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Second phase of IONOS data centre completed with opening planned for 2022

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The second phase of the data centre being built for IONOS, Europe’s largest cloud hosting services provider, has been completed, with the location in the Midlands set to open in 2022.

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Virtu Financial selects DigiPlex

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DigiPlex, the Nordic leader for scalable, sustainable and secure data centers, has attracted a leading financial firm, Virtu Financial (NASDAQ: VIRT), to its Stockholm data center. Virtu uses cutting-edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to its clients. The low-latency connectivity, green credentials and strength of the co-located ecosystem within the DigiPlex facility were all key to Virtu’s decision.

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Vantage Data Centers expands to Africa

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Vantage Data Centers has begun construction of its first African campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, leveraging a US$1 billion investment from existing financial partners. The 80MW campus will be in Johannesburg’s Waterfall City, a thriving business and data center ecosystem in the heart of the continent’s largest data center market. This marks Vantage’s entry into its fifth continent. From its initial U.S. roots, Vantage previously expanded to two Canadian markets in early 2019, to six...

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Schneider Electric calls for urgent action to accelerate Net Zero

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Innovation Summit World Tour 2021 urges rapid acceleration of carbon emission reduction to reach 2050 net zero ambition.

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Flexible data centres can reduce grid carbon emissions

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Lancium™, a technology company focused on the energy transition, has published a Company-sponsored report “Impact of Large, Flexible Data Center Operations on the Future of ERCOT.” The report assesses the energy and environmental impact of deploying 5,000MW of flexible data center capacity in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid by 2030. ERCOT manages the flow of electric power to more than 26 million Texas customers, representing approximately 90 percent of the...

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Teraco completes its Cape Town hyperscale data centre campus expansion

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Teraco Data Environments Proprietary Limited, Africa’s largest vendor-neutral data centre and interconnection services provider, has completed Phase 1 of CT2, its new hyperscale data centre in Brackenfell, Cape Town – the largest data centre in the Western Cape. The new facility supports the growing demand by enterprises and cloud providers for data centre capacity. CT2 offers highly resilient and secure colocation facilities in line with Teraco’s long-term vision of enabling digital...

Scan agrees partnership with Green Mountain Data Centres

The two companies combine their services to deliver managed hosting solutions for the HPC and AI...

Bond issues speeds up DigiPlex's expansion

DigiPlex has successfully completed a new senior secured bond issue of NOK 655 million with...

Connectivity benchmarking

Sample data shows the world’s most connected data center facilities have more than 120 enterprise...

Rackspace Technology and IATA pilot next-generation airline standards

Rackspace Technology is supporting the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to achieve...

Hyperscale data centre count reaches 541

New data from Synergy Research Group shows that the total number of large data centers operated by...

Tele2 IoT launches cybersecurity product on Platform Equinix

Tele2 IoT expands portfolio with "Private Interconnect", in collaboration with Equinix.

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Automated vehicles record and process massive amounts of data daily with simulations and high capacity sensors. For Elektrobit, a global supplier of connected software for the automotive industry, the biggest challenge was how to securely store, transfer and process these large amounts of data. The interconnection-first approach, deployed on Platform Equinix®, provided Elektrobit the fastest and most stable option available. Find out how Equinix, with its global data centers and digital edge presence, boosted efficiency, performance, reliability and security for Elektrobit.

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