April 06, 2023 Equinix
Equinix has announced plans for a facility in Montreal, Canada. Known as MT2, the new facility is projected to be operational in the second half of 2023. In the first phase of the project, the facility will offer 500 racks from Q3, phase two, meanwhile, will add a further 500 racks by the fourth...
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April 04, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Unilever has finished moving to the cloud. The business has shifted workloads for its 400+ brands to the cloud, using Azure as its main cloud platform, in what it calls the "biggest and most difficult cloud migration in the consumer products market." With the aid of Accenture, Microsoft, and...
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April 03, 2023 Equinix
After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property. The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 sq...
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March 31, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Wisconsin, with a $1 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant. The plan, discussed at a recent closed session meeting, outlined that the campus will be situated on a 315-acre parcel of land owned by the Village of Mount Pleasant. Microsoft is set...
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March 29, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is the latest company to invest in the potential of carbon capture, with the recent announcement that it will buy "carbon removal credits" from CarbonCapture. The company is the owner of Project Bison, which is a direct air capture (DAC) plant in Wyoming, set to open next year. The...
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March 29, 2023 QScale
QScale has announced that it has partnered with Énergir Development for waste heat recovery at the Q01 Campus currently under construction in Lévis, Quebec, Canada. It aims to become one of the largest waste heat recovery providers of its kind in the region. QScale will reportedly supply free...
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March 29, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced that it has successfully executed $3.3 billion in “innovative” sustainability-linked financing, which it said will enable the development of critical digital infrastructure to support customers' global data center requirements. For this, JGlobal awarded the company with...
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March 28, 2023 Kyndryl
A quantum computer will be installed in San Sebastián, located in the Basque Country of Spain, thanks to a collaboration between IBM and Fundación Ikerbasque. The IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computing Center is anticipated to launch by the end of 2024. It will deliver Qiskit Runtime services from a...
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March 28, 2023 OVH Group
As part of its ambitions for Asia Pacific development, which will see the construction of two further data centers in Singapore and Australia by 2024, OVHcloud, a pioneer in European cloud computing, has announced opening its first data center in India. The new Mumbai facility expands OVHcloud's...
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March 27, 2023 Equinix
Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Martin...
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March 24, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has revealed plans to build three data centers in Malaga, Washington, on Malaga Alcoa Highway in Chelan County. The Port Authority outlined in the fillings that it assumes the development will involve the construction of three buildings on the site by the end of 2025; further, there is...
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March 23, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is switching its cooling system for data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona, following an update of its development agreement. Further to this, it has pledged to invest more than $40 million to expand the city's wastewater capacity. While the giant purchased the site in...
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March 23, 2023 OVH Group
A new facility has been opened by the data center company OVHcloud in Mumbai, India. The company announced the opening this week, but no information was given regarding the facility's location or specs. The facility uses OVHcloud's unique water cooling technology, which the company claimed was...
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March 21, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is teaming up with Running Tide to remove 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from its operations. This will be done through Running Tide's carbon capture and removal technology, which utilizes photosynthesis and ocean alkalinity enhancement to fix carbon from the fast carbon cycle, and...
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March 21, 2023 Cologix
Cologix has announced that customers can now deploy AWS Outposts at its VAN3 digital edge data center. The facility is a 42,000-square-foot data center, the region’s largest neutral data center. Through this addition, customers in Cologix’s Vancouver data centers will be able to connect to AWS...
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March 20, 2023 OVH Group
A French data center company OVHcloud purchased a quantum computer for internal usage. The technology was created by the French company Quandela, and a photonic processor powers the 2-qubit MosaiQ computer. Delivery is anticipated for this year's fall. No purchasing price was made public. OVH...
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March 17, 2023 Equinix
Equinix, in another move in alignment with its sustainability goals, has announced the opening of a rooftop urban farm at its PA10 data center in Paris, France. Promoting circular economy principles, the company will use its servers' waste heat to heat the greenhouse, which was built by Reid...
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March 17, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has signed up for the Swiss Winter Reserve Plan, through which it will provide its supplemental power capacity to the Swiss energy reserve, in line with the Federal Council's ordinance. The ordinance includes measures to prevent winter power shortages and will run until April...
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March 17, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
The data center company Stack has completed its most recent structured debt fundraising round. The company revealed the sale of $250 million in securitized notes last week. The price of the notes is a 5.900 percent fixed rate coupon. The firm said it has now raised $2.1 billion in notes through...
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March 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
At a data center in Switzerland, Digital Realty has installed a robotic dog to do routine inspections. Anybotics has detailed how Digital Realty has utilized its Anymal robot dog for data center checks for over a year in a published case study. Anymal is a quadruped robot that resembles Boston...
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