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Read Equinix breaks ground in Malaysia with two new data centers
Equinix breaks ground in Malaysia with two new data centers

Equinix breaks ground in Malaysia with two new data centers

May 28, 2024 Equinix

Equinix has now broken ground in Malaysia with two International Business Exchange data centers in Johor (JH1) and Kuala Lumpur (KL1) now serving the company’s customers in Malaysia and across. Jeremy Deutsch, president for Asia-Pacific at Equinix, said: “Malaysia is a cornerstone market and top...

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Read Equinix signs new solar PPAs in Singapore
Equinix signs new solar PPAs in Singapore

Equinix signs new solar PPAs in Singapore

April 29, 2024 Equinix

Colocation firm Equinix has signed long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Singapore fromSembcorp Industries. Following the agreements, Sembcorp Power will supply a maximum capacity of 75MWp from its solar assets and 30MW from its gas-power generation portfolio...

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Read Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations
Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations

Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations

March 23, 2024 Equinix

Short seller Hindenburg Research has accused data center REIT Equinix of "major accounting manipulations." The investigative reporting and researching company claims that Nadaq-listed Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs, by at least...

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Read Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO
Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as  new CEO

Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO

March 14, 2024 Equinix

Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 2020....

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Read Equinix deploys 1MW solar system on Melbourne data center
Equinix deploys 1MW solar system on Melbourne data center

Equinix deploys 1MW solar system on Melbourne data center

March 01, 2024 Equinix

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...

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Read Verizon kickstarts construction of new cell tower in Texas
Verizon kickstarts construction of new cell tower in Texas

Verizon kickstarts construction of new cell tower in Texas

February 21, 2024 Verizon Enterprise

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...

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Read Equinix signs new PPA in Australia
Equinix signs new PPA in Australia

Equinix signs new PPA in Australia

February 07, 2024 Equinix

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 from...

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Read Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years
Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years

Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years

January 18, 2024 Equinix

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 offices...

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Read Telehouse launches fifth facility in Frankfurt
Telehouse launches fifth facility in Frankfurt

Telehouse launches fifth facility in Frankfurt

December 29, 2023 Telehouse

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, "It’s...

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Read Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers
Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers

Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers

December 28, 2023 Equinix

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 green...

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

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

December 12, 2023 Equinix

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...

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Read Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix
Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix

Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix

December 05, 2023 Equinix

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 Equinix...

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Read Telecom Italia's biggest shareholder opposes KKR bid
 Telecom Italia's biggest shareholder opposes KKR bid

Telecom Italia's biggest shareholder opposes KKR bid

November 08, 2023 Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A.

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 of...

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

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

October 24, 2023 Telehouse

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...

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Read Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore
Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore

Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore

October 18, 2023 Equinix

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, WhatsApp,...

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Read Telehouse to expand its largest existing DC facility
Telehouse to expand its largest existing DC facility

Telehouse to expand its largest existing DC facility

October 16, 2023 Telehouse

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...

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

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

August 29, 2023 Verizon Enterprise

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 is...

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

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

August 10, 2023 Equinix

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....

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

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

July 17, 2023 Equinix

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 in...

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

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

July 14, 2023 Equinix

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 be...

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