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Digital Realty forms JW with Pembani Remgro to acquire Nigeria's Medallion Data Centres

Digital Realty has announced that it has formed a joint venture with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to acquire Medallion Data Centres. Medallion is Nigeria’s top interconnection and colocation provider. The company operates two data centers in the country. One of the facilities is in Abuja...

October 27, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

Google's new 'green campus': What it is and what it means for the future of Google

Google’s new Bay View campus, located east of the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, will reportedly be opened to a select number of employees by January and is reportedly a representative of the company’s wider goals and vision. According to Google, the campus itself is ...

October 19, 2021

Google

OVHcloud goes public

OVHcloud has finally been listed on the stock exchange in France. It went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange. The company’s opening market capitalization was €3.48 billion ($4bn). It also raised €400 million ($469m). OVHcloud opened at €18.50 per share, dipped slightly, but its sha...

October 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

Digital Realty makes strategic investment in AtlasEdge

Digital Realty has reached an agreement to make a strategic investment in AtlasEdge Data Centres. The investment will also see Digital Realty’s Executive VP, Strategic & Business Segments, Giuliano Di Vitantonio, join AtlasEdge as CEO, starting January 2022. AtlasEdge delivers smooth, loca...

October 15, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

French colocation and cloud provider OVHcloud has experienced a global outage. The company experienced an outage that lasted more than one hour when it started at around 7:00 UTC. OVH revealed that a maintenance reconfiguration error caused it. Besides, OVHcloud’s status page was brought down ...

October 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into the Asia Pacific region

Stack Infrastructure has revealed its plan to expand into the Asia Pacific region. The company is planning to open a regional headquarters in Singapore. It would also expand into Osaka and Tokyo immediately before entering into Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, and other Asia Pa...

October 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure: Hyperscale data center goes online in Silicon Valley

Stack Infrastructure’s latest data center facility in Silicon Valley (SVY02) is now live and is adjacent to the company’s existing SVY01 facility at its Silicon Valley Campus. This 3-story, 240,000 sqft facility brings 32MW of capacity to the region and is powered entirely by 100% renewable e...

October 12, 2021

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Google and Thales Partner to form French sovereign cloud service

Google and Thales have announced a new Joint Venture that will offer a sovereign cloud service in France. The companies announced that they would develop a sovereign hyperscale cloud offering for France. The new company aims to provide cloud services to local private and public companies th...

October 08, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google to move into Eagle Mountain, Utah?

Google has reportedly purchased 300 acres in Eagle Mountain, Utah, which could potentially be home to a new data center. Google already has offices in the region, in Salt Lake City and Provo. The plot of land is located in the south on Pony Express Parkway, near Facebook’s 1.5 million-square-...

October 05, 2021

Google

Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)

OVHcloud could be seeing up to €105 million ($122m) leave its coffers because of the fire that destroyed its Strasbourg data center in March. The document the firm filed with a French financial authority is responsible for revealing this. Although insurance has covered most of the cost of t...

October 01, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

Google announces expansion plans in The Dallas, Oregon

According to Oregon Live, Google plans to build more data centers in The Dalles, in Oregon’s Wasco County. The report shows that the search engine giant wants to build two more data centers in The Dalles. It is also looking to get access to more water and tax breaks. Google will be building...

September 29, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in new IPO

According to the Wall Street Journal, French data center and cloud services provider OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in an IPO in Paris, France. According to the reports from WSJ, the listing could see the Company’s value rise to over $4.7 billion. OVHcloud was founded in 1999 ...

September 22, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

Google data center in Bnei Zion, Israel faces protest from locals

Residents of Bnei Zion, Israel, are protesting against the construction of Google’s data center in the town. The locals have petitioned the Lod District Court to revoke the approval for the data center. The residents are worried over the health and environmental impact of the center project...

September 14, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Lumen Technologies

Google plans to invest €1 billion ($1.18bn) in Frankfurt and Berlin

Google is looking to expand its data center operations in Germany with €1 billion ($1.18bn) worth of investments. The tech giant announced that it would launch a new region in Berlin-Brandenburg. It would also expand its Cloud Region in Frankfurt in a new facility in Hanau. The Company reveale...

September 02, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT

EdgeConneX Portland Data Center Campus Now Enabled with 100Gbps AWS Direct Connect Offering

EdgeConnex has announced that it has deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect 100Gbps capability at its Portland data center. The Company has been an AWS Partner Network since 2016. It has now expanded its connection options from 1Gbps and 10Gbps to 100Gbps. The expansion will enab...

September 01, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX Portland

Google gets $54 million tax abatement in for Columbus, Ohio, data center

The Columbus City Council has voted 6 to 1 to approve over $54 million in tax breaks for Google’s proposed data center in Ohio. In return, the Company will have to provide 20 full-time jobs. Google first announced the facility in March. It was said to be a 150,000 square foot data center th...

August 31, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

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