January 12, 2023 Meta
Meta has signed a PPA with BP to source renewable energy from an upcoming a 134MWdc (107MWac), 675-acre Arche Solar farm project in Ohio, developed by BP 50:50 joint-venture partner and subsidiary Lightsource BP. The social media company will reportedly receive 100% of the power from the site....
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January 02, 2023 Meta
The latest data center to take the hit in Meta's AI redesign rethink is its Kuna, Idaho, data center. The facility, an $800 million development, was only announced by the giant in February, with the company commencing work on the project in September. Speaking about the company's decision to...
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December 21, 2022 Meta
Meta has paused construction on its data center expansion in Huntsville, Alabama. This follows the giant’s announcement that its Odense, Denmark project was being completely canceled, and its Temple, Texas development was being paused as part of a wider AI data center design change. The...
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December 19, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced more solar projects, this time in Georgia and Tennessee. According to the company, the projects will be delivered through Silicon Ranch's partnership with Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Together, these three entities will...
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December 16, 2022 Meta
Meta, as part of a wider plan to integrate AI into its data center operations, has paused a number of its data center projects in a 'rescoping' effort, it has been announced. The first facility development that the giant announced it was halting was at its data center campus in Odense, Denmark,...
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December 05, 2022 Meta
Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that it has signed another PPA with D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a renewable energy producer in the US. The PPA is a long-term renewable energy off-take agreement through which Meta will procure solar energy from the upcoming Long Lake Project...
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November 22, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced that it is deploying a new network timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), which will keep each server in its data centers on the same time. Servers must be coordinated, otherwise, users can experience delays, errors, and outages. In contrast to Network Time Protocol...
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November 15, 2022 Meta
Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, has announced the biggest job cuts in the giant's history, with 13% of its workforce set to lose their jobs in a move that follows big redundancies at Twitter, Oracle and Microsoft. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the job cuts are "the most...
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November 07, 2022 Meta
Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that in an effort reduce its water consumption to become water-positive, it has increased its server rooms' temperature by five degrees to 90°F (32.2°C). This was first announced at the 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference, and first implemented at one data center,...
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October 31, 2022 Meta
Since Facebook became Meta, the company has tanked, losing $650 billion. In the wake of this huge loss, on Thursday, the giant's shares crashed 24% to $97.94, which is reportedly the lowest in nearly four years. This follows its historic loss in market value back in February, which saw...
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October 05, 2022 Keppel Data Center REIT
Keppel Corporation has announced that it has absorbed one of its subsidiaries. The move will also see Keppel take ownership of one of the company’s data centers. Keppel acquired Juventas DC PTE ltd (JPL) for $25.4m from Causeway DC Pte Ltd. (CDCPL). JPL has now become Keppel Corp’s wholly-owned...
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October 04, 2022 Meta
Social media giant Meta has announced that it is expanding its footprint in Eagle Mountain, Utah, with the expansion of its data center campus. The company made this announcement of the new additions on Facebook, where it said the campus grow by 2 million square feet. According to the company,...
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September 23, 2022 Meta
Meta’s Sarpy County data center has once again found itself in the headlines following another racist incident on site. The primary contractor Turner Construction had shut down work on the Utah site regarding three other racist incidents, which included racist graffiti on a portable toilet and a...
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August 02, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced that it will expand its Sarpy data center in Sarpy County, Nebraska, once again, with the introduction of a new building which will make it a nine-building, four million-square-foot (371,600 sqm) campus that will be fuelled with renewable energy sourced by wind farm projects in...
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July 19, 2022 Keppel Data Center REIT
Keppel has announced that it is developing a data center in Greater Beijing, China. According to the Singaporean company, its Keppel Data Centre Fund II LP (KDCF II) has partnered with Heying to develop a greenfield data center facility in Greater Beijing, China. KDCF II is managed by Keppel’s...
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June 29, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Facebook has finally announced that it has canceled its plans for the Zeewolde data center. This move comes after it first announced a pause to the project in March. The data center was poised to be largest data center in the Netherlands. Facebook’s plan was to develop a 200MW data center across...
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June 24, 2022 Keppel Data Center REIT
Keppel DC REIT has announced the acquisition of two data centers in China. The Singaporean data center REIT entered into an agreement with Guangdong Bluesea Data Development Co. Ltd. to acquire two facilities in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province. The deal is worth RMB 1,380.6 million (~US$206m). Each...
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June 14, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
The Dutch Government has revealed that it will not be selling the land in Zeewolde to Meta. Meta had initially earmarked the land to develop a massive data center. The Dutch Government partially owns the land in question. However, Meta hoped to reach an agreement to take over the land to develop...
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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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May 05, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced that it is expanding its Mesa data center campus in Arizona. The company announced in a Facebook post that: “In August 2021, we were thrilled to add Mesa, Arizona, to our family of data centers. Just nine months later, we’re excited to announce that we are expanding the Meta...
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