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ScottishPower: Amazon-funded wind farm opens in Kintyre, Scotland

ScottishPower Renewables’ wind project, launched in association with and funded by Amazon, has come online. The 50MW Beinn an Tuirc 3 wind farm on the Kintyre peninsula has 15 turbines, and according to ScottishPower, it is the largest in its portfolio built without any government support.The ...

November 01, 2021

Amazon AWS

NTT is expanding its Vienna data center

NTT has announced that it has broken ground on expanding its data center in Vienna, Austria. The company will add 32,300 square feet (3,000 square meters) to the Vienna 1 facility. By so doing, Vienna will have 92,500 square feet (8,600 square meters) upon expansion. NTT says the expansion is ...

October 29, 2021

NTT

AWS announces three new Local Zones in Las Vegas, New York City, and Portland

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new Local Zones in New York City, Las Vegas, and Portland. Local Zones are considered Edge locations that host applications that need low latency to end-users or on-premises installations. Sébastien Stormacq, the Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon ...

October 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK

Equinix has revealed its plans for a new data center in Manchester, UK. The MA5 facility is the company’s fifth IBX facility in Manchester. It is situated in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford. The first phase of the facility will provide up to 3,600 square meters of colocation space. It...

October 28, 2021

Equinix

Digital Realty forms JW with Pembani Remgro to acquire Nigeria's Medallion Data Centres

Digital Realty has announced that it has formed a joint venture with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to acquire Medallion Data Centres. Medallion is Nigeria’s top interconnection and colocation provider. The company operates two data centers in the country. One of the facilities is in Abuja...

October 27, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate form a $575 Million Joint Venture to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in Australia

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have formed a new $575 million joint venture with an aim to develop hyperscale data centers in Sydney, Australia. PGIM is the real estate investment and financing division of Prudential Financial. The facilities the companies will be developing under this JV are...

October 19, 2021

Equinix

DCI secures land for cloud edge facility in Darwin, Australia

DCI has revealed its plans for a new Edge facility in Darwin, Australia. The company acquired a 2.7-hectare site in Darwin Technology Park. It also has an option to expand the site up to 5 hectares if it wants. DCI says it will be developing a Tier III facility called DRW01 with 10MW capacity ...

October 19, 2021

DCI Data Centers

Digital Realty makes strategic investment in AtlasEdge

Digital Realty has reached an agreement to make a strategic investment in AtlasEdge Data Centres. The investment will also see Digital Realty’s Executive VP, Strategic & Business Segments, Giuliano Di Vitantonio, join AtlasEdge as CEO, starting January 2022. AtlasEdge delivers smooth, loca...

October 15, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into the Asia Pacific region

Stack Infrastructure has revealed its plan to expand into the Asia Pacific region. The company is planning to open a regional headquarters in Singapore. It would also expand into Osaka and Tokyo immediately before entering into Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, and other Asia Pa...

October 13, 2021

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure: Hyperscale data center goes online in Silicon Valley

Stack Infrastructure’s latest data center facility in Silicon Valley (SVY02) is now live and is adjacent to the company’s existing SVY01 facility at its Silicon Valley Campus. This 3-story, 240,000 sqft facility brings 32MW of capacity to the region and is powered entirely by 100% renewable e...

October 12, 2021

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

STT GDC plans two data centers in Tokyo with 60MW capacity

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced that it plans to build two new data centers in Tokyo, Japan. STT GDC says the two data centers will be developed by and leased from Goodman Group. Goodman Group is an Australian property firm. The facilities will be located in Goodman...

October 08, 2021

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

AWS buys 42-acre of land in Warrenton for $40 million

According to Fauquier Now, Amazon Web Services has acquired a 41.7-acre land in Warrenton, Fauquier County, for $39.7 million. The land it acquired is on Blackwell Road, Lee Highway. With each acre costing $952,000, this is reportedly the biggest real estate transaction in the history of No...

September 30, 2021

Amazon AWS

AWS plans to open data center design facility in Zagreb, Croatia

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it wants to open a data center design facility in Zagreb, Croatia. The facility will support the development and operation of AWS Cloud services while focusing on product development, research, and data center design. AWS said it would be using local ta...

September 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

Sustainable Finance: New way to address the environmental footprint of data centers

Much has been said about how data centers adversely affect the environment. However, more data centers have begun to become 'Greener.' Besides, in order to leave a better environmental footprint, many data center companies are now spending more on green energy. Investors and data center fin...

September 27, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

AWS to open New Zealand Cloud Region in 2024, to spend NZ$7.5 billion (US$5.3 billion)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed its plans for a new Cloud Region in New Zealand in 2024. Consistent with AWS’s Regions, the new Asia Pacific Region in Auckland, New Zealand, will consist of three Availability Zones. In a statement by the Company, the new region will enable more enterpri...

September 24, 2021

Amazon AWS

AWS to open third Edge location in Fortaleza, Brazil

The government of Ceará in North Brazil has announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will launch an Edge facility in Fortaleza, Brazil. The facility will be AWS’s third facility in Fortaleza. Governor of Ceará, Camilo Santana, said it is the state’s wish to make Ceará the first 100% digital go...

September 24, 2021

Amazon AWS

Menlo Equities acquires four Digital Realty data centers in Silicon Valley

Menlo Equities has completed the acquisition of four Digital Realty data centers in Silicon Valley. The firm acquired the facilities for a combined $108.8 million. First, it acquired a facility at 4650 Old Ironside Drive in Santa Clara for $35.8 million. The facility has 124,400 square feet...

September 24, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Dublin: Heat created by Amazon data center to heat housing

An Amazon data center based in Tallaght in South Dublin is set to heat homes in the local area as part of Tallaght's pilot District Heating Scheme. As part of Dublin's Climate Action Week, locals were invited to inspect the progress that has been made with the scheme. The project is expected t...

September 21, 2021

Amazon AWS

AWS launches Local Zones in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Kansas City

Amazon Web Services has launched Local Zones in Minneapolis, Kansas City, and Chicago. AWS’ Local Zones serve as Edge locations that host applications that require single-digit millisecond latency for on-premises installations and end-users. AWS announced its excitement of launching the Loc...

September 13, 2021

Amazon AWS

NTT plans to grow its data center footprint by 20% in the next 18 months

NTT ltd has announced it plans to increase its data center footprint in the next 18 months by 20%. The Company would be expanding some of its existing data centers and adding 300MW of capacity and 600,000 sqm (6.5 million square feet) of space within 18months. This expansion will be in 20 c...

September 02, 2021

NTT

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