupt departure from AWS. This announcement comes as AWS continues to invest in its data center footprint, pegged to invest $35 billion alone on new data centers in Virginia by 2040. AWS has also...
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June 02, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Renantis for wind energy in Finland from its two Renantis' onshore wind farms when they're complete. The Mustalamminmäki and Koiramäki wind farms in Karstula, Central Finland, will have a combined...
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June 02, 2023 Nxtra Data Ltd
Bharti Airtel plans to construct five data centers in Africa under the Nxtra brand. Nxtra Data Centers is one of the largest operators of data centers in India but has yet to expand internationally. Last year, Carlyle acquired a 24 percent stake in Nxtra for $325 million, creating a joint venture...
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June 01, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
STT GDC is adding two new data centers to its Pune, India campus. The company intends to invest $241.9 million in the expansion, which will add 40MW to the campus' total capacity of 80MW across five buildings. The new data centers are anticipated to go live in phases over the next 12 to 24...
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May 30, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Following Human Rights Watch’s call for Microsoft to suspend plans in Saudi Arabia, 17 more groups have now joined the campaign, citing human rights concerns. The human rights groups have highlighted the government’s track record of infiltrating technology programs for spying purposes and its...
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May 30, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon's contentious $1 billion subsidy in Oregon is coming under fire from critics. The massive break was given the go-ahead following a unanimous vote by Port of Morrow's five commissioners which enabled the giant to secure the enterprise zone incentives. Locals were given just one day's notice...
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May 27, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Contact Energy for geothermal energy in New Zealand. The 10-year PPA was reportedly signed in September 2022 and will see Contact provide Microsoft with all the renewable energy attributes generated by Contact's new 51.4MW Te Huka Unit 3...
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May 26, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be leasing land in Navi Mumbai, India, for a new data facility. The Hindustan Times reports that Amazon Data Services (an Indian subsidiary) has subleased a 451,000-square-foot site in the TTC industrial area in Bonsari, Airoli, for 15 years to construct a data...
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May 23, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon will demolish several office buildings it purchased in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022 and rebuild those structures with four data centers. Amazon Data Services has submitted to Loudoun County proposals to tear down and replace nine office buildings in three sites in Sterling with four data...
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May 22, 2023 Princeton Digital Group
A new campus for data centers is being built by Princeton Digital Group in Johor, Malaysia. This week, the company announced that it had purchased 31 acres of land from JLand Group (JLG) to construct a 150MW campus in Sedenak Tech Park (SteP). The first 60MW phase, JH1, is expected to be...
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May 21, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (Philippines) (STT GDC Philippines), a joint venture (JV) between Globe, Ayala Corporation, and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), has announced plans to develop the largest carrier-neutral data center in the Philippines. The STT Fairview...
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May 19, 2023 NTT
Over the next five years, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) intends to invest $59 billion in data centers, AI, and other "growth areas." At least $11 billion will be allocated to expanding or modernizing its data centers. The digital industry, which includes AI and robotics, receives at least...
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May 14, 2023 Microsoft Azure
A bill submitted Monday would exclude data center equipment, software, and other costs from state sales and use taxes. Microsoft's projected Mount Pleasant data center would presumably benefit first. The bill's creators, Rep. Shannon Zimmerman, R-River Falls, and Sen. Romaine Robert Quinn,...
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May 12, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has made a world first by inking a PPA deal with Helion for electricity from the company's first commercial fusion power plant. Scheduled to come online in 2028, the giant has been promised to receive 50MW or greater from the plant after a one-year ramp-up. This technology has been long...
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May 11, 2023 Amazon AWS
Officials in a rural county in the northeastern corner of Oregon have voted to provide Amazon with tax benefits that are believed to be worth one billion dollars so that the company can build five additional data centers there. According to The Oregonian and OregonLive, the five commissioners of...
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May 08, 2023 AdaniConneX
Adani Group is building a 200MW data center complex in Andhra Pradesh, India. The company's "Integrated Data Center and Technology Business Park" at Madhurawada, Vizag (Visakhapatnam), is the first of three technology zones intended for the city. The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Yeduguri...
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May 03, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
In recent years, data center security has come to the fore, with an increase in firmware attacks and security failures. Research shows that 83 percent of businesses have experienced firmware attacks in recent years, and in February, GDS and STT GDC hit the headlines when hackers compromised two...
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April 27, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced that it has opened its first data center region in Poland, which consists of three independent physical locations around Warsaw. The giant shared that this expansion is in response to the growing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and fast and reliable access to...
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