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Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC

Vantage Data Centers and its lead investor, Digital Bridge Group, have announced the acquisition of PCCW Ltd.’s data center business. The acquisition sees Vantage DC’s portfolio to include 100MW of existing and expansion capacity across many facilities in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Besides, t...

December 06, 2021

Vantage Data Centers

Google Cloud to develop its Saudi Arabian data center in Dammam

Google has revealed that it is developing its first cloud region in Saudi Arabia in Dammam. In addition, Google will be operating the data center in partnership with the world’s largest oil producer Saudi Aramco. The search engine giant will also open an office in Riyadh to support the facilit...

December 03, 2021

Google

Google opens cloud region in Chile

Google has opened its new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. The company first announced plans for the region in December 2020. The region is now Google’s second cloud region in South America as it opened one in São Paulo in 2017. Just like all Google’s regions, the Chile region has three availa...

December 02, 2021

Google

AirTrunk opens TOK1 data center in Japan

AirTrunk has announced the launch of its first data center in Japan. The new facility is located in Tokyo, and it is called TOK1. It will have an initial capacity of up to 60MW. The 13.25-hectare site is located in Inzai Chiba Prefecture in Tokyo. The data center campus is also scalable to 300...

December 02, 2021

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Google joins Ørsted's offshore wind project

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PAA) with Ørsted, a Danish offshore wind developer. According to reports, Google will have access to 50 MW of Ørsted’s planned 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 Offshore Wind Farm.This PPA is in line with Google’s goal to powe...

December 01, 2021

Google

Globe negotiating with STT GDC over forming a data center JW in the Philippines

Globe Telecom has revealed that it is in advance discussions with STT Telemedia Global Data Centres about forming a data center joint venture in the Philippines. The plan is to expand Globe Telecom’s Globe DC data center business in the Philippines. The company announced that the exclusive agr...

November 19, 2021

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Google to expand in Israel amid calls for the tech giant to 'boycott' Israel

Google has announced that it will be expanding its data center footprint in Israel, building its fourth facility in the Sharon region near Moshav Beit Yehoshua. This development has come about following the tech giant winning the government's Nimbus cloud tender. Google already has leases for ...

November 15, 2021

Google

Google's Oregon plans given the green light despite water concerns

On Monday, The Dalles council unanimously approved a $28.5 million deal for Google to build two new data centers in the area. This approval has gone ahead despite water concerns; due to the area currently being drought-stricken and the proposed facilities potentially guzzling millions of gallo...

November 12, 2021

Google

Google buys 53 hectares of land in Wallonia, Belgium For Data Center Development

According to L’Echo and La Nouvelle Gazette, Google has acquired over 50 hectares of land in Belgium. The search giant acquired the land in the Wallonia region of Belgium for developing data centers and office buildings. The Saint Ghislain data center in Belgium was Google’s first expansion in...

November 11, 2021

Google

AirTrunk to develop 320MW hyperscale data center in Sydney

AirTrunk has revealed its plans for a new 320MW data center campus in Sydney. Upon completion, the facility will be the largest single hyperscale data center campus in the Asia Pacific region outside of China. The facility will be called SYD3, and it will be located in western Sydney. SYD3 ...

November 05, 2021

AirTrunk

Vantage Data Centers secures $530 million in financing

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has raised $530 million in securitized notes. The funds it raised would be used to refinance Vantage DC’s Variable Funding Note (VFN) facility. VFN was used to facilitate the purchase of CA22. Vantage Stabilized Data Centers, a joint venture Vantag...

November 05, 2021

Vantage Data Centers

Tackling the water scarcity issue: Controversy and secrecy

Water scarcity is increasingly becoming an issue globally, and data centers, which typically guzzle around 3-5 million gallons of water per day, the equivalent of the water usage by 30,000-50,000 people, are adding to the problem. As the climate issue worsens and big tech companies continue to...

November 04, 2021

Google

Colt completes sale of 12 colocation sites in Europe

Colt has announced that it has completed the sale of a total of 12 of its colocation sites spanning across Europe with AtlasEdge Data Centres. This sale is part of a wider vision of Colt Data Centre Services to focus on “building and developing larger hyperscale data centre sites” in Europe a...

November 02, 2021

Colt Data Centre Services

NTT is expanding its Vienna data center

NTT has announced that it has broken ground on expanding its data center in Vienna, Austria. The company will add 32,300 square feet (3,000 square meters) to the Vienna 1 facility. By so doing, Vienna will have 92,500 square feet (8,600 square meters) upon expansion. NTT says the expansion is ...

October 29, 2021

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Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK

Equinix has revealed its plans for a new data center in Manchester, UK. The MA5 facility is the company’s fifth IBX facility in Manchester. It is situated in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford. The first phase of the facility will provide up to 3,600 square meters of colocation space. It...

October 28, 2021

Equinix

The Dalles grants Google tax breaks for new facilities

The city council of The Dalles has voted to grant Google new property tax breaks. The tax breaks are for Google’s two new data centers. However, before Google commences work on its new data centers, it also hopes to increase its water usage significantly with a new agreement. The city counc...

October 28, 2021

Google

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate form a $575 Million Joint Venture to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in Australia

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have formed a new $575 million joint venture with an aim to develop hyperscale data centers in Sydney, Australia. PGIM is the real estate investment and financing division of Prudential Financial. The facilities the companies will be developing under this JV are...

October 19, 2021

Equinix

Google's new 'green campus': What it is and what it means for the future of Google

Google’s new Bay View campus, located east of the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, will reportedly be opened to a select number of employees by January and is reportedly a representative of the company’s wider goals and vision. According to Google, the campus itself is ...

October 19, 2021

Google

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into the Asia Pacific region

Stack Infrastructure has revealed its plan to expand into the Asia Pacific region. The company is planning to open a regional headquarters in Singapore. It would also expand into Osaka and Tokyo immediately before entering into Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, and other Asia Pa...

October 13, 2021

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Vantage is expanding into Johannesburg, South Africa

Vantage Data Centers is expanding into Africa by breaking ground on a new 80MW campus in Johannesburg, South Africa. The campus will be developed in phases, with the first 16MW phase scheduled to be completed in 2022. The new facility is located in Waterfall City in Johannesburg. Also, the ...

October 13, 2021

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