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Read Amazon Buys a Facility in Santa Clara, California
Amazon Buys a Facility in Santa Clara, California

Amazon Buys a Facility in Santa Clara, California

March 10, 2023 Amazon AWS

An old insulation plant in Santa Clara, California, has been purchased by Amazon. According to documents cited by BizJournal, Amazon paid $237.8 million for the land, which is situated at 960 Central Expressway, slightly west of San Jose Mineta International Airport. It's unknown what the firm...

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Read Defra Secures a $2 Million Contract With AWS
Defra Secures a $2 Million Contract With AWS

Defra Secures a $2 Million Contract With AWS

March 09, 2023 Amazon AWS

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have inked a $25 million contract. Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon will provide Defra with cloud hosting, its bring-your-own-license software management solution, as well as support, managed...

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Read Amazon Suspends It’s Headquarters Development in Northern Virginia
Amazon Suspends It’s Headquarters Development in Northern Virginia

Amazon Suspends It’s Headquarters Development in Northern Virginia

March 09, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon has temporarily halted the building of its massive new facility in Northern Virginia. Company officials stated that layoffs and the popularity of working from home were reasons for halting development. Metropolitan Park, a 2.1 million square foot building with two office towers, will be...

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Read TexAmericas Center announces initiative to develop green data center park
TexAmericas Center announces initiative to develop green data center park

TexAmericas Center announces initiative to develop green data center park

March 08, 2023 Texas

TexAmericas Center has announced its plan to develop green energy data centers, which it has said will be suitable for major companies eyeing expansion. The property pegged for this development has over 400 acres, which reports outline would be suitable for hyperscale, corporate, retail and...

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Read Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers
Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers

Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers

March 07, 2023 Northern Virginia

Virginia's Prince William County officials are looking into amending the county's noise regulations around data centers, having passed a resolution to initiate amendments to the Design Construction Standards Manual (DCSM) and zoning ordinance. These will reportedly assist officials in addressing...

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Read Wesco ventures into the data center business
Wesco ventures into the data center business

Wesco ventures into the data center business

March 07, 2023 Pennsylvania

Wesco has announced the launch of a data center group, namely Wesco Data Center Solutions. The company is set to be led by Rahi Systems founding member Tarun Raisoni, who will be senior vice president and general manager, following the recent acquisition of Rahi Systems Holdings.Speaking about...

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Read Amazon Stopped Paying For Ads Because Twitter Failed To Pay Its AWS Bill
Amazon Stopped Paying For Ads Because Twitter Failed To Pay Its AWS Bill

Amazon Stopped Paying For Ads Because Twitter Failed To Pay Its AWS Bill

March 06, 2023 Amazon AWS

After Elon Musk acquired Twitter, the company ceased paying landlords, cleaning, and software providers for services done. But, according to The Information, the corporation has failed to pay its Amazon Web Services payments for months, despite using the cloud provider for crucial components of...

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Read AWS announces new cloud region in Malaysia
AWS announces new cloud region in Malaysia

AWS announces new cloud region in Malaysia

March 05, 2023 Amazon AWS

AWS has launched a new AWS infrastructure Region in Malaysia, and through this, has outlined its intention to invest $6 billion (MYR 25.5 billion) in Malaysia by 2037. According to AWS, to begin with, the region will consist of three Availability Zones. Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of...

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Read PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center
PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center

PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center

March 02, 2023 Northern Virginia

PowerHouse Data Centers, a partnership between American Real Estate Partners (AREP) and Harrison Street that provides turnkey facility location, powered shell, and build-to-suit data center implementations, and DPR Construction, one of the nation's leading five data center contractors, have...

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Read Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center
Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center

Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center

March 02, 2023 California

The developer Valley Oak Partners, located in San Jose, California, has proposed constructing a data center with a floor space of 490,000 square feet at the former location of the construction materials firm USG in Fremont, California. According to Valley Oak, the facility would serve as a venue...

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Read Lacework announces availability of Sydney based data center
Lacework announces availability of Sydney based data center

Lacework announces availability of Sydney based data center

March 01, 2023 Sydney

Lacework has announced the availability of its new cloud data center in Sydney, New South Wales, which is pegged to provide organizations with lower latencies in Australia and New Zealand, with better support. Richard Davies, Area Director at Lacework, said that as the Australia and New Zealand...

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Read Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California
Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California

Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California

February 24, 2023 California

Valley Oak is pursuing a new data center in Fremont, California, it has been announced, to 'serve as a place for clients to either relocate their data servers or expand their data capacity.' The company submitted an application for a 490,000 square-foot (45,520 sqm) data center on approximately...

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Read Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy
Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy

Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy

February 24, 2023 Northern Virginia

Reports reveal that in recent months, a wave of Prince William County planning officials have resigned from their positions just as the data center development controversy heats up. County Planning Director Mark Buenavista, had only been in the job a month, but left his position last week....

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Read What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway
What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway

What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway

February 24, 2023 Northern Virginia

As covered extensively by Baxtel, the PW Digital Gateway data center campus, planned outside Manassas, is the most controversial data center development in recent times. It has been opposed from many angles, with environmentalists arguing that it jeopardizes net-zero goals, and others arguing it...

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Read Amazon data center protests fail to stop development getting green light
Amazon data center protests fail to stop development getting green light

Amazon data center protests fail to stop development getting green light

February 24, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon's plans to expand its data center footprint in Northern Virginia, with a huge investment of $35 billion, is continuing to receive pushback from protestors and residents. Northern Virginia has the largest concentration of data centers in the world, being the epicenter of a data center boom...

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Read Powerhouse data center developments and sustainability
Powerhouse data center developments and sustainability

Powerhouse data center developments and sustainability

February 23, 2023 Northern Virginia

PowerHouse is one of the latest companies to enter Northern Virginia and join the data center boom. A division of American Real Estate Partners, and backed by investment firm Harrison Street, the company also recently joined the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord, becoming one of 170...

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Read South Korea launches data center for AI research
South Korea launches data center for AI research

South Korea launches data center for AI research

February 21, 2023 South Korea

South Korea's science ministry recently announced the opening of a computing data center to conduct AI studies. The Research Data Center of AI Innovation Hub, in the Seoul campus of Korea University, is a computing lab with 35 petaFLOPS computers. It has been reported that this will permit up to...

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Read AWS's announces Modular Data Center for Defense Department
AWS's announces Modular Data Center for Defense Department

AWS's announces Modular Data Center for Defense Department

February 20, 2023 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced AWS Modular Data Center (MDC) availability to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), meaning that the department will be able to more easily deploy modular data centers managed by AWS in infrastructure-limited locations. Through the MDCs, DoD customers will be provided with...

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Read Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas
Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas

Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas

February 20, 2023 Amazon AWS

It has been revealed that in Oregon, Amazon is planning to power at least three of its Oregon data centers with natural gas fuel cells. That said, the number could be as high as seven. Amazon proposes the fuel cell technology it will use will oxidize the fossil fuel to generate electricity....

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Read Data center impact study legislation defeated in Virginia
Data center impact study legislation defeated in Virginia

Data center impact study legislation defeated in Virginia

February 20, 2023 Northern Virginia

A piece of legislation that would have compelled the Virginia Department of Energy to study the impacts of data center development on the state’s environment, economy, energy resources and carbon-reduction goals has been defeated. A number of bills have been proposed by Del. Danica Roem, D-Prince...

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