February 18, 2022 Amazon AWS
According to BizJournal, Amazon Data Services has completed the acquisition of office buildings in Sterling, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia. The buildings are located in the Loudoun Tech Center business park. The selling company is an affiliate of St. John Properties. In addition, the...
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February 16, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has completed the sale of two plots of land in Prince William County, Virginia, to Stack Infrastructures. Interestingly, it also bought two parcels of land in Loudoun County, Virginia, from Stack Infrastructure’s owner, IPI Partners. According to BizJournal, AWS sold two plots...
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February 11, 2022 Amazon AWS
AWS plans for Frederick County in Maryland have fallen through; it has been reported. This announcement came after Amazon and the county government was unable to reach an agreement on the project’s timeline. Initial plans outlined that data centers would go to three communities in the south,...
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February 11, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has revealed that it has over 26 million square feet (2,415,500 square meters) under its control. The company announced this through its latest 10-K filing. The filing further showed that the company owns 11.9 million square feet (1,105,500 square meters) and leases 14.1...
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February 10, 2022 Amazon AWS
According to Good Jobs First, Amazon has received at least $4.7 billion in federal and state subsidies over the past decade around the world. The subsidies support the development of warehouses, call centers, data centers, offices, and film production projects. The watchdog group compiled data...
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February 03, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon’s data center unit, Amazon Data Services Inc, may be looking to expand its data center footprint in Loudoun County following the purchase of three buildings in Sterling, Virginia. The office buildings are located at 46000, 46010 and 46020 Manekin Plaza, and the deal closed for a total of...
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February 03, 2022 Equinix
Equinix recently opened its Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) based near Washington, DC, which will be home to a number of trials focusing on the development of sustainable data center tech. At the facility, the company will partner with Bloom Energy, ZutaCore, Virtual Power Systems (VPS), and Natron...
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January 31, 2022 Ascenty
Ascenty has broken ground on its fourth data center in the Sao Paulo region of Brazil. The new data center will have 7,000 square meters of space while also offering 9MW of capacity. Ascenty says it will be investing up to R$220 million (US40.9m) in developing the facility. The data center is...
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January 27, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is making strategic partnerships as it announced that it had formed another joint venture with GIC. The data center company and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund aim to develop hyperscale facilities in South Korea. The companies announced the $525 million joint venture details earlier...
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January 27, 2022 CloudHQ
Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced that it sold a data center in Manassas, Virginia, for $222.5 million. The buying firm is CloudHQ’s investment arm. COPT revealed that it sold the DC-6 facility to Cloud Capital, CloudHQ’s affiliate company. The data center is a two-story...
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January 25, 2022 Amazon AWS
Plans for another Amazon Web Services data center in Dublin, Ireland, are at risk of being stopped by the local council. The council asked AWS for proof that another data center would not over-saturate the area. AWS plans to build some facilities in north Dublin near its existing data center...
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January 14, 2022 Amazon AWS
Ever-growing and expanding its reach, AWS has announced that local zones are now available in Atlanta, Phoenix, and Seattle. This expansion means that the giant now has 17 Edge locations in 16 US metros. Its zones now include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Las...
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January 13, 2022 CloudHQ
According to DgtlInfra, a firm with links to CloudHQ wants to develop a 4 million square feet data center on a 97-acre site in Virginia. The Loudoun County Planning & Zoning commission is looking to increase the approved data center use on the Dulles Berry project site in Ashburn to 4,050,000...
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January 12, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has signed a green energy deal it has announced. By penning a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Neoen and Prokon, Equinix will be provided with 85% of the energy produced by the 35MW Björkliden wind farm in the municipality of Närpes, in the western region of Ostrobothnia. This...
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January 11, 2022 Amazon AWS
Reports are circulating about Amazon's recent purchase of a 9-acre development site on Hampton Road south of Interstate 20 in DeSoto, southern Dallas County. This latest land acquisition has got people talking about whether the giant is planning another data center, considering its recent and...
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January 07, 2022 Amazon AWS
Leeward Renewable Energy LLC has announced that it has completed the repowering of its 54.4-MW Crescent Ridge wind farm in Illinois, which will provide Amazon with renewable energy. This process involved decommissioning nine turbines, installing Vestas turbines, and replacing 24 legacy turbines....
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January 05, 2022 Amazon AWS
Further to AWS announcing that it is establishing its AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, reports are now circulating that the giant will be investing an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in Indonesia across the 15 years through the region.According to reports, this investment will cover...
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December 24, 2021 Scala Data Centers
Scala Data Centers has broken ground on two new hyperscale facilities in Brazil. Scala DC was formed in 2020 by DigitalBridge for the sole purpose of developing hyperscale data centers in South America. Scala Data Centers will be developing the SP4 and SP5 hyperscale facilities in Barueri, Sao...
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December 16, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has formed a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq, Inc, which will help the company scale its NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This will also support the build-out of Nasdaq's cloud infrastructure. Tal Cohen, Executive Vice President, Head of North American Markets at Nasdaq, said...
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December 15, 2021 Ascenty Rio de Janeiro
Ascenty has announced the opening of two new data centers in Hortolândia and Janeiro, Brazil. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty jointly own the data center firm. Ascenty opened its second data center at its RIO campus with 3MW of power and 3,000 square meters (32,300 square...
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