May 17, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty this week announced the launch of a direct liquid cooling (DLC) offering, available in 170 Digital Realty data centers globally. The company noted that the offering includes a range of mechanical solutions, such as rear door heat exchangers (RDHx) and DLC, offering power densities...
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May 10, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has broken ground on a new data center outside Tokyo, Japan, marking its third data center at the NRT campus in Inzai, Chiba prefecture. This new 31MW facility, known as NRT14, will be configurable to support private AI deployments at densities up to 70kW per rack via air-assisted...
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May 01, 2024 BT Global Services
UK telecoms firm BT has installed its first electric vehicle (EV) charge point repurposed from one of its old street cabinets which was traditionally used to store broadband and phone cabling. This repurposed charger forms part of a nationwide pilot by the business’ start-up incubation hub,...
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April 29, 2024 Equinix
Colocation firm Equinix has signed long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Singapore fromSembcorp Industries. Following the agreements, Sembcorp Power will supply a maximum capacity of 75MWp from its solar assets and 30MW from its gas-power generation portfolio...
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April 25, 2024 AtlasEdge
European Edge firm AtlasEdge announced this week that it is planning to develop data centers in Portugal and has ebtered the market with the acquisition of two adjacent sites in Lisbon that will deliver more than 20MW of IT load. “Our entry into the Portuguese market provides us with a key...
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April 24, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has revealed that it will be partnering with energy firm Enel X to roll out grid-balancing UPS systems in Ireland. The integrated battery banks, housed within Digital Realty’s Irish data centers, will relieve grid dependence on fossil fuel power plants during periods of frequency...
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April 17, 2024 Colt Data Centre Services
Colt DCS, a company which provides hyperscale and large enterprise data center solutions, is set to double the size of its planned data center campus in Hayes, West London, after acquiring a fresh parcel of land. A Colt DCS statement said: “This will make the entire site one of the largest in the...
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April 15, 2024 Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice,...
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April 13, 2024 Edged Energy
Edged Energy announced this week that it was pressing ahead with building the data center in Irving. This comes after the Irving City Council voted unanimously in support of the development of a new data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas “Sustainability is at the core of our...
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April 09, 2024 CloudHQ
Content Delivery Network (CDN) company Cloudflare suffered a second data center power failure at its core facility in Portland, Oregon, within six months. As a result of the first incident which happened in November, Cloudflare introduced ‘Code Orange’; a new process where the company shifts most...
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March 29, 2024 BT Global Services
BT has entered a 10-year partnership with media group Global to repurpose its legacy payphones and kiosks into brand-new street WiFi hubs which will provide digital connectivity for more than 200 towns and cities across the UK. Followinf this agreement, Global will convert more than 2,000...
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March 23, 2024 Equinix
Short seller Hindenburg Research has accused data center REIT Equinix of "major accounting manipulations." The investigative reporting and researching company claims that Nadaq-listed Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs, by at least...
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March 23, 2024 AtlasEdge
European data center firm AtlasEdge has relaunched a data center in Leeds, UK, after acquiring and renovating the facility. AtlasEdge has since invested more than £13 million to upgrade the site, known as LBA001, which is the first Tier III standard data center in the city. "We are delighted to...
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March 21, 2024 Colt Data Centre Services
Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has launched a new data center telemetry platform which enables customers to use real-time telemetry data to support the management of their data center workloads. The company developed this platform in partnership with consulting firm Protiviti, the company...
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March 20, 2024 DATA4 Group
French data center operator Data4 has launched a new project exploring whether waste heat generated by one of its facilities can be used to grow algae. The company is working with the Université Paris-Saclay on the project at its Marcoussis data center campus in the Essonne region south of Paris....
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March 14, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 2020....
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March 07, 2024 CloudHQ
Content delivery network (CDN) and Edge services provider announced this week that it has acquired multi-cloud networking startup Nefeli Networks and has launched a new multi-cloud networking service based on the acquired technology. “We believe the full potential of the cloud will only truly be...
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March 01, 2024 Penta Infra
European data center firm, Penta Infra has named Bob Sprengers as its CEO according to an announcement by the company and lead investor Photon Capital this week. Effective from March 2024, Sprengers will take over from Alex Bakker who has led the company since it was founded in 2015. “The time...
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March 01, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at 578 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. The company has now completed the installation of rooftop solar systems at eight of its facilities, including Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and...
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February 26, 2024 Global Switch
Global Switch has announced its plans for a new data center in London to be located adjacent to Global Switch’s existing data centers in east London’s Docklands. The company noted that the five-story facility, known as London South, will offer 40MW across 27,000 square meter. CEO Ashley Muldoon...
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