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Equinix becomes one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers after issuing $750m in green bonds

Equinix has now become one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers in the market, issuing $750 million in green bonds across two offerings. The company says it will use the proceeds to advance sustainability initiatives across its business. Equinix said the funding will be towards initiativ...

September 17, 2024

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STT GDC India names Bimal Khandelwal as new CEO

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has appointed Bimal Khandelwal as the new CEO of its India business. He has previously served as the CFO for STT GDC India. Prior to that, he worked in the telecoms, financial services, and IT sectors, including at Tata Teleservices. He is to succeed ...

September 17, 2024

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Microsoft signs rooftop solar PPA in Singapore

Microsoft has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with EDP Renewables (EDPR) to purchase 100 percent of the renewable energy exported to the grid from the energy firm's 200MWp SolarNova 8 project. EDPR said phase eight of the SolarNova program is both the largest solar project in Singa...

September 05, 2024

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STT GDC to pilot AI data center cooling control system

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has annunced plans to pilot an artificial intelligence-based autonomous control system for cooling. Daniel Pointon, group CTO at STT GDC, said: “Combining our expertise in delivering AI-ready data centers across major economic hubs with Phaidra’s in...

August 31, 2024

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Microsoft signs new renewable energy deal in India

Microsoft this week announced the signing of a green attribute sale contract of 437.6MW with Indian renewable energy firm ReNew in a deal said to be amongst India's largest corporate renewable agreements. As part of the agreement, ReNew will direct approximately $15 million of revenue from t...

August 29, 2024

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Mubadala invests in data center developer Yondr Group

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala has invested in data center developer Yondr via an existing investment by US asset manager Apollo. Mubadala said its investment will support Yondr’s growth strategy amid increased demand for hyperscale data centers. It has also invested in global fi...

August 25, 2024

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Microsoft petitioned for illegally dumping waste in local lake

Residents in Mekagunda, a village near Indian tech hotspot Hyderabad have filed a petition against Microsoft, and 35 other companies and government bodies in Telangana's High Court, alleging that Microsoft has illegally occupied land beyond its property, and is dumping industrial waste into a...

August 25, 2024

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Edged Data Centers launches new facility in Atlanta

Data center provider Edged Energy has launched its first North American data center in Atlanta, Georgia. The campus will feature three data centers, the first of the three which is now live, delivering 27MW of capacity. At full build-out, the campus will offer 168MW of IT capacity. Brandon Be...

August 25, 2024

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Bridge Data Centres acquires land in Johor, Malaysia for $22.4million

APAC data center operator Bridge Data Centres has acquired 20 acres of land in the Mukim of Plentong, District of Johor Bahru, State of Johor from real estate and construction holding company Paragon Globe Bhd (PGB) for a cash consideration of RM99 million ($22.4m). This is the second land d...

August 18, 2024

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Equinix explores deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at Dublin data center

Colocation firm Equinix is exploring deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at its data center in Dublin, Ireland. A spokesperson for the company noted that while a temporary demonstration pod was deployed at one of the company's sites on tour from ESB and GeoPura, is not a permanent deployment. P...

August 17, 2024

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Microsoft partners with Palantir on AI for US defense and intelligence Community

Microsoft and Palantir Technologies are teaming up to provide cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics capabilities to the US Defense and Intelligence Community units to help them access Microsoft's large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir's AI Platforms ...

August 11, 2024

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Equinix surpasses $1bn EBITDA for Q2

Equinix has surpassed a $1 billion EBITDA in Q2 2024 for the first time, reaching $1.036bn. The company Equinix has surpassed a $1 billion EBITDA in Q2 2024 for the first time, reaching $1.036bn. Furthermore, the quarter's results saw operating income up 20 percent compared to the previous qua...

August 09, 2024

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Microsoft signs carbon removal deal in California with 3Degrees

Microsoft has signed a new cabon capture deal with climate solutions provider 3Degrees to purchase more than 80,000 metric tons of carbon removals from Western Rivers Conservancy's (WRC) Blue Creek Improved Forest Management Project, located in Northern California. "Microsoft's investment in...

August 02, 2024

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CFS signs multi-year agreement with Microsoft for cloud and AI

Australian wealth management fund Colonial First State (CFS) has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services which will see CFS continue to use Azure as its preferred cloud provider and deploy generative AI use cases in collaboratio...

August 02, 2024

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Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of 'muddying' UK CMA investigation

Microsoft has claimed that its rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google are 'muddying the waters' of the antitrust investigation currently underway by the UK Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA). Google reiterated the criticism of Microsoft in its six-page response. which said; "We be...

July 29, 2024

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Microsoft plans to deploy Lumen’s Private Connectivity Fabric to Azure

Microsoft has announced plans to deploy Lumen’s Private Connectivity Fabric (PCF) to improve its data center network infrastructure. Lumen will also migrate its workloads to Microsoft Azure and work with the company to deliver “telecom industry-specific solutions.” Erin Chapple, corporate vi...

July 27, 2024

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Equinix announces expansion into the Philippines with three data centers

Equinix this week announced that it will be entering into the Philippines market after purchasing three facilities from Total Information Management, a local technology solutions provider. This deal comprises three carrier-neutral and interconnection-rich data centers with more than 1,000 cabi...

July 23, 2024

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Microsoft invests in rare earth materials startup

Microsoft has made an equity investment in a rare earth materials startup focused on recycling hard drives, Canada’s Cyclic Materials, a metals recycling company that has developed a patent-pending technology, CC360.“Microsoft is working to achieve zero waste across our direct operations, p...

July 19, 2024

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Armada secures equity funding from Microsoft

Edge computing firm Armada has closed $40 million in funding led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. As part of the deal, Armada’s offerings will be made available on the Azure Marketplace.“This investment propels our total funding to over $100m and marks a significant milestone in our journey t...

July 12, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Ericsson to book impairment charge for Vonage acquisition

Ericsson has confirmed that it will record a noncash impairment charge of 11.4 billion Swedish crowns, which reflects lower anticipated market growth in some of Vonage’s current portfolio."We continue to advance our strategy to build a Global Network Platform for network APIs, which was the st...

July 05, 2024

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