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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 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 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 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 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 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 Digital Realty sells TPG Real Estate 80% of Northern Virginia data centers stake for $1.3bn
Digital Realty sells TPG Real Estate 80% of Northern Virginia data centers stake for $1.3bn

Digital Realty sells TPG Real Estate 80% of Northern Virginia data centers stake for $1.3bn

July 28, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

TPG Real Estate now owns 80% of three Digital Realty data centers in the US state of Virginia's Northern Virginia. Digital will continue to oversee the daily operations of the joint venture's facilities. The data center business aims to utilize the $1.3 billion in proceeds from the transaction to...

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