January 27, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a cloud region in Melbourne, Australia. This marks the second cloud region AWS has in Australia, following the launch of Sydney in 2012. The facility was first announced in December 2020. Littlepay's CEO, Amin Shayan, is ecstatic about establishing a...
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January 25, 2023 Amazon AWS
Despite both tech giants making significant layoffs in recent months, both Microsoft and AWS have announced plans to boost investment and data center portfolios in the Telangana region of India. The former is set to double the number of facilities it is building in the region, while AWS has...
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January 24, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty and Mainova AG have signed a letter of intent for a joint project to explore a potential waste heat project in Frankfurt, which could heat approximately 3,600 households. In partnership, the data center firm, and German energy firm are conducting a feasibility study to decipher...
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January 18, 2023 NTT
NTT has announced that it is expanding in Texas with the addition of a new data center, dubbed ‘TX3 Data Center’. According to the company, the development will span 230,000 sq ft (21,350 sqm) and include a two-story office alongside the data center. The development has been filed with the Texas...
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January 13, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of two new Local Zones, one in Perth Australia, and the other in Santiago, Chile. In the announcement, the company outlined: “AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Perth and Santiago. You can now use these Local Zones to...
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January 09, 2023 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed a third power purchase agreement (PPA) in Finland with Neoen, totaling 129MW. Through the ten-year deal, the company will obtain 60% of the output and guarantees of origin to be produced by the future 95MW Storbötet wind farm from the French renewable...
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January 09, 2023 Digital Edge DC
Digital Edge has announced that it is expanding into India, with the addition of a new 300MW, 47-acre hyperscale facility in Navi Mumbai. This development is part of a partnership between the Singaporean company, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and AGP DC InvestCo Pte Ltd (AGP)...
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December 19, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon has pressed pause on its 1 million sq ft (92,900 sqm) data center campus in Manassas, in Prince William County, Virginia. This announcement comes after the giant was scheduled to present three linked applications on 30 November. However, its special-use permit application has now been...
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December 14, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced its plan to venture into the South African data center market with a data center development. The company plans to invest $160m to develop a data center campus in Johannesburg. The 4MW data center called JN1 will have over 20,000 gross square feet of colocation space and a...
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December 13, 2022 Equinix
Following approval from the Loudoun Board of Supervisors last week, data center company Equinix has announced that it will be adding multi-colored LED lights to the exterior of one of its data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. This addition to DC21, located at 22175 Beaumeade Circle in Ashburn,...
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December 12, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced, in line with a broader commitment to reduce its overall power, it will adjust its data center thermostats, shifting temperatures closer to 27°C (80°F) across its global data center fleet. This change, the company said, will lead to less energy used in 'unnecessary data...
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December 09, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty's Greek data center unit Lamda Helix has announced plans to develop its fourth data center in Athens, Greece. The company's data center campus currently has two carrier-neutral data centers with a total capacity of 22 MW. It is also developing two more on the site. Lamda Helix...
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December 09, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon is looking to develop a large data center campus in Gainesville, Virginia. The company submitted two special-use permit requests for a 2.2 million square feet data center campus that will sit on 117 acres of land at 5845 and 5945 Wellington Road. Per the company’s requests, it is looking...
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December 08, 2022 NTT
T4 Group and NTT Ltd have signed an agreement that will see the former provide data center infrastructure for the latter. T4 Group is a colocation provider with data centers in Auckland and Whangarei, New Zealand. It also has a third facility under development on New Zealand’s South Island. The...
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December 07, 2022 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has finished the construction work on its data center facility in Jakarta. This is the company's first facility in Indonesia. The company first announced plans for the STT Jakarta 1 facility in May 2021. The data center is located in Bekasi Regency and...
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December 06, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon has announced that it has signed 300MW worth of wind and solar power purchase agreements (PPA) in India with Vibrant Energy, a Macquarie Group's Green Investment Group (GIG) subsidiary. The projects, based in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, are projected to generate 1,163,000...
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December 06, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Canadian alternative investment management company Brookfield have partnered to sign a 601 MW power purchase agreement (PPA). Brookfield Renewable, a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, will provide wind and solar energy capacity to AWS’s operations. As per...
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December 05, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has partnered with ESR Group Limited to develop a 72MW data center campus in Osaka, Japan. The JV will see the companies develop the facility in Keihanna, Osaka. Stack and ESR schedule that the development of the first of three buildings will start in Q4 2023. The building...
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December 02, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced that it is offering a $350 million note to the public. In addition, its Digital Core Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), listed in Singapore, will buy a stake in a Digital Realty-owned data center in Germany. The company noted that it is priced an underwritten PO of...
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December 01, 2022 Amazon AWS
As part of the 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign, climate groups Extinction Rebellion and Not Here Not Anywhere took to the giant's Irish Headquarters in protest. The groups called for Amazon's AWS to pay its workers, its taxes and pay for its damage to the climate, due to its 'unsustainable'...
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