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Apple and Google rally against Ireland's proposed moratorium on new data centers

Last month, the People Before Profit party in Ireland proposed an amendment to the Planning and Development act, to place a moratorium on new data centers being built. This proposal follows Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), launching a consultation on data center grid con...

July 28, 2021

Apple

Lumen is selling its Latin American business to Stonepeak for $2.7 billion

Lumen Technologies has announced the sale of its entire Latin American business to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. The sale is said to be worth $2.7 billion. Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, is also investing funds in the deal with Stonepeak. The current leadership team...

July 28, 2021

Lumen Technologies

Digital Realty and Brookfield team up to develop data centers in India

Digital Realty has announced that it has entered into a 50/50 joint venture agreement with Brookfield Infrastructure to develop data centers in India. The brand name of the joint venture is BAM Digital Realty.Although precise details around the project are yet to be released, reports indicate...

July 16, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is meeting green targets according to third annual ESG report

According to its latest ESG report, Digital Realty is meeting its sustainability targets in the push for carbon-neutrality. The company, as part of the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi), has committed to reducing its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 68% and Scope 3 emissions by 24% by 2030. It...

July 16, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

50% of Digital Realty's global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy

Digital Realty has announced in its third ESG report that half of its global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy. It did this by increasing the portfolio of its data centers being powered by renewable energy by 20% in 2020. Impressively, it also increased its energy consump...

June 17, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty considering $300 million Singapore Trust IPO

According to a report from Bloomberg, Digital Realty is considering an Initial Public Offer (IPO) of a Singaporean trust that could raise between $300 million to $400 million. The report says Digital Realty is working with its advisers on the listing, and they are looking to conclude the IPO b...

June 10, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

UK DWP signs £27 million contract extension with Ark Data Centers

The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended its contract with Ark Data Centers for £27 million ($38.1 million). The contract starts in June 2021 and would run till May 2026. Also, this deal will see DWP continue to occupy four 760kW dedicated data halls in Ark Data Center’s faci...

June 08, 2021

Ark Data Centres (UK)

Google to migrate parts of YouTube to Google Cloud

Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP).Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...

June 04, 2021

Google

Liberty Global and Digital Colony launch AtlasEdge Data Centers

Liberty Global, a leading Telecoms Company and Digital Colony, a top investment firm focusing on digital infrastructure, has announced that they have joined forces to create AtlasEdge Data Centers, a European Edge data center business. The joint venture will see them operating over 100 Edge da...

May 21, 2021

AtlasEdge

Digital Realty Completes Acquisition Of Ascenty (Press Release)

SAN FRANCISCO, May. 20, 2021 -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its Brazilian subsidiary, Stellar Participações Ltda., has completed the previously announced acquisition of Ascenty, the leading data...

May 20, 2021

Ascenty

Google opens quantum computer data center and R&D lab, plans commercial system by 2029

Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a c...

May 19, 2021

Google

Google plans to use greener energy by moving workloads between data centers

Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware ...

May 18, 2021

Google

Google Cloud and SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Secure, Global Connectivity

Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to cus...

May 15, 2021

Google

EdgeConneX Expands in 6 North American Markets

EdgeConneX has announced that it will add almost 20MW of new capacity across six of its data centers in North America. The facilities that will benefit from this expansion are Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago.According to Phillip Marangella, Chief Marketing Officer at Ed...

April 28, 2021

EdgeConneX

Digital Realty Introduces New Connections to Google Cloud In 5 Major Metros

Digital Realty recently said that it has expanded secure, private access to Google Cloud’s global network in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Vienna in Austria, and Dusseldorf in Germany. Digital Realty also announced that it had added its second direct interconnect to Google Cloud in Frankfurt.The direc...

March 23, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty Relocates Headquarters to Austin

Digital Realty (DLR) has announced it will relocate its corporate headquarters to Austin, Texas from San Francisco, California. DLR will maintain a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the world's leading technology hubs.Digital Realty already operates a significant data center foo...

January 15, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

EQT acquires EdgeConneX

The Swedish investment firm EQT AB has announced that it acquired the US-based colocation company EdgeConneX. EdgeConneX has a global footprint, operating over 40 facilities in 33 markets across North America, Europe and South America and continues to expand after being founded a decade ago. ...

August 19, 2020

EdgeConneX

Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The co...

April 15, 2020

Google

Digital Realty completes Acquisition of Interxion, a European Colocation Provider

Digital Realty Trust has closed its acquisition of Interxion. Interxion was one of the largest independent colocation providers in Europe. It was a smart pick up by Digital. The Interxion portfolio includes many densely interconnected buildings which will include Frankfurt, Madrid, Vienna, Ams...

March 13, 2020

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty And Ascenty Are Building New Facility in Chile to Support a Multi-Megawatt Cloud Deployment (Press Release)

Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Ascenty, a market leader in data center services in Latin America, announced today a long-term, multi-megawatt agreement with a leading global cloud provider to build a new facil...

April 25, 2019

Ascenty

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