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Vodafone Idea wants to sell fixed-line broadband subsidiary and land meant for data centers

Vodafone

Vodafone Idea, an Indian telecom operator, wants to sell its optic fiber unit, fixed-line broadband subsidiary, and data center business to settle its debts. According to the Company’s latest financial books, Vodafone Idea has a gross debt of Rs 1,803.1 billion ($2.4 billion). It is looking t...

Ascendas India Trust to build a $162.4 million data center campus in Navi Mumbai, India

Ascendas Property Fund wants to invest up to R 12 billion ($162.4 million) to build and operate phase one of a campus in Airoli, Navi Mumbai. Ascendas Property Fund says it will complete the acquisition of the 6.6-acre site of the proposed data center in the third quarter of 2021. This campus ...

Regulators instruct Facebook to review power purchase agreements in New Mexico

Hyperscale Data Center

Regulators have instructed Facebook to renegotiate the terms of its proposed power purchase agreements regarding solar energy and energy storage facilities in New Mexico.The agreement relates to 50MW of solar energy from Encino North Solar Energy Center, 190MW of solar from Sky Ranch Solar Fac...

District Council approves AWS' Didcot, UK, data center

Hyperscale Data Center

AWS has secured the approval of its two-building data center development on the Didcot Power Station from the Vale of White Horse District Council’s planning committee. The data center project was first proposed in 2019. Following local feedback and Covid-19 delays, the Company decided to redu...

MCIT looks towards massive data center expansion in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) in Saudi Arabia has announced large-scale data center development plans across the country. Included within these plans is the building of a hyperscale data center. By 2030, it is expected that an injection of $18 billion will be...

Amazon files an application to build four data centers in Manassas, Virginia

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Amazon has filed an application to build four data centers on land in Manassas, Virginia. It filed to build the data centers on empty land that’s between Sudley Road and Ashton Avenue. The piece of land is presently owned by the estate of Lewis Percival Ashby Jr., and it is being used as a ...

PT DCI Indonesia Tbk (DCI) Announces The Construction of the Second Location Hyperscale Data Center Campus (H2)

DCI Indonesia: H2-01

JAKARTA, June 21, 2021 - As part of PT DCI Indonesia Tbk (DCI)’s commitment in being the leading provider of data center services in Indonesia, officially announced the construction of a second location for DCI campus hyperscale data center in the Region Pertiwi Lestari Industrial Estate Karaw...

Safe Host Is Expanding its SH2 data center in Gland, Switzerland

STACK Gland GEN02

SafeHost, a Swiss colocation provider, has announced that it is expanding its SH2 data center facility in Gland, Switzerland. Webuild Group, through its subsidiary CSC Costruzioni SA, will be responsible for building the additional 18MW of capacity at the SH2 facility. The project will als...

Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary, Marunouchi Direct Access opens 130-rack data center in Tokyo

Marunouchi: Otemachi II

Marunouchi Direct Access, a Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary, has opened its new data center in Tokyo, Japan. The Otemachi DC II facility is a 130-rack facility that’s built in the Tokyo Torch development. Marunouchi Direct Access is a joint venture between Mitsubishi Estate and Marubeni Corporat...

Yandex enters 5-year renewable energy deal in Finland

Yandex NV

Yandex, Russia's largest search platform, has decided to make the push towards renewable energy by signing up for a five-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for wind power at its Mäntsälä data center. According to Yandex, the deal with Finland's Ilmatar Energy will mean that 20% of the compan...

Bee Information Technology PH plans to build ‘largest carrier neutral data center in Philippines

Beeinfotech: The Hive

Bee Information Technology PH says it plans to build the largest carrier-neutral data center in the Philippines. The Company already leased out the entire Campus One building in the new Bridgetowne Destination Estate. The building it leases is a three-story one with leasable space of up to 205...

Thésée DataCenters opens its first Tier IV data center in Aubergenville, France

Thésée: Aubergenville TDC01

Thésée DataCenters has opened its first data center in Aubergenville, France. The data center coined TDC01 has 64,500 square feet of floor space in two rooms. The Uptime Institute has also certified the facility as Tier IV. According to Thésée DataCenters' president, Christophe Bouniol, the C...

Google buys plot of land in the Netherlands for potential data center

Hyperscale Data Center

Google just bought a plot of land in Groningen province, the Netherlands, for €3 million ($3.5 million). The plot of land bought is the last one at the Hoogebrug Winschoten business park in the municipality of Oldambt. There are reports that Google is planning to build a data center on the pie...

Scala Data Centers awarded carbon neutral certification in Brazil

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has secured carbon-neutral certification in Brazil. This comes as the company reaches its net-zero carbon emissions targets, with 100% of its energy consumption deriving from renewable and certified sources. This makes Scala the first company of its kin...

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

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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...

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...

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...