August 21, 2023 DataBank
DataBank has finished seven expansion initiatives throughout the United States. Over the weekend, the company announced the conclusion of seven data center projects in Dallas, Las Vegas, San Diego, Irvine, and Kansas City, in addition to two in Atlanta. In the past year, seven facilities have...
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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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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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August 11, 2023 EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC
EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has begun construction on a new facility in Reno, Nevada. The company announced last week that it has begun construction on its first data center campus in the Reno, Nevada metropolitan area, nearly five years later than originally planned. Two data centers will be...
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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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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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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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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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August 02, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
$250 million in securitized notes have been issued as part of Stack Infrastructure's second round of structured debt financing for 2023. The funding round began a month ago with an initial goal of raising $100 million, which has since more than doubled. Since 2019, Stack has raised $2.3 billion...
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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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August 02, 2023 Aligned
Mubadala Investment Company, the sovereign investment branch of Abu Dhabi, has invested in Aligned Data Centers. Mubadala will become a minority shareholder in the U.S. company, although the scale of the investment was not disclosed. Macquarie Asset Management remains the majority shareholder of...
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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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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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August 01, 2023 QTS Data Centers
The premier property fund of Blackstone, valued at $68 billion, is selling assets and preparing to invest billions in data centers. According to the Financial Times, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, intends to invest $8 billion in the construction of new data centers through its...
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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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July 28, 2023 Microsoft Azure
This past quarter, Microsoft's capital expenditures increased to $10.7 billion as the company reported spending significantly on data centers, computing, and networking. The company announced that spending would increase each quarter throughout fiscal 2024, already higher than the $7.8bn capital...
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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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July 28, 2023 Meta
In the last quarter, Meta's capital expenditures reached $6.4 billion due to investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructure. This is a decrease from the $7.1 billion the company spent in the previous quarter, but the Facebook proprietor is now done with a data center...
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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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July 28, 2023 Microsoft Azure
KPMG plans to invest $2 billion over the next five years in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in partnership with Microsoft. The global expansion of the 'Big Four' accounting firm's relationship with Microsoft is anticipated to generate up to $12 billion in revenue over the next...
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