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Stack Launches New Data Center at its Milan Campus

Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was deve...

July 29, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

AWS announces cloud region in Santiago, Chile

AWS has announced its plans to expand its footprint in Latin America with the development of a new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. Alongside this announcement, the company also explained that it had begun the process required to obtain an environmental permit for a $205 million data center i...

July 28, 2022

Amazon AWS

Equinix signs wind PPA with Neoen

Equinix has announced that it has signed a second PPA with Neoen in Finland in a 10-year deal. The deal will see Neoen (which owns an 80% stake in the project) and project developer Prokon (owning 20%) provide at least 42MW of wind capacity from the 53MW Lumivaara wind park which is currently ...

July 26, 2022

Equinix

Equinix sued over alleged patent infringement

Equinix is being faced with a lawsuit from Cloud Conductor LLC, a multi-cloud management firm, over accusations that the colocation giant stole its technology that was placed in one of its data centers. According to the filing, Equinix began offering a cloud connectivity service identical to ...

July 25, 2022

Equinix

Microsoft Might Be Planning To Develop its First Data Center in Romania

Romanian media Profit.ro reports that Microsoft plans to develop its first data center in the company. Microsoft buying a plot of land in the city of Otopeni is a major catalyst of this speculation. Microsoft did not deny or confirm the story reported by Profit.ro. However, the company said it...

July 25, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft To Develop a Data Center campus in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Microsoft has filed to develop three data center buildings in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The company wants to develop the buildings at a greenfield site in the County. The site is located at 210 Tunstall Road, Mecklenburg County. The data center buildings will be developed on a 132-acre sit...

July 19, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Keppel Reveals Plans For Beijing Data Center

Keppel has announced that it is developing a data center in Greater Beijing, China. According to the Singaporean company, its Keppel Data Centre Fund II LP (KDCF II) has partnered with Heying to develop a greenfield data center facility in Greater Beijing, China. KDCF II is managed by Keppel’s...

July 19, 2022

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AWS Acquires Three Properties in Sterling, Virginia

Amazon Web Services has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. According to BizJournal, the company paid up to $30.8 million to real estate firm Clarke-Hook Corp. This will be AWS’ third low-rise office property acquisition in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022. The buildings are loc...

July 19, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft teams up with Climeworks

Microsoft has announced that its partnership with carbon removal specialists Climeworks is expanding with a new 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement. The new deal will make it Microsoft's first-ever long-term carbon removal supplier and is one of the largest direct air capture (DAC) deals...

July 18, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Alibaba strives to keep up with Microsoft, Amazon and Google with carbon counting

In an effort to keep up with the likes of tech rivals like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, Alibaba has announced that it is launching Energy Expert, a so-called 'sustainability platform' which will facilitate the organization's measuring, analyzing and managing of carbon emissions. This global l...

July 08, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen

As green hydrogen turns the heads of big investors, Amazon, Equinor, and others have announced they are backing energy startup Electric Hydrogen (EH2) with a $198 million round, led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech. EH2 is reportedly working on a ‘100MW-minimum’ electrolyzer technology for industria...

July 08, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity"

Microsoft Azure has announced that worldwide its data centers are now operating with a limited server capacity available to customers as a result of a global supply shortage. The company has over 200 data centers across the world, stretching across 60 regions - however, reports indicate that ...

July 07, 2022

Microsoft Azure

AirTrunk Announces SYD1 Campus Final Phase Completion

AirTrunk has completed the fifth and last building at its SYD1 data center campus in Sydney, Australia. The company announced the completion of the campus’ first phase in 2017. The campus also sits on over seven hectares of land. In addition, the site features 337,000 square feet (35,000 sq...

July 07, 2022

AirTrunk Sydney

Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU

Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporatio...

July 06, 2022

Equinix

Macquarie deal: CO2-cutting data center tech in Australia

Macquarie Data Centres has announced it has signed a multi-year deal with ResetData, which will see Submer cooling technology used in Australia for the first time. This technology reportedly reduces CO2 emissions by up to 45% and also creates zero wastewater. Alongside this raft of benefits i...

July 05, 2022

Macquarie Data Centres

Microsoft To Launch New Azure Region in Qatar

Microsoft has announced that it will launch its Qatar Azure cloud region in two weeks. The general manager of Microsoft Qatar, Lana Khalaf, made this known at the launch of new offices in Doha, Qatar. He said: “In the coming two weeks we will be launching the region globally, but definitely th...

July 01, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Keppel DC REIT Buys Two Data Centers in China For $206m

Keppel DC REIT has announced the acquisition of two data centers in China. The Singaporean data center REIT entered into an agreement with Guangdong Bluesea Data Development Co. Ltd. to acquire two facilities in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province. The deal is worth RMB 1,380.6 million (~US$206m)....

June 24, 2022

Keppel Data Center REIT

Microsoft teams up with Eaton to enhance sustainability

Eaton has announced that it will expand its collaboration with Microsoft as part of a new strategic agreement between the two to address major industry developments, including "digital transformation, sustainability and the energy transition." According to the companies, a key feature of the p...

June 23, 2022

Microsoft Azure

AWS Acquires 58-Acre Land in Virginia For Data Center Development

According to BizJournal, Amazon Web Services has acquired a 58.5-acre land in Prince William County, Virginia, for $87.8m. Local County records also show that the land is located at 5845 Wellington Road, Gainesville. Interestingly, the company also acquired a 58.5-acre plot in April last year....

June 21, 2022

Amazon AWS

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate open data centre in Sydney

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have announced the opening of SY9x, the first xScale data center in Sydney, following the closing of the two parties' US$575 million joint venture. Located in Rosehill, and adjacent to the Western Sydney CBD of Parramatta, this facility, will be accompanied by a s...

June 16, 2022

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