April 13, 2024 Edged Energy
Edged Energy announced this week that it was pressing ahead with building the data center in Irving. This comes after the Irving City Council voted unanimously in support of the development of a new data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas “Sustainability is at the core of our...
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April 09, 2024 CloudHQ
Content Delivery Network (CDN) company Cloudflare suffered a second data center power failure at its core facility in Portland, Oregon, within six months. As a result of the first incident which happened in November, Cloudflare introduced ‘Code Orange’; a new process where the company shifts most...
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March 29, 2024 BT Global Services
BT has entered a 10-year partnership with media group Global to repurpose its legacy payphones and kiosks into brand-new street WiFi hubs which will provide digital connectivity for more than 200 towns and cities across the UK. Followinf this agreement, Global will convert more than 2,000...
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March 23, 2024 Equinix
Short seller Hindenburg Research has accused data center REIT Equinix of "major accounting manipulations." The investigative reporting and researching company claims that Nadaq-listed Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs, by at least...
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March 23, 2024 AtlasEdge
European data center firm AtlasEdge has relaunched a data center in Leeds, UK, after acquiring and renovating the facility. AtlasEdge has since invested more than £13 million to upgrade the site, known as LBA001, which is the first Tier III standard data center in the city. "We are delighted to...
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March 21, 2024 Colt Data Centre Services
Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has launched a new data center telemetry platform which enables customers to use real-time telemetry data to support the management of their data center workloads. The company developed this platform in partnership with consulting firm Protiviti, the company...
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March 20, 2024 DATA4 Group
French data center operator Data4 has launched a new project exploring whether waste heat generated by one of its facilities can be used to grow algae. The company is working with the Université Paris-Saclay on the project at its Marcoussis data center campus in the Essonne region south of Paris....
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March 14, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 2020....
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March 07, 2024 CloudHQ
Content delivery network (CDN) and Edge services provider announced this week that it has acquired multi-cloud networking startup Nefeli Networks and has launched a new multi-cloud networking service based on the acquired technology. “We believe the full potential of the cloud will only truly be...
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March 01, 2024 Penta Infra
European data center firm, Penta Infra has named Bob Sprengers as its CEO according to an announcement by the company and lead investor Photon Capital this week. Effective from March 2024, Sprengers will take over from Alex Bakker who has led the company since it was founded in 2015. “The time...
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March 01, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at 578 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. The company has now completed the installation of rooftop solar systems at eight of its facilities, including Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and...
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February 26, 2024 Global Switch
Global Switch has announced its plans for a new data center in London to be located adjacent to Global Switch’s existing data centers in east London’s Docklands. The company noted that the five-story facility, known as London South, will offer 40MW across 27,000 square meter. CEO Ashley Muldoon...
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February 22, 2024 BT Global Services
Telecoms firm BT announced this week that it has agreed to sell its communications tower in London, UK for £275 million ($346.8m) to MCR Hotels. The hotel chain aims to turn this tower into a world-class hotel, but is yet to reveal details regarding this project. Brent Mathews, property director,...
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February 21, 2024 Verizon Enterprise
Verizon has started construction of a new cell tower at Fort Bliss Army Post in El Paso, Texas. This tower will be constructed by Boldyn Networks and will provide connectivity to service military personnel in Texas and New Mexico. “Verizon supports our military partners through a number of...
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February 17, 2024 NTT
NTT this week announced its NTT GDC unit will be developing its first data center campus outside Paris, France on a 35.5-acre site located 50km south of Paris in the municipalities of Le Coudray-Montceaux and Corbeil-Essonnes. This campus will total 84MW across three buildings. Doug Adams, CEO...
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February 07, 2024 Equinix
Global colocation giant Equinix recently announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 151MW of wind power in Australia. The company will pay for 20 percent of the first phase of the giant Golden Plains Wind Farm project, which is being built in rural Victoria, not far from...
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January 18, 2024 Equinix
Michael Winterson has left colocation provider Equinix after 24 years to take on the role of managing director for the European Data Centre Association. Winterson wrote on LinkedIn, “Exactly 24 years ago I started my data center career at IXEurope, not 300 meters from our current Equinix offices...
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January 13, 2024 NTT
NTT this week announced the launch of its new data center campus, Noida 2, and the opening of its first data center. The first building offers 22.4MW across 300,000 square feet and spans across six acres. The Merlin campus will support a planned capacity of 52.8MW critical IT load in two data...
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December 29, 2023 Telehouse
Telehouse has launched and fully leased its fifth data center at its Frankfurt campus dubbed building M. This data center now adds 4.5 MW of IT capacity which has been fully leased less than two months since its opening. Dr. Béla Waldhauser, managing director of Telehouse Deutschland said, "It’s...
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December 28, 2023 Global Switch
Global Switch CEO John Corcoran is retiring and the company has announced that he will be stepping down from his duties on December 31, 2023. Global Switch's current chief operating officer Ashley Muldoon is to be appointed CEO, and will join the board. Shareholder approval for his appointment is...
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