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Read Google Breaks Ground on Its $300m Ohio Data Center
Google Breaks Ground on Its $300m Ohio Data Center

Google Breaks Ground on Its $300m Ohio Data Center

June 23, 2022 Google

Google has broken ground on a new facility in Columbus, Ohio. The site for the new data center was previously used for a snake oil farm. Last year, the company first revealed plans for the 14,000 square meters (150,000 square foot) data center. According to the company, the facility will cost...

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Read Aligned To Develop a 100MW Facility in Salt Lake City, Utah
 Aligned To Develop a 100MW Facility in Salt Lake City, Utah

Aligned To Develop a 100MW Facility in Salt Lake City, Utah

June 23, 2022 Aligned

Aligned has announced that it is developing a new data center in Salt Lake, Utah. The data center will be called SLC-03, and it will be developed on its campus in West Jordan, Utah. The development will see Aligned add over 100MW capacity to the West Jordan campus. When this happens, it will add...

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Read Google Acquires Land in Finland For Possible Data Center Development
Google Acquires Land in Finland For Possible Data Center Development

Google Acquires Land in Finland For Possible Data Center Development

June 23, 2022 Google

Google has acquired 50 hectares of land in Hamina, Finland, for €4.3 million ($4.5m). The land is also located next to the company’s existing sea-cooled data center. The existing data center was acquired from Stora Enso, a Finnish paper company in 2009. It also opened the data center in 2011....

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Read Serverfarm increases its power capacity at its LON1 Data Center
Serverfarm increases its power capacity at its LON1 Data Center

Serverfarm increases its power capacity at its LON1 Data Center

June 21, 2022 ServerFarm Realty

Serverfarm has announced that it has expanded its power capacity at its LON1 data center, by adding an additional 8MW of capacity, almost doubling its power capacity. According to Arun Shenoy, CMO at Serverfarm, 3MW of new power capacity will be available in the next four months, “with more to...

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Read Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM
Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM

Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM

June 21, 2022 Google

Google has announced it has opened a cloud region, in Milan, Italy, in partnership with TIM, namely the Europe-west8 region, its first in this region, following both AWS and Microsoft doing the same. According to the giant, it will bring on a second in Turin, which will happen over the next few...

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Read AWS Acquires 58-Acre Land in Virginia For Data Center Development
AWS Acquires 58-Acre Land in Virginia For Data Center Development

AWS Acquires 58-Acre Land in Virginia For Data Center Development

June 21, 2022 Amazon AWS

According to BizJournal, Amazon Web Services has acquired a 58.5-acre land in Prince William County, Virginia, for $87.8m. Local County records also show that the land is located at 5845 Wellington Road, Gainesville. Interestingly, the company also acquired a 58.5-acre plot in April last year. It...

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Read Vantage announces the opening data center campuses in Warsaw and Berlin
Vantage announces the opening data center campuses in Warsaw and Berlin

Vantage announces the opening data center campuses in Warsaw and Berlin

June 17, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has launched a data center campus in both Poland and Germany, the former is in Warsaw, and its first step into the Polish market, while the latter is its campus in Berlin, which is the company’s second venture into Germany. Vantage has now completed the...

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Read Equinix and PGIM Real Estate open data centre in Sydney
Equinix and PGIM Real Estate open data centre in Sydney

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate open data centre in Sydney

June 16, 2022 Equinix

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have announced the opening of SY9x, the first xScale data center in Sydney, following the closing of the two parties' US$575 million joint venture. Located in Rosehill, and adjacent to the Western Sydney CBD of Parramatta, this facility, will be accompanied by a...

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Read San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup
San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

June 16, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it will be using renewable natural gas to fuel its backup energy at its San Jose data center, which is currently under construction. This move aligns with the company’s target of being carbon negative by 2030, and the project will also provide power locally with...

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Read Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta
Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

June 16, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 300,000...

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Read Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development
Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

June 15, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 million...

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Read Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future
Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future

Amazon's Local Zones To Be Launched in Hundreds In Future

June 15, 2022 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced its plans to launch hundreds of Local Zones to expand its Edge cloud network extensively. Local Zones serve as Edge locations hosting applications that need low latency to final users or on-premises installations. Some of the services the zone offers include database, storage,...

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Read Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project
Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project

Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project

June 13, 2022 Google

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Corp., currently three of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of clean power, have voiced their opposition to a nearly $4-billion, Warren Buffett-backed renewable-energy project proposed in Iowa. According to the three giants, the project, which would be the...

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Read Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development
Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development

Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development

June 10, 2022 Meta

Meta has announced that it will be expanding its Gallatin data center campus, which is located in Tennessee. The plans for the campus, which will see an injection of $1B, were first announced back in 2020, and the campus will be powered in part by solar energy from a 110MW power purchase...

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Read Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica
Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

June 10, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica, which will enable Vantage to supplement the local grid powering the company’s data center campus in Johannesburg (JNB1) with renewable energy. According to reports, the campus is set to open in July....

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Read Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory
Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

June 09, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it is expanding into Australia. The company is partnering with Hickory, an Australian real estate developer. In addition, the development will see Stack develop data centers in three cities in the country. Stack Australia is already developing a data center...

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Read Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility
Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility

Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility

June 09, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it will be developing its third data center in Mumbai, India. The data center giant said it would invest over $86 million to develop the data center. According to the company, the data center will be housed on four-acre land. The data center will be located in...

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Read AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia
AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia

AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia

June 09, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services plans to develop a new data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia. The company has already filed with officials to develop a single-story, 220,000 square feet (20,400 square meters) data center at the intersection of Lee Highway and Blackwell Road in Warrenton town. AWS...

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Read CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers
CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers

CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers

June 09, 2022 CoreSite

CoreSite has integrated three data centers from American Tower into its data center portfolio. The data centers are located in Florida and Georgia. The three data centers are Orlando OR1, located at 9701 S. John Young Parkway, Orlando, Atlanta AT1, located at 55 Marietta Street NW, Atlanta), and...

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Read Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland
Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

June 08, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it added new availability zones to its Zurich Azure region. Availability zones are data center locations that are physically separate but still within the same cloud region, offering redundancy against failures in a particular location. Typically, most new regions...

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