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Global Technical Realty prepares to ‘Power Up’ inaugural UK data centre

Global Technical Realty (GTR), a $1bn European build-to-suit data center platform - funded by KKR, a leading global investment firm – has taken a significant step forward with its first UK data centre campus and is preparing to energise the site before summer 2023.

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Global Internet Exchange (IX) operator launches services in Norway

(Oslo, May 3, 2023) DE-CIX, one of the world’s leading Internet Exchanges (IX), says that its newest Internet Exchange in Oslo and Kristiansand is ready for service.

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Women in the data centre industry – the BCS perspective

Jim Hart, CEO and Fay Visaya, Consultant, both at BCS, discuss the reasons behind the lack of women in the data centre industry at the current time and ways in which this inequality can be addressed - with both optimistic that the younger workforce generation is committed to creating a fully diverse workplace in the near future.

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Virtus expands into continental Europe

VIRTUS Data Centres plans to expand into continental Europe with the construction of its first data centre campus outside of the UK. The new data centre, VIRTUS BERLIN1, will be located in Germany's capital city and is set to be operational in 2026.

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Gartner predicts substantial data centre sustainability take-up

Seventy-five percent of organizations will have implemented a data center infrastructure sustainability program driven by cost optimization and stakeholder pressures by 2027, up from less than 5% in 2022, according to Gartner, Inc.

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Defining moments in a data centre decade

As i3 celebrates its 10th birthday, Ed Ansett, Founder & Chairman, reflects on some of the major changes he has witnessed in the data centre industry over the past 10 years, with sustainability looming large as the major, ongoing challenge. Ed believes that the industry has a major role to play in terms of helping to address the more general energy crisis being experienced in many countries, as it also seeks to make positive progress on the path to Net Zero.

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114 MW of take-up tracked across Europe’s established markets with Frankfurt driving momentum.
Mumbai, Seoul, Montreal, Madrid, and Johannesburg have also seen notable rapid growth in the last...
Plans to scale platform to more than 30 sites globally by the end of 2024.
Although nearly half (45%) of IT decision-makers around the world are planning to move to a...
Kao Data and Virgin Media Business Wholesale – the wholesale fixed connectivity arm of Virgin...
Second Indian site planned as it becomes the digital crossroads for the East and the West.
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Elektrobit Case Study: Enable Immense Data Intake to Support Autonomous Driving

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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