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NTT unveils new facility campus in Delhi, India.

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 ...

January 13, 2024

NTT

Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

In a blog post shared on Thursday, Google Cloud Platform announced that it has removed "exit fees" for customers wishing to leave its services. Amit Zavery, head of platform at Google Cloud wrote: "Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their dat...

January 12, 2024

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ST Telemedia GDC raises $338 million in SLP securities

Singapore's ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) announced this week that it has raised $338.14 million in sustainability-linked perpetual securities. This loan falls under the company's $1.13bn multicurrency debt issuance program will be used for "general corporate purposes" such as th...

January 11, 2024

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Yotta Data Services unveils new cloud data center in GIFT City, India

Yotta Data Services recently launched its new cloud data center located inside the International Financial Services Center (IFSC) zone of Gandhinagar’s Gujarat International Finance Tec-City in GIFT City, India. This facility, which is now ready for service has room for more than 350 racks and...

January 11, 2024

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Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands

Google has broken ground on a new data center in the Netherlands and has officially begun work on the facility in Winschoten, Groningen, in the north of the country. Marco Ynema, data center lead in the Netherlands at Google, said, "People are increasingly using digital tools, and organization...

December 28, 2023

Google

CtrlS breaks ground on new data center in Gujarat, India

CtrlS Datacenters has broken ground on its greenfield data center in GIFT City, Gujarat, India as it announces that it intends to invest Rs 250 crore in the project which is dubbed CtrlS Gandhinagar 1 DC. At the launch ceremony, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Bhupendrabhai Patel, laid the first st...

December 28, 2023

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Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia

Google and AirTrunk have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy provider OX2 in Australia for the development of a new solar farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, from which Google and AirTrunk will receive 25MW of renewable power. Damien Spillane, AirTrunk chief custo...

December 20, 2023

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LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

Renewables transaction company LevelTen Energy has set up a marketplace for time-based energy certificates to support renewable energy commitments around he clock. The GC Trading Alliance, supported by Google, Microsoft, and others, will be a platform to exchange "granular certificates" that v...

December 18, 2023

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Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

Google recently announced that its data centers in Nevada will be powered by a new geothermal power plant. This project, originally announced by Google and Fervo in 2021, is a 5MW project that will use Google AI systems to help with its operations. Michael Terrell, senior director of energy a...

November 29, 2023

Google

OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

OpenAI has hired Google’s Todd Underwood to head a new Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads as it already has a functional team for the applied side working on inference and API products. The SRE concept originally started at Google, but has since spread...

November 28, 2023

Google

OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department

OpenAI has hired Google’s Richard Ho as the head of hardware to lead the new division to help “influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings.” Ho had spent about 9 years at Google, leading one of the company’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units projects, wi...

November 27, 2023

Google

Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW

Mayor of the Skien municipality, Marius Roheim Aarvold has said claims that Google’s upcoming data center campus in Norway will require 860MW of power to support its planned data center campus in Gromstul, Skien municipality.are false. Local press had reported that Microsoft formerly applied f...

November 22, 2023

Google

Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia

Google recently announced that it will be launching its Saudi Arabian cloud region this week. Anthony Cirot, Google Cloud’s EMEA South VP, posted on LinkedIn, “I'm thrilled to share an exciting milestone in Google Cloud's journey: the launch of our new cloud region in Saudi Arabia. This marks ...

November 14, 2023

Google

Iron Mountain to convert records management facility in Miami to a data center

Iron Mountain is to convert one of its former records management facilities in Miami, Florida, into a data center that will offer 16MW. Iron Mountain CEO William L. Meaney said during the company's Q3 2023 earnings call last week, “Miami is a key market where a number of our customers are loo...

November 06, 2023

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Google signs first wind PPA in Poland

Google has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure renewable energy in Poland . Following this agreement with Polsat Plus Group, Google will now offtake from the company’s wind farm in Przyrów to power Google Cloud’s operations. Tara Brady, president, Google Cloud EMEA said...

November 03, 2023

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STT GDC completes 1.2MW DC campus in Makati City

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Philippines has completed the construction of a 1.2MW data center in Makati City, the Philippines. This new facility on the outskirts of Manila, has a capacity for around 100 racks and can support loads between 5kW and 12kW. Operations. Carlo Malana, president ...

October 31, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Proximus and LuxConnect launch JV to offer Google Cloud services

Cloud companies Proximus and LuxConnect recently launched a joint venture to offer Google Cloud services through a sovereign cloud. This venture called the Clarence JV, aims to provide a "disconnected sovereign cloud solution to governments, regulated companies, international organizations and...

October 30, 2023

Google

Web Werks & Iron Mountain acquire 4 acres in Chennai for DC construction

Web Werks and Iron Mountain recently purchased a four-acre parcel of land in the Ambattur area of Chennai, India for the construction of two data center campuses. These parcel will support two buildings called CHE-1 and CHE-2 which will be built to Tier III standards and will support a total ...

October 17, 2023

Iron Mountain

Google tests demand-response system to cut data center power consumption

Google has tested a demand-response system, which will reduce data center electricity consumption during grid problems and shift non-urgent tasks to other locations. The company notes that this is an extension of its plan to shift computing work to areas where energy is carbon-free.A blog post...

October 10, 2023

Google

Nvidia, NTT Docomo to launch new GPU-accelerated 5G network

NTT Docomo has partnered with semiconductor company Nvidia to deploy a GPU-accelerated wireless solution in its network in Japan. This partnership will make it the first telco in the world to deploy a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network.A blog post by Nvidia noted that this partnership "enab...

October 04, 2023

NTT

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