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Securing sustainability: Wipro teams up with National Grid to consolidate data centres

United Kingdom

Wipro has reportedly signed “a multi-year global strategic IT and digital deal” with National Grid. Through the deal, Wipro will assist National Grid with digital transformation, while integrating its managed services, and consolidating multiple data centers across both the UK and US to next g...

Rostelecom to open the first Arctic data center in Russia

Rostelecom

Rostelecom has plans to develop a data center in the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia. The Murmansk region Government revealed that the Russian telco would open a new facility on the Kola Peninsula in 2022. Rostelecom also said it would be starting work on the new facility at the end of this year...

Orange plans to open five new Spanish data centers before 2023

Orange

According to El Economista, Orange has plans to invest €20 million ($23.2m) to develop five new data centers in Spain. The telco plans to complete the development of these data centers before 2023 runs out. Orange aims to break ground on these facilities in the next few months and have them...

Office complex and data center auctioned for $15m in Orlando, Florida

Orlando

Regency Commercial Properties, Inc. has completed the sale of Central Corporate Center at 5915-6035 South Rio Grande Ave in Orlando, Florida, for $15.1 million. This is a five-building office park with 318,516 square feet of space spread across 21.7 acres of land. The property firm sold the bu...

DigitalBridge and Columbia Capital to acquire some Superloop's asset for A$140m ($103.8 million)

DigitalBridge

DigitalBridge Group and Columbia Capital have announced that they have agreed to acquire some select assets from Superloop (Hong Kong) Limited and Superloop (Singapore) Pte Ltd. For A$140 million ($103.8 million). The deal sees Columbia Capital and DigitalBridge become Superloop’s strategic pa...

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate form a $575 Million Joint Venture to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in Australia

Equinix

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have formed a new $575 million joint venture with an aim to develop hyperscale data centers in Sydney, Australia. PGIM is the real estate investment and financing division of Prudential Financial. The facilities the companies will be developing under this JV are...

DCI secures land for cloud edge facility in Darwin, Australia

DCI Data Centers

DCI has revealed its plans for a new Edge facility in Darwin, Australia. The company acquired a 2.7-hectare site in Darwin Technology Park. It also has an option to expand the site up to 5 hectares if it wants. DCI says it will be developing a Tier III facility called DRW01 with 10MW capacity ...

Digital Edge reveals RFS date for OSA1 in Osaka, Japan

Digital Edge: Osaka OSA1

Digital Edge has announced its ready-for-service (RFS) date for launching its first self-build data center facility in Osaka, Japan. OSA1 is a 14MW facility located in the Osaka Central Business District. Digital Edge started the facility’s construction in April 2021 and is scheduled to be in ...

Dubai’s DAMAC Group buys stake in Ireland’s Dataplex

DataPlex Group

DAMAC Group has acquired a 45 percent stake in Dataplex Group Limited. The two companies will focus on brownfield projects that involve rebuilding existing structures. They will also focus on more significant greenfield projects while focusing on hyperscale and wholesale colocation customers. ...

PLDT Inc to build largest data center in Philippines

ePLDT

PLDT Inc has announced that it has plans to build the Philippines’ biggest data center. Although the size and location of the facility are yet to be released, according to the company, its capacity will be greater than its 10 VITRO data centers together. It will be Tier-3 certified and Tier-4 ...

Google's new 'green campus': What it is and what it means for the future of Google

Google

Google’s new Bay View campus, located east of the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, will reportedly be opened to a select number of employees by January and is reportedly a representative of the company’s wider goals and vision. According to Google, the campus itself is ...

FUJI's Sustainable Data Storage Initiative

Fuji recently announced the launch of its Sustainable Data Storage Initiative, which seeks to highlight the role that tape technology has to place in reducing electricity consumption and CO2 emissions relating to data storage.Speaking about the aims of the initiative, Hironobu Taketomi, Presid...

OVHcloud goes public

OVH Group

OVHcloud has finally been listed on the stock exchange in France. It went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange. The company’s opening market capitalization was €3.48 billion ($4bn). It also raised €400 million ($469m). OVHcloud opened at €18.50 per share, dipped slightly, but its sha...

Oracle to explore potential of new Cloud region in Serbia with MoU

Oracle

Oracle Cloud has signed an MoU with the Government of Serbia at the World Expo in Dubai this week. The purpose of the MoU is to explore the possibility of opening an Oracle data region within the State Data Center in Kragujevac. According to a press release by the Serbian Government, the new l...

Echelon breaks ground on LCY20 facility

Echelon Data Centres

Echelon Data Centres has confirmed that it is developing its second facility in the UK. The LCY20 facility will be located in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK. Echelon has broken ground on the facility, and it plans to complete it by Q2 of 2022. LCY20 will have 20MW of capacity. It will also ha...

Data Center First moves into Batam, Indonesia with new data center

Batam

Data Center First has announced that it is moving into Batam, Indonesia, with its first data center in the country. According to the company, the first phase will see the construction of a 30MW facility at Batam Island's Nongsa Digital Park, spanning 276,600 sq ft (25,700 sqm), and there is a ...

Wasabi Technologies launch APAC data center in Japan

Wasabi Technologies

Wasabi Technologies has announced that it is launching its first data center in the Asia Pacific, Japan, and is teaming up with Colt Technology Services, which will provide connectivity delivering on Wasabi Technologies cost and latency needs.Speaking about the company’s partnership with Colt ...

Telehouse's Marseille DC to begin operation in November

Telehouse Marseille THM1

Telehouse has confirmed that its first data center in Marseille will be in full operation by the beginning of November. Telehouse calls the new facility THM1, and it will give customers access to 160Tbps of capacity via subsea cables. The cables connect Marseille with Asia, the Middle East, an...

Saudi Arabia makes a big investment in digital infrastructure

Saudi Arabia

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia has announced that it is forming four cooperation initiatives to build hyperscale data centers. This announcement is part of its achievement of the Kingdom Vision 2030 goals, which envisions the country becoming an “inno...

New Taiwan data center hailed as a sign of greater things to come

Taiwan

Chief Telecom, an affiliate of Chunghwa Telecom, has launched its fourth Internet Data Center (IDC) in Taipei City, a move that has been projected to bring new opportunities for Taiwan's IDC and cloud industries.The unveiling ceremony was attended by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who outlined...