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Vultr opens cloud data center in Mumbai

Vultr has announced that it has launched a cloud data center location in Mumbai, making the city its 25th global location. According to the company, it will enable businesses in India to innovate quicker and at a reduced cost.Commenting on the company’s expansion, Vinod Chacko, Business Develo...

April 18, 2022

Mumbai

Google is Investing $9.5 Billion In Its US Data Centers and Offices

Google has announced that it is going on a spending spree this year. The search engine giant plans to invest up to $9.5 billion across its US data centers and offices. This is an over 35% increase from its $7 billion spend last year. According to the company, the investment will create a mi...

April 13, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Equinix's $1.2 billion in green bonds will enhance its data center sustainability

In its latest sustainability effort, Equinix has announced $1.2 billion of "green bonds," the fourth green bond the company has issued. Now the company's total green bonds stand at $4.9 billion. According to the company, the company will use these funds to push forward its sustainability initi...

April 07, 2022

Equinix

Amazon Granted Approval For Rezoning of 243 Acres in Culpeper County, Virginia

Great news for AWS as the company has had its rezoning request in Culpeper County approved. The company requested 243 acres of farmland in the Northern Virginian town of Stevensburg, and the Board responsible for voting on the decision voted 4-3 in AWS’ favor. AWS plans to develop a data cente...

April 07, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Macquarie Partnering With NTT To Further NTT's European & North American Expansion

NTT and Macquarie Asset Management are partnering up to invest in data centers. These firms announced that they had entered a strategic real estate partnership that covers NTT’s wholesale facilities across North America and Europe. The agreement will see Macquarie invest real estate capital...

April 05, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT

Equinix joins CyrusOne in orchard initiative

Equinix has joined Host In Ireland’s Orchards in the Community initiative, alongside CyrusOne, and is now one of 52 pledgers – and more than 90 schools and community groups. The initiative plans to help plant over 1,200 orchards across Ireland to bolster the country’s declining bee population...

April 04, 2022

Equinix

Equinix moves into Salalah, Oman

Equinix has announced that it plans to build a data center in Salalah, a city located on the south coast of the Sultanate of Oman, making it the second in Oman, with links to its MC1 in Muscat. SN1 will also be the company's fifth data center in the region, and will be built in partnership wi...

April 04, 2022

Equinix

Yotta To Develop a Data Center in Mumbai, India

Yotta Infrastructure has been granted permission to develop a data center in Mumbai, India. The company secured permission from the state's urban development department to convert 19 acres of land in the Powai area of Maharashtra into an industrial zone from a special development. The com...

March 31, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

NTT & QD.TEK Form JV To develop Data Center in Vietnam

NTT and QD.Tek are partnering up to build a data center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Both companies will form a joint venture called NTT Global Data Centers HCMC1 Limited Liability. The partnership will see the companies develop the new facility called Ho Chi Minh City 1 Data Center. The f...

March 31, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT

Energy firm ZR Power Holding's data center plans

Indian Energy firm ZR Power Holdings has announced that it is investing more than Rs 1,700 crore ($223.2m) in a data center at Mahape in Navi Mumbai.The proposed facility would have a capacity of 50MW and span a 10-acre plot which the company is currently acquiring. Zain Ravadji, chairman, of ...

March 28, 2022

Mumbai

Japanese bank Mizuho and Google Cloud Partner Up

Google Cloud and Japanese super bank Mizuho Financial Group have signed a strategic partnership. The agreement will see the Japanese firm shift some of its services to the cloud. This move comes after the company experienced multiple serious outages in 2021. The group CEO and president of Mizu...

March 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

CtrlS commences construction on third Hyderabad data center

CtrlS has announced that it has broken ground on its third hyperscale facility, located in the Gachibowli suburb of Telangana, India. The facility, which is expected to span 131,000 sqft, with a capacity of 1,600 racks powered by 18MW of electricity, will reportedly meet LEED Platinum standar...

March 24, 2022

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

Further controversy rises around project nimbus

Controversy continues to envelop Project Nimbus, with fresh allegations made against Google in its handling of dissenting employees. Project Nimbus is a contract that both Google and Amazon (AWS) have with the Israeli government to provide its agencies with cloud services. Since its announceme...

March 23, 2022

Google

Equinix Is Expanding In Chennai, India After $9m Land Acquisition

Equinix is expanding in India as it acquired a plot of land in Chennai. This is part of the company’s expansion and growth strategy. The company revealed that it took possession of the 5.5-acre land in the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd (SIPCOT) IT Park. According to ...

March 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Equinix Is Acquiring Four Data Centers In Chile and Peru From Entel For $705 million

Equinix has acquired four data centers belonging to Entel in Peru and Chile for $705 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of the year. Per the deal, Equinix will take over one data center in Lima, Peru, and three facilities in Santiago, Chile. Under the terms of ...

March 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Amazon's Closes MGM $8.5bn Acquisition

Amazon has closed the acquisition of the US media company Metro Goldwyn Meyer (MGM). The transaction was worth $8.5 billion. The primary goal of the deal is to strengthen its Prime Video division. However, it also secures another cloud contract for AWS. AWS and MGM started working together ...

March 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS To Invest £1.8 billion in The UK

AWS has announced its plans to invest up to £1.8 billion ($2.37bn) in the UK over the next two years. The funds will go into developing and operating data centers. Worthy of note is that the company did not reveal how it would specifically spend the funds. A blog post by the company said it...

March 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Amazon Proposal For Land Rezoning in Culpeper County Denied

The Culpeper County Planning Commission has denied Amazon's proposal to rezone over 200 acres of land in Stevensburg, Virginia, for data center use. The commission voted 5-4 against the company's proposal. It wasn't an easy decision for the council as the discussions and decision took over 5 h...

March 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Web Werks Announce Plans For a 6MW Data Center in Hyderabad, India

Great news as Web Werks revealed that it would be developing a data center in Hyderabad, India. The facility will span 11,100 square meters (120,000 square feet) of space. In addition, the data center will be a Tier III facility with up to 20MVA of gross power. It will also have an IT load ...

March 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Web Werks

Google Buys Mandiant for $5.4 billion

Google has announced that it is acquiring Mandiant for $5.4 billion. This will be Google’s second-largest acquisition in history. Mandiant is a cybersecurity firm founded in 2004. The firm offers many threat detection and response services. Mandiant will also be joining Google Cloud upon the c...

March 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

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