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UK data center operators battle the heat with hosepipes, while Google and Oracle face service disruption

The UK’s heatwave pushed temperatures to a record-breaking 40C this week, causing transport delays and service disruptions. To battle the heat, some data center operators have been using hose pipes to cool their facilities. According to a report by Bloomberg, staff in London have been spraying...

July 20, 2022

Google

Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn

Stonepeak has revealed that it is acquiring a 29 percent stake in American Tower’s Coresite data center business. The investment firm will pay $2.5 billion for the stake in the business. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. According to an annou...

July 15, 2022

CoreSite

Niagara Falls data center debate

As reported by Baxtel at the end of June, Niagara Falls is being targeted as the site of a $1.5 billion technology and data center by New York City developer Howard Milstein and his partners, while the city launches a legal effort to create a new public park. While developers claim that the da...

July 11, 2022

New York

Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software

Tech giants, Google and Microsoft, have announced that they've invested in the carbon accounting startup FlexiDAO, which has now raised €6.1 million for its service that monitors the renewable energy that companies buy and the associated carbon emissions hour-by-hour and 24/7. While both Googl...

July 08, 2022

Google

Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU

Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporatio...

July 06, 2022

Equinix

Greenidge gas powered cryptomining data center denied air permit renewal

It has been announced that New York's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has denied an air permit renewal by Greenidge Generation, which could see its gas-powered Bitcoin mining data center close. This follows the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling on West Virginia ...

July 05, 2022

New York

Telia announces it has signed wind PPA in Estonia

Telia has announced that it has signed a PPA with Eesti Energia to be provided with 156GWh of renewable wind electricity over five years, starting at the end of 2022. According to the company, this deal will provide the European telco with 70% of its power needs, including its fixed and mobil...

July 04, 2022

Telia Company

Sabey Data Centers accelerates sustainability goals

Sabey Data Centers has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by or before 2029 across its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. Following the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi) validating the company's target and methods to achieve a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, the Sa...

June 30, 2022

Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Has Plans For $250m Revenue Notes

Sabey Data Centers is about to issue revenue notes to the tune of $250m. According to Asset Securitization, the company will issue the notes to securitize real estate and tenant lease payments on six of its hyperscale data center campuses across Washington, Virginia, and New York. S&P will...

June 30, 2022

Sabey Data Centers

A $1.5 Billion Data Center in Niagara Falls is Being Planned

Urbacon and Niagara Falls Redevelopment (NFR) have announced plans for a $1.5 billion data center park on land in Niagara Falls, New York City. Urbacon is an Ontario-based construction company with an excellent track record of developing massive data center campuses in Richmond Hill, Montre...

June 29, 2022

New York

Google's data plans in Saudi Arabia: Lives at risk

Back in December 2020, Google announced that it had signed an agreement with state-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco to set up a Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia and offer Enterprise Cloud services. From the outset, this was a controversial move. Saudi Arabia is notorious for its human rights...

June 28, 2022

Google

Google Breaks Ground on Its $300m Ohio Data Center

Google has broken ground on a new facility in Columbus, Ohio. The site for the new data center was previously used for a snake oil farm. Last year, the company first revealed plans for the 14,000 square meters (150,000 square foot) data center. According to the company, the facility will cost ...

June 23, 2022

Google

Google Acquires Land in Finland For Possible Data Center Development

Google has acquired 50 hectares of land in Hamina, Finland, for €4.3 million ($4.5m). The land is also located next to the company’s existing sea-cooled data center. The existing data center was acquired from Stora Enso, a Finnish paper company in 2009. It also opened the data center in 201...

June 23, 2022

Google

Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM

Google has announced it has opened a cloud region, in Milan, Italy, in partnership with TIM, namely the Europe-west8 region, its first in this region, following both AWS and Microsoft doing the same. According to the giant, it will bring on a second in Turin, which will happen over the next f...

June 21, 2022

Google

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate open data centre in Sydney

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have announced the opening of SY9x, the first xScale data center in Sydney, following the closing of the two parties' US$575 million joint venture. Located in Rosehill, and adjacent to the Western Sydney CBD of Parramatta, this facility, will be accompanied by a s...

June 16, 2022

Equinix

Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 30...

June 16, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 mill...

June 15, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Bill passed to ban cryptomining data centers that use fossil fuel power plants

The New York Legislature has passed a landmark bill to ban cryptocurrency data centers that use fossil fuels to power their operations, in an effort to reduce statewide emissions by 85% by 2050. Specifically, the bill will impose a two-year moratorium on these activities, however, Governor Kat...

June 13, 2022

New York

Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Corp., currently three of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of clean power, have voiced their opposition to a nearly $4-billion, Warren Buffett-backed renewable-energy project proposed in Iowa. According to the three giants, the project, which would be the l...

June 13, 2022

Google

Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility

Equinix has announced that it will be developing its third data center in Mumbai, India. The data center giant said it would invest over $86 million to develop the data center. According to the company, the data center will be housed on four-acre land. The data center will be located in Cha...

June 09, 2022

Equinix

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