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Microsoft teams up with Climeworks

Microsoft has announced that its partnership with carbon removal specialists Climeworks is expanding with a new 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement. The new deal will make it Microsoft's first-ever long-term carbon removal supplier and is one of the largest direct air capture (DAC) deals...

July 18, 2022

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Alibaba strives to keep up with Microsoft, Amazon and Google with carbon counting

In an effort to keep up with the likes of tech rivals like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, Alibaba has announced that it is launching Energy Expert, a so-called 'sustainability platform' which will facilitate the organization's measuring, analyzing and managing of carbon emissions. This global l...

July 08, 2022

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Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity"

Microsoft Azure has announced that worldwide its data centers are now operating with a limited server capacity available to customers as a result of a global supply shortage. The company has over 200 data centers across the world, stretching across 60 regions - however, reports indicate that ...

July 07, 2022

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Microsoft To Launch New Azure Region in Qatar

Microsoft has announced that it will launch its Qatar Azure cloud region in two weeks. The general manager of Microsoft Qatar, Lana Khalaf, made this known at the launch of new offices in Doha, Qatar. He said: “In the coming two weeks we will be launching the region globally, but definitely th...

July 01, 2022

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Microsoft teams up with Eaton to enhance sustainability

Eaton has announced that it will expand its collaboration with Microsoft as part of a new strategic agreement between the two to address major industry developments, including "digital transformation, sustainability and the energy transition." According to the companies, a key feature of the p...

June 23, 2022

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NTT announces plans to adopt immersion cooling technology

NTT has announced its plan to adopt immersion cooling, after it ran a successful test of LiquidStack's two-phase immersion systems at its Mitaka Data Center East in Japan. According to the company, the IT kit ran stably, and used 97% less cooling energy than a traditional cooling system. The ...

June 17, 2022

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San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

Microsoft has announced that it will be using renewable natural gas to fuel its backup energy at its San Jose data center, which is currently under construction. This move aligns with the company’s target of being carbon negative by 2030, and the project will also provide power locally with em...

June 16, 2022

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NTT Acquires Land For 336MW Campus in Northern Virginia

NTT Ltd. Has revealed that it had completed the acquisition of 103 acres of land in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. According to reports, the company paid around $257.4 million to Lerner Enterprises for the land. NTT will be using the land acquired to develop a data center campus. The compa...

June 16, 2022

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Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 30...

June 16, 2022

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Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 mill...

June 15, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan

NTT has announced that it has signed a PPA through which it will procure solar energy in Japan. Clean Energy Connect Co Ltd is the partner who will deploy solar power generating capacity for the company, and assist the group in achieving its aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2040. The project...

June 09, 2022

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Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

Microsoft has announced that it added new availability zones to its Zurich Azure region. Availability zones are data center locations that are physically separate but still within the same cloud region, offering redundancy against failures in a particular location. Typically, most new regions ...

June 08, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for solar energy in California and another Georgia, with Terra-Gen and Georgia Power, respectively. The former is for a 12-year agreement with Terra-Gen, which will support the development of the 130MW Edwards Sa...

May 20, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new PPA with AES for renewable energy to fuel its facilities in California. The PPA is a 20-year “highly customized agreement” which will see Microsoft partially match its load at its California-based data centers. The energy from AES will be sourc...

May 06, 2022

Microsoft Azure

NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai

NTT has announced the opening of a new data center in Navi Mumbai, India. It also opened another data center in Mumbai recently without fanfare. The Navi Mumbai facility is called NAV1A, located in the Mahape area. The eight-story data center spans 400,000 square feet, and it has 45MW in po...

May 05, 2022

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Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

Infrastructure Masons, a body for large data center builders, has announced the formation of a new group, the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), to establish a standard for data centers' embodied carbon. So far, some of the hyperscalers involved in the project include AWS, Google, Meta, and Microso...

May 03, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

Microsoft has shared its data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE) data for the first time. Overall, the giant achieved a high level of efficiency with regards to PUE, while when it came to WUE, it didn't quite meet its target, and there was room for impr...

May 02, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Interxion data center to heat Vienna hospital

Interxion's Vienna data center campus is set to heat the nearby Floridsdorf Hospital, it has been announced. This will be facilitated by the Austrian government injecting €3.5 million ($3.7m) from environmental funds into the project, which will see the construction of an insulated pipe betwe...

April 29, 2022

Digital Realty: Vienna

Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington

Microsoft is set to buy over 100 acres in Malaga, Washington. According to the county's officials, the company will be using the land to develop data centers. Commissioners of the Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority signed a sale and purchase agreement with Microsoft for 102.5 acres of l...

April 28, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada

Microsoft has announced it has signed another PPA, this time, with ATCO Group. The PPA will enable the giant to procure solar energy in Canada from a 37MW Deerfoot solar project, which is adjacent to ATCO's 27-MW Barlow project. According to reports, the projects' construction will take place...

April 27, 2022

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