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Read Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta
Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

June 16, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 300,000...

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Read Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development
Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

June 15, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 million...

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Read Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica
Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

June 10, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica, which will enable Vantage to supplement the local grid powering the company’s data center campus in Johannesburg (JNB1) with renewable energy. According to reports, the campus is set to open in July....

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Read NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan
NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan

NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan

June 09, 2022 NTT

NTT has announced that it has signed a PPA through which it will procure solar energy in Japan. Clean Energy Connect Co Ltd is the partner who will deploy solar power generating capacity for the company, and assist the group in achieving its aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2040. The project is...

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Read Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory
Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

June 09, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it is expanding into Australia. The company is partnering with Hickory, an Australian real estate developer. In addition, the development will see Stack develop data centers in three cities in the country. Stack Australia is already developing a data center...

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Read Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility
Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility

Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility

June 09, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it will be developing its third data center in Mumbai, India. The data center giant said it would invest over $86 million to develop the data center. According to the company, the data center will be housed on four-acre land. The data center will be located in...

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Read Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland
Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

June 08, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it added new availability zones to its Zurich Azure region. Availability zones are data center locations that are physically separate but still within the same cloud region, offering redundancy against failures in a particular location. Typically, most new regions...

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Read Khazna Data Centers Becomes Middle East’s Largest Data Center Provider
Khazna Data Centers Becomes Middle East’s Largest Data Center Provider

Khazna Data Centers Becomes Middle East’s Largest Data Center Provider

June 07, 2022 Khazna

G42 and e& have merged their data centers to form Khazna Data Centers. With the merger, Khazna Data Centers is now operating 12 facilities. In addition, 13 more data centers are under construction, with three more being planned. Upon completion of all the planned facilities, Khazna DC will...

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Read Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels
Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels

Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels

June 06, 2022 Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Foster Fuels, which will now serve as the data center company's "preferred green diesel provider," making it the first provider in the industry to use Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil-based biodiesel (HVO) to fuel its on-site...

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Read Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs
Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

May 20, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for solar energy in California and another Georgia, with Terra-Gen and Georgia Power, respectively. The former is for a 12-year agreement with Terra-Gen, which will support the development of the 130MW Edwards...

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Read New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends
New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends

New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends

May 16, 2022 Equinix

According to a newsletter from Christian Koch’s Foundations, New York Internet (NYI) will be taking over a space in 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel currently occupied by Equinix. Equinix announced in May 2021 that it would be exiting some of its leased data centers in the US. One of those...

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Read Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin
Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin

Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin

May 13, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has announced its involvement in a new district heating system project in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The data center company is teaming up with Codema, the Dublin energy agency, which will begin by carrying out a feasibility study. The project will reportedly be based around Equinix's DB5, a...

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Read What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?
What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?

What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?

May 10, 2022 CyrusOne

CyrusOne, a founder and signatory of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, recently released its latest sustainability report, where it outlined its efforts to cut both Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions, and revealed it has hit its 2030 carbon reduction commitments eight years early and become water...

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Read Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES
Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES

Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES

May 06, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new PPA with AES for renewable energy to fuel its facilities in California. The PPA is a 20-year “highly customized agreement” which will see Microsoft partially match its load at its California-based data centers. The energy from AES will be sourced...

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Read NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai
NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai

NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai

May 05, 2022 NTT

NTT has announced the opening of a new data center in Navi Mumbai, India. It also opened another data center in Mumbai recently without fanfare. The Navi Mumbai facility is called NAV1A, located in the Mahape area. The eight-story data center spans 400,000 square feet, and it has 45MW in power...

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Read Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project
Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

May 03, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Infrastructure Masons, a body for large data center builders, has announced the formation of a new group, the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), to establish a standard for data centers' embodied carbon. So far, some of the hyperscalers involved in the project include AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft,...

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Read Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time
Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

May 02, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has shared its data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE) data for the first time. Overall, the giant achieved a high level of efficiency with regards to PUE, while when it came to WUE, it didn't quite meet its target, and there was room for...

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Read Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington
Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington

Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington

April 28, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is set to buy over 100 acres in Malaga, Washington. According to the county's officials, the company will be using the land to develop data centers. Commissioners of the Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority signed a sale and purchase agreement with Microsoft for 102.5 acres of land in...

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Read Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada
Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada

Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada

April 27, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced it has signed another PPA, this time, with ATCO Group. The PPA will enable the giant to procure solar energy in Canada from a 37MW Deerfoot solar project, which is adjacent to ATCO's 27-MW Barlow project. According to reports, the projects' construction will take place in...

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Read Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia
Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia

Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia

April 27, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is looking to develop a new data center in Manassas, Northern Virginia. The company submitted a request to the US Army Corps of Engineers to build the MNZ01 Balls Ford Road Data Center. The project will involve Microsoft developing two three-story buildings, MNZ01 and MNZ02, on the...

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