January 07, 2022 Amazon AWS
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 turbines....
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January 07, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
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...
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January 05, 2022 Amazon AWS
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...
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December 17, 2021 Microsoft Azure
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...
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December 17, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
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, the...
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December 16, 2021 Telstra
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...
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December 16, 2021 Equinix
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, said...
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December 15, 2021 Vantage Data Centers
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...
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December 15, 2021 Amazon AWS
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...
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December 15, 2021 Equinix
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 cells,...
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December 14, 2021 NEXTDC
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 7000km...
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December 10, 2021 Equinix
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...
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December 10, 2021 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...
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December 10, 2021 Amazon AWS
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....
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December 09, 2021 Amazon AWS
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...
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December 09, 2021 Microsoft Azure
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...
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December 07, 2021 Equinix
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 operation in...
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December 06, 2021 Vantage Data Centers
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, the...
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December 05, 2021 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is rolling out its Local Zones across the globe next year. The company will be opening 30 new locations across over 20 countries. Local Zones are used for Edge locations that host applications requiring low latency to end-users or on-premises installations. Each Local...
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December 03, 2021 Amazon AWS
This week, AWS has announced 18 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects spread across the US, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. This totals 2GW of clean energy capacity. This investment also makes Amazon the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy. Commenting on this...
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