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Read AWS announces cloud region in Santiago, Chile
AWS announces cloud region in Santiago, Chile

AWS announces cloud region in Santiago, Chile

July 28, 2022 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced its plans to expand its footprint in Latin America with the development of a new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. Alongside this announcement, the company also explained that it had begun the process required to obtain an environmental permit for a $205 million data center in...

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Read Sabey Developing a 72MW in Round Rock, Texas
Sabey Developing a 72MW in Round Rock, Texas

Sabey Developing a 72MW in Round Rock, Texas

July 25, 2022 Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Data Centers has announced that work has started on a new data center campus in Round Rock, Texas. The company broke ground on the new 40-acre site. The facility will also span 40,000 square meters (430,000 square feet) across two buildings. It will also have up to 72MW in capacity upon...

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Read AWS Acquires Three Properties in Sterling, Virginia
AWS Acquires Three Properties in Sterling, Virginia

AWS Acquires Three Properties in Sterling, Virginia

July 19, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. According to BizJournal, the company paid up to $30.8 million to real estate firm Clarke-Hook Corp. This will be AWS’ third low-rise office property acquisition in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022. The buildings are...

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Read Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn
Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn

Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn

July 15, 2022 American Tower Corporation

Stonepeak has revealed that it is acquiring a 29 percent stake in American Tower’s Coresite data center business. The investment firm will pay $2.5 billion for the stake in the business. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. According to an...

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Read American Tower Partners With Stonepeak in U.S. Data Center Business
American Tower Partners With Stonepeak in U.S. Data Center Business

American Tower Partners With Stonepeak in U.S. Data Center Business

July 11, 2022 American Tower Corporation

BOSTON & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) and Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, today announced that Stonepeak, on behalf of certain affiliated investment vehicles, will acquire an ownership...

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Read Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen
Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen

Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen

July 08, 2022 Amazon AWS

As green hydrogen turns the heads of big investors, Amazon, Equinor, and others have announced they are backing energy startup Electric Hydrogen (EH2) with a $198 million round, led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech. EH2 is reportedly working on a ‘100MW-minimum’ electrolyzer technology for...

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Read Sabey Data Centers accelerates sustainability goals
Sabey Data Centers accelerates sustainability goals

Sabey Data Centers accelerates sustainability goals

June 30, 2022 Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Data Centers has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by or before 2029 across its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. Following the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi) validating the company's target and methods to achieve a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, the Sabey...

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Read Sabey Has Plans For $250m Revenue Notes
Sabey Has Plans For $250m Revenue Notes

Sabey Has Plans For $250m Revenue Notes

June 30, 2022 Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Data Centers is about to issue revenue notes to the tune of $250m. According to Asset Securitization, the company will issue the notes to securitize real estate and tenant lease payments on six of its hyperscale data center campuses across Washington, Virginia, and New York. S&P will...

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Read Sustainable financing for EdgeConneX
Sustainable financing for EdgeConneX

Sustainable financing for EdgeConneX

June 23, 2022 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it has secured $1.7 billion in sustainability-linked debt financing, including the company's first-ever Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS) and multi-currency term loan (ESG Term Loan). The company will reportedly use this to finance its growth and keep up with...

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Read AWS Acquires 58-Acre Land in Virginia For Data Center Development
AWS Acquires 58-Acre Land in Virginia For Data Center Development

AWS Acquires 58-Acre Land in Virginia For Data Center Development

June 21, 2022 Amazon AWS

According to BizJournal, Amazon Web Services has acquired a 58.5-acre land in Prince William County, Virginia, for $87.8m. Local County records also show that the land is located at 5845 Wellington Road, Gainesville. Interestingly, the company also acquired a 58.5-acre plot in April last year. It...

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Read Skybox Breaks Ground on Its 30MW Facility in Austin
Skybox Breaks Ground on Its 30MW Facility in Austin

Skybox Breaks Ground on Its 30MW Facility in Austin

June 21, 2022 Skybox Datacenters

Skybox has started work on its Austin data center. The company announced plans for the 30MW data center earlier in March. Skybox Austin I will span 141,240 square feet (13,100 square meters). It will also be located in Pflugerville, Austin. In addition, the company also designed the data center...

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Read Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta
Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

June 16, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 300,000...

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Read Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development
Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

June 15, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 million...

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Read Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future
Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future

Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future

June 15, 2022 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced its plans to launch hundreds of Local Zones to expand its Edge cloud network extensively. Local Zones serve as Edge locations hosting applications that need low latency to final users or on-premises installations. Some of the services the zone offers include database, storage,...

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Read Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development
Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development

Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development

June 10, 2022 Meta

Meta has announced that it will be expanding its Gallatin data center campus, which is located in Tennessee. The plans for the campus, which will see an injection of $1B, were first announced back in 2020, and the campus will be powered in part by solar energy from a 110MW power purchase...

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Read AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia
AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia

AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia

June 09, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services plans to develop a new data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia. The company has already filed with officials to develop a single-story, 220,000 square feet (20,400 square meters) data center at the intersection of Lee Highway and Blackwell Road in Warrenton town. AWS...

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Read CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers
CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers

CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers

June 09, 2022 American Tower Corporation

CoreSite has integrated three data centers from American Tower into its data center portfolio. The data centers are located in Florida and Georgia. The three data centers are Orlando OR1, located at 9701 S. John Young Parkway, Orlando, Atlanta AT1, located at 55 Marietta Street NW, Atlanta), and...

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Read Prime Data Centers to expand in LA
Prime Data Centers  to expand in LA

Prime Data Centers to expand in LA

June 08, 2022 Prime Data Centers

Prime Data Centers is to open a new hyperscale datacenter in Los Angeles after acquiring a 4.5-acre parcel, which is presently occupied by an industrial building, it has been announced. The facility will have a capacity of 33MW and be located in Vernon, Southern California. The data center plans...

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Read Supernap Thailand Shareholders Mulling Over Sale
Supernap Thailand Shareholders Mulling Over Sale

Supernap Thailand Shareholders Mulling Over Sale

June 02, 2022 Switch

According to reports, Supernap Thailand investors are looking to sell their stake in the business. Some shareholders including Kasikornbank Pcl and Siam Commercial Bank are working with financial advisers to make the sale possible. Supernap Thailand is said to be worth up to $800m. Supernap...

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Read AWS, biometrics and human rights
AWS, biometrics and human rights

AWS, biometrics and human rights

May 27, 2022 Amazon AWS

AWS is under pressure to drop a contract it holds with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which will see it host the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric database, which, according to a recent report by Mijente, Just Futures Law and the Immigrant Defense Project, holds...

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