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OVHcloud Opens New Data Center in Undisclosed Mumbai, India Location

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 ...

March 23, 2023

OVH Group

European Commission Approves Orange's Belgium Investment

The decision to allow Orange to purchase a controlling share in the Belgian cable companies VOO and Brutélé has been made. It follows the European Commission's approval of the transaction in accordance with the EU Merger Regulation. It comes after a protracted examination of the deal's competi...

March 22, 2023

Orange

Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide

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,...

March 21, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Quantum Computer Purchased by OVHcloud

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 ...

March 20, 2023

OVH Group

Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

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 ...

March 17, 2023

Equinix

Orange announces solar panel deployment in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso

In further efforts to decarbonize, Orange has announced that it is deploying solar panels at its Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso data centers. Reports are that the deployments will average at 1MWp.These solar panels will be deployed by SolarX, part of investment firm Omnium Invest, and will repor...

March 14, 2023

Orange

Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio

Microsoft has announced its plans to invest $175.9 million in a massive new data center in San Antonio. Named “SAT40,” the facility was recently filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.According to the filing, the facility will be based at Lambda Drive in the Texas Researc...

March 09, 2023

Microsoft Azure

DigitalBridge Selling Vantage Data Centers Minority Interest

Inquiries are being made by DigitalBridge Group about selling a small portion of Vantage Data Centers. The CEO of DigitalBridge, Marc Ganzi, stated on the company's most recent quarterly results call that it wanted to raise more money while also focusing on the deconsolidation more of its "...

March 09, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

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 compa...

February 28, 2023

Equinix

Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing

Microsoft wants to duplicate a Dublin data center battery-sharing agreement. In 2022, Eaton unveiled a lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) with grid-interactive UPS to exchange energy with the local grid. The corporation told a London conference that this technique was ideal for t...

February 26, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Equinix Intends to Build an Additional Data Center in Barcelona

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 proj...

February 16, 2023

Equinix

Microsoft Azure Services Collapse Due to Data Center Power Overload and Cooling Failure

Cooling equipment at a Microsoft data center went down due to a utility data center power spike, which resulted in an outage. Customers hosted in the South East Asia cloud area experienced a variety of problems as a result of the outage. According to Microsoft's status page, when cooling ca...

February 09, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Application Submitted by Vantage For a 134-acre Data Center Facility in Ashburn, Virginia

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 B...

February 07, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Microsoft Plans to Build a Data Facility and Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia

Microsoft will construct a new Azure cloud region and data center in Saudi Arabia. This week, the company revealed plans to build a new cloud data facility in Saudi Arabia. The news was made at the Riyadh conference LEAP 2023. Microsoft stated that the new cloud region will provide enterpri...

February 07, 2023

Microsoft Azure

T-Mobile makes 2040 net-zero pledge

T-Mobile is the latest company to make a pledge to reach net-zero emissions by 2040, and claims it is the first US wireless to do so. According to the company, this pledge includes not only Scope 1 and 2 but also Scope 3 emissions that occur through the wider supply chain. It has also signed...

February 06, 2023

T-Mobile

Data4 To Open A New Data Center Facility in Hanau, Germany

Data4, a French data center company, will open a new facility in Hanau, Germany. P3 Logistic Parks, a European logistics real estate business financed by GIC, revealed plans for a massive data center campus on the grounds of a decommissioned army barracks in Hanau, east of Frankfurt, last y...

February 01, 2023

DATA4 Group

Microsoft expands in Des Moines, Iowa

Microsoft has announced that it is expanding in Iowa, following the issuing of a permit, valued at $255 million for a data center at 5855 SW Kerry St. As per the permit, the facility will span 250,000 sq ft.Described as the DSM 12 Buildout and located in West Des Moines, the SW Kerry Street s...

January 31, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Orange deploys new solar panels at Ivory Coast data center

At its Ivory Coast data center, telco Orange has deployed and commissioned a new solar plant. The facility, built back in 2016, offers 1.3MW of capacity, and is provided with energy from the new photovoltaic power plant for 50 percent of its daytime consumption (7am to 6pm). The company shared...

January 24, 2023

Orange

Microsoft forms cloud agreement with Suncorp

Suncorp Group and Microsoft have announced a three-year agreement, which will witness Suncorp increase its cloud footprint in Microsoft Azure while it winds down on-premise data centers. Suncorp has outlined its intentions to migrate 90% of workloads to the cloud by the end of this year. Its r...

January 19, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Atman announces offsetting efforts

Recently data center firm Atman outlined that from January 1st, its entire facility footprint’s energy use would be offset with renewable energy via guarantees of origin from energy firm RES.The Polish firm outlined that this includes: Equipment of colocation customers, Its farm of 3,000 dedi...

January 18, 2023

Atman

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