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Read Edged Breaks Ground on Second Chicago Faciity
Edged Breaks Ground on Second Chicago Faciity

Edged Breaks Ground on Second Chicago Faciity

November 21, 2025 Edged Energy

Data center firm Edged has broken ground on a second data center in Chicago, Illinois. Located at 2835 Bilter Road, the new facility will be purpose-built for high-density AI workloads and feature advanced closed-loop, waterless cooling. The facility will go live in Q2 2027. “Safety and...

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Read Edged Opens Data Center in New Albany, Ohio
Edged Opens Data Center in New Albany, Ohio

Edged Opens Data Center in New Albany, Ohio

September 24, 2025 Edged Energy

Data center operator Edged recently celebrated the opening of its newest data center in New Albany. Tthe two-story facility delivers 24MW of capacity across 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm).“This project would not have been possible without the support of the City of New Albany, who has been unwavering...

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Read Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa
Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa

Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa

August 08, 2025 Edged Energy

Data center firm Edged this week said it had topped out its facility in Ankeny, just north of Des Moines, marking the completion of the building’s structural frame. The facility will offer 13MW of capacity across 105,000 sq ft (9,755 sqm) and utilize a waterless cooling system from sister company...

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Read Orange signs new 15-year PPA in France
Orange signs new 15-year PPA in France

Orange signs new 15-year PPA in France

May 15, 2024 Orange

Orange has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement with French solar & storage developer ZE Energy this week to procure solar power in France.The agreement is to offtake 90GWh annually produced by a new hybrid solar power plant being built in Landes. “Orange France is continuing its...

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Read Orange and Huawei partner to unveil Cloud services in Egypt
Orange and Huawei partner to unveil Cloud services in Egypt

Orange and Huawei partner to unveil Cloud services in Egypt

April 30, 2024 Orange

Orange and Huawei have teamed up to launch Huawei Cloud services in Egypt. Both companies have previously teamed up to launch the Orange Business Cloud for business in Egypt. Following the latest agreement which is an extension of that launch, Huawei Cloud will roll out an array of its cloud...

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Read Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas
Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas

Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas

April 13, 2024 Edged Energy

Edged Energy announced this week that it was pressing ahead with building the data center in Irving. This comes after the Irving City Council voted unanimously in support of the development of a new data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas “Sustainability is at the core of our...

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Read PCCW-led Peace subsea cable arrives in Bizerte, Tunisia
PCCW-led Peace subsea cable arrives in Bizerte, Tunisia

PCCW-led Peace subsea cable arrives in Bizerte, Tunisia

February 07, 2024 Orange

The PCCW-led Peace subsea cable has landed in Bizerte, Tunisia. According to industry observer Philippe Devaux, this cable known as Ifriqya by local operator Ooredoo – was landed by Orange’s CS Teliri. “Today, we celebrate a historic achievement with the arrival of the submarine cable "Ifriqya"...

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Read Orange & Capgemini to unveil Microsoft-focused sovereign cloud venture
Orange & Capgemini to unveil Microsoft-focused sovereign cloud venture

Orange & Capgemini to unveil Microsoft-focused sovereign cloud venture

January 19, 2024 Orange

Orange & Capgemini this week announced that their Microsoft-focused Bleu joint venture is now getting ready for commercial operations. This cloud venture has begun engaging with ‘select French public and private organizations’ to ensure that they are ready for the migration once the first...

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Read Orange blames three-hour outage on weak password
Orange blames three-hour outage on weak password

Orange blames three-hour outage on weak password

January 06, 2024 Orange

Orange has noted that a weak password to its RIPE account was the primary cause of the outage at Orange Spain disrupted close to half of its network traffic earlier this week. This outage lasted for about three hours on January 4 after a hacker manipulated crucial information about the company’s...

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Read Orange launches data center in Garborone, Botswana
Orange launches data center in Garborone, Botswana

Orange launches data center in Garborone, Botswana

December 05, 2023 Orange

Telco Orange recently unveiled a new data center in Gaborone, Botswana. The company posted on LinkedIn, “Hello from the new Orange Data Center at the Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub! This is the first Tier III data center in Botswana and third in Southern Africa.” According to ITWeb Africa,...

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Read University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta
University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

September 08, 2023 Meta

The University of Minnesota (UoM) Board of Regents has authorized the $39.7 million land sale to Meta. The 280-acre tract of land in UMore Park has been sold to Jimnist LLC, a subsidiary of Meta, for a data center. The land that comprises UMore Park is located in Rosemount and is bordered by...

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Read Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture
Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture

Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture

September 05, 2023 Meta

Social network Meta is supporting a new Minneapolis data center project. Late last week, a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission document confirmed Meta's $700 million Minneapolis data center project. Xcel Energy announced an 'enterprise data center' project with a Fortune 100 company in November...

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Read Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion
Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion

Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion

July 28, 2023 Meta

In the last quarter, Meta's capital expenditures reached $6.4 billion due to investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructure. This is a decrease from the $7.1 billion the company spent in the previous quarter, but the Facebook proprietor is now done with a data center...

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Read Orange installs over 200 solar panels on data center in Timișoara, Romania
Orange installs over 200 solar panels on data center in Timișoara, Romania

Orange installs over 200 solar panels on data center in Timișoara, Romania

July 26, 2023 Orange

Orange has installed over 200 solar panels at its Timișoara, Romania data center, it has announced. This is in addition to deployments at its data center in Constanța and Braşov, taking the total to 650 solar panels that are installed and operational. The deployment will reportedly bring 100kW of...

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Read Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign
Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

Meta shares details on AI progress and data center redesign

May 25, 2023 Meta

After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data centers,...

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Read rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta
rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

May 24, 2023 Meta

rPlus Energies has announced that it has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Idaho Power, which has a special energy services agreement with Meta; output from the project will go into the same grid supporting Meta's new Kuna data center. The Ada County, Idaho solar farm, known as...

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Read Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released
Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released

Water requirements for Meta’s Toledo town data center released

May 18, 2023 Meta

Details regarding Meta's water consumption at a planned data center in Toledo have been released, revealing that yearly the facility will guzzle an estimated 660 million gallons of water. The facility was given the green light by Castilla-La Mancha back in March as a PSI, due to the economic...

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Read The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project
The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project

The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project

April 27, 2023 Meta

In an effort to curb construction waste, Meta has announced a new project that is using mushrooms to help mitigate some of the 660 million tons of waste sent to landfills and incinerators each year. The giant has been working with Mycocycle, a tech company in the zero-waste market, to pilot the...

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Read Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs
Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs

Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs

April 26, 2023 Meta

Reuters reports that Meta abandoned plans to release its own artificial intelligence processor and instead adopted Nvidia GPUs. Initial use of CPUs for AI training and chips for inference caused the company to fall behind in AI development. The switch to GPUs necessitated the redesign of its data...

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Read New Tunisia-France Submarine Cable Will be Installed by Orange
New Tunisia-France Submarine Cable Will be Installed by Orange

New Tunisia-France Submarine Cable Will be Installed by Orange

April 24, 2023 Orange

The French telecommunications company Orange will install a new subsea cable linking France and Tunisia. A 650-mile cable from Marseille to Bizerte will be built thanks to a grant from the EU's "Connecting Europe Facility" (CEF) program, the company announced this week. The cable is expected to...

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