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Microsoft's transparency bid: Cloud emissions dashboard now generally available

In its latest sustainability effort, Microsoft has announced that its Emissions Impact Dashboard, first announced in January 2020, is now widely available. According to the tech giant, this tool enables greater transparency and allows users to gain insight into greenhouse gas emissions associa...

October 14, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft expands adds South Korea and South Africa Azure regions

Microsoft has announced that it has added Availability Zones to its Cloud regions in South Korea and South Africa. It has also de-listed another region in South Africa. Each of the newly expanded Cloud regions in South Korea and South Africa now has three Availability Zones. Microsoft Cloud...

October 12, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft opens Availability Zones in Norway East Azure Cloud region

Microsoft has announced the launch of its Availability Zones in its Norway East Azure Cloud region in Oslo. However, it has also canceled its plan for the region in Stavanger, which is to the west. The Company first revealed its plans to open two Azure Cloud regions in the country in 2018. ...

September 29, 2021

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne exploring the sale of its company

According to Reuters, CyrusOne is considering the sale of its business. It is said to be exploring some strategic changes that might include a sale. CyrusOne is a real estate investment trust that has a market cap of up to $9 billion. The Company is exploring its options with investment ban...

September 29, 2021

CyrusOne

Sustainable Finance: New way to address the environmental footprint of data centers

Much has been said about how data centers adversely affect the environment. However, more data centers have begun to become 'Greener.' Besides, in order to leave a better environmental footprint, many data center companies are now spending more on green energy. Investors and data center fin...

September 27, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft's Ginger East data center project gets approval

Microsoft has reportedly been given the go-ahead to move onwards with the construction of its first building (DSM 14) as part of its Ginger East data center project, based in West Des Moines, Iowa. The West Des Moines City Council voted through the planning approval this week, and it is ...

September 24, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Menlo Equities acquires four Digital Realty data centers in Silicon Valley

Menlo Equities has completed the acquisition of four Digital Realty data centers in Silicon Valley. The firm acquired the facilities for a combined $108.8 million. First, it acquired a facility at 4650 Old Ironside Drive in Santa Clara for $35.8 million. The facility has 124,400 square feet...

September 24, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

AtlasEdge Data Centres officially launches

It has been announced that Liberty Global and DigitalBridge’s joint venture, AtlasEdge Data Centres, has officially launched. After being announced back in May, the deal closed this week and will be headed by executive chairman Josh Joshi, former CFO of Interxion and Telecity. Zahl Limbuwala, ...

September 20, 2021

AtlasEdge

Microsoft granted 'Tolerance decision' for construction of its Holland Kroon data center

Permission has been granted to Microsoft to resume construction work on its Hollands Kroon data center in the Netherlands. But it would be doing so at its own risk. The Hollands Kroon municipality, through the North Sea Cana Area Environment Agency, has allowed Microsoft to continue work on it...

September 17, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Colt outlines 2030 carbon neutral goals for a greener future

Colt Group is the latest tech company to announce its green goals. It has outlined 2030 as its deadline to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across all its operations. Its goals have been informed by comprehensive, science-based emissions reduction targets, which were approved by the Science-B...

September 17, 2021

Colt Data Centre Services

CyrusOne awarded for net water positive efforts

CyrusOne's commitment was recently recognized by The Environment + Energy Leader Awards program, which awarded the company with the Top Project of the Year Award. The program highlights products and services that provide companies with environmental and energy benefits. CyrusOne secured the a...

September 08, 2021

CyrusOne

Lumen pays $275,000 to DoJ for contacting former customers it divested

Lumen Technologies, formerly known as CenturyLink, has agreed to pay $275,000 to resolve a Civil Contempt Claim by the Department of Justice for its acquisition of Level 3 Communications Inc in 2016. The Justice Department accused Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) of violating the terms designed...

September 07, 2021

Lumen Technologies

Interxion opens PAR12 on the East side of Paris

Interxion has announced the opening of its new data center outside Paris, France. Besides, the data center is also the Company’s 12th in the French capital region. The PAR12 facility is located 30km to the east of Paris in Ferrières-en-Brie. It has up to 12MW of IT capacity. It also has over 6...

September 03, 2021

Digital Realty: PAR12 Ferrières-en-Brie

NTT plans to grow its data center footprint by 20% in the next 18 months

NTT ltd has announced it plans to increase its data center footprint in the next 18 months by 20%. The Company would be expanding some of its existing data centers and adding 300MW of capacity and 600,000 sqm (6.5 million square feet) of space within 18months. This expansion will be in 20 c...

September 02, 2021

NTT

Colt Data Centre Services announce 45MW data center outside Osaka, Japan

Colt Data Centre Services has broken ground on a new 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft) data center outside Osaka, Japan. The facility will have 45MW of capacity, and it will be in Keihanna Science City. According to the Company, the facility will be in operations by 2023. VP Head of APAC at Colt ...

August 31, 2021

Colt Data Centre Services

Digital Realty files application for data centers in Clondalkin, Ireland

Digital Realty has filed for permission to build data centers in Clondalkin, Ireland. According to Digital Realty’s application, the Company wants 10-year permission to build two data center buildings called DUB15 and DUB16 close to its existing facilities in Clondalkin. These buildings wil...

August 25, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix files application for data centers in Clondalkin, Ireland

Equinix filed for permission to build a data center in Profile Park, Clondalkin, Ireland. The Company filed for permission to build a three-story data center in July. It is going to call the facility DB8. The facility will be built within a 2.65 hectare of land. The facility will also have ...

August 25, 2021

Equinix

NTT to build data center campus in Mesa

NTT has announced that following the opening of data centers in Chicago, Ill., Hillsboro, Ore., and Santa Clara, Calif.; it is building its seventh data center campus in Mesa. Estimated to open in early 2022, the 102-acre campus will contain seven data centers, with a total of 240 megawatts (...

August 23, 2021

NTT

Equinix secures a cheaper, green future

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently granted a group of businesses led by Equinix the right to form a renewable energy purchasing group. This formation will allow the group, which includes Nike, H&M, HSBC Bank, and Goldman Sachs, to negotiate access to cheaper...

August 18, 2021

Equinix

Microsoft plans to build 980,000 square feet data center in Douglasville, GA

As part of its East US 3 Azure data center region, Microsoft wants to develop close to 1 million square feet of data center buildings in Douglasville, Georgia. Earlier in the year, Microsoft announced its plans for a new US Azure region. At the time of the announcement, the Company said it wou...

August 17, 2021

Microsoft Azure

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