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Colt completes sale of 12 colocation sites in Europe

Colt has announced that it has completed the sale of a total of 12 of its colocation sites spanning across Europe with AtlasEdge Data Centres. This sale is part of a wider vision of Colt Data Centre Services to focus on “building and developing larger hyperscale data centre sites” in Europe a...

November 02, 2021

Colt Data Centre Services

Amazon looks to further grow its footprint in Ireland

Amazon is planning further expansion in Ireland with an application for two more data centers in Dublin. The proposed facilities will be based in Clonshaugh Close, where there is already the former Ricoh building which Amazon is seeking to demolish and replace with 'Data Centre A' and 'Data Ce...

November 01, 2021

Amazon AWS

Green innovations: Microsoft research proposes algae, hemp and mushrooms to build data centers

From underwater data centers to facilities that store carbon, Microsoft is leading the way when it comes to data center innovations. In its latest research project, the tech giant is looking into materials that can be used to build facilities that aren’t carbon-emitting but rather carbon-stori...

November 01, 2021

Microsoft Azure

ScottishPower: Amazon-funded wind farm opens in Kintyre, Scotland

ScottishPower Renewables’ wind project, launched in association with and funded by Amazon, has come online. The 50MW Beinn an Tuirc 3 wind farm on the Kintyre peninsula has 15 turbines, and according to ScottishPower, it is the largest in its portfolio built without any government support.The ...

November 01, 2021

Amazon AWS

CyrusOne to outsource the management of its US data centers to JLL

CyrusOne has announced that it will be outsourcing the management of its US data centers to JLL. The agreement is expected to start on January 1st, 2022. CyrusOne announced the deal in an email it sent to its customers. In the email, CyrusOne says transitioning the management of its US data...

October 29, 2021

CyrusOne

Mapletree Industrial Trust divests SG3 to Equinix for $92m

Mapletree Industrial Trust has sold an Equinix-occupied data center at 26A Ayer Rajah Crescent in Singapore to Equinix. The sale price of the facility is S$125 million (US$92.7m). The SG3 facility has 384,802 square feet of space. It is also a built-to-suit seven-story data center facility ...

October 29, 2021

Equinix Singapore SG3

NTT is expanding its Vienna data center

NTT has announced that it has broken ground on expanding its data center in Vienna, Austria. The company will add 32,300 square feet (3,000 square meters) to the Vienna 1 facility. By so doing, Vienna will have 92,500 square feet (8,600 square meters) upon expansion. NTT says the expansion is ...

October 29, 2021

NTT

Facebook is rebranding as 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 t...

October 29, 2021

AWS announces three new Local Zones in Las Vegas, New York City, and Portland

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new Local Zones in New York City, Las Vegas, and Portland. Local Zones are considered Edge locations that host applications that need low latency to end-users or on-premises installations. Sébastien Stormacq, the Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon ...

October 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK

Equinix has revealed its plans for a new data center in Manchester, UK. The MA5 facility is the company’s fifth IBX facility in Manchester. It is situated in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford. The first phase of the facility will provide up to 3,600 square meters of colocation space. It...

October 28, 2021

Equinix

The Dalles grants Google tax breaks for new facilities

The city council of The Dalles has voted to grant Google new property tax breaks. The tax breaks are for Google’s two new data centers. However, before Google commences work on its new data centers, it also hopes to increase its water usage significantly with a new agreement. The city counc...

October 28, 2021

Google

Digital Realty forms JW with Pembani Remgro to acquire Nigeria's Medallion Data Centres

Digital Realty has announced that it has formed a joint venture with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to acquire Medallion Data Centres. Medallion is Nigeria’s top interconnection and colocation provider. The company operates two data centers in the country. One of the facilities is in Abuja...

October 27, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Ooredoo selects BDx as preferred bidder for Indonesian data centers

PT Indosat, part of Qatar's Ooredoo QPSC, has announced that it has selected Big Data Exchange (BDx) as its "preferred bidder" for the majority stake in its data centers business.As reported by Bloomberg, BDx has emerged as the preferred buyer for a 75% stake in the company's data center asset...

October 26, 2021

BDx Data Centers

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate form a $575 Million Joint Venture to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in Australia

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have formed a new $575 million joint venture with an aim to develop hyperscale data centers in Sydney, Australia. PGIM is the real estate investment and financing division of Prudential Financial. The facilities the companies will be developing under this JV are...

October 19, 2021

Equinix

Google's new 'green campus': What it is and what it means for the future of Google

Google’s new Bay View campus, located east of the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, will reportedly be opened to a select number of employees by January and is reportedly a representative of the company’s wider goals and vision. According to Google, the campus itself is ...

October 19, 2021

Google

OVHcloud goes public

OVHcloud has finally been listed on the stock exchange in France. It went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange. The company’s opening market capitalization was €3.48 billion ($4bn). It also raised €400 million ($469m). OVHcloud opened at €18.50 per share, dipped slightly, but its sha...

October 18, 2021

OVH Group

Digital Realty makes strategic investment in AtlasEdge

Digital Realty has reached an agreement to make a strategic investment in AtlasEdge Data Centres. The investment will also see Digital Realty’s Executive VP, Strategic & Business Segments, Giuliano Di Vitantonio, join AtlasEdge as CEO, starting January 2022. AtlasEdge delivers smooth, loca...

October 15, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft's transparency bid: Cloud emissions dashboard now generally available

In its latest sustainability effort, Microsoft has announced that its Emissions Impact Dashboard, first announced in January 2020, is now widely available. According to the tech giant, this tool enables greater transparency and allows users to gain insight into greenhouse gas emissions associa...

October 14, 2021

Microsoft Azure

OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

French colocation and cloud provider OVHcloud has experienced a global outage. The company experienced an outage that lasted more than one hour when it started at around 7:00 UTC. OVH revealed that a maintenance reconfiguration error caused it. Besides, OVHcloud’s status page was brought down ...

October 13, 2021

OVH Group

Facebook acquires land in Denmark for potential data center development

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...

October 13, 2021

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