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EQT Infrastructure partners with EdgeConneX to develop hyperscale facility

Investment firm EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund has invested in EdgeConneX to build and operate purpose-built data centers for hyperscale customers around the world, expanding the company into new markets. Terms of this investment were not shared. However, EQT noted that this investment by EQT In...

January 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX

King George County vote to reconsider Amazon deal

In a recent development, Virginia's King George County Board of Supervisors voted to renegotiate the performance agreement with Amazon. This agreement is for the facility's first phase at the old Birchwood power plant on State Route 3 near Sealston. Following the existing agreement, Amazon wo...

January 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Keppel partners with Grid Beyond for BESS projects in Dublin facilities

Keppel has filed with the Fingal and South Dublin County Councils as it seeks to install battery energy storage at its data centers in the Irish capital. These storage systems for both facilities are to be provided by Grid Beyond Limited, which provides grid-connected battery technologies and ...

January 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Keppel Data Center REIT

Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands

Google has broken ground on a new data center in the Netherlands and has officially begun work on the facility in Winschoten, Groningen, in the north of the country. Marco Ynema, data center lead in the Netherlands at Google, said, "People are increasingly using digital tools, and organization...

December 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Jeff Bezos provides new details about Blue Origin’s space data center

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has provided a few more details about Blue Origin's plans to put compute in space, which was first announced in October. Bezos explained on the Lex Fridman podcast that the 'Blue Ring' project, aims to provide multiple services to space customers. He said, "Blue Ring ...

December 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia

Google and AirTrunk have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy provider OX2 in Australia for the development of a new solar farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, from which Google and AirTrunk will receive 25MW of renewable power. Damien Spillane, AirTrunk chief custo...

December 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

Renewables transaction company LevelTen Energy has set up a marketplace for time-based energy certificates to support renewable energy commitments around he clock. The GC Trading Alliance, supported by Google, Microsoft, and others, will be a platform to exchange "granular certificates" that v...

December 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Vantage to break ground in Taipei

Vantage Data Centers is planning to expand data center operations into Taipei, Taiwan. The company announced this week that it is planning a new facility in Taipei called TPE1 data center and it is expected to be open in mid-2024. This new facility is being constructed on a 2-acre site. It is...

December 11, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it is in partnership with GPU-maker Nvidia to launch the Project Ceiba supercomputer. This supercomputer is expected to be the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer, featuring 16,384 GH200 NVL32 Grace Hopper Superchips. The system will also feature the A...

November 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

Google recently announced that its data centers in Nevada will be powered by a new geothermal power plant. This project, originally announced by Google and Fervo in 2021, is a 5MW project that will use Google AI systems to help with its operations. Michael Terrell, senior director of energy a...

November 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

OpenAI has hired Google’s Todd Underwood to head a new Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads as it already has a functional team for the applied side working on inference and API products. The SRE concept originally started at Google, but has since spread...

November 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department

OpenAI has hired Google’s Richard Ho as the head of hardware to lead the new division to help “influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings.” Ho had spent about 9 years at Google, leading one of the company’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units projects, wi...

November 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center

Two years after sharing initial plans, NextDC has finally begun construction at its D1 8MW data center in Australia's Northern Territory in Darwin. The site located close to the Charles Darwin University CBD campus is being constructed by Kapitol Group NT and is expected to create around 200...

November 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW

Mayor of the Skien municipality, Marius Roheim Aarvold has said claims that Google’s upcoming data center campus in Norway will require 860MW of power to support its planned data center campus in Gromstul, Skien municipality.are false. Local press had reported that Microsoft formerly applied f...

November 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia

Google recently announced that it will be launching its Saudi Arabian cloud region this week. Anthony Cirot, Google Cloud’s EMEA South VP, posted on LinkedIn, “I'm thrilled to share an exciting milestone in Google Cloud's journey: the launch of our new cloud region in Saudi Arabia. This marks ...

November 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google signs first wind PPA in Poland

Google has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure renewable energy in Poland . Following this agreement with Polsat Plus Group, Google will now offtake from the company’s wind farm in Przyrów to power Google Cloud’s operations. Tara Brady, president, Google Cloud EMEA said...

November 03, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Vantage closes €2.5 billion investment deal in Europe

Vantage Data Centers has finalized an investment partnership with DigitalBridge and a consortium of investors led by MEAG and Infranity for some of its European data center assets. The collaboration between both companies consists of six data center facilities across Europe, valued at around €...

November 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

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