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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October 23, 2023 London
Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group recently completed a £125 million purchase of offices and data center portfolio in London leased to UK telco Vodafone. The 260,000 square feet portfolio comprises five data centers which was initially acquired from British Land who announced the...
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October 23, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty joint venture Digital Connexion has named CB Velayuthan as its new CEO and he has taken over leadership of Brookfield/Digital/Reliance Jio joint venture previously known as BAM Digital Realty. Velayuthan said to the media, “India is one of the most dynamic markets in our industry...
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October 20, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Shizen Energy Inc. announced its latest 20-year virtual VPPA with Microsoft to supply renewable energy from a 25MWac solar farm in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture. This agreement between both companies marks Microsoft’s first PPA in Japan. Sizen is also constructing a solar farm, which will...
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October 20, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft recently revealed plans to build a team dedicated to researching data center automation and robotics. The tech giant has also posted a job listing for a hardware automation team manager specializing in robotics. The job listing states, "As the Team Manager - Hardware Robotics, for our...
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October 19, 2023 Microsoft Azure
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alleges that tech giant Microsoft owes the US government about $28.9 billion in taxes, penalties, and interest. However, Microsoft has denied these charges and intents to "vigorously contest" them. Microsoft revealed in an SEC filing that it received a Notice of...
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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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October 18, 2023 Microsoft Azure
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has finally approved Microsoft's proposed acquisition of famous video games publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. This comes after an initial blockage of the deal over concerns relating to the impact of this acquisition on competition in...
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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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October 16, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft recently revealed plans to build a new data center campus in Aragon, in the northeastern region of Spain. The company is yet to share details about this development. However, local press have reported that Microsoft plans to develop three sites around Zaragoza; A 63-acre site in the...
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October 16, 2023 Lumen Technologies
Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and...
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October 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has partnered with a Dutch vocational college in Amsterdam to launch a new demo data center to teach students data center skills. Students from the Cloud & Infrastructure Technician course opened the demo data center at MBO College Zuidoost this week. Melissa Scholten, senior...
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October 12, 2023 Green Mountain AS
Norway's Green Mountain has announced plans to build a massive data center campus in Norway following a ‘large international client’ request to establish itself near the new Fagrafjell transformer station. This new facility will be built on a site at Kalberg, about 20klometers from Stavanger in...
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October 10, 2023 Google
Google has tested a demand-response system, which will reduce data center electricity consumption during grid problems and shift non-urgent tasks to other locations. The company notes that this is an extension of its plan to shift computing work to areas where energy is carbon-free. A blog post...
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October 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Global technology giant Microsoft revealed plans to develop a new data center campus in Newport Wales. In a post on its website, the company wrote, “Microsoft will be applying for planning permission for a data center in Newport, Wales. We are preparing a planning application for the site in the...
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October 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has replaced the criticized diesel backup generators used at a Swedish data center with a battery energy storage system (BESS). The BESS system supplied in June provides 16MWh of storage and black start capability to guarantee instant recovery of the power grid, all without greenhouse...
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October 07, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
Independent infrastructure investor Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) along with its affiliates and co-investors, recently announced an investment in a term loan facility of up to $450 million in Vantage Data Centers. GIP acted as the lead investor in this transaction, with support from the...
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October 06, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Global cloud provider Digital Realty announced its acquisition of a land parcel in Zagreb, Croatia for the construction of a new data center campus as it plans to expand its footprints in Southeast Europe. This plot of land, located close to its existing data center campus can support up to 30...
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October 04, 2023 NTT
NTT Docomo has partnered with semiconductor company Nvidia to deploy a GPU-accelerated wireless solution in its network in Japan. This partnership will make it the first telco in the world to deploy a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network. A blog post by Nvidia noted that this partnership...
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October 04, 2023 NTT
NTT Docomo announced on September 26, 2023, that it has agreed with JTowers on a deal to share its current telecommunication tower infrastructure. This agreement enables an ownership transfer of an additional 1,552 Docomo towers to JTower for 17 billion yen ($114 million). This comes after Docomo...
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