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Wiz announces opening of Montreal data center

Wiz has announced the launch of its new cloud data center in Montreal, Canada. The facility is to provide local and multinational organizations with faster, and more secure cloud security infrastructure and is also pegged to provide greater data sovereignty, while maintaining privacy requireme...

May 02, 2023

Montreal

Data center proposal for SDC Piperstown in Dublin, Ireland, pulled

The Dublin, Ireland, two-story data center developing application has been retracted. SDC Piperstown II Ltd submitted a request to Fingal County Council on January 17, 2023, for permission to build a data center on a 20-acre site in Piperstown, Dublin. But this has since been dropped, for no ...

April 30, 2023

Dublin

NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

After a ransomware assault caused a data center outage that disrupted its Aloha cloud-based services and Counterpoint apps, NCR is making progress toward restoring services. For the subset of CMC customers who were impacted by the incident, online ordering has resumed and NCR's Command Center...

April 28, 2023

Atlanta

Tech giants secure gas hook ups for 11 new data center generators in 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...

April 27, 2023

Republic of Ireland

A $2.24m North Carolina Data Facility Becomes an Eatery And Grocery Store

Advanced Internet Technologies (AIT) sold its Fayetteville, North Carolina base and data center, with plans to convert the majority of the space.The 93,000 square foot data center was wholly controlled and run by hosting and service provider AIT since 2004, but was sold to AIT's subsidiary Ace...

April 27, 2023

North Carolina

Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

The debate surrounding the construction of a massive data center facility in Prince William County persists. Tuesday evening, residents planned to hold a protest against the Prince William Digital Gateway prior to a developer-hosted open house. Maureen Umeh of FOX 5 reports that the controvers...

April 25, 2023

Northern Virginia

Floating data center park in Singapore to go ahead after gaining regulatory approval

Keppel Data Centres has announced that its floating data center park in Singapore has received approval and will proceed. Located at the Loyang Offshore Supply Base operated by Toll Group, the facility was originally proposed back in 2019, which came after a significant investment in Californi...

April 18, 2023

Singapore

Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in the construction of data centers, according to a report by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. At the end of last year, 17 new data centers were either under construction or in development, with a total planned area of 4.7 million square...

April 18, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

StratCap Expands Data Center Portfolio with Acquisition of Two US Facilities

StratCap, a privately held investment firm, has acquired two data centers in the United States. The data centers, located in California and Missouri, were purchased for an undisclosed amount. StratCap acquired in Santa Clara, California, a purpose-built data center that is 100 percent leased t...

April 18, 2023

California

AWS and Element Six Develop Synthetic Diamonds for Quantum Networks

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Networking has partnered with Element Six, a De Beers Group division, to create synthetic diamonds that can act as nodes in quantum networks. This collaboration aims to use diamond memory nodes to enable quantum communication to travel long distance...

April 14, 2023

Amazon AWS

Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia

A first-of-its-kind combination data center and hydrogen fuel hub is on its way to Surry County, North Virginia, it has been announced. Middleburg-based Green Energy Partners LLC is leading the project, which is called the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) and comes after GEP secured 641 acres ...

April 13, 2023

Northern Virginia

Scientists at NTU Singapore invent data center cooling spray

When it comes to data center cooling, everyone's on the hunt for the latest innovative, efficient tech; and at Singapore's Nanyang Technical University (NTU), its research team is working on the latest solution. The group proposes cooling servers by spraying chips with fluid; dielectric fluid,...

April 11, 2023

Singapore

5.5 million sq ft data center park proposed in Stafford County, Virginia

In Stafford County, Stafford Technology LC, a company affiliated with US real estate firm Peterson, has outlined plans to develop a 5.5 million sq ft data center park. In order to accommodate the 25-building data center campus, the company is seeking to rezone 524 acres in the Falmouth Electio...

April 11, 2023

Northern Virginia

Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying

House Bill 2816, which sought to impose greenhouse gas emissions standards to encourage data centers to cut their carbon emissions in Oregon, died in legislative committee this week. Amazon, which aggressively lobbied against the bill, has been cited as one of the major reasons for its defeat....

April 07, 2023

Amazon AWS

AWS inks another PPA in Spain with Grenergy Renovables SA

Amazon has signed another Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), this time with Grenergy Renovables SA, to procure solar energy in Spain. The 10-year deal will provide AWS with 469 MWp of solar energy. Grenergy Renovables is an independent power producer (IPP) involved in large-scale renewable energ...

April 07, 2023

Amazon AWS

Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

This spring and summer, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is mulling over a proposal enabling data facilities in Loudoun County to draw power more routinely from on-site disaster diesel generators. The proposal aims to alleviate pressure on the transmission system, which transpo...

April 07, 2023

Northern Virginia

AWS to offtake from Mercury's Turitea wind farm to power new Auckland region

Amazon has announced that it has inked a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in New Zealand Mercury to procure wind energy. The giant will procure around half the output from the local energy company's 103MW Turitea South onshore wind farm; which is more than is required to fuel Amazon Web Ser...

April 06, 2023

Amazon AWS

Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

With the construction of its dark fiber network, Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is enhancing connection options for the San Francisco Bay Area's densely populated area of data centers. Critical fiber infrastructure is now available from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

April 06, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

Lawsuit filed against Amazon data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia

As Amazon continues its seemingly unstoppable global expansionm, in Warrenton, North Virginia, home to the biggest data center hub in the world, environmentalists and local residents have launched a lawsuit to try and stop the behemoth's growth in the region. The environmental nonprofit Citize...

April 05, 2023

Amazon AWS

Wesfarmers OneDigital Enters a Five-Year Contract With AWS

OneDigital, a division of the Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers, has inked a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to be its principal cloud provider. Amazon will also equip the Australian business with an AWS Skills Guild to educate and certify 500 workers. Wesfarmers, one of th...

April 05, 2023

Amazon AWS

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