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Read Google lays off 6% of its workforce
Google lays off 6% of its workforce

Google lays off 6% of its workforce

January 25, 2023 Google

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has announced that it is making further cuts to its staff, and is set to lose around 6% of its global workforce. The giant's reasoning for the significant downsizing is similar to the reasons cited by other tech firms that have cut back on staff in recent...

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Read Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center
Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center

Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center

January 04, 2023 Google

Google is reportedly looking to expand its data center site development in Omaha, Nebraska after it first announced and filed to build a data center near State Street and Blair High Road to the northwest of the city in April. Now, according to reports, the giant has applied to rezone an...

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Read Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project
Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project

Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project

December 29, 2022 Google

Google has announced that it has canceled its $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota, after calling off its electric service agreement. First announced back in 2019, and based near the Sherco power plant, Google dragged its feet on the development for quite some time, and although it...

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Read Luxembourg's Ministry of Environment and Google's delayed data center
Luxembourg's Ministry of Environment and Google's delayed data center

Luxembourg's Ministry of Environment and Google's delayed data center

December 14, 2022 Google

Google's Bissen data center project has gone quiet, according to Luxembourg's government, which says that it currently has no contact with the giant. The Ministry of Environment had requested a report on the environmental impact of the project, however Google also hasn't applied for a building...

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Read Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW
Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW

Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW

December 02, 2022 Google

ENGIE and Google are teaming up following the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA). The 12-year 100 MW PPA will see ENGIE deliver more than 5 TWh of green energy to Google from the Moray West project. The project is an offshore wind farm of nearly 900 MW, which is scheduled to be...

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Read Google signs major solar PPA in Spain
Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

December 01, 2022 Google

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year PPA with German energy infrastructure developer ib vogt to procure solar energy in the province of Zamora in Spain. ib vogt began work on the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in September, which is expected to commence commercial operations in...

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Read Google signs new PPA with SB Energy
Google signs new PPA with SB Energy

Google signs new PPA with SB Energy

November 07, 2022 Google

This week, Google signed a 942 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with SB Energy to procure solar energy in Texas. The giant is set to purchase 75% of the renewable energy produced by four of the solar projects under development; the Orion 1-3 and Eiffel solar projects total 1.2GW and are...

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Read Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development
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Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development

November 02, 2022 Madrid

Thor Equities has announced the acquisition of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Madrid, Spain. The site is planned for a data center campus development. Swiss real estate investment company Stoneweg completed the sale on behalf of the Icona Capital Group to Thor. None of the companies...

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Read Google Buys 36 Hectares in Belgium For Possible Data Center Development
Google Buys 36 Hectares in Belgium For Possible Data Center Development

Google Buys 36 Hectares in Belgium For Possible Data Center Development

October 27, 2022 Google

Search engine and cloud Giant Google has acquired a 36-hectare plot outside Brussels, Belgium. According to a report, the land will likely be used for data center development. The terms of the acquisition were not revealed. The land is located in the Feluy Industrial Estate, 40KM south of...

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Read Google is Leasing a 464,000 Square Feet Data Center in Noida, India
Google is Leasing a 464,000 Square Feet Data Center in Noida, India

Google is Leasing a 464,000 Square Feet Data Center in Noida, India

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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Read Google to open its first data center in Japan
Google to open its first data center in Japan

Google to open its first data center in Japan

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. Google The data center, the company's third data center in...

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Read Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region
Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region

Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region

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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Read Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center
Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center

Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center

September 01, 2022 Google

Google has announced that its land in Bissen, Luxemburg, has finally been reclassified for data center use. The company confirmed that construction can now begin on the land, which is planned for a €1 billion ($1bn) data center. Once completed, this will be one of the most significant...

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Read Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore
Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore

Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore

August 29, 2022 Google

Search engineer giant Google has announced opening of a new data center in Singapore. The company said in a statement: "We announced our first data center in Singapore in 2011, our second in 2015, and we recently hit another important milestone - with our third data center facility completed and...

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Read Google To Launch Cloud Regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia
Google To Launch Cloud Regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia

Google To Launch Cloud Regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia

August 17, 2022 Google

Google has announced its plans to launch three Cloud regions in the APAC region. The company plans to launch these regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia. Although its competitors like Microsoft Azure and AWS already have projects in the works in Malaysia and New Zealand, it is the first...

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Read Google experiences widespread outage
Google experiences widespread outage

Google experiences widespread outage

August 10, 2022 Google

This week, Google was down after experiencing an outage that impacted systems worldwide. As reported by DCD, this outage occurred shortly after an explosion at Google’s data center in Iowa - however, currently, it is unknown whether the two are related. According to Down Detector, the outage...

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Read Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus
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Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus

July 25, 2022 Madrid

According to Cinco Dias, Spanish data center developer Xdata is looking to offload a stake in its company to help fund its 100MW Madrid data center campus development. The company has reportedly contacted CBRE and Morgan Stanley to seek an investor. Stoneshield established XData Properties in...

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Read UK data center operators battle the heat with hosepipes, while Google and Oracle face service disruption
UK data center operators battle the heat with hosepipes, while Google and Oracle face service disruption

UK data center operators battle the heat with hosepipes, while Google and Oracle face service disruption

July 20, 2022 Google

The UK’s heatwave pushed temperatures to a record-breaking 40C this week, causing transport delays and service disruptions. To battle the heat, some data center operators have been using hose pipes to cool their facilities. According to a report by Bloomberg, staff in London have been spraying...

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Read SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain
SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

July 18, 2022 Madrid

Web hosting service, SiteGround, has announced that it has opened a new data center in Madrid, Spain, the seventh SiteGround data center to open around the world and the fourth in Europe. In addition to the new facility, the company also announced the expansion of its content delivery network in...

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Read Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software
Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software

Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software

July 08, 2022 Google

Tech giants, Google and Microsoft, have announced that they've invested in the carbon accounting startup FlexiDAO, which has now raised €6.1 million for its service that monitors the renewable energy that companies buy and the associated carbon emissions hour-by-hour and 24/7. While both Google...

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