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Digital Realty/Brookfield JV Buys Land for $30.8m in Chennai, India

According to India’s Economic Times. Digital Realty and Brookfield Asset Management’s joint venture in India has secured the purchase of 10 acres of land in Chennai. The companies acquired the land for over Rs 230 crore (~$30.8m). It is to be used for the development of a data center. One of t...

February 21, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Africa50 Invests $20m in PAIX Data Centres

PAIX Data Centres has announced that investment vehicle, Africa50 has invested $20 million into its business. The funds raised signifies PAIX Data Center’s Series B financing by the investment firm. According to PAIX, the funds will be used to expand and grow into new markets. The CEO of PAIX ...

February 17, 2022

PAIX

Carbon accounting standards in the industry

A number of organizations and companies have come together to form an initiative called the Carbon Call, which is seeking to achieve "reliable and interoperable" carbon emissions accounting to ensure the world reaches net-zero by midcentury. Among the twenty organizations launching the call is...

February 15, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Signs Agreement With HTX To Develop Sovereign Cloud in Singapore

Microsoft has signed a strategic agreement with Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX). The deal will see Microsoft develop a sovereign cloud to speed up the digital transformation and innovation of Singapore’s HTX. It will also help sort Singapore’s Home Team Departments’ e...

February 14, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to cut down 2,600 trees in San Antonio to make way for data center

Microsoft is to build a data center on a 33-acre plot in San Antonio, however, this will come at the expense of 2,642 trees. The move was recently given the go-ahead by the City Council, who voted 8-3 on Thursday, January 28, 2022. The giant will reportedly plant 833 trees around the data cen...

January 31, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to develop a $317m Chilean data center region

Microsoft has filed plans to develop a data center in Santiago, Chile. The data center is to cost the company $317 million. Microsoft first revealed its plans for a data center region in the country in December 2020. It is now finally actualizing its plans by filing its SLC03 project for asses...

January 25, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is buying 50 acres in Hyderabad, India a data center campus development

According to the Business Standard, Microsoft has agreed to purchase a 50-acre land in Hyderabad, India. The company plans to build a data center campus on the property. Business Standard reports that Microsoft already has a deal in place with the Telangana government of India to develop a Rs ...

January 21, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft buys 17 acres of land in Georgia for further expansion

According to Biz Journal, Microsoft has acquired extra 17 acres of land in Fulton County of Georgia. In addition, the Fulton County property deeds confirmed the purchase by showing that Microsoft bought 10 acres of land from Macq LLC for $1 million and 7 acres from Lit/Hodges Industrial Trust ...

January 20, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

Digital Realty has bought the majority stake in Teraco. The data center giant announced the acquisition of the South African data center company from a consortium of investors, including Permira and Berkshire Partners. The deal sees Teraco valued at about $3.5 billion. The transaction sees Dig...

January 07, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW turb...

December 17, 2021

Microsoft Azure

San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

Digital Realty has announced that it has sold its San Jose data center to developer Hines. Documents filed on December 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office outline that Hines paid just under $60 million ($59.6 million) for the complex. The building spans 179,800 sqft; meanwhile, th...

December 17, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft adds new availability zones to India Central Azure cloud region

Microsoft has unveiled new availability zones in its Indian Central Azure cloud region. Usually, Azure regions launch with three availability zones. These zones are physically separated to provide higher redundancy, availability, and disaster recovery protection. However, there are cases where...

December 09, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Africa Data Centres chooses Distributed Power Technologies to provide renewable energy

Africa Data Centres has announced that it has chosen Distributed Power Technologies (DPT) to provide its South African data centers with renewable energy and storage. This announcement follows news that the company recently secured nearly R4 billion to expand and develop its two data centers i...

December 09, 2021

Africa Data Centres

Digital Realty teams up with CoolestDC for liquid cooling for SIN11 data center

Digital Realty is partnering with Coolest DC to develop high-efficiency thermal management solutions for the industry following a pilot program supported by Temasek Foundation. The initial pilot scheme sought to improve energy consumption by data centers and enhance efficiency and had deploye...

November 30, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft to develop Azure data center region in Belgium

Microsoft has announced plans for an Azure data center region in Belgium. However, it didn’t share details of where the region will be or when it plans to develop it. Yet, just like Microsoft’s other regions, the Belgium Azure region will include three availability zones to enable better redun...

November 25, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing

Digital Realty has announced that it has "amended, extended, and upsized" its existing global revolving credit facility from $2.35 billion to $3.0 billion, which now feature a sustainability-linked pricing component. Moreover, the pricing will be "subject to adjustment" based on performance ta...

November 25, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Africa Data Centres to double capacity in Johannesburg, South Africa to 100MW

Africa Data Centres has revealed its plans to more than double its capacity in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company says its footprint in the region would be increased to 100MW. ADC currently has two campuses in Johannesburg which will have 20MW of capacity each upon full build-out. In addi...

November 23, 2021

Africa Data Centres

Microsoft expands in Sydney, Australia

Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Sydney, Australia. The campus in Kemps Creek, according to AFR, will be worth $1.3 billion with a capacity of 190MW, spanning over 14.4 hectares. It is being built in a new industrial estate which is being developed by Frasers and Atlis Property ...

November 22, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft tests its hydrogen fuel cell backup generator

In Quincy, Washington, tech giant Microsoft has announced that it is teaming up with Caterpillar and Ballard Power Systems to test its hydrogen fuel cell backup generators in a move towards a more sustainable future. This project accompanies Microsoft’s other backup energy efforts, like the tr...

November 22, 2021

Microsoft Azure

AT&T and Microsoft launch Azure Edge Zone in Atlanta, Georgia

Both AT&T and Microsoft have launched an Azure Edge zone in Atlanta, Georgia. Azure Edge zone is a type of infrastructure that provides 5-G connected cloud services from Edge facilities. The companies announced that they are launching the “Private Preview” of the Azure Edge zone. With this...

November 22, 2021

Microsoft Azure

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