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Orange signs new 15-year PPA in France

Orange has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement with French solar & storage developer ZE Energy this week to procure solar power in France.The agreement is to offtake 90GWh annually produced by a new hybrid solar power plant being built in Landes. “Orange France is continuing its ren...

May 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

Orange and Huawei partner to unveil Cloud services in Egypt

Orange and Huawei have teamed up to launch Huawei Cloud services in Egypt. Both companies have previously teamed up to launch the Orange Business Cloud for business in Egypt. Following the latest agreement which is an extension of that launch, Huawei Cloud will roll out an array of its cloud c...

April 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

Three companies invest in combined $200m data center in Oslo

Norwegian telco Telenor, energy company Hafslund and investment fund HitecVision are building a data center in Oslo, Norway, via a newly formed joint venture, Skygard. These companies are to make a NOK 2.4 billion ($200m) joint investment in this data center which is already undergoing constru...

March 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Oslo

PCCW-led Peace subsea cable arrives in Bizerte, Tunisia

The PCCW-led Peace subsea cable has landed in Bizerte, Tunisia. According to industry observer Philippe Devaux, this cable known as Ifriqya by local operator Ooredoo – was landed by Orange’s CS Teliri. “Today, we celebrate a historic achievement with the arrival of the submarine cable "Ifriqya...

February 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

Orange & Capgemini to unveil Microsoft-focused sovereign cloud venture

Orange & Capgemini this week announced that their Microsoft-focused Bleu joint venture is now getting ready for commercial operations. This cloud venture has begun engaging with ‘select French public and private organizations’ to ensure that they are ready for the migration once the first ...

January 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

Orange blames three-hour outage on weak password

Orange has noted that a weak password to its RIPE account was the primary cause of the outage at Orange Spain disrupted close to half of its network traffic earlier this week. This outage lasted for about three hours on January 4 after a hacker manipulated crucial information about the company...

January 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

Orange launches data center in Garborone, Botswana

Telco Orange recently unveiled a new data center in Gaborone, Botswana. The company posted on LinkedIn, “Hello from the new Orange Data Center at the Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub! This is the first Tier III data center in Botswana and third in Southern Africa.” According to ITWeb Afri...

December 05, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

Orange installs over 200 solar panels on data center in Timișoara, Romania

Orange has installed over 200 solar panels at its Timișoara, Romania data center, it has announced. This is in addition to deployments at its data center in Constanța and Braşov, taking the total to 650 solar panels that are installed and operational. The deployment will reportedly bring 100k...

July 26, 2023

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New Tunisia-France Submarine Cable Will be Installed by Orange

The French telecommunications company Orange will install a new subsea cable linking France and Tunisia. A 650-mile cable from Marseille to Bizerte will be built thanks to a grant from the EU's "Connecting Europe Facility" (CEF) program, the company announced this week. The cable is expected t...

April 24, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

European Commission Approves Orange's Belgium Investment

The decision to allow Orange to purchase a controlling share in the Belgian cable companies VOO and Brutélé has been made. It follows the European Commission's approval of the transaction in accordance with the EU Merger Regulation. It comes after a protracted examination of the deal's competi...

March 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

Orange announces solar panel deployment in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso

In further efforts to decarbonize, Orange has announced that it is deploying solar panels at its Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso data centers. Reports are that the deployments will average at 1MWp.These solar panels will be deployed by SolarX, part of investment firm Omnium Invest, and will repor...

March 14, 2023

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Orange deploys new solar panels at Ivory Coast data center

At its Ivory Coast data center, telco Orange has deployed and commissioned a new solar plant. The facility, built back in 2016, offers 1.3MW of capacity, and is provided with energy from the new photovoltaic power plant for 50 percent of its daytime consumption (7am to 6pm). The company shared...

January 24, 2023

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Orange deploys solar panels at two of its data center sites in Poland

Orange has announced that it has deployed solar panels at two of its data center sites in Poland, made possible by a lease mode, signing a 20-year deal with Green Mobile Polska.According to reports, the panels have been operational since last week and Orange outlined that in the first two day...

October 27, 2022

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Orange outlines a number of energy-saving measures ahead of potential blackouts this winter

Orange recently released a number of sustainability measures to save energy and reduce electricity consumption in France. The company outlined that in the face of an energy crisis, with reports that Europe could face rolling blackouts, as a telecom business, it has a role to play in decreasin...

October 11, 2022

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Orange Inaugurates New Data Centers in France

Orange has announced that it opened two data centers in France. The French company commissioned the data centers in the Val-de-Reuil in Normandy and the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. The data center buildings span 172,200 square feet (16,000 square meters) and 53,800 square feet (5,...

June 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

Korbank's Data Center Development in Warsaw Delayed Due To Specification Change

Polish telecommunications company, Korbank has revealed that it won’t be completing the construction of its Wroclaw data center till later. The data center was scheduled to be completed this month, but the date has been shifted to June of this year. The delay is happening because Korbank wants...

March 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Warsaw

Orange and Engie partner to transform GOS

Orange has joined forces with Engie to transform its Ivory Coast, Tier III-certified GOS (Groupement Orange Services) data center and install solar panels. The site, located in Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, was first built in 2016, spanning 16,600 sqm (179,000 sq ft).This project comes in resp...

January 18, 2022

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Orange signs 36MW wind PPA in Poland with Enertrag

In its latest move towards its sustainability pledge, Orange has announced that it has penned a 36MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Enertrag. This deal means that up to 30% of Orange Polska’s needs will be met with wind energy, from an offshore wind farm on the Vistula Rive...

January 06, 2022

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Orange's €50 million Orange Nature carbon fund

Orange has announced the launch of a €50 million ($56.3m) carbon fund, which will finance reforestation and ecological restoration projects in partnership with Mirova (Natixis Investment Managers). This announcement is in line with the company's Net Zero Carbon by 2040 environmental strategy, ...

December 13, 2021

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Orange plans new $135 million data center in Egypt’s new capital

Orange has announced its plans for a new $135 million data center in Egypt. The chief enterprise line of business officer at Orange Egypt, Hesham Mahran, revealed that Orange would build a new data center in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital. He noted that the new data center would host al...

November 10, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

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