October 17, 2022 Aligned
After acquiring two parcels of land in Arizona, Aligned Data Centers has announced plans for two new construction projects, mega campuses, spanning 400MW of IT load and approximately two million square feet. The facilities will reportedly prioritize sustainability, using Delta³ cooling technology...
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October 14, 2022 Amazon AWS
AWS has announced a new collaboration project with American Rock Products (ARP), a concrete company, to develop a concrete mix for data centers that is more sustainable. Labeled the most destructive material on earth, concrete is fundamentally unsustainable and a significant contributor to...
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October 14, 2022 Amazon AWS
According to a report by The Oregonian, Amazon’s data center expansion in Eastern Oregon has caused carbon emissions to soar in recent years. Oregon’s Morrow and Umatilla counties are the locations targeted by Amazon, in part due to local tax breaks, which have seen Amazon rake up tax breaks...
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October 13, 2022 Google
Per information privy to CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm, Google has leased a 43,100 square meter (464,000 square feet) data center in Noida, India from Adani. The lease is to run for ten years and it will start with an annual rate of Rs130.98 crore ($16m). The agreement has already...
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October 11, 2022 QTS Data Centers
QTS is expanding in Texas, with the addition of a new building to its Irving data center campus. The facility, namely DC5, is located at 6300 Longhorn Drive, and will see an investment of $180 million. According to the company, the facility, which will span 337,190 sq ft, is projected to be...
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October 11, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has acquired two empty parcels of land in Manassas, Virginia. The land has been zoned for data center development. Per BizJournal, an affiliate of Stack Infrastructure paid $25.4m for 30.8 acres at 9530 Hornbaker Road, Manassas, last month. The company then bought another...
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October 10, 2022 Google
Google is opening its first data center in Japan, it has announced. To be located in Inzai City, Chiba, the facility is part of the company's $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024 and is set to open by 2023. The data center, the company's third data center in Asia,...
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October 10, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has announced its plans to develop a large data center campus in Frankfurt. The company is looking to develop an 80MW facility in a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in the German city. Stack Infrastructure acquired the 17-acre parcel from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners...
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October 07, 2022 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced a partnership with Aboitiz, a local firm in the Philippines, alongside its plans to build two data centers around Manila; one near the National Capital Region of Manila and the second in the Greater Manila Area. Speaking about the partnership, Sabin Aboitiz, President,...
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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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October 04, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
In a bid to help the drastically declining bee population and push forward its ESG commitments, Stack has announced that it has deployed three beehives at its Milan campus in Italy. In its announcement on LinkedIn, the company outlined that while honeybees are responsible for 80% of the world's...
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October 04, 2022 Google
Google is reportedly close to buying a 30-hectare plot for its upcoming Berlin Google Cloud region in Germany having already signed corresponding preliminary contracts. According to reports by Maerkische Allgemeine, the site that it has chosen is in the Schenkendorf area of Mittenwalde,...
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September 30, 2022 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers is expanding its presence in Malaysia, with its second data center in Cyberjaya. The facility, a four-story data center dubbed KUL12, will provide 10MW of capacity across 194,000 square feet of space when combined with its existing KUL11. Construction on the data center began...
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September 30, 2022 NTT
NTT is building a new 30MW data center in the Kansai region of Japan, it has been announced. The facility, which is being constructed in Soraku-gun, Kyoto Prefecture, will be a four-story, seismic-isolated structure. The building will supply a total of 30 MW for IT load (starting at 6 MW and...
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September 29, 2022 Evocative
Evocative has announced that it has completed and closed the acquisition of the majority of INAP’s data center facilities. The acquisition also covers colocation and related network services. With the acquisition, the Evocative data center portfolio reaches nine. In addition, the company’s...
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September 28, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a new energy deal with Canadian energy firm Ontario Power Generation (OPG) as part of a strategic partnership targeted at tackling climate change and “driving sustainable growth” in Ontario. According to Microsoft, the giant will procure Clean Energy Credit sourced from OPG’s...
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September 28, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has reportedly filed to construct a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The application for construction on the facility outlines that it would span 565,000-square-foot (52,500 sqm) as a 13-story building at 321-337 E. 21st Street, which is opposite 350 E Cermak carrier hotel....
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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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September 23, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon has announced that it has invested in another wave of renewable energy projects, totaling 71. Altogether, these projects will take the giant total renewable energy production to 50,000GWh, the same amount required to power 4.6 million homes in the US annually. These projects include three...
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September 22, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
STACK Infrastructure has successfully connected its data center to Hafslund Oslo Celsio System in Norway for city-wide heat reuse. This is the first time a project of this kind has taken place in the country. Now, after a one-year ramp-up, STACK's OSL01 data center is now providing heat and hot...
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