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Read Digital Realty expands footprint in Zagreb, Croatia
Digital Realty expands footprint in Zagreb, Croatia

Digital Realty expands footprint in Zagreb, Croatia

October 06, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Global cloud provider Digital Realty announced its acquisition of a land parcel in Zagreb, Croatia for the construction of a new data center campus as it plans to expand its footprints in Southeast Europe. This plot of land, located close to its existing data center campus can support up to 30...

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Read Carbon Streaming Corp. signs carbon capture agreement with Microsoft
Carbon Streaming Corp. signs carbon capture agreement with Microsoft

Carbon Streaming Corp. signs carbon capture agreement with Microsoft

October 02, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Carbon Streaming Corporation announced it had signed an agreement to provide Microsoft with biochar carbon removal credits from the Waverly Biochar project in Waverly, Virginia. The company noted that the Biochar project would deliver Microsoft up to 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal...

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Read Microsoft to extend DC footprint to Naas, Ireland
Microsoft to extend DC footprint to Naas, Ireland

Microsoft to extend DC footprint to Naas, Ireland

September 25, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft recently commenced plans to develop plans for a new Irish data center campus near Jigginstwon in Naas. Following reports by Kildare Nationalist, Microsoft has begun consultations with authorities for the proposed development of one of the two sites marked for DC usage in the Council’s...

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Read Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm
Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm

Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm

September 08, 2023 ServerFarm Realty

Manulife Investment Management has concluded the acquisition of data center firm Serverfarm on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II. In May 2023, Manulife announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in Serverfarm. Avner Papouchado, the CEO of Serverfarm, and NantCapital LLC will...

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Read Digital Realty to expand in Italy
Digital Realty to expand in Italy

Digital Realty to expand in Italy

September 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to...

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Read Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome
Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome

Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome

September 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty plans to extend its operations into Italy and has already purchased land in Rome, the country's capital. Following the purchase of land in Rome and the subsequent pre-development planning for it, the company announced its entry into the Italian market last week. The ROM1 data...

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Read Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure
Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure

Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure

August 22, 2023 Microsoft Azure

The digital arm of the Malaysian energy company Petronas, Petronas Digital, has inked a contract with Microsoft to develop a high-performance computing (HPC) artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform. The organization will use the platform to perform AI and machine learning to look...

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Read Digital Realty unveils high-density colocation solu with 70kW racks in 28 markets
Digital Realty unveils high-density colocation solu with 70kW racks in 28 markets

Digital Realty unveils high-density colocation solu with 70kW racks in 28 markets

August 08, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a global leader in the data center industry, has introduced a high-density colocation service in 28 markets across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. The new service supports up to 70 kilowatts per rack of computing power. Digital stated that the increased rack densities were...

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Read Hill International to support building of two Digital Realty data center projects in Greece
Hill International to support building of two Digital Realty data center projects in Greece

Hill International to support building of two Digital Realty data center projects in Greece

August 03, 2023 Digital Realty: Athens ATH1

Hill International, Inc. has announced it will work with Digital Realty to support the construction of two new data centers in Greece. The first will be in Heraklion, Crete, while the second will be located in Athens. The latter location is where the company's Greek data center campus is...

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Read Microsoft has submitted plans to construct two data centers in San Jose, California
Microsoft has submitted plans to construct two data centers in San Jose, California

Microsoft has submitted plans to construct two data centers in San Jose, California

August 03, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has applied to construct two data centers in San Jose, California. On August 17, the San Jose Council Planning Division will convene to discuss Microsoft's plans for a 65-acre site at 1657 Alviso-Milpitas Road. The company seeks permission to remove 79 trees to construct two...

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Read Microsoft increases data center and AI compute capex
Microsoft increases data center and AI compute capex

Microsoft increases data center and AI compute capex

July 28, 2023 Microsoft Azure

This past quarter, Microsoft's capital expenditures increased to $10.7 billion as the company reported spending significantly on data centers, computing, and networking. The company announced that spending would increase each quarter throughout fiscal 2024, already higher than the $7.8bn capital...

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Read Digital Realty sells TPG Real Estate 80% of Northern Virginia data centers stake for $1.3bn
Digital Realty sells TPG Real Estate 80% of Northern Virginia data centers stake for $1.3bn

Digital Realty sells TPG Real Estate 80% of Northern Virginia data centers stake for $1.3bn

July 28, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

TPG Real Estate now owns 80% of three Digital Realty data centers in the US state of Virginia's Northern Virginia. Digital will continue to oversee the daily operations of the joint venture's facilities. The data center business aims to utilize the $1.3 billion in proceeds from the transaction to...

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Read KPMG will invest $2 billion with Microsoft in AI and cloud services
KPMG will invest $2 billion with Microsoft in AI and cloud services

KPMG will invest $2 billion with Microsoft in AI and cloud services

July 28, 2023 Microsoft Azure

KPMG plans to invest $2 billion over the next five years in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in partnership with Microsoft. The global expansion of the 'Big Four' accounting firm's relationship with Microsoft is anticipated to generate up to $12 billion in revenue over the next...

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Read Microsoft intends to invest $230 million in an additional data center in San Antonio, Texas
Microsoft intends to invest $230 million in an additional data center in San Antonio, Texas

Microsoft intends to invest $230 million in an additional data center in San Antonio, Texas

July 28, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft intends to construct another data center in the San Antonio, Texas, region. The corporation stated in applications with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, initially reported by the San Antonio Business Journal, that the project would cost $230 million. The company intends...

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Read Microsoft pushes forward with data center projects in Brazil
Microsoft pushes forward with data center projects in Brazil

Microsoft pushes forward with data center projects in Brazil

July 26, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has shared its plans for further expansion in Brazil, with a new data center in the Campinas area of São Paulo state, Brazil. Located in Hortolândia, details on the facility obtained by BNAmericas, reveal the giant’s plans for the installation of a data center on greenfield land with 39...

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Read Reliance joins Brookfield and Digital Realty's Indian data center JV
Reliance joins Brookfield and Digital Realty's Indian data center JV

Reliance joins Brookfield and Digital Realty's Indian data center JV

July 26, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Reliance Industries, the largest business group in India, revealed that it would join Mercury Holdings SG Pte, the current joint venture between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, to construct data centers in India. By acquiring a 33,33 % stake in the existing JV, Reliance Industries...

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Read Microsoft was permitted to operate its Dublin data center on gas
Microsoft was permitted to operate its Dublin data center on gas

Microsoft was permitted to operate its Dublin data center on gas

July 20, 2023 Microsoft Azure

According to reports, Microsoft has been granted permission to construct a 170MW gas power facility for its Dublin data center expansion. As per a report from Business Post, the cloud giant applied in December to construct a gas power facility for its $1 billion Dublin data center campus...

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Read GI Partners acquires the majority stake in 2 Chicago data centers from Digital Realty
GI Partners acquires the majority stake in 2 Chicago data centers from Digital Realty

GI Partners acquires the majority stake in 2 Chicago data centers from Digital Realty

July 18, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

GI Partners has acquired a majority stake in two data centers in Chicago, Illinois, from Digital Realty. This week, the business announced that it had formed a joint venture with GI Partners to sell a 65 percent stake in two stabilized hyper-scale data center facilities and their associated...

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Read Microsoft buys a 14-acre plot for data centers in Sterling, Virginia
Microsoft buys a 14-acre plot for data centers in Sterling, Virginia

Microsoft buys a 14-acre plot for data centers in Sterling, Virginia

July 17, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has plans for data centers in Sterling, Virginia. BizJournal reports that Microsoft purchased a 14-acre parcel at 23540 Pebble Run Place for approximately $15 million last month, citing Loudoun County property records. Data centers are already legally permitted on the property, which is...

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Read Digital Realty announces first NVIDIA DGX H100-Ready data center
Digital Realty announces first NVIDIA DGX H100-Ready data center

Digital Realty announces first NVIDIA DGX H100-Ready data center

July 12, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty's KIX13, its newest data center in Osaka, Japan, has been certified as NVIDIA DGX H100-ready as part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program. The facility reportedly received this accreditation, the first Japanese facility to do so, based on its ability to provide a dedicated,...

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