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Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Marti...

March 27, 2023

Equinix

Recent Tower Sales Generate $220 Million For PLDT

Under an agreement with Frontier Tower Associates Philippines for a sale and leaseback, PLDT has consented to sell slightly over 1,000 communication towers. The agreement, which would likely cost the Filipino telecom company $220 million, continues the company's plan to market its tower assets...

March 21, 2023

ePLDT

Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

Equinix, in another move in alignment with its sustainability goals, has announced the opening of a rooftop urban farm at its PA10 data center in Paris, France. Promoting circular economy principles, the company will use its servers' waste heat to heat the greenhouse, which was built by Reid ...

March 17, 2023

Equinix

Digital Edge expands in Tokyo

Digital Edge has announced its plans for a new data center in Tokyo, Japan, having entered into a partnership with real estate developer Hulic. Through this partnership, it has created a joint venture, DEH1 Co., Ltd for the development, known as the 'Kobunacho Project,' it will develop its TY...

March 16, 2023

Digital Edge DC

Megawide and EDC commence project to build new data center

Megawide Construction is joining forces with Evolution Data Centres to acquire, develop, build, and operate center assets in the Philippines following the signing of a $300 million shareholder agreement between the two. Through this agreement, the company will develop a 69 MW colocation data c...

March 05, 2023

Manila

Digital Edge 10MW green data center ready for service

Digital Edge has announced that its first Philippines facility, located in Binan Laguna, Manila, is ready for service, and will offer 10 MW of capacity with 2,200 cabinets. Named the Narra 1 data center, it will provide colocation and interconnection services to the region and is a joint proj...

March 02, 2023

Digital Edge DC

Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

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 compa...

February 28, 2023

Equinix

Hackers target data center passwords

Last week hackers gained access to two Asia-based data center firms, Shanghai-based GDS Holdings and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. This revelation, first published by Bloomberg, comes after endpoint security firm Resecurity found evidence they had been compromised. Cyber se...

February 27, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

PLDT is Again Considering The Sale of a Share in The ePLDT/Vitro Data Center Company

PLDT is apparently considering selling a portion of its data center operations. Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the situation, that the telecommunications company is once again considering the sale of a "substantial minority share" in its data center holdings. The company is en...

February 23, 2023

PLDT VITRO Taguig

Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

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 proj...

February 16, 2023

Equinix

STT GDC signs deal to procure renewable energy in India

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has signed a deal with O2 Power to procure renewable energy in India. As per the agreement, the company will obtain renewable energy under a captive structure to power STT GDC India’s Bengaluru facility, which is located in the state of Karnataka. O2...

February 08, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

PLDT Upgrading Makati and Parañaqu Data Centers

The Philippine telco PLDT's facility and cloud subsidiary, ePLDT, is growing a number of its existing sites. The development of VITRO Makati 2 and Paraaque will add 1,820 service-ready racks and an additional 14MW by March of this year. Victor S. Genuino, president and chief executive officer ...

February 08, 2023

PLDT VITRO Makati 2

New firm Digital Halo launches with plans for 70MW facility in Manila

Arch Capital has announced that it is launching a new platform to invest in digital infrastructure in the APAC region. Digital Halo (DH), will reportedly invest in, develop, and operate digital infrastructure assets, including data centers, fiber, and towers, as well as renewable power. Furthe...

January 13, 2023

Manila

Philippines' Megawide plans first data center

Megawide Construction Corp, a construction company in the Philippines, has announced that it is planning a 30MW data center outside Manila, its first data center. Based to the south of Manila in Cavite, the facility will have a capacity of up to 30MW, with the first phase pegged to launch wi...

January 13, 2023

Manila

EdgeConnex plans another data center in Miami, Florida

EdgeConnex is reportedly planning a third data center in Miami, Florida, after acquiring a 6.250-acre plot of land. According to a report by BizJournal, this facility will be a two-story data center and located on the southwest corner of Northwest 106th Street and Northwest 112th Avenue.A pre...

January 12, 2023

EdgeConneX

Equinix signs another PPA in Finland

Equinix has announced that it has signed a third power purchase agreement (PPA) in Finland with Neoen, totaling 129MW. Through the ten-year deal, the company will obtain 60% of the output and guarantees of origin to be produced by the future 95MW Storbötet wind farm from the French renewable ...

January 09, 2023

Equinix

Digital Edge plans 300MW data center in Navi Mumbai, India

Digital Edge has announced that it is expanding into India, with the addition of a new 300MW, 47-acre hyperscale facility in Navi Mumbai. This development is part of a partnership between the Singaporean company, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and AGP DC InvestCo Pte Ltd (...

January 09, 2023

Digital Edge DC

Equinix To Develop Data Center in Johannesburg

Equinix has announced its plan to venture into the South African data center market with a data center development. The company plans to invest $160m to develop a data center campus in Johannesburg. The 4MW data center called JN1 will have over 20,000 gross square feet of colocation space and ...

December 14, 2022

Equinix

Equinix announces plan to make its Ashburn data center more aesthetically pleasing

Following approval from the Loudoun Board of Supervisors last week, data center company Equinix has announced that it will be adding multi-colored LED lights to the exterior of one of its data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. This addition to DC21, located at 22175 Beaumeade Circle in Ashburn, ac...

December 13, 2022

Equinix

Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers

Equinix has announced, in line with a broader commitment to reduce its overall power, it will adjust its data center thermostats, shifting temperatures closer to 27°C (80°F) across its global data center fleet. This change, the company said, will lead to less energy used in 'unnecessary data ...

December 12, 2022

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