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Read Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai
Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

May 31, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is opening its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai, which, at full build-out, will offer 1,800 cabinets of capacity across two phases or a total footprint of 12,000 square meters (135,000 square feet). The facility will support the...

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Read Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles
Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

May 26, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has applied to construct a new data center in Los Angeles, California. The company has applied to construct a thirteen-story data center at 727 S Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The prospective applicant is GIP 7th Street LLC, a well-known subsidiary of Digital Realty. At...

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Read Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign
Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

May 25, 2023 Meta

After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data centers,...

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Read rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta
rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

May 24, 2023 Meta

rPlus Energies has announced that it has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Idaho Power, which has a special energy services agreement with Meta; output from the project will go into the same grid supporting Meta's new Kuna data center. The Ada County, Idaho solar farm, known as...

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Read Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released
Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released

Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released

May 18, 2023 Meta

Details regarding Meta's water consumption at a planned data center in Toledo have been released, revealing that yearly the facility will guzzle an estimated 660 million gallons of water. The facility was given the green light by Castilla-La Mancha back in March as a PSI, due to the economic...

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Read Digital Realty Sets Up Direct Liquid Cooling at Paris "HPC-capable" Data Center
Digital Realty Sets Up Direct Liquid Cooling at Paris "HPC-capable" Data Center

Digital Realty Sets Up Direct Liquid Cooling at Paris "HPC-capable" Data Center

May 12, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Direct liquid cooling (DLC) capabilities have been implemented at Digital Realty's La Courneuve data center in Paris, France. According to the company, its new facility is capable of high-performance computing (HPC). Fabrice Coquio, SVP and managing director – France at Digital Realty stated that...

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Read Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain
Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

May 09, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has inked a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Sonnedix. The deal will see the colocation provider source energy from three PV plants in the Castilla-La Mancha region of Spain. The three plants are pegged to be operational by the end of 2024; collectively,...

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Read €725 million sustainable-linked credit facility for AtlasEdge
€725 million sustainable-linked credit facility for AtlasEdge

€725 million sustainable-linked credit facility for AtlasEdge

May 01, 2023 AtlasEdge

AtlasEdge has announced that it has secured a new €725 million ($800m) sustainability-linked credit facility, which will be tied to targets focused on efficiency and renewable energy usage. According to the company, the financing package consists of €525 million in committed debt financing and an...

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Read The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project
The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project

The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project

April 27, 2023 Meta

In an effort to curb construction waste, Meta has announced a new project that is using mushrooms to help mitigate some of the 660 million tons of waste sent to landfills and incinerators each year. The giant has been working with Mycocycle, a tech company in the zero-waste market, to pilot the...

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Read Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK
Equinix Plans  30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

April 27, 2023 Equinix

Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in favor...

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Read Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs
Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs

Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs

April 26, 2023 Meta

Reuters reports that Meta abandoned plans to release its own artificial intelligence processor and instead adopted Nvidia GPUs. Initial use of CPUs for AI training and chips for inference caused the company to fall behind in AI development. The switch to GPUs necessitated the redesign of its data...

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Read EdgeConneX Increases the Size of Its Israeli Data Centers
EdgeConneX Increases the Size of Its Israeli Data Centers

EdgeConneX Increases the Size of Its Israeli Data Centers

April 25, 2023 EdgeConneX

The construction of a new facility in Rishon will allow EdgeConneX, an innovator in global Hyperlocal to Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, to increase its data center impact in Israel. The new data center will meet the region's growing demand from hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and...

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Read Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements
Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

April 14, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a number of renewable energy deals in line with its net zero and sustainability goals. In Australia the company has signed a renewable electricity supply contract with Origin Energy. The colocation company will procure energy from the Origin...

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Read GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty
GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty

GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty

April 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has sold GI Partners a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. According to Dgtl Infra, Digital Realty has sold the property at 43915 Devin Shafron Drive in Loudoun County to a private equity company. The single-story, 9 MW, 132,280 square foot building, also known as Building A,...

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Read Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta
Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

April 11, 2023 Equinix

Astra has joined Equinix's plans to develop a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This week, Astra and the colocation company announced a new joint venture, with Equinix holding 75 % of the new endeavor. The initial proposal for this joint venture is to build and operate a JK1 International...

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Read Equinix expands footprint in Canada
Equinix expands footprint in Canada

Equinix expands footprint in Canada

April 06, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced plans for a facility in Montreal, Canada. Known as MT2, the new facility is projected to be operational in the second half of 2023. In the first phase of the project, the facility will offer 500 racks from Q3, phase two, meanwhile, will add a further 500 racks by the fourth...

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Read Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas
Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

April 03, 2023 Equinix

After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property. The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 sq...

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Read EdgeConneX secures $3.3 Billion in sustainability-linked financing
EdgeConneX secures $3.3 Billion in sustainability-linked financing

EdgeConneX secures $3.3 Billion in sustainability-linked financing

March 29, 2023 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it has successfully executed $3.3 billion in “innovative” sustainability-linked financing, which it said will enable the development of critical digital infrastructure to support customers' global data center requirements. For this, JGlobal awarded the company with...

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Read IBM Will Open San Sebastián Quantum Computing Facility at Ikerbasque Campus
IBM Will Open San Sebastián Quantum Computing Facility at Ikerbasque Campus

IBM Will Open San Sebastián Quantum Computing Facility at Ikerbasque Campus

March 28, 2023 Kyndryl

A quantum computer will be installed in San Sebastián, located in the Basque Country of Spain, thanks to a collaboration between IBM and Fundación Ikerbasque. The IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computing Center is anticipated to launch by the end of 2024. It will deliver Qiskit Runtime services from a...

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Read Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion
Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

March 27, 2023 Equinix

Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Martin...

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