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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

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Amazon data center in store for Desoto?

Reports are circulating about Amazon's recent purchase of a 9-acre development site on Hampton Road south of Interstate 20 in DeSoto, southern Dallas County. This latest land acquisition has got people talking about whether the giant is planning another data center, considering its recent and ...

January 11, 2022

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Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

Leeward Renewable Energy LLC has announced that it has completed the repowering of its 54.4-MW Crescent Ridge wind farm in Illinois, which will provide Amazon with renewable energy. This process involved decommissioning nine turbines, installing Vestas turbines, and replacing 24 legacy turbine...

January 07, 2022

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AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment

Further to AWS announcing that it is establishing its AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, reports are now circulating that the giant will be investing an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in Indonesia across the 15 years through the region.According to reports, this investment will cover e...

January 05, 2022

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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

H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition

H5 Data Centers has completed the acquisition of a data center at 925 Dalton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. The 107,000 square feet (9,940 square meters) purpose-built data center was built to Tier III standards. It currently has a 2MW capacity, but it can be expanded to 6MW upon full buildout. ...

December 15, 2021

H5 Data Centers

AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta

AWS has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Jakarta, Indonesia, and has been created to support the 'fast-growing startup ecosystem, large Indonesian enterprises, and government agencies.'The region is now the tenth active in the Asia Pacific and mainland China after Beijing, Hong K...

December 15, 2021

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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

365 Data Centers completes round of debt refinancing

365 Data Centers has announced that it completed a round of debt refinancing while also raising new funds. The firm refinanced all its existing debt. It also secured more funds from ING Capital LLC, TD Securities, CIT Group, Boundary Street Capital, and Regions Capital Markets. 365 Data Center...

December 14, 2021

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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

AWS to develop data center region in Queretaro, Mexico

According to Bloomberg, Amazon Web Services plans to open a new data center region in Mexico. The report claims AWS is close to signing a deal with the Mexican federal government over opening a new region in Queretaro. Although no date has been set, an official report is expected soon.Represen...

December 10, 2021

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AWS announces new AWS Top Secret Region

Amazon Web Services has announced another Top Secret cloud region to host classified government data. The new region will operate workloads at the Top-Secret United States security classification level, which is the highest security classification in the US. The new Top-Secret West region will...

December 09, 2021

Amazon AWS

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

Equinix

AWS to launch more than 30 Local Zones globally

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is rolling out its Local Zones across the globe next year. The company will be opening 30 new locations across over 20 countries. Local Zones are used for Edge locations that host applications requiring low latency to end-users or on-premises installations. Each Local...

December 05, 2021

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Flexential's sustainability-linked financing: $2.1 billion raised via inaugural securitization financing

Flexential has announced the completion of a $2.1 billion securitization financing offer, which, according to the company, is the largest single asset-backed securities (ABS) issuance. On top of that, it is also the largest-ever green data center ABS financing. With this money, it will work to...

December 03, 2021

Flexential

AWS announces 18 new renewable energy projects

This week, AWS has announced 18 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects spread across the US, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. This totals 2GW of clean energy capacity. This investment also makes Amazon the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.Commenting on this sign...

December 03, 2021

Amazon AWS

Nasdaq is migrating to AWS

US stock exchange Nasdaq has revealed plans to migrate to AWS infrastructure. It will also be bringing AWS infrastructure into its on-premise network. The plan is for Nasdaq to migrate its North American markets to AWS at the beginning of 2022. Nasdaq will be approaching the migration in stage...

December 02, 2021

Amazon AWS

Amazon to launch its first Georgia solar project in Burke County

Amazon is launching a 70-megawatt solar farm in Burke County - the first of its kind in Georgia. This move is part of a wider initiative, which will see the giant bring 18 new wind and solar projects online for an entirely renewable-powered company by 2025.The other projects include one in Oh...

December 02, 2021

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Richemont to close data centers in Europe, US, and Hong Kong, migrate to AWS

Luxury watch company Compagnie Financière Richemont has revealed that it is migrating its closing its European data centers and moving its IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. The group owns some luxury brands, including Montblanc, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, IWC, and Schaffhausen. R...

December 02, 2021

Amazon AWS

DE-CIX and H5 Data Centers announce partnership

H5 Data Centers has announced that it has partnered up with DE-CIX. This partnership will reportedly enable companies “expanding or relocating their data center and colocation services” the opportunity to leverage “premier colocation and connectivity services.”Josh Simms, owner and CEO of H5 ...

November 18, 2021

H5 Data Centers

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