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Data center merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021

2021 has been an eventful year in the data center industry as we’ve seen some major merger and acquisition activities as these firms look to expand their capacities. We are going to shine the spotlight on the top five merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021. We’ll be able to see wh...

August 16, 2021

Scala Data Centers

The future of data center back-up energy

With more and more data center companies committing to climate change initiatives, the industry is also looking at how it can make backup energy more sustainable too. For decades, diesel has served as the primary fuel for traditional backup generators - however, diesel fuels, whilst getting cl...

August 06, 2021

Google

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

Google buys plot of land in the Netherlands for potential data center

Google just bought a plot of land in Groningen province, the Netherlands, for €3 million ($3.5 million). The plot of land bought is the last one at the Hoogebrug Winschoten business park in the municipality of Oldambt. There are reports that Google is planning to build a data center on the pie...

July 01, 2021

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Blackstone to acquire QTS Realty Trust for $10 billion

Blackstone Group Inc has reportedly entered into an agreement to purchase QTS Realty Trust Inc for a total of $6.7 billion.According to the WSJ, the group's infrastructure unit, Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, with BREIT, its non-traded real-estate investment trust, has agreed to pay $78 a...

June 07, 2021

QTS Data Centers

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

QTS Realty Trust launches new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions

QTS Realty Trust has announced its new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions. The Smart Family solution is built on advanced tech, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and preemptive understanding into customers’ colocation environment.QTS Smart family solutio...

June 01, 2021

QTS Data Centers

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

Duocast add POP at QTS Eemshaven

QTS announced that Duocast, a Dutch internet service provider, has established a point of presence in QTS' Eemshaven data center. Duocast offers a portfolio of Internet and Ethernet services, IP Transit, IoT backbone and dedicated hosting servicesThe QTS Press Release - June 10th, 2020: New ...

June 10, 2020

QTS Eemshaven

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

QTS acquires 100% Renewable Energy for its Groningen Data Center in the Netherlands

QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) has announced that it has signed agreements to purchase renewable energy via European Guarantees of Origin equal to the expected electricity needs of the company’s newly acquired data centre in Groningen, Netherlands. Under the agreement, QTS has purchased environm...

March 12, 2020

QTS Groningen

NLDC and The Datacenter Group Rebrand as NorthC

The Datacenter Group (TDCG) and NLDC, who merged in July of 2019, will be rebranded under a new name: NorthC. With ten data centers across the Netherlands, NorthC is the largest regional data center business in the country, serving both large organizations and government institutions as well a...

February 17, 2020

NorthC Datacenters

The Datacenter Group acquires data centers from NovoServe

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, - The Datacenter Group (TDCG) has acquired the data center infrastructure of NovoServe in Doetinchem and Enschede. By selling its two data centers, NovoServe is able to apply focus to their international IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) hosting activities, whilst ...

July 18, 2019

NorthC Datacenters

KPN sells NLDC subsidiary to Deutsche Bank's DWS

Dutch telco KPN has agreed to sell its data center division, NLDC, to a fund managed by DWS, a global infrastructure investment manager and part of Deutsche Bank. NLDC consists of six colocation data centers in Aalsmeer, Almere, Eindhoven, Groningen, Oude Meer (Schiphol) and Rotterdam. Terms o...

May 20, 2019

NorthC Datacenters

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Ch...

February 07, 2019

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