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Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

Astra has joined Equinix's plans to develop a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This week, Astra and the colocation company announced a new joint venture, with Equinix holding 75 % of the new endeavor. The initial proposal for this joint venture is to build and operate a JK1 International ...

April 11, 2023

Equinix

NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency

The Retirement Systems of Alabama has renewed NTT's contract with them until 2033. NTT Data will manage the data center for the state pension agency for an extra eight years as part of the arrangement. The contract's worth wasn't shared. The downtown Montgomery data center has 300 racks and a ...

April 07, 2023

NTT

Equinix expands footprint in Canada

Equinix has announced plans for a facility in Montreal, Canada. Known as MT2, the new facility is projected to be operational in the second half of 2023. In the first phase of the project, the facility will offer 500 racks from Q3, phase two, meanwhile, will add a further 500 racks by the fou...

April 06, 2023

Equinix

Data4 plans new campus in Paris

Data4 is planning a new data center campus to the southwest of Paris, in Nozay in Essone. The campus, PAR3, will be built across a 22 hectare site, which was previously Nokia’s head office in France. The company has shared its plans to construct eight data centers on the site, with an injecti...

April 06, 2023

DATA4 Group

Vantage Creates a New Investment Group in EMEA

With the formation of a new investment partnership, Vantage Data Centers has added new investors to its roster along with DigitalBridge. This week, the company disclosed that it has signed a legally binding agreement to establish an investment partnership with a group of investors, includin...

April 06, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

BT and TRIG partner for PPA

BT has announced that it has signed a new 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) for renewable energy from the 35MW Blary Hill onshore wind farm, which is located in Kintyre, Scotland. This move aligns with the UK telco's net zero by 2031 target...

April 04, 2023

BT Global Services

All of Unilever's Workloads Are Moved to The Cloud, Mostly to Microsoft Azure

Unilever has finished moving to the cloud. The business has shifted workloads for its 400+ brands to the cloud, using Azure as its main cloud platform, in what it calls the "biggest and most difficult cloud migration in the consumer products market." With the aid of Accenture, Microsoft, an...

April 04, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property.The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 s...

April 03, 2023

Equinix

NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

On April 3, NTT East and NTT West, subsidiaries of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), were impacted by a network outage in Japan. NTT had a significant network outage that morning at about 7:10 local time, according to reports from regional media outlets, albeit the impacted services have s...

April 03, 2023

NTT

Microsoft's $1bn Mount Pleasant facility receives Village Board approval

Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Wisconsin, with a $1 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant. The plan, discussed at a recent closed session meeting, outlined that the campus will be situated on a 315-acre parcel of land owned by the Village of Mount Pleasant. Microsoft is...

March 31, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Iberian Peninsula, Spain's Digital Infrastructure Receives a $42.5 million Investment From Exa Infrastructure

Since its founding in 2021, Exa Infrastructure has spent $42.5 million in digital infrastructure for the Iberian Peninsula, Spain. Sixty-two miles of Barcelona's metro network have been upgraded, linking various data centers, including those owned by Interxion, Equinix, Edge Energy, and EdgeCo...

March 30, 2023

EXA Infrastructure

Microsoft purchases carbon removal credits from CarbonCapture

Microsoft is the latest company to invest in the potential of carbon capture, with the recent announcement that it will buy "carbon removal credits" from CarbonCapture. The company is the owner of Project Bison, which is a direct air capture (DAC) plant in Wyoming, set to open next year. The ...

March 29, 2023

Microsoft Azure

The First OVHcloud Data Center Launched in India

As part of its ambitions for Asia Pacific development, which will see the construction of two further data centers in Singapore and Australia by 2024, OVHcloud, a pioneer in European cloud computing, has announced opening its first data center in India. The new Mumbai facility expands OVHcloud...

March 28, 2023

OVH Group

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

Brookfield is in Discussions to Buy Data4 in Europe

According to reports, Brookfield Asset Management is discussing purchasing European data center operator Data4. Brookfield is reportedly in 'exclusive discussions' to purchase a majority share in Paris-based Data4 that could value the operator at $3.77bn, according to unidentified sources f...

March 27, 2023

DATA4 Group

Microsoft to expand in Washington

Microsoft has revealed plans to build three data centers in Malaga, Washington, on Malaga Alcoa Highway in Chelan County. The Port Authority outlined in the fillings that it assumes the development will involve the construction of three buildings on the site by the end of 2025; further, there...

March 24, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona

Microsoft is switching its cooling system for data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona, following an update of its development agreement. Further to this, it has pledged to invest more than $40 million to expand the city's wastewater capacity. While the giant purchased the site i...

March 23, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT

NTT will construct a new data center in Thailand. The company revealed this week that it will spend $90 million through NTT Global Data Centers to build a 12MW, 43,000 sq ft facility in Bangkok. The second half of 2024 will see the start of operations at the next data center, BKK3, which wi...

March 23, 2023

NTT

OVHcloud Opens New Data Center in Undisclosed Mumbai, India Location

A new facility has been opened by the data center company OVHcloud in Mumbai, India. The company announced the opening this week, but no information was given regarding the facility's location or specs. The facility uses OVHcloud's unique water cooling technology, which the company claimed ...

March 23, 2023

OVH Group

Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide

Microsoft is teaming up with Running Tide to remove 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from its operations. This will be done through Running Tide's carbon capture and removal technology, which utilizes photosynthesis and ocean alkalinity enhancement to fix carbon from the fast carbon cycle,...

March 21, 2023

Microsoft Azure

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