October 18, 2023 California
A recent filing with the California Employment Development Department has revealed that Chip designer Qualcomm intends to cut its workforce significantly. The filing noted that Qualcomm is cutting 1,258 jobs in San Diego and Santa Clara, California, to reduce costs. The job cuts are to begin by...
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October 12, 2023 Indiana
An unnamed Fortune 100 company is planning a new 772-acre data center campus between Fort Wayne and New Haven to the east in Allen County. The application for this project, dubbed ‘Project Zodiac,” is for a new facility bound by East Tillman Road, Adams Center Road, and railroad tracks. Wane.com...
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October 11, 2023 Singapore
Singaporean large language model provider 6Estates recently launched an Nvidia DGX BasePOD based on Nvidia GCX H100 systems to develop its AI offerings. The company will use this BasePOD for its "Model Solutions" offering, which provides users with personalized large language models. The cluster...
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October 09, 2023 Texas
Smith County, Texas is giving its data center at 200 E. Ferguson Street, Texas, the Smith County Annex a $2 million upgrade. This upgrade scheduled to begin on November 1, 2023, is expected to be completed by December 20, 2024. The mission for this upgrade is focused on enhancing the IT...
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October 06, 2023 South Korea
South Korean firm Solis-IDC recently announced plans to construct a cutting-edge data center in India. Global Forum for Policy and Strategy (GFPS) will facilitate negotiations and representation on behalf of Solis in the Indian market as it looks to invest $2 billion in the country. The company...
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October 04, 2023 Maryland
A leading quantum computing firm, IonQ has announced plans for two rack-mounted solutions that introduce quantum capabilities to existing infrastructures: IonQ Forte Enterprise and IonQ Tempo. These solutions are mainly to help businesses leverage the power of quantum directly from their own data...
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October 03, 2023 South Korea
South Korean internet company Kakao has revealed that its first in-house data center, Kakao Data Center Ansan, is now completed and is ready for full-scale operation in the first quarter of 2024. The center partially opened in 2021 but officially completed construction on September 26, 2023. In a...
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October 03, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has begun plotting for four new data centers in Mesa, Arizona, on land already owned by the company, as it looks to increase its footprints in the East Valley. The company has filed pre-submittal documents with Mesa's planning office for two data centers about four miles apart...
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October 02, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon will invest $4 billion in AI startup Antropic, becoming its primary cloud provider. This announcement comes after the giant tech companies worldwide raced to benefit from the breakthroughs Antropic could have on their businesses. Antropic, considered one of the world’s most promising AI...
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October 02, 2023 North Carolina
After receiving additional government funding, North Carolina's Washington-Warren Airport is on track to get a new data center campus. This airport in Washington City will get $13.5 million in funding from the state budget. The government funds will be utilized to develop "key infrastructure,"...
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September 30, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has filed with the US Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District to develop a seven-building data center campus in Virginia’s Louisa County. In this filing, REB Investment Company LLC and Amazon Data Services seek permission to establish a new data center campus on 153 acres on...
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September 29, 2023 AWS US East (Ohio)
Amazon Web Services plans to invest $3.5 billion in New Albany by 2020 to expand its footprint around Columbus, Ohio. The New Albany City Council announced it had approved a resolution enabling AWS to proceed with its expansion investment plan. This is only part of Amazon's $7.5 billion...
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September 14, 2023 Amazon AWS
More proposals for data centers are on the way to Stafford, Virginia's Stafford County. Amazon has applied to a two-building facility in the county, while an unnamed developer plans a three-building site nearby. Amazon Data Services has applied for approval to construct the Potomac Church Tech...
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September 12, 2023 Oregon
Land 11 miles southwest of Boardman in Oregon's Morrow County has been zoned from agricultural to industrial, and the board of commissioners has given authorization. The change in zoning will permit the construction of data centers on the site. There are proposals to construct a 50MW solar farm...
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September 11, 2023 Sweden
Karnfull Next, a Swedish nuclear corporation, has announced plans for a campus of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Swedish coast that will power data centers. The company intends to construct the facility in Nykoping, on the Swedish east coast, where the nuclear software company Studsvik...
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September 11, 2023 Amazon AWS
The King George County Board of Supervisors authorized Amazon Web Service's (AWS) 19-building data center campus's 869-acre rezone from agriculture to industrial use. Birchwood Power Partners applied for rezoning for AWS. AWS has received this first approval, but Birchwood's attorney, Charlie...
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September 07, 2023 Republic of Ireland
Operations have begun at TikTok's long-planned data center in Ireland, it has announced. This is its first in Ireland. It is also working on opening two more data centers in Europe, a second in Ireland and another in Norway. This move is a bid to please regulators, and ease spying fears, as part...
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September 07, 2023 Maryland
The Frederick County Government office building in Maryland, which includes a data center, is still under construction. The Prospect Center on Himes Avenue in Frederick will be converted as part of this undertaking. The county paid $20 million for the building in 2021, and it will house multiple...
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September 05, 2023 Republic of Ireland
Google has announced that it has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland. The 14-year agreement is with Power Capital Renewable Energy for 58MW of new-to-the grid capacity from the Tullabeg Solar Farm in County Wexford.The solar project, currently under construction, spans 246...
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August 31, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to expand to the Virginia county of Louisa. Last week, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $11 billion by 2040 to build two data center campuses in Louisa's Technology Overlay District (TOD). The county...
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