March 12, 2024 Sydney
Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will...
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March 05, 2024 Singapore
Telkom Indonesia has consolidated its Singapore data centers under one umbrella unit ahead of a potential sale. The company wrote on LinkedIn that this marks a “significant milestone in our journey toward becoming a regional powerhouse in the data center industry,” “The rationale behind this...
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March 01, 2024 Abidjan
Satellite provider Iridium has entered into an agreement with the Republic of Korea (ROK) Ministry of Defense (MOD) to provide connectivity for strategic use within the Republic of Korea's military operations. Iridium will provide the ROK Army with a range of services, including real-time...
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March 01, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at 578 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. The company has now completed the installation of rooftop solar systems at eight of its facilities, including Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and...
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February 29, 2024 London
Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said strong...
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February 27, 2024 Singapore
Empyrion DC, a Singapore-based data center operator, has secured a green loan worth S$133 million (US$98 million) to refinance its SG1 Dodid data center in Singapore, with proceeds used to “support existing operations” at the 12.5MW facility. This financing was provided by the UOB bank. Mark...
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February 26, 2024 Spain
An announcement made earlier this week at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain revealed that the members of the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA) are to establish a joint venture later this year specifically aimed at developing Large Language Models (LLMs). "We want our customers to...
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February 23, 2024 Madrid
Spanish insurance firm Mapfre has sold its data center in Madrid. The company received advise on the sale-leaseback deal of its 10MW facility in Alcalá de Henares from CBRE’s Spanish unit. Paul Mortlock, senior director and head of European data center capital markets at CBRE, said, "CBRE's...
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February 14, 2024 New Jersey
Via RI Marketplace, Real estate firm Marcus & Millichap is offering 1008 Virgil Avenue in Ridgefield, a former Sungard data center field as up for sale via auction and bidding for this property is set to begin March 25, with $750,000 listed as a starting bid. The listing reads, “The property...
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February 14, 2024 Sydney
Quantum computing startup Diraq has raised $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round led by specialist investor Quantonation, a venture capital fund dedicated to quantum technologies, with participation from Higgins Family Investments and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. This latest...
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February 09, 2024 Spain
Investment manager Azora in collaboration with Core Capital, this week launched a new European Edge data center platform called Quetta Data Centers. The investment firm plans to invest over €500 million in constructing six Edge data centers in Spain and Portugal totaling 60MW of capacity....
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February 09, 2024 Singapore
Singapore-based startup Amperesand, which makes SSTs that could replace standard transformers in electricity distribution, has been given $12.5 million in funding to develop solid-state transformers (SSTs), which could make electricity grids more efficient and flexible. "We are thrilled to...
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February 07, 2024 Equinix
Global colocation giant Equinix recently announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 151MW of wind power in Australia. The company will pay for 20 percent of the first phase of the giant Golden Plains Wind Farm project, which is being built in rural Victoria, not far from...
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January 19, 2024 Manchester
Lunar Digital began the planned multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company started development works across all the data halls at the site, including full renovations of the C5 and C6 data halls to optimize power and cooling, the deployment of new...
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January 18, 2024 Equinix
Michael Winterson has left colocation provider Equinix after 24 years to take on the role of managing director for the European Data Centre Association. Winterson wrote on LinkedIn, “Exactly 24 years ago I started my data center career at IXEurope, not 300 meters from our current Equinix offices...
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January 12, 2024 Barcelona
Edged Energy has commenced operations at its facility in Barcelona, Spain, named ‘Merlin.” The company completed the construction of this facility with a critical load capacity of 16MW and uses 100 percent renewable energy in the fall of 2023. Bryant Farland, CEO of Edged Energy said, “We are...
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January 10, 2024 London
Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of...
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January 10, 2024 Spain
Spanish telecoms firm Aire this week announced that it is acquiring Canary Islands telco Idecnet as it looks to consolidate its presence in the region. Raúl Aledo, CEO of Grupo Aire, said, “The arrival of Idecnet to Grupo Aire responds to our national and international growth strategy, which is...
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January 09, 2024 Stockholm
New Swedish operator T.Loop has acquired a 800 square meter data center located in the center of Stockholm, Sweden. Details about ths facility including the seller and the terms of the transaction have not been shared. However, the company noted that this facility will be modernized throughout...
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December 28, 2023 Equinix
Equinix is now one of the top ten largest green bond issuers in the United States after allocating $4.9 billion in green bonds to building and efficiency projects. These bonds will fund 172 green building projects on 105 sites, along with 33 energy efficiency projects. Equinix first issued green...
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