Data Center News

Yettel and CETIN sign solar PPA

Bulgaria

Yettel Bulgaria and CETIN Bulgaria, part of the PPF Telecom Group, have announced the signing of a 10-year solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Electrohold. Through this deal, the company will offtake energy from an upcoming unnamed 123 MW photovoltaic plant. This will reportedly cover al...

AWS announces plans to switch to HVO fuel across Europe

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it will be transitioning away from diesel to Hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) to power its backup generators in Sweden. Reports are that HVO has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90 percent through the fuel life cycle when c...

Goonhilly, a UK Company, Purchases Two Comsat Teleports in the US

United Kingdom

Goonhilly, a UK ground station operator, has purchased two teleports in the US. Satcom Direct's SD Government and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. this week stated that they had agreed for the UK company to purchase the Comsat teleports located in Southbury, Connecticut and Santa Paula, California...

Option-scouting by Layer 9 For a Second Venture in Central America

Layer 9

For its future growth, Layer 9 Data Centers is apparently considering an expansion into Central America. According to BNAmericas, the company is seeking land for its second project in a number of Latin American nations at the request of its clients. Michael Ortiz, the company's CEO and co-foun...

Stack Raises $250m From securitized Notes

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

The data center company Stack has completed its most recent structured debt fundraising round. The company revealed the sale of $250 million in securitized notes last week. The price of the notes is a 5.900 percent fixed rate coupon. The firm said it has now raised $2.1 billion in notes thr...

Subsea Cable For Oman Emirates Gateway Unveiled by Omantel and Du

datamena

A 171-mile underwater cable that would strengthen the connection between the two nations has been revealed by the UAE-based telecom Du and the Omani mobile provider Omantel. The cable, known as the Oman Emirates Gateway (OEG), will immediately link the two nations. Today, there are undersea an...

Horizon Power Migrates to Macquarie Data Center's Private Cloud

Macquarie Data Centres

The regional energy supplier for Western Australia, Horizon Power, has migrated its IT workloads to Macquarie's cloud. The power company contracted with Macquarie Telecom and Macquarie Cloud Services to switch to a private cloud environment and lessen its reliance on data centers. The company ...

Digital Edge expands in Tokyo

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has announced its plans for a new data center in Tokyo, Japan, having entered into a partnership with real estate developer Hulic. Through this partnership, it has created a joint venture, DEH1 Co., Ltd for the development, known as the 'Kobunacho Project,' it will develop its TY...

New University at Buffalo School of Management research devises data center energy conservation strategy

Buffalo

The University at Buffalo School of Management (UB) has announced that recent research has discovered a strategy to conserve data center energy consumption and optimize processing performance. It found that data center managers can reduce energy consumption 10-30%. This can be done, the resear...

SolarWinds expands footprint in Australia

United States

SolarWinds has announced that it has launched its Australian IT service management (ITSM) data center, to enhance performance and speed and assist customers, and demonstrate compliance with data sovereignty requirements. The launch is part of an ongoing investment in the region.Speaking about ...

LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'

Finland

At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. Th...

Colt plans new Mumbai data center campus

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt has announced plans to expand in India, with a new data center campus in Navi Mumbai. The campus is pegged to include ten buildings, with a total of 40 data halls, and 40,000 sqm of data center white space spanning a 62,000 sqm site.Further, the company outlined that the campus will have...

Robotic Dogs Are Being Tested For Facility Assessments by Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers

Robotic dogs are being tested by Brazilian data center operator Scala for fire safety assessments. While Scala doesn't specify the brand or manufacturer, the robot appears to be a Go1 from the Chinese company Unitree. The Go1 is a little smaller than some other robot dogs, at around 30 cm t...

Network Spin Off by Italy's Wind Tre

Italy

According to reports, the Italian telecom giant Wind Tre is considering spinning off its network assets. A Reuters source noted that  the operator continues to explore a potential sale with the Swedish private equity firm EQT while also expressing a desire to spin off its network assets into a...

Exascale Tape Library Installed by Spectra Logic at SLAC National Accelerator Library

Spectra Logic has installed a new 18-frame exascale Tape Library at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, USA. The 18-frame Spectra TFinity Tape Library is the foundation for the data storage system known as The Tape Library, which stores LTO-9 tape drives and media. Spectra ...

2022 Saw Box Inc. Spend $15m More on Cloud & $5m Less on Data Centers

United States

Box's financial report for 2022, which details the company's plans to transfer operations to public cloud infrastructure, was just published. The report indicates that in 2022, the corporation increased its spending on public cloud infrastructure by $15.2 million while decreasing its expenditu...

Spectra7 and Zhaolong Design 112G PAM4 for North American and Chinese Data Center Industries

Zhaolong Interconnect Technology Co., a well-known cable supplier in China, will offer Active Copper Cable (ACC) parts and components with 112G PAM4 signaling to Hyperscalers and OEM/ODMs in both North America and China. These configurations will include Spectra7's GC1122 GaugeChangerTM chips,...

OneWeb and Amazon Explore Cloud-based Connection Collaboration

Amazon AWS

OneWeb, a provider of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a letter of intent to discuss cloud-based connection options. The two organizations want to collaborate on a totally integrated satellite constellation management service. They wa...

Oxford Quantum Circuits Will Install Quantum Computer at Equinix Japan Data Facility

Equinix Tokyo TY11

A quantum computer is being installed at an Equinix data center in Tokyo, Japan, by the UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC). This week, the company said that starting in late 2023, it will provide "Quantum Computing as a Service" through a system on Equinix's TY11 Tokyo International Bus...

Scala Data Centers' Senior Director of Data Center Deployment is Revealed

Scala Data Centers

Mark Sanchez has been appointed as Scala Data Centers' new Senior Director of Data Center Deployment. Scala Data Centers is the top Latin American platform for environmentally friendly data centers in the hyperscale market. After five years managing teams and implementing data centers on five ...