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Read Airtel’s Nxtra begins work on new data center in Kolkata
Airtel’s Nxtra begins work on new data center in Kolkata

Airtel’s Nxtra begins work on new data center in Kolkata

November 23, 2022 Nxtra Data Ltd

Nxtra Data, a Bharti Airtel subsidiary, has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center in Kolkata, India. The facility, expected to go live in 2024, will see an investment of Rs 600 Crore ($74.4m), spanning 150,000 sq ft (13,900 sqm) and will be located in Kolkata’s Bengal Silicon...

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Read HostDime plans new "Andromeda" data center
HostDime plans new "Andromeda" data center

HostDime plans new "Andromeda" data center

November 14, 2022 HostDime

HostDime has released design plans for a new facility to be built in Guadalajara, Mexico. The 3MW "Andromeda" data center is reportedly due to open in 2024, and will be certified by the International Computer Room Experts Association (ICREA) V standard, and certified with the Uptime Institute for...

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Read Google leases from Adani in Noida
Google leases from Adani in Noida

Google leases from Adani in Noida

November 10, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center

Tech giant Google has leased 464,000 square feet at an Adani Data centre in Noida for 10 years with starting annual rent of 130.98 crore, according to documents accessed by CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm.The deal has been signed between Dc Development Noida Private Limited, an...

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Read Google signs new PPA with SB Energy
Google signs new PPA with SB Energy

Google signs new PPA with SB Energy

November 07, 2022 Google

This week, Google signed a 942 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with SB Energy to procure solar energy in Texas. The giant is set to purchase 75% of the renewable energy produced by four of the solar projects under development; the Orion 1-3 and Eiffel solar projects total 1.2GW and are...

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Read Iron Mountain Completes Acquisition of XData in Spain, Gets One Data Center in Madrid
Iron Mountain Completes Acquisition of XData in Spain, Gets One Data Center in Madrid

Iron Mountain Completes Acquisition of XData in Spain, Gets One Data Center in Madrid

November 04, 2022 Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of XData Properties of Spain. The acquisition sees the company take over a data center in Madrid, Spain. Iron Mountain also acquired land in Phoenix, Arizona, and Mumbai, India in a separate acquisition . XData was developing the large data center...

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Read NTT expands its data center footprint in South Africa
NTT expands its data center footprint in South Africa

NTT expands its data center footprint in South Africa

October 27, 2022 NTT

NTT has announced the opening of a new data center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Named the Johannesburg 1 Data Center, this new 12 MW facility will cover 6,000 sqm of IT space when fully built out, introduced to meet growing digital demand. Research shows that Africa is currently in the midst of...

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Read Google Buys 36 Hectares in Belgium For Possible Data Center Development
Google Buys 36 Hectares in Belgium For Possible Data Center Development

Google Buys 36 Hectares in Belgium For Possible Data Center Development

October 27, 2022 Google

Search engine and cloud Giant Google has acquired a 36-hectare plot outside Brussels, Belgium. According to a report, the land will likely be used for data center development. The terms of the acquisition were not revealed. The land is located in the Feluy Industrial Estate, 40KM south of...

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Read NTT & Digital Realty To Develop Data Centers in Garland, Texas
NTT & Digital Realty To Develop Data Centers in Garland, Texas

NTT & Digital Realty To Develop Data Centers in Garland, Texas

October 25, 2022 NTT

Digital Realty and NTT are looking to develop new data centers in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The firms filed applications for the new data centers with the State’s Department of Licensing. The plots of land in question are within one mile of one another. Digital Realty plans to develop a...

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Read Google is Leasing a 464,000 Square Feet Data Center in Noida, India
Google is Leasing a 464,000 Square Feet Data Center in Noida, India

Google is Leasing a 464,000 Square Feet Data Center in Noida, India

October 13, 2022 Google

Per information privy to CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm, Google has leased a 43,100 square meter (464,000 square feet) data center in Noida, India from Adani. The lease is to run for ten years and it will start with an annual rate of Rs130.98 crore ($16m). The agreement has already...

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Read Google to open its first data center in Japan
Google to open its first data center in Japan

Google to open its first data center in Japan

October 10, 2022 Google

Google is opening its first data center in Japan, it has announced. To be located in Inzai City, Chiba, the facility is part of the company's $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024 and is set to open by 2023. Google The data center, the company's third data center in...

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Read Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region
Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region

Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region

October 04, 2022 Google

Google is reportedly close to buying a 30-hectare plot for its upcoming Berlin Google Cloud region in Germany having already signed corresponding preliminary contracts. According to reports by Maerkische Allgemeine, the site that it has chosen is in the Schenkendorf area of Mittenwalde,...

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Read NTT to build new 30MW data center in Kansai region of Japan
NTT to build new 30MW data center in Kansai region of Japan

NTT to build new 30MW data center in Kansai region of Japan

September 30, 2022 NTT

NTT is building a new 30MW data center in the Kansai region of Japan, it has been announced. The facility, which is being constructed in Soraku-gun, Kyoto Prefecture, will be a four-story, seismic-isolated structure. Model image of the completed data center The building will supply a total of 30...

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Read Nxtra to deploy Bloom Energy hydrogen fuel cells at its Karnataka data center
Nxtra to deploy Bloom Energy hydrogen fuel cells at its Karnataka data center

Nxtra to deploy Bloom Energy hydrogen fuel cells at its Karnataka data center

September 12, 2022 Nxtra Data Ltd

Nxtra has announced that it has partnered with Bloom Energy to deploy, what it calls, low environmental impact fuel cell installation at one of its facilities. Its data center in Karnataka will be the target of the installation and will make Nxtra the first company in India to make such a...

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Read NTT announces launch of its Cyberjaya 6 Malaysian data center
NTT announces launch of its Cyberjaya 6 Malaysian data center

NTT announces launch of its Cyberjaya 6 Malaysian data center

September 08, 2022 NTT

NTT has announced that it has begun construction on its Cyberjaya 6 data center in Malaysia, with an initial investment of more than $50 million. Set to cater to hyperscalers and high-end enterprises, the facility, when combined with the company's CBJ5 data center, will have a capacity of 22MW....

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Read Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center
Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center

Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center

September 01, 2022 Google

Google has announced that its land in Bissen, Luxemburg, has finally been reclassified for data center use. The company confirmed that construction can now begin on the land, which is planned for a €1 billion ($1bn) data center. Once completed, this will be one of the most significant...

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Read Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore
Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore

Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore

August 29, 2022 Google

Search engineer giant Google has announced opening of a new data center in Singapore. The company said in a statement: "We announced our first data center in Singapore in 2011, our second in 2015, and we recently hit another important milestone - with our third data center facility completed and...

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Read STT GDC opens third building at Singapore Defu campus as moratorium comes to a close
STT GDC opens third building at Singapore Defu campus as moratorium comes to a close

STT GDC opens third building at Singapore Defu campus as moratorium comes to a close

August 18, 2022 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced that it has opened its third building at its Singapore Defu campus in the east of the city-state. The facility, first announced back in April 2021, is a seven-story building with an IT load capacity of 15MW and spanning 156,000 square feet...

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Read Google To Launch Cloud Regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia
Google To Launch Cloud Regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia

Google To Launch Cloud Regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia

August 17, 2022 Google

Google has announced its plans to launch three Cloud regions in the APAC region. The company plans to launch these regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia. Although its competitors like Microsoft Azure and AWS already have projects in the works in Malaysia and New Zealand, it is the first...

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Read Google experiences widespread outage
Google experiences widespread outage

Google experiences widespread outage

August 10, 2022 Google

This week, Google was down after experiencing an outage that impacted systems worldwide. As reported by DCD, this outage occurred shortly after an explosion at Google’s data center in Iowa - however, currently, it is unknown whether the two are related. According to Down Detector, the outage...

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Read NTT announces sixth data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia
NTT announces sixth data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia

NTT announces sixth data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia

August 04, 2022 NTT

NTT has announced plans for a sixth data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, which according to Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong, is being built to accommodate its “expanding business in the region. Siong said in a Facebook post, “It’s also very encouraging to note that the...

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