Google opens quantum computer data center and R&D lab, plans commercial system by 2029 Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a c... May 19, 2021 Google
Google plans to use greener energy by moving workloads between data centers Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware ... May 18, 2021 Google
Google Cloud and SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Secure, Global Connectivity Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to cus... May 15, 2021 Google
Iron Mountain Completes Agreement to Expand footprint to India with JV with Web Werks Iron Mountain is expected to invest $150 million over the next two years in a joint venture with Web Werks. Web Works is one of India’s top colocation data center providers. Iron Mountain, which is a storage and information management services company first announced its plan to invest on Febr... April 21, 2021 Iron Mountain
STT GDC to go carbon neutral by 2030 STT Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has pledged to become carbon-neutral by 2030 it unveiled in its new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy. This strategy marks out the group's goals and targets for the next 5-10 years. Currently, 43% of the group’s electricity consump... March 31, 2021 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020 Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The co... April 15, 2020 Google
NTT to rebrand regional subsidiaries, impacts RagingWire, e-shelter, Gyron, NetMagic Data Center Frontier reports that NTT plans to rebrand all its data center subsidiaries into one brand. The combined company will be launched at PTC in January 2020 and be headquartered in LondonThe rebrand includes all of NTT subsidiaries. RagingWire e-shelter NetMagic Gyron and NTT branded... September 18, 2019 NTT
Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR) REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Ch... February 07, 2019 Google
Iron Mountain completes it $1.3 billion acquisition of IO Data Centers Iron Mountain Inc. completed its acquisition of the U.S. operations of Phoenix-based IO Data Centers LLC on Wednesday. Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), the Boston-based storage and information management services company, bought IO for $1.34 billion. Iron Mountain announced the acquisition Dec. 11. ... January 10, 2018 Iron Mountain