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Read EdgeConneX files to build a 1 million square foot data center facility in Mesa, Arizona
EdgeConneX files to build a 1 million square foot data center facility in Mesa, Arizona

EdgeConneX files to build a 1 million square foot data center facility in Mesa, Arizona

September 05, 2023 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX plans to establish a new data center facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to expand its presence there. According to BizJournal, the company has applied for Mesa's administrative and design reviews to construct a multi-phased campus near Elliot Road and Loop 202. EdgeConneX wants to build a...

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Read Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas
Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas

Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas

September 04, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has made its first land purchases in Texas, both in San Antonio. The San Antonio Report reads, based on public records from Bexar County, that Vantage has acquired 89 acres of land in San Antonio spread across two separate parcels. On August 9, the firm purchased 31 acres at...

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Read Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility
Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility

Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility

September 01, 2023 Google

Google will construct a second campus in Texas in the Red Oak neighborhood of Dallas. This week, the company announced intentions to invest $600 million in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas to build its second data center. The search, advertising, and cloud company stated that it would invest...

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Read Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina
Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina

Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina

August 31, 2023 Google

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy for wind energy in North Carolina. Through the deal, the giant will offtake the full capacity from the Timbermill Wind project, which is in the process of being built. Located in Chowan County, the project will offer 189MW...

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Read AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia
AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia

AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia

August 31, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to expand to the Virginia county of Louisa. Last week, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $11 billion by 2040 to build two data center campuses in Louisa's Technology Overlay District (TOD). The county...

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Read CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design
CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design

CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design

August 30, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced the launch of an AI-specific built-to-suit data center design, which it says has been developed specifically to address the “rapidly growing needs of AI applications and services.”The company notes that the Intelliscale data center is built on an ultra-high-density...

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Read Old Verizon office and data center in Pittsburgh for sale/lease
Old Verizon office and data center in Pittsburgh for sale/lease

Old Verizon office and data center in Pittsburgh for sale/lease

August 29, 2023 Verizon Enterprise

Verizon's former Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office and data center is available for purchase or lease. It has been put up for sale or lease by Colliers and Sampson Morris Group at 5400 Campbells Run Road. The 10-acre, 1959-built office and data facility features 130,000 rentable square feet and is...

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Read Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services
Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

August 29, 2023 Google

Google unveiled several cloud-based tools and services centered on artificial intelligence. Cloud TPU v5e, the company's newest Tensor Processing Unit, is now available for preview, according to the company. Google claims that, compared to TPU v4, which was released in 2021, the chip has up to...

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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 CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center
CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center

CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center

August 23, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has applied to the South Dublin County Council for permission to construct a new data center in the Grange Castle Business Park in the Irish capital. The application, submitted on July 14, calls for the demolition of a one-story home called "Erganagh" and the erection of a three-story...

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Read Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure
Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure

Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure

August 22, 2023 Microsoft Azure

The digital arm of the Malaysian energy company Petronas, Petronas Digital, has inked a contract with Microsoft to develop a high-performance computing (HPC) artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform. The organization will use the platform to perform AI and machine learning to look...

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Read Vantage outlines a data center facility in Atlanta, Georgia
Vantage outlines a data center facility in Atlanta, Georgia

Vantage outlines a data center facility in Atlanta, Georgia

August 22, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers intends to construct a new campus in the Atlanta, Georgia, district of Douglas County. Vantage plans to construct nearly 1.7 million square feet of data center floor space through three buildings in Douglasville, according to a filing with the state under the Developments of...

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Read EdgeConneX contests the Dublin data center denial
EdgeConneX contests the Dublin data center denial

EdgeConneX contests the Dublin data center denial

August 22, 2023 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX Ireland has appealed to An Bord Pleanála against South Dublin County Council's decision to deny its proposed data center. The company intended to construct two adjacent data centers on its Dublin Campus in Ballmakaily, Lucan, Dublin, on Newcastle Road. Two single-story data centers...

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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 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 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 Digital Realty unveils high-density colocation solu with 70kW racks in 28 markets
Digital Realty unveils high-density colocation solu with 70kW racks in 28 markets

Digital Realty unveils high-density colocation solu with 70kW racks in 28 markets

August 08, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a global leader in the data center industry, has introduced a high-density colocation service in 28 markets across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. The new service supports up to 70 kilowatts per rack of computing power. Digital stated that the increased rack densities were...

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Read Microsoft has submitted plans to construct two data centers in San Jose, California
Microsoft has submitted plans to construct two data centers in San Jose, California

Microsoft has submitted plans to construct two data centers in San Jose, California

August 03, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has applied to construct two data centers in San Jose, California. On August 17, the San Jose Council Planning Division will convene to discuss Microsoft's plans for a 65-acre site at 1657 Alviso-Milpitas Road. The company seeks permission to remove 79 trees to construct two...

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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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