July 07, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
An Taisce, the Irish National Trust, have rallied against Amazon building its second data center on its Drogheda site in County Meath. Although the facility was given the go-ahead in June, the Irish planning board is now awaiting an appeal by the environmental group. It says that the authorities...
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July 06, 2021 Republic of Ireland
The local officials in Naas, Kildare, Ireland, have rezoned two plots of land to host data centers. Earlier this week, the Kildare County council voted to rezone these lands for data center use as an update to the Naas 2021-2027 local area plan. The two sites are said to be 91 and 106 acres, with...
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July 05, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
AWS has secured the approval of its two-building data center development on the Didcot Power Station from the Vale of White Horse District Council’s planning committee. The data center project was first proposed in 2019. Following local feedback and Covid-19 delays, the Company decided to reduce...
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July 02, 2021 AWS US East (N. Virginia)
Amazon has filed an application to build four data centers on land in Manassas, Virginia. It filed to build the data centers on empty land that’s between Sudley Road and Ashton Avenue. The piece of land is presently owned by the estate of Lewis Percival Ashby Jr., and it is being used as a family...
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June 27, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Silicon Valley Power will build a new substation for AWS’s upcoming data center in Santa Clara. Oppidan Investment Company will develop and pay for the data center facility on behalf of Amazon Web Services. Besides, Amazon acquired the site for $100 million in 2020, which will make it AWS’s first...
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June 25, 2021 Sweden
Sweden’s Land and Environment Court at Nacka District Court has granted Google’s subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission to build a data center in Horndal, Sweden. Although Google said the land was a potential data center location when they acquired the 109-hectare site in 2017, they said...
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June 23, 2021 Amazon AWS
Amazon has overtaken Google as the largest corporate buyer of green energy in the United States. It also holds the title of being the largest renewable energy buyer in Europe. This comes after the Company announced its fourteen new green energy projects in the Us, Spain, Finland, and Canada. With...
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June 17, 2021 Amazon AWS
The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...
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June 17, 2021 Northern Virginia
A one million square foot data center has been given the go-ahead just outside the town of Haymarket, following the Prince William Board of County Supervisors approving a rezoning and special use permit. Locals, however, have voiced their concerns that minority communities may be negatively...
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June 16, 2021 Singapore
It has been announced that social media giant Facebook and the Singapore government are joining forces to fund a $17 million (S$23m) project to address the need to boost the number of sustainable data centers built in tropical climates. The programme is also being funded by Singapore's National...
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June 14, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Amazon’s second data center in Drogheda, Ireland is going ahead after County Meath Council approved the two-story, 28,566 sqm (307,400 sq ft) facility to be built. Based at the Drogheda IDA Business & Technology Park, the facility will reportedly receive an investment of €350 million ($424m)...
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June 13, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Amazon Web Services has announced that it would be opening its new data center region in Israel. Jeff Barr, the Chief Evangelist for AWS, said that plans for the new data center region are in place and that it would open in the first half of 2023. He further added that the region would have three...
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June 10, 2021 Republic of Ireland
In Ireland, over 30 proposed data centers face uncertainty. This comes after the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) instructed national grid manager, Eirgrid and ESB Networks to prioritize applications for data centers in areas with reliable power supplies. As a result, Eirgrid has...
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June 09, 2021 Sydney
Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due to...
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June 09, 2021 Melbourne
Hickory, an Australian real estate development firm, has announced that it is entering the data center arena with plans to construct a 36MW facility in Truganina, west Melbourne, following development approval from Wyndham City Council. The data center will be built on a 3.5-hectare site and have...
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June 03, 2021 Maryland
Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced a new joint venture with funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate to purchase data center shells. The JV has acquired a 90% stake in two single-tenant data center shell properties totalling 432,000 square feet (40,100 sqm). The properties...
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May 28, 2021 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago....
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May 26, 2021 Northern Virginia
Hanley Energy has decided to expand its operations in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Irish company will be leasing a 36,600 square foot building from Merritt Properties for this purpose. Merritt initially bought the 6.7-acre site with plans to build a light industrial building over it. Besides,...
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May 26, 2021 Phoenix
The Mesa City Council just approved the development for a Company that plans to build a data center on Elliot and Ellsworth roads in the northwest corner of Eastmark. Although the Company remains in mystery, the Mayor of Mesa City said the mystery Company would be investing $800 million to bring...
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May 19, 2021 Northern Virginia
Prince William County, Virginia, may see more data centers being built in the region after County supervisors approved moves that could expand the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. This “overlay district” is the area where building data facilities is permitted. Established back in...
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