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NextDC receives approval for its 150MW Melbourne data center

The Melbourne City Council has granted NextDC planning approval for its M3 data center. The data center in question has 150MW of capacity, and it is on 100,000 sqm (1,076,400 sq ft) of land. It will also be built to serve hyperscale customers. NextDC sited the M3 facility in West Footscray,...

August 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

The future of data center back-up energy

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 cl...

August 06, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Tackling data centers' cooling issues

According to the principles of Moore’s law, technology will double in its capacity every two years. Although on the technological advancement front this is great news, with increased computer power comes challenges. The main challenge being increased excess heat and the need to cool it. A numb...

August 06, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Vantage Data Centers to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030

Vantage Data Centers recently announced that it will push to achieve net-zero carbon emissions globally by 2030. It says that it will strive to reach these targets by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and investing in carbon-removal technology. Specifically, the company will focus its efforts...

August 03, 2021

Vantage Data Centers

Telstra converts two data centers into carrier-neutral colocation facilities

Telstra has announced the conversion of two of its data centers into carrier-neutral colocation facilities. Based in Sydney and Melbourne, both facilities have a PUE of 1.61 and 10MW power capacity.This move, according to reports, could be the first in a series of smaller data centers opening...

July 29, 2021

Telstra

Amazon signs deal with TotalEnergies for renewable energy

Amazon, like many other big tech companies, is making big sustainability pledges. Some of these pledges include becoming net-zero carbon by 2040 and powering all of its operations with renewable energy by 2025. These targets are needed, too, considering the scale of the tech giant. Speaking t...

July 29, 2021

Amazon AWS

AWS launches Local Zone in Denver

AWS just announced the availability of local zones in Denver, Colorado. With the new local zones in Denver, customers can now deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to on-premises installations and end-users in Denver. Amazon Web Services said it is happy to anno...

July 28, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Largest Data Center Funding Deals In Q2 of 2021

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 cent...

July 24, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Microsoft reportedly in talks with Telangana government over $2 billion data center

Microsoft is reportedly in talks with the Telangana government to construct one of its largest data centers with an investment of around USD$2- 2.25 billion (Rs 15,000 crore). If this goes ahead, it will make it one of the tech giant’s biggest investments outside of the US. According to Busin...

July 23, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Equinix strives to balance expansion with its eco targets

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 ...

July 23, 2021

Equinix

A carbon-neutral future: Which companies are committing and delivering?

In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power.Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...

July 21, 2021

Amazon AWS

Microsoft makes pledge to run all data centers carbon neutral by 2030

Microsoft is the latest company to pledge carbon-neutrality by 2030. Within the next 19 years, the tech giant promises to run all its global data centers and offices with zero-carbon energy.In a recent blog, written by Lucas Joppa, chief environmental officer and Noelle Walsh, CVP, cloud oper...

July 21, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Amazon in negotiations to build data center in Ceará, Brazil

Amazon has announced that it is in negotiations with officials in Ceará, Brazil, to build a data center and a logistics warehouse in Maracanaú, in the region of Fortaleza. According to Diario do Nordeste, it is expected that an agreement with the state government will be closed in the sec...

July 20, 2021

Amazon AWS

Digital Realty and Brookfield team up to develop data centers in India

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...

July 16, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is meeting green targets according to third annual ESG report

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. It...

July 16, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

AWS Planning 3 new data centers in San Antonio

Planning documents recently revealed that Amazon is developing three data centers in Texas. The documents disclosed the project’s name as “Rockfish” and unveiled a plan to build a $56 million, 109,600 sqft (10,100 sq m) data center located on 11625 Old Corpus Christi Highway.This is not the on...

July 13, 2021

Amazon AWS

AWS launches Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas

Amazon Web Services just launched its new Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas. Customers can now deliver applications that need single-digit millisecond latency to both on-premises installations and end-users in Philadelphia and Dallas with these local zones. AWS Local Zones are infrastr...

July 08, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft to acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud; AT&T to move its 5G network to Azure

Microsoft will acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud technology and intellectual property. It will also be making job offers to hundreds of AT&T engineers. As part of the deal, AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to Microsoft Azure. AT&T’s 5G core would be the starting point. This deal...

June 30, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Amazon overtakes Google to become largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the US after announcing 14 new renewable projects

Amazon has overtaken Google as the largest corporate buyer of green energy in the United States. It also holds the title of being the largest renewable energy buyer in Europe. This comes after the Company announced its fourteen new green energy projects in the Us, Spain, Finland, and Canada.Wi...

June 23, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft intends to open four data centers in China by in 2022

According to reports from Bloomberg, Microsoft is looking to add four new data centers in China by Q1 of 2022. The report states that Microsoft wants to expand its service across Asia and opening data centers in China is a step towards achieving that. Asides from that, the Company also intends...

June 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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