SUSPENDS DATA CENTER EXPANSION Facebook has just suspended construction work at its Clonee data center in Co. Meath, Ireland due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in the country. The social network company is said to have made this decision with…
PARTNERS WITH TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Equinix has just announced the opening of its fourth data center (SG4) in Singapore, a converted seven-story building located in Tai Seng Industry Estate. With the new data center, the company is providing an initial…
A COURSE TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY US-headquartered data center services provider CyrusOne, has announced the launch of its first net-positive water data center campus in Arizona. According to the company, its 57-acre colocation campus in Chandler, Arizona; incorporates proprietary technology that significantly…
LAUNCHES UK-HEADQUARTERED CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION Japanese global data center provider NTT Ltd, has just completed the shell of its second building within its Munich 2 (MUC2) data center campus, Bavaria. Once the facility is fully built and goes online as…
1,248 EMPLOYEES NOW AT RISK IBM is on the verge of laying-off up to 263 employees in its UK Global Technology Services (GTS) division, placing a total of 1,248 employees at the risk of losing their jobs. Recently, the company…
AN AMSTERDAM FACILITY FOR €11.55M European investment and asset management group Avignon Capital has acquired a data center in Amsterdam for €11.55 million ($12.7 million). The facility purchased by the London-based firm is a 7,450 square meter building which is…
MORE TIME TO PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES Co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, has just stepped down from the company’s Board of Directors, as well as leaves the board of Berkshire Hathaway. Gates was CEO until 2000 and handed over the role to…
UK GOVERNMENT PLANS 2% TAX The UK HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) tax office has confirmed the government’s plan to introduce a Digital Services Tax from next month on all UK and foreign companies. This implies that tech companies…
THE BIGGEST DATA CENTRE IN WALES Next Generation Data (NGD), a UK based data center service provider is facing opposition from residents towards its South Wales data center expansion plans. The current facility is a key Welsh data center and…
BOTH FACILITIES ARE SET FOR Q2 2020 British data center service provider VIRTUS, has announced that its London6 and London10 data center facilities will be opened in early Q2 2020. The data centers are sited on the firm’s Stockley Park…
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