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CyrusOne secures billion dollar credit facility for data center expansion

Data center firm CyrusOne this week announced the closing of a $7.9 billion Warehouse Credit Facility incremental to the $1.8 billion Revolving Credit Facility financing completed in May, providing the company with approximately $9.7 billion of additional debt capital raised.“The successful cl...

July 09, 2024

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AWS partners with Australian government for high-security data center development

Amazon has partnered with the Australian government for the development of a high-security data center that will handle top-secret information with an investment of A$2 billion to be made over the next decade. Due to the "top secret" nature of the project, neither the location nor the specific...

July 06, 2024

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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

Equinix

Microsoft partners with CCL for New Zealand cloud region

Microsoft has announced that CCL, a provider of IT and hybrid cloud services within local telco Spark's Business Group, will be its first at-scale cloud launch partner for the upcoming New Zealand cloud region.“We’ve seen huge interest from customers in leading end-to-end cloud services, hyper...

July 04, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Vantage closes $9.2bn equity raise

Vantage Data Centers revealed this week that it had completed a $9.2 billion equity investment led by investment vehicles managed by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake.“It’s exciting to experience such strong investor demand to fuel our unprecedented growth across North America and EMEA,” said Sure...

June 14, 2024

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AWS to launch Taipei cloud region in 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to launch a cloud region in Taipei, Taiwan and also invest "billions of dollars" in the country over the next 15 years.“Today, we’re announcing that a new AWS Region will be coming to Taiwan by early 2025,” the company said in an announcement this week. “T...

June 14, 2024

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Microsoft signs 420MW worth of PPAs

Microsoft has signed a number of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Sweden and Denmark from European Energy. It will procure the output of six wind and solar sites in Spain from Repsol.“We are excited that Microsoft has committed itself to driving forward the green...

June 13, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans new data center in Northwest Indiana

Microsoft has revealed its plans to build a 245,000-square-foot data center on 489 acres at the Radius Industrial Park in La Porte with a $1 billion investment.“Indiana is committed to being a central hub in the global economy of the future, and this latest announcement ensures Hoosier communi...

June 08, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Singlife completes cloud migration to AWS

Singapore-based insurer Singlife has completed its cloud migration to Amazon Web Services. The move was multi-phased and involved migrating more than 39 mission-critical applications to the cloud and exiting Singlife's data centers within 18 months.Romil Sharma, group head of technology and op...

June 07, 2024

Amazon AWS

Equinix announces second data center in Lisbon, Portugal

Equinix this week announced plans for LS2, a new International Business Exchange (IBX) facility to be located adjacent to Equinix's existing LS1 site. This €50 million project due to open in the first quarter of 2025 will offer 2,050 square meters of colocation space.Carlos Paulino, managing...

June 05, 2024

Equinix

NCLH migrates shoreside technology infrastructure to AWS

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NCLH) has migrated its shoreside technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services in a process which took 15 months to complete and involved moving more than 100 applications, thousands of virtual and physical servers, data center environments, and peripher...

June 05, 2024

Amazon AWS

Microsoft allegedly nears multi-million-euro agreement with CISPE for antitrust complaint

Microsoft is reportedly nearing a multi-million-euro agreement with cloud lobby CISPE- also known as Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe to put an end to its antitrust complaint according to news first reported by Politico. However, a CISPE representative denied the claims to Reu...

June 03, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Duke Energy, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nucor sign MoU for renewable energy

Duke Energy, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nucor have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for renewable energy development in North and South Carolina.This new MoU called "Accelerating Clean Energy" (ACE) tariffs, would help the companies to support carbon-free energy generation invest...

June 01, 2024

Amazon AWS

FWD signs new cloud agreement with AWS

Insurance provider FWD Group has signed a five-year cloud agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which will see AWS continue to host the company's core business applications including finance, customer, and insurance agent interfaces, as part of the company's ongoing cloud migration.Sandee...

May 30, 2024

Amazon AWS

AWS to launch Wavelength Zone Edge locations in Africa

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in partnership with Orange has revealed plans to launch a Wavelength Zone Edge locations in Africa, one of which will be in Morocco, where Oracle has confirmed plans for two new cloud regions. Jérôme Hénique, CEO at Orange Middle East and Africa, said: “The announceme...

May 29, 2024

Amazon AWS

Equinix breaks ground in Malaysia with two new data centers

Equinix has now broken ground in Malaysia with two International Business Exchange data centers in Johor (JH1) and Kuala Lumpur (KL1) now serving the company’s customers in Malaysia and across. Jeremy Deutsch, president for Asia-Pacific at Equinix, said: “Malaysia is a cornerstone market and t...

May 28, 2024

Equinix

Digital Realty signs new PPAs in France and Spain

Digital Realty this week announced the signing of several power purchase agreements (PPA) to power its European operations in France and Spain. The company signed a package solar deal comprising three separate 12-year agreements in Spain and two 15-year deals for wind energy in France. Togeth...

May 24, 2024

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft to purchase one million tons of carbon energy credits

Microsoft is buying one million tons of carbon removal credits from a renewable energy company in Denmark, following its aim to invest in carbon capture technology. The tech giant will purchase the credits from Avedøre power station in Copenhagen, which is operated by energy company Ørsted, in...

May 24, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Amazon to invest billions into renewable energy projects in Spain

Amazon Web Services this week announced plans to invest €15.7 billion in Spain into its AWS Europe (Spain) Region. “We are committed to supporting Spain across multiple areas," said Suzana Curic, AWS country manager, Spain and Portugal. "Beyond direct investments and jobs supported, we plan to...

May 24, 2024

Amazon AWS

Cologix completes latest data center in Columbus, Ohio

Cologix, this week announced the completion of COL4. Set on a seven-acre campus, the facility spans 256,000 square feet, offering 50MW across three data halls.“Over 10 years ago, we recognized Columbus’ importance as a technology hub for growing companies and decided to enter this market,” sai...

May 22, 2024

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