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January 12, 2022

Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

Equinix

Equinix has signed a green energy deal it has announced. By penning a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Neoen and Prokon, Equinix will be provided with 85% of the energy produced by the 35MW Björkliden wind farm in the municipality of Närpes, in the western region of Ostrobothnia. T...

January 12, 2022

Akwa Ibom State to be site for technological development and data centers

Africa

Akwa Ibom is becoming an emerging technology and innovation hub in Africa. Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Committee on Foreign Direct Investment Commission, Gabriel Ukpeh, said that the state government is working to ensure that undersea cable lands are in the works in the next 12 to 24 month...

January 11, 2022

Growth ahead for Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services

There is growth ahead for Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), as it announces the acquisition of ten parcels of land across Europe and APAC for the development of greenfield hyperscale data centres, including in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Japan.These parcels of land will see the company's portf...

January 11, 2022

Amazon data center in store for Desoto?

Amazon AWS

Reports are circulating about Amazon's recent purchase of a 9-acre development site on Hampton Road south of Interstate 20 in DeSoto, southern Dallas County. This latest land acquisition has got people talking about whether the giant is planning another data center, considering its recent and ...

January 10, 2022

Virginia's $124.5 million offering on tax breaks to data centers

Virginia

In Virginia's recently released Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, it was revealed that it offered $124.5 million in tax breaks to data centers last year. Comparatively, this is $14 million higher than the amount offered in 2020, which totaled $110.5 million, a figure that has gradually ri...

January 10, 2022

Cordiant Acquires DataGryd and Emitel for $551m

Hudson Interxchange

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has announced the acquisition of Polish digital infrastructure firm Emitel and US data center company DataGryd for $551m. Cordiant revealed that it had already entered a binding agreement to acquire some DataGryd Datacenters LLC assets that constitute its full o...

January 10, 2022

Keppel DC REIT Completes Acquisition Of Second Data Center In London

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel DC REIT has completed the acquisition of its second data center in London, UK. The Singaporean firm revealed that it acquired the data center in Bracknell for £57 million (S$105.5m/US$76.9m). The data center sits on a 4.7-acre property with three inter-linked two-story buildings. The da...

January 10, 2022

Five 9s Digital sells Kannapolis data center for $11.4 million

Segra: Charlotte

Five 9s Digital has sold a facility in Kannapolis, North Carolina, for $11.4 million. LD DI Assetco LLC is the buying company. BizJournal first reported the sale late last year. Five 9s acquired the property in question for $8.4 million in May 2020 from Castle & Cooke. The data center h...

January 10, 2022

Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed the development of a new 216MW data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia. The facility would be developed on an 80-acre site with three buildings with a combined space of 1 million square feet. The company revealed that the facility's first phase is scheduled...

January 07, 2022

Internet blackouts in Kazakhstan following protests

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is experiencing internet blackouts as its government implements nationwide cuts. These blackouts follow fuel and anti-government protests; however, president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has called protestors "plotters," arguing that they are "financially motivated".According to NetBlocks,...

January 07, 2022

Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus

Interxion's latest data center in Frankfurt, Germany, FRA16, has been completed, it has announced. Located on the company's Ostend campus at Hanauer Landstrasse, the facility spans 4,800 sqm (51,600 sq ft) of white space, with a capacity of 16.5MW. The data center is expected to go live later...

January 07, 2022

Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

Amazon AWS

Leeward Renewable Energy LLC has announced that it has completed the repowering of its 54.4-MW Crescent Ridge wind farm in Illinois, which will provide Amazon with renewable energy. This process involved decommissioning nine turbines, installing Vestas turbines, and replacing 24 legacy turbine...

January 07, 2022

Cologix recapitalizes with Stonepeak

Cologix

Investment firm Stonepeak has revealed that it has recapitalized Cologix. Stonepeak is an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, and it has decided to pull out its investment in Cologix. The agreement sees Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II LP and its co-investors sell Cologix to vehicles managed by S...

January 07, 2022

Telia Lietuva to invest EUR 10 million Lithuanian data center

Telia Lietuva Raisteniškės

Telia Lietuva has announced that it is to invest EUR 10 million in the construction of a data center located in Raisteniškės, next to the Vilnius-Panevėžys highway. This facility will join two Telia Lietuva other data centers in Vilnius, which will mean it will be the largest data center infra...

January 07, 2022

Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has bought the majority stake in Teraco. The data center giant announced the acquisition of the South African data center company from a consortium of investors, including Permira and Berkshire Partners. The deal sees Teraco valued at about $3.5 billion. The transaction sees Dig...

January 06, 2022

TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

Hong Kong

Taoping Inc (TOAP) has announced that it is expanding its Taoping G Cloud Hong Kong Data Center (the "Center") in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022.The facility, built in May 2021, will have an estimated total hash rate of 700GH/s, and i...

January 06, 2022

Sustainability goals outlined by Alibaba

China

Alibaba has announced its sustainability goals to meet the rest of the industry in its push to go green. According to Alibaba's Chairman and CEO, Daniel Zhang, this announcement aligns with the company's aspiration to become a force for "positive, innovative change in society." Zhang says that...

January 06, 2022

Orange signs 36MW wind PPA in Poland with Enertrag

Orange

In its latest move towards its sustainability pledge, Orange has announced that it has penned a 36MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Enertrag. This deal means that up to 30% of Orange Polska’s needs will be met with wind energy, from an offshore wind farm on the Vistula Rive...

January 06, 2022

The Netherlands’ climate goals at risk with new Facebook data center?

Hyperscale Data Center

Controversy is looming around Facebook's new data center in the Netherlands. Critics of the facility argue that Meta's 166-hectare complex at Zeewolde will undermine the country's sustainability targets.This is because the data center is predicted to use around 1,380GWh hours of energy a year....

January 05, 2022

DC Blox announces its Greenville data center in South Carolina is 'open for business'

DC BLOX

After breaking ground on its Greenville, South Carolina data center in April 2021, DC Blox has announced its Tier III facility is now open and operational.The facility has an initial 25,000 square foot (2,300 sqm), and when fully built, will span 54,000 sq ft (5,000 sqm). Moreover, it can acco...

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