Microsoft president Brad Smith speaking at Web Summit in Lisbon in November 2018 Stephen McCarthy /Web Summit via Getty Images
Microsoft president Brad Smith speaking at Web Summit in Lisbon in November 2018

Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: January 23, 2020

Happy Friday! Here are the biggest things we wrote about this week.

Want Microsoft as Your Customer? Clean Up Your Carbon - For the giant to hit its “carbon-negative” goal, all its suppliers will have to pitch in.

Digital Realty Sweetens Takeover Deal for Frigid Interxion Shareholders - The US data center giant's CFO says he's "befuddled" by unsatisfied Interxion investors' "chirping."

Vapor IO to Bring Cloudflare to the Edge in 36 US Cities - The deal is a big win for the edge data center startup amid an ambitious nationwide buildout.

Colony Capital’s CEO-Elect Marc Ganzi Explains Its Pivot to Digital - DCK Investor Edge: The exec lays out the role Colony 2.0 will play in 5G and edge computing.

Should Data Centers Have Common Physical Infrastructure Security Standards? - If the industry doesn’t formulate a set of standards for securing critical infrastructure, regulators might.

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