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A carbon-neutral future: Which companies are committing and delivering?

In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power.Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...

July 21, 2021

CyrusOne

Microsoft makes pledge to run all data centers carbon neutral by 2030

Microsoft is the latest company to pledge carbon-neutrality by 2030. Within the next 19 years, the tech giant promises to run all its global data centers and offices with zero-carbon energy.In a recent blog, written by Lucas Joppa, chief environmental officer and Noelle Walsh, CVP, cloud oper...

July 21, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Amazon in negotiations to build data center in Ceará, Brazil

Amazon has announced that it is in negotiations with officials in Ceará, Brazil, to build a data center and a logistics warehouse in Maracanaú, in the region of Fortaleza. According to Diario do Nordeste, it is expected that an agreement with the state government will be closed in the sec...

July 20, 2021

Amazon AWS

AWS Planning 3 new data centers in San Antonio

Planning documents recently revealed that Amazon is developing three data centers in Texas. The documents disclosed the project’s name as “Rockfish” and unveiled a plan to build a $56 million, 109,600 sqft (10,100 sq m) data center located on 11625 Old Corpus Christi Highway.This is not the on...

July 13, 2021

Amazon AWS

AWS launches Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas

Amazon Web Services just launched its new Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas. Customers can now deliver applications that need single-digit millisecond latency to both on-premises installations and end-users in Philadelphia and Dallas with these local zones. AWS Local Zones are infrastr...

July 08, 2021

Amazon AWS

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

Microsoft Azure

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

Amazon AWS

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

Microsoft Azure

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

Amazon AWS

Valterra Partners & 1547 CSR acquire Miami-based ColoHouse

Valterra Partners LLC and Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty LLC have acquired ColoHouse, a managed service provider with headquarters in Miami, Florida. Valterra Partners is an equity firm, while Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty is a data center Company. The deal also includes...

June 09, 2021

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

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

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

Amazon AWS

SUNeVision lands Microsoft ExpressRoute on MEGA Campus

SUNeVision Holdings Ltd, a Data centre provider in Hong Kong, has announced a new Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute on-ramp. Enterprises will have the ability to directly connect to Azure in MEGA-i, either through an onsite point of presence (PoP) or via telco partners, managed service providers or...

April 01, 2020

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne amends $2.5 Billion Credit Facility

The amended agreement consists of a $1.4B revolving credit facility, which includes a $750M multi-currency borrowing sub-limit, and term loan commitments totaling $1.1B.The credit agreement also contains an option which allows CyrusOne to obtain up to $1.5 billion in additional revolving or te...

April 01, 2020

CyrusOne

CyrusOne Helps Launch ODATA’s First Data Center in Colombia (PR)

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced that it has helped ODATA construct and launch the company’s first data center in Bogotá, Colombia. ODATA’s new data center, DC BG01, is the second ODATA data center, the first outside Brazil af...

May 28, 2019

CyrusOne

CyrusOne Reports Q1 2019 Earnings: Revenue is $225M up 14% YoY

CyrusOne Inc. (CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced first quarter 2019 earnings. First Quarter Highlights 1Q’19 Year-over-Year Revenue Growth of 14% Leased 16 megawatts (“MW”) and 93,000 colocation square feet (“CSF”) in the first quarter, totaling $27 million in ann...

May 01, 2019

CyrusOne

CyrusOne Sells GDS Shares to Raise Approximately $200 Million of Proceeds (Press Release)

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 12, 2019-- CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced that it has sold approximately 5.7 million American depository shares (“ADSs”) of GDS Holdings Limited (“GDS”) (NASDAQ: GDS) for a total purchase price of approximately $20...

April 12, 2019

CyrusOne

Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

Microsoft is reportedly building two new datacenters in Sweden, according to Swedish Newspaper Gefle Dagblad (via MSN). It was previously reported in December that the company had acquired 130 hectares of land in the municipalities of of Gävle and Sandviken, near the Swedish capital Stockho...

March 25, 2019

Microsoft Azure

US Signal Partners With Cloudflare to Deliver DDoS Protection

US Signal, a leading end-to-end IT solutions provider, today announced that it has partnered with Cloudflare, the leading internet performance and security company, to bring a fully managed and customizable distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection service to market. The new service deliver...

October 21, 2018

US Signal

CyrusOne Completes the Zenium Acquisition

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 27, 2018– CyrusOne Inc. (“CyrusOne”) (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of Zenium Data Centers (“Zenium”), a leading hyperscale data center provider with properties in London...

August 27, 2018

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