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Aligned Data Centres unveils new liquid cooling system

Data center firm Aligned recently unveiled a new liquid cooling system designed to support high-density compute requirements and supercomputers and can cool densities up to 300kW per rack. This cooling system, called DataFlow is said to be a turnkey solution which supports current and future ...

January 16, 2024

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Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea

Google revealed in a recent announcement that it will be joining a consortium to deploy the first subsea cable between Chile and Australia. The company said, “Today, we’re joining Desarrollo País of Chile and Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to announce Humboldt...

January 13, 2024

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NTT unveils new facility campus in Delhi, India.

NTT this week announced the launch of its new data center campus, Noida 2, and the opening of its first data center. The first building offers 22.4MW across 300,000 square feet and spans across six acres. The Merlin campus will support a planned capacity of 52.8MW critical IT load in two data ...

January 13, 2024

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Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

In a blog post shared on Thursday, Google Cloud Platform announced that it has removed "exit fees" for customers wishing to leave its services. Amit Zavery, head of platform at Google Cloud wrote: "Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their dat...

January 12, 2024

Google

Stack Infrastructure to expand footprint in Virginia

Data center firm Stack Infrastructure this week announced plans to expand its footprint in Virginia with a new 72MW campus in Leesburg. in Loudoun County. This planned facility, known as the NVA-06 will initially host a 48MW building set to deliver Q2 2025, followed by a second 24MW building ...

January 11, 2024

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Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands

Google has broken ground on a new data center in the Netherlands and has officially begun work on the facility in Winschoten, Groningen, in the north of the country. Marco Ynema, data center lead in the Netherlands at Google, said, "People are increasingly using digital tools, and organization...

December 28, 2023

Google

Digital Realty signs energy deal with Süwag Energie

Digital Realty has announced that it signed a renewable energy agreement with the energy service provider Süwag Energie AG to procure hydroelectric power in Germany. Following this agreement, Digital Realty has secured Guarantees of Origin (GoOs) for 6,000MWh of hydropower – originating from t...

December 28, 2023

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Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers

Equinix is now one of the top ten largest green bond issuers in the United States after allocating $4.9 billion in green bonds to building and efficiency projects. These bonds will fund 172 green building projects on 105 sites, along with 33 energy efficiency projects. Equinix first issued gre...

December 28, 2023

Equinix

Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia

Google and AirTrunk have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy provider OX2 in Australia for the development of a new solar farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, from which Google and AirTrunk will receive 25MW of renewable power. Damien Spillane, AirTrunk chief custo...

December 20, 2023

Google

LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

Renewables transaction company LevelTen Energy has set up a marketplace for time-based energy certificates to support renewable energy commitments around he clock. The GC Trading Alliance, supported by Google, Microsoft, and others, will be a platform to exchange "granular certificates" that v...

December 18, 2023

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County’s planning staff recommends denial of massive data center project again

The Prince William County staff have again recommended the denial of all three rezoning requests associated with the PW Digital Gateway data center project. This comes after two rejections of the rezoning requests by QTS and Compass in recent months. County staff said in a report, “At this po...

December 13, 2023

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Equinix to roll out support for liquid cooling at over 100 facilities

Colocation firm Equinix announced this week that it plans to expand support for liquid cooling technologies – including direct-to-chip – to more than 100 of its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in more than 45 metros globally. Tiffany Osias, VP of global colocation at Equinix...

December 12, 2023

Equinix

Vantage to break ground in Taipei

Vantage Data Centers is planning to expand data center operations into Taipei, Taiwan. The company announced this week that it is planning a new facility in Taipei called TPE1 data center and it is expected to be open in mid-2024. This new facility is being constructed on a 2-acre site. It is...

December 11, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Stack Infrastructure to expand facility in Virginia’s Prince William County

Data center firm Stack Infrastructure announced this week that it is expanding its campus in Virginia’s Prince William County. The company has purchased land from and adjacent to the Youth For Tomorrow non-profit in Bristow to expand its NVA02 campus. Tim Hughes, chief development officer, Sta...

December 08, 2023

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Digital Realty plans new hyperscale JV with Blackstone

Digital Realty recently revealed plans to set up a joint venture with Blackstone-affiliated funds led by Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Tactical Opportunities. This joint venture worth $7 billion will be used to develop four hyperscale data center campuses in Frankfurt, Germany; Paris, Franc...

December 07, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix

Equinix announced this week that it signed a ten-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Portugal Sonnedix’s first Portuguese solar PV project, the 149MW Sonnedix Douro. Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix, said, “We are very pleased to be extending our relationship with Equi...

December 05, 2023

Equinix

CyrusOne launches fifth data center in Frankfurt

CyrusOne has just launched its fifth data center in Frankfurt, FRA5 located in Hanau, 25km east of Frankfurt's city center. This new campus, spanning 18,000 square meters across two buildings will offer 54MW of IT capacity. The launch ceremony hosted by Carsten Schneider was attended by Lord ...

December 01, 2023

CyrusOne

Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

Google recently announced that its data centers in Nevada will be powered by a new geothermal power plant. This project, originally announced by Google and Fervo in 2021, is a 5MW project that will use Google AI systems to help with its operations. Michael Terrell, senior director of energy a...

November 29, 2023

Google

DataBank raises capital for new data centers

DataBank has raised $533 million of capital to build new data centers through debt and equity. This brings the total funds raised by the company this year to $1.6 billion, with $715 million of secured notes issued in February and a $350 million credit facility announced later in March. DataBa...

November 29, 2023

DataBank

OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

OpenAI has hired Google’s Todd Underwood to head a new Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads as it already has a functional team for the applied side working on inference and API products. The SRE concept originally started at Google, but has since spread...

November 28, 2023

Google

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