April 12, 2024 EdgeConneX
This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robust...
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March 23, 2024 Equinix
Short seller Hindenburg Research has accused data center REIT Equinix of "major accounting manipulations." The investigative reporting and researching company claims that Nadaq-listed Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs, by at least...
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March 21, 2024 Vodafone
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said it's concerned that Vodafone and Three's proposed merger could lead to mobile customers facing higher prices and reduced service quality. This comes after a 40-day review into the £15 billion ($18.5bn) merger, set to create the UK's...
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March 16, 2024 Vodafone
Vodafone has sold its Italian business to Swisscom for €8 billion in a deal which will see Swisscom merge Vodafone with its Italian subsidiary Fastweb. This merger was announced in Europe this week after the Spanish government approved the proposed Orange and MásMóvil merger. Margherita Della...
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March 14, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 2020....
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March 01, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at 578 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. The company has now completed the installation of rooftop solar systems at eight of its facilities, including Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and...
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February 29, 2024 Vodafone
Following an increasing number of criminal attacks at Vodafone’s Bracknell data center, the company is now making plans to upgrade security at this facility. Vodafone has received permission from the Bracknell Forest Council to install new security fences and gates, reconfigure the car park, and...
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February 21, 2024 Vodafone
Vodafone, this week revealed that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy firm RWE to procure the output from the Kaskasi offshore wind farm, 35km off the coast of Heligoland. Following the terms of this agreement, Vodafone will procure 250GWh of energy each year, which...
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February 21, 2024 Vodafone
Vodafone and UAE data center firm Edgnex announced their plans to form a joint venture in order to build a new data center in Turkey. This project is a $100 million data center in Izmir; a city in western Turkey on the coast of the Aegean Sea. It was also be Vodafone’s second in Izmir and sixth...
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February 17, 2024 NTT
NTT this week announced its NTT GDC unit will be developing its first data center campus outside Paris, France on a 35.5-acre site located 50km south of Paris in the municipalities of Le Coudray-Montceaux and Corbeil-Essonnes. This campus will total 84MW across three buildings. Doug Adams, CEO...
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February 07, 2024 Equinix
Global colocation giant Equinix recently announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 151MW of wind power in Australia. The company will pay for 20 percent of the first phase of the giant Golden Plains Wind Farm project, which is being built in rural Victoria, not far from...
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January 18, 2024 Equinix
Michael Winterson has left colocation provider Equinix after 24 years to take on the role of managing director for the European Data Centre Association. Winterson wrote on LinkedIn, “Exactly 24 years ago I started my data center career at IXEurope, not 300 meters from our current Equinix offices...
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January 13, 2024 NTT
NTT this week announced the launch of its new data center campus, Noida 2, and the opening of its first data center. The first building offers 22.4MW across 300,000 square feet and spans across six acres. The Merlin campus will support a planned capacity of 52.8MW critical IT load in two data...
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January 09, 2024 EdgeConneX
Investment firm EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund has invested in EdgeConneX to build and operate purpose-built data centers for hyperscale customers around the world, expanding the company into new markets. Terms of this investment were not shared. However, EQT noted that this investment by EQT...
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December 29, 2023 Vodafone
Iliad Group, owned by French tycoon Xavier Niel has submitted a proposal to Vodafone to merge the two telcos in Italy. In its offer, Iliad valued Vodafone Italia at €10.45 billion and is to receive €500 million in cash and 50 percent of the new business as part of the proposal with Vodafone...
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December 28, 2023 Equinix
Equinix is now one of the top ten largest green bond issuers in the United States after allocating $4.9 billion in green bonds to building and efficiency projects. These bonds will fund 172 green building projects on 105 sites, along with 33 energy efficiency projects. Equinix first issued green...
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December 12, 2023 Equinix
Colocation firm Equinix announced this week that it plans to expand support for liquid cooling technologies – including direct-to-chip – to more than 100 of its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in more than 45 metros globally. Tiffany Osias, VP of global colocation at Equinix...
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December 05, 2023 Equinix
Equinix announced this week that it signed a ten-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Portugal Sonnedix’s first Portuguese solar PV project, the 149MW Sonnedix Douro. Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix, said, “We are very pleased to be extending our relationship with Equinix...
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November 10, 2023 Lumen Technologies
The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is an...
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November 01, 2023 Vodafone
Vodafone has confirmed the sale of its Spanish business to UK investment firm Zegona for $5.3 billion. Once the transaction is completed, Vodafone will get about €4.1 billion in cash and up to €0.9bn in the Redeemable Preference Shares. Margherita Della Valle, chief executive of Vodafone, said,...
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