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Goonhilly, a UK ground station operator, has purchased two teleports in the US. Satcom Direct's SD Government and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. this week stated that they had agreed for the UK company to purchase the Comsat teleports located in Southbury, Connecticut and Santa Paula, California...

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 thr...

The regional energy supplier for Western Australia, Horizon Power, has migrated its IT workloads to Macquarie's cloud. The power company contracted with Macquarie Telecom and Macquarie Cloud Services to switch to a private cloud environment and lessen its reliance on data centers. The company ...

Digital Edge has announced its plans for a new data center in Tokyo, Japan, having entered into a partnership with real estate developer Hulic. Through this partnership, it has created a joint venture, DEH1 Co., Ltd for the development, known as the 'Kobunacho Project,' it will develop its TY...

The University at Buffalo School of Management (UB) has announced that recent research has discovered a strategy to conserve data center energy consumption and optimize processing performance. It found that data center managers can reduce energy consumption 10-30%. This can be done, the resear...

SolarWinds has announced that it has launched its Australian IT service management (ITSM) data center, to enhance performance and speed and assist customers, and demonstrate compliance with data sovereignty requirements. The launch is part of an ongoing investment in the region.Speaking about ...

At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. Th...

Colt has announced plans to expand in India, with a new data center campus in Navi Mumbai. The campus is pegged to include ten buildings, with a total of 40 data halls, and 40,000 sqm of data center white space spanning a 62,000 sqm site.Further, the company outlined that the campus will have...

Spectra Logic has installed a new 18-frame exascale Tape Library at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, USA. The 18-frame Spectra TFinity Tape Library is the foundation for the data storage system known as The Tape Library, which stores LTO-9 tape drives and media. Spectra ...

According to reports, the Italian telecom giant Wind Tre is considering spinning off its network assets. A Reuters source noted that  the operator continues to explore a potential sale with the Swedish private equity firm EQT while also expressing a desire to spin off its network assets into a...

Robotic dogs are being tested by Brazilian data center operator Scala for fire safety assessments. While Scala doesn't specify the brand or manufacturer, the robot appears to be a Go1 from the Chinese company Unitree. The Go1 is a little smaller than some other robot dogs, at around 30 cm t...

Box's financial report for 2022, which details the company's plans to transfer operations to public cloud infrastructure, was just published. The report indicates that in 2022, the corporation increased its spending on public cloud infrastructure by $15.2 million while decreasing its expenditu...

OneWeb, a provider of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a letter of intent to discuss cloud-based connection options. The two organizations want to collaborate on a totally integrated satellite constellation management service. They wa...

A quantum computer is being installed at an Equinix data center in Tokyo, Japan, by the UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC). This week, the company said that starting in late 2023, it will provide "Quantum Computing as a Service" through a system on Equinix's TY11 Tokyo International Bus...

Mark Sanchez has been appointed as Scala Data Centers' new Senior Director of Data Center Deployment. Scala Data Centers is the top Latin American platform for environmentally friendly data centers in the hyperscale market. After five years managing teams and implementing data centers on five ...

After letting go of around 11,000 workers in the latter part of last year, Meta aims to let go of about 10,000 individuals. As part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 'Year of Efficiency' appeal to investors to improve a falling share price, the corporation will also eliminate 5,000 unfilled position...

A new data center is being planned by the local real estate company Vitali outside of Bergamo, Italy. The Municipality of Arcene in northern Italy is reportedly in talks with Vitali s.p.a. to create a new data center campus, according to the local Italian press.The commune of Arcene is located...

AirTrunk has announced that it has secured a new AU$ 650 million (US$432.5m) Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) in Japan. This latest addition, it has outlined, means that all debt platforms are now linked to sustainability targets; a total of AU$ 5 billion (US$3.3bn) in Environmental, Social, ...