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Comcast Business forms partnership with Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Data Centers

Through the partnership, the telecommunications conglomerate will integrate its connectivity into data centers in Tukwila and Quincy, which will give businesses a private connection to regional Sabey data centers. According to Comcast, the move will help businesses in the local area provide be...

MainOne opens data center in Appolonia, Accra, Ghana

Equinix Accra AC1

MainOne, a Nigerian telco firm, just opened its new data center in Appolonia City, outside Accra, Ghana. The Company first announced the construction of the data center in 2019. It is a 100-rack facility, and MDXi, MainOne’s subsidiary, would manage it. Interestingly, the facility is also Tier...

Amazon overtakes Google to become largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the US after announcing 14 new renewable projects

Amazon AWS

Amazon has overtaken Google as the largest corporate buyer of green energy in the United States. It also holds the title of being the largest renewable energy buyer in Europe. This comes after the Company announced its fourteen new green energy projects in the Us, Spain, Finland, and Canada.Wi...

Rostelecom merges 2 data center units

Rostelecom

Rostelecom is merging its two data center business units, Rostelecom-DPC and DataLine, into one. It will be forming a new Company called DPC technology Center. The Company said the merger would see the new Company combine its experience in managing data centers.In a statement issued by the Co...

Oracle 100% green energy pledge now includes its non-cloud facilities

Oracle

Oracle has pledged to power its global operations, including its cloud and facilities with 100% green energy by 2025. Initially, the Company promised to run its cloud facilities alone with 100% green energy by 2025. However, it is planning to include all its global operations now. Oracle claim...

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

Europe

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, a movement launched in January 2021 to tackle data centers' environmental impact, has made big moves this week. Cloud and datacenter giants in the movement have taken 19 proposals to the European Union (EU), which outline their "ambitious targets" to make ...

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

Europe

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, a movement launched in January 2021 to tackle data centers' environmental impact, has made big moves this week. Cloud and datacenter giants in the movement have taken 19 proposals to the European Union (EU), which outline their "ambitious targets" to make ...

vXchnge secures big win at annual 2021 IT World

vXchnge

vXchnge recently took home gold at the 16th Annual 2021 IT World Awards. The colocation company was recognized for its data center infrastructure management and received a Gold Globe. On top of this, it was also awarded two Bronze awards for Business Intelligence and Analytics and IT Service ...

4iG acquires Israeli satellite operator, SpaceCom for $65 million

4iG has completed the acquisition of SpaceCom, a satellite operator, for $65 million. 4iG is a Hungarian IT firm specializing in software development, cybersecurity, data center, and cloud management offerings. SpaceCom, on the other hand, is an Israeli satellite firm. The president of 4iG, G...

Norway's data centers to set up Norsk Datasenterindustri, a new industry body

Norway

In Norway, the data center industry has made a significant move to create Norsk Datasenterindustri, its new industry body, to enable it to fulfil its potential. The association will examine sustainability and digital sovereignty while also offering education opportunities and international mar...

Cologix acquires Zayo's Vancouver facility and announces Toronto expansion

Cologix VAN4

Cologix is branching out in Canada. It has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zayo's 65,000 sq ft (6,000 sqm) interconnection facility in Vancouver. Cologix will add 4.2MW of capacity to the site.In addition to this, the company has also announced plans to ad...

Nvidia pledges over $100m for UK supercomputer as talks on its Arm acquisition reach regulators

Kao Data: Harlow KLON-01

Nvidia has announced that it is funneling over $100 million into its Cambridge-1 supercomputer, based at the Kao Data Campus in Harlow. This is $45 million more than its original pledge. This announcement came as the GPU company revealed their acquisition of Arm for $40 billion, which the comp...

NTT explains its German data center expansion plans

NTT

NTT has said that it would be expanding its German data centers by more than 40 percent. It would be doing this by adding over 323,000 square feet of IT space across existing locations in Germany. The Company currently has existing campuses in Frankfurt, Bonn, and Berlin.NTT has broken ground ...

BDx launches Phase One of its data center in Nanjing, China

BDx Nanjing

Hong Kong-based data center firm, Big Data Exchange (BDx), announced the launch of the first phase of its NKG Data Center Campus in Nanjing, China. The construction of the facility started early last year. The data center campus will have a 35MW capacity once completed. BDx announced that the ...

Intermarket seeks approval for 100,000 square feet data center in Canada

Toronto

Intermarket Properties wants to build a data center in Cambridge, Canada. According to Canada Construct Connect, the Company is seeking approval for a 100,000 square feet data center. The proposed data center site is a 40 acre Waterloo Corporate Campus with mixed-use redevelopment that consist...

Sabey secures $250 million refinancing deal for 375 Pearl Street

Sabey Intergate.Manhattan

Sabey has secured a $250 million refinancing deal for its office and data center at 375 Pearl Street, New York City. According to Commercial Observer, J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo will be providing a $220 million, 10-year, fixed-rate CMBS loan and a further $30 million mezzanine debt. Sabey ...

Data center plans discussed for NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New Yorksite

Buffalo

Discussions have begun around the transformation of the disused NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New York, into a new data center. The 76-acre site was operational from the 1950s to 2015 has been pinned as a potential location in a report by the City of Dunkirk and Chautauqua County. Dunkirk is nea...

Panattoni and Pure DC to build 50MW data center in Borehamwood, London

Pure Data Centres Group

Panattoni, an industrial construction giant, will build a data center facility with Pure DC in Borehamwood, North London, UK. The decision was made after the Hertsmere Borough Council approved its application last week. The data center will be a 449,500 square feet (41,763 sqm) facility. ...

Amber Infrastructure Group acquires majority stake in iseek

iseek Communications

Amber Infrastructure Group has acquired the majority stake in iseek, an Australian data center Company. Amber Infrastructure Group is an investment management firm, while iseek offers cloud and connectivity services from five data centers in Australia. Acquiring the major stake in iseek shows ...

Microsoft intends to open four data centers in China by in 2022

Microsoft Azure

According to reports from Bloomberg, Microsoft is looking to add four new data centers in China by Q1 of 2022. The report states that Microsoft wants to expand its service across Asia and opening data centers in China is a step towards achieving that. Asides from that, the Company also intends...