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Read Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas
Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

April 03, 2023 Equinix

After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property. The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 sq...

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Read Microsoft's $1bn Mount Pleasant facility receives Village Board approval
Microsoft's $1bn Mount Pleasant facility receives Village Board approval

Microsoft's $1bn Mount Pleasant facility receives Village Board approval

March 31, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Wisconsin, with a $1 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant. The plan, discussed at a recent closed session meeting, outlined that the campus will be situated on a 315-acre parcel of land owned by the Village of Mount Pleasant. Microsoft is set...

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Read Microsoft purchases carbon removal credits from CarbonCapture
Microsoft purchases carbon removal credits from CarbonCapture

Microsoft purchases carbon removal credits from CarbonCapture

March 29, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is the latest company to invest in the potential of carbon capture, with the recent announcement that it will buy "carbon removal credits" from CarbonCapture. The company is the owner of Project Bison, which is a direct air capture (DAC) plant in Wyoming, set to open next year. The...

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Read QScale signs deal with Energir Development (Energir) for waste heat recovery in Quebec, Canada
QScale signs deal with Energir Development (Energir) for waste heat recovery in Quebec, Canada

QScale signs deal with Energir Development (Energir) for waste heat recovery in Quebec, Canada

March 29, 2023 QScale

QScale has announced that it has partnered with Énergir Development for waste heat recovery at the Q01 Campus currently under construction in Lévis, Quebec, Canada. It aims to become one of the largest waste heat recovery providers of its kind in the region. QScale will reportedly supply free...

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Read EdgeConneX secures $3.3 Billion in sustainability-linked financing
EdgeConneX secures $3.3 Billion in sustainability-linked financing

EdgeConneX secures $3.3 Billion in sustainability-linked financing

March 29, 2023 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it has successfully executed $3.3 billion in “innovative” sustainability-linked financing, which it said will enable the development of critical digital infrastructure to support customers' global data center requirements. For this, JGlobal awarded the company with...

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Read IBM Will Open San Sebastián Quantum Computing Facility at Ikerbasque Campus
IBM Will Open San Sebastián Quantum Computing Facility at Ikerbasque Campus

IBM Will Open San Sebastián Quantum Computing Facility at Ikerbasque Campus

March 28, 2023 Kyndryl

A quantum computer will be installed in San Sebastián, located in the Basque Country of Spain, thanks to a collaboration between IBM and Fundación Ikerbasque. The IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computing Center is anticipated to launch by the end of 2024. It will deliver Qiskit Runtime services from a...

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Read Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion
Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

March 27, 2023 Equinix

Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Martin...

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Read Microsoft to expand in Washington
Microsoft to expand in Washington

Microsoft to expand in Washington

March 24, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed plans to build three data centers in Malaga, Washington, on Malaga Alcoa Highway in Chelan County. The Port Authority outlined in the fillings that it assumes the development will involve the construction of three buildings on the site by the end of 2025; further, there is...

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Read Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona
Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona

Microsoft agrees to air-cooled data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona

March 23, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is switching its cooling system for data centers in the Goodyear area of Phoenix, Arizona, following an update of its development agreement. Further to this, it has pledged to invest more than $40 million to expand the city's wastewater capacity. While the giant purchased the site in...

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Read Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide
Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide

Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide

March 21, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is teaming up with Running Tide to remove 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from its operations. This will be done through Running Tide's carbon capture and removal technology, which utilizes photosynthesis and ocean alkalinity enhancement to fix carbon from the fast carbon cycle, and...

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Read Cologix to bring AWS outposts to Vancouver data centers
Cologix to bring AWS outposts to Vancouver data centers

Cologix to bring AWS outposts to Vancouver data centers

March 21, 2023 Cologix

Cologix has announced that customers can now deploy AWS Outposts at its VAN3 digital edge data center. The facility is a 42,000-square-foot data center, the region’s largest neutral data center. Through this addition, customers in Cologix’s Vancouver data centers will be able to connect to AWS...

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Read Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris
Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

March 17, 2023 Equinix

Equinix, in another move in alignment with its sustainability goals, has announced the opening of a rooftop urban farm at its PA10 data center in Paris, France. Promoting circular economy principles, the company will use its servers' waste heat to heat the greenhouse, which was built by Reid...

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Read Stack offers backup generator power to Swiss confederation's Winter Reserve
 Stack offers  backup generator power to Swiss confederation's Winter Reserve

Stack offers backup generator power to Swiss confederation's Winter Reserve

March 17, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has signed up for the Swiss Winter Reserve Plan, through which it will provide its supplemental power capacity to the Swiss energy reserve, in line with the Federal Council's ordinance. The ordinance includes measures to prevent winter power shortages and will run until April...

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Read Stack Raises $250m From securitized Notes
Stack Raises $250m From securitized Notes

Stack Raises $250m From securitized Notes

March 17, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

The data center company Stack has completed its most recent structured debt fundraising round. The company revealed the sale of $250 million in securitized notes last week. The price of the notes is a 5.900 percent fixed rate coupon. The firm said it has now raised $2.1 billion in notes through...

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Read Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty
Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty

Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty

March 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

At a data center in Switzerland, Digital Realty has installed a robotic dog to do routine inspections. Anybotics has detailed how Digital Realty has utilized its Anymal robot dog for data center checks for over a year in a published case study. Anymal is a quadruped robot that resembles Boston...

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Read Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio
Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio

Microsoft to expand its footprint in San Antonio

March 09, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced its plans to invest $175.9 million in a massive new data center in San Antonio. Named “SAT40,” the facility was recently filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. According to the filing, the facility will be based at Lambda Drive in the Texas Research...

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Read Stack Infrastructure Will Raise $250 Million to Expand Its Data Center
Stack Infrastructure Will Raise $250 Million to Expand Its Data Center

Stack Infrastructure Will Raise $250 Million to Expand Its Data Center

March 08, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure plans to seek $250 million for data center expansion. The Stack Infrastructure Issuer will provide the funding, 2023-1, through the securitization of income connected to lease obligations and electrical capacity at 8 wholesale data centers in seven U.S. states. S&P Global...

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Read eStruxture opens another data center in Calgary
eStruxture opens another data center in Calgary

eStruxture opens another data center in Calgary

March 05, 2023 eStruxture

eStruxture has announced its second colocation data center, namely, Cal-2, in Calgary, Canada, is now open. The data center has reportedly been built to Tier III standards, offering a capacity of 20 MW, spanning 93,000 sq ft (8640 sqm). Pegged to attract both jobs and other large tech companies...

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Read Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading
Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

March 01, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

With the extending of its collaboration with Options Technology, a top provider of capital markets services, Digital Realty, the top global provider of cloud or carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, has made its suite of managed financial markets services offered...

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Read Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain
Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

February 28, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has inked five new long-term PPAs in Spain from solar farms, totalling 225MW, which will be managed by IGNIS. This reportedly brings the company's contracted PPA capacity to 595 MW globally. While specific details regarding the location of the farms have not yet been shared, the company...

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