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Digital Realty and Dutch college launches demonstration data center to teach students

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, senio...

October 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft to build data center in Welsh factory

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 t...

October 09, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft replaces diesel power with battery energy system at Swedish data center

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 greenhous...

October 09, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

GIP invests $450 million into 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...

October 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

Digital Realty expands footprint in Zagreb, Croatia

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...

October 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

Telstra signs power purchase agreement in Queensland, Australia

Australian telecommunications firm Telstra has signed a power purchase agreement with Munna Creek Solar Farm investment to support the development of the 120 MW Munna Solar Farm undergoing construction near Gympie in southeast Queensland. Following this agreement, Telstra will buy half of the ...

October 05, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Telstra

Amazon plans four dc campuses in Mesa, Arizona

Amazon Web Services has begun plotting for four new data centers in Mesa, Arizona, on land already owned by the company, as it looks to increase its footprints in the East Valley. The company has filed pre-submittal documents with Mesa's planning office for two data centers about four miles ap...

October 03, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Amazon Pours Billions to AI startup Anthropic, Becomes Primary cloud provider

Amazon will invest $4 billion in AI startup Antropic, becoming its primary cloud provider. This announcement comes after the giant tech companies worldwide raced to benefit from the breakthroughs Antropic could have on their businesses. Antropic, considered one of the world’s most promising AI...

October 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Carbon Streaming Corp. signs carbon capture agreement with Microsoft

Carbon Streaming Corporation announced it had signed an agreement to provide Microsoft with biochar carbon removal credits from the Waverly Biochar project in Waverly, Virginia. The company noted that the Biochar project would deliver Microsoft up to 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal cre...

October 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Amazon files to develop 7-building DC campus in Louisa County, Virginia

Amazon Web Services has filed with the US Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District to develop a seven-building data center campus in Virginia’s Louisa County. In this filing, REB Investment Company LLC and Amazon Data Services seek permission to establish a new data center campus on 153 acres ...

September 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft to extend DC footprint to Naas, Ireland

Microsoft recently commenced plans to develop plans for a new Irish data center campus near Jigginstwon in Naas. Following reports by Kildare Nationalist, Microsoft has begun consultations with authorities for the proposed development of one of the two sites marked for DC usage in the Council’...

September 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Stack inaugurates a data center in Toronto

Stack Infrastructure has established a data center in Toronto, Canada. This week, the company revealed the dispatch of the first 8MW phase of the 56MW Ontario campus. First Gulf, a Toronto-based developer, collaborated with Stack to execute the initial 8MW data center by refurbishing an existi...

September 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

STACK Infrastructure Completes 56MW Enterprise Toronto Facility Initial Phase

STACK, a leading global developer and operator of data centers and the digital infrastructure partner to the most cutting-edge businesses in the world, announced the completion of the first phase at its flagship campus in Toronto. The first phase of the campus, with a total capacity of 56MW, i...

September 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Amazon plans a campus with two buildings in Stafford County, Virginia

More proposals for data centers are on the way to Stafford, Virginia's Stafford County. Amazon has applied to a two-building facility in the county, while an unnamed developer plans a three-building site nearby. Amazon Data Services has applied for approval to construct the Potomac Church Tech...

September 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Fujitsu closes US data centers operations, might follow suit in South America

Fujitsu is revising its data center approach to the Americas and has shut down its data center operation in North America. Fujitsu's newly hired CEO for the Americas, Asif Poonja, stated in an interview with BNAmericas this week that the company is contemplating partnering with service provide...

September 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Fujitsu

Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper

AustralianSuper has made an investment in Vantage Data Centers' EMEA operations. Last week, the company announced it would invest $1.6 billion to acquire a "significant minority stake" in Vantage Data Centers Europe, Middle East, and Africa (Vantage EMEA), backed by DigitalBridge. The pension ...

September 11, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility

The King George County Board of Supervisors authorized Amazon Web Service's (AWS) 19-building data center campus's 869-acre rezone from agriculture to industrial use. Birchwood Power Partners applied for rezoning for AWS. AWS has received this first approval, but Birchwood's attorney, Charlie ...

September 11, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Digital Realty to expand in Italy

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to comm...

September 07, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome

Digital Realty plans to extend its operations into Italy and has already purchased land in Rome, the country's capital. Following the purchase of land in Rome and the subsequent pre-development planning for it, the company announced its entry into the Italian market last week.The ROM1 data cen...

September 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas

Vantage Data Centers has made its first land purchases in Texas, both in San Antonio. The San Antonio Report reads, based on public records from Bexar County, that Vantage has acquired 89 acres of land in San Antonio spread across two separate parcels.On August 9, the firm purchased 31 acres a...

September 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

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