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3 . GERMANY
Equinix – a digital infrastructure company – has announced a new collaboration with the housing company , Vonovia ; engineering company , AS Enterprise ; and investment advisor and asset manager , EB-SIM . In a project novel in its design and unique in scope for Frankfurt , the group aims to build a heating network for the bizonal residential area in Frankfurt ’ s Griesheim district . From 2025 , around 1,000 households will be supplied with surplus heat generated by local Equinix data centres , free of charge . This circular economy initiative – connected to Equinix ’ s FR4 , FR6 and FR8 sites – avoids local fossil fuel combustion and supports lower CO 2 emissions .
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4 . JAPAN
Digital Realty , one of the largest global providers of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre , colocation and interconnection solutions , announces KIX13 – its newest data centre in Osaka , Japan – has been certified NVIDIA DGX H100-Ready as part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center programme . KIX13 was awarded the accreditation for its ability to provide a dedicated , robust and resilient environment optimised for intensive computing systems deployments at scale .
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