November 10, 2021 Oracle
Oracle has announced the opening of a cloud region in Abu Dhabi, making it the firm’s second cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company opened its first cloud region in the UAE in 2020 after opening a facility in partnership with Etisalat in 2019. Oracle now has four cloud facilities...
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November 10, 2021 DataBank
Databank has announced that it is breaking ground on a new facility in Ashburn, Northern Virginia. This data center, IAD3, will initially have a capacity of 4MW of capacity expandable to 40MW and will span 200,000 sq ft (18,600 sqm). According to the company, the facility will be ready for...
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November 05, 2021 Meta
Facebook says it plans to spend between $29 billion and $34 billion on capital investments in 2022. This is an increase from the social media giant’s $19 billion spend this year. Chief Financial Officer at Facebook, David Wehner, says the rise in expenditure was due to investments in servers,...
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October 29, 2021 Oracle
Oracle is the latest company to join the Neom city project. Neom subsidiary, Neom Tech & Digital Holding Company, recently announced that Oracle will be the "first tenant" of the hyperscale data center in the new city. Abdullah Alswaha, Minister for Communications and Information Technology...
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October 29, 2021 Meta
Social Media and advertising giant Facebook have rebranded its company name as ‘Meta.’ The company’s top social media website will retain its name as Facebook. Its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp will also keep their names. The company revealed that it would start trading under the stock...
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October 18, 2021 Oracle
Oracle Cloud has signed an MoU with the Government of Serbia at the World Expo in Dubai this week. The purpose of the MoU is to explore the possibility of opening an Oracle data region within the State Data Center in Kragujevac. According to a press release by the Serbian Government, the new...
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October 13, 2021 Meta
Facebook has acquired 212 hectares of land in Andrup in Esbjerg, Denmark, for DKK 277 million ($43 million). The Esbjerg municipal announced that Facebook could start planning and surveying the land for building a data center in the future. Mayor Jesper Frost Rasmussen of Esbjerg municipal was...
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October 13, 2021 Oracle
Oracle has announced that it has opened a Cloud region in Israel. With the underground data center opening in Jerusalem, Oracle has become the first hyperscale firm to open a Cloud region in the country. CEO of Oracle, Safra Katz, said organizations and government bodies need to transit to the...
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October 12, 2021 Oracle
Oracle has announced the details for its 14 new cloud regions. The company plans to have 14 more cloud regions over the next year. By opening the new regions, Oracle will now have 44 cloud regions across the globe. The company has plans for new regions in Latin America, Middle East, Europe, and...
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October 12, 2021 Oracle
According to the South African Business Times, Oracle has selected Johannesburg as its first African and South African Cloud Region. Vice President of Oracle for cloud strategy in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Regis Louis, said firms are now grasping that they can’t rely on a single cloud...
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October 07, 2021 Meta
Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram recently experienced a six-hour blackout, where users were unable to login, message, and peruse the platforms. But, users weren't the only ones whose access to the platform was interrupted. According to reports, tech giant Facebook also lost...
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September 27, 2021 Aligned
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 financers...
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September 24, 2021 Meta
The Uptime Institute recently released its 11th annual global data center survey, and unfortunately, the results were disappointing. The survey found that while there is a growing awareness of the need to pursue sustainability goals and create greener operations regarding data centers, most...
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September 22, 2021 DataBank SLC5
DataBank has announced that it has opened data halls four and five in its SLC5 data center. The facility is located at its Granite Point North campus in Utah. This is after it announced the opening of data hall three in May 2021 at the same facility. The fourth and fifth data center halls at the...
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September 20, 2021 Novva: West Jordan Campus
Novva Data Centers has announced the opening of its flagship data center campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. The facility is a 100-acre campus with a current data center space of 330,000 square feet. Upon completion, the facility will be expanded to 1.5 million square feet. This will make the...
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September 07, 2021 Lumen Technologies
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 to...
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August 30, 2021 DataBank
DataBank has broken ground on its sixth Salt Lake data center, SLC6. The facility will see DataBank increase capacity to meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure in the Salt Lake City and Utah market. The site is located in Bluffdale, between Utah’s Silicon Slopes and...
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August 27, 2021 QTS Data Centers
The shareholders of QTS Realty Trust have finally approved the Company’s acquisition by Blackstone. The deal is expected to be close before the end of August. The two companies first agreed on a deal in June. However, there was a 40-day period in which QTS was given to look for alternative...
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August 27, 2021 Aligned
Aligned just announced $1.35 billion in securitized notes, which is issued under its new Green Finance Framework. The Company said the notes issued were the first-ever green data securitization as well as the largest ever inaugural data center securitization. Anubhav Raj, CFO of Aligned, said the...
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August 20, 2021 Meta
As the climate crisis reaches breaking point and the number of water-stressed regions across the US increase, Facebook, whose data centers consume huge amounts of water in areas plagued by water scarcity, has promised to reverse its environmental impact. According to Sylvia Lee, Facebook’s...
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