March 06, 2023 Colt Data Centre Services
Colt Data Centre Services has announced that it has broken ground on its new London 4 campus, located in Hayes. The company has outlined that the site will include two five-story buildings with a combined capacity of 57 MW, containing 18 data center halls across 30,000 sqm (322,900 sq ft). The...
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March 03, 2023 KDDI
KDDI, a Japanese telecom company, has a partnership with Oracle and will use the database of the technology company for its online payment brand. For disaster recovery, it has also implemented Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The company that runs the "au" mobile phone service in Japan, KDDI,...
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March 02, 2023 Digital Edge DC
Digital Edge has announced that its first Philippines facility, located in Binan Laguna, Manila, is ready for service, and will offer 10 MW of capacity with 2,200 cabinets. Named the Narra 1 data center, it will provide colocation and interconnection services to the region and is a joint project...
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February 28, 2023 Equinix
Equinix has inked five new long-term PPAs in Spain from solar farms, totalling 225MW, which will be managed by IGNIS. This reportedly brings the company's contracted PPA capacity to 595 MW globally. While specific details regarding the location of the farms have not yet been shared, the company...
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February 28, 2023 NTT Data
NTT Data has announced that it is pursuing a demonstration testing of film-type perovskite solar cells installed on the exterior walls of buildings in collaboration with Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. This is reportedly aligned with the company's pursuit of environmental measures for its data centers...
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February 27, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
Last week hackers gained access to two Asia-based data center firms, Shanghai-based GDS Holdings and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. This revelation, first published by Bloomberg, comes after endpoint security firm Resecurity found evidence they had been compromised. Cyber...
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February 27, 2023 Princeton Digital Group
Singapore-based Princeton Digital has announced plans to develop more data centers in Asia, in a bid to support operations in its global headquarters. To do this, the company is injecting an investment of $1 billion. With this, the company is expanding into Batam with a 96-megawatt facility, on a...
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February 24, 2023 NTT
NTT has created a prototype device that might boost data center and submarine cable connection rates. A crucial step toward 6G, the gadget can in-lab enhance a 100 Gigahertz (GHz) electrical signal. Although the commercial availability of the ultra-compact baseband amplifier IC module is years...
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February 23, 2023 NTT
On February 22nd, NTT Global Data Centers revealed that its MIST subsea cable had arrived in Mumbai, India. The Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system has a length of approximately 5000 miles. It links Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as Mumbai and Chennai...
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February 22, 2023 AirTrunk Tokyo TOK2
AirTrunk has announced that it has broken ground on the second phase of its TOK2 data center located in Tokyo, Japan. This follows the groundbreaking of the first phase only three months ago. The company has outlined that the new phase is scalable to approximately 50MW of capacity and...
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February 17, 2023 MC Digital Realty
MC Digital Realty, the 50/50 joint venture (JV) between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty, launched to provide a full suite of data center solutions in Japan and this week announced the opening of the three-story KIX13. This is the fourth building on the 23,000sqm Osaka data center...
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February 16, 2023 Equinix
Currently, Equinix is planning to construct a second data center in Barcelona, Spain. Last week, the colocation giant revealed its intentions to build BA2, an International Business Exchange (IBX) facility right next to its current BA1 location. We were not given any information on the project's...
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February 15, 2023 Google
Following the successful introduction of Arm server processors by Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud is preparing two Arm CPUs for its cloud service. Before launching the cloud service in 2025, the firm made a significant stride and will put them into trial operation this year. The cloud servers...
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February 14, 2023 Google
Uber Technologies wants to close its data center facilities after signing two significant cloud contracts. In two seven-year contracts, it will migrate over 95% of its IT to Google Cloud and Oracle from its own data centers. After 11 months of analysis, the taxi and delivery startup opted to use...
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February 09, 2023 Google
Late on Wednesday, there was a Twitter outage that prevented users from Tweeting, following accounts, or sending direct messages. A notification stating that the "daily limit of tweets has been reached" was displayed to certain users. Elon Musk, the CEO and new owner, advised workers in an email...
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February 08, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has signed a deal with O2 Power to procure renewable energy in India. As per the agreement, the company will obtain renewable energy under a captive structure to power STT GDC India’s Bengaluru facility, which is located in the state of Karnataka. O2...
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February 07, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has filed for a Loudoun County campus near Ashburn. Vantage applied for federal and state approvals for its VA3 data center facility with the US Army Corps of Engineers district commander. Vantage plans to build a "large-scale data center complex" on 134 acres west of Belmont...
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January 25, 2023 Google
Alphabet, Google's parent company, has announced that it is making further cuts to its staff, and is set to lose around 6% of its global workforce. The giant's reasoning for the significant downsizing is similar to the reasons cited by other tech firms that have cut back on staff in recent...
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January 23, 2023 AirTrunk
AirTrunk is expanding into Malaysia, with its first data center in the country. The facility, JHB1, will be in the Johor Bahru area, and span 21,900 sqm (235,750 sq ft) of space across 20 data halls, offering more than 150MW of capacity. In addition to this, it will have 370 sqm (4,000 sqm) of...
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January 18, 2023 NTT
NTT has announced that it is expanding in Texas with the addition of a new data center, dubbed ‘TX3 Data Center’. According to the company, the development will span 230,000 sq ft (21,350 sqm) and include a two-story office alongside the data center. The development has been filed with the Texas...
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