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KKR, PAG, and EQT Remain in The Race To Acquire Global Switch as Stonepeak and Gaw Dropout

According to Bloomberg, PAG, KKR, and EQT have been selected as the final bidders for Global Switch. Per Bloomberg, the companies are mulling over the best financing structures to seek the acquisition of the London-based firm. However, the publication noted that the initial bids didn’t meet Gl...

November 23, 2022

Global Switch

Lumen To Sell its EMEA Operation to Colt For $1.8 Billion

Lumen has announced that it will sell its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations to Colt in a $1.8 billion deal. The deal will see Lumen divest its EMEA business, including its data centers, terrestrial and subsea networks, and network equipment in the EMEA region, to Colt. The deal...

November 07, 2022

Lumen Technologies

NTT & Digital Realty To Develop Data Centers in Garland, Texas

Digital Realty and NTT are looking to develop new data centers in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The firms filed applications for the new data centers with the State’s Department of Licensing. The plots of land in question are within one mile of one another. Digital Realty plans to develop a one-st...

October 25, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix To Invest $74m in Developing its First Facility in Jakarta, Indonesia

Equinix has revealed its plans to develop a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the company's first facility in the Asian country. Equinix noted that it would be investing $74m in developing the new IBX facility. The data center will be located in the Central Business Distri...

October 11, 2022

Equinix

Telehouse begins work on its Paris data center

Telehouse has announced that it has begun work on its new data center at its TH3 Paris Magny campus in France. The second on the site, the data center, is located on a former EADS military site and will provide 12,000 sqm (129,150 sq ft) of IT floor space and 18MW of capacity across five buil...

October 05, 2022

Telehouse

Keppel Corp Announces Acquisition of a Facility in Malaysia Owned By its Subsidiaries

Keppel Corporation has announced that it has absorbed one of its subsidiaries. The move will also see Keppel take ownership of one of the company’s data centers. Keppel acquired Juventas DC PTE ltd (JPL) for $25.4m from Causeway DC Pte Ltd. (CDCPL). JPL has now become Keppel Corp’s wholly-o...

October 05, 2022

Keppel Data Center REIT

Equinix tests hydrogen fuel cell power

Equinix is the latest company in the industry to trial hydrogen fuel cells as a power source for data centers. The company will be working in partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and Engine...

September 30, 2022

Equinix

Digital Realty files to build data center in Chicago

Digital Realty has reportedly filed to construct a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The application for construction on the facility outlines that it would span 565,000-square-foot (52,500 sqm) as a 13-story building at 321-337 E. 21st Street, which is opposite 350 E Cermak carrier hotel...

September 28, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix expands its ZH4 IBX facility in Zurich

Equinix has announced the expansion of one of its data centers in Zurich, Switzerland. Its ZH4 IBX facility, located at Josefstrasse 225, will see the addition of 850 square meters (9,150 sq ft) of whitespace and more than 200 cabinets.The facility first opened in 2010, and since then, it has...

September 16, 2022

Equinix

Indoor vertical farm on the way for former Digital Realty data center in Herndon, Virginia

In Virginia, a former Digital Realty data center is gearing up for a dramatic transformation. Located in Herndon, the company’s old data center will become an agricultural facility, specifically a vertical farm. Vertical farms have similar power, water, and air conditioning requirements to dat...

September 14, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Environmental group launches appeal against Interxion's proposal for two data centers in Dublin

Environmentalists are appealing against two data centers Interxion is planning to build in Dublin. The appeal, lodged with An Bord Pleanála (ABP) by John Conway and Louth Environmental Group, argues that there are a "disproportionate" number of data centers in the area and that the facilities'...

September 09, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

DigitalBridge and Equinix are The Final Bidders For Time Dotcom's Aims DC Business

According to Bloomberg, Equinix and DigitalBridge are the final two companies looking to buy Time Dotcom’s data center business. The companies are looking to sign an agreement to take over the business called Aims Data Centre within the next few weeks. Per sources, Time Dotcom might also re...

September 05, 2022

Equinix

Digital Realty Expanding in Dallas, Texas With $59m Data Center

Digital Realty has plans to develop a new facility in Dallas, Texas. The data center firm filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop the data center in the Lewisville area of Dallas. The company coined the development ‘Project Gold’ and is looking to invest up to $5...

August 23, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Echelon's legal challenge over South Dublin data center ban

Echelon Data Centres has reportedly filed a legal challenge with the High Court against South Dublin County Council’s decision to ban new facilities in its function area during the lifetime of its 2022 to 2028 development. This legal action follows the motion tabled by the council’s People Be...

August 19, 2022

Echelon Data Centres

Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For $205m

Digital Realty has announced the sale of a “mature” data center. The move is to ensure that more capital is available for new projects. Notably, the company did not reveal which building it sold or who acquired the facility. According to a release from the company, it has disposed of the prope...

August 15, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

PAG Among Companies Now Looking To Acquire Global Switch

The number of companies looking to acquire Global Switch is increasing by the day as PAG has joined the long list of potential suitors. Global Switch is a London-based data center company founded in 1998 with 13 facilities across Asia, Europe, and Australia. Jiangsu Shagang, a Chinese steel co...

August 01, 2022

Global Switch

Equinix signs wind PPA with Neoen

Equinix has announced that it has signed a second PPA with Neoen in Finland in a 10-year deal. The deal will see Neoen (which owns an 80% stake in the project) and project developer Prokon (owning 20%) provide at least 42MW of wind capacity from the 53MW Lumivaara wind park which is currently ...

July 26, 2022

Equinix

Equinix sued over alleged patent infringement

Equinix is being faced with a lawsuit from Cloud Conductor LLC, a multi-cloud management firm, over accusations that the colocation giant stole its technology that was placed in one of its data centers. According to the filing, Equinix began offering a cloud connectivity service identical to ...

July 25, 2022

Equinix

Keppel Reveals Plans For Beijing Data Center

Keppel has announced that it is developing a data center in Greater Beijing, China. According to the Singaporean company, its Keppel Data Centre Fund II LP (KDCF II) has partnered with Heying to develop a greenfield data center facility in Greater Beijing, China. KDCF II is managed by Keppel’s...

July 19, 2022

Keppel Data Center REIT

Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU

Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporatio...

July 06, 2022

Equinix

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