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Read NTT data centers in India becomes 100% booked
NTT data centers in India becomes 100% booked

NTT data centers in India becomes 100% booked

August 28, 2023 NTT

The entire capacity of NTT's data center campuses currently under construction in Kolkata, Noida, Chennai, and other areas of Maharashtra has been pre-booked. NTT Data's Senior Vice President of Global Delivery, Ravi Kumar, stated. The Japanese conglomerate revealed plans to invest $2 billion in...

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Read CtrlS partners with NT for 150MW campus in Chonburi
CtrlS partners with NT for 150MW campus in Chonburi

CtrlS partners with NT for 150MW campus in Chonburi

August 25, 2023 CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

CtrlS Datacenters is teaming up with NT, Thailand's state-owned telco, for its new 150MW campus in Chonburi, it has announced. Through the MOU, the partnership will provide data center co-location services, cable landing stations, network connectivity hubs, and cloud-based services. This...

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Read Thai's NT and India's CtrlS build 150MW facility in Chonburi
Thai's NT and India's CtrlS build 150MW facility in Chonburi

Thai's NT and India's CtrlS build 150MW facility in Chonburi

August 25, 2023 CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

Indian firm CtrlS Datacenters has partnered with Thailand's government-owned telecommunications company to construct a new data center campus in Chonburi. Last week, the company and National Telecom Public Company Limited (NT) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for...

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Read Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility
Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility

Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility

August 24, 2023 Google

Google has verified its involvement in the Lincoln, Nebraska, data center proposal. This week, the company announced it was constructing a third data center in Papillion and a data center in Lincoln. The search and cloud firm will invest $1.2 billion in the project. Long suspected to be Google,...

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Read Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan
Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan

Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan

August 15, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Clean Energy Connect (CEC), a solar power company in the Itochu group for solar energy. Through the 20-year corporate PPA, CEC will invest more than 10 billion yen ($75 million) by 2024 for the development of small...

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Read STT GDC plans to construct a third facility in Bangkok, Thailand
STT GDC plans to construct a third facility in Bangkok, Thailand

STT GDC plans to construct a third facility in Bangkok, Thailand

August 14, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) Thailand is constructing its third data center in Bangkok, Thailand. STT Bangkok 3 will be located in the One Bangkok district and will have 2MW of IT capacity when it opens at the end of 2023, as is currently scheduled. This facility will join the other...

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Read Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved
Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved

Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved

August 14, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon's plans for a 7.5 million square foot data center campus have received preliminary approval from the King George County, Virginia, planning commission. Amazon will be the project's end customer, according to the Free Lance-Star. Birchwood Power Partners requested an amendment to the...

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Read Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India
Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India

Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India

August 10, 2023 Equinix

Equinix will invest $42 million in a new data center in Mumbai, India. The MB4 data center is anticipated to be operational by the end of the fourth quarter 2023. The MB4 data center is in the Kalwa Industrial Area, approximately 9 miles from the company's two other IBX data centers in Mumbai....

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Read NextDC is developing a modular data center in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
NextDC is developing a modular data center in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

NextDC is developing a modular data center in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

August 09, 2023 NEXTDC

Western Australia has received an Edge data center module from NextDC. According to the company's website, the 1.5MW, single-story PH1 provides technical space for 320 racks across 7,825 square feet. The company has projected a go-live date of August 2023. The company stated that the data center...

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Read Google will invest $350 million to expand data center in Iowa
Google will invest $350 million to expand data center in Iowa

Google will invest $350 million to expand data center in Iowa

August 09, 2023 Google

The Council Bluffs data center, located on the Nebraska/Iowa border, will be expanded by Google for $350 million. Plans for a data center in Council Bluffs were first made public in 2007. Google announced expansion plans in 2012 and 2015 and has since spent approximately $5 billion on the...

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Read Global Switch seeks buyers for European and Asia Pacific data centers
Global Switch seeks buyers for European and Asia Pacific data centers

Global Switch seeks buyers for European and Asia Pacific data centers

August 07, 2023 Global Switch

In an effort to raise $6 billion, Global Switch is contemplating selling its operations in Europe and Asia Pacific separately. According to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg, the London-based company may offer its Europe and Asia Pacific units to separate purchasers with the expectation that...

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Read George Mason University and AWS jointly develop a data center engineering course
George Mason University and AWS jointly develop a data center engineering course

George Mason University and AWS jointly develop a data center engineering course

August 02, 2023 Amazon AWS

A data center engineering course is being created by George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The faculty of Mason's College of Engineering and Computing will offer the course, which will be titled ME/ECE 499: Data Center Engineering. It will be...

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Read AWS launches its local zone edge location in Phoenix, Arizona
AWS launches its local zone edge location in Phoenix, Arizona

AWS launches its local zone edge location in Phoenix, Arizona

August 01, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a Local Zone Edge location in Phoenix, Arizona. The general availability of a Local Zone in Phoenix was first announced back in January 2022. It was known then as us-west-2-phx-1a, which appears to have now been replaced by the new...

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Read Vodafone extends its European Edge presence to Spain using AWS
Vodafone extends its European Edge presence to Spain using AWS

Vodafone extends its European Edge presence to Spain using AWS

August 01, 2023 Amazon AWS

In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vodafone Business has implemented Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) in Spain. After launching the service in Germany and the United Kingdom two years prior, introducing the pilot service in Spain expanded its European footprint. Spain is the most...

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Read WeTransfer cut server emissions by 78 percent in 2022
WeTransfer cut server emissions by 78 percent in 2022

WeTransfer cut server emissions by 78 percent in 2022

July 31, 2023 Amazon AWS

WeTransfer has said it cut its server emissions by 78 per cent in 2022. This comes following the company's 2020 pledge to reduce its emissions by 30 percent by 2025, and its migration to AWS in 2011. The company reportedly achieved "carbon-neutral certification," after using AWS' Customer Carbon...

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Read Google data center initiatives postponed, but increases in AI compute expenditure made
Google data center initiatives postponed, but increases in AI compute expenditure made

Google data center initiatives postponed, but increases in AI compute expenditure made

July 28, 2023 Google

Alphabet reported quarterly sales of $74.6 billion, an increase of 7% from the same period last year. Profits increased by 15% to $18.4 billion. While advertising sales drove the majority of the company's development, cloud sales increased by 28 % to $8 billion. Google Cloud reported its...

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Read Google’s Water Consumption in Data Centers Soars by 20%
Google’s Water Consumption in Data Centers Soars by 20%

Google’s Water Consumption in Data Centers Soars by 20%

July 27, 2023 Google

The 2023 Google environmental report shows a considerable increase in data center water consumption. The company consumed an astounding 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022, of which 5.2 billion were used solely for data centers. Compared to the previous year, this is 20% higher. Large data...

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Read STT GDC to team up with leading universities in the Philippines
STT GDC to team up with leading universities in the Philippines

STT GDC to team up with leading universities in the Philippines

July 25, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) Philippines, a joint venture of Globe, Ayala Corporation, and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, has announced that it is partnering up with some of the country's top universities. Collaborating with De La Salle University, the University...

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Read Google's data center plans in Uruguay spark outrage as country faces water crisis
Google's data center plans in Uruguay spark outrage as country faces water crisis

Google's data center plans in Uruguay spark outrage as country faces water crisis

July 21, 2023 Google

Uruguay is currently battling a water crisis, facing its worst drought in more than 70 years. The country has now experienced years of low rainfall, something which is likely to only continue as climate change exacerbates the issue. However, it's not just the result of climate change, according...

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Read Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center
Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

July 19, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon is reportedly interested in purchasing a former Ford plant near Cardiff, Wales. According to BusinessLive and WalesOnline, AWS is in talks to purchase the former Ford engine facility in Bridgend. However, it may be a distinct Amazon division that is interested in the site. According to...

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