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Paris to house Equinix's tenth data center

Equinix is adding a tenth data center into Paris on its Paris Equinix's Saint-Denis campus, with the new site named PA10. In the first phase of construction, the project will offer 3,775 sqm and 1,525 cabinets of capacity. Meanwhile, it will offer 5,775 sqm (62,100 sq ft) of colocation space a...

January 18, 2022

Equinix Saint-Denis PA10

CloudHQ plans 4 million sq ft of data center buildings

According to DgtlInfra, a firm with links to CloudHQ wants to develop a 4 million square feet data center on a 97-acre site in Virginia. The Loudoun County Planning & Zoning commission is looking to increase the approved data center use on the Dulles Berry project site in Ashburn to 4,050,...

January 13, 2022

CloudHQ

Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

Equinix has signed a green energy deal it has announced. By penning a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Neoen and Prokon, Equinix will be provided with 85% of the energy produced by the 35MW Björkliden wind farm in the municipality of Närpes, in the western region of Ostrobothnia. T...

January 12, 2022

Equinix

Growth ahead for Colt Data Centre Services

There is growth ahead for Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), as it announces the acquisition of ten parcels of land across Europe and APAC for the development of greenfield hyperscale data centres, including in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Japan.These parcels of land will see the company's portf...

January 11, 2022

Colt Data Centre Services

Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

Digital Realty has bought the majority stake in Teraco. The data center giant announced the acquisition of the South African data center company from a consortium of investors, including Permira and Berkshire Partners. The deal sees Teraco valued at about $3.5 billion. The transaction sees Dig...

January 07, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW turb...

December 17, 2021

Microsoft Azure

San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

Digital Realty has announced that it has sold its San Jose data center to developer Hines. Documents filed on December 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office outline that Hines paid just under $60 million ($59.6 million) for the complex. The building spans 179,800 sqft; meanwhile, th...

December 17, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix partners with Nasdaq

Equinix has formed a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq, Inc, which will help the company scale its NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This will also support the build-out of Nasdaq's cloud infrastructure.Tal Cohen, Executive Vice President, Head of North American Markets at Nasdaq, sa...

December 16, 2021

Equinix

New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

The European Clean Hydrogen Partnership has announced its €2.5 million EcoEdge PrimePower project (E2P2). The tech consortium making up the partnership includes Equinix, InfraPrime, RISE, Snam, SolidPower, TEC4FUELS and Vertiv. Together, they will pursue the development of low-carbon fuel cell...

December 15, 2021

Equinix

CloudHQ to buy United Airlines' Mount Prospect campus for mega data center development

According to Journal & Topics, CloudHQ has acquired United Airlines’ office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Report has it that CloudHQ bought the property to make way for the development of a new 1.5 million square feet, $2.5 billion data center. Bill Cooney, the Development Directo...

December 15, 2021

CloudHQ

Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022

NTT has announced that it is “on track” to complete the turnkey data center development of its Johannesburg 1 Data Centre, located at Centralpoint Innovation District in Samrand, by early next year.The facility, developed by Growthpoint, includes 6,000sqm of IT space and features “high-end off...

December 14, 2021

NTT

Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia

Equinix has announced that its PE3 data center in Perth, Australia, has launched, the third IBX facility in the city. According to reports, the first phase of the project provides a capacity of 700 cabinets spanning 1,830 sqm (38,600 sqtf), following an investment of US$54 million (A$71.7 mill...

December 10, 2021

Equinix

Microsoft adds new availability zones to India Central Azure cloud region

Microsoft has unveiled new availability zones in its Indian Central Azure cloud region. Usually, Azure regions launch with three availability zones. These zones are physically separated to provide higher redundancy, availability, and disaster recovery protection. However, there are cases where...

December 09, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operati...

December 07, 2021

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Digital Realty teams up with CoolestDC for liquid cooling for SIN11 data center

Digital Realty is partnering with Coolest DC to develop high-efficiency thermal management solutions for the industry following a pilot program supported by Temasek Foundation. The initial pilot scheme sought to improve energy consumption by data centers and enhance efficiency and had deploye...

November 30, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft to develop Azure data center region in Belgium

Microsoft has announced plans for an Azure data center region in Belgium. However, it didn’t share details of where the region will be or when it plans to develop it. Yet, just like Microsoft’s other regions, the Belgium Azure region will include three availability zones to enable better redun...

November 25, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing

Digital Realty has announced that it has "amended, extended, and upsized" its existing global revolving credit facility from $2.35 billion to $3.0 billion, which now feature a sustainability-linked pricing component. Moreover, the pricing will be "subject to adjustment" based on performance ta...

November 25, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Several firms are looking into $11bn Global Switch buyout

Several data center and investment firms are mulling over the acquisition of data center firm Global Switch Holdings. According to Bloomberg, KKR and Blackstone Inc. are the likely forerunners of acquiring Global Switch. Equinix, Digital Realty, and DigitalBridge have also shown interest in...

November 24, 2021

Global Switch

Microsoft expands in Sydney, Australia

Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Sydney, Australia. The campus in Kemps Creek, according to AFR, will be worth $1.3 billion with a capacity of 190MW, spanning over 14.4 hectares. It is being built in a new industrial estate which is being developed by Frasers and Atlis Property ...

November 22, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft tests its hydrogen fuel cell backup generator

In Quincy, Washington, tech giant Microsoft has announced that it is teaming up with Caterpillar and Ballard Power Systems to test its hydrogen fuel cell backup generators in a move towards a more sustainable future. This project accompanies Microsoft’s other backup energy efforts, like the tr...

November 22, 2021

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