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Read Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia
Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia

Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia

December 20, 2023 Google

Google and AirTrunk have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy provider OX2 in Australia for the development of a new solar farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, from which Google and AirTrunk will receive 25MW of renewable power. Damien Spillane, AirTrunk chief customer...

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Read LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace
LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

December 18, 2023 Google

Renewables transaction company LevelTen Energy has set up a marketplace for time-based energy certificates to support renewable energy commitments around he clock. The GC Trading Alliance, supported by Google, Microsoft, and others, will be a platform to exchange "granular certificates" that...

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Read Equinix to roll out support for liquid cooling at over 100 facilities
Equinix to roll out support for liquid cooling at over 100 facilities

Equinix to roll out support for liquid cooling at over 100 facilities

December 12, 2023 Equinix

Colocation firm Equinix announced this week that it plans to expand support for liquid cooling technologies – including direct-to-chip – to more than 100 of its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in more than 45 metros globally. Tiffany Osias, VP of global colocation at Equinix...

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Read Vantage to break ground in Taipei
Vantage to break ground in Taipei

Vantage to break ground in Taipei

December 11, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is planning to expand data center operations into Taipei, Taiwan. The company announced this week that it is planning a new facility in Taipei called TPE1 data center and it is expected to be open in mid-2024. This new facility is being constructed on a 2-acre site. It is a...

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Read Nokia foresees revenue dip after losing multi-billion dollar AT&T contract
Nokia foresees revenue dip after losing multi-billion dollar AT&T contract

Nokia foresees revenue dip after losing multi-billion dollar AT&T contract

December 09, 2023 AT&T

Nokia has mentioned that it expects to see a dent in its revenues following AT&T's decision to award a lucrative Open RAN contract worth $14 billion to rival Ericsson. The company added that it expects revenue from AT&T in mobile networks to decrease over the next two to three years as...

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Read Stack Infrastructure to expand facility in Virginia’s Prince William County
Stack Infrastructure to expand facility in Virginia’s Prince William County

Stack Infrastructure to expand facility in Virginia’s Prince William County

December 08, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Data center firm Stack Infrastructure announced this week that it is expanding its campus in Virginia’s Prince William County. The company has purchased land from and adjacent to the Youth For Tomorrow non-profit in Bristow to expand its NVA02 campus. Tim Hughes, chief development officer, Stack...

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Read Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix
Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix

Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix

December 05, 2023 Equinix

Equinix announced this week that it signed a ten-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Portugal Sonnedix’s first Portuguese solar PV project, the 149MW Sonnedix Douro. Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix, said, “We are very pleased to be extending our relationship with Equinix...

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Read Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power
Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

November 29, 2023 Google

Google recently announced that its data centers in Nevada will be powered by a new geothermal power plant. This project, originally announced by Google and Fervo in 2021, is a 5MW project that will use Google AI systems to help with its operations. Michael Terrell, senior director of energy and...

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Read OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team
OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

November 28, 2023 Google

OpenAI has hired Google’s Todd Underwood to head a new Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads as it already has a functional team for the applied side working on inference and API products. The SRE concept originally started at Google, but has since spread...

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Read OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department
OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department

OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department

November 27, 2023 Google

OpenAI has hired Google’s Richard Ho as the head of hardware to lead the new division to help “influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings.” Ho had spent about 9 years at Google, leading one of the company’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units projects, with...

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Read NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center
NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center

NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center

November 23, 2023 NEXTDC

Two years after sharing initial plans, NextDC has finally begun construction at its D1 8MW data center in Australia's Northern Territory in Darwin. The site located close to the Charles Darwin University CBD campus is being constructed by Kapitol Group NT and is expected to create around 200 jobs...

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Read Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW
Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW

Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW

November 22, 2023 Google

Mayor of the Skien municipality, Marius Roheim Aarvold has said claims that Google’s upcoming data center campus in Norway will require 860MW of power to support its planned data center campus in Gromstul, Skien municipality.are false. Local press had reported that Microsoft formerly applied for...

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Read Digital Edge secures $335m green loan for Seoul project
Digital Edge secures $335m green loan for Seoul project

Digital Edge secures $335m green loan for Seoul project

November 16, 2023 Digital Edge DC

APAC-focused operator Digital Edge has secured its first green loan worth $335 million to support the first phase of the previously announced 100MW data center project in Seoul (SEL2), South Korea. Once completed, the SEL2 will be the largest commercial data center project in South Korea, and it...

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Read Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia
Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia

Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia

November 14, 2023 Google

Google recently announced that it will be launching its Saudi Arabian cloud region this week. Anthony Cirot, Google Cloud’s EMEA South VP, posted on LinkedIn, “I'm thrilled to share an exciting milestone in Google Cloud's journey: the launch of our new cloud region in Saudi Arabia. This marks a...

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Read Google signs first wind PPA in Poland
Google signs first wind PPA in Poland

Google signs first wind PPA in Poland

November 03, 2023 Google

Google has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure renewable energy in Poland . Following this agreement with Polsat Plus Group, Google will now offtake from the company’s wind farm in Przyrów to power Google Cloud’s operations. Tara Brady, president, Google Cloud EMEA said,...

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Read Vantage closes €2.5 billion investment deal in Europe
Vantage closes €2.5 billion investment deal in Europe

Vantage closes €2.5 billion investment deal in Europe

November 02, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has finalized an investment partnership with DigitalBridge and a consortium of investors led by MEAG and Infranity for some of its European data center assets. The collaboration between both companies consists of six data center facilities across Europe, valued at around €2.5...

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Read STT GDC completes 1.2MW DC campus in Makati City
STT GDC completes 1.2MW DC campus in Makati City

STT GDC completes 1.2MW DC campus in Makati City

October 31, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Philippines has completed the construction of a 1.2MW data center in Makati City, the Philippines. This new facility on the outskirts of Manila, has a capacity for around 100 racks and can support loads between 5kW and 12kW. Operations. Carlo Malana, president and...

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Read Proximus and LuxConnect launch JV to offer Google Cloud services
Proximus and LuxConnect launch JV to offer Google Cloud services

Proximus and LuxConnect launch JV to offer Google Cloud services

October 30, 2023 Google

Cloud companies Proximus and LuxConnect recently launched a joint venture to offer Google Cloud services through a sovereign cloud. This venture called the Clarence JV, aims to provide a "disconnected sovereign cloud solution to governments, regulated companies, international organizations and...

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Read Telehouse, NLP launches time-as-a-service offering
Telehouse, NLP launches time-as-a-service offering

Telehouse, NLP launches time-as-a-service offering

October 24, 2023 Telehouse

Data center provider Telehouse International Corporation together with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Metrology Institute has launched a time-as-a-time service offering called NPLTime Certified. This service functions to provide businesses with a synchronized time...

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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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