April 25, 2023 EdgeConneX
The construction of a new facility in Rishon will allow EdgeConneX, an innovator in global Hyperlocal to Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, to increase its data center impact in Israel. The new data center will meet the region's growing demand from hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and...
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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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April 14, 2023 Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain will procure solar energy for its Dutch campus following the signing of a PPA with local energy company Sunrock, the largest developer of rooftop solar deployments in the Netherlands. Through the deal, the data center company will source energy from a 4MW solar system, which has...
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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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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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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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March 29, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced that it has successfully executed $3.3 billion in “innovative” sustainability-linked financing, which it said will enable the development of critical digital infrastructure to support customers' global data center requirements. For this, JGlobal awarded the company with...
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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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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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March 23, 2023 Meta
Meta has announced that it has signed a new PPA for solar energy. The PPA, with Avangrid, will see the giant source 240MW of energy from the True North solar farm which is currently under development in Falls County, Texas, the former's first in the state. The solar farm is set to launch in early...
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March 15, 2023 Meta
After letting go of around 11,000 workers in the latter part of last year, Meta aims to let go of about 10,000 individuals. As part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 'Year of Efficiency' appeal to investors to improve a falling share price, the corporation will also eliminate 5,000 unfilled positions....
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March 13, 2023 Meta
Meta's job cuts continue, with the announcement last week that the giant is driving forward with its so-called "year of efficiency." CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced massive cuts back in November; now, thousands more are set to be laid off. According to experts, while the first cuts were a...
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February 24, 2023 QTS Data Centers
Following speculation that QTS Realty Trust Inc. was the company seeking new development within Rocky Branch Creek Technology Park, and later confirmation, it looks like the company's Northland data center plans have now fallen through. The company was reportedly set to acquire the property...
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February 24, 2023 Meta
Meta has sold a property in Mesa, Arizona, to the developer of data centers, EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, for $1.2 million. The lot, situated at 3856 S. Everton Terrace and comprising approximately 15 acres of land, has been acquired by EdgeCore as part of its substantial investment in the...
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February 15, 2023 Google
Following the successful introduction of Arm server processors by Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud is preparing two Arm CPUs for its cloud service. Before launching the cloud service in 2025, the firm made a significant stride and will put them into trial operation this year. The cloud servers...
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February 14, 2023 Google
Uber Technologies wants to close its data center facilities after signing two significant cloud contracts. In two seven-year contracts, it will migrate over 95% of its IT to Google Cloud and Oracle from its own data centers. After 11 months of analysis, the taxi and delivery startup opted to use...
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February 13, 2023 Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain has announced that, through a partnership with RPD Energy, it has made a "landmark series of transactions" meaning that the company will obtain 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement. The US renewable provider RPD Energy will be the lead architect of renewable energy...
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February 09, 2023 QTS Data Centers
QTS may use a Diode Ventures data center in Kansas City, Missouri. In October, Diode signed two non-exclusive fiber easement with QTS Realty Trust Inc. to develop and maintain data transmission infrastructure at the site northeast of I-435 and Highway 169, according to BizJournal. Last year,...
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February 09, 2023 Google
Late on Wednesday, there was a Twitter outage that prevented users from Tweeting, following accounts, or sending direct messages. A notification stating that the "daily limit of tweets has been reached" was displayed to certain users. Elon Musk, the CEO and new owner, advised workers in an email...
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February 08, 2023 Meta
In a cost-cutting effort, Meta claims to have rebuilt its data centers to be less expensive and quicker to build. Meta canceled or paused data centers worldwide and redesigned them for additional artificial intelligence demands late last year. Facebook's Danish data center development and Texas,...
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