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Mercury delivers Equinix's FR13 data center in Germany

Mercury delivers Equinix's FR13 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Located within Equinix’s Frankfurt North-East campus, the facility spans 5,295 sqm (57,000 sq ft) with a total capacity of 7.75MW across two data halls on three floors. “The expansion of our North-East campus with FR13 is key t...

November 30, 2024

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BBC undergoes cloud migration to AWS

The UK's British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is undergoing a cloud migration as it revealed plans to move its IT systems including finance, HR, and procurement to RISE with SAP on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The BBC hopes that moving its IT systems to the cloud will be more cost-effective th...

November 30, 2024

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Royal Philips and AWS expand partnership for cloud migration

Health technology company Royal Philips has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services. Philips' integrated diagnostics portfolio in the cloud will be expanded including radiology, digital pathology, cardiology, and AI-advanced visualized solutions.“The collaboration between Philips and...

November 29, 2024

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DataBox takes over Digital Realty's cloud service in Croatia

Croatian cloud solutions and data center provider DataBox has taken over Digital Realty's cloud services in the country. This move will enable Digital Realty to "realign" its offering in Croatia and focus on acting as an infrastructure provider instead of a cloud service provider in the countr...

November 27, 2024

Digital Realty Trust

AWS partners with SSAB for green steel at Swedish data center

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has agreed with SSAB to pilot the use of green steel in one of its three new data centers in Sweden. The green steel will be used to construct the roof and wall structures at the AWS Västerås data center. SSAB subsidiary Ruukki Construction will supply the steel for t...

November 27, 2024

Amazon AWS

Equinix breaks ground on Singapore data center

Equinix this week announced its sixth International Business Exchange (IBX) facility in Singapore, to be named SG6. With an initial investment of $260 million, the facility will provide liquid cooling capabilities to support high-density workloads. Yee May Leong, managing director, Singapore,...

November 26, 2024

Equinix

AWS eyes data center project in Fayette County, Ohio

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is eyeing Fayette County, southern Ohio, as a site for a data center development and is considering a location about 25 miles east of Xenia, 40 miles east of Dayton.“We recently filed documents as part of the process in exploring possible data center locations. This i...

November 25, 2024

Amazon AWS

Amazon to invest another $4bn in Anthropic

Amazon plans to invest $4 billion in Anthropic, following a previous $4bn investment in the generative artificial intelligence startup. The companies said that the startups "will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future foundation models," however Anthropic will lik...

November 22, 2024

Amazon AWS

Equinix launches data center in Oman with Omantel

Equinix this week officially opened Salalah in partnership with local telco Omantel with a facility known as SN1. This facility is to be commercially and operationally managed in full by Equinix as a carrier-neutral and open-access Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.Kame...

November 08, 2024

Equinix

Equinix opens second data center in Istanbul, Türkiye

US colocation giant Equinix this week opened its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Istanbul, known as IL4. The new facility is located on the same campus as Equinix’s existing Istanbul facility, IL2 and it offers capacity for 1,125 cabinets across 3,045 sqm (32,775 s...

November 02, 2024

Equinix

Equinix to invest in two data centers in Bangkok, Thailand

Equinix this week announced an intention to invest approximately $500 million in Thailand in phases over the next ten years, including the recent acquisition of land in Bangkok for approximately $34m. The newly acquired land in the Bangna area of Bangkok will be used to establish two Equinix I...

October 30, 2024

Equinix

AWS and e& sign $1bn cloud agreement

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East, combining AWS' cloud infrastructure and solutions with e& networking capabilities with an aim to offer cloud services to customers in the public sector and heavily regulated in...

October 19, 2024

Amazon AWS

Digital Realty extends credit facility

Digital Realty this week announced that it has amended, extended, and upsized its existing $3.75 billion senior unsecured multi-currency global revolving credit facility to $4.2 billion. The maturity date was extended by three years and total availability was expanded by $450 million which no...

October 03, 2024

Digital Realty Trust

PDG to develop data center campus at Mindspace park

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has signed a deal with business park developer Mindspace REIT to develop three more data centers outside Mumbai, India. Under this partnership, Mindspace REIT will develop three additional built-to-suit data centers for PDG, adding a further 1 million sq ft to its...

September 27, 2024

Princeton Digital Group

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded a colocation contract to Equinix.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Equinix a contract for colocation services for its Homeland Security Enterprise Network.Published on SAM.gov on September 17, the tender called for "power, connectivity and related operations and maintenance," adding that the services wi...

September 25, 2024

Equinix

PDG announces $1bn expansion plan in Mumbai and Chennai

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced plans to expand its data center capacity in Mumbai and Chennai, India through a $1 billion into the country which will bring its India portfolio to 230MW of capacity. DG plans to add three new facilities, bringing the total campus capacity to 150MW a...

September 23, 2024

Princeton Digital Group

AWS signs custom chip deal with Intel

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has entered into a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar contract with Intel to develop custom chip designs. Following the terms of this agreement, Intel will produce an AI fabric chip for AWS on Intel 18A, and produce a custom Xeon 6 chip on Intel 3. Intel has long develo...

September 18, 2024

Amazon AWS

Equinix becomes one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers after issuing $750m in green bonds

Equinix has now become one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers in the market, issuing $750 million in green bonds across two offerings. The company says it will use the proceeds to advance sustainability initiatives across its business. Equinix said the funding will be towards initiativ...

September 17, 2024

Equinix

STT GDC India names Bimal Khandelwal as new CEO

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has appointed Bimal Khandelwal as the new CEO of its India business. He has previously served as the CFO for STT GDC India. Prior to that, he worked in the telecoms, financial services, and IT sectors, including at Tata Teleservices. He is to succeed ...

September 17, 2024

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

NTT selected to deploy Private 5G in Brownsville, Texas

NTT Data has been selected by the City of Brownsville in Texas to deploy private 5G wireless connectivity across the city. It will build and manage a turnkey private 5G network with high-speed and low latency. In addition, NTT’s Smart Solutions will be deployed to deliver data analysis, predic...

September 10, 2024

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