January 17, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has revealed that it would be developing a 36MW data center campus in Japan. The facility will be located in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, just outside Tokyo. Stack Infrastructure will be partnering with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management LP on the project. The company...
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January 17, 2022 STACK: POR03A
Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has made progress at its new Hillsboro campus in Oregon with the completion of its first building. Spanning 180,000 sqft, with a capacity of 24MW, that said, only half of that capacity (12MW) is available due to pre-leasing activity. The facility, POR03,...
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January 10, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has revealed the development of a new 216MW data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia. The facility would be developed on an 80-acre site with three buildings with a combined space of 1 million square feet. The company revealed that the facility's first phase is scheduled to...
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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 28, 2021 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced that it has made a strategic investment in Chinese data center company Chayora. The investment will see both EdgeConneX and Chayora offer data center services out of Chayora’s data centers in China. The firm will also expand on the existing data centers across Mainland...
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December 27, 2021 Google
Google has completed the acquisition of hundreds of acres of lands in Kansas City’s Northland. The search engine giant plans to develop data centers at the site. According to Kansas City Business Journal, property records show that Google bought 236.4 acres of land to the north of Hunt Midwest....
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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 Oracle
Oracle has announced that it has opened new cloud regions in Milan, Italy, and Stockholm, Sweden. These regions are Oracle’s first regions in Italy and Sweden. The regions are also the company’s first in the Nordic region. Under normal circumstances, Oracle always targets having two separate...
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December 15, 2021 H5 Data Centers
H5 Data Centers has completed the acquisition of a data center at 925 Dalton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. The 107,000 square feet (9,940 square meters) purpose-built data center was built to Tier III standards. It currently has a 2MW capacity, but it can be expanded to 6MW upon full buildout. H5...
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December 15, 2021 OVH Group
OVHcloud has announced it has signed a 15-year renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Renewables, whereby the energy company will supply electricity from its 50MW solar power plant, located in the south of France. The solar plant is expected to be operational by 2024 “We are proud to...
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December 14, 2021 NTT
NTT has announced that it is “on track” to complete the turnkey data center development of its Johannesburg 1 Data Centre, located at Centralpoint Innovation District in Samrand, by early next year. The facility, developed by Growthpoint, includes 6,000sqm of IT space and features “high-end...
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December 13, 2021 Aligned
Aligned, Ascent, Corscale, and T5 have all announced that they will be using Ledger8760's 24x7 tracking platform to record their carbon emissions' hour-by-hour. This tracking system will reportedly enable companies to be more transparent about their energy and utility data, and crucially,...
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December 07, 2021 Oracle
Oracle has announced that it will be closing its Linlithgow data center in Scotland early next year. The company acquired the former Sun Microsystems manufacturing facility back in 2009 and transformed the facility into a data center in 2012. It spans 160,000 sq ft (14,900 sqm), with a capacity...
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December 03, 2021 Flexential
Flexential has announced the completion of a $2.1 billion securitization financing offer, which, according to the company, is the largest single asset-backed securities (ABS) issuance. On top of that, it is also the largest-ever green data center ABS financing. With this money, it will work...
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December 03, 2021 Google
Google has revealed that it is developing its first cloud region in Saudi Arabia in Dammam. In addition, Google will be operating the data center in partnership with the world’s largest oil producer Saudi Aramco. The search engine giant will also open an office in Riyadh to support the facility...
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December 02, 2021 Google
Google has opened its new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. The company first announced plans for the region in December 2020. The region is now Google’s second cloud region in South America as it opened one in São Paulo in 2017. Just like all Google’s regions, the Chile region has three...
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December 02, 2021 EdgeConneX
EdgeConnex has announced that it is to enter the Belgian market with the construction of a data center campus near Brussels in Ternat. The first facility will comprise 4 data halls supporting over 20MW of capacity. According to the company, the site is expected to be ready in the first quarter of...
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December 01, 2021 Google
Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PAA) with Ørsted, a Danish offshore wind developer. According to reports, Google will have access to 50 MW of Ørsted’s planned 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 Offshore Wind Farm. This PPA is in line with Google’s goal to power...
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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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