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Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center

Google has announced that its land in Bissen, Luxemburg, has finally been reclassified for data center use. The company confirmed that construction can now begin on the land, which is planned for a €1 billion ($1bn) data center. Once completed, this will be one of the most significant const...

September 01, 2022

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Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore

Search engineer giant Google has announced opening of a new data center in Singapore. The company said in a statement: "We announced our first data center in Singapore in 2011, our second in 2015, and we recently hit another important milestone - with our third data center facility complete...

August 29, 2022

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Digital Realty Expanding in Dallas, Texas With $59m Data Center

Digital Realty has plans to develop a new facility in Dallas, Texas. The data center firm filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop the data center in the Lewisville area of Dallas. The company coined the development ‘Project Gold’ and is looking to invest up to $5...

August 23, 2022

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Google To Launch Cloud Regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia

Google has announced its plans to launch three Cloud regions in the APAC region. The company plans to launch these regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia. Although its competitors like Microsoft Azure and AWS already have projects in the works in Malaysia and New Zealand, it is the fir...

August 17, 2022

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Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For $205m

Digital Realty has announced the sale of a “mature” data center. The move is to ensure that more capital is available for new projects. Notably, the company did not reveal which building it sold or who acquired the facility. According to a release from the company, it has disposed of the prope...

August 15, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Google experiences widespread outage

This week, Google was down after experiencing an outage that impacted systems worldwide. As reported by DCD, this outage occurred shortly after an explosion at Google’s data center in Iowa - however, currently, it is unknown whether the two are related. According to Down Detector, the ou...

August 10, 2022

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NTT announces sixth data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia

NTT has announced plans for a sixth data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, which according to Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong, is being built to accommodate its “expanding business in the region. Siong said in a Facebook post, “It’s also very encouraging to note that the pla...

August 04, 2022

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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

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Vantage Data Centers opens Johannesburg Data Center

Vantage Data Centers has announced the ground-breaking of its first facility on its 80MW Johannesburg campus, a project which launched in 2021. The two-story facility called JHB11 reportedly offers 16MW of capacity of 130,000sqft square feet (12,000 square meters). According to the company, t...

July 28, 2022

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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

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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

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UK data center operators battle the heat with hosepipes, while Google and Oracle face service disruption

The UK’s heatwave pushed temperatures to a record-breaking 40C this week, causing transport delays and service disruptions. To battle the heat, some data center operators have been using hose pipes to cool their facilities. According to a report by Bloomberg, staff in London have been spraying...

July 20, 2022

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Vantage secures green loan for Virginia data enter

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has secured a $300 million green loan for its upcoming 44MW sustainability-designed data center in Virginia. Structured and arranged by Societe Generale, the loan recognizes the facility’s sustainable features and will, according to the company, “exp...

July 19, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software

Tech giants, Google and Microsoft, have announced that they've invested in the carbon accounting startup FlexiDAO, which has now raised €6.1 million for its service that monitors the renewable energy that companies buy and the associated carbon emissions hour-by-hour and 24/7. While both Googl...

July 08, 2022

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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

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Pantheon Invests $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers

Pantheon Infrastructure has announced that it will be investing $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers. The investment will be geared towards the data center company’s North American business for continued growth. Vantage has data center campuses in Quebec, Montreal, Phoenix, Ashburn, Quincy, and S...

July 01, 2022

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Google's data plans in Saudi Arabia: Lives at risk

Back in December 2020, Google announced that it had signed an agreement with state-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco to set up a Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia and offer Enterprise Cloud services. From the outset, this was a controversial move. Saudi Arabia is notorious for its human rights...

June 28, 2022

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Google Breaks Ground on Its $300m Ohio Data Center

Google has broken ground on a new facility in Columbus, Ohio. The site for the new data center was previously used for a snake oil farm. Last year, the company first revealed plans for the 14,000 square meters (150,000 square foot) data center. According to the company, the facility will cost ...

June 23, 2022

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Google Acquires Land in Finland For Possible Data Center Development

Google has acquired 50 hectares of land in Hamina, Finland, for €4.3 million ($4.5m). The land is also located next to the company’s existing sea-cooled data center. The existing data center was acquired from Stora Enso, a Finnish paper company in 2009. It also opened the data center in 201...

June 23, 2022

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Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM

Google has announced it has opened a cloud region, in Milan, Italy, in partnership with TIM, namely the Europe-west8 region, its first in this region, following both AWS and Microsoft doing the same. According to the giant, it will bring on a second in Turin, which will happen over the next f...

June 21, 2022

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