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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 Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment
Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

August 03, 2023 Lumen Technologies

In the second quarter, Lumen Technologies reported a loss of $8.74 billion, a significant decrease from the $344 million profit in the same quarter last year. The company, formerly CenturyLink Enterprise, has lost more than 66 percent of its value this year, reducing its market capitalization to...

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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 Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center
Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

July 19, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon is reportedly interested in purchasing a former Ford plant near Cardiff, Wales. According to BusinessLive and WalesOnline, AWS is in talks to purchase the former Ford engine facility in Bridgend. However, it may be a distinct Amazon division that is interested in the site. According to...

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Read Equinix to connect to new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany
Equinix to connect to new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany

Equinix to connect to new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany

July 17, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that, through a partnership with a number of different companies, it will connect to a new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany. In collaboration with Vonovia, AS Enterprise, and EB-SIM, the group aims to build a heating network for the bizonal residential area in...

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Read Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment
Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

July 14, 2023 Equinix

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to be...

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Read Flexential to expand Georgia and Oregon data center campuses
Flexential to expand Georgia and Oregon data center campuses

Flexential to expand Georgia and Oregon data center campuses

July 11, 2023 Flexential

A second building is anticipated at its new campus in Atlanta, and a fifth building will be constructed in Hillsboro, according to Flexential's announcement of new data center developments in Georgia and Oregon. This week, the company revealed the construction of a 36MW phased development on its...

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Read Amazon purchases 25 acres for a data center in Chantilly, Virginia
Amazon purchases 25 acres for a data center in Chantilly, Virginia

Amazon purchases 25 acres for a data center in Chantilly, Virginia

July 10, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon has purchased a 25-acre parcel of land in Fairfax County, Virginia, close to several of the company's current and planned data centers. BisNow reports that Amazon Data Services Inc. recently paid $34.44 million to acquire a 24.6-acre property at 44150 Wade Drive in Chantilly from Firefox...

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Read Wells Fargo relocates, exiting office and data center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wells Fargo relocates, exiting office and data center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wells Fargo relocates, exiting office and data center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

July 07, 2023 Philadelphia

Wells Fargo has announced that it is exiting its lease at the Philadelphia Plaza building at 101 N. Independence Mall, leaving its office and data center and relocating to offices in Two Logan Square and Commerce Square.According to the company, no layoffs are set to take place, and there will be...

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Read H5 Data Centers to expand its Phoenix data center
H5 Data Centers to expand its Phoenix data center

H5 Data Centers to expand its Phoenix data center

July 04, 2023 H5 Data Centers

H5 Data Centers has announced a 30,000 sqft expansion of its Phoenix colocation facility. Located at 2600 W. Germann Road in Chandler, AZ, this expansion is part of the company's third phase of development at the 180,000-square-foot data center. Further to this square-footage expansion, phase...

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Read Hyperscale data center from Equinix opens in Japan's capital
Hyperscale data center from Equinix opens in Japan's capital

Hyperscale data center from Equinix opens in Japan's capital

July 04, 2023 Equinix

This week, the company revealed the opening of TY13x. Situated in the Inzai region and opposite TY12x, TY13x provides 8MW in the first phase and 36MW when fully constructed. In October 2019, Equinix partnered with Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund to develop hyperscale centers under the...

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Read TierPoint aims to raise $925 million through securitized loans
TierPoint aims to raise $925 million through securitized loans

TierPoint aims to raise $925 million through securitized loans

June 29, 2023 TierPoint

TierPoint seeks to raise $925 million by selling A-rated data center revenue notes from Kroll Bond Rating Agency. The exchange is TierPoint's first and is backed by 31 colocation data centers with approximately $397.2 million in annualized monthly frequent revenue and $198.3 million in yearly...

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Read AWS planning new data center under name 'Project Echidna,' in West Sydney, Australia
AWS  planning new data center under name 'Project Echidna,' in West Sydney, Australia

AWS planning new data center under name 'Project Echidna,' in West Sydney, Australia

June 27, 2023 Amazon AWS

AWS is planning a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Located in west Sydney, under the program name Project Echidna, the facility will see an investment of AU$300 million (US$200m). Built across two stories, the facility will offer 35.2MW of capacity on 9,225 sqm (99,300 sq ft), and is located...

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Read Amazon will allocate $7.8 billion to construct more central Ohio facilities
Amazon will allocate $7.8 billion to construct more central Ohio facilities

Amazon will allocate $7.8 billion to construct more central Ohio facilities

June 27, 2023 Amazon AWS

According to a news release from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Amazon intends to invest approximately $8 billion over six years in growing its data center business in central Ohio. Per a press release on Monday, the $7.8 billion initiative marks the second-largest private sector investment in Ohio's...

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Read Old Mutual announces closure of data centers and migrates to AWS
Old Mutual announces closure of data centers and migrates to AWS

Old Mutual announces closure of data centers and migrates to AWS

June 22, 2023 Amazon AWS

Old Mutual Limited has announced that it has closed all of its on-premise data centers and moved its entire IT infrastructure to AWS. The company shared that through this move, it has been able to reduce downtime by 50 per cent. According to Old Mutual, which has been a customer of AWS since...

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Read Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million
Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

June 22, 2023 Equinix

Invesco has purchased a data center in San Jose, California, run by Equinix. Mercury News reports that the Sobrato Organization recently sold 1735 Lundy Avenue in San Jose to Invesco Real Estate for $86.3 million, citing documents from Santa Clara County. The single-story building encompasses...

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