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      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

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    1. “ We believe that when we add these figures to the additional investment that has been made in extending, upgrading and constructing datacentres the financial scale of the sector has shifted substantially in 2011. ”

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  1. $12 Billion in Data Center M&A in 2011

    Data Center Knowledge (Jan 9 2012)

    1. $12 Billion in Data Center M&A in 2011 Mergers and acquisition activity in the data center sector generated more than $12.3 billion in deal values globally in 2011, according to an analysis by the UK consulting firm BroadGroup. The most active market for deals was the United States, followed by the UK and Australia. The year’s headlines featured huge transactions like CenturyLink’s $2.5 billion acquisition of merger and with Savvis, the deal in which KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures bought hosting and domain provider Go Daddy for $2 billion, and Verizon’s purchase of Terremark for $1.4 billion. But those mega-deals eclipsed a larger volume of smaller transactions, according to Broad Group, which said 45% of all M&A deals were below $100 million, with a further 25% valued up to $250 million. (Read Full Article)

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