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AWS has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Hyderabad, India. The company’s statement reads: “Today we are announcing the general availability of the 30th AWS Region, Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, with three Availability Zones and the ap-south-2 API name. The new Hyderabad Regi...

As data demand continues to surge and countries ponder different ways to reach their respective climate goals, the European Commission has announced that it’s launching a feasibility study into putting data centers into orbit. Thales Alenia Space, an aerospace company has been chosen to lead t...

Currently, Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation Fujitsu has a lot in the works. It’s trialing a private 5G network at a data center so that a robot can carry out data center inspections and report on any anomalies it finds. ...

Data privacy regulations are tightening across the world. In recent weeks, following data breaches, there have been numerous reports of countries proposing tighter privacy laws. The proposed Digital India Act, for example, would see India strengthen privacy and data localization regulations; e...

Meta has announced that it is deploying a new network timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), which will keep each server in its data centers on the same time. Servers must be coordinated, otherwise, users can experience delays, errors, and outages.In contrast to Network Time Protocol...

As part of the EU's Fit for 55 legislative package, it is pushing for data centers to be connected to surrounding district heating networks to use surplus heat. A new report from the Cool-Data project has comprehensively reviewed the rules and incentives around waste-heat recovery by data cent...

Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North Oc...

Vertiv is partnering up with the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore to develop a data center testbed facility, it has been announced. Named the Sustainable Tropical Data center Testbed (STDCT), the testing facility is state-of-the-art a...

Cyxtera has announced that it will be pushing its intention to become a real estate investment trust (REIT) back to a later date. Earlier in September, the colocation firm announced its plan to adopt a REIT status for tax purposes. The initial plan was to complete the conversion by 1st Janu...

Digital Edge has announced its plan to double its data center capacity over the next five years. The company also announced plans to expand into Thailand and India. Digital Edge was formed by Stonepeak Infrastructure in August 2020. Stonepeak is a New York-based private equity company. Digi...

Prime Data Centers has announced that it has started work on a large campus in Chicago, Illinois. The data center company held a groundbreaking ceremony for its $1 billion facility at 1600 East Higgins Road in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. This will be the company's first data center in Illi...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Zurich, Switzerland. The principal developer advocate for Amazon Web Services, Sebastien Stormacq, said: “I am pleased to announce today the opening of our 28th AWS Region: Europe (Zurich), also known by its API name: ...

Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of XData Properties, one of Madrid’s largest data center parks. The acquisition sees Iron Mountain expand its footprint considerably. The property reportedly has enough power to develop 79MW over the next years. The property currently hosts a 3MW dat...

Irish data center group Host in Ireland recently held its first North American event for DCs for Bees. More than 115 volunteers from the data center sector joined in on the event in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, last week, with the intention of increasing the bee population, and enhancing...