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Read Glencar Secures Vantage Data Centers London Facility contract
Glencar Secures Vantage Data Centers London Facility contract

Glencar Secures Vantage Data Centers London Facility contract

April 27, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Glencar, a prominent UK & Ireland construction firm that has recently been listed among Europe's fastest-growing companies, disclosed that it had been granted a contract to construct the new LHR21 facility for Vantage Data Centers at the company's second London Campus near Heathrow Airport....

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Read Vantage plans expansion in San Jose, California
Vantage plans expansion in San Jose, California

Vantage plans expansion in San Jose, California

April 26, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Plans for a new data center in San Jose, California, have been proposed by Vantage Data Centers, as stated in city planning documents. Located at 105 Nortech Parkway in San Jose's Alviso district, the facility, if given the green light, would be based on a 9.8-acre site. That said, further...

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Read Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) launches fourth data center in Inzai
Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) launches fourth data center in Inzai

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) launches fourth data center in Inzai

April 26, 2023 Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has announced that it has begun work on its fourth data center in Inzai City, Japan. The new facility is located just 600m from Colt Data Centre Services' existing Inzai Campus, and is the second development under the joint venture between Fidelity Investments...

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Read Vantage Data Centers expands in London with second campus
Vantage Data Centers expands in London with second campus

Vantage Data Centers expands in London with second campus

April 26, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding its data center footprint in the UK with a new data center campus in London. The campus, LHR2, will be the company's second in London, based at Park Royal in west London and will see an investment of £250 million ($310.1m).The campus will feature a single data...

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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 BDX breaks ground on CGK3A data center
BDX breaks ground on CGK3A data center

BDX breaks ground on CGK3A data center

April 11, 2023 BDx Data Centers

Big Data Exchange (BDx) Indonesia has announced that it has broken ground on its new 15MW CGK3A facility in South Jakarta, Indonesia. The facility will see an investment of $150 million, offering 14,127 sqm (152,000 sq ft) of space. According to commercial director Avnish Patankar, CGK3A is 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 NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency
NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency

NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency

April 07, 2023 NTT

The Retirement Systems of Alabama has renewed NTT's contract with them until 2033. NTT Data will manage the data center for the state pension agency for an extra eight years as part of the arrangement. The contract's worth wasn't shared. The downtown Montgomery data center has 300 racks and a...

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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 Vantage Creates a New Investment Group in EMEA
Vantage Creates a New Investment Group in EMEA

Vantage Creates a New Investment Group in EMEA

April 06, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

With the formation of a new investment partnership, Vantage Data Centers has added new investors to its roster along with DigitalBridge. This week, the company disclosed that it has signed a legally binding agreement to establish an investment partnership with a group of investors, including...

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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 NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations
NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

April 03, 2023 NTT

On April 3, NTT East and NTT West, subsidiaries of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), were impacted by a network outage in Japan. NTT had a significant network outage that morning at about 7:10 local time, according to reports from regional media outlets, albeit the impacted services have...

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Read SUNeVision opens new data center in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
SUNeVision opens new data center in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong

SUNeVision opens new data center in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong

March 30, 2023 iAdvantage (SUNeVision)

The Mega Gateway, SUNeVision's seventh data center, has opened in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The hyperscale data center is a component of SUNeVision's Mega Campus and is carrier- and cloud-neutral. The newest building on the campus, located at 1 Ma Kok Street in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, has a 20MW...

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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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Read Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT
Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT

Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT

March 23, 2023 NTT

NTT will construct a new data center in Thailand. The company revealed this week that it will spend $90 million through NTT Global Data Centers to build a 12MW, 43,000 sq ft facility in Bangkok. The second half of 2024 will see the start of operations at the next data center, BKK3, which will be...

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Read Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris
Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

March 17, 2023 Equinix

Equinix, in another move in alignment with its sustainability goals, has announced the opening of a rooftop urban farm at its PA10 data center in Paris, France. Promoting circular economy principles, the company will use its servers' waste heat to heat the greenhouse, which was built by Reid...

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Read Colt plans new Mumbai data center campus
Colt plans new Mumbai data center campus

Colt plans new Mumbai data center campus

March 16, 2023 Colt Data Centre Services

Colt has announced plans to expand in India, with a new data center campus in Navi Mumbai. The campus is pegged to include ten buildings, with a total of 40 data halls, and 40,000 sqm of data center white space spanning a 62,000 sqm site. Further, the company outlined that the campus will have a...

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Read Another sustainability-linked loan secured by AirTrunk
Another sustainability-linked loan secured by AirTrunk

Another sustainability-linked loan secured by AirTrunk

March 15, 2023 AirTrunk

AirTrunk has announced that it has secured a new AU$ 650 million (US$432.5m) Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) in Japan. This latest addition, it has outlined, means that all debt platforms are now linked to sustainability targets; a total of AU$ 5 billion (US$3.3bn) in Environmental, Social, and...

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Read Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) opens Osaka Keihanna data center
Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) opens Osaka Keihanna data center

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) opens Osaka Keihanna data center

March 14, 2023 Colt Data Centre Services

Colt has launched its ​​45MW facility, located in the Keihanna area of Osaka, following the company first announcing the project in 2021. According to the company, already, 75% of the data center is committed. Spanning 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft), Niclas Sanfridsson, CEO of Colt DCS, said that the...

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