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Dubai’s DAMAC Group buys stake in Ireland’s Dataplex

DAMAC Group has acquired a 45 percent stake in Dataplex Group Limited. The two companies will focus on brownfield projects that involve rebuilding existing structures. They will also focus on more significant greenfield projects while focusing on hyperscale and wholesale colocation customers. ...

October 19, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataPlex Group

Google's new 'green campus': What it is and what it means for the future of Google

Google’s new Bay View campus, located east of the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, will reportedly be opened to a select number of employees by January and is reportedly a representative of the company’s wider goals and vision. According to Google, the campus itself is ...

October 19, 2021

Google

PLDT Inc to build largest data center in Philippines

PLDT Inc has announced that it has plans to build the Philippines’ biggest data center. Although the size and location of the facility are yet to be released, according to the company, its capacity will be greater than its 10 VITRO data centers together. It will be Tier-3 certified and Tier-4 ...

October 19, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

ePLDT

OVHcloud goes public

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 sha...

October 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

Oracle to explore potential of new Cloud region in Serbia with MoU

Oracle Cloud has signed an MoU with the Government of Serbia at the World Expo in Dubai this week. The purpose of the MoU is to explore the possibility of opening an Oracle data region within the State Data Center in Kragujevac. According to a press release by the Serbian Government, the new l...

October 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Oracle

Echelon breaks ground on LCY20 facility

Echelon Data Centres has confirmed that it is developing its second facility in the UK. The LCY20 facility will be located in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK. Echelon has broken ground on the facility, and it plans to complete it by Q2 of 2022. LCY20 will have 20MW of capacity. It will also ha...

October 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Echelon Data Centres

Data Center First moves into Batam, Indonesia with new data center

Data Center First has announced that it is moving into Batam, Indonesia, with its first data center in the country. According to the company, the first phase will see the construction of a 30MW facility at Batam Island's Nongsa Digital Park, spanning 276,600 sq ft (25,700 sqm), and there is a ...

October 18, 2021

Batam

Telehouse's Marseille DC to begin operation in November

Telehouse has confirmed that its first data center in Marseille will be in full operation by the beginning of November. Telehouse calls the new facility THM1, and it will give customers access to 160Tbps of capacity via subsea cables. The cables connect Marseille with Asia, the Middle East, an...

October 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Telehouse Marseille THM1

Saudi Arabia makes a big investment in digital infrastructure

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia has announced that it is forming four cooperation initiatives to build hyperscale data centers. This announcement is part of its achievement of the Kingdom Vision 2030 goals, which envisions the country becoming an “inno...

October 18, 2021

Saudi Arabia

Wasabi Technologies launch APAC data center in Japan

Wasabi Technologies has announced that it is launching its first data center in the Asia Pacific, Japan, and is teaming up with Colt Technology Services, which will provide connectivity delivering on Wasabi Technologies cost and latency needs.Speaking about the company’s partnership with Colt ...

October 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Wasabi Technologies

New Taiwan data center hailed as a sign of greater things to come

Chief Telecom, an affiliate of Chunghwa Telecom, has launched its fourth Internet Data Center (IDC) in Taipei City, a move that has been projected to bring new opportunities for Taiwan's IDC and cloud industries.The unveiling ceremony was attended by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who outlined...

October 15, 2021

Taiwan

Digital Realty makes strategic investment in AtlasEdge

Digital Realty has reached an agreement to make a strategic investment in AtlasEdge Data Centres. The investment will also see Digital Realty’s Executive VP, Strategic & Business Segments, Giuliano Di Vitantonio, join AtlasEdge as CEO, starting January 2022. AtlasEdge delivers smooth, loca...

October 15, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

What's ahead for Talen Energy's cumulus data center project

Talen Energy’s Cumulus hyperscale data center in Salem Township was given the go-ahead by officials just a few two weeks ago and is pinned to bring thousands of new jobs and economic opportunities to the area. This includes $1-3 million in property taxes for the township. On top of these econo...

October 15, 2021

IDB provides $100 million loan to improve connectivity in Argentina

The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a digital infrastructure loan of $100 million repayable in 25 years to improve connectivity in Argentina. With the loan, the development of digital connectivity in remote areas will become a reality. The loan will also be used to improve the cap...

October 15, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Argentina

Lamda Hellix breaks ground on Athens-3 data center in Greece

Greece-based data center firm Lamda Hellix has begun work on a new data center close to Athens. Lamda Hellix revealed that the Athens-3 facility would have a capacity of 20MW. The size will also make it the largest data center in Greece. Athens-3 will also have 8,600 square meters (92,500 squa...

October 14, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty: ATH3

Groningen municipality: New large data center on the way?

Discussions are being had around the possibility of a new data center in the industrial district of Westpoort near Groningen, and whether or not it gets the go-ahead will be determined by Groningen City Council. According to a PDF document, the proposed data center would occupy 20 hectares, an...

October 14, 2021

Netherlands

Data centers at the Innovation Summit World Tour 2021

The Innovation Summit World Tour 2021 has been underway this week, where important discussions around how to cut CO2 emissions and accelerate climate change action are being had. The annual summit launched by Schneider Electric emphasized the urgent need to "act fast" to decarbonize. According...

October 14, 2021

Microsoft's transparency bid: Cloud emissions dashboard now generally available

In its latest sustainability effort, Microsoft has announced that its Emissions Impact Dashboard, first announced in January 2020, is now widely available. According to the tech giant, this tool enables greater transparency and allows users to gain insight into greenhouse gas emissions associa...

October 14, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Is a new data center to move into Pitt County?

As reported by WITN, there are murmurs in Pitt County that a data center may be on its way. This news has not been well received by locals, who have voiced concerns around the facility, which is to be proposed next to Belvoir Elementary School. Locals are apprehensive about potential noise pol...

October 14, 2021

OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

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 ...

October 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

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