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Equinix deploys 1MW solar system on Melbourne data center

Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at 578 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. The company has now completed the installation of rooftop solar systems at eight of its facilities, including Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and ...

March 01, 2024

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Verizon kickstarts construction of new cell tower in Texas

Verizon has started construction of a new cell tower at Fort Bliss Army Post in El Paso, Texas. This tower will be constructed by Boldyn Networks and will provide connectivity to service military personnel in Texas and New Mexico. “Verizon supports our military partners through a number of in...

February 21, 2024

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Equinix signs new PPA in Australia

Global colocation giant Equinix recently announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 151MW of wind power in Australia. The company will pay for 20 percent of the first phase of the giant Golden Plains Wind Farm project, which is being built in rural Victoria, not far fro...

February 07, 2024

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Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years

Michael Winterson has left colocation provider Equinix after 24 years to take on the role of managing director for the European Data Centre Association. Winterson wrote on LinkedIn, “Exactly 24 years ago I started my data center career at IXEurope, not 300 meters from our current Equinix offic...

January 18, 2024

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Telehouse launches fifth facility in Frankfurt

Telehouse has launched and fully leased its fifth data center at its Frankfurt campus dubbed building M. This data center now adds 4.5 MW of IT capacity which has been fully leased less than two months since its opening. Dr. Béla Waldhauser, managing director of Telehouse Deutschland said, "I...

December 29, 2023

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Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers

Equinix is now one of the top ten largest green bond issuers in the United States after allocating $4.9 billion in green bonds to building and efficiency projects. These bonds will fund 172 green building projects on 105 sites, along with 33 energy efficiency projects. Equinix first issued gre...

December 28, 2023

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Equinix to roll out support for liquid cooling at over 100 facilities

Colocation firm Equinix announced this week that it plans to expand support for liquid cooling technologies – including direct-to-chip – to more than 100 of its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in more than 45 metros globally. Tiffany Osias, VP of global colocation at Equinix...

December 12, 2023

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Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix

Equinix announced this week that it signed a ten-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Portugal Sonnedix’s first Portuguese solar PV project, the 149MW Sonnedix Douro. Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix, said, “We are very pleased to be extending our relationship with Equi...

December 05, 2023

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Telecom Italia's biggest shareholder opposes KKR bid

Telecom Italia recently agreed to sell its landline business to investment firm KKR for €22 billion. This deal, backed by Giorgia Meloni's Italian government, was finally approved by TIM on November 5 without making it conditional on a vote by shareholders. Though the board voted 11-3 in favor...

November 08, 2023

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Telehouse, NLP launches time-as-a-service offering

Data center provider Telehouse International Corporation together with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Metrology Institute has launched a time-as-a-time service offering called NPLTime Certified. This service functions to provide businesses with a synchronized time si...

October 24, 2023

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Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore

An outage at an Equinix data center on Saturday brought DBS and Citibank banking services in Singapore offline. This outage also affected other services in its Asian region including the Philippines, Hong Kong and India as people complained about having issues with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsAp...

October 18, 2023

Equinix

Telehouse to expand its largest existing DC facility

KDDI-owned global data center service provider Telehouse Europe has announced plans to upgrade its largest existing data center, Telehouse South in London. The company announced that Skanska will be the contractor to complete the first phase of this upgrade which is expected to be finalized by...

October 16, 2023

Telehouse

Old Verizon office and data center in Pittsburgh for sale/lease

Verizon's former Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office and data center is available for purchase or lease. It has been put up for sale or lease by Colliers and Sampson Morris Group at 5400 Campbells Run Road. The 10-acre, 1959-built office and data facility features 130,000 rentable square feet and ...

August 29, 2023

Verizon Enterprise

Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India

Equinix will invest $42 million in a new data center in Mumbai, India. The MB4 data center is anticipated to be operational by the end of the fourth quarter 2023. The MB4 data center is in the Kalwa Industrial Area, approximately 9 miles from the company's two other IBX data centers in Mumbai....

August 10, 2023

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Equinix to connect to new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany

Equinix has announced that, through a partnership with a number of different companies, it will connect to a new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany. In collaboration with Vonovia, AS Enterprise, and EB-SIM, the group aims to build a heating network for the bizonal residential area ...

July 17, 2023

Equinix

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to b...

July 14, 2023

Equinix

Hyperscale data center from Equinix opens in Japan's capital

This week, the company revealed the opening of TY13x. Situated in the Inzai region and opposite TY12x, TY13x provides 8MW in the first phase and 36MW when fully constructed. In October 2019, Equinix partnered with Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund to develop hyperscale centers under the xS...

July 04, 2023

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Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

Invesco has purchased a data center in San Jose, California, run by Equinix. Mercury News reports that the Sobrato Organization recently sold 1735 Lundy Avenue in San Jose to Invesco Real Estate for $86.3 million, citing documents from Santa Clara County.The single-story building encompasses 1...

June 22, 2023

Equinix

Telehouse, a subsidiary of KDDI, buys Allied Properties' data center holdings for $1 billion

Telehouse has entered the Canadian market with the acquisition of three data centers. KDDI, the parent company of the data center company, announced this week that it had acquired three data centers and the associated assets in Toronto, Canada, from Allied Properties REIT. KDDI paid $1.02 bil...

June 22, 2023

Telehouse

Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

Equinix is expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, with plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur called KL1, which, the company said, will provide greater digital infrastructure capacity in the country. The new facility, which follows the company's announcement of JH1 in Johor, wi...

June 12, 2023

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