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Read IBM plans to construct a quantum data facility in Germany
IBM plans to construct a quantum data facility in Germany

IBM plans to construct a quantum data facility in Germany

June 07, 2023 Kyndryl

IBM will construct a data center in Germany to house quantum processors. This week, the company revealed plans to establish its first quantum data facility in Europe on the IBM campus in Ehningen, near Stuttgart, to facilitate cutting-edge quantum computing for businesses, research institutions,...

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Read CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.
CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.

CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.

June 07, 2023 CloudHQ

CloudHQ has purchased land in San Antonio, Texas, to construct a data center campus. The company has acquired nearly 123 acres of land in the Texas Research Park, just down the street from Microsoft's Bexar County facilities. The University of Texas System sold CloudHQ the land bounded by Lambda...

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Read Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri
Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

June 06, 2023 Rackspace

A data center occupied by Rackspace is for sale in Kansas City, Missouri. Collers are offering 10828 NW Airworld Drive as a "long-term NNN lease investment opportunity." No sale price was disclosed. The two-story, 77,545-square-foot building was built 1982 on 5.2 acres and came with a...

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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 Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong
Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

May 31, 2023 Rackspace

Rackspace is presently experiencing an outage across its European and Asia-Pacific data centers. In their SYD2, LON5, LON3, and HKG5 data centers, they encountered connectivity issues. Later, Rackspace announced that it had been discovered that any affected Linux VMs (virtual machines) would...

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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 Telehouse Presents Data Facility in Bangkok
Telehouse Presents Data Facility in Bangkok

Telehouse Presents Data Facility in Bangkok

May 30, 2023 Telehouse

Telehouse opened its first data center in Thailand in Bangkok. The company owned by KDDI recently conducted a grand opening ceremony for the new Rama 9 location in Bangkok. The 97,000-square-foot facility with a capacity of 9.5MVA was announced in January 2022. The business reported investing $74...

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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 Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles
Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

May 26, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has applied to construct a new data center in Los Angeles, California. The company has applied to construct a thirteen-story data center at 727 S Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The prospective applicant is GIP 7th Street LLC, a well-known subsidiary of Digital Realty. At...

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Read PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell
PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell

PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell

May 23, 2023 CyrusOne

Earlier this month, PowerHouse Data Centers announced a 30-year lease agreement with CyrusOne, for a spec-built data center, ABX-1, located in Ashburn, Virginia. The company shared that substantial completion of the data center, a two-story, 265,000 SF powered shell, is scheduled for October....

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Read CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company
CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company

CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company

May 23, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced its partnership with Japanese energy firm Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) for the development of new data centers across Japan. The 50:50 joint venture, called CyrusOne KEP, will see at least one trillion yen ($7 billion) invested in the project over the next...

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Read Keppel Corp. Advises Singapore to Switch to Greener Data Centers or Risk Losing Demand
Keppel Corp. Advises Singapore to Switch to Greener Data Centers or Risk Losing Demand

Keppel Corp. Advises Singapore to Switch to Greener Data Centers or Risk Losing Demand

May 23, 2023 Keppel Data Center REIT

The Keppel Corporation is requesting that authorities develop environmentally friendly data centers. According to Nikkei Asia, Wong Wai Meng, the chief executive officer of Keppel's data center division, warned that the nation's capacity limitation is insufficient to meet current demand. The...

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Read Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm
Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm

Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm

May 22, 2023 ServerFarm Realty

Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM) bought the majority of Serverfarm's shares. This week, the investment firm announced that, on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II and its affiliates, it had signed an official contract to acquire a controlling stake in Serverfarm. The terms of...

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Read NTT Will Invest $11b Over Five Years in Data Centers
NTT Will Invest $11b Over Five Years in Data Centers

NTT Will Invest $11b Over Five Years in Data Centers

May 19, 2023 NTT

Over the next five years, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) intends to invest $59 billion in data centers, AI, and other "growth areas." At least $11 billion will be allocated to expanding or modernizing its data centers. The digital industry, which includes AI and robotics, receives at least...

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Read Vantage Plans a $3bn Cyberjaya, Malaysia Data Center Facility
Vantage Plans a $3bn Cyberjaya, Malaysia Data Center Facility

Vantage Plans a $3bn Cyberjaya, Malaysia Data Center Facility

May 19, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

The Malaysian city of Cyberjaya will soon be home to Vantage Data Centers' enormous new site. State-owned Cyberview, tasked with creating a digital cluster in Cyberjaya, recently shared that Vantage will invest $3 billion to build a second data center facility there. At a recent meeting in the...

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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 Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center
Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center

Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center

May 12, 2023 KAO Data

Kao Data has announced plans to develop a new data center in Manchester, UK. The facility, located in Kenwood Point, will offer a capacity of 40 MW and will be the first Kao data center to be built in the North of England. Based on a 39,000 sqm (419,800 sq ft) ex-industrial site, the facility...

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Read Digital Realty Sets Up Direct Liquid Cooling at Paris "HPC-capable" Data Center
Digital Realty Sets Up Direct Liquid Cooling at Paris "HPC-capable" Data Center

Digital Realty Sets Up Direct Liquid Cooling at Paris "HPC-capable" Data Center

May 12, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Direct liquid cooling (DLC) capabilities have been implemented at Digital Realty's La Courneuve data center in Paris, France. According to the company, its new facility is capable of high-performance computing (HPC). Fabrice Coquio, SVP and managing director – France at Digital Realty stated that...

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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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