May 13, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced its involvement in a new district heating system project in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The data center company is teaming up with Codema, the Dublin energy agency, which will begin by carrying out a feasibility study. The project will reportedly be based around Equinix's DB5, a...
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April 07, 2022 Equinix
In its latest sustainability effort, Equinix has announced $1.2 billion of "green bonds," the fourth green bond the company has issued. Now the company's total green bonds stand at $4.9 billion. According to the company, the company will use these funds to push forward its sustainability...
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April 04, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has joined Host In Ireland’s Orchards in the Community initiative, alongside CyrusOne, and is now one of 52 pledgers – and more than 90 schools and community groups. The initiative plans to help plant over 1,200 orchards across Ireland to bolster the country’s declining bee population....
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April 04, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it plans to build a data center in Salalah, a city located on the south coast of the Sultanate of Oman, making it the second in Oman, with links to its MC1 in Muscat. SN1 will also be the company's fifth data center in the region, and will be built in partnership with...
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March 22, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is expanding in India as it acquired a plot of land in Chennai. This is part of the company’s expansion and growth strategy. The company revealed that it took possession of the 5.5-acre land in the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd (SIPCOT) IT Park. According to...
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March 18, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has acquired four data centers belonging to Entel in Peru and Chile for $705 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of the year. Per the deal, Equinix will take over one data center in Lima, Peru, and three facilities in Santiago, Chile. Under the terms of the...
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February 21, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
According to India’s Economic Times. Digital Realty and Brookfield Asset Management’s joint venture in India has secured the purchase of 10 acres of land in Chennai. The companies acquired the land for over Rs 230 crore (~$30.8m). It is to be used for the development of a data center. One of the...
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February 04, 2022 AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge Data Centers has announced the acquisition of a data center in Leeds, UK. It bought Cornelius House from Leeds Data Centre LLP. The facility is the largest purpose-built data center in the whole of Yorkshire city. The 11,000 square feet (1,020 square meters) facility has been in...
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February 03, 2022 Equinix
Equinix recently opened its Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) based near Washington, DC, which will be home to a number of trials focusing on the development of sustainable data center tech. At the facility, the company will partner with Bloom Energy, ZutaCore, Virtual Power Systems (VPS), and Natron...
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January 27, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is making strategic partnerships as it announced that it had formed another joint venture with GIC. The data center company and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund aim to develop hyperscale facilities in South Korea. The companies announced the $525 million joint venture details earlier...
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January 12, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has signed a green energy deal it has announced. By penning a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Neoen and Prokon, Equinix will be provided with 85% of the energy produced by the 35MW Björkliden wind farm in the municipality of Närpes, in the western region of Ostrobothnia. This...
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January 07, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has bought the majority stake in Teraco. The data center giant announced the acquisition of the South African data center company from a consortium of investors, including Permira and Berkshire Partners. The deal sees Teraco valued at about $3.5 billion. The transaction sees...
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December 17, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced that it has sold its San Jose data center to developer Hines. Documents filed on December 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office outline that Hines paid just under $60 million ($59.6 million) for the complex. The building spans 179,800 sqft; meanwhile, the...
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December 16, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has formed a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq, Inc, which will help the company scale its NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This will also support the build-out of Nasdaq's cloud infrastructure. Tal Cohen, Executive Vice President, Head of North American Markets at Nasdaq, said...
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December 15, 2021 Equinix
The European Clean Hydrogen Partnership has announced its €2.5 million EcoEdge PrimePower project (E2P2). The tech consortium making up the partnership includes Equinix, InfraPrime, RISE, Snam, SolidPower, TEC4FUELS and Vertiv. Together, they will pursue the development of low-carbon fuel cells,...
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December 10, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that its PE3 data center in Perth, Australia, has launched, the third IBX facility in the city. According to reports, the first phase of the project provides a capacity of 700 cabinets spanning 1,830 sqm (38,600 sqtf), following an investment of US$54 million (A$71.7...
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December 07, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operation in...
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November 30, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty is partnering with Coolest DC to develop high-efficiency thermal management solutions for the industry following a pilot program supported by Temasek Foundation. The initial pilot scheme sought to improve energy consumption by data centers and enhance efficiency and had deployed:...
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November 25, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced that it has "amended, extended, and upsized" its existing global revolving credit facility from $2.35 billion to $3.0 billion, which now feature a sustainability-linked pricing component. Moreover, the pricing will be "subject to adjustment" based on performance...
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October 28, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has revealed its plans for a new data center in Manchester, UK. The MA5 facility is the company’s fifth IBX facility in Manchester. It is situated in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford. The first phase of the facility will provide up to 3,600 square meters of colocation space. It will...
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