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Read Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris
Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

March 17, 2023 Equinix

Equinix, in another move in alignment with its sustainability goals, has announced the opening of a rooftop urban farm at its PA10 data center in Paris, France. Promoting circular economy principles, the company will use its servers' waste heat to heat the greenhouse, which was built by Reid...

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Read Stack offers backup generator power to Swiss confederation's Winter Reserve
 Stack offers  backup generator power to Swiss confederation's Winter Reserve

Stack offers backup generator power to Swiss confederation's Winter Reserve

March 17, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has signed up for the Swiss Winter Reserve Plan, through which it will provide its supplemental power capacity to the Swiss energy reserve, in line with the Federal Council's ordinance. The ordinance includes measures to prevent winter power shortages and will run until April...

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Read Stack Raises $250m From securitized Notes
Stack Raises $250m From securitized Notes

Stack Raises $250m From securitized Notes

March 17, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

The data center company Stack has completed its most recent structured debt fundraising round. The company revealed the sale of $250 million in securitized notes last week. The price of the notes is a 5.900 percent fixed rate coupon. The firm said it has now raised $2.1 billion in notes through...

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Read Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty
Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty

Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty

March 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

At a data center in Switzerland, Digital Realty has installed a robotic dog to do routine inspections. Anybotics has detailed how Digital Realty has utilized its Anymal robot dog for data center checks for over a year in a published case study. Anymal is a quadruped robot that resembles Boston...

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Read Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio
Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio

Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio

March 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced its plans to invest $175.9 million in a massive new data center in San Antonio. Named “SAT40,” the facility was recently filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. According to the filing, the facility will be based at Lambda Drive in the Texas Research...

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Read DigitalBridge Selling Vantage Data Centers Minority Interest
DigitalBridge Selling Vantage Data Centers Minority Interest

DigitalBridge Selling Vantage Data Centers Minority Interest

March 09, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Inquiries are being made by DigitalBridge Group about selling a small portion of Vantage Data Centers. The CEO of DigitalBridge, Marc Ganzi, stated on the company's most recent quarterly results call that it wanted to raise more money while also focusing on the deconsolidation more of its...

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Read Stack Infrastructure Will Raise $250 Million to Expand Its Data Center
Stack Infrastructure Will Raise $250 Million to Expand Its Data Center

Stack Infrastructure Will Raise $250 Million to Expand Its Data Center

March 08, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure plans to seek $250 million for data center expansion. The Stack Infrastructure Issuer will provide the funding, 2023-1, through the securitization of income connected to lease obligations and electrical capacity at 8 wholesale data centers in seven U.S. states. S&P Global...

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Read Keppel DC REIT Receives Credit Facilities Totaling $73 million
Keppel DC REIT Receives Credit Facilities Totaling $73 million

Keppel DC REIT Receives Credit Facilities Totaling $73 million

March 07, 2023 Keppel Data Center REIT

The DC REIT group of Keppel has received a new credit facility of over $70 million, guaranteed by the financial services firm Perpetual. Keppel DC REIT Fin. Company Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel DC REIT, has procured the Loan Facility guaranteed by Perpetual Ltd (Asia) in its...

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Read CloudHQ Has Begun Development of a 228MW Data Center Facility in Brazil's So Paulo
CloudHQ Has Begun Development of  a 228MW Data Center Facility in Brazil's  So Paulo

CloudHQ Has Begun Development of a 228MW Data Center Facility in Brazil's So Paulo

March 02, 2023 CloudHQ

A new hyperscale facility is being built by data center company CloudHQ in Brazil's state of So Paulo. A groundbreaking ceremony was performed by the company in Paulina. It will be CloudHQ's first location in the region and in South America. According to reports, the new 228MW complex will have...

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Read Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading
Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

March 01, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

With the extending of its collaboration with Options Technology, a top provider of capital markets services, Digital Realty, the top global provider of cloud or carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, has made its suite of managed financial markets services offered...

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Read Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain
Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

February 28, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has inked five new long-term PPAs in Spain from solar farms, totalling 225MW, which will be managed by IGNIS. This reportedly brings the company's contracted PPA capacity to 595 MW globally. While specific details regarding the location of the farms have not yet been shared, the company...

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Read Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing
Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing

Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing

February 26, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft wants to duplicate a Dublin data center battery-sharing agreement. In 2022, Eaton unveiled a lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) with grid-interactive UPS to exchange energy with the local grid. The corporation told a London conference that this technique was ideal for the...

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Read QTS plans for Northland data center in question
QTS plans for Northland data center in question

QTS plans for Northland data center in question

February 24, 2023 QTS Data Centers

Following speculation that QTS Realty Trust Inc. was the company seeking new development within Rocky Branch Creek Technology Park, and later confirmation, it looks like the company's Northland data center plans have now fallen through. The company was reportedly set to acquire the property...

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Read NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks
NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

February 24, 2023 NTT

NTT has created a prototype device that might boost data center and submarine cable connection rates. A crucial step toward 6G, the gadget can in-lab enhance a 100 Gigahertz (GHz) electrical signal. Although the commercial availability of the ultra-compact baseband amplifier IC module is years...

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Read MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India
MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

February 23, 2023 NTT

On February 22nd, NTT Global Data Centers revealed that its MIST subsea cable had arrived in Mumbai, India. The Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system has a length of approximately 5000 miles. It links Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as Mumbai and Chennai...

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Read Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington
Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington

Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington

February 20, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne is building a data center in Quincy, Washington. The corporation has a 45-acre block of land in the city of Washington State and has made it known that it intends to construct a campus there with built-to-suit buildings and a capacity of up to 96MW. The Columbia Basin Herald noted work...

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Read A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.
A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.

A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.

February 20, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Second Manassas LLC plans to build a 185,000-square-foot, one-story data center at 9905 Godwin Road in Manassas, as previously reported by Potomac Local News and InsideNoVa. The current Glen-Gary brickyard, which opened about 1964 and shut down in 2019, is being demolished for the...

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Read Compass Submits Revised PW Digital Gateway Data Center Campus Proposal
Compass Submits Revised PW Digital Gateway Data Center Campus Proposal

Compass Submits Revised PW Digital Gateway Data Center Campus Proposal

February 18, 2023 Compass Datacenters

Compass Data Centers has resubmitted its designs for a huge Prince William County data center project. The firm and QTS are developing more than 20 million sq ft of data centers for the PW Digital Gateway project. This month, Compass amended its June 2022 rezoning proposal with further details....

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Read Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona
Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

February 16, 2023 Equinix

Currently, Equinix is planning to construct a second data center in Barcelona, Spain. Last week, the colocation giant revealed its intentions to build BA2, an International Business Exchange (IBX) facility right next to its current BA1 location. We were not given any information on the project's...

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Read Echelon Data Centers-linked firm planning battery storage facility in Dublin
Echelon Data Centers-linked firm planning battery storage facility in Dublin

Echelon Data Centers-linked firm planning battery storage facility in Dublin

February 13, 2023 Echelon Data Centres

Over the last few years, Ireland has witnessed a significant data center boom, so much so, that Ireland introduced a moratorium in Dublin to halt the development of further data centers in the city. As part of this de facto moratorium, EirGrid has outlined that no new grid connection applications...

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