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Digital Realty files to build data center in Chicago

Digital Realty has reportedly filed to construct a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The application for construction on the facility outlines that it would span 565,000-square-foot (52,500 sqm) as a 13-story building at 321-337 E. 21st Street, which is opposite 350 E Cermak carrier hotel...

September 28, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1

Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the ...

September 26, 2022

Cogent Communications

Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects

Amazon has announced that it has invested in another wave of renewable energy projects, totaling 71. Altogether, these projects will take the giant total renewable energy production to 50,000GWh, the same amount required to power 4.6 million homes in the US annually. These projects include th...

September 23, 2022

Amazon AWS

Stack's heat-sharing project in Oslo successful

STACK Infrastructure has successfully connected its data center to Hafslund Oslo Celsio System in Norway for city-wide heat reuse. This is the first time a project of this kind has taken place in the country. Now, after a one-year ramp-up, STACK's OSL01 data center is now providing heat and h...

September 22, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

New report reveals only 33 percent of operators have an adequate program to conserve water

We are living in an era where water stress and water scarcity are serious global issues that are only worsening. A total of 25% of the world's population is facing water stress and scarcity, and it's forecast that by as early as 2025, this could increase to 50% and by 2050, as much as 75% of...

September 20, 2022

Microsoft Azure

AWS files to build data center in DeSoto, outside Dallas, Texas

AWS has announced its filing to build a new facility in DeSoto, outside Dallas, Texas. The data center will reportedly span 30,000 square foot (2,790 sq m), and work will commence early next year, with a view for completion in 2024. The facility is known as the Ezell Drive Campus and accord...

September 19, 2022

Amazon AWS

Equinix expands its ZH4 IBX facility in Zurich

Equinix has announced the expansion of one of its data centers in Zurich, Switzerland. Its ZH4 IBX facility, located at Josefstrasse 225, will see the addition of 850 square meters (9,150 sq ft) of whitespace and more than 200 cabinets.The facility first opened in 2010, and since then, it has...

September 16, 2022

Equinix

Indoor vertical farm on the way for former Digital Realty data center in Herndon, Virginia

In Virginia, a former Digital Realty data center is gearing up for a dramatic transformation. Located in Herndon, the company’s old data center will become an agricultural facility, specifically a vertical farm. Vertical farms have similar power, water, and air conditioning requirements to dat...

September 14, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Novva Data Centers' new data center in North Las Vegas includes water-free cooling and renewable energy

Novva Data Centers has announced plans for a new 275,000 square foot, 100MW data center based in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The facility will be located on a 20-acre campus with an injection of $400 million and will reportedly be built with sustainability in mind. Renewable energy will be sourc...

September 14, 2022

Novva Data Centers

ESR Cayman & Stack Form JV To Develop a 48MW Facility in Seoul, South Korea

ESR Cayman and Stack Infrastructure have partnered to develop a new data center in Seoul, South Korea. Both companies announced the joint venture to develop a 48MW data center in Incheon. The companies plan to break ground on the data center in Q1 2023. The facility is also scheduled to be com...

September 14, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Evocative: Company Consolidates Brands to One

San Jose, CA, –Evocative, a global provider of Internet infrastructure, announces today that the company has consolidated its portfolio to one brand: Evocative. Evocative enables enterprise organizations with a full suite of digital transformation solutions including colocation, network, bar...

September 13, 2022

Evocative

Environmental group launches appeal against Interxion's proposal for two data centers in Dublin

Environmentalists are appealing against two data centers Interxion is planning to build in Dublin. The appeal, lodged with An Bord Pleanála (ABP) by John Conway and Louth Environmental Group, argues that there are a "disproportionate" number of data centers in the area and that the facilities'...

September 09, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

NTT announces launch of its Cyberjaya 6 Malaysian data center

NTT has announced that it has begun construction on its Cyberjaya 6 data center in Malaysia, with an initial investment of more than $50 million. Set to cater to hyperscalers and high-end enterprises, the facility, when combined with the company's CBJ5 data center, will have a capacity of 22M...

September 08, 2022

NTT

Microsoft Azure's New Zealand data center powered by 100 percent renewable energy

Microsoft recently announced that its data center region in New Zealand (specific location not yet disclosed), will be powered by 100 percent renewable electricity due to a partnership with Ecotricity, a sustainable electricity retailer. This means that the region will use solar, wind, and hy...

September 06, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services Launches UAE Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of its new cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company said the cloud region’s official name is Middle East (UAE). It also noted that the API name is me-central-1. According to AWS, the zone is ready for use to store data and deploy worklo...

September 05, 2022

Amazon AWS

DigitalBridge and Equinix are The Final Bidders For Time Dotcom's Aims DC Business

According to Bloomberg, Equinix and DigitalBridge are the final two companies looking to buy Time Dotcom’s data center business. The companies are looking to sign an agreement to take over the business called Aims Data Centre within the next few weeks. Per sources, Time Dotcom might also re...

September 05, 2022

Equinix

Vantage Plans To Develop Another Data Center Campus in Sterling

According to BizJournal, Vantage is looking to develop another data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. According to Loudoun property records, the company acquired 17 acres of land at 22318 Glenn Drive for $46m in October 2021. Per the documents filed by Loudoun County Economic Developm...

September 05, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco

JLL and CIM Group have listed a new purpose-built data center for lease. The data center is located at 400 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California. The data center offers 24MW of power across 182,250 square feet of two-story powered shell building on 7.3 acres. Per additional information in t...

September 05, 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

1547 CSR Has Plans For a 150MW Facility in Pennsylvania

Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) has plans for a large data center campus in Pennsylvania. The company partnered with Green Fig Land Company (GFLC), a real estate company, to acquire over 100 acres of land to develop a data center campus. The data center will span 2 million squ...

September 05, 2022

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

CloudHQ To Develop a 180MW Facility in Minnesota

According to BizJournal, CloudHQ has plans to develop a data center in Chaska, Minnesota. The data center campus will sit on 72 acres of land in Carver County, Chaska. Per the filing, CloudHQ wants to either develop a large 1.8 million square feet (167,225 square meters) building or four build...

September 01, 2022

CloudHQ

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