AWS opens first Middle Eastern region in Bahrain
Bringing the cloud giant's total number of availability zones to 69
News - Will Calvert, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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DataGryd completes 5MW MegaSuite 6 New York facility
In New York City’s largest data center by footprint
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Proposed $1 billion Connecticut data center, fuel cell microgrid receives $55.2m tax break
First a 20MW fuel cell-powered microgrid is planned, with a data center coming later
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Zayo shareholders agree to $8.2 billion acquisition by Digital Colony, EQT
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2020
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Japan's Air Water acquires UPS maker Hitec
Diesel rotary UPS creator gets a new parent
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Alibaba develops its first AI and IoT chip, based on RISC-V architecture
Helping decrease China's dependence on foreign-designed chips
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AWS hits $8.4bn in Q2 revenue as growth slows, Google Cloud annual run rate passes $8bn
The market leader is slowing, but it still makes more in a quarter than Google Cloud makes in a year
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Unnamed company plans $600 million Nebraska data center
But must pass regulatory hurdles
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Google plans second Chilean data center
Environmental assessment filings reveal $200m project
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Compass Datacenters acquires Montreal's Root Data Center
After a cash injection from existing investors
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Google considers $600 million Kansas City, Missouri data center
With the possibility of receiving a 35-year property tax break
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Equinix opens eleventh Tokyo data center
The facility will be Equinix's largest in the country once fully completed
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Echelon given go-ahead for 100MW Ireland campus
After beating an appeal against the campus' planning permission
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Israel's Azrieli buys 20 percent stake in Compass Datacenters
While Compass plans a $3 billion expansion
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Ascenty opens four new Brazilian data centers
Adding 24MW of capacity to Ascenty's network
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$3bn "solar data center" proposed in Arizona
Pegasus Holdings and Plus Minus Power (now merged) say they will have a solar farm and data center up and running this fall
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Goonhilly Earth Station opens Cornwall, UK data center
The facility will be used for AI and machine learning applications and will be powered by on-site solar arrays
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DC Blox opens first phase of $785m Birmingham, Alabama data center
The converted site used to be one of the largest steel mills in the South
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Google to buy enterprise cloud storage provider Elastifile
Bolstering Google Cloud's enterprise ambitions
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Digital Realty buys 3.5 acres in Paris to build 12MW data center
After selling its sole Paris facility in 2016
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Compass Datacenters starts to build hyperscale Arizona campus
Plans for a campus with eight data centers and a potential capacity of 350MW
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Cisco to acquire Acacia Communications for $2.6 billion
The deal is expected to close halfway through 2020
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109-year-old Montana hydroelectric powerhouse could become a data center
Historic building could be used for blockchain
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GTT to acquire Dutch telco KPN for €50 million in cash
Increasing the company's IP network in Europe and adding long-haul fiber routes and metro rings in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris
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First Brick Holdings plans $50 million African expansion
The expansion will include five Tier III facilities across Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda
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Amazon applies to prevent release of Australian data center emission figures
More than 400 Australian companies have already published their emissions and energy data for the financial year 2017-18
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Etisalat to build two UAE data center campuses
With a total capacity of 16.4MW across the two sites
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CyrusOne breaks ground on third Frankfurt data center
As part of a planned European expansion