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Read Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa
Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

January 07, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has bought the majority stake in Teraco. The data center giant announced the acquisition of the South African data center company from a consortium of investors, including Permira and Berkshire Partners. The deal sees Teraco valued at about $3.5 billion. The transaction sees...

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Read AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment
AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment

AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment

January 05, 2022 Amazon AWS

Further to AWS announcing that it is establishing its AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, reports are now circulating that the giant will be investing an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in Indonesia across the 15 years through the region.According to reports, this investment will cover...

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Read YLT gains access to Dodid data center through acquisition
YLT gains access to Dodid data center through acquisition

YLT gains access to Dodid data center through acquisition

December 30, 2021 Empyrion (DoDid) Singapore

YTL, with the acquisition of Dodid Pte Ltd, now has access to the startup’s data center based in Tagore Industrial Ave, as it expands its footprint outside of Malaysia for the first time. Dodid’s facility is a 12.5-megawatt Tier-3 hyperscale data center, spanning 39,000 square feet of space. The...

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Read Google buys 236 acres of land in Kansas City
Google buys 236 acres of land in Kansas City

Google buys 236 acres of land in Kansas City

December 27, 2021 Google

Google has completed the acquisition of hundreds of acres of lands in Kansas City’s Northland. The search engine giant plans to develop data centers at the site. According to Kansas City Business Journal, property records show that Google bought 236.4 acres of land to the north of Hunt Midwest....

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Read Keppel Data Centres' green hydrogen supply chain feasibility study
Keppel Data Centres' green hydrogen supply chain feasibility study

Keppel Data Centres' green hydrogen supply chain feasibility study

December 24, 2021 Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Data Centres has announced it has teamed up with Woodside, Japan's Osaka Gas business division in Singapore, City Energy and City-OG Gas Energy Services, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), to study the feasibility of a liquid hydrogen supply chain from Western...

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Read Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR
 Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

December 17, 2021 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW...

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Read San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer
San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

December 17, 2021 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has sold its San Jose data center to developer Hines. Documents filed on December 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office outline that Hines paid just under $60 million ($59.6 million) for the complex. The building spans 179,800 sqft; meanwhile, the...

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Read Telstra expands Ashburn footprint
Telstra expands Ashburn footprint

Telstra expands Ashburn footprint

December 16, 2021 Telstra

Telstra is expanding its footprint at its primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Its DC21 facility is managed by Equinix, and according to the company, this expansion will be almost triple the size of the facility now. Telstra says that the expansion at Ashburn, also “adds extra layers of...

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Read Equinix partners with Nasdaq
Equinix partners with Nasdaq

Equinix partners with Nasdaq

December 16, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has formed a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq, Inc, which will help the company scale its NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This will also support the build-out of Nasdaq's cloud infrastructure. Tal Cohen, Executive Vice President, Head of North American Markets at Nasdaq, said...

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Read AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta
AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta

AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta

December 15, 2021 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Jakarta, Indonesia, and has been created to support the 'fast-growing startup ecosystem, large Indonesian enterprises, and government agencies.' The region is now the tenth active in the Asia Pacific and mainland China after Beijing, Hong...

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Read New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced
New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

December 15, 2021 Equinix

The European Clean Hydrogen Partnership has announced its €2.5 million EcoEdge PrimePower project (E2P2). The tech consortium making up the partnership includes Equinix, InfraPrime, RISE, Snam, SolidPower, TEC4FUELS and Vertiv. Together, they will pursue the development of low-carbon fuel cells,...

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Read OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF
OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

December 15, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud has announced it has signed a 15-year renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Renewables, whereby the energy company will supply electricity from its 50MW solar power plant, located in the south of France. The solar plant is expected to be operational by 2024 “We are proud to...

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Read Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022
Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022

Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022

December 14, 2021 NTT

NTT has announced that it is “on track” to complete the turnkey data center development of its Johannesburg 1 Data Centre, located at Centralpoint Innovation District in Samrand, by early next year. The facility, developed by Growthpoint, includes 6,000sqm of IT space and features “high-end...

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Read Empyrion DC buys a 12.5MW data center in Singapore
Empyrion DC buys a 12.5MW data center in Singapore

Empyrion DC buys a 12.5MW data center in Singapore

December 13, 2021 Empyrion (DoDid) Singapore

Empyrion DC of Singapore has completed the acquisition of Dodid Pte. Ltd. and its data center in Singapore. The data center acquired offers 113,000 square feet (10,500 square meters) of space. It is also a Tier III certified data center with 12.5MW of capacity. Although the terms of the deal were...

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Read Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia
Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia

Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia

December 10, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has announced that its PE3 data center in Perth, Australia, has launched, the third IBX facility in the city. According to reports, the first phase of the project provides a capacity of 700 cabinets spanning 1,830 sqm (38,600 sqtf), following an investment of US$54 million (A$71.7...

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Read AWS to develop data center region in Queretaro, Mexico
AWS to develop data center region in Queretaro, Mexico

AWS to develop data center region in Queretaro, Mexico

December 10, 2021 Amazon AWS

According to Bloomberg, Amazon Web Services plans to open a new data center region in Mexico. The report claims AWS is close to signing a deal with the Mexican federal government over opening a new region in Queretaro. Although no date has been set, an official report is expected soon....

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Read AWS announces new AWS Top Secret Region
AWS announces new AWS Top Secret Region

AWS announces new AWS Top Secret Region

December 09, 2021 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced another Top Secret cloud region to host classified government data. The new region will operate workloads at the Top-Secret United States security classification level, which is the highest security classification in the US. The new Top-Secret West region will...

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Read Microsoft adds new availability zones to India Central Azure cloud region
Microsoft adds new availability zones to India Central Azure cloud region

Microsoft adds new availability zones to India Central Azure cloud region

December 09, 2021 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has unveiled new availability zones in its Indian Central Azure cloud region. Usually, Azure regions launch with three availability zones. These zones are physically separated to provide higher redundancy, availability, and disaster recovery protection. However, there are cases where...

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Read China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong
China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong

China Mobile is developing a data center in Hong Kong

December 09, 2021 China Mobile

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) has started work on a new data center facility in Hong Kong, China. CMI is developing the facility on a 1 million square foot land in Fo Tan, Sha Tin. The facility will have multiple stories, and it will cover 103,660 square meters (1.1 million square...

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Read Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition
Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

December 07, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operation in...

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