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Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy

Microsoft has announced the availability of its first cloud region in Italy. Consisting of three data centers located in the Lombardy region, the company said it guarantees the highest levels of security, privacy and performance. The region is pegged to accelerate the digital transition of or...

June 09, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty designs data center on Marseille sugar silo site

Digital Realty will construct a new data center on the site of an ancient sugar silo at the Port of Marseille-Fos, having won a bid to acquire and develop the land. The new MRS5 facility will reportedly encompass approximately 107,640 square feet and will be operational by the end of 2025. Acc...

June 09, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Iron Mountain and Web Werks invest $170m in Navi Mumbai data facility

Web Werks and Iron Mountain plan to invest 170 million dollars in a data facility in Navi Mumbai, India. The envisioned facility, Mumbai-3, will have a 32MW capacity and be constructed to Tier III specifications. The JV already owns a five-acre parcel to develop the data center, which is antic...

June 09, 2023

Iron Mountain

Digital Realty gets $1.1 billion, sells Texas and Illinois data facilities

Digital Realty, a US data center company, has had an eventful week raising money and selling data centers. The company announced that it had raised over $1 billion through the sale of shares, with the money going to be used for expansion and debt reduction. Digital is selling the vast majority...

June 07, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

AWS' data center chief Chris Vonderhaar makes abrupt departure

Chris Vonderhaar, head of data center design, planning, construction, and operation, has made an abrupt departure from AWS. This announcement comes as AWS continues to invest in its data center footprint, pegged to invest $35 billion alone on new data centers in Virginia by 2040.AWS has also a...

June 02, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland

Amazon has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Renantis for wind energy in Finland from its two Renantis' onshore wind farms when they're complete. The Mustalamminmäki and Koiramäki wind farms in Karstula, Central Finland, will have a combined cap...

June 02, 2023

Amazon AWS

HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations

Following Human Rights Watch’s call for Microsoft to suspend plans in Saudi Arabia, 17 more groups have now joined the campaign, citing human rights concerns. The human rights groups have highlighted the government’s track record of infiltrating technology programs for spying purposes and its ...

May 30, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Criticisms launched at Amazon's $1 billion subsidy in eastern Oregon

Amazon's contentious $1 billion subsidy in Oregon is coming under fire from critics. The massive break was given the go-ahead following a unanimous vote by Port of Morrow's five commissioners which enabled the giant to secure the enterprise zone incentives. Locals were given just one day's no...

May 30, 2023

Amazon AWS

Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand

Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Contact Energy for geothermal energy in New Zealand. The 10-year PPA was reportedly signed in September 2022 and will see Contact provide Microsoft with all the renewable energy attributes generated by Contact's new 51.4MW Te Huka Uni...

May 27, 2023

Microsoft Azure

AWS Secures Land for a new facility in Navi Mumbai

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be leasing land in Navi Mumbai, India, for a new data facility. The Hindustan Times reports that Amazon Data Services (an Indian subsidiary) has subleased a 451,000-square-foot site in the TTC industrial area in Bonsari, Airoli, for 15 years to construct a data c...

May 26, 2023

Amazon AWS

Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

Digital Realty has applied to construct a new data center in Los Angeles, California. The company has applied to construct a thirteen-story data center at 727 S Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The prospective applicant is GIP 7th Street LLC, a well-known subsidiary of Digital Realty. At ...

May 26, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data center...

May 25, 2023

Meta

QTS Realty Secures a $800m Data Center Refinancing Contract

QTS Realty, owned by Blackstone, has refinanced four data center properties. Citigroup leads a consortium of four institutions that provided the loan. It will be used to refinance QTS' existing $667 million debt and provide the funds necessary to finance tenant build-outs.The refinancing is gi...

May 25, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Aligned Data Centers Concludes the Purchase of Odata

Odata, a LATAM provider of data centers, has been fully acquired by Aligned Data Centers. According to Aligned, the transaction places the company among the biggest private data center owners in the Americas, with more than 2.5GW of critical capacity throughout over 40 data centers at full bui...

May 25, 2023

Aligned

EdgeCore ntends to construct a data center in Sterling, Virginia.

EdgeCore, an American data center company, intends to construct multiple data centers in Sterling, Virginia. According to a summary of a land development application filed to Loudoun County in February, EdgeCore submitted a site plan to construct a data center in Sterling. The property is loca...

May 25, 2023

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

rPlus Energies has announced that it has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Idaho Power, which has a special energy services agreement with Meta; output from the project will go into the same grid supporting Meta's new Kuna data center. The Ada County, Idaho solar farm, known a...

May 24, 2023

Meta

PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell

Earlier this month, PowerHouse Data Centers announced a 30-year lease agreement with CyrusOne, for a spec-built data center, ABX-1, located in Ashburn, Virginia. The company shared that substantial completion of the data center, a two-story, 265,000 SF powered shell, is scheduled for October.A...

May 23, 2023

CyrusOne

CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company

CyrusOne has announced its partnership with Japanese energy firm Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) for the development of new data centers across Japan. The 50:50 joint venture, called CyrusOne KEP, will see at least one trillion yen ($7 billion) invested in the project over the nex...

May 23, 2023

CyrusOne

Amazon Plans Four Data Centers in Sterling, Virginia

Amazon will demolish several office buildings it purchased in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022 and rebuild those structures with four data centers. Amazon Data Services has submitted to Loudoun County proposals to tear down and replace nine office buildings in three sites in Sterling with four data...

May 23, 2023

Amazon AWS

NTT Will Invest $11b Over Five Years in Data Centers

Over the next five years, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) intends to invest $59 billion in data centers, AI, and other "growth areas." At least $11 billion will be allocated to expanding or modernizing its data centers. The digital industry, which includes AI and robotics, receives at lea...

May 19, 2023

NTT

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