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Read LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems
LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

March 01, 2023 London

The trading and market data systems of its clients are being transferred from the Main Data Center, which is now in the City of London, to the new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Data Center, which is located close to the Docklands. After securing considerable infrastructure capacity in the...

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Read Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading
Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

March 01, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

With the extending of its collaboration with Options Technology, a top provider of capital markets services, Digital Realty, the top global provider of cloud or carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, has made its suite of managed financial markets services offered...

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Read Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility
Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility

Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility

March 01, 2023 London

The new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data center is now home to a number of clients of Transaction Network Services (TNS). TNS was compelled to move after LSEG declared that its present City of London data center would be shut down. The brand-new colocation facility in Docklands still...

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Read Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain
Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

February 28, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has inked five new long-term PPAs in Spain from solar farms, totalling 225MW, which will be managed by IGNIS. This reportedly brings the company's contracted PPA capacity to 595 MW globally. While specific details regarding the location of the farms have not yet been shared, the company...

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Read Vodafone inks another PPA in the UK
Vodafone inks another PPA in the UK

Vodafone inks another PPA in the UK

February 28, 2023 Vodafone

Vodafone has announced the signing of a new PPA with Centrica and Mytilineos for solar power in the UK. The 10-year deal signed by the companies will see the telco procure energy from five solar farms in Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Dorset. In total, the energy...

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Read Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing
Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing

Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing

February 26, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft wants to duplicate a Dublin data center battery-sharing agreement. In 2022, Eaton unveiled a lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) with grid-interactive UPS to exchange energy with the local grid. The corporation told a London conference that this technique was ideal for the...

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Read NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks
NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

February 24, 2023 NTT

NTT has created a prototype device that might boost data center and submarine cable connection rates. A crucial step toward 6G, the gadget can in-lab enhance a 100 Gigahertz (GHz) electrical signal. Although the commercial availability of the ultra-compact baseband amplifier IC module is years...

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Read Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London
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Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London

February 23, 2023 London

A 185,150-square-foot data center is projected for northeast London. Alandale Scaffolding has applied to Epping Forest District Council for permission to construct a new center in Loughton, close to the Debden station, as first revealed by EssexLive. The company intends to construct a...

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Read DataBank Secures $715m For Data Center Development
DataBank Secures $715m For Data Center Development

DataBank Secures $715m For Data Center Development

February 23, 2023 DataBank

DataBank is collecting $715 million on the market for asset-backed securities (ABS) to develop its data center infrastructure. Kroll Bond Rating Agency has disclosed in a pre-sale report information on the financing. The deal's issuer and co-issuer are represented by DataBank Issuer, LLC and...

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Read MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India
MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

February 23, 2023 NTT

On February 22nd, NTT Global Data Centers revealed that its MIST subsea cable had arrived in Mumbai, India. The Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system has a length of approximately 5000 miles. It links Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as Mumbai and Chennai...

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Read Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington
Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington

Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington

February 20, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne is building a data center in Quincy, Washington. The corporation has a 45-acre block of land in the city of Washington State and has made it known that it intends to construct a campus there with built-to-suit buildings and a capacity of up to 96MW. The Columbia Basin Herald noted work...

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Read A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.
A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.

A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.

February 20, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Second Manassas LLC plans to build a 185,000-square-foot, one-story data center at 9905 Godwin Road in Manassas, as previously reported by Potomac Local News and InsideNoVa. The current Glen-Gary brickyard, which opened about 1964 and shut down in 2019, is being demolished for the...

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Read Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona
Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

February 16, 2023 Equinix

Currently, Equinix is planning to construct a second data center in Barcelona, Spain. Last week, the colocation giant revealed its intentions to build BA2, an International Business Exchange (IBX) facility right next to its current BA1 location. We were not given any information on the project's...

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Read Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment
Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment

Google's Arm Data Center CPUs Reach Milestone Before Predicted 2025 Cloud Deployment

February 15, 2023 Google

Following the successful introduction of Arm server processors by Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud is preparing two Arm CPUs for its cloud service. Before launching the cloud service in 2025, the firm made a significant stride and will put them into trial operation this year. The cloud servers...

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Read Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers
Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers

Uber Chooses Oracle and Google for 7-year Cloud Agreements, Shutting its Data Centers

February 14, 2023 Google

Uber Technologies wants to close its data center facilities after signing two significant cloud contracts. In two seven-year contracts, it will migrate over 95% of its IT to Google Cloud and Oracle from its own data centers. After 11 months of analysis, the taxi and delivery startup opted to use...

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Read Echelon Data Centers-linked firm planning battery storage facility in Dublin
Echelon Data Centers-linked firm planning battery storage facility in Dublin

Echelon Data Centers-linked firm planning battery storage facility in Dublin

February 13, 2023 Echelon Data Centres

Over the last few years, Ireland has witnessed a significant data center boom, so much so, that Ireland introduced a moratorium in Dublin to halt the development of further data centers in the city. As part of this de facto moratorium, EirGrid has outlined that no new grid connection applications...

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Read iColo launches new facility in Maputo, Mozambique
iColo launches new facility in Maputo, Mozambique

iColo launches new facility in Maputo, Mozambique

February 09, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty's iColo has announced that it has launched a new data center, located in Maputo, Mozambique, namely MPM1. The campus spans 9500 sqm, with 350 sqm of rentable space, equivalent to 80 racks in the first phase of development. The company has shared that the facility will be the local...

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Read Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks
Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks

Elon Musk Halts Data Center Consolidation, Google Cloud Makes Cutbacks

February 09, 2023 Google

Late on Wednesday, there was a Twitter outage that prevented users from Tweeting, following accounts, or sending direct messages. A notification stating that the "daily limit of tweets has been reached" was displayed to certain users. Elon Musk, the CEO and new owner, advised workers in an email...

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Read Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure
Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

February 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Cooling equipment at a Microsoft data center went down due to a utility data center power spike, which resulted in an outage. Customers hosted in the South East Asia cloud area experienced a variety of problems as a result of the outage. According to Microsoft's status page, when cooling...

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Read Digital Realty invests in photovoltaics through ENGIE PPA
Digital Realty invests in photovoltaics through ENGIE PPA

Digital Realty invests in photovoltaics through ENGIE PPA

February 08, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed an agreement with Engie to procure solar power. Through the 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) the company inked, it will have access to 116 megawatts (MW) of a new 154 MW ground-mounted solar photovoltaic project, which is currently under...

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