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Amazon behind plans for new UK hyperscale data centres?

February 11, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

An unnamed cloud company has put in a planning application to build two data centres in the UK and i...

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VTB Bank takes stake in, becomes strategic partner of Rostelecom Data Centers

February 11, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Russian telco Rostelecom signed a strategic partnership with VTB Bank for the latter to take a 44.8%...

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DE-CIX Mumbai adds connectivity to Oracle Cloud

February 11, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

DE-CIX Mumbai brought online connectivity to Oracle Cloud via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnec...

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Teraco raises funds for latest Johannesburg data centre

February 10, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Local media reports South Africa’s Teraco completed a R2.5b ($166m) funding round. ...

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euNetworks, Light Blue Fibre partner for Cambridge fibre network

February 10, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

euNetworks is providing operational and maintenance support for Light Blue Fibre, a JV between the U...

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China Mobile International opens second European data centre in Frankfurt

February 9, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

China Mobile International (CMI) opened a Frankfurt data Centre. ...

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Azure boosts resiliency with new AZs in US, Germany

February 5, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Microsoft put Azure AZs into general availability in its South Central US and Germany West Central r...

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Bluebird Network acquires second data centre, expands first

February 4, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Bluebird Network acquired a data centre in Bettendorf on the Iowa-Illinois border, roughly midway be...

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Telecom Italia launches cloud and data centre arm Noovle

February 3, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

As outlined last November TIM (Telecom Italia) spun out its cloud and data centre business into a ne...

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COPT completes second data centre JV with Blackstone

February 3, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

COPT REIT recently completed its new data centre JV with funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estat...

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Equinix expanding in Helsinki, Finland

February 3, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Equinix is investing €32m to expand its HE5 and HE7 data centres in Helsinki, Finland. ...

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Wasabi raises debt financing to broaden cloud storage footprint

February 3, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Boston-based cloud storage firm Wasabi raised $27.5m in debt financing from MGG Investment Group. ...

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