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Read Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million
Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

June 22, 2023 Equinix

Invesco has purchased a data center in San Jose, California, run by Equinix. Mercury News reports that the Sobrato Organization recently sold 1735 Lundy Avenue in San Jose to Invesco Real Estate for $86.3 million, citing documents from Santa Clara County. The single-story building encompasses...

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Read Microsoft's Mount Pleasant data facility projected to produce 200 jobs during the first phase
Microsoft's Mount Pleasant data facility projected to produce 200 jobs during the first phase

Microsoft's Mount Pleasant data facility projected to produce 200 jobs during the first phase

June 16, 2023 Microsoft Azure

200 people are anticipated to work at the Microsoft facility in Mount Pleasant during its initial phase, according to an executive summary provided to the village's Plan Commission. When completed, the data center will provide 460 employees, including 330 first-shift positions and 130...

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Read AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.
AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.

AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.

June 13, 2023 atNorth

AtNorth's newest 12MW data center in Iceland is now running. The colocation company announced on June 12 that ICE03, its third facility in Iceland, has begun operations. The site's initial plans were released in April 2022. The data center is located in the northern Icelandic city of Akureyri....

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Read Digita Oy launches an independent data center business
Digita Oy launches an independent data center business

Digita Oy launches an independent data center business

June 13, 2023 Digita Oy

Digita, a Finnish tower operator, is separating its data center operations into a new company dubbed Digita Data Centers Oy. The new company will function as a subsidiary of Digita, which DigitalBridge owns. Digital Data Centers Oy will provide colocation, cloud, and connectivity services to...

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Read Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024
Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

June 12, 2023 Equinix

Equinix is expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, with plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur called KL1, which, the company said, will provide greater digital infrastructure capacity in the country. The new facility, which follows the company's announcement of JH1 in Johor, will...

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Read atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics
atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics

atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics

June 12, 2023 atNorth

atNorth has announced that its third Iceland data center, ICE03, is now operational. The facility, located 250 km north of Reykjavík, offers an initial capacity of 12 MW, expandable to 50MW. Completed in just 11 months, the company now has a portfolio of six operational data centers, with an...

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Read Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy
Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy

Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy

June 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced the availability of its first cloud region in Italy. Consisting of three data centers located in the Lombardy region, the company said it guarantees the highest levels of security, privacy and performance. The region is pegged to accelerate the digital transition of...

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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 HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations
HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations

HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations

May 30, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Following Human Rights Watch’s call for Microsoft to suspend plans in Saudi Arabia, 17 more groups have now joined the campaign, citing human rights concerns. The human rights groups have highlighted the government’s track record of infiltrating technology programs for spying purposes and its...

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Read Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand
Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand

Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand

May 27, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Contact Energy for geothermal energy in New Zealand. The 10-year PPA was reportedly signed in September 2022 and will see Contact provide Microsoft with all the renewable energy attributes generated by Contact's new 51.4MW Te Huka Unit 3...

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Read New Bill To Give Data Centers Certain Tax Breaks Has Competitive Benefits
New Bill To Give Data Centers Certain Tax Breaks Has Competitive Benefits

New Bill To Give Data Centers Certain Tax Breaks Has Competitive Benefits

May 14, 2023 Microsoft Azure

A bill submitted Monday would exclude data center equipment, software, and other costs from state sales and use taxes. Microsoft's projected Mount Pleasant data center would presumably benefit first. The bill's creators, Rep. Shannon Zimmerman, R-River Falls, and Sen. Romaine Robert Quinn,...

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Read Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first
Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first

Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first

May 12, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has made a world first by inking a PPA deal with Helion for electricity from the company's first commercial fusion power plant. Scheduled to come online in 2028, the giant has been promised to receive 50MW or greater from the plant after a one-year ramp-up. This technology has been long...

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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 Prime plans first Phoenix data center campus
Prime plans first Phoenix data center campus

Prime plans first Phoenix data center campus

May 08, 2023 Prime Data Centers

Prime has announced that it is expanding into the Phoenix market with a new five-building, 66.5-acre campus located in Avondale. Prime's new location will feature 210 MW of critical power and span 1.3 million square feet of space. According to the company, it plans to embed sustainability...

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Read Microsoft launches its first data center region in Poland
Microsoft launches its first data center region in Poland

Microsoft launches its first data center region in Poland

April 27, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it has opened its first data center region in Poland, which consists of three independent physical locations around Warsaw. The giant shared that this expansion is in response to the growing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and fast and reliable access to...

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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 Telia Will Offload its Danish Operations For $920m
Telia Will Offload its Danish Operations For $920m

Telia Will Offload its Danish Operations For $920m

April 26, 2023 Telia Company

The Swedish telecommunications company Telia Company has agreed to transfer its Danish operations to the energy and telecommunications corporation Norlys for $919.85 million. Telia explains that its strategy is to concentrate on markets where it can obtain and defend a market-leading position....

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Read Microsoft gains approval for construction in Hollands Kroon area
Microsoft gains approval for construction in Hollands Kroon area

Microsoft gains approval for construction in Hollands Kroon area

April 25, 2023 Microsoft Azure

After what has been a long road, potted with controversy and setbacks, Microsoft has obtained construction permission for its data center in the Hollands Kroon area in the north of the Netherlands, after a protracted permitting process. While permission has now been granted, back in 2021, the...

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Read Final approval: Microsoft's $1 billion data center receives green light in Racine County
Final approval: Microsoft's $1 billion data center receives green light in Racine County

Final approval: Microsoft's $1 billion data center receives green light in Racine County

April 19, 2023 Microsoft Azure

In Racine County, Microsoft's $1 billion data center campus in Wisconsin has been given the go-ahead by The Racine County Board of Supervisors after initially receiving Village Board approval. As per the deal, the tech giant will begin the first phase of construction by July 2026, with the second...

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Read Microsoft eyes expansion in Chicago, Illinois
Microsoft eyes expansion in Chicago, Illinois

Microsoft eyes expansion in Chicago, Illinois

April 18, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Following news that Microsoft has acquired over 30 more acres of land in Chicago, Illinois, it is believed that the giant will be expanding its data center presence in the region. The land, purchased for $41.5 million, is reportedly set to house two 207,000-square-foot (19,230 sqm) data centers....

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