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Read Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea
Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea

Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea

August 25, 2023 South Korea

The government of South Korea is planning a 1GW data center campus in the country's southwestern region. The New Industry and Distributed Energy Division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced this week that up to 25 40MW data centers will be constructed in the Salaseido neighborhood of...

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Read PowerHouse plans Charlotte data center facility
PowerHouse plans Charlotte data center facility

PowerHouse plans Charlotte data center facility

August 24, 2023 North Carolina

PowerHouse, a company that builds data centers, plans to build a new campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to WSCOC-TV, PowerHouse intends to construct on more than 130 acres between Interstate 485 and University City Boulevard. The site, located near a Duke Energy substation, could...

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Read Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden
Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden

Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden

August 24, 2023 Sweden

Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA) has established a crypto mining data center in northern Sweden. Located near the 417 MW Porjus hydroelectric power station, the current capacity of this facility is 8MW, but expansion is planned for the future. It was previously used as a 'traditional' data...

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Read Brunswick County, North Carolina, authorizes two containerized data facilities for schools
Brunswick County, North Carolina, authorizes two containerized data facilities for schools

Brunswick County, North Carolina, authorizes two containerized data facilities for schools

August 23, 2023 North Carolina

The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners in North Carolina has approved Schneider Electric's proposal for two containerized data centers. The agreement, first proposed in March 2023, stipulates that Schneider Electric will provide two prefabricated data centers to the institutions of Brunswick...

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Read Data centers could be built on Maryland's old mall site for FBI HQ
Data centers could be built on Maryland's old mall site for FBI HQ

Data centers could be built on Maryland's old mall site for FBI HQ

August 16, 2023 Maryland

Lerner Enterprises is evaluating a former Maryland mall as a possible campus for a data center if the FBI does not relocate there. Brightseat Associates LLC, a Lerner affiliate, filed a preliminary application for a "qualified data center" with Prince George's County's land use regulatory body...

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Read Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun
Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

August 16, 2023 Northern Virginia

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...

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Read Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan
Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan

Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan

August 15, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Clean Energy Connect (CEC), a solar power company in the Itochu group for solar energy. Through the 20-year corporate PPA, CEC will invest more than 10 billion yen ($75 million) by 2024 for the development of small...

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Read Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved
Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved

Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved

August 14, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon's plans for a 7.5 million square foot data center campus have received preliminary approval from the King George County, Virginia, planning commission. Amazon will be the project's end customer, according to the Free Lance-Star. Birchwood Power Partners requested an amendment to the...

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Read Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development
Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

August 08, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an entertainment...

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Read Texas-based Valero payments data center for sale
Texas-based Valero payments data center for sale

Texas-based Valero payments data center for sale

August 03, 2023 Texas

Energy company Valero's office and data center space is up for sale in Texas. Williams & Co Real Estate has the Valero Credit Card Ops Center at 7201 Canyon Drive in Amarillo listed for sale with a Triple Net Lease (NNN) tenant. The price listed is $6,295,000. The 2003-built,...

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Read Ireland's low tax advantage boosts data center construction
Ireland's low tax advantage boosts data center construction

Ireland's low tax advantage boosts data center construction

August 02, 2023 Republic of Ireland

Despite repeated calls from different parties in Ireland to halt data center building, a recent report has shown that Ireland's low tax advantage is stimulating further growth in data center construction. According to a recent market review, Ireland's corporation tax rate, being one of the lowest...

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Read George Mason University and AWS jointly develop a data center engineering course
George Mason University and AWS jointly develop a data center engineering course

George Mason University and AWS jointly develop a data center engineering course

August 02, 2023 Amazon AWS

A data center engineering course is being created by George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The faculty of Mason's College of Engineering and Computing will offer the course, which will be titled ME/ECE 499: Data Center Engineering. It will be...

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Read AWS launches its local zone edge location in Phoenix, Arizona
AWS launches its local zone edge location in Phoenix, Arizona

AWS launches its local zone edge location in Phoenix, Arizona

August 01, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a Local Zone Edge location in Phoenix, Arizona. The general availability of a Local Zone in Phoenix was first announced back in January 2022. It was known then as us-west-2-phx-1a, which appears to have now been replaced by the new...

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Read Vodafone extends its European Edge presence to Spain using AWS
Vodafone extends its European Edge presence to Spain using AWS

Vodafone extends its European Edge presence to Spain using AWS

August 01, 2023 Amazon AWS

In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vodafone Business has implemented Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) in Spain. After launching the service in Germany and the United Kingdom two years prior, introducing the pilot service in Spain expanded its European footprint. Spain is the most...

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Read WeTransfer cut server emissions by 78 percent in 2022
WeTransfer cut server emissions by 78 percent in 2022

WeTransfer cut server emissions by 78 percent in 2022

July 31, 2023 Amazon AWS

WeTransfer has said it cut its server emissions by 78 per cent in 2022. This comes following the company's 2020 pledge to reduce its emissions by 30 percent by 2025, and its migration to AWS in 2011. The company reportedly achieved "carbon-neutral certification," after using AWS' Customer Carbon...

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Read $100 million data center plan in Columbia River Gorge 'discontinued'
$100 million data center plan in Columbia River Gorge 'discontinued'

$100 million data center plan in Columbia River Gorge 'discontinued'

July 25, 2023 Oregon

In Oregon, Cascade Locks port authority has announced the decision to discontinue Roundhouse Digital Infrastructure's $100 million data center project in the Columbia River Gorge. The startup had planned to build a 10MW data center targeting "niche government and energy industry" clients....

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Read GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative
GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

July 24, 2023 Singapore

The sovereign wealth fund GIC of Singapore is soliciting funds for a data center outside Seoul, South Korea. According to Business Korea, institutional investors, such as GIC, are working with indigenous institutional investors, securities companies, and asset management firms to build a data...

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Read Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center
Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

July 19, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon is reportedly interested in purchasing a former Ford plant near Cardiff, Wales. According to BusinessLive and WalesOnline, AWS is in talks to purchase the former Ford engine facility in Bridgend. However, it may be a distinct Amazon division that is interested in the site. According to...

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Read Ericsson sets up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy
Ericsson sets up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy

Ericsson sets up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy

July 14, 2023 Texas

Ericsson has announced that it has set up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy. Located in Plano, Texas, the site can be fully operated by solar energy and supported by integrated Lithium-ion batteries, for up to 24 hours. The Plano site includes Ericsson's Massive MIMO radio configuration,...

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Read Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment
Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

July 14, 2023 Singapore

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to be...

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