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Skills and materials struggle to keep pace with data centre demand

Global survey points to sustained demand through 2021/22, but also headwinds for the sector as global material and labour shortages cause delays and price volatility.

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

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

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

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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Flexible data centres can reduce grid carbon emissions

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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BDx Indonesia, a joint venture between BDx Data Centers, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH), and...
A new Europe-wide report has found external site disruptions and inflationary pressures are causing...
The focus on Kenya as a key region aims to take the region further into the digital era and uplift...
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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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