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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

Microsoft Azure

Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

Vantage Data Centers has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica, which will enable Vantage to supplement the local grid powering the company’s data center campus in Johannesburg (JNB1) with renewable energy. According to reports, the campus is set to open in Ju...

June 10, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

Orange Inaugurates New Data Centers in France

Orange has announced that it opened two data centers in France. The French company commissioned the data centers in the Val-de-Reuil in Normandy and the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. The data center buildings span 172,200 square feet (16,000 square meters) and 53,800 square feet (5,...

June 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange

Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility

Equinix has announced that it will be developing its third data center in Mumbai, India. The data center giant said it would invest over $86 million to develop the data center. According to the company, the data center will be housed on four-acre land. The data center will be located in Cha...

June 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

3S Launches a 1.2 MW Facility in Gdańsk, Poland

Grupa 3S has announced the opening of a new facility in Gdansk, Poland. The Polish telecommunication company opened the new 1.2MW data center at ul. Nowy Świat 40. The data center has an area of over 500 square meters and has a capacity for up to 180 racks. A member of 3S Group companies’...

May 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Grupa 3S SA

New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends

According to a newsletter from Christian Koch’s Foundations, New York Internet (NYI) will be taking over a space in 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel currently occupied by Equinix. Equinix announced in May 2021 that it would be exiting some of its leased data centers in the US. One of those fa...

May 16, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin

Equinix has announced its involvement in a new district heating system project in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The data center company is teaming up with Codema, the Dublin energy agency, which will begin by carrying out a feasibility study. The project will reportedly be based around Equinix's DB...

May 13, 2022

Equinix

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

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

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia

Microsoft is looking to develop a new data center in Manassas, Northern Virginia. The company submitted a request to the US Army Corps of Engineers to build the MNZ01 Balls Ford Road Data Center. The project will involve Microsoft developing two three-story buildings, MNZ01 and MNZ02, on the 4...

April 27, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Equinix's $1.2 billion in green bonds will enhance its data center sustainability

In its latest sustainability effort, Equinix has announced $1.2 billion of "green bonds," the fourth green bond the company has issued. Now the company's total green bonds stand at $4.9 billion. According to the company, the company will use these funds to push forward its sustainability initi...

April 07, 2022

Equinix

Equinix joins CyrusOne in orchard initiative

Equinix has joined Host In Ireland’s Orchards in the Community initiative, alongside CyrusOne, and is now one of 52 pledgers – and more than 90 schools and community groups. The initiative plans to help plant over 1,200 orchards across Ireland to bolster the country’s declining bee population...

April 04, 2022

Equinix

Equinix moves into Salalah, Oman

Equinix has announced that it plans to build a data center in Salalah, a city located on the south coast of the Sultanate of Oman, making it the second in Oman, with links to its MC1 in Muscat. SN1 will also be the company's fifth data center in the region, and will be built in partnership wi...

April 04, 2022

Equinix

Microsoft announces San Jose data center plans

Microsoft has launched preliminary plans for a large data center complex near the corner of Component Drive and Orchard Parkway in San Jose, after it bought the plot back in 2021. According to Santa Clara County property records, the giant paid $78.7 million for the 21.3-acre site. Jonathan F...

March 30, 2022

Microsoft Azure

T-Mobile Poland and ARMA Sign Colocation Contract

T-Mobile Poland has signed another five-year colocation deal with the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture (ARMA). The telecommunication company revealed that the agency extended its data center services contract for five years. The contract covers the lease of storage roo...

March 28, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

T-Mobile

Microsoft Looking To Develop a Data Center Campus in Melbourne, Australia

According to Urban Developer, Microsoft has plans to build a new data center campus in Melbourne, Australia. The report shows that the company has drawn up proposals for the facility. Per the documents, Microsoft wants to develop a 243,000 square feet (22,500 square meters) facility at 20-2...

March 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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