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STT Telemedia opens its 40MW data center in Loyang, Singapore

St Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has finally opened its Loyang facility in Singapore. In 2018, the Company announced that it would open the facility in mid-2020. However, the coronavirus pandemic caused a lot of construction delays. However, STT GDC says it reduced the effects by pr...

July 07, 2021

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Microsoft to acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud; AT&T to move its 5G network to Azure

Microsoft will acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud technology and intellectual property. It will also be making job offers to hundreds of AT&T engineers. As part of the deal, AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to Microsoft Azure. AT&T’s 5G core would be the starting point. This deal...

June 30, 2021

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Cyxtera Technologies expands in Silicon Valley and Chicago

Cyxtera has announced that it is expanding its data center data footprint in Silicon Valley and Chicago. This includes the leasing of a 9MW data center based in Santa Clara, which offers 121,000 sq ft across four floors. In addition to this, the company is also adding around 1.6 MW of capacity...

June 29, 2021

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Princeton Digital Group considers $400m fundraising ahead of potential IPO

According to reports from Bloomberg, Princeton Digital Group wants to raise funds from investors to the tune of $400 million. Princeton Digital Group invests, develops, and operates data centers across Asia in countries like Singapore, China, Indonesia, and India. It also has 18 data centers i...

June 28, 2021

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Iron Mountain enters $178 million sale-leaseback deal with Intermediate Capital Group, and would use proceeds to invest in data centers

US Real Estate Investment Company Iron Mountain has announced that it sold five facilities in the greater London area to Intermediate Capital Group (ICG). The sale agreement also included a leaseback deal for the facilities. Iron Mountain will remain in the facilities for an initial 12 year pe...

June 26, 2021

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Amazon overtakes Google to become largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the US after announcing 14 new renewable projects

Amazon has overtaken Google as the largest corporate buyer of green energy in the United States. It also holds the title of being the largest renewable energy buyer in Europe. This comes after the Company announced its fourteen new green energy projects in the Us, Spain, Finland, and Canada.Wi...

June 23, 2021

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NTT explains its German data center expansion plans

NTT has said that it would be expanding its German data centers by more than 40 percent. It would be doing this by adding over 323,000 square feet of IT space across existing locations in Germany. The Company currently has existing campuses in Frankfurt, Bonn, and Berlin.NTT has broken ground ...

June 22, 2021

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Microsoft intends to open four data centers in China by in 2022

According to reports from Bloomberg, Microsoft is looking to add four new data centers in China by Q1 of 2022. The report states that Microsoft wants to expand its service across Asia and opening data centers in China is a step towards achieving that. Asides from that, the Company also intends...

June 18, 2021

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Equinix promises to cut emissions by 50 percent before 2030

Equinix has promised that it would reduce its emissions by 50% before 2030. It would also be reducing emissions created by its electricity supply by 50% before 2030. This promise comes few days after Greenpeace criticized the Company for not having trustworthy timelines on the use of renewable...

June 17, 2021

Equinix

AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers

The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...

June 17, 2021

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Tokyo Century partners with NTT for data center business in India

NTT and Tokyo Century are coming together to form a data center partnership in India. Tokyo Century is a finance company that specializes in equipment leasing, mobility and fleet management, and specialty financing centered on aviation and real estate. NTT, on the other hand, specializes in d...

June 17, 2021

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50% of Digital Realty's global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy

Digital Realty has announced in its third ESG report that half of its global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy. It did this by increasing the portfolio of its data centers being powered by renewable energy by 20% in 2020. Impressively, it also increased its energy consump...

June 17, 2021

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OVHcloud to go public by end of 2021

OVHcloud has officially confirmed that it would be going public on the Euronext stock exchange. Although OVHcloud hasn’t confirmed the date, but it will happen before the year runs out. Also, it did not say how much it expects to raise through the IPO, but it said the founder’s family, Octave...

June 16, 2021

OVH Group

Singapore government and Facebook back $S17m project for sustainable tropical data centers

It has been announced that social media giant Facebook and the Singapore government are joining forces to fund a $17 million (S$23m) project to address the need to boost the number of sustainable data centers built in tropical climates. The programme is also being funded by Singapore's Nationa...

June 16, 2021

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Equinix partners with GIC to invest additional $3.9 billion in its Hyperscale Program

Equinix has announced that it has signed agreements for additional joint ventures with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, which will add $3.9 billion to expand its data center program.The agreements come in the form of limited liability partnerships with GIC. The close, which is expected...

June 15, 2021

Equinix

Digital Realty considering $300 million Singapore Trust IPO

According to a report from Bloomberg, Digital Realty is considering an Initial Public Offer (IPO) of a Singaporean trust that could raise between $300 million to $400 million. The report says Digital Realty is working with its advisers on the listing, and they are looking to conclude the IPO b...

June 10, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Google to migrate parts of YouTube to Google Cloud

Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP).Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...

June 04, 2021

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CyrusOne’s European data center portfolio now 100 percent powered by renewable energy

CyrusOne just announced that all of its data centers in Europe are now running on 100% renewable energy. The Company has facilities in Dublin, London, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam, currently operating on renewable tariffs. Besides, the Company recently promised to be carbon neutral by 2040, and t...

June 02, 2021

CyrusOne

Singtel announces ‘strategic reset,' looks to sell off data centers and other infrastructure

Singtel has announced that it would be selling off some of its infrastructures. Some of these include satellites, data centers, and subsea cables. This is all part of the Company’s strategic reset that will see Singtel focus on delivering 5G and digital services. This reset and reorganization...

May 31, 2021

Singtel

AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago...

May 28, 2021

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