Items Tagged with "Digital Realty"

Digital Realty signs agreement for Texas wind power

Digital Realty, a global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, has signed a long-term power purchase agreement for electricity generated from a Texas wind project.The company has agreed to purchase 400,000 MWh of the power produced at a 200-MW Colbeck's Corner wind Read More...

Starbucks moves higher in EPA green power ranks

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership on Oct. 24 released updates to its Top Partner Rankings, which highlight organizations that are choosing to use electricity from clean, renewable sources.On its list of top 100 national partners, which is updated quarterly, the Read More...

Green bond funds help Digital Realty hit energy goals

As the use of green bonds continues to increase among U.S. corporations, Digital Realty in 2016 became one of the first REITs, and the first data center REIT, to successfully complete an issuance.Green bonds are classified as "green" for the requirement that capital raised through them be exclusivel Read More...

Digital Realty buys 96 MW of wind, solar capacity

Data center, colocation and interconnection solutions company Digital Realty announced two new long-term agreements to source approximately 96 MW, or 324,000 additional MWh annually, of renewable energy for its Chicago and Ashburn, Va., data center properties.The deals mark an expansion of Read More...

Digital Realty aggregates customer demand to cut energy costs

Digital Realty, a global provider of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, announced it is contracting electricity supply in bulk to achieve lower prices throughout the year, while simultaneously providing protection against escalating prices during seasonal spikes.  "Agg Read More...

Digital Realty improves efficiency, achieves Energy Star

Digital Realty, a global provider of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, announced it has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR® certification for superior energy performance in 24 data centers in 2018. The certification recognizes that the compan Read More...

Facebook secures solar with back-to-back VPPA

Facebook has secured approximately 80 megawatts of solar power for its data centers through a VPPA signed by Digital Realty, which signed the deal with SunEnergy1, which has developed and will own and operate the solar project, to be located within Virginia Electric and Power Company territory in No Read More...

Digital Realty signs PPAs for data centers

Digital Realty will be adding 227,000 MWh of clean energy to power its data centers through two energy deals signed with projects in Oregon and Northern Virginia.The data center provider signed a PPA with ENGIE North America to supply its Northern Virginia data centers with 107,000 MWh of solar powe Read More...

Digital Realty inks wind PPA for Texas data centers

Digital Realty announced April 22 a 7.5-year agreement with Citi that will provide the cloud- and carrier-neutral data center provider with renewable energy power and credits that account for 30% of its power needs in the Dallas market.The agreement with Citi will provide over 260,000 MWh of clean p Read More...

Digital Realty adds solar project to Texas portfolio

Digital Realty announced Aug. 24 that they signed a PPA with an 82.5 MW solar project that will provide power to their Dallas-Area data center portfolio.The Texas data centers will receive power from Pattern Energy’s Phoenix Solar Project in Fannin County, Texas, increasing Digital Realty&rsqu Read More...

Digihost Cuts Marginal Carbon Emissions With Demand Response Tech

Digihost Technology recently avoided nearly 150 metric tons of marginal CO2 through just 29 hours of demand response management at its data center in Buffalo, N.Y.The data center provider deployed a demand-side energy management program in order to maximize the value of their distributed energy reso Read More...

Digital Realty Signs Solar PPA 

Digital Realty, a provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 116 megawatts (MW) share of a new 154 MW ground-mounted solar photovoltaic project. The agreement, signed with ENGIE, is expected t Read More...