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Read Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes
Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

April 20, 2023 Arkansas

The Arkansas Data Centers Act was recently passed after being proposed not long ago on March 30 by Senator Joshua Bryant. The legislation seeks to regulate the Bitcoin mining industry in the state, and will allocate crypto miners the same rights as data centers. It outlines that the government...

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Read Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco
Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco

Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco

April 19, 2023 Google

Google has announced that it has signed a new 10-year PPA with Eneco, a Dutch utility company, for 0.5TW/h of power, with a capacity of 153MW across the lifespan of the deal. The two wind farms the energy will be sourced from are the Fryslân offshore wind farm and the Kroningswind onshore wind...

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Read Floating data center park in Singapore to go ahead after gaining regulatory approval
Floating data center park in Singapore to go ahead after gaining regulatory approval

Floating data center park in Singapore to go ahead after gaining regulatory approval

April 18, 2023 Singapore

Keppel Data Centres has announced that its floating data center park in Singapore has received approval and will proceed. Located at the Loyang Offshore Supply Base operated by Toll Group, the facility was originally proposed back in 2019, which came after a significant investment in...

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Read Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium
Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

April 13, 2023 Google

Google has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with Luminus to source wind energy in Belgium. The 12-year deal will see the tech giant acquire 23.8MW of energy from the Belgium energy company, sourced from four new onshore wind projects. According to Google, the PPA in Belgium will keep...

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Read Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia
Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia

Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia

April 13, 2023 Northern Virginia

A first-of-its-kind combination data center and hydrogen fuel hub is on its way to Surry County, North Virginia, it has been announced. Middleburg-based Green Energy Partners LLC is leading the project, which is called the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) and comes after GEP secured 641 acres of...

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Read Scientists at NTU Singapore invent data center cooling spray
Scientists at NTU Singapore invent data center cooling spray

Scientists at NTU Singapore invent data center cooling spray

April 11, 2023 Singapore

When it comes to data center cooling, everyone's on the hunt for the latest innovative, efficient tech; and at Singapore's Nanyang Technical University (NTU), its research team is working on the latest solution. The group proposes cooling servers by spraying chips with fluid; dielectric fluid, to...

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Read 5.5 million sq ft data center park proposed in Stafford County, Virginia
5.5 million sq ft data center park proposed in Stafford County, Virginia

5.5 million sq ft data center park proposed in Stafford County, Virginia

April 11, 2023 Northern Virginia

In Stafford County, Stafford Technology LC, a company affiliated with US real estate firm Peterson, has outlined plans to develop a 5.5 million sq ft data center park. In order to accommodate the 25-building data center campus, the company is seeking to rezone 524 acres in the Falmouth Election...

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Read Norwegian Authorities Increases Its Oversight of Data Center
Norwegian Authorities Increases Its Oversight of Data Center

Norwegian Authorities Increases Its Oversight of Data Center

April 10, 2023 Norway

The Norwegian government is making preparations to strengthen national supervision over data centers through proposed rules in the country's electronic communications law. All Norwegian data center operators will be required to register and provide details of their activities under the proposed...

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Read Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit
Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

April 07, 2023 Northern Virginia

This spring and summer, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is mulling over a proposal enabling data facilities in Loudoun County to draw power more routinely from on-site disaster diesel generators. The proposal aims to alleviate pressure on the transmission system, which transports...

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Read Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia
Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia

Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia

April 06, 2023 Ashburn: Data Center Alley

Direct Line Global has announced that it has signed the lease for a 17,040-square-foot research and development space within Ashburn Crossing, an 80-acre business park in Ashburn, Virginia. Through this move, the company has tripled its presence in the area. Speaking about this expansion, Vern...

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Read AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric
AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric

AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric

April 05, 2023 Berlin

Atlas Edge has announced that it has partnered with PacketFabric, to expand cloud access across its network. The strategic partnership will see the company’s facilities connect to PacketFabric’s TruNaas Converge Platform, which will reportedly allow AtlasEdge customers to access PacketFabric’s...

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Read Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar
Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar

Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar

April 04, 2023 Google

Google has announced that it has launched a new cloud region located in Doha, Qatar, following the tech giant first announcing plans for expansion in this regard in 2020. The cloud region, the second that Google has launched this year, also launches alongside three availability zones and the...

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Read Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year
Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year

Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year

April 04, 2023 Google

Recent figures from S&P Global have revealed that the amount of renewable power purchased by data center operators has surged 50 percent in just a year. This latest figure now means that the sector utilizes two-thirds of the renewable power available to corporates in the US. The report...

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Read Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe
Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

April 03, 2023 Amsterdam

InMotion Hosting has announced the opening of its first international data center in Europe. The three-story data center is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will reportedly offer customers NVMe Hardware, 99.99% Network Uptime and Security Monitoring, refined UltraStack Server Configurations...

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Read Ammunition firm accuses TikTok data center of using too much power in Norway, preventing expansion
Ammunition firm accuses TikTok data center of using too much power in Norway, preventing expansion

Ammunition firm accuses TikTok data center of using too much power in Norway, preventing expansion

March 30, 2023 Norway

Nammo, one of the largest manufacturers of ammunition, co-owned by the Norwegian government and a Finnish state-controlled defense company, has claimed that it is being prevented from expansion, due to TikTok's data centers guzzling the electricity in the area. Elvia, the local energy company,...

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Read Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.
Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.

Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.

March 30, 2023 Northern Virginia

PowerHouse anticipates that the 265,000-square-foot building will be occupied by tenants in July, with complete construction scheduled for completion in October. Nonetheless, there is a pervasive power issue. Buddy Rizer, head of Loudoun County Economic Development, stated that each project has a...

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Read Google's new RFP system to reduce process time required for PPAs
Google's new RFP system to reduce process time required for PPAs

Google's new RFP system to reduce process time required for PPAs

March 27, 2023 Google

Google has announced the development of a new Request for Proposal (RFP) system in collaboration with LevelTen Energy which it said will reduce the time required to sign a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). This development comes from Google to simplify RFPs for PPAs which it said are "lengthy,...

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Read A New Google Cloud Platform Region Has Been Launched in Turin, Italy
A New Google Cloud Platform Region Has Been Launched in Turin, Italy

A New Google Cloud Platform Region Has Been Launched in Turin, Italy

March 24, 2023 Google

Google has introduced a new cloud region in Turin, Italy. The company did not disclose the new region's details or specs, although it did note that it has three availability zones and offers standard GCP services. After a busy 2022, it is the first new region the company has introduced in 2023....

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Read Concerns over Northern Virginia diesel generators leads to DEQ revising its relaxation of generator restrictions
Concerns over Northern Virginia diesel generators leads to DEQ revising its relaxation of generator restrictions

Concerns over Northern Virginia diesel generators leads to DEQ revising its relaxation of generator restrictions

March 22, 2023 Northern Virginia

Residents in North Virginia had recently raised their concerns about the decision made by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to permit diesel generators to power data centers in the region. The DEQ announced that it would be looking into the permittance to preserve data center...

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Read Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company
Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

March 21, 2023 London

Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The...

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