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Fire takes four OVH data centres offline, completely destroys one

March 15, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

OVH’s SBG2 data centre in Strasbourg, France has been completely destroyed by fire and the SBG1 fa...

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AWS secures new UK government cloud contracts

March 12, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

The UK government recently posted details of new contracts awarded to AWS by HM Revenue & Custom...

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Vantage exits Etix with sale of Ghana data centre; new pan-African platform founded

March 12, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) and management of Onix Data Centres acquired a maj...

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Interconnect planning new Dutch data centres

March 11, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Dutch data centre operator Interconnect is planning to start building two new data centres and a new...

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Skybox, Prologis building new Chicago data centre

March 10, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Dallas-based Skybox Datacenters and Prologis have been approved to convert a warehouse into a data c...

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AWS rolls out 100Gbps AWS Direct Connect links in US, APAC

March 10, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

AWS launched 100Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections targeting applications that transfer large datas...

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KKR taking majority stake in Chile’s fibre network to create new wholesale business

March 10, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Infrastructure investment firm KKR is taking a majority stake in Telefonica Chile’s existing fibre...

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Malaysia approves US, local CSPs for hyperscale data centres, cloud services

March 10, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Telekom Malaysia have been granted conditional approval to build hy...

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Microsoft begins new Chicago data centre

March 9, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Local media reports Microsoft has begun building the first of three planned data centres in the Chic...

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UK’s Node4 buys ERP specialist Starcom; gets new PE investor

March 9, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

The UK’s Node4 acquired Starcom Technologies and secured a new principal investor in Providence Eq...

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Proximity expands in Nottingham, adds new UK data centres

March 9, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

The UK’s Proximity Data Centres – launched a year ago – is expanding its data centre in Nottin...

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EdgeConneX confirms Santiago data centre pre-leased before launch

March 8, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

EdgeConneX management went on record that its first data centre in Santiago, Chile, was fully sold b...

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