June 30, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Rocky Mountain Power has announced that it would be building a new 120MW solar farm in Iron County, Utah, for Facebook. The solar farm will power Facebook’s Eagle Mountain data center. Head of renewable energy at Facebook, Urvi Parekh, commented on the development. He said the Company is happy to...
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June 04, 2021 Google
Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP). Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...
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May 25, 2021 DataBank SLC5
DataBank has announced its recent expansion, adding a third data hall at its SLC5 data center. Based in Bluffdale, Utah, at its Granite Point North campus complex, the new addition takes its current capacity to 30,000 sq ft (2,790 sq m), with a 6MW of critical IT load. The center first opened...
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May 19, 2021 Google
Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a...
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May 18, 2021 Google
Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware...
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May 15, 2021 Google
Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to...
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March 10, 2021 Aligned: SLC-01
Aligned recently announced the completion of its second data center in the Salt Lake Metro Area, West Jordan, UT. The 48 MW (expandable to 60MW), 240,000 square-foot facility will feature Aligned’s patented cooling technology, which consumes 80% less energy and 85% less water than traditional...
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July 22, 2020 DataBank SLC5
DataBank announced it has opened SLC5 in Salt Lake City. The facility is on the Granite Point campus in Bluffdale, UT. The large campus has room for one additional building, SLC6 which is currently in the design phase. DataBank's Press Release on July 22nd 2020: DataBank Announces Opening of...
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April 15, 2020 Google
Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The...
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December 12, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center
Facebook has announced it will expand the size of a data center under construction in Eagle Mountain from 1 million square feet to 1.5 million square feet, according to a Wednesday news release from the data center.Facebook first broke ground on the campus in May 2018. To date, Facebook has...
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October 30, 2019 Aligned: SLC-01
WEST JORDAN, UT (October 30, 2019) – Aligned, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces the expansion of its Salt Lake Metro data center campus, breaking...
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May 30, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center
The 122-MW Cove Mountain 2 solar plant will support the Facebook data center through a PPA with Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp and part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy. The facility will be built near the town of Enterprise in Iron County, Utah, and is scheduled to begin operations...
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February 07, 2019 Google
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Chile in...
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July 16, 2018 Cirrus DS View 78
SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cirrus Data Services believes the Salt Lake City region can support hyperscale and wholesale data center colocation offerings and this week publicly announced the View 78 data center campus in Midvale; a suburb of Salt Lake City. The first phase includes a 32MW wholesale and...
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