Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has unveiled plans to add new cloud regions around the globe as other locations are brought online across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In North America, Google said it will add cloud regions in Columbus, Ohio, and Dallas, Texas over the next two years. “These new U.S. regions will bring our services even closer to existing cust...

Hyperscale data centre operator EdgeConneX said it is to acquire Global Data Center (GDC), an Israel-based data centre operator headquartered in Herzliya. The transaction, of which financial details have not been disclosed, represents EdgeConneX’s first hard assets in Israel and indeed the Middle East. The EQT Infrastructure-backed US operator will add two underground ...

Build-to-suit acquisition data centre platform Global Technical Realty (GTR) has launched a new 10.5MW data centre project in Petah Tikva, has more companies expanding their footprint in Israel amid the country’s growing tech scene. The location of the campus has a connectivity ecosystem currently made up of seven cloud service providers, the Israeli-Internet Exchange (II...