August 18, 2021 Equinix
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently granted a group of businesses led by Equinix the right to form a renewable energy purchasing group. This formation will allow the group, which includes Nike, H&M, HSBC Bank, and Goldman Sachs, to negotiate access to cheaper...
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August 06, 2021 KAO Data
With more and more data center companies committing to climate change initiatives, the industry is also looking at how it can make backup energy more sustainable too. For decades, diesel has served as the primary fuel for traditional backup generators - however, diesel fuels, whilst getting...
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August 06, 2021 Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies has announced that it is selling its current local exchange carrier (ILEC) business in 20 states for $7.5 billion. The firm will be selling the business to Apollo Funds. Lumen Technologies currently operates the ILEC business under the CenturyLink name, and the business...
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July 29, 2021 Manchester
Ashton Old Baths, a Victorian bathhouse in Manchester, has undergone a significant transformation into a council data center, and a tech hub spanning over 10,000 sq ft of office and coworking space. The historic Grade II-listed building, which first opened in 1870, is now in phase two of...
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July 28, 2021 Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies has announced the sale of its entire Latin American business to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. The sale is said to be worth $2.7 billion. Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, is also investing funds in the deal with Stonepeak. The current leadership team of...
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July 27, 2021 Pulsant
Antin Infrastructure Partners has completed the acquisition of UK data center firm Pulsant. Antin acquired Pulsant from Scottish Equity Partners and Oak Hill Capital who have owned the data center firm since 2014. None of the companies disclosed the terms of the deal. Pulsant operates 10 data...
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July 24, 2021 Equinix
The data center industry is a multibillion-dollar industry. According to Gartner, end-user spending on data center infrastructure for 2020 was $188 billion, a 10.3% decrease from 2019’s spending. With these figures, we can reach a consensus that there’s a massive market available for data center...
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July 23, 2021 Equinix
Back in June, Equinix committed to becoming climate-neutral by 2030; however, alongside this pledge, in recent years, it has undergone significant growth. Moreover, its environmental metrics reveal that between 2018-19, the company’s scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions, carbon intensity, and energy...
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July 21, 2021 KAO Data
Kao Data has announced a huge step towards its net-zero ambitions by switching from diesel to HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) fuel to fuel its backup generators at its Harlow campus. Koa Data is now the first data center company in the UK to make this change and has achieved this through its...
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July 16, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced that it has entered into a 50/50 joint venture agreement with Brookfield Infrastructure to develop data centers in India. The brand name of the joint venture is BAM Digital Realty. Although precise details around the project are yet to be released, reports indicate...
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July 16, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
According to its latest ESG report, Digital Realty is meeting its sustainability targets in the push for carbon-neutrality. The company, as part of the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi), has committed to reducing its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 68% and Scope 3 emissions by 24% by 2030. Its...
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June 17, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has promised that it would reduce its emissions by 50% before 2030. It would also be reducing emissions created by its electricity supply by 50% before 2030. This promise comes few days after Greenpeace criticized the Company for not having trustworthy timelines on the use of renewable...
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June 17, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced in its third ESG report that half of its global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy. It did this by increasing the portfolio of its data centers being powered by renewable energy by 20% in 2020. Impressively, it also increased its energy consumption...
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June 15, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed agreements for additional joint ventures with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, which will add $3.9 billion to expand its data center program. The agreements come in the form of limited liability partnerships with GIC. The close, which is expected...
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June 10, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
According to a report from Bloomberg, Digital Realty is considering an Initial Public Offer (IPO) of a Singaporean trust that could raise between $300 million to $400 million. The report says Digital Realty is working with its advisers on the listing, and they are looking to conclude the IPO...
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May 21, 2021 AtlasEdge
Liberty Global, a leading Telecoms Company and Digital Colony, a top investment firm focusing on digital infrastructure, has announced that they have joined forces to create AtlasEdge Data Centers, a European Edge data center business. The joint venture will see them operating over 100 Edge data...
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May 20, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
SAN FRANCISCO, May. 20, 2021 -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its Brazilian subsidiary, Stellar Participações Ltda., has completed the previously announced acquisition of Ascenty, the leading data...
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May 10, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it would not be renewing the leases for eight of its data centers in the US. The data centers are situated in New York, Georgia, and some in California and Atlanta. Equinix commented that the reason for the development is that some of the facilities don’t meet the...
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May 04, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it priced $2.6 billion principal amount of notes, including $1.0 billion of green bonds in its third green bond offering. The green bonds will be used to help advance the company's longstanding commitment to sustainability leadership and reducing its environmental...
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March 23, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty recently said that it has expanded secure, private access to Google Cloud’s global network in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Vienna in Austria, and Dusseldorf in Germany. Digital Realty also announced that it had added its second direct interconnect to Google Cloud in Frankfurt. The direct...
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