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Read Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion
Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

March 27, 2023 Equinix

Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Martin...

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Read Brookfield is in Discussions to Buy Data4 in Europe
Brookfield is in Discussions to Buy Data4 in Europe

Brookfield is in Discussions to Buy Data4 in Europe

March 27, 2023 DATA4 Group

According to reports, Brookfield Asset Management is discussing purchasing European data center operator Data4. Brookfield is reportedly in 'exclusive discussions' to purchase a majority share in Paris-based Data4 that could value the operator at $3.77bn, according to unidentified sources...

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Read Microsoft to expand in Washington
Microsoft to expand in Washington

Microsoft to expand in Washington

March 24, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed plans to build three data centers in Malaga, Washington, on Malaga Alcoa Highway in Chelan County. The Port Authority outlined in the fillings that it assumes the development will involve the construction of three buildings on the site by the end of 2025; further, there is...

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Read Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona
Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona

Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona

March 23, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is switching its cooling system for data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona, following an update of its development agreement. Further to this, it has pledged to invest more than $40 million to expand the city's wastewater capacity. While the giant purchased the site in...

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Read Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT
Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT

Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT

March 23, 2023 NTT

NTT will construct a new data center in Thailand. The company revealed this week that it will spend $90 million through NTT Global Data Centers to build a 12MW, 43,000 sq ft facility in Bangkok. The second half of 2024 will see the start of operations at the next data center, BKK3, which will be...

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Read Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide
Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide

Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide

March 21, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is teaming up with Running Tide to remove 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from its operations. This will be done through Running Tide's carbon capture and removal technology, which utilizes photosynthesis and ocean alkalinity enhancement to fix carbon from the fast carbon cycle, and...

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Read Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris
Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

March 17, 2023 Equinix

Equinix, in another move in alignment with its sustainability goals, has announced the opening of a rooftop urban farm at its PA10 data center in Paris, France. Promoting circular economy principles, the company will use its servers' waste heat to heat the greenhouse, which was built by Reid...

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Read Colt plans new Mumbai data center campus
Colt plans new Mumbai data center campus

Colt plans new Mumbai data center campus

March 16, 2023 Colt Data Centre Services

Colt has announced plans to expand in India, with a new data center campus in Navi Mumbai. The campus is pegged to include ten buildings, with a total of 40 data halls, and 40,000 sqm of data center white space spanning a 62,000 sqm site. Further, the company outlined that the campus will have a...

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Read Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) opens Osaka Keihanna data center
Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) opens Osaka Keihanna data center

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) opens Osaka Keihanna data center

March 14, 2023 Colt Data Centre Services

Colt has launched its ​​45MW facility, located in the Keihanna area of Osaka, following the company first announcing the project in 2021. According to the company, already, 75% of the data center is committed. Spanning 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft), Niclas Sanfridsson, CEO of Colt DCS, said that the...

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Read Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty
Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty

Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty

March 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

At a data center in Switzerland, Digital Realty has installed a robotic dog to do routine inspections. Anybotics has detailed how Digital Realty has utilized its Anymal robot dog for data center checks for over a year in a published case study. Anymal is a quadruped robot that resembles Boston...

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Read Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio
Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio

Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio

March 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced its plans to invest $175.9 million in a massive new data center in San Antonio. Named “SAT40,” the facility was recently filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. According to the filing, the facility will be based at Lambda Drive in the Texas Research...

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Read Exa And Colt Will Update The Channel Tunnel Route's Fiber Equipment
Exa And Colt Will Update The Channel Tunnel Route's Fiber Equipment

Exa And Colt Will Update The Channel Tunnel Route's Fiber Equipment

March 09, 2023 Colt Data Centre Services

Fiber infrastructure along the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, will be upgraded by Exa Infrastructure and Colt Technical Services. To provide clients with a cutting-edge G.652D cable route from London to Paris, the two telecom infrastructure providers will collaborate to update...

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Read Colt Data Centre Services' new London 4 data center in Hayes to have sustainability focus
Colt Data Centre Services' new London 4 data center in Hayes to have sustainability focus

Colt Data Centre Services' new London 4 data center in Hayes to have sustainability focus

March 06, 2023 Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services has announced that it has broken ground on its new London 4 campus, located in Hayes. The company has outlined that the site will include two five-story buildings with a combined capacity of 57 MW, containing 18 data center halls across 30,000 sqm (322,900 sq ft). The...

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Read CloudHQ Has Begun Development of a 228MW Data Center Facility in Brazil's So Paulo
CloudHQ Has Begun Development of  a 228MW Data Center Facility in Brazil's  So Paulo

CloudHQ Has Begun Development of a 228MW Data Center Facility in Brazil's So Paulo

March 02, 2023 CloudHQ

A new hyperscale facility is being built by data center company CloudHQ in Brazil's state of So Paulo. A groundbreaking ceremony was performed by the company in Paulina. It will be CloudHQ's first location in the region and in South America. According to reports, the new 228MW complex will have...

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Read Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading
Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

March 01, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

With the extending of its collaboration with Options Technology, a top provider of capital markets services, Digital Realty, the top global provider of cloud or carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, has made its suite of managed financial markets services offered...

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Read Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain
Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

February 28, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has inked five new long-term PPAs in Spain from solar farms, totalling 225MW, which will be managed by IGNIS. This reportedly brings the company's contracted PPA capacity to 595 MW globally. While specific details regarding the location of the farms have not yet been shared, the company...

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Read Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing
Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing

Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing

February 26, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft wants to duplicate a Dublin data center battery-sharing agreement. In 2022, Eaton unveiled a lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) with grid-interactive UPS to exchange energy with the local grid. The corporation told a London conference that this technique was ideal for the...

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Read Etix Everywhere Receives $47M Investment From Eurazeo
Etix Everywhere Receives $47M Investment From Eurazeo

Etix Everywhere Receives $47M Investment From Eurazeo

February 24, 2023 Etix Everywhere

Data center company Etix Everywhere has received a $46.8 million investment from European private equity firm Eurazo. The funding was obtained by Etix Everywhere's French division through Eurazo's infrastructure strategy, according to a report this week from Global Data Centre Group (GDC),...

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Read NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks
NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

NTT Creates Prototype Baseband Booster Chip For 2Tbps etworks

February 24, 2023 NTT

NTT has created a prototype device that might boost data center and submarine cable connection rates. A crucial step toward 6G, the gadget can in-lab enhance a 100 Gigahertz (GHz) electrical signal. Although the commercial availability of the ultra-compact baseband amplifier IC module is years...

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Read MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India
MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

February 23, 2023 NTT

On February 22nd, NTT Global Data Centers revealed that its MIST subsea cable had arrived in Mumbai, India. The Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system has a length of approximately 5000 miles. It links Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as Mumbai and Chennai...

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