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Read Spanish government launches new phase of funding for rural 5G Standalone
Spanish government launches new phase of funding for rural 5G Standalone

Spanish government launches new phase of funding for rural 5G Standalone

October 20, 2023 Spain

The Spanish government opened the latest phase of its €1 billion funding project aimed at rolling out 5G Standalone (SA) to rural areas across the country to reduce the digital divide between urban and rural areas, as almost a fifth of the country’s population live in the rural areas. In this new...

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Read Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore
Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore

Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore

October 18, 2023 Equinix

An outage at an Equinix data center on Saturday brought DBS and Citibank banking services in Singapore offline. This outage also affected other services in its Asian region including the Philippines, Hong Kong and India as people complained about having issues with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp,...

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Read Principal buys a pair of telco-occupied facilities in Dublin, Ireland
Principal buys a pair of telco-occupied facilities in Dublin, Ireland

Principal buys a pair of telco-occupied facilities in Dublin, Ireland

September 06, 2023 Vodafone

Principal Asset Management bought two data centers located in Dublin, Ireland, that are leased. Principal European Data Centre Fund I has made its fourth and fifth investments in Europe, this time in the capital of Ireland, according to IPE Real Assets and PropertyEU. The company has acquired two...

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Read Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India
Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India

Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India

August 10, 2023 Equinix

Equinix will invest $42 million in a new data center in Mumbai, India. The MB4 data center is anticipated to be operational by the end of the fourth quarter 2023. The MB4 data center is in the Kalwa Industrial Area, approximately 9 miles from the company's two other IBX data centers in Mumbai....

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Read Port of Valencia gives up data center proposals for docks building
Port of Valencia gives up data center proposals for docks building

Port of Valencia gives up data center proposals for docks building

July 18, 2023 Spain

The municipal council of Valencia has abandoned plans to construct a data center in a port docks building. More than a year had passed since the local government began considering multiple proposals for establishing a data center in a building on the Marina de Valencia. Nevertheless, this week...

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Read Equinix to connect to new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany
Equinix to connect to new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany

Equinix to connect to new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany

July 17, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that, through a partnership with a number of different companies, it will connect to a new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany. In collaboration with Vonovia, AS Enterprise, and EB-SIM, the group aims to build a heating network for the bizonal residential area in...

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Read Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment
Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

July 14, 2023 Equinix

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to be...

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Read Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center
Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

July 13, 2023 Madrid

In anticipation of a potential sale-leaseback transaction, Spanish insurance company Mapfre is listing its data center for sale. According to Cinco Dias, the company has hired CBRE to find a buyer for the Tales de Mileto building in the Alcalá de Henares neighborhood of Madrid. Mapfre launched...

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Read Vodafone signs Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Europe
Vodafone signs Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Europe

Vodafone signs Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Europe

July 12, 2023 Vodafone

Vodafone has signed a PPA with Iberdrola for 410GWh of annual solar spread across Spain, Portugal, and Germany, as part of the company's wider net-zero ambitions. The renewable energy comes from three solar plants, the Velilla solar PV plant located in Palencia, Spain, the Cedillo PV plant...

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Read Vodafone is selling its portfolio of data centers in London
Vodafone is selling its portfolio of data centers in London

Vodafone is selling its portfolio of data centers in London

July 12, 2023 Vodafone

Savills is looking for buyers for the Network Portfolio, a collection of six buildings totaling 260,000 square feet. The portfolio is reportedly worth $128.3 million. The properties are leased to Vodafone Enterprise UK through April 2032. They generate $7.8 million per year in total passing...

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Read Hyperscale data center from Equinix opens in Japan's capital
Hyperscale data center from Equinix opens in Japan's capital

Hyperscale data center from Equinix opens in Japan's capital

July 04, 2023 Equinix

This week, the company revealed the opening of TY13x. Situated in the Inzai region and opposite TY12x, TY13x provides 8MW in the first phase and 36MW when fully constructed. In October 2019, Equinix partnered with Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund to develop hyperscale centers under the...

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Read Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million
Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

June 22, 2023 Equinix

Invesco has purchased a data center in San Jose, California, run by Equinix. Mercury News reports that the Sobrato Organization recently sold 1735 Lundy Avenue in San Jose to Invesco Real Estate for $86.3 million, citing documents from Santa Clara County. The single-story building encompasses...

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Read Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024
Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

June 12, 2023 Equinix

Equinix is expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, with plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur called KL1, which, the company said, will provide greater digital infrastructure capacity in the country. The new facility, which follows the company's announcement of JH1 in Johor, will...

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Read Nabiax increases the capacity of the Alcala data facility in Spain to 22MW
Nabiax increases the capacity of the Alcala data facility in Spain to 22MW

Nabiax increases the capacity of the Alcala data facility in Spain to 22MW

June 09, 2023 Nabiax: Alcalá de Henares

The data center operator Nabiax has begun expanding its Alcala Data Center in Spain. The company plans to increase the facility's capacity by 47% by the end of the year, from 15.1MW to 22MW. The center is located northeast of Madrid in Alcalá de Henares. After the expansion process, the company...

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Read Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai
Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

May 31, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is opening its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai, which, at full build-out, will offer 1,800 cabinets of capacity across two phases or a total footprint of 12,000 square meters (135,000 square feet). The facility will support the...

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Read Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain
Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

May 09, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has inked a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Sonnedix. The deal will see the colocation provider source energy from three PV plants in the Castilla-La Mancha region of Spain. The three plants are pegged to be operational by the end of 2024; collectively,...

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Read Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK
Equinix Plans  30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

April 27, 2023 Equinix

Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in favor...

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Read Vodafone announces solar panels at Gloucester mobile telephone exchange in UK
Vodafone announces solar panels at Gloucester mobile telephone exchange in UK

Vodafone announces solar panels at Gloucester mobile telephone exchange in UK

April 12, 2023 Vodafone

Vodafone has announced that it is deploying solar panels at a mobile telephone exchange site in Gloucester, England, to cover approximately 12% of the site’s annual energy consumption requirements. This is in line with its wider energy efficiency goals and 2027 net-zero pledge. The telecoms...

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Read Panattoni: €300m data center on the way to Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia
Panattoni: €300m data center on the way to Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia

Panattoni: €300m data center on the way to Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia

April 12, 2023 Spain

Together with the Parc de l'Alba Consortium (comprising Catalan Land Institute -INCASÒL- and the Cerdanyola del Vallès City Council), Panattoni has announced plans to develop the largest ever data center campus in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, following the purchase of a 60,000 sqm plot of...

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Read Vodafone May Sell Its Spanish Commercial Unit For $4 Billion
Vodafone May Sell Its Spanish Commercial Unit For $4 Billion

Vodafone May Sell Its Spanish Commercial Unit For $4 Billion

April 11, 2023 Vodafone

Reportedly, Vodafone Group is contemplating proposals for its Spanish business, which could fetch as much as $4 billion. As first revealed by Bloomberg, potential purchasers, including Apollo Global Management, are showing interest in the operator's Spanish unit. According to sources familiar...

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