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Stack Infrastructure to expand facility in Virginia’s Prince William County

Data center firm Stack Infrastructure announced this week that it is expanding its campus in Virginia’s Prince William County. The company has purchased land from and adjacent to the Youth For Tomorrow non-profit in Bristow to expand its NVA02 campus. Tim Hughes, chief development officer, Sta...

December 08, 2023

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Digital Realty plans new hyperscale JV with Blackstone

Digital Realty recently revealed plans to set up a joint venture with Blackstone-affiliated funds led by Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Tactical Opportunities. This joint venture worth $7 billion will be used to develop four hyperscale data center campuses in Frankfurt, Germany; Paris, Franc...

December 07, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix

Equinix announced this week that it signed a ten-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Portugal Sonnedix’s first Portuguese solar PV project, the 149MW Sonnedix Douro. Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix, said, “We are very pleased to be extending our relationship with Equi...

December 05, 2023

Equinix

Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it is in partnership with GPU-maker Nvidia to launch the Project Ceiba supercomputer. This supercomputer is expected to be the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer, featuring 16,384 GH200 NVL32 Grace Hopper Superchips. The system will also feature the A...

November 29, 2023

Amazon AWS

Digital Edge secures $335m green loan for Seoul project

APAC-focused operator Digital Edge has secured its first green loan worth $335 million to support the first phase of the previously announced 100MW data center project in Seoul (SEL2), South Korea. Once completed, the SEL2 will be the largest commercial data center project in South Korea, and ...

November 16, 2023

Digital Edge DC

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation form a data center JV in Northern Virginia

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation established a joint data center venture in Northern Virginia. Following their agreement, the real estate investment firm invested $200 million and will get an 80 percent equity interest in two data centers currently under construction in Northern Vi...

November 16, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

STT GDC completes 1.2MW DC campus in Makati City

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Philippines has completed the construction of a 1.2MW data center in Makati City, the Philippines. This new facility on the outskirts of Manila, has a capacity for around 100 racks and can support loads between 5kW and 12kW. Operations. Carlo Malana, president ...

October 31, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Amazon to launch sovereign cloud region in Europe

Amazon Web Services has revealed its plans to launch new cloud regions in Europe. The company notes that the first region will be in Germany, suggesting that the company plans to launch more than one. “The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will allow government agencies, regulated industries, and ...

October 26, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon announces new European projects

Amazon, which is already the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in Europe, recently invested in more wind and solar farms in the continent. The new projects Amazon announced this week includes 15 rooftop solar installations on Amazon facilities in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, a...

October 25, 2023

Amazon AWS

Telehouse, NLP launches time-as-a-service offering

Data center provider Telehouse International Corporation together with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Metrology Institute has launched a time-as-a-time service offering called NPLTime Certified. This service functions to provide businesses with a synchronized time si...

October 24, 2023

Telehouse

BAM Digital Realty names CB Velayuthan as new CEO

Digital Realty joint venture Digital Connexion has named CB Velayuthan as its new CEO and he has taken over leadership of Brookfield/Digital/Reliance Jio joint venture previously known as BAM Digital Realty. Velayuthan said to the media, “India is one of the most dynamic markets in our industr...

October 23, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore

An outage at an Equinix data center on Saturday brought DBS and Citibank banking services in Singapore offline. This outage also affected other services in its Asian region including the Philippines, Hong Kong and India as people complained about having issues with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsAp...

October 18, 2023

Equinix

Telehouse to expand its largest existing DC facility

KDDI-owned global data center service provider Telehouse Europe has announced plans to upgrade its largest existing data center, Telehouse South in London. The company announced that Skanska will be the contractor to complete the first phase of this upgrade which is expected to be finalized by...

October 16, 2023

Telehouse

Digital Realty and Dutch college launches demonstration data center to teach students

Digital Realty has partnered with a Dutch vocational college in Amsterdam to launch a new demo data center to teach students data center skills. Students from the Cloud & Infrastructure Technician course opened the demo data center at MBO College Zuidoost this week. Melissa Scholten, senio...

October 13, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty expands footprint in Zagreb, Croatia

Global cloud provider Digital Realty announced its acquisition of a land parcel in Zagreb, Croatia for the construction of a new data center campus as it plans to expand its footprints in Southeast Europe. This plot of land, located close to its existing data center campus can support up to 30...

October 06, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Nvidia, NTT Docomo to launch new GPU-accelerated 5G network

NTT Docomo has partnered with semiconductor company Nvidia to deploy a GPU-accelerated wireless solution in its network in Japan. This partnership will make it the first telco in the world to deploy a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network.A blog post by Nvidia noted that this partnership "enab...

October 04, 2023

NTT

JTowers, NTT Docomo finalize tower transfer ownership

NTT Docomo announced on September 26, 2023, that it has agreed with JTowers on a deal to share its current telecommunication tower infrastructure. This agreement enables an ownership transfer of an additional 1,552 Docomo towers to JTower for 17 billion yen ($114 million). This comes after Doc...

October 04, 2023

NTT

Amazon plans four dc campuses in Mesa, Arizona

Amazon Web Services has begun plotting for four new data centers in Mesa, Arizona, on land already owned by the company, as it looks to increase its footprints in the East Valley. The company has filed pre-submittal documents with Mesa's planning office for two data centers about four miles ap...

October 03, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon Pours Billions to AI startup Anthropic, Becomes Primary cloud provider

Amazon will invest $4 billion in AI startup Antropic, becoming its primary cloud provider. This announcement comes after the giant tech companies worldwide raced to benefit from the breakthroughs Antropic could have on their businesses. Antropic, considered one of the world’s most promising AI...

October 02, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon files to develop 7-building DC campus in Louisa County, Virginia

Amazon Web Services has filed with the US Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District to develop a seven-building data center campus in Virginia’s Louisa County. In this filing, REB Investment Company LLC and Amazon Data Services seek permission to establish a new data center campus on 153 acres ...

September 30, 2023

Amazon AWS

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