September 23, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon has announced that it has invested in another wave of renewable energy projects, totaling 71. Altogether, these projects will take the giant total renewable energy production to 50,000GWh, the same amount required to power 4.6 million homes in the US annually. These projects include three...
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September 23, 2022 South Korea
Bosung Group is expanding its data center footprint in SolaSeaDo, South Korea, with the addition of a new 200MW data center campus in SolaSeaDo, to the south of the country in Jeonnam Province. These expansion plans come following the company partnering up with The Green Korea (TGK), a joint...
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September 19, 2022 California
Zscaler has announced that it has achieved carbon neutral status, and said that it intends to reach net zero emissions by 2025. However, the company has not published a link to the emissions and carbon accounting data underlying this claim along with the announcement, and the data has not yet...
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September 19, 2022 Amazon AWS
AWS has announced its filing to build a new facility in DeSoto, outside Dallas, Texas. The data center will reportedly span 30,000 square foot (2,790 sq m), and work will commence early next year, with a view for completion in 2024. The facility is known as the Ezell Drive Campus and according...
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September 13, 2022 California
As heat extremes in California continue, Twitter has reportedly been left without one of its key data centers in Sacramento. First reported by CNN, an internal company memo outlined that the company experienced the loss of its Sacramento data center region on September 5th, with Carrie Fernandez,...
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September 12, 2022 Northern Virginia
Prince William County planners have recommended the approval of the PW Digital Gateway project, it has been announced. Subsequently, the controversial project is likely to go ahead. If approved, the project would see the rezoning of over 2,000 acres of land for up to 27.6 million square feet of...
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September 07, 2022 Washington
According to reports, the first commercial underwater data center off the US west coast could be operational by the end of 2022. Named the "Jules Verne Pod" and created by Subsea Cloud, the 20ft pod will reportedly have space for 16 datacenter racks, accommodate 800 servers, scalable to 100,...
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September 06, 2022 California
California temperatures have soared to a record high, placing serious pressure on the power grid, and causing state officials to urge residents to limit their power usage. According to reports, the heat wave is most seriously affecting the Central Valley, which is projected to reach 115 degrees...
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September 06, 2022 Republic of Ireland
In Ireland, the data center expansion debate is bubbling over. A contentious matter in recent years, due to energy grid and environmental concerns, many have called for a moratorium or stricter rules around expansion. There has also recently been confusion around the country's new data center...
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September 05, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of its new cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company said the cloud region’s official name is Middle East (UAE). It also noted that the API name is me-central-1. According to AWS, the zone is ready for use to store data and deploy...
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September 05, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area
JLL and CIM Group have listed a new purpose-built data center for lease. The data center is located at 400 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California. The data center offers 24MW of power across 182,250 square feet of two-story powered shell building on 7.3 acres. Per additional information in the...
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August 30, 2022 AWS US East (N. Virginia)
Amazon’s Manassas data center has come under fire over noise pollution. According to reports, activists in Prince William County, Virginia, have united to protest against the facility, citing that the “area is being overrun with data center development,” and subsequently, the constant noise is...
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August 29, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has plans to develop an 83,600 square meter (900,000 square feet) data center campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia. The company has filed to rezone over 59 acres in Nokesville Road from A-1, Agricultural to Planned Business Development. This is for the sole purpose of...
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August 19, 2022 Amazon AWS
AWS has reportedly been granted permission to build two data centers in Dublin on the site of a former Ricoh building, which was once earmarked for T5’s first European facility. This approval has gone ahead despite mounting concerns around energy availability in Dublin, environmental concerns,...
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August 19, 2022 Northern Virginia
Dominion, the primary power provider in Loudoun county, has announced that although Loudoun County's data center industry outpaces its capacity to deliver electricity, there is a way forward. In a conversation with Biz Journals, Bob Blue, Dominion's president and CEO, said that the company had...
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August 17, 2022 Dublin
A dispute has arisen between Irish Minister for Planning Peter Burke and South Dublin County Councillors over its ban on new data centers in the county. Burke had claimed last month that the county’s decision to make data centers “not permitted” use in the new county development plan breached...
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August 15, 2022 Republic of Ireland
Environmental group Futureproof Clare is opposing the approval of a €450 million ($464.3m) data center project in Ennis, in the West of Ireland, over concerns around public health, and a projected use of "inordinate amounts of water and electricity." The facility, an Art Data Centres project, was...
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August 11, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, have all made big claims regarding sustainability and social responsibility, however, recently, the three giants have been embroiled in a c ontroversy relating to buying so-called "blood gold." According to reports, the three, alongside Apple, bought gold from an...
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August 11, 2022 Amazon AWS
Despite Amazon's lofty promises of securing carbon neutral status before 2040, the latest statistics from its sustainability report, reveal that the giant's carbon emissions actually increased by 18%, from 60.64 million metric tons to 71.54 million metric tons, the equivalent of 19 coal-fired...
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August 04, 2022 Northern Virginia
The ever-expanding data center hub in Prince William County is to see another addition, after Prince William County Officials voted 6-1 to grant a rezoning request for a planned four million sqft data center campus in Bristow. The data center developer is Stanley Martin, which, according to...
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