August 04, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Data Services is leasing 5.5 acres of land from Larsen & Toubro Ltd outside Mumbai. The lease is to run for 21 years and 6 months. According to Propstack, the property documents show that Amazon is looking to develop a data center on the leased land. Amazon will be paying $451,532 per...
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August 01, 2022 Northern Virginia
Dominion Energy, a Northern American utility company, has warned that it may be unable to serve new data center projects in Ashburn, Northern Virginia. According to reports, this could mean that projects, which have seen tens of millions of dollars worth of investment, are stalled and potentially...
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August 01, 2022 Amazon AWS
The Hilliard planning and zoning commission has approved Amazon Web Services’ proposal to develop a third data center campus in the city. The commission voted 4-3 to approve the proposal. The Board of Zoning Appeals also approved AWS’ request to increase the maximum building height to 63 feet...
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July 29, 2022 Northern Virginia
Prince William County officials have begun to delve into the PW Digital Gateway data center proposal in its first public review. Since it was first proposed, the project has been controversial. Proponents argue that the project will bring significant financial gains for the area, while opponents...
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July 28, 2022 Amazon AWS
AWS has announced its plans to expand its footprint in Latin America with the development of a new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. Alongside this announcement, the company also explained that it had begun the process required to obtain an environmental permit for a $205 million data center in...
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July 28, 2022 Northern Virginia
American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that it has launched a new data center division named PowerHouse Data Centers, with Luke Kipfer as Vice President of Data Center Development and Construction and Jarrett Appleby as Data Center Strategy Consultant and Senior Advisor. According to...
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July 26, 2022 Republic of Ireland
According to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, despite EirGrid warning that data centers are an energy drain and could also prevent the country from reaching its sustainability goals, there will be no data center moratoriums ahead. This news comes following the latest report from the Environmental...
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July 22, 2022 Northern Virginia
Prince William County, North Virginia, is often in the spotlight when it comes to locals' gripes and complaints regarding noise and environmental pollution. With the number of facilities in the area growing year on year, a recent report in June estimated that by 2035, the County could run out of...
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July 22, 2022 Singapore
Singapore has announced the end of its data center moratorium and is now accepting new applications for facilities, following Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Economic Development Board's (EDB) pilot scheme launch. The moratorium was originally put in place back in 2019 due to...
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July 22, 2022 Northern Virginia
Loudoun County, which currently has more data centers than anywhere else in the world, is reportedly updating its guidelines around the development of future data centers in response to the incredible industry growth at work in the area and opposition from locals over noise pollution and data...
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July 19, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. According to BizJournal, the company paid up to $30.8 million to real estate firm Clarke-Hook Corp. This will be AWS’ third low-rise office property acquisition in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022. The buildings are...
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July 11, 2022 Auckland
Zscaler has announced that it has launched a new co-located data center in Canberra and a second co-located data center in Auckland, in a bid to offer both public and private sector enterprises in Australia and New Zealand "greater resilience" in support of their "zero trust cybersecurity...
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July 08, 2022 Amazon AWS
As green hydrogen turns the heads of big investors, Amazon, Equinor, and others have announced they are backing energy startup Electric Hydrogen (EH2) with a $198 million round, led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech. EH2 is reportedly working on a ‘100MW-minimum’ electrolyzer technology for...
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July 05, 2022 Bangkok / Krung Thep
Riamon Land has announced that it will join forces with Nava Nakorn Public Company Limited, and RATCH Group Public Company Limited through an MoU to develop green data centers. According to Stephane Michel, Chief Operating Officer of Raimon Land, the MoU will enable the "pursuit of a deeper...
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June 30, 2022 North Carolina
Residents in Fayette County have voiced concerns about the consideration of approval for the annexation of 412 acres in the center of the county, enabling the development of a data center. According to the city report: "If annexed, the properties would be zoned BP Business Park and designated as...
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June 30, 2022 California
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that it has accelerated climate goals, bringing them down from 2050 to 2040, following its most recent Living Progress Report for Fiscal Year 2021, which it released this week. The tech giant said that it will facilitate this change by establishing a...
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June 30, 2022 Kuala Lumpur
Edge Centres has started working on its Edge data center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Australian Edge data center company announced that it would be expanding into Asia. The first facility called EC31 is being developed in Malaysia. Edge Centres scheduled the site to be completed in July. The...
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June 23, 2022 California
PubMatic has reportedly achieved 100% renewable energy across all of its data centers globally, including in California, New Jersey, London, Amsterdam, and Singapore. Sourced from wind and solar power, this achievement is a significant one for the company, whose energy usage is 90% composed of...
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June 21, 2022 Amazon AWS
According to BizJournal, Amazon Web Services has acquired a 58.5-acre land in Prince William County, Virginia, for $87.8m. Local County records also show that the land is located at 5845 Wellington Road, Gainesville. Interestingly, the company also acquired a 58.5-acre plot in April last year. It...
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June 20, 2022 Singapore
Evolution Data Centres has announced the launch of its new Sustainable Data Centre Charter, through which it measures its entire operations, with the aim of minimizing carbon intensity and limiting water usage as the company grows. The charter includes the target of emitting 20 tonnes of carbon...
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