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Read Digital Realty/Brookfield JV Buys Land for $30.8m in Chennai, India
Digital Realty/Brookfield JV Buys Land for $30.8m in Chennai, India

Digital Realty/Brookfield JV Buys Land for $30.8m in Chennai, India

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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Read CyrusOne makes headway on sustainability goals
CyrusOne makes headway on sustainability goals

CyrusOne makes headway on sustainability goals

February 16, 2022 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced that in line with its ambition to become data climate-neutral by 2030, its Dallas, Texas headquarters is now powered by 100% renewable energy. It is also the latest part of its portfolio to be net-water positive. CyrusOne is also one of the signatories of the Climate...

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Read Carbon accounting standards in the industry
Carbon accounting standards in the industry

Carbon accounting standards in the industry

February 15, 2022 Microsoft Azure

A number of organizations and companies have come together to form an initiative called the Carbon Call, which is seeking to achieve "reliable and interoperable" carbon emissions accounting to ensure the world reaches net-zero by midcentury. Among the twenty organizations launching the call is...

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Read Microsoft Signs Agreement With HTX To Develop Sovereign Cloud in Singapore
Microsoft Signs Agreement With HTX To Develop Sovereign Cloud in Singapore

Microsoft Signs Agreement With HTX To Develop Sovereign Cloud in Singapore

February 14, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a strategic agreement with Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX). The deal will see Microsoft develop a sovereign cloud to speed up the digital transformation and innovation of Singapore’s HTX. It will also help sort Singapore’s Home Team Departments’...

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Read Kao Data opens 16MW data center in Slough, UK
Kao Data opens 16MW data center in Slough, UK

Kao Data opens 16MW data center in Slough, UK

February 07, 2022 Kao Data Slough

Kao Data has announced that it has opened a new data center in Slough, UK. The UK data center operator revealed that it opened the 16MW facility to the west of London. The data center will match the operational blueprint and design of Kao’s Harlow campus. In addition, it will also provide a PUE...

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Read Equinix unveils new sustainability initiatives
Equinix unveils new sustainability initiatives

Equinix unveils new sustainability initiatives

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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Read Microsoft to cut down 2,600 trees in San Antonio to make way for data center
Microsoft to cut down 2,600 trees in San Antonio to make way for data center

Microsoft to cut down 2,600 trees in San Antonio to make way for data center

January 31, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is to build a data center on a 33-acre plot in San Antonio, however, this will come at the expense of 2,642 trees. The move was recently given the go-ahead by the City Council, who voted 8-3 on Thursday, January 28, 2022. The giant will reportedly plant 833 trees around the data center;...

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Read Equinix Partners With GIC For another $525m Joint Venture
Equinix Partners With GIC For another $525m Joint Venture

Equinix Partners With GIC For another $525m Joint Venture

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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Read Microsoft to develop a $317m Chilean data center region
Microsoft to develop a $317m Chilean data center region

Microsoft to develop a $317m Chilean data center region

January 25, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed plans to develop a data center in Santiago, Chile. The data center is to cost the company $317 million. Microsoft first revealed its plans for a data center region in the country in December 2020. It is now finally actualizing its plans by filing its SLC03 project for...

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Read Microsoft is buying 50 acres in Hyderabad, India a data center campus development
Microsoft is buying 50 acres in Hyderabad, India a data center campus development

Microsoft is buying 50 acres in Hyderabad, India a data center campus development

January 21, 2022 Microsoft Azure

According to the Business Standard, Microsoft has agreed to purchase a 50-acre land in Hyderabad, India. The company plans to build a data center campus on the property. Business Standard reports that Microsoft already has a deal in place with the Telangana government of India to develop a Rs...

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Read USDA awards Lumen with a $1.2 billion network services contract
USDA awards Lumen with a $1.2 billion network services contract

USDA awards Lumen with a $1.2 billion network services contract

January 21, 2022 Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract from the US Department of Agriculture. Lumen is to deliver a fully integrated wide-area data transport service to over 9,500 US Department of Agriculture locations across the country and around the world. With this contract, Lumen will offer a...

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Read Microsoft buys 17 acres of land in Georgia for further expansion
Microsoft buys 17 acres of land in Georgia for further expansion

Microsoft buys 17 acres of land in Georgia for further expansion

January 20, 2022 Microsoft Azure

According to Biz Journal, Microsoft has acquired extra 17 acres of land in Fulton County of Georgia. In addition, the Fulton County property deeds confirmed the purchase by showing that Microsoft bought 10 acres of land from Macq LLC for $1 million and 7 acres from Lit/Hodges Industrial Trust for...

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Read KKR’s Global Technical Realty moves ahead with UK data center
KKR’s Global Technical Realty moves ahead with UK data center

KKR’s Global Technical Realty moves ahead with UK data center

January 17, 2022 Global Technical Realty

KKR's Global Technical Realty has announced that it has begun work on its UK data center campus located in Slough. When fully built out, the campus will have a total capacity of 40.5MW, made up of three 13.5MW, 5,400 sq m (58,000 sq ft) data centers. Franek Sodzawiczny, Founder and CEO at Global...

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Read Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal
Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

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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Read Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa
Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

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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Read Skanska wins £53m contract to develop Virtus London11 data center
Skanska wins £53m contract to develop Virtus London11 data center

Skanska wins £53m contract to develop Virtus London11 data center

December 31, 2021 VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd

Construction firm Skanska has been awarded the contract of developing the Virtus London11 data center. The company is in charge of developing the £53 million ($70m) data center with work scheduled to begin on the site this month. The facility is also scheduled to be completed in the Spring of...

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Read Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR
 Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

December 17, 2021 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW...

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Read San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer
San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

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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Read Equinix partners with Nasdaq
Equinix partners with Nasdaq

Equinix partners with Nasdaq

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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Read New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced
New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

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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