Author Archive

Microsoft plans São Paulo self-builds in Brazil

August 1, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

Microsoft confirmed it will build its first owned data centre in Brazil, in the city of Sumaré in t...

Read more...

Shonfeld Engineering looking to sell stake in Israeli data centre business

July 31, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

Local media reports Israel’s Shonfeld Engineering hired Jefferies to handle the sale of a 20-30% s...

Read more...

Microsoft approved to build gas power plant for Dublin data centres

July 28, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

Microsoft has been granted approval to build a 170MW gas power plant at Grange Castle in Dublin. ...

Read more...

Newcomer proposing green Finland campus

July 27, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

Newcomer Remov is planning a data centre campus in Seinäjoki in eastern Finland, ~360km north of th...

Read more...

New EU-US Data Privacy Framework decision agreed, but for how long?

July 27, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

The European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. ...

Read more...

SwissIX moves to DE-CIX Apollon

July 25, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

SwissIX moved its Internet exchange to the DE-CIX Apollon platform. ...

Read more...

Equinix unveils waste heat reuse project in Frankfurt

July 21, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

Equinix is working on a waste heat reuse project in Frankfurt. ...

Read more...

NorthC acquires fourth Switzerland data centre, first in Zurich

July 21, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

NorthC Group acquired a fourth data centre in Switzerland, located in Winterthur, ~24km northeast of...

Read more...

center3 completes Riyadh expansion in Saudi Arabia

July 21, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

Media reports center3, a subsidiary of stc Group in Saudi Arabia, completed a 9.6MW expansion of its...

Read more...

Internet Initiative Japan deploys micro data centre in Iceland

July 20, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

Internet Initiative Japan deployed a micro data centre (MDC) at the Irafoss hydropower station in Ic...

Read more...

Germany proposes environmental requirements on data centres

July 20, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

The German central government is proposing amendments to the country’s Energy Efficiency Act. ...

Read more...

V.tal buys land for third Fortaleza data centre; subsea cable angle

July 19, 2023
Sacha Kavanagh

V.tal, the Brazilian fibre operator that was hived off from telco Oi and merged with submarine cable...

Read more...