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Amazon data center in store for Desoto?

Reports are circulating about Amazon's recent purchase of a 9-acre development site on Hampton Road south of Interstate 20 in DeSoto, southern Dallas County. This latest land acquisition has got people talking about whether the giant is planning another data center, considering its recent and ...

January 11, 2022

Amazon AWS

Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia

Stack Infrastructure has revealed the development of a new 216MW data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia. The facility would be developed on an 80-acre site with three buildings with a combined space of 1 million square feet. The company revealed that the facility's first phase is scheduled...

January 10, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

Leeward Renewable Energy LLC has announced that it has completed the repowering of its 54.4-MW Crescent Ridge wind farm in Illinois, which will provide Amazon with renewable energy. This process involved decommissioning nine turbines, installing Vestas turbines, and replacing 24 legacy turbine...

January 07, 2022

Amazon AWS

Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

Digital Realty has bought the majority stake in Teraco. The data center giant announced the acquisition of the South African data center company from a consortium of investors, including Permira and Berkshire Partners. The deal sees Teraco valued at about $3.5 billion. The transaction sees Dig...

January 07, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment

Further to AWS announcing that it is establishing its AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, reports are now circulating that the giant will be investing an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in Indonesia across the 15 years through the region.According to reports, this investment will cover e...

January 05, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW turb...

December 17, 2021

Microsoft Azure

San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

Digital Realty has announced that it has sold its San Jose data center to developer Hines. Documents filed on December 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office outline that Hines paid just under $60 million ($59.6 million) for the complex. The building spans 179,800 sqft; meanwhile, th...

December 17, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Telstra expands Ashburn footprint

Telstra is expanding its footprint at its primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Its DC21 facility is managed by Equinix, and according to the company, this expansion will be almost triple the size of the facility now. Telstra says that the expansion at Ashburn, also “adds extra layers of ...

December 16, 2021

Telstra

Equinix partners with Nasdaq

Equinix has formed a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq, Inc, which will help the company scale its NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This will also support the build-out of Nasdaq's cloud infrastructure.Tal Cohen, Executive Vice President, Head of North American Markets at Nasdaq, sa...

December 16, 2021

Equinix

Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has broken ground on additional campuses in two of its existing strategic EMEA markets in both Frankfurt and Berlin. The Berlin campus will have 32MW of critical IT capacity and is due to be operational in the summer of 2022. Meanwhile, the Frankfurt...

December 15, 2021

Vantage Data Centers

AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta

AWS has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Jakarta, Indonesia, and has been created to support the 'fast-growing startup ecosystem, large Indonesian enterprises, and government agencies.'The region is now the tenth active in the Asia Pacific and mainland China after Beijing, Hong K...

December 15, 2021

Amazon AWS

New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

The European Clean Hydrogen Partnership has announced its €2.5 million EcoEdge PrimePower project (E2P2). The tech consortium making up the partnership includes Equinix, InfraPrime, RISE, Snam, SolidPower, TEC4FUELS and Vertiv. Together, they will pursue the development of low-carbon fuel cell...

December 15, 2021

Equinix

NextDC moves into Queensland's Sunshine Coast

NextDC has acquired an Edge data center site located in Maroochydore, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. The planned SC1 facility will have a capacity of 1MW. The facility will also be the landing station for the Sunshine Coast International Broadband Network (SCIBN), which connects to the 7000k...

December 14, 2021

NEXTDC

Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia

Equinix has announced that its PE3 data center in Perth, Australia, has launched, the third IBX facility in the city. According to reports, the first phase of the project provides a capacity of 700 cabinets spanning 1,830 sqm (38,600 sqtf), following an investment of US$54 million (A$71.7 mill...

December 10, 2021

Equinix

Hickory DC is developing a 72MW data center in Melbourne

Australian real estate development company Hickory has begun construction on its first data center in Melbourne. The company first revealed plans for the data center in June. The facility will be located on a 3.5-hectare site in Truganina, West Melbourne. The data center was to have 269,000 sq...

December 10, 2021

Melbourne

AWS to develop data center region in Queretaro, Mexico

According to Bloomberg, Amazon Web Services plans to open a new data center region in Mexico. The report claims AWS is close to signing a deal with the Mexican federal government over opening a new region in Queretaro. Although no date has been set, an official report is expected soon.Represen...

December 10, 2021

Amazon AWS

AWS announces new AWS Top Secret Region

Amazon Web Services has announced another Top Secret cloud region to host classified government data. The new region will operate workloads at the Top-Secret United States security classification level, which is the highest security classification in the US. The new Top-Secret West region will...

December 09, 2021

Amazon AWS

Microsoft adds new availability zones to India Central Azure cloud region

Microsoft has unveiled new availability zones in its Indian Central Azure cloud region. Usually, Azure regions launch with three availability zones. These zones are physically separated to provide higher redundancy, availability, and disaster recovery protection. However, there are cases where...

December 09, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operati...

December 07, 2021

Equinix

Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC

Vantage Data Centers and its lead investor, Digital Bridge Group, have announced the acquisition of PCCW Ltd.’s data center business. The acquisition sees Vantage DC’s portfolio to include 100MW of existing and expansion capacity across many facilities in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Besides, t...

December 06, 2021

Vantage Data Centers

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