September 08, 2022 NTT
NTT has announced that it has begun construction on its Cyberjaya 6 data center in Malaysia, with an initial investment of more than $50 million. Set to cater to hyperscalers and high-end enterprises, the facility, when combined with the company's CBJ5 data center, will have a capacity of 22MW....
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September 06, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft recently announced that its data center region in New Zealand (specific location not yet disclosed), will be powered by 100 percent renewable electricity due to a partnership with Ecotricity, a sustainable electricity retailer. This means that the region will use solar, wind, and hydro...
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September 05, 2022 Equinix
According to Bloomberg, Equinix and DigitalBridge are the final two companies looking to buy Time Dotcom’s data center business. The companies are looking to sign an agreement to take over the business called Aims Data Centre within the next few weeks. Per sources, Time Dotcom might also retain a...
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September 01, 2022 CloudHQ
According to BizJournal, CloudHQ has plans to develop a data center in Chaska, Minnesota. The data center campus will sit on 72 acres of land in Carver County, Chaska. Per the filing, CloudHQ wants to either develop a large 1.8 million square feet (167,225 square meters) building or four...
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August 29, 2022 CloudHQ
CloudHQ has announced that it has begun constructing a new facility in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), an energy provider, said the (140,000 square meters) 1.5 million square feet data center campus would cost $2.5 billion. The first phase of the development is...
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August 24, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has filed to develop a data center in San Antonio, Texas. The company is looking to develop the SAT15 facility at 3555 Westover Link in Bexar County, San Antonio. The new data center will span 245,000 square feet. Microsoft will also invest up to $215.9m in developing the facility....
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August 23, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has plans to develop a new facility in Dallas, Texas. The data center firm filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop the data center in the Lewisville area of Dallas. The company coined the development ‘Project Gold’ and is looking to invest up to $59m...
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August 19, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced the launch of its first Azure cloud region in Doha, Qatar. The company said, “We are launching our newest data center region in Qatar. The new data center region includes Azure Availability Zones, which offer you additional resiliency for your applications by designing the...
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August 18, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's data center in the province of North Holland has been exposed for its extreme water usage. It appears that the facility consumes significantly more water than original estimates, right as the country is faced with record temperatures. According to a report by local media company...
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August 18, 2022 CyrusOne
CyrusOne has announced that it has received approval of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), reaffirming its commitment to the target of reducing absolute Scope 1 (fuels) and Scope 2 (electricity) GHG emissions by 38% by 2030 from a...
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August 15, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced the sale of a “mature” data center. The move is to ensure that more capital is available for new projects. Notably, the company did not reveal which building it sold or who acquired the facility. According to a release from the company, it has disposed of the...
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August 11, 2022 Colt Data Centre Services
Colt is reportedly planning to build a new data center campus in Hayes, West London, after receiving approval for the project in April. The proposal will see the development of the former Optimum Data Centre, neighboring Tudor Works and Veetec Motor Group facilities, into a new data center...
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August 10, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced that its hydrogen fuel cell tests have been successful. The giant recently trialed the energy source for its backup generators to support its data center, in what has been called a “moon landing” moment for the data center industry. Microsoft director of data center...
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August 04, 2022 NTT
NTT has announced plans for a sixth data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, which according to Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong, is being built to accommodate its “expanding business in the region. Siong said in a Facebook post, “It’s also very encouraging to note that the...
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August 01, 2022 Global Switch
The number of companies looking to acquire Global Switch is increasing by the day as PAG has joined the long list of potential suitors. Global Switch is a London-based data center company founded in 1998 with 13 facilities across Asia, Europe, and Australia. Jiangsu Shagang, a Chinese steel...
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July 26, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed a second PPA with Neoen in Finland in a 10-year deal. The deal will see Neoen (which owns an 80% stake in the project) and project developer Prokon (owning 20%) provide at least 42MW of wind capacity from the 53MW Lumivaara wind park which is currently...
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July 25, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is being faced with a lawsuit from Cloud Conductor LLC, a multi-cloud management firm, over accusations that the colocation giant stole its technology that was placed in one of its data centers. According to the filing, Equinix began offering a cloud connectivity service identical to a...
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July 25, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Romanian media Profit.ro reports that Microsoft plans to develop its first data center in the company. Microsoft buying a plot of land in the city of Otopeni is a major catalyst of this speculation. Microsoft did not deny or confirm the story reported by Profit.ro. However, the company said it...
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July 22, 2022 Aruba S.p.A.
Aruba has announced a new completion date for its delayed Rome data center, Hyper Cloud Data Center (IT4). When complete, it will be the largest in Rome, comprising five independent 6MW data centers, totaling 30MW with 2N redundancy at full build-out. Although first announced in 2018 and...
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July 19, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has filed to develop three data center buildings in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The company wants to develop the buildings at a greenfield site in the County. The site is located at 210 Tunstall Road, Mecklenburg County. The data center buildings will be developed on a 132-acre site,...
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