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Rocky Mountain Power to build 120MW solar farm in Utah for Facebook power

Hyperscale Data Center

Rocky Mountain Power has announced that it would be building a new 120MW solar farm in Iron County, Utah, for Facebook. The solar farm will power Facebook’s Eagle Mountain data center. Head of renewable energy at Facebook, Urvi Parekh, commented on the development. He said the Company is happ...

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building an operations center in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Grand Rapids MI

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building a new operations and communications center, which includes, a data center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The project will cost the Company $7.7 million. Gerald R. Ford International airport says the new facility will be on the east side of the airp...

Euronext is moving its data center infrastructure from London to Italy because of Brexit

Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Euronext, the largest stock exchange in Europe says it is moving its data center out of London to Italy because of Brexit. It says it made the decision because it needs a predictable regulatory environment which the UK can’t provide. Euronext initially moved its data center infrastructure from...

Microsoft to acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud; AT&T to move its 5G network to Azure

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud technology and intellectual property. It will also be making job offers to hundreds of AT&T engineers. As part of the deal, AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to Microsoft Azure. AT&T’s 5G core would be the starting point. This deal...

Zoot expands into Australia with new data center

Zoot Enterprises

Zoot has announced its expansion into Australia, with its new data center located in Sydney. The company already has operational facilities in Bozeman Montana, Billings Montana, Frankfurt, Germany and Amsterdam in The Netherlands, and this addition brings its total to five.In a statement, Tony...

NASA awards $2.5 billion IT & communications contract to Leidos Inc

NASA confirms that they have awarded a new agency-wide information technology and communications services contract for Advanced Enterprise Global Information Technology Solutions contract worth $2.5 billion to Leidos Inc. The contract will run for ten years, and it will see Leidos provide clou...

Prime Data Centers to lease 9MW data center in Santa Clara to Cyxtera

Prime Data Centers

Prime Data Centers announces pre-lease of its new 9MW facility under construction in Santa Clara, California, to Cyxtera. Cyxtera will be leasing the entire four-story building facility with a total space of 121,000 square feet. Prime Data Centers first announced the facility's construction in...

CDH raises RNB 2 billion ($310 million) for a Chinese data center company

China

CDH Investments has announced that it has raised RNB 2 billion ($310 million) for a domestic data center Company. CDH Investments is a Beijing-based firm, and the funds it raised are said to be the first domestic fund in China that’s focused on investing in data centers. Ye Tao, managing dire...

Princeton Digital Group announces $1 billion hyperscale campus in Tokyo, Japan

Princeton PDG TY1

Princeton Digital Group is building a 100MW hyperscale campus in Tokyo, Japan. Investments in the facility are also expected to reach $1 billion. The facility would be built on an eight-acre site in Saitama City, Tokyo. Princeton Digital Group will build the facility in two phases, with each ...

Cyxtera Technologies expands in Silicon Valley and Chicago

Cyxtera Technologies

Cyxtera has announced that it is expanding its data center data footprint in Silicon Valley and Chicago. This includes the leasing of a 9MW data center based in Santa Clara, which offers 121,000 sq ft across four floors. In addition to this, the company is also adding around 1.6 MW of capacity...

TPG teams up with Quantum Loophole to redevelop Old Alcoa Plant

TPG Real Estate: Frederick Campus

TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP) and Quantum Loophole have joined forces to acquire a 2,100-acre industrial site near Frederick, Maryland, for its first major campus. The joint venture will see the two redevelop the site of the Old Alcoa Plant and transform it into a gigawatt scale data center ...

Yotta partners with Piql to launch a long-term data storage

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

Yotta, an Indian data center firm will be partnering with Piql to offer its clients long-term data storage. The companies partnered up to create Yotta Preserve, and the companies will use piqlFilm for their data storage. This film is designed by Piql and it is designed to last for 500 years...

Princeton Digital Group considers $400m fundraising ahead of potential IPO

Princeton Digital Group

According to reports from Bloomberg, Princeton Digital Group wants to raise funds from investors to the tune of $400 million. Princeton Digital Group invests, develops, and operates data centers across Asia in countries like Singapore, China, Indonesia, and India. It also has 18 data centers i...

GlobalConnect secures €2.7bn ($3.2 billion) debt refinancing

GlobalConnect A / S

GlobalConnect Group has announced that it has secured what it terms a ‘record debt refinancing’ worth €2.7 billion ($3.2 billion). A consortium of five Active Bookrunners, three Underwriters, and six Cornerstone Lenders coordinated by ING and SEB were responsible for the debt refinancing. The ...

Green Mountain signs agreement to heat land-based trout farm

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain, the Norwegian colocation company, has entered into an agreement with Hima Seafood to reuse waste warm water from the company’s local data center to grow trout at the farm in Rjukan, Norway.The Recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility, located 800 meters from the DC2-Tel...

Swisscom named AWS as Preferred Public Cloud Provider to Accelerate Digital Transformation Strategy

Swisscom AG

Amazon Web Services has announced that the largest telecoms firm in Switzerland, Swisscom, has selected AWS as its public cloud provider for its enterprise IT. Swisscom wants to use AWS to improve IT agility and operational efficiency. They also intend to use AWS to accelerate the time to mark...

Wallingford council discloses details of data center host fee agreement

Following a series of delays, Wallingford council has revealed its revised host agreement with Gotspace Data Partners, the tech company that seeks to build a number of facilities on two properties in the town. The revised agreement comes as the council voted five to 4 for its approval.Gotspace...

Silicon Valley Power to build a substation for AWS's planned data center in Santa Clara

Hyperscale Data Center

Silicon Valley Power will build a new substation for AWS’s upcoming data center in Santa Clara. Oppidan Investment Company will develop and pay for the data center facility on behalf of Amazon Web Services. Besides, Amazon acquired the site for $100 million in 2020, which will make it AWS’s f...

Iron Mountain enters $178 million sale-leaseback deal with Intermediate Capital Group, and would use proceeds to invest in data centers

Iron Mountain

US Real Estate Investment Company Iron Mountain has announced that it sold five facilities in the greater London area to Intermediate Capital Group (ICG). The sale agreement also included a leaseback deal for the facilities. Iron Mountain will remain in the facilities for an initial 12 year pe...

Qatar's sovereign wealth fund wants to invest in data centers and warehouses

Qatar

The Qatar Investment Authority wants to start investing in data centers and warehouses. This is because the real estate sector is struggling because of the covid-19 pandemic. Chief Executive of the sovereign wealth fund, Mansoor bin Ebrahim al Mahmoud, told an economic forum organized by Bloom...