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Apr 27, 2023 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Republic of Ireland
According to a report, nearly a dozen data centers in Dublin have secured permission to get hooked up to the Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) pipeline in the wake of grid restrictions in Ireland and de facto moratorium put in place by EirGrid. In total, eleven data centers will be connected to the g...
Nov 28, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Republic of Ireland
The appeal against the Ennis Data Centre is reportedly moving to the next stage, according to a report by local newspaper, the Clare Herald. A response from the developer has been passed on from An Bord Pleanála, Ireland's national independent planning body, to the appellants, which include th...
Nov 21, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Denmark
As part of the EU's Fit for 55 legislative package, it is pushing for data centers to be connected to surrounding district heating networks to use surplus heat. A new report from the Cool-Data project has comprehensively reviewed the rules and incentives around waste-heat recovery by data cent...
Nov 09, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Apple
Tech giants like Apple have made big pledges when it comes to going green and introducing net-zero and water-positive targets. However, when it comes to their wider supply chains, it turns out they're not so green. According to a recent report from Greenpeace, on average, 77% of technology man...
Oct 25, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Republic of Ireland
According to RTE reports, the Irish government is trying to phase out data centers that are powered exclusively by natural gas, by closing a loophole. Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan, as per a letter, released to RTÉ News under Freedom of Information, instructed Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) that...
The campus is 183-acres has a 505,000 sqft facility as well as a smaller 21,000 sqft "tactical data center.
The site was a former a sapphire-glass factory that supplied glass to Apple. The glass maker filed for bankruptcy and vacated the building in 2014. Now the 1.3 million square foot building is one of Apple’s data centers
The data center will be located next to one of Denmark’s largest electrical substations, which Apple said will help it eliminate the need for additional generators. The facility is designed to capture excess heat from equipment inside and conduct it into the district heating system to help warm homes in the neighboring community.
In 2017, Apple announced plans to expand the campus by an additional $1 billion. The expansion would add "8 clusters" of buildings with the total square footage of 372,893.
Apple initially started in 2012 with 160 acres in Prineville to build a 338,000 square foot data center. At the time the facility planned to draw 20 Megawatts. Now the campus is set to grow to 3.2 million square feet.
The 400,000 sqft data center will not be complete until 2020. Apple plans to build two "state-of-the-art" data centers on a 2,000-acre portion of a 3,500-acre site Waukee annexed in June
As of April 2019, work on the data center has reportedly been stopped.
Apple's first data center in Asia was built in the Hong Kong territory near the Shenzhen border. Construction started in 2013 and was finished in 2015.
