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Read Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM
Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM

Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM

June 21, 2022 Google

Google has announced it has opened a cloud region, in Milan, Italy, in partnership with TIM, namely the Europe-west8 region, its first in this region, following both AWS and Microsoft doing the same. According to the giant, it will bring on a second in Turin, which will happen over the next few...

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Read Oracle Launches Second Cloud Region in France
Oracle Launches Second Cloud Region in France

Oracle Launches Second Cloud Region in France

June 21, 2022 Oracle

Oracle has announced the opening of a new region in Paris, France. This will be the company’s second region in the country as it opened its first in Marseilles inside Interxion’s campus in November 2021. The general manager of Oracle France, Christophe Negrier, said Oracle is helping...

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Read TikTok Now Using Oracle Infrastructure For US User Data
TikTok Now Using Oracle Infrastructure For US User Data

TikTok Now Using Oracle Infrastructure For US User Data

June 20, 2022 Oracle

TikTok has confirmed hosting its data in the US in Oracle’s data center. The Chinese social media company revealed in a blog post that it has been working with Oracle for over a year to protect better its systems, app, and US user data. TikTok noted that the company has now completed a...

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Read NTT announces plans to adopt immersion cooling technology
NTT announces plans to adopt immersion cooling technology

NTT announces plans to adopt immersion cooling technology

June 17, 2022 NTT

NTT has announced its plan to adopt immersion cooling, after it ran a successful test of LiquidStack's two-phase immersion systems at its Mitaka Data Center East in Japan. According to the company, the IT kit ran stably, and used 97% less cooling energy than a traditional cooling system. The test...

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Read NTT Acquires Land For 336MW Campus in Northern Virginia
NTT Acquires Land For 336MW Campus in Northern Virginia

NTT Acquires Land For 336MW Campus in Northern Virginia

June 16, 2022 NTT

NTT Ltd. Has revealed that it had completed the acquisition of 103 acres of land in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. According to reports, the company paid around $257.4 million to Lerner Enterprises for the land. NTT will be using the land acquired to develop a data center campus. The company is...

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Read Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta
Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

June 16, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 300,000...

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Read Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development
Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

June 15, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 million...

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Read Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project
Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project

Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project

June 13, 2022 Google

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Corp., currently three of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of clean power, have voiced their opposition to a nearly $4-billion, Warren Buffett-backed renewable-energy project proposed in Iowa. According to the three giants, the project, which would be the...

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Read NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan
NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan

NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan

June 09, 2022 NTT

NTT has announced that it has signed a PPA through which it will procure solar energy in Japan. Clean Energy Connect Co Ltd is the partner who will deploy solar power generating capacity for the company, and assist the group in achieving its aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2040. The project is...

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Read Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory
Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

June 09, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it is expanding into Australia. The company is partnering with Hickory, an Australian real estate developer. In addition, the development will see Stack develop data centers in three cities in the country. Stack Australia is already developing a data center...

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Read Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas
Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas

Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas

June 08, 2022 Google

Google has announced a new cloud region in Dallas, Texas. In a statement by the company, it said it is happy to expand its presence in Texas by launching a new cloud region in Dallas, making it the second region in the central US and the eleventh in North America. This is the company’s first...

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Read Engie & Google Cloud AI to predict wind power
Engie & Google Cloud AI to predict wind power

Engie & Google Cloud AI to predict wind power

June 06, 2022 Google

French multinational utility company Engie has announced that it will be teaming up with Google Cloud to use AI to predict wind power and optimize its portfolio, making it the first customer of the giant's AI technology. Engie will be utilizing Google's DeepMind technology, which was first...

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Read Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro
Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro

Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro

May 27, 2022 Intel

Intel has announced that it is developing a $700 million research lab in Hillsboro, Oregon, which will focus on sustainable data center technology. To be located at the company’s Jones Farm campus, the lab will span 200,000 sq ft (18,580 sqm) and is expected to open next year. According to the...

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Read Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region
Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region

Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region

May 25, 2022 Google

Google has announced the launch of its new cloud region in Columbus, Ohio. The company noted that the new cloud region (us-east5) would provide users with the availability and speed needed to serve local customers, innovate quicker, and develop high-performing applications. Google first announced...

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Read New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact
New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact

New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact

May 24, 2022 Google

Over the last few years, tech giants have made big claims regarding carbon emissions and their sustainability efforts, yet, despite many of them claiming to be carbon neutral, a new report has found that their investments' carbon footprint is, in fact, greater than all the emissions created by...

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Read Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned
Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned

Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned

May 20, 2022 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has increased its existing sustainability-linked (SLL) from $375 million to $1.75 billion in an effort to “accelerate its next phase of strategic growth and expansion.” This loan is linked to ESG goals, and if the company manages to reach the pre-agreed...

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Read Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs
Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

May 20, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for solar energy in California and another Georgia, with Terra-Gen and Georgia Power, respectively. The former is for a 12-year agreement with Terra-Gen, which will support the development of the 130MW Edwards...

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Read Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility
Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility

Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility

May 05, 2022 Google

Luxemburg has instructed Google to decide on its planned data center in the country. The search engine giant bought land in 2017 to develop the facility, but development has been delayed due to local court cases and protests. Earlier in 2017, Google wanted to start the €1 billion ($1.1bn)...

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Read NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai
NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai

NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai

May 05, 2022 NTT

NTT has announced the opening of a new data center in Navi Mumbai, India. It also opened another data center in Mumbai recently without fanfare. The Navi Mumbai facility is called NAV1A, located in the Mahape area. The eight-story data center spans 400,000 square feet, and it has 45MW in power...

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Read Google Launches First Spanish Region in Madrid
Google Launches First Spanish Region in Madrid

Google Launches First Spanish Region in Madrid

April 29, 2022 Google

Google has announced that it has opened its first cloud region in Madrid, Spain. The company noted that the just opened cloud region is designed to meet the technological needs of businesses in Spain. In addition, it added that the region helps provide low latency cloud services with high data...

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