August 14, 2025 Equinix
US data center giant Equinix has expanded its commitment to nuclear energy, announcing three major agreements with advanced nuclear developers that together could provide up to 774MWe of power.The first deal was with Radiant, a microreactor company based in El Segundo, California. As part of the...
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August 13, 2025 QTS Data Centers
QTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good...
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August 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Malaysian financial group Maybank has selected Microsoft Azure as one of its main cloud platforms in a five-year agreement. Valued at RM1 billion ($236.4m), the contract will see Maybank using Microsoft Azure for some of its "most strategic systems, functions, and data workloads."Dato’ Sri...
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August 01, 2025 DATA4 Group
European data center firm Data4 this week announced Arjun Infrastructure Partners has acquired a stake in a stabilised data center portfolio (aka StableCo) operated by Data4 and featuring facilities in France, Spain, and Italy.Arjun secured a 30 percent stake in the StableCo portfolio, which...
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July 28, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has cut off cloud computing services to India's Nayara Energy, following EU sanctions on the oil refinery company. Nayara revealed it had initiated legal proceedings against Microsoft after the "abrupt and unilateral suspension of critical services," with Nayara claiming that Microsoft...
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July 24, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing demand...
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July 22, 2025 Equinix
Equinix has agreed to pay $41.5 million as a settlement with the plaintiffs in a class action that alleged it misled its shareholders. According to Hindenburg’s March 2024 report, Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs.It claimed that...
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July 19, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft and Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) have made a commercial agreement that the two say will help "reform licensing terms" for Microsoft software on CISPE member cloud infrastructure. This comes after it was decided that the previously required solution being...
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July 18, 2025 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers this week announced its entry into the Nevada market with a 224MW campus in Storey County just outside of Reno. The campus will include four multi-story data centers totaling more than 1 million square feet. Nearly $3 billion is set to be invested in the project.Vantage said...
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July 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Glenn K. Lockwood has left Microsoft after spending the last three years at the company, initially as the HPC/AI workload lead in Azure Storage's product group, before working more broadly on the design of Microsoft's largest AI supercomputers."Everything I did at Microsoft touched supercomputers...
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July 04, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has partnered with Univers, a Singapore-based software development firm, to explore energy enhancement measures across its data centers. This MoU will support the use of Microsoft AI Cloud capabilities to strengthen Univers' sustainability solutions.The platform enables organizations to...
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July 03, 2025 Microsoft Azure
The Premier League has made Microsoft Azure its official cloud and AI partner in a five-year deal. Microsoft will provide English football's top division with cloud computing and AI services to help modernize its digital infrastructure, broadcast match analysis, and organizational...
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July 01, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has officially opened its cloud region in Austria at a joint press conference with State Secretary Alexander Pröll this week, but said companies would be able to start processing from the region in August.Hermann Erlach, general manager of Microsoft Austria, said: "The use of AI is one...
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June 30, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.1 million tons of carbon removal credits from Hafslund Celsio, an energy from waste (EfW) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm which is set to be delivered over a ten-year period, will be generated by a CCS project under development at the site of Norway's...
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June 26, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed yet another carbon removal deal, this time buying carbon removal credits from forestry projects in the US with Anew Climate and sister company Aurora Sustainable Lands. Both companies announced a 10-year agreement to deliver 4.8 million nature-based carbon removal credits to...
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June 18, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft this week launched a new cloud region in Chile, its first in the South American country, located in the Santiago metropolitan region. This region is comprised of three independent physical locations - each with one or more data centers - is now operational.Tito Arciniega, president of...
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June 13, 2025 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage has been named as at least one of the companies set to develop data centers in Port Washington, Wisconsin, on up to 1,900 acres north of the Ozaukee County town, west of I-43, and east of the Ozaukee Interurban Trail between Lake Drive and Dixie Road.The company is “in the early stages of...
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June 12, 2025 CyrusOne
US operator CyrusOne this week announced its sixth campus in the UK, LON6. Located in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, the new site is set to deliver 90MW of IT capacity across 30,000 square meters (322,917 sq ft) of technical space. The campus will feature four two-story and two single-story data...
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June 05, 2025 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has secured $5 billion in incremental green loan financings to meet data center demand in the US which includes a $2.25 billion financing to fully fund construction of the company’s campus in New Albany, Ohio, as well as a $2.75 billion upsizing of an existing $3 billion 2024...
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June 02, 2025 CyrusOne
CyrusOne has partnered with European energy company E.ON to develop an on-site gas-fired power system at Cyrus’ FRA7 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. This agreement will see E.ON construct the IQ Energy Center, which is expected to have a capacity of 61MW at full buildout. According to Matt...
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