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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

NTT

Qcells announces long-term extension of alliance with Microsoft

South Korean solar panel producer Qcells this week announced an eight-year strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. to extend the companies’ existing solar panel supply deal. This extension comes as Microsoft looks to procure a large amount of solar panels produced in the US for its renewable e...

January 09, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Global Switch CEO to retire and be replaced by COO Muldoon

Global Switch CEO John Corcoran is retiring and the company has announced that he will be stepping down from his duties on December 31, 2023. Global Switch's current chief operating officer Ashley Muldoon is to be appointed CEO, and will join the board. Shareholder approval for his appointment...

December 28, 2023

Global Switch

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

Digital Realty Trust

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

Microsoft signs large Biorchar carbon removal agreement with Carbonfuture

Microsoft has recently signed a large deal to pay for biochar production in Bolivia to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Following this deal, Exomad Green, the world’s largest biochar producer, will create the inert carbon residue at its facility in Concepción, Bolivia. Microsoft will pay for...

December 20, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to use renewable natural gas in San Jose facility

Microsoft recently revealed its plans to use renewable natural gas (RNG) made from food waste to help power a microgrid that provides resilience at its San Jose data center. Fuel cell provider Enchanted Rock is in charge of this project and announced in 2022 that the microgrid would use biogas...

December 13, 2023

Microsoft Azure

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

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

Microsoft to expand its footprint in Canada

Microsoft this week announced that it will be expanding its footprint in Canada with multiple new data centers with an investment of US$500 million to expand its cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Quebec over the next two years. The company notes that this investment will increase its lo...

November 23, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Sam Altman returns as OpenAI’s CEO, with new board

Sam Altman, who was suddenly fired by the board has “reached an agreement in principle” to return as CEO of OpenAI as nearly all of OpenAI’s employees threatened to leave the company if the board did not reverse its decision. Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, who was appointed as interim CEO ai...

November 23, 2023

Microsoft Azure

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and colleagues join Microsoft

Microsoft has recruited Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and other OpenAI researchers who left the startup over the weekend to head a new advanced AI research team. The OpenAI board abruptly fired Altman, saying he was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its abi...

November 20, 2023

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne completes its first data center in Spain

Colocation company CyrusOne recently completed the shell and core of its first data center in Spain and threw a traditional flag-flying ceremony to celebrate it. The MAD1 facility, situated on a five-acre site, is a two-story facility with an IT capacity of 18MW across 6,000 square meters. Thi...

November 16, 2023

CyrusOne

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation form a data center JV in Northern Virginia

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation established a joint data center venture in Northern Virginia. Following their agreement, the real estate investment firm invested $200 million and will get an 80 percent equity interest in two data centers currently under construction in Northern Vi...

November 16, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft announces two in-house designed semiconductors

Microsoft has recently announced it is working on two in-house designed semiconductors. One is an Arm CPU called the Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU, designed for general workloads, focusing on performance per watt and a dedicated AI accelerator. The other is the Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator...

November 15, 2023

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne files to invest $15m in new San Antonio data center

Colocation company CyrusOne has filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to build a new data center for the 'CyrusOne SAT 8 & 9' project in San Antonio, Texas. The application notes that the company intends to invest $15 million in building a two-story data center and of...

November 15, 2023

CyrusOne

Microsoft signs agreement to use Oracle Cloud for AI inference

Oracle recently announced a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to support the growth of AI services. Following this agreement, Microsoft will use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI infrastructure and Microsoft Azure AI infrastructure to infuse AI models to power Microsoft Bing conversationa...

November 08, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Iron Mountain to convert records management facility in Miami to a data center

Iron Mountain is to convert one of its former records management facilities in Miami, Florida, into a data center that will offer 16MW. Iron Mountain CEO William L. Meaney said during the company's Q3 2023 earnings call last week, “Miami is a key market where a number of our customers are loo...

November 06, 2023

Iron Mountain

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