Datasource November 2017

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WORLD Wave of business ahead for data centres as 5 in 10 businesses say they will move data into new locations ahead of GDPR As 51% of organisations are being held back from technology investment because of external data protection regulations.

McAfee points out in its report. Despite this, both GDPR and new US regulations, plus Brexit have all presented barriers to technology acquisitions and investments.

According to the survey, approximately two-thirds of respondents said that GDPR (66%), U.S. policies (63%) and Brexit (63%) either already have or will impact their organisation’s technology acquisition investments, while approximately 20% do ot yet know how these issues will impact their spending.

The data centre and cloud spaces are set to heavily benefit from new regulation and changing government policies such as the introduction of GDPR as 48% of organisations admit they will move their data from a physical location to another as a result of such data privacy regulations.

According to McAfee’s report “Do you know where your data is?

Beyond GDPR: Data residency insights from around the world”, a similar amount will also migrate their data because of changing geopolitics or the approach to relevant policies in the United States.

The survey, based on the answers of 800 senior business decisionmakers from across multiple industry sectors and eight countries, has also found that seven in ten decision-makers believe the implementation of GDPR will make Europe a “world leader in data protection”.

“However, the United States remains the most popular data storage destination, preferred by nearly half of all organisations surveyed,”

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51% of all respondents went as far as saying that their organisation is being held back from technology investment because of external data protection regulations.

Raj Samani, Chief Scientist and Fellow at McAfee, said: “It’s critical that businesses do everything they can to protect one of the world’s most valuable assets: data.

“The good news is that businesses are finding that stricter data protection regulations benefit both consumers and their bottom line. However, many have short-term barriers to overcome to become compliant, for example, to reduce the time it takes to report a breach.”

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Trump and Brexit fail to halt IT investments with global spending to go over $3.5tr this year

Microsoft to add capacity at ALL its data centres in major cloud push against Google, AWS

Data centre systems CAPEX predicted to grow 1.7% to $173bn before it jumps an extra $3bn in 2018.

“Political uncertainty in global markets” has failed to deter businesses spending in IT as Gartner forecasts investments to top $3.508bn by the end of the year, up from its January forecast of $3.466bn.

At the time, Gartner’s research VP John-David Lovelock, said that “some of the political uncertainty in global markets has fostered a wait-and-see approach causing many businesses to forestall IT investments”.

The revision of its previous IT forecast spending for 2017 at $3.476bn was downgraded following the UK’s vote to leave the EU and President Donald Trump’s victory into the White House.

The analyst house went from predicting a 3% increase over 2016, to a 2.7% growth, and now predicts IT spending to go up by 3.3%.

For 2018, analysts are even more optimistic, and expect overall spending on IT including data centre systems, enterprise software, devices, IT servicers and communications services, to grow 4.3% over 2017, reaching $3.658bn.

Virginia and Amsterdam have already seen services boosted, with other 40 cloud regions to follow in the months away.

Microsoft has unveiled plans to add additional capacity at its data centres as the company intensifies its investment to catch up with AWS and Google.

However, despite the increased forecast for 2017, John-David Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner, warned that the spending rate is still low and that there are ten markets that could help contradict the low rates of growth.

The additional capacity comes in the form of availability zones, described by the technology giant as fault-isolated locations within an Azure region, providing redundant power, cooling, and networking.

These ten markets — including three cloud segments (infrastructure as a service, integrated platform as a service and communications platform as a service) — range from technologies that enhance the digital workplace, such as workstream collaboration, workforce analytics and video message-oriented middleware, to security (endpoint detection and response), analytics (smart data discovery) and storage (in-memory data grids).

The first Availability Zones put to work are now in preview in two regions, East US 2 in Virginia and West Europe in the Netherlands, with plans to offer preview to additional regions in the US, Europe, and Asia before the end of the year including our Microsoft’s France Central region in Paris.

Lovelock said: “The IT buying landscape is changing: Digital business transformation is an effort to create connected, platforms and new industry revenue streams.

“Availability Zones increase Azure’s resiliency capabilities and broaden options for customers to choose the business continuity solution that is right for their organization. We have also designed Availability Zones to give customers great confidence in delivering services and with an industry-leading, financially-backed 99.99% virtual machines uptime SLA when generally available.

“Organisations that are not creating new digital business models or new ways to engage constituents or customers, are falling behind. Those vendors that do not move more quickly than their clients, will be left behind.”

Tom Keane Head of Global Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure, said in a blog post: “Starting today, customers can begin using Azure Availability Zones in preview to build highly available applications.

“Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with higher availability and fault tolerance to data centre failures. With 42 announced regions worldwide (more than any other cloud provider) and backed by one of the largest networks on the planet, Azure offers the scale needed to bring applications closer to users and customers around the world.

“With Azure’s geographic expansion, we invest in providing the best cloud experience possible including expanding and upgrading our global network.”

Microsoft’s cloud announcement comes shortly after the company’s cable Marea was completed.

The 6,600Km cable, built with Facebook and Telefonica, has a capacity of up to 160 terabits, and will be used to speed up traffic exchange between the US and Europe, and beyond into Asia and North Africa.

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7 In 10 businesses use 2 to 5 colocation providers marking the birth of the hybrid data centre era Facilities uptime, security and cost top the number one priorities when selecting a provider as knowing target customers becomes key for operators’ success.

Businesses worldwide have abandoned their solo-data centre infrastructure roadmaps as 66% of businesses use between two to five colocation providers, with an additional 2% using six or more operators. Only 32% are reportedly using one colocation provider, according to Schneider Electric’s “Customer Insight: Future-proofing your colocation business” report commissioned to 451 Research.

Within the 66% category, the large majority (37%) of the 454 respondents in the US, Europe, China and Australia, said they use two colocation providers. 21% use three, 6% use four and 2% are currently deploying their businesses data assets across five colocation providers.

In the report, it reads: “The competitive pressures on colocation providers are building on a number of fronts. Our study shows that customers favour a multi-supplier approach but that their loyalty – or perhaps lock-in – to their primary provider is very strong: 92% of respondents indicated that they intend to renew their contract with their primary colocation provider.

“Colocation companies need to be positioned as the primary provider, not a number two or three. Customers typically have many options for colocation. Our study shows that most (68%) use multiple suppliers. Nearly half have been with their primary supplier for three years or longer.”

Edge computing to continue hybrid data centre trend As for edge computing architectures, 38% of respondents said they will be using a mix of their own, private data centres and colo data centres.

Most colocation companies retain customers for several years Respondents were also asked about the average amount of years they stick with their primary colocation provider, with nearly half (47%) using their primary operator for three to four years.

The number of businesses changing colocation providers in less than one year after signing up to their services is minimal at 2%, however, nearly a quarter (23%) admit to only stay with the provider for one to two years. Nevertheless, a large portion (28%) of organisations stays with their providers for at least five years to a decade.

The report also looks at users data centre space usage, with 39% saying their hosting space is either owned by the company or part of the organisation’s corporate facilities. This is expected to decrease to 34% over the next 24 months. 22% of today’s data centre space is used for public cloud hosting purposes, a percentage set to go up to 27 by the end of 2019.

Lastly, 39% of respondents said their data centre space corresponds to leased space and/or services from a colocation provider. According to those surveyed, the figure is projected to remain unchanged over the next two years.

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This is followed by 26% who will mostly use colocation providers’ data centres and 15% who will mostly outsource to a network operator and/or an infrastructure third party, such as a telecommunications operator.

Researchers said: “Organisations will continue to adopt colocation services, but as one option among many. For at least the next several years, they will also want private hosted cloud, colocation and some on-premises equipment, and will make use of services for advice and migration and to help manage various elements.

451 Research said: “All are competing, to an increasing degree, with the expanded offerings and falling prices of public cloud services.

Most of the colocation customers in our study said that they plan to increase their use of public cloud – as a portion of their overall data centre space – during the next two years.

“During this time, they also plan to retain their existing portion of colocation capacity. This suggests that colocation demand will hold steady in the short term – and that incremental capacity needs will be met by public cloud (and not colocation).”

When asked about the different factors they look at when selecting a colocation services provider, 50% said 24/7 security of the facility is paramount. This was followed by costs (45%) and a track record of facility uptime.

“In this rapidly changing IT world, successful colocation providers will extend their influence among customers by mitigating risk, reducing costs, and offering greater flexibility and value-add services.

“Colocation providers will have a competitive advantage as long as they know their target customers and understand their capacity and service requirements. This will enable them to transform from being just a provider of ‘power and pipes’ to being a trusted capacity partner.”

They also said that prospects now regularly seek data centre providers that can offer high redundancy levels, metered power and streamlined contracts, with data centre operators that can be agile enough to add space and power very quickly will also have an advantage.

They added: “More customers are seeking IT and interconnectivity services from their colocation provider in addition to just leased space. This is a trend that will continue; successful colocation providers will move up the IT or networking stack, or both.”

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Investment in data centres tops $18.2bn in H1 2017 alone making this year a record breaking one for the US sector Pace of investment is accelerating at an unprecedented speed with $45bn invested in the last five years.

The data centre industry’s continuous expanding players has driven the sector to a record breaking year with $18.2bn being invested in the first half of 2017 alone.

The amount invested between January and June this years has already surpassed the whole of 2016, and is on track to surpass the total for the three previous years combined, according to research from CBRE. As for the near future, more expansion and investments are expected, with the the data centre supply pipeline continues to accelerate with nearly 284 MW of wholesale capacity currently under construction in the primary data centre markets and 46% of that space already pre-leased (131 MW).

However, CBRE points out that there has been a shift in the past several quarters towards speculative development as a result of sustained demand for data centre services, despite pre-leasing levels consistently been in the 45%-to-65% range over the past several years.

Pat Lynch, senior managing director, Data Centre Solutions, CBRE, said: “Over the past five years, more than $45bn of investment capital has flowed into the data centre sector, with more than 50% of that total occurring since the start of 2016.

“The robust adoption of rapidly evolving, data-intensive technology continues on a strong upward trajectory and will drive growth in the data centre sector going forward.”

Credit Suisse sells UK, Singapore data centres to Iron Mountain, the company’s first ever sites outside USA UK transaction is the second large data centre acquisition in less than 10 HOURS following ST Telemedia Global Data Centres acquisition of Virtus Data Centres.

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, with completion anticipated in the first quarter of 2018. The company intends to fund the purchase with proceeds from share issuance under its ATM program, filed earlier today.

Iron Mountain’s first data centre locations beyond US borders will be in London and Singapore following a $100m acquisition of two Credit Suisse facilities.

The sale of the two sites will add to Iron Mountain’s portfolio 273,000 sqf of space and over 14 megawatts (MW) of capacity (including future expansion).

In addition, Credit Suisse will enter into a long-term lease with Iron Mountain to maintain their existing data centre operations amounting to 4.2MW of the power capacity available.

The London data centre is 120,000 total sqf and located in the Slough Trading Estate, one of the densest data centre hubs in the UK. Meanwhile, the Singapore data centre is 153,000 total sqf and located in Serangoon.

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Iron Mountain President and CEO William L. Meaney, said: “With these acquisitions – our first outside of the US and the agreement coming just weeks after the acquisition of the Fortrust data centre – we are continuing to expand our global data centre capabilities.

“The demand for, and growth in, our data centre offerings has been consistent and strong, drawing customers in highly regulated industries.

“The combination of our capabilities and the recent completion of the first phase of our Northern Virginia campus would strengthen the foundation of our fast-growing data centre business, and are consistent with Iron Mountain’s strategic focus on leveraging our core strengths to develop and accelerate the growth of new business opportunities.”

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This is how Equinix and Oracle plan to take over the world (or at least cloud)

Cyxtera launches partner program built on its 57 global data centres

Colocation and cloud operators strengthen their joint efforts to connect the globe and provide cloud services to enterprise customers.

This is a cloud world and Equinix and Oracle are both aware that to gain market share, collaboration is key.

With that in mind, the two companies have expanded their long lasting partnership to launch the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to 16 additional Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in North America and Europe.

Built within the expansion is the access and connectivity for customers to the OCI using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect within the Equinix FR5 IBX data centre in Frankfurt via dedicated cross connects and the Equinix Cloud Exchange (ECX).

This means customers in both continents will be able to migrate and run compute, applications and data workloads to Oracle Cloud in a scalable manner.

Additionally, the Oracle and Equinix partner and platform integration has been put in place to provide connectivity to OCI FastConnect via ECX to customers in eight new metros in North America (including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Silicon Valley and Toronto) and seven new metros in Europe (including Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Manchester, Paris, Stockholm and Zurich).

The expansion brings the total number of Equinix IBX data centres where Oracle FastConnect is deployed to six and total number of locations where connectivity to FastConnect is available to 18 metros, globally.

Robert Blackburn, Global Managing Director, Oracle Strategic Alliance, Equinix, said: “The ability to connect directly to Oracle is an essential strategy for enterprises as they deploy workloads to the cloud.

Launch partners include Avant, Westven and SageNet. Infrastructure services provider Cyxtera, formed after BC Partners and Medina Capital’s acquisition of CenturyLink’s data centre business for $2.6bn, has launched a global channel partner program built on the company’s 57 data centres.

The Cyxtera’s Partner Network has been developed to help members operate and secure their applications and infrastructure with a suite of cybersecurity solutions.

Tina Gravel, senior vice president of global channels for Cyxtera, said: “We are excited to welcome Avant, Westven and SageNet join Cyxtera as launch members of the Cyxtera Partner Network.

“These companies bring a considerable set of capabilities to amplify the value of our data centres and cybersecurity solutions.”

“By providing direct access, our mutual customers can create a high-speed, dedicated and low-latency connection that allows them to fully realise the benefits of Oracle deployment, while complying with local data sovereignty regulations.”

Barry Field, chief revenue officer for Cyxtera, said: “Our portfolio was built for today’s enterprise IT and built for the channel, and the launch of our partner program is a significant milestone in our go-to-market strategy.

Kash Iftikhar, Vice President IaaS, Public Cloud Services, Oracle, said: “Customers require seamless connectivity from their data centres and networks to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for their most demanding workloads and applications.

“We’re building a best-in-class program and partner community to better serve our customers and reach new markets.”

“With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using FastConnect in Equinix IBX data centres, customers can provision the private connections they need today and easily scale with their growing business demands.”

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EMEA Virtus data centres to build London’s largest data centre campus Infrastructure hailed as a key “player in enabling the UK and Europe’s digital economy”.

Neil Cresswell, CEO of VIRTUS Data Centres, said: “With the hunger for connectivity and data growing exponentially, our data centres continue to play a vital role in enabling the UK and Europe’s digital economy. We work with clients across all industries, all with unique audiences and IT landscapes, but with the common need to deliver the highest levels of availability, performance and security of digital experiences.

Virtus Data Centres, part of the ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) group, has unveiled plans to expand its footprint at Stockley Park, West London, which will result in what the company claims will be London’s largest single data centre campus.

The operator has plans to add two new buildings – LONDON5 and LONDON6 – which combined amount to more than 183,000 sqf of technical space and 370,000 sqf overall.

The facilities will sit on an eight-acre piece of land just north of the Heathrow Airport. The buildings have been designed to deliver 40MW of IT load and have the secured power capacity to increase to 110MVA of incoming power from diverse grid connection points, future proofing expansion for customers.

Work has started to fit out space in LONDON5 for customers who have already committed and general availability is expected in early 2018.

“As we move with our customers into an increasingly digital future, we help them deliver high performing applications and content. We provide fast, seamless connectivity to networks and public clouds, along with the capacity for vast data storage and compute processing power – all for lower costs. This investment in LONDON5 and LONDON6 means we can grow with our customers and help them achieve their ambitions.”

Virtus is one of the three data centre companies part of STT GDC, the other two being GDS and SST Telemedia Connect.

Under STT GDC’s overall footprint, the group has a total of 53 data centres, including the two new now announced by Virtus. The sites include six in the UK, six in Singapore, 14 in India and 27 in China.

With addition of the two data centres, Virtus portfolio will expand to six buildings, all in London (Slough, Hayes and Enfield), with a combined 100MW and potential to expand to circa 150MW.

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UK businesses are doing their data centre network investments all wrong Organisations warned they may struggle to cope with greater data volumes being transferred in and out of the network, as well as within it.

However, in Germany, companies are spending an average of €326,000 annually on data centre network infrastructure and €140,000 on WAN and other interconnects.

UK enterprises are missing out on new technological advances by holding on to old networking infrastructure which is hindering business.

According to an independent study commissioned by Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), 20% of UK businesses are using equipment that is more than three years old, compared with 8% of businesses in Germany, for example.

The study, which has looked into enterprise IT investment strategies of 500 large British and German organisations, has also revealed significant investment disparity between these two major European markets, with the UK spending less annually and demonstrating a general focus on longer-term amortisation of network assets in the front office environment and data centre.

The company has pointed out that advances in Wi-Fi technology, faster Ethernet protocols and support for new broadband and fiber standards are not being fully exploited, meaning organisations may struggle to cope with greater data volumes being transferred in and out of the network, as well as within it.

In terms of spending, Ciena has calculated the mean average spent annually on data centre network infrastructure to be £161,000 in the UK, with a further £86,000 spent on WAN and interconnects.

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This compares to 92% in the healthcare sector, 89% in the financial services sector and 87% in the retail sector. In addition, roughly 50% of healthcare respondents had done this investment within the last year.

Keri Gilder, Vice President and General Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Ciena, said: “As traffic volumes in both the data centre and in the office environment continue to surge, businesses are looking to extract maximum value from their infrastructure investments.

However, outside of the data centre, infrastructure is increasingly run for much longer in both markets, “which means that renew cycles are not keeping pace with the rest of IT in the business,” according to Ciena.

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From a market sector standpoint, the study concluded that the services sector is the most likely to invest in data centre infrastructure, with 94% having invested in key data centre network hardware (fiber, cabling, switches, routers, firewalls etc.) in the last three years.

As the study shows, investment in external WAN bandwidth and interconnects is critical, but if it’s being connected to legacy equipment, the potential benefits of better and fluid bandwidth won’t be realized.”

Mervyn Kelly, EMEA Director, Ciena, said: “If there’s one key take away from this research, it is that a two-tier strategy for technology renewal cycles will always result in missed opportunities.

“New client and server hardware unlocks many benefits for users and the wider business. It makes little sense to curtail these by using obsolete network infrastructure that becomes a bottleneck for new IT investments instead of an enabler”.

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ST Telemedia buys Brockton Capital LLP’s ENTIRE stake in Virtus data centres

Could gas-powered data centres be the answer to Ireland’s power shortage?

Company vows to grow the London data centre player “within the UK and in new European markets”.

Shooting down any uncertainty around Brexit, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has made one of its biggest moves in the UK market by acquiring the full portfolio of London operator Virtus Data Centres.

STT GDC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ST Telemedia, bought 51% of Virtus portfolio owned by Brockton Capital LLP, which has previously announced it would invest up to £100m in Virtus’ expansion over the next five years.

Prior to today’s acquisition, STT GDC owned 49% of Virtus stake through an investment made back in 2015. Data Economy has reached out to the parties involved to obtain more details on the acquisition.

Following the deal, STT GDC said it intends to invest in Virtus to expands the provider’s reach within the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Virtus will also be given the opportunity to leverage on STT GDC’s resources for expansion and global customer acquisition purposes.

The STT GDC network comprises 53 data centres in several global economic hubs, including China, India, and Singapore.

STT GDC also operates through other two data centre companies, including GDS and SST Telemedia Connect.

Virtus operates today four data centre buildings in London, and has recently announced it will build two more buildings in London, creating the capital’s largest data centre campus. With addition of the two data centres, Virtus portfolio will expand to 100MW and will have the potential to expand to circa 150MW. Sio Tat Hiang, Chairman of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, said: “We are seeing a burgeoning demand for colocation in the UK and European data centre market, and there is no better time than now to expand our presence there supporting our customers’ growth plans.

“The acquisition reflects our commitment and continued confidence in the key UK and European economies. Through this acquisition, we hope to further cement our footprint in the UK, as well as accelerate growth for both STT GDC and VIRTUS.” Neil Cresswell, Chief Executive Officer of VIRTUS Data Centres, said, “We are thrilled to deepen our relationship with STT GDC who share the same goals as us – to deliver world-class infrastructure and service to our customers, to be the top player in the market and to continue to grow the portfolio to meet the ever-increasing customer demands.

“This transaction will help VIRTUS continue to thrive in our market and fuel our growth plans. With STT GDC’s continued support, VIRTUS remains committed to supporting our customers with flexible and cost-efficient solutions at scale.”

Simon Samuels, Partner at Brockton Capital LLP, said: “VIRTUS has experienced rapid growth in the last few years and we are extremely pleased with the company’s performance. We have enjoyed a fantastic partnership with STT GDC and are proud of the development of the VIRTUS business to where it is today.

We are confident the business is in good hands to continue its trajectory in a high growth market.”

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If electricity is in high-demand, other sources of energy could become prevalent as more companies set eyes on Irish shores for their facilities.

Dublin is on the verge of getting three gas-powered data centres has the capital struggles to power-up its fast-growing data centre industry.

According to the Irish Independent, a company linked to investment fund Oaktree Capital, Orion Reo, is planning to erect the buildings in Blanchardstown, not far from Equinix’s data centre in the Irish capital.

The data centres are projected to amount to 31,537 sqm and will sit on a 5.73-hectare piece of land in the Orion Business Park.

According to Orion Reo’s planning documents, the company plans to link the site into a nearby high-pressure gas pipeline to power bespoke generators.

By doing so, the company expects to reduce its dependency on the local grid, therefore reducing the grid’s hurdle to power data centres. According to Bitpower Energy Solutions, as of June 2017, Ireland’s data centre economy amounted to at least 250MW of power outsourced from the national grid.

The figure falls short from the future demand which is expected to add on an extre 1,950MW of data centre capacity in the next decade.

The Irish data centre power demand is not new and has in recent weeks led to Microsoft announcing it will build its own power station in the Irish capital to help power its data centre in the Grange Castle Business Park, Clondalkin.

Microsoft currently has four data centres operating in Dublin and was in May 2016 given permission to double that in an investment estimated at more than $1bn. Each of the new data centres is expected to measure 188,400 sqf.

Additionally, EirGrid, Ireland’s national grid operator, has also announced plans to reinforce its power availability through a project that counts with the construction of a substation exclusively dedicated to powering data centres. However, the station is scheduled to be completed only by 2019.

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Irish courts finally approve Apple’s $1bn data centre ending 2-Year delay that has changed Ireland From 2015 to today, the Athenry data centre project was one of the most mediatic the industry has seen in years, with thousands taking to the streets in support for the development.

Apple has today won a 2-year-long court battle granting the company the necessary permission to build a $1bn data centre in Galway, Ireland.

Without even having started to power Apple’s services, the company’s data centre in Athenry has already made some profound changes in Irish regulations and citizens involvement.

The objectors’ main concern was the poor environmental impact assessment carried out by Apple. They alleged the facility would have a negative impact on people living around the site, and also on the fauna and flora at the Derrydonnell Woods, around Athenry, east of Galway, where the data centre is to be built.

The decision to approve the planning permission for the iPhone maker was announced by judge Mr Justice McDermott from the High Court. The three objectors are, however, expected to appeal.

The ongoing delays regarding the company’s planning permission have led the national government to review its planning proposal scheme and put changes in place to fast track data centre projects which are crucial to build Ireland’s future as an European data centre up-Tier city.

In addition to the government’s regulatory changes, people in Athenry have also become proactively vocal on the issue both through social media channels and on the streets.

Up to 2,000 residents marched through Athenry in support of the data centre development back in November 2016.

The construction of the 166,000 sqm data centre is expected to generate up to 300 jobs during the different phases of expansion.

150 technical staff are to be employed once the facility is put to work.

Last month, news broke that Apple had reportedly told Irish authorities it could cancel its investment due to the ongoing delays, something the company was quick to react to cementing its commitment to build the data centre.

Data Economy has requested Apple to comment on the court’s ruling.

Garry Connolly, Founder and President, Host in Ireland, told Data Economy: “We are delighted that the planning process has had a successful outcome for the Apple Data Hosting Centre in Galway.

“The planning process itself in Ireland is transparent, open and like in any effective and functioning democracy gives citizens the right to comment and provide inputs.

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“This positive news coupled with Microsoft’s commitment to power their Data Centres here on 100% Irish generated renewable power reaffirms our calibre as an optimum location to Host Digital assets.”

A data centre that has changed Ireland

The project, originally announced in 2015, was challenged by three objectors who put forward a review request to the An Bord Pleanála, an independent, statutory, quasi-judicial body that decides on appeals from planning decisions made by local authorities in Ireland.

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“We (Irish) now need to tweak the planning process to include a time certainty to this process not just for Data Centres but for all large capital intense infrastructure projects.

However, the fear Apple could indeed pull the plug on the development was taken serious by local residents in favour of the data centre, with many referring to Apple’s announcement in October 2016 that it would build a large $950m data centre in Denmark.

In July last, the company unveiled plans to invest a further $920m in the construction of a second facility in Denmark growing concerns amongst Irish supporters.

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CEO Octave Klaba vows to open data centres in ALL countries

Google buys site larger than 150 football fields in Sweden, but will it build a data centre?

Company has recently also acquired another equally large site in Denmark as Google Cloud Platform and other internet services continue to grow.

Google has acquired a large piece of land nine hours drive from Facebook’s Swedish data centre, however, the public cloud operator has not announced any IT infrastructure expansion at the site.

Located in Avesta, the land covers a total of 109 hectares, and has previously reported by Data Economy, it has all the necessary infrastructure at hand for the setting up of a large scale IT facility of the likes of Google’s data centres.

Google was not immediately available for comment.

Lars Isacsson, Mayor of the Avesta Municipality, told Data Economy: “We can confirm that Google has acquired 109-hectare property in Horndal, Avesta Municipality.

French operator also aims at hybrid cloud environments with the launch of solution to easy VMs migrations.

OVH’s CEO Octave Klaba has vowed to build data centres across all countries in the world on top of the company’s ongoing €1.5bn data centre expansion.

Speaking to Les Echos during the company’s annual summit in Paris, Klaba said the capital expenditure spent by the company on its expansion reflects the ongoing demand from costumers.

He said: “If they accelerate, we have the [financial] means to accelerate too.”

Klaba told the more than 2,000 people in the audience earlier on that “OVH is the only European cloud company that is competing with global leaders”.

The company operates today 27 data centres in 12 sites across four continents, with North America recently witnessing a strong push towards infrastructure expansion from the French multinational.

In addition to the US, OVH has in recent months cut the ribbon on several facilities in Europe and Asia, including the UK, Australia, Singapore, Poland and Germany.

Building on the company’s current portfolio and expansion plans, Klaba also took to the stage to introduce a new data centre solution aimed at hybrid cloud architectures.

“Avesta is proud and happy to be chosen as the preferred location of Google. Avesta has a long tradition of being one of the key industrial cities in Sweden. Our history and geographic location in the heart of Sweden, excellent infrastructure and access to a skilled workforce in the area have been important ingredients presented to the company.

“When working to secure new business to Avesta, we pride ourselves on our credibility and trustworthiness, on always being professional and quick to take action, and this has very much been the case in this project.

“While we are very happy with Google’s decision to choose Avesta, as we understand it there are no plans to build at present”.

Municipality acquired over 1 million sqm of land The site acquired by Google in Avesta, follows on from another land acquisition carried out by Google last year which saw the multinational purchase 73.2 hectares of land – around 100 football fields – in Fredericia, east Jutland, Denmark.

In total, the company paid nearly $10m for the site which sits close by Facebook’s local data centre.

Similar to the Avesta investment, Google has not officially announced a data centre build at the Fredericia site, however, the company said it would ensure the purchase gives it “the opportunity to expand our data centres in Europe if our work requires”.

Named Hybrid Cloud (HCX), the technology allows OVH customers to use “hot” migration of virtual machines from one data centre to another or from their own infrastructure, without any service interruptions, the company claims.

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Astronauts, superbike drivers and molecular gastronomy: This is Aruba officially opening one of Europe’s largest mega data centres One hour away from Milan, the power at a hyperscale data centre is hours away from being switched on, with Data Economy bringing you exclusive insights from the site.

Aruba is today officially cutting the ribbon on its 2.2 million sqf data centre campus in the outskirts of Milan, Italy, an event that Data Economy will bring to you live from the site over the next 48h.

Located more specifically in Ponte San Pietro, Bergamo, at full capacity, the site will amount to 90MW of power, and like many other data centre openings, the company has invited hundreds of customers, partners, government authorities and celebrities to the ceremony. The ribbon-cutting ceremony will be led by Susanna Santini, Chairman of the Board of Aruba. She will be joined by representatives from the main national and regional authorities, according to the organisers.

Additionally, the company has also searched in space for a speaker, and found Umberto Guidoni, the astronaut from the ESA/ASI, which has taken part in two NASA missions on the Space Shuttle and was the first European to visit the International Space Station.

And if drivers, astronauts of ribbon-cutting ceremonies are not enough for those attending, Aruba has also brought to town a cooking show on molecular gastronomy.

Company executives and other industry players will also address the attendees on different industry topics including digital transformation, Industry 4.0, and growing data ecosystem, which by 2025 is expected to generate 163 ZB, driving more business into data centres all over the world. And speaking of driving, Aruba has also invited not one but four Superbike drivers to attend the event. These include Marco Melandri, Chaz Davies, Michael Ruben Rinaldi and Mike Jones.

Stefano Cecconi, CEO of Aruba, said: “We are proud to officially present our Global Cloud Data Centre, an ambitious project which, despite its size and complexity, we have managed to complete in a short space of time. This is an important milestone for us, and at the same time it represents only the first step in developing all the other major facilities within the campus.

“The two day event is meant to celebrate the achievement of this first goal and present the data centre to the business world and the world of organisations, but also to open the doors of the data centre to the outsiders of this sector and to the local community that has welcomed us with enthusiasm.”

Colt taps into data centre in former NATO campus to ramp up financial customers reach Renewable energy, data laws and high performance computing key attributes for Colt’s decision.

Colt has deployed its PrizmNet extranet at Verne Global’s Iceland data centre sitting in a former NATO campus, as the company continues to seek business around the financial sector.

PrizmNet is a financial extranet that connects a global capital markets ecosystem of more than 85 exchanges, venues and service providers and over 10,000 participants.

The move will Colt to address customer needs and market opportunities within Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Systematic Trading firms, Exchange groups and integrated market infrastructure groups, Information service providers, and Interdealer brokers.

abundance of renewable energy, making it a prime location for the growing demands for big data storage and non-latency sensitive services.

“We can now offer dedicated hosting in Iceland for firms that require high density cooling and processing, giving them the ability to optimise and scale their intensive compute applications, meet regulatory compliance requirements, and lower their operational costs and carbon footprint with no premium for going green.”

Stef Weegels, Sales Director, Finance & Capital Markets at Verne Global, said: “The financial markets are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence and machine learning as an essential element of that, to manage the development of trading strategies requiring the analysis and interpretation of large structured and unstructured data sets.”

Andrew Housden, VP Capital Markets at Colt, said: “Our partnership with Verne Global provides Colt customers with access to Iceland’s

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Amsterdam beats Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to be mainland Europe’s largest colocation data centre hub Yet, Digital Realty, e-shelter, Zenium and Colt could be about to threaten Amsterdam’s place in the charts with the launch of new sites elsewhere.

However, Amsterdam’s place as the second largest colocation capital is in risk, as Martin Carroll, director for data centres, at JLL, told Data Economy: “We forecast Frankfurt will reassert its dominance over the next 12 months as more schemes enter the market from Digital Realty, e-shelter, Zenium and Colt.”

Amsterdam has become EMEA’s second largest colocation data centre hotspot in with a 22% market share after overtaking Frankfurt in Q3 2017.

With only London sitting ahead, Amsterdam has had a flow of new stock coming online this year which has propelled the size of the market when measured by IT power, according to JLL’s EMEA Data Centres Q3 2017 Market Review.

According to the report, at the end of Q3, Amsterdam had a total power supply of 292MW, compared to Frankfurt’s 251MW, which represented 19% of the market. Paris (14%) and Dublin (9%) had 180MW and 97MW respectively.

Also asked if Amsterdam could one day take over London, Carroll said that at this stage the scenario is highly unlikely.

“The gap between the size of London and the mainland competitors is still very large,” he said.

Market to go back to long term equilibrium state As competition between the five capitals increases, overall, the market is about to enter a new period of change with JLL forecasting MW take up rates to fall below 2017’s levels.

Only London’s total supply is able to exceed Amsterdam at 488MW and with 38% of the market share.

However, Amsterdam has for the first three quarters of the year been the capital that most supply has added at 56MW. This is followed by Frankfurt with 41MW, London with 26MW, Dublin with 19MW and Paris with 15MW.

Carroll said: “Take up has been exceptional across Europe over the past 24 months and we expect some slowing of that in different cities as the market returns closer to long term equilibrium as opposed to record beating years.”

Also in terms of colocation pricing, the sector is about to change as predicted in the report. With exception for Frankfurt, JLL forecasts prices to either go up or remain the same through to 2020.

Including JLL’s projections for the remainder of the year, the think tank expects Amsterdam to continue ahead of any other mainland top-Tier destination with a projected 295MW, a 47% compared to 2016.

On a 500kw colocation pricing basis, Dublin is set to continue being the most expensive out of the five cities, with costs averaging today around €150 and set to increase to around €160 by 2020.

Frankfurt comes second in terms of CAGR at 23%, and is expected to reach 260MW, followed by Dublin with a projected CAGR for 2017 versus 2017 at 16%, growing towards the 98MW, and Paris’s is expected to grow 13% to 185MW.

Carroll said: “Pricing in the early part of the decade was under pressure due to supply and the high level of competition across Europe. Over the past 36 months due to the amount of take up and as a result falling supply and vacancy rates coupled with M&A activity pricing has moved back up to a stable state.

As for London, however the British capital continues to be EMEA’s main data centre destination, the city is only expected to grow 9% to 495MW.

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“We see some minor increases in markets with very short supply over the next 24 months but generally stable state to 2020.”

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Apple Vs regulations: how Ireland’s data centre arena shifted in the last 24h

Irish Gov’t set to install fast-track planning for data centres Parliament wants to avoid another Apple-like delay which has also seen a large Amazon project in Dublin delayed.

Companies seeking to build data centres in Ireland are set to be put on the fast-track lane when it comes to planning permission.

According to the Irish Independent, the Department of Enterprise is currently developing the laws and legislation needed to put such regulation forward to Parliament.

The move comes amid growing tension involving Apple’s $1bn data centre project in Galway which has been caught up in a court battle lasting nearly two years.

Last week, at Datacloud Ireland, Minister of State Pat Breen told the industry the government was devising laws to avoid the delays on “one data centre proposal” affecting other companies.

From court battles to judges shortfalls, Ireland seems to be now bulking up its stance on data centres to enable a connected future in and out of the island.

Ireland was in 2015 caught up in a PR nightmare when Apple’s $1bn data centre project was faced with local objections triggering a two-year-long process until the Irish High Court approved the development last week.

The long period changed the Irish society’s view on IT infrastructure and hundreds of people took to the streets in support of the development more than twice.

However, despite Apple’s apparent court victory, the lawyers of the objectors to the project in Athenry have already come forward to announce their clients wish to appeal against the court’s decision to go ahead with the development.

Allan Day and Sinead Fitzpatrick, the two main objectors, have been given until October 20, 9:30am, to present their formal appeal. Yet, with or without appeal, the Apple data centre has already left much deeper marks in the Irish data centre market.

In the wake of several protests against the long judicial process that oversaw the case, the Government was forced to step out its take on the sector and announce it would review the legislation regarding data centre projects in Ireland.

When attending Datacloud Ireland 2017 in Dublin in September, Pat Breen, TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, told the audience that the government “is committed to ensuring that Ireland remains a world leader location for data activities, including the construction of data centres”.

The administration’s commitment has quickly transformed into actions, as the Government has now announced it has approved a new set of regulations that will help attract more data centre investment into Ireland, according to RTE. Some of the measures now approved include the addition of data centres in the Irish Strategic Infrastructure Act, which will allow planning applications to be sent directly to the An Bord Pleanála therefore speeding up the approval rate.

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“The government is studying new laws on data centre planning proposals,” he said. “We are aware of it and we are looking into it. We are committed to find a solution and improve the industry and the building of data centres.”

Apple’s data centre project is now due another court hearing on October 12, should no shortage of judgesaffect the process.

The data centre, which was expected to open this year and is yet to break ground, is now expected to open in 2019, should a planning permission be given next month.

In addition to Apple, Amazon has also experience delays over its $1.2bn data centre project in Dublin.

Alibaba eyes London and Sweden for second European cloud data centre Comes as company reached one million cloud customers and revenues grow 96% in one quarter.

Alibaba wants to continue to expand its footprint outside China and is reportedly considering new locations for a second European cloud data centre.

According to Bloomberg, the Chinese company is currently looking at London, UK, and Sweden to become the company’s second data centre home in the West adding to its Frankfurt data centre opened last November.

Lin Luo, Alibaba’s deputy director for international government and public affairs, said: “Right now, Europe is really a weak region for us, very weak.

“We have to figure out what is the best strategy for here.”

Alibaba posted in the last quarter, a growth of 96% around its cloud business with revenues reaching $359m.

It was also during the last quarter that the company reached its first one million cloud customers.

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Equinix buys Istanbul data centre in $93m CAPEX Company envisions a site which at full capacity will add 130,000 sqf to its portfolio of more than 180 properties worldwide.

Slaughter and May acted as lead external legal advisor for Equinix.

RBC Capital Markets served as Zenium’s financial advisor.

Eric Schwartz, president, EMEA, Equinix, said: “The dynamic evolution of digital technology is disrupting how business is done across all industries, forcing companies to invent new, information-centric business models. These business models rely on interconnection and distributed IT architecture.

Equinix has acquired Zenium’s Istanbul data centre in a $93m deal to further enhance the company’s footprint in Europe and bridge demand between the old continent and Asia.

The all cash transaction, officialised on October 6, was only made public today. The data centre in Turkey’s most populous city will be named Equinix IS2.

“As the Turkish economy continues to grow, Istanbul will become an increasingly important hub for connectivity and technology infrastructure, and this new campus will help Equinix meet this demand from customers across our global customer base.”

The facility produces today annual revenues around $2.5m, and Equinix sees the site as a potential data centre campus of up to 130,000 sqf and 22MW of critical load. However, the site currently only boosts just over 16,000 sqf of colocation and 10 networks, including Turk Telecom.

Franek Sodzawiczny, CEO & founder, Zenium, also commented: “We congratulate Equinix with this transaction, which enables us to focus on our business in Western Europe.

Nevertheless, according to the Global Interconnection Index, which measures and forecasts the growth of Interconnection Bandwidth, Europe is expected to grow 44% per annum to reach 1451 Tbps of installed capacity by 2020.

Europe’s growth will be driven by a number of factors, including data sovereignty and the need for European businesses to exchange information with other businesses in-region.

Based on these figures it is expected that Equinix will carry out expansion at the IS2 site in the coming years.

According to the International Monetary Fund, Turkey has the world’s 17th-largest nominal GDP and a population of approximately 80 million people, furthering the possible expansion plans for the facility.

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“The technological infrastructure in Turkey is advancing quickly, as businesses are requiring more interconnection to compete.

This is a great opportunity and Equinix is now well positioned to drive this exciting data centre business forward.”

Equinix currently operates more than 180 IBX data centres in 44 markets worldwide and has recently acquired Itconic, in a $259m transaction that has placed the operator in new markets in Portugal and Spain.

In MEA alone, the company has 67 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres across Europe and the Middle East, located in 18 metropolitan areas across 13 countries.

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AMERICAS CenturyLink gets crucial green light for $34bn acquisition of level 3 Operator is told, however, that it will have to divest Level 3 metro network assets and strands of dark fibre.

The two companies said in a statement that these divestitures are not expected to have a material impact on the pro-forma operating revenue and operating cash flows of the combined company.

CenturyLink Senior Vice President for Public Policy and Government Relations John F. Jones, said: “We are pleased that the Department of Justice has conditionally cleared CenturyLink’s acquisition of Level 3. It is an important milestone in our overall approval process.

CenturyLink has been given an important clearance to go ahead with the $34bn acquisition of Level 3 Communications.

The thumbs up came from no one else other than the US Department of Justice, which, however, warned the company that the deal is still subject to conditions outlined in a consent decree, including court approval of certain provisions.

The acquisition remains subject to regulatory approval from the Federal Communications Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission, along with other customary closing conditions.

The consent decree requires the combined company to divest Level 3 metro network assets in Albuquerque (NM), Boise (Idaho) and Tucson (Ariz).

In addition, CenturyLink will also have to divest 24 strands of dark fiber connecting 30 specified city-pairs across the country in the form of an Indefeasible Right of Use, a customary structure for such transactions.

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“We anticipate court approval of our agreed resolution with the Department of Justice as early as this week. We are focused on meeting our targeted transaction closing timeframe of mid-to-late October.”

The states of Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and the District of Columbia have already approved the acquisition.

The transaction has also received regulatory clearance from Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, Texas and Puerto Rico.

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The FBI is building a data centre to help strengthen cybersecurity defences Powering through IT infrastructure consolidation, federal body sees in the new facility a safer cyber future.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has broken ground on a new data centre facility in Pocatello, Idaho, alongside its partner, the US Department of Justice.

The facility comes at a time when the US Government is driving a heavy consolidation data centre roadmap, the same reason why the Idaho site is being built.

The FBI has had a presence in Pocatello for three decades, gradually increasing personnel and capabilities at the facility over time.

The federal body said in a statement: “[The data centre] is a milestone in the efforts to consolidate and optimiase data centre infrastructure, information, and services as part of a broad multi-year IT transformation.

Currently, components of nine FBI divisions are located in Pocatello, with responsibilities ranging from investigations, intelligence analysis, IT, travel, and records management.

“The consolidation of dozens of data centres will strengthen the cybersecurity posture for all Department of Justice components that will utilize the facility, as well as improve collaboration, information sharing, and increase the ability to execute advanced analytics, while decreasing overall operational costs.”

The FBI said: “The FBI appreciates the support of Pocatello Mayor, Brian Blad, and the Pocatello community for its support in helping to bring this project to fruition.”

Digital Realty, Equinix and Microsoft all targeting Silicon Valley for data centre expansion Strong demand for hosting services in the region is drinking up data centres capacity at speed forcing new builds.

portfolio of 17 properties totalling over two million square feet with 99 megawatts of IT load.

The Silicon Valley region has in the past few weeks seen a surge in data centre expansion projects from some of the largest services providers including Digital Realty, Equinix and Microsoft.

First, in the middle of September, Equinix announced the building of a $122m facility named SV10 at its Great Oaks campus in San Jose. The site’s initial phase will add more than 37,000 sqf of colocation space.

This Tuesday, was Microsoft’s turn to pursue expansion in the San Francisco with $73.2m spent on the acquisition of a 65-acre piece of land north of San Jose. According to reports, that land will be used to build a data centre.

And now it is Digital Realty who is announcing the expansion of its Silicon Valley Connected Campus with a 6MW facility in Santa Clara, in an investment expected to reach approximately $75m.

The data centre is scheduled to become operational in the first quarter of 2018, and will add to Digital Realty’s Silicon Valley

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Backup up the reason on why the company is building its 18th data centre in the region, Digital Realty said its existing holdings in Silicon Valley are almost fully leased.

Kelly Morgan of 451 Research, said: “Demand for data centre space in Silicon Valley remains robust.”

Digital Realty Chief Executive Officer A. William Stein, said: “The expansion of our Silicon Valley Connected Campus demonstrates our commitment to supporting customer growth. We are pursuing LEED gold certification for 3205 Alfred Street, building upon our commitment to sustainability.

“The new facility offers a comprehensive set of data centre solutions, from single-cabinet colocation and interconnection requirements, all the way up to multi-megawatt deployments.

This flexibility helps reduce complexity and accelerate business growth by meeting customers’ needs for space, power and connectivity.”

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JP Morgan to invest up to $500m in America’s next mega data centre

Microsoft could build 65-acre Silicon Valley data centre and business campus Land sits close to recent acquired plots by Apple and Google as cloud demand soars and internet giants seek the largest market share they can grab.

Microsoft has invested $73.2m in the acquisition of a 65-acre piece of land north of San Jose, California, which can potentially be used by the cloud hyperscaler to build out its Azure infrastructure.

That is according to The Mercury News, which quotes Christian Belady, general manager of Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations, as saying: “We continuously explore opportunities to meet the needs of a future based on cloud computing and internet services, so we’re thrilled to find a great one in the heart of Silicon Valley.”

According to the news outlet, Belady’s remarks are in reference to the purchased land in San Jose.

“The delivery of the JPMC data centre deal is probably my proudest moment as Town Supervisor,” says local authority chief.

JP Morgan Chase has acquired a 60-acre piece of land in which will invest around $490m to develop the site into a large-scale data centre.

The company paid $7.5m to the Orangetown Town Board for the site located in a town of just over 49,000 people, in the Rockland county, just outside New York City.

The land, occupied by derelict buildings once part of the Rockland Psychiatric Centre, will house at least one computing facility covering 150,000 sqf.

The bank has already placed a construction field office and is installing a perimeter fence in anticipation of commencing abatement work of 30 buildings immediately upon closing on the sale of land.

Of the overall estimated investment, JP Morgan is expected to spend at least $40m solely on-site preparations including soil decontamination.

Orangetown Supervisor Andy Stewart said: “The delivery of the JPMC data centre deal is probably my proudest moment as Town Supervisor.

The complex is being designed to be a light industrial central, which would include a data centre complex, planning documents show.

Those same documents show that the company could be planning to open a 437,000 sqf building including offices and the data centre facility, with more than 2,000 people expected to work on the site.

Although Microsoft is yet to officially confirm the project, San Jose’s Mayor Sam Liccardo, was quick to react to the news.

He said: “We welcome Microsoft’s substantial investment in San Jose, as it seeks to meet the world’s burgeoning demand for cloud capacity.

“I especially appreciate Microsoft’s sensitivity to the surrounding environment and its continued commitment to sustainable construction and operations.”

The development’s location along the State Route 237, between Milpitas and Alviso, is set to join other giants such as Google and Apple which have recently also acquired land locally.

Same has happened with Adobe.

SanDisk, Polycom, ST Electronics, Brocade Communications, and Global foundry, are also all located nearby.

“I am so impressed with the professionalism and dedication of our town staff, the unanimity of the Town Board’s support, and the tirelessness of the bank’s legal, engineering, and financial team. Congratulations to all involved!”

News of the project first broke on February 4, 2017, with JP Morgan first being mention five days after.

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Facebook unveils how it will power its 2.4 million sqf Papillion data centre Keeping up with its commitment to renewable energy, this is how the world’s largest social media company will be powering one of Nebraska’s largest data centres.

Facebook has entered into a partnership with Tradewind Energy and the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) to help power its hyperscale data centre in Papillion, Nebraska.

The site is to be powered using renewable energy generated using wind processed in a wind farm to be built 100 miles away from the data centre in Dixon County.

The first phase of the development is expected to be operational by 2020.

Known as the Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project, the farm will create up to 300 additional construction jobs and is expected to add 320MW of wind energy to the electrical grid.

Facebook’s post continued: “We know from experience that when people come together, they can do a lot of good in the world.

Of those 320MW, 200MW are to be drawn in into the data centre, whilst the remaining 120MW wil be made available to other local buyers.

“This wind project not only helps us reach our clean and renewable energy goals, but improves opportunities for other energy customers across the region.

In addition, Facebook and the OPPD have created a new tariff to ensure renewable energy solutions are accessible not just to Facebook, but other companies as well.

Tradewind Energy said in a statement: “We are proud to partner with Facebook and the Omaha Public Power District on the Tradewind-developed Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project.

“With the new tariff in place, we were able to seek new Nebraska wind projects to meet our goal of powering our Papillion operations with 100 percent clean and renewable energy,” Facebook said in a post.

“This is an exciting time for wind and solar power industries with companies like Facebook enabling the construction of more and more projects across the US.”

The data centre campus, which covers an area of 146 acres, will include up to four hosting buildings measuring an average of 610,605 sqf, totalling more than 2.4 million sqf of flooring development.

Digital Reality operates today 156 data centres in over 32 global markets across 11 countries and four continents. The company’s combined portfolio amounts to more than 26 million of sqf.

Bank of America banks on Microsoft for cloud services Some of the bank’s 200,000 employees set to be included in the bank’s digital transformation roadmap built in the cloud.

According to Microsoft, more than 80% of the world’s largest banks and more than 75% of the global systemically important financial institutions are today using Azure.

Judson Althoff, executive vice president, Worldwide Commercial Business, Microsoft Corp, said: “Technology is increasingly providing a competitive advantage to financial services firms looking to thrive in the digital economy.

Charlotte-based Bank of America has tapped into the Microsoft Cloud to help further its digital transformation roadmap.

The financial organisation is to use Office 365 with the aim to provide cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools to some of the bank’s 200,000 employees.

“Bank of America is taking a very strategic approach to cloud, looking at technology as a means to drive change and open up new business opportunities. With Microsoft Office 365 and Azure, the firm will have access to the breadth and depth of our cloud capabilities, underscored by Microsoft’s investments in security, transparency and regulatory compliance.”

The firm will also utilise Microsoft Azure, capitalising on the scale of the platform and services.

Microsoft’s Financial Services Compliance program, designed to allow organisations and regulators to examine Microsoft cloud systems, services and processes, will also be used in order to provide transparency into Microsoft cloud operations.

Future-proofing for GDPR and mitigate risks associated with data, Microsoft’s compliance portfolio also assists financial institutions when moving to the cloud meeting compliance requirements.

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Howard Boville, chief technology officer at Bank of America, said: “We are aggressively modernizing our technology infrastructure to enable current and future growth across all our lines of business.

“Our agreement with Microsoft aligns to our target of delivering 80 percent of our technology workloads on virtual platforms within the next several years, further establishing Bank of America as a digital leader in financial services.”

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Colossal 400MW hyperscale data centre campus heading to Texas

Facebook behind secret $1bn Virginia data centre project World’s largest social media platform attracted by renewable energy sources, but also given $19m in tax exemptions.

Facebook is to invest $1bn into Virginia in the construction of a data centre and solar facilities to power up its more than two billion users’ needs.

The company will put forward $750m for the construction of the data centre with the remaining $250m lined up to be used in the setup of several solar facilities that will be used to power the data centre, according to Terry McAuliffe, Virginia’s Governor.

The project is expected to generate 100 full-time jobs in the Henrico County where the facilities will be built.

Campus sits on a wider 18,000 acres development project and will be one of the largest hyperscale hubs in the world at full build.

A super-mega data centre development that puts to shame most other builds has been unveiled by T5 Data Centres in partnership with AllianceTexas. The two organisations have secured between 350 to 400 acres of land to be used for data centre purposes, which at full build could exceed the 400MW power capacity barrier, which replicates the current capacity of the entire DallasFort Worth marketplace.

The hyperscale campus, to be known as T5@Alliance, sits on a wider 18,000-acre plot set to give way to a new community in Fort Worth. The data centre development of the T5@Alliance campus is backed by IPI Data Centre Partners Management, LLC (IPI Partners), which invests in data centres and other technology and connectivity-related real assets and is sponsored by ICONIQ Capital, LLC and an affiliate of Iron Point Partners, LLC. The development is served by two separate transmission sources, Brazos Electric Power Cooperative and Oncor. Pete Marin, President and CEO of T5, said: “Cloud and hyperscale data centre users are looking for locations that can offer a growth pathway, incentives, resiliency and speed to operation, all with low costs.

T5@Alliance offers a perfect combination of these critical requirements.

The hyperscale data centre project had been discussed by local authorities in mid-September as reported here, however, no names were put forward as in who would be the name behind the so called ‘Project Echo’.

The complex at White Oak Technology Park measures 2.5m sqf, however, Facebook plans to build a facility spanning across ‘only’ 970,000 sqf.

The social media company has also been given a $19m state tax exemption clearing through to 2035, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership said.

Governor McAuliff said: “Working with companies like Facebook and many others, we are advancing Virginia’s position as a global leader in the technology economy.”

In a statement, Facebook’s director of data centre strategy Rachel Peterson, said: “One of the many important factors in our search for a new data centre location is being able to source clean and renewable energy.

“We also look for great partnerships within the local community, robust infrastructure and a strong pool of local talent.”

“This partnership with Hillwood and IPI Partners brings together a highly experienced team ready to deliver hyperscale campuses for discerning data centre customers.” Mike Berry, president of Hillwood, developer of AllianceTexas, said: “Rapid growth in Fort Worth is catching the attention of large technology companies, like Facebook, and is reinforcing AllianceTexas’ position as a premier destination for data centres.

“This partnership [with T5] will allow us to quickly deliver even more data centre campuses to the growing number of customers who want to more efficiently serve North Texas and the broader market.” Reid Goetz, vice president of Hillwood, said: “The massive pad sites at T5@Alliance, which are already served with critical infrastructure, make the development a great platform on which the partners can create one of the world’s top data centre destinations.

“Facebook and other Fortune 500 users have already recognized the substantial advantages of this location for massive installations. Redundancy, the presence of multiple fiber providers, access to an ample volume of water and the region’s moderate weather all help ensure reliable, uninterrupted service of data centres at AllianceTexas.”

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ASIA PACIFIC These are Asia’s top 10 data centre hot spots As the region prepares to take over Europe by 2021 as the world’s largest data centre market, clear leaders are emerging.

But which other countries made it to the top, you ask? See below with respective punctuations:

Asia is the world’s fastest growing data centre region today, and within the continent’s very large geographic reach, several alpha cities standout making the whole country a viable data centre destination.

A study by Cushman & Wakefield’s, Data Centre Risk Index, has looked into the major hubs in Asia, and placed Singapore at the top of the charts when it comes to market robustness with a score of 84.5 out of 100.

In Singapore’s favour, is its “strong network infrastructure, diverse connectivity to major APAC markets, its pro-business environment and political stability”.

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6. Malaysia (66.86)

2. South Korea (83.23)

7. Thailand (59.55)

3. Hong Kong (78.73)

8. Indonesia (51.81)

4. Japan (76.48)

9. China (50.22)

5. Australia (68.18)

10. India (47.84)

In the report, Cushman & Wakefield’s highlights: “Despite a large amount of supply coming through 2015–2016, the data centre market in Singapore continues to lead some of its large neighbours in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region in a race to the top of data centre location rankings.”

How did the company rank Singapore and the other cities?

Cushman & Wakefield’s looked into several components not only from a financial perspective but also governmental, infrastructure and resilience to natural disasters.

The city-state has a current total supply of 370 MW of IT power supply among co-location operators. Around 59 MW of IT power is readily available for data centre use, and 103 MW can be converted into IT power within three to six months.

1. Singapore (84.50)

According to further reports, the overall APAC region is expected to surpass Europe’s data centre market by 2021 based on an exponential growth of data and need for cloud and colocation services all across the continent.

“Mobile data usage, in particular, has increased in Asia Pacific in recent years. In 2016 alone, the region reached 3,109,117 terabytes in mobile data consumption per month. And it is expected to reach 22,845,908 terabytes per month in 2021,” read in the Cushman & Wakefield’s study.

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Digital Realty, Mitsubishi partner to invest nearly $2bn in new data centre builds However, reports point out that companies could spend as much as $4.4bn in the development of further builds over the next five years.

Nikkei reports that Mitsubishi and Digital Realty “may spend an additional 300 billion yen [around $2.64bn] in the medium term”.

Wholesale colocation provider Digital Realty has landed one of the company’s largest partnerships to date in CAPEX terms with Japanese trader Mitsubishi Corp. to build data centres in Japan.

Mitsubishi is no stranger to the data centre space as the company itself operates a facility in Mitaka, Tokyo.

Both companies were not immediately available for comment.

The site has been operational since October 2013 and boasts more than 15,000 sqm of hosting floor, in a wider 40,000 sqm floor space.

In total, the two organisations are expected to invest 200 billion yen, around $1.76bn, in the construction of ten data centres by 2022, according to Nikkei.

In addition, the trading house has over the years set up a multimillion Dollar investment fund for data centres, helped the Bank of Tokyo set up a disaster recovery centre, and signed a joint venture with India-based Tata Consultancy Services to help Japanese firms expand their footprint overseas.

The large 50/50 investment is in line with some of the biggest ever made in Japan in the field of data storage, and comes at a time when demand for hosting houses is increasing at pace in the Asiatic country.

As for Digital Realty, the provider operates today more than 170 data centres in 11 countries cross four continents amounting to the world’s largest square footage colocation footprint.

Through the joint venture, Mitsubishi expects Digital Realty customers to use the future data centres, which combined are expected to generate between 20 billion yen to 30 billion yen in 2022.

The joint venture will operate under the name MC Digital Realty.

Mitsubishi Corporation will contribute two existing data centre facilities in the western Tokyo suburb of Mitaka, while Digital Realty will contribute its recently completed data centre development project in Osaka.

The three seed assets are collectively valued at approximately 40 billion Japanese Yen, or approximately $350m.

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In Japan, the company runs one data centre in Osaka with 76MW of IT capacity and 161,000 sqf overall.

A. William Stein, Digital Realty’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “We are delighted to be partnering with an institution of Mitsubishi Corporation’s global prestige and local expertise, and to be establishing a presence in Tokyo.

“Japan is a highly strategic country for Digital Realty’s global data centre platform, and this relationship with Mitsubishi Corporation represents a major step towards strengthening our presence in Japan.”

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Google’s India cloud data centre to open before the end of 2017

Hyundai drives connected car revolution with IoT data centre opening Site is located next to other facilities operated

by Apple, Alibaba, IBM and more.

Car manufacturer Hyundai has cut the ribbon on a large data centre in China’s southwestern province of Guizhou as the company takes the driver seat in the connected car revolution.

The facility, which construction was initiated in October 2016, will be used to help the company build up its smart car platform and process large amounts of data generated by the system used by Chinese customers.

In addition to the data centre, Hyundai has also signed a partnership with China Unicom to launch a predictive analytics model dedicated to connected cars.

Company predicts the facility and its cloud services will help spur economic activity across a lot of startups, partner organisations.

Google has said it is on schedule to open its Indian data centre before the end of 2017 as the American technology giant seeks to expand its market share within the APAC region.

The facility, to be located in Mumbai, will be the company’s first in India and the fifth in Asia after Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney and Taiwan.

Hyundai Motor Vice President Hwang Seung-ho, said:“We will do everything we can to successfully operate the centre and set an example for other automakers.

“The facility will further enhance our expertise on how to analyse and use big data. This will significantly boost our capability to create an advanced connected car infrastructure and develop next-generation, wireless internet-based vehicles.

“To launch world-class connected vehicles in the near future, we have bolstered cooperation with US network equipment maker Cisco.”

The company’s commitment to open the Mumbai site this year was reinforced by Mohit Pande, Google Cloud’s India county manager during the company’s Cloud Summit hosted in India this week.

He said: “We believe that the India cloud centre will spur a whole of economic activity across a lot of startups, partner organisations.

“We see huge potential in India. Cloud centre in India will allow us to deliver a slew of cloud services like storage, networking and data services out of our Mumbai cloud region.

“With the India region coming up, we believe our ability to work with the government, industries and other partners will also go up.”

Google operates today 16 cloud regions with data centres in four European locations, three in Asia, eight in North America, and one region in South America.

The company also has laid out expansion plans which include the addition of several other data centres to its infrastructure, including sites in Northern Virginia, São Paulo, Finland, Frankfurt, Singapore, and Sydney.

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CyrusOne buys stake in GDS for $100m in pursuit of Chinese cloud business Chinese data centre operator’s customers include local big providers such as Alibaba Group, Tencent and Baidu.

US-based data centre REIT CyrusOne has invested $100m in the acquisition of an 8% stake in GDS Holdings Limited ) as the company seeks to ramp up its efforts to expand its cloud business in the Chinese market.

As a result of the deal, CyrusOne president and chief executive officer Gary Wojtaszek will join the GDS Board of Directors.

In addition to the transaction, the two companies have also stroke a partnership which will result in a combined effort to market and sell data centre space and related services in both the US and China.

GDS’ portfolio today amounts to 17 self-developed carrier-neutral data centres in service and under construction totalling 1.2 million colocation sqf in some of China’s Tier 1 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Chengdu.

The company has more than 450 customers, including Alibaba Group, Tencent and Baidu, three of the largest internet and cloud service providers in China. In comparison, CyrusOne’s more than 1,000 customers include some of the world’s largest cloud operators.

Financially, GDS has reported a revenue of approximately $50m and Adjusted EBITDA of approximately $15 million in the second quarter of this year. Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA grew 42% and 112%, respectively, on a local currency (RMB) basis in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016.

The GDS backlog as of the end of the second quarter totaled approximately $163m in annualised revenue, equivalent to more than 80% of second quarter 2017 annualised GAAP revenue.

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As for CyrusOne, Q2 2017 was also positive on a revenue basis, with the company reporting a 28% growth over Q2 2016, amounting to $166.9m. Net income was $800,000 negative, howerver, adjusted EBITDA was up 30% to $90.8m.

CyrusOne’s Wojtaszek said: “This strategic partnership provides a compelling value proposition for both companies’ customer bases as the enhanced collective capabilities of CyrusOne and GDS will enable them to meet their data centre resource needs in the world’s two largest centres of economic activity.

“We are excited about our investment in GDS and this partnership between two of the fastest-growing data centre companies and recognized leaders in serving the hyperscale and enterprise markets in the US and China.”

William Huang, chairman and chief executive officer of GDS, said: “Both GDS and CyrusOne are committed to providing comprehensive solutions to global cloud and enterprise companies, and we believe that together we can offer better outcomes for our nearly 1,500 combined customers.

“The investment by CyrusOne is a meaningful source of capital to fund development projects and offer timely, customized deployments for our customers as they capitalise on accelerating growth opportunities.

“We believe that this strategic relationship will enable both companies to meet strong market demand and generate attractive returns for our shareholders.”

J.P. Morgan acted as financial advisor to CyrusOne and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP served as legal counsel, and RBC Capital Markets acted as financial advisor and sole placement agent to GDS in connection with the $100m private placement of equity. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP served as legal counsel to GDS.

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