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Bridge DC Secures 'Sustainable' Water Supply for Upcoming Thailand Facility

APAC data center developer Bridge Data Centres (BDC) has signed an industrial water purchase agreement with Thai utility Eastwater Stecon Utilities Co (EWS) for ‘sustainable’ water supply for its under-construction hyperscale data center campus in Chonburi Province, Thailand.Eric Fan, CEO, Bri...

October 17, 2025

Bridge Data Centres

Microsoft Signs 100MW Solar PPA in Japan

Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Japanese energy firm Shizen Energy for 100MW of solar power in Japan.The power will be supplied from four solar projects in the Kyushu and Chugoku regions of Japan. According to Shizen, all four projects have reached financial close, a...

October 02, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Signs Green Steel Supply Deal with Stegra

Microsoft has signed a deal with green steel company Stegra for the supply of low-carbon steel for use within its data centers. The agreement will see Stegra deliver green steel, which it claims is up to 95 percent less carbon-intensive than conventional steel, to Microsoft's data center equi...

September 25, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Signs $6bn AI Deal with Nscale

Microsoft has signed a deal to rent $6.2 billion of AI computing power in Norway. The capacity will be provided by Nscale and Norwegian investment company Aker. The compute capacity will be powered entirely by renewable energy, and it seems to be from the same data center as announced earlier ...

September 18, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Equinix Launches ita First Facility in Chennai, India

Equinix has launched its first data center in Chennai, India. Located in Siruseri, Tamil Nadu, on a nearly six-acre plot, the facility will be connected to Equinix's Mumbai campus, featuring three data centers. The $69 million CN1 provides 800 cabinets of capacity in its first phase, but the ...

September 18, 2025

Equinix

Microsoft Signs Ten Year Partnership with Shayp

Microsoft has signed a ten-year partnership with Belgian water technology company Shayp to support the launch of its corporate water efficiency platform, Shayp 4IMPACT, designed to deliver verifiable and auditable water savings. It will commence with deployments across schools and public build...

September 17, 2025

Microsoft Azure

EdgeConneX Partners with Ral Estate Firm Stockland

ASX-listed real estate firm Stockland announced it had formed an exclusive arrangement with EdgeConneX to establish a partnership to develop, own, and operate a data center portfolio, and was “exploring opportunities across Stockland’s logistics pipeline.”This partnership will combine “Stockla...

September 16, 2025

EdgeConneX

Microsoft to Build Data Center in Elsdorf, Germany

Microsoft is set to develop a data center on a 26-hectare site, around one kilometer (0.6 miles) south of Heppendorf, Germany.Elsdorf is in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis area in North Rhine-Westphalia, just west of Cologne. Positioned in the west of Germany, Microsoft is already developing data centers...

September 16, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Agrees to $6bn Cloud Discount for US government

Microsoft has agreed to provide the US government with up to $6 billion in discounts over the next three years. The discounts will apply to Azure cloud computing services, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Dynamics 365, and cybersecurity tools. The first year alone could see the government saving up to ...

September 04, 2025

Microsoft Azure

EdgeConneX to Develop Second Facility in Japan

Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced the acquisition of its second data center site in the Greater Osaka and Yawata areas of Japan. The new site will provide an additional 150MW upon completion, bringing EdgeConneX's total data center capacity in Japan to 350MW of utility power at f...

August 28, 2025

EdgeConneX

Open DC launches PE2 data center in Penang, Malaysia

APAC operator Open DC has launched a new data center in Penang, Malaysia, a 30MW facility, PE2, which is located at Bayan Lepas Technology Park, is now the largest data center on the island of Penang.Yab Tuan Chow Kon Yeow, chief minister of Penang, said: “The establishment of PE2 marks a pivo...

August 21, 2025

Open DC

Yondr Expands into Texas with 550MW Facility

Data center developer Yondr Group this week announced it has secured a 163-acre site in Lancaster, Texas, just south of Dallas, to develop a data center campus able to offer 550MW critical IT load.“The US is a key market for Yondr’s next phase of growth, and Dallas is one of the largest and fa...

August 20, 2025

Yondr Group

Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

US data center giant Equinix has expanded its commitment to nuclear energy, announcing three major agreements with advanced nuclear developers that together could provide up to 774MWe of power.The first deal was with Radiant, a microreactor company based in El Segundo, California. As part of t...

August 14, 2025

Equinix

Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

Malaysian financial group Maybank has selected Microsoft Azure as one of its main cloud platforms in a five-year agreement. Valued at RM1 billion ($236.4m), the contract will see Maybank using Microsoft Azure for some of its "most strategic systems, functions, and data workloads."Dato’ Sri Kha...

August 12, 2025

Microsoft Azure

PDG Secures $160m Green Loan for Mumbai Data Center

APAC data center firm Princeton Digital Group (PDG) this week announced it has secured $160 million in green loans for its MU1 data center campus in Navi Mumbai, India. The financing, provided by local financial firms Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and Canara Bank, will be used to fund the co...

July 31, 2025

Princeton Digital Group

Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy

Microsoft has cut off cloud computing services to India's Nayara Energy, following EU sanctions on the oil refinery company. Nayara revealed it had initiated legal proceedings against Microsoft after the "abrupt and unilateral suspension of critical services," with Nayara claiming that Microso...

July 28, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing deman...

July 24, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Equinix to Pay $41.5m to Settle Malpractice Lawsuit

Equinix has agreed to pay $41.5 million as a settlement with the plaintiffs in a class action that alleged it misled its shareholders. According to Hindenburg’s March 2024 report, Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs.It claimed that...

July 22, 2025

Equinix

Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

Microsoft and Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) have made a commercial agreement that the two say will help "reform licensing terms" for Microsoft software on CISPE member cloud infrastructure. This comes after it was decided that the previously required solution being d...

July 19, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Princeton Digital Group Receives $1.3bn from Stonepeak

Asia Pacific-focused data center operator Princeton Digital Group has raised $1.3 billion from Stonepeak following its $1.2 billion debt financing deal back in May.“This milestone investment from Stonepeak is a strong endorsement of PDG’s strategy, execution, and sustained value creation,” sai...

July 19, 2025

Princeton Digital Group

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