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Read Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy
Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy

Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy

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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Read Digital Edge begins construction on Tokyo data facility
Digital Edge begins construction on Tokyo data facility

Digital Edge begins construction on Tokyo data facility

June 07, 2023 Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has begun constructing its data center in downtown Tokyo, Japan. A few days ago the company announced on LinkedIn that the building of its TYO7 site had officially begun. The Singapore-based business revealed plans for a new facility in March 2023. The facility will be situated at...

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Read Orion Data Centers Purchased by Edge Centre's Cybercon
Orion Data Centers Purchased by Edge Centre's Cybercon

Orion Data Centers Purchased by Edge Centre's Cybercon

June 02, 2023 Edge Centres

Cybercon, which Australian data center operator Edge Centres currently owns, has acquired Missouri data center company, Orion Data Centers. Last week, the business disclosed that it had successfully acquired Orion, expanding its regional coverage to include a facility in Columbia. The agreement's...

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Read STT GDC Will Make a $242m Investment in a Pair of Data Centers in Pune, India
STT GDC Will Make a $242m Investment in a Pair of Data Centers in Pune, India

STT GDC Will Make a $242m Investment in a Pair of Data Centers in Pune, India

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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Read Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai
Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

May 31, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is opening its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai, which, at full build-out, will offer 1,800 cabinets of capacity across two phases or a total footprint of 12,000 square meters (135,000 square feet). The facility will support the...

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Read HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations
HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations

HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations

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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Read Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand
Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand

Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand

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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Read Keppel Corp. Advises Singapore to Switch to Greener Data Centers or Risk Losing Demand
Keppel Corp. Advises Singapore to Switch to Greener Data Centers or Risk Losing Demand

Keppel Corp. Advises Singapore to Switch to Greener Data Centers or Risk Losing Demand

May 23, 2023 Keppel Data Center REIT

The Keppel Corporation is requesting that authorities develop environmentally friendly data centers. According to Nikkei Asia, Wong Wai Meng, the chief executive officer of Keppel's data center division, warned that the nation's capacity limitation is insufficient to meet current demand. The...

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Read Princeton Digital Group Intends to Construct a 150MW Data Facility in Johor, Malaysia
Princeton Digital Group Intends to Construct a 150MW Data Facility in Johor, Malaysia

Princeton Digital Group Intends to Construct a 150MW Data Facility in Johor, Malaysia

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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Read ST Telemedia Global Data Centres to construct sustainability-focused data center in the Philippines
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres to construct sustainability-focused data center in the Philippines

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres to construct sustainability-focused data center in the Philippines

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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Read Host Networks Acquired by Edge Centres
Host Networks Acquired by Edge Centres

Host Networks Acquired by Edge Centres

May 18, 2023 Edge Centres

Edge Centres, an Australian data center company, bought Queensland-based Host Networks. The terms of the agreement announced this week were not disclosed. As part of the agreement, Edge Centres will take over a 550kW, 130-rack facility in Brisbane's Eight Mile Plains area that can be expanded to...

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Read New Bill To Give Data Centers Certain Tax Breaks Has Competitive Benefits
New Bill To Give Data Centers Certain Tax Breaks Has Competitive Benefits

New Bill To Give Data Centers Certain Tax Breaks Has Competitive Benefits

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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Read Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first
Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first

Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first

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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Read Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain
Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

May 09, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has inked a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Sonnedix. The deal will see the colocation provider source energy from three PV plants in the Castilla-La Mancha region of Spain. The three plants are pegged to be operational by the end of 2024; collectively,...

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Read Digital Edge's second ESG report reveals key metrics on carbon neutrality
Digital Edge's second ESG report reveals key metrics on carbon neutrality

Digital Edge's second ESG report reveals key metrics on carbon neutrality

May 08, 2023 Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge recently published its second ESG report, which shared key metrics for achieving its carbon neutrality target by 2030. Based on the theme of "Future Possible," the report emphasized the importance of building the digital infrastructure of the future sustainably and responsibly and...

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Read Navigating evolving data center security risks and requirements
Navigating evolving data center security risks and requirements

Navigating evolving data center security risks and requirements

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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Read Keppel Data Centres and Woodside partner on liquid hydrogen supply
Keppel Data Centres and Woodside partner on liquid hydrogen supply

Keppel Data Centres and Woodside partner on liquid hydrogen supply

April 28, 2023 Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Corporation has signed an agreement with Australia's Woodside Energy, which could see it supply 1,000 tonnes (1,100 tons) of liquid hydrogen a day from Woodside's portfolio of planned production facilities, to Keppel's data center in Singapore. This deal follows a series of successful...

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Read Microsoft launches its first data center region in Poland
Microsoft launches its first data center region in Poland

Microsoft launches its first data center region in Poland

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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Read Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK
Equinix Plans  30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

April 27, 2023 Equinix

Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in favor...

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Read Stack Plans to Setting up Two San Jose Data Centers
Stack Plans to Setting up Two San Jose Data Centers

Stack Plans to Setting up Two San Jose Data Centers

April 26, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack has applied for approval to expand its San Jose, California data center campus. This week, the San Jose City planning commission will consider Stack's request to construct two data centers at 2400 Ringwood Avenue and 1880 Fortune Drive in Santa Clara County, as first reported by SF Yimby....

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