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Telia Company's divestment of Telia Carrier completed

Telia Company

STOCKHOLM, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Telia Company has today completed the divestment of Telia Carrier to Polhem Infra as all conditions, including regulatory approvals, have been met. On October 6, 2020, Telia Company announced the divestment of its subsidiary Telia Carrier to Polhem Infr...

German firm q.beyond explores divesting its colocation business

q.beyond is considering the sale of its colocation business. The Company has been based at IP Exchange GmbH since 1st January 2021. It operates 3 data centers in Nuremberg and Munich, and it has a total of 51 employees. In a press release, the Company said the Management Board has decided to ...

QTS Realty Trust launches new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions

QTS Data Centers

QTS Realty Trust has announced its new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions. The Smart Family solution is built on advanced tech, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and preemptive understanding into customers’ colocation environment.QTS Smart family solutio...

Microsoft Begins Using Eco-Diesel in Data Center Generators

Hyperscale Data Center

Ahead of its 2030 goal of eliminating its reliance on diesel fuel for backup power, Microsoft has announced that it would be the first to use a lower carbon renewable fuel for backup power in its Sweden datacenter region. Microsoft’s backup generators in the Sweden region will run on Preem Evo...

Rostelecom opens data center in St. Petersburg, Russia

Rostelecom

Rostelecom has announced the opening of its new data center in St. Petersburg, Russia. Besides, the new data center is a 4,000 square meter facility, and Rostelecom built it to Tier III standards. It has a power capacity of 7.4MW and a total capacity of 800 racks. In addition, Rostelecom said...

European Investment Bank loans TIM €350 million for fiber and data center expansion

The European Investment Bank will be providing TIM with €350 million ($428 million) in loans. The loan will finance the expansion and modernization of its fiber and data centers in Italy and Greece. Moreover, the loans will be split into two parts. The first loan will be €230 million ($281.1 ...

Wipro sells stake in Ensono for $76 million

Wipro has announced that it has sold its entire stake in data center firm Ensono for $76.24 million. This move comes after private equity firm KKR announced the acquisition of Ensono back in April for a reported $1.7 billion. In 2018, Wipro had invested $55 million for a 10.2% stake in the bus...

Philippines on the road to become an APAC data center hub

Philippines

The Philippines (PH), recognized as one of the world's emerging data center markets, is pinned to become Asia's next data center hub. While other hubs in Southeast Asia, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, have taken a hit due to geopolitical risks and governmental restrictions, PH's impressive d...

NetActuate completes Dubai Data Center expansion

NetActuate

NetActuate has announced that it has completed the expansion of its Dubai data center, adding infrastructure capacity for bare metal, colocation and VMs. In addition to this, it has also increased low latency IP bandwidth in response to growing demand.The data center’s location is a hub for in...

Singtel announces ‘strategic reset,' looks to sell off data centers and other infrastructure

Singtel

Singtel has announced that it would be selling off some of its infrastructures. Some of these include satellites, data centers, and subsea cables. This is all part of the Company’s strategic reset that will see Singtel focus on delivering 5G and digital services. This reset and reorganization...

STT GDC launches 72MW data center joint venture with Triputra and Temasek Holdings in Indonesia

STT Jakarta 1

ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC), a Singapore-based center service provider, has announced a partnership with an Indonesian firm, Triputra Group, and an investment company, Temasek Holdings, to launch a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Construction of the first phase of the 72...

AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago...

Facebook announces another data center expansion in Altoona, Iowa

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has announced that it would be expanding its Altoona data center campus. The expansion will see Facebook add two more buildings to its existing eight buildings at the facility. The expansion will also see the total area space to 4.1 million square feet. Facebook initially announced it...

Facebook releases Renewable Impact Study

Meta

A new study into the impacts of Facebook's renewable energy projects was recently released. The report, commissioned by Facebook, and conducted by RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, revealed the social media company's renewable energy efforts have had widespread positive econom...

EPH proposes data center at Kilroot Power Station, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

EPH has announced that it is looking into the prospects of building a data center in Kilroot, Northern Ireland (NI). The company has commissioned TechRE to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of construction at NI’s last coal-fired power station due to close between 2023 and 2024. EPH ha...

Digital Realty opens new Toronto facility and broke ground in Marseille

Digital Realty 151 Front

Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility.The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with redu...

Raxio opens Tier III data center in Uganda

Raxio Uganda

Raxio Data Center just opened a new data center in Kampala, Uganda. The new facility was built to Tier III standards, and it has a colocation space of up to 400 racks. Plans were already in place for a data center in Uganda since 2018 and the data center general manager, James Byaruhanga, ...

Orange and Capgemini team up to launch French cloud company, Bleu

Orange

Capgemini and Orange will be setting up a new cloud Company called Bleu to meet the strict sovereignty requirements of the French state. The new Company will offer both Microsoft Azure and 365 cloud services. However, both Capgemini and Orange will manage the data centers. Worthy of note is t...

Hanley Energy expands in Virginia, will base US headquarters in Loudoun County

Northern Virginia

Hanley Energy has decided to expand its operations in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Irish company will be leasing a 36,600 square foot building from Merritt Properties for this purpose. Merritt initially bought the 6.7-acre site with plans to build a light industrial building over it. Besi...

39 human rights groups call on Google to cancel Saudi Arabian data center

Saudi Arabia

Thirty-nine human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have called on Google to stop building data centers in Saudi Arabia. They also said Google should stop its plans to open a cloud region in the country in partnership with Saudi Aramco. These groups noted that Google should at le...