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Read Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center
Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center

Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center

September 10, 2025 California

US energy solutions provider Ameresco has partnered with the US Navy and data center developer CyrusOne to develop a 100MW data center at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California. The facility will be colocated with a dedicated on-site energy generation facility built by Ameresco, forming a...

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Read KKR Hires Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky
KKR Hires Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky

KKR Hires Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky

September 09, 2025 Amazon AWS

Investment firm KKR has appointed Adam Selipsky as a senior advisor for technology and AI strategy. Selipsky will advise on strategy, capital allocation, and governance for the firm’s $179 billion Real Assets business. Selipsky was the CEO of cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2021 to...

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Read AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand
AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand

AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand

September 02, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new cloud region in New Zealand dubbed the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. This region consists of three availability zones. AWS has previously said it would invest around NZ$7.5 billion (US$5.3 billion) in its cloud operations and infrastructure in...

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Read Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard
Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard

Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard

August 29, 2025 Singapore

The Singaporean government has launched a new standard to support data center operators. The standard - SS 715:2025: Energy Efficiency of Data Centre IT Equipment - aims to save energy consumption of IT equipment in data centers by at least 30 percent.The standard will also aid data center users...

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Read Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam
Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam

Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam

August 29, 2025 Amazon AWS

Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced Amazon has pledged to invest $570 million in connectivity infrastructure by 2030 to deploy Kuiper services in the country. The investment will fuel up to six ground stations in the country, and set up satellite terminal manufacturing in...

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Read Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility
Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

August 25, 2025 Pennsylvania

Essential Utilities, a US-based utility company focusing on natural gas and wastewater treatment, has invested $26 million into a data center project in development in Greene County, Pennsylvania.The utility signed an agreement with independent power producer International Electric Power III...

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Read Golf Course Set to Become Data Center in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Golf Course Set to Become Data Center in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Golf Course Set to Become Data Center in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

August 22, 2025 Pennsylvania

The Dauphin County General Authority (DCGA) owned golf course was sold for $45.6 million to Harrisburg I, LLC, which intends to use the site for a data center project. Harrisburg I is a purchasing entity under the Texas realtor Provident Realty. According to the county, the proposal was one of...

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Read BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS
BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS

BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS

August 21, 2025 Amazon AWS

UK telco BT Group has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), signing a new five-year agreement with the cloud provider. The deal builds on BT's ongoing cloud migration to AWS, and aims to help BT move its legacy systems into "modern, customer-centric microservices."“This isn’t...

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Read Kildare Completes Government Data Center
 Kildare Completes Government Data Center

Kildare Completes Government Data Center

August 15, 2025 Republic of Ireland

County Kildare in Ireland has completed the construction of a government data center which will be for government use, replacing several smaller data centers, and is located at the Backweston Campus in Kildare. It has been designed with sustainability in mind, and waste heat may be used at other...

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Read Vast Data Partners with SK Telecom on Haein AI Cluster
Vast Data Partners with SK Telecom on Haein AI Cluster

Vast Data Partners with SK Telecom on Haein AI Cluster

August 15, 2025 South Korea

Vast Data is teaming up with SK Telecom on the latter's AI cluster - the Haein Cluster was launched earlier this month with 1,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs, building on SK Telecom's existing offering based on Nvidia H100s.“Vast Data’s unified architecture has been instrumental in helping us move from...

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Read EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden
EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden

EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden

August 14, 2025 Sweden

EdgeMode, a US-based data center developer, has partnered with AI infrastructure firm Vertical Data to market and deliver a 20MW AI data center in Sweden. The project aims to combine EdgeMode’s Marviken Smart Energy Cluster, which is tied to a 95MW renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA),...

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Read AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts
AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

August 09, 2025 Amazon AWS

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has signed another discount deal with a cloud provider, Amazon which will see Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the GSA with up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training across US federal agencies through to the end of...

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Read Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus
Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

August 08, 2025 Tucson

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-acre...

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Read AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access
AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

August 07, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed on August 5 that it would be offering "open weight models" from OpenAI via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI for the first time. This will include OpenAI's two new open weight foundation models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b."Open weight models are an...

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Read AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari
AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

August 06, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Gentari, a Malaysian-based renewable developer, for 80MW of wind power from a project in Tamil Nadu, India.The wind project is expected to commence operations in mid-2027 and will generate approximately...

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Read AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate
AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

August 02, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved an annualized revenue run rate of more than $123 billion, CEO Andy Jassy revealed in the company's Q2 2025 earnings call. The cloud unit saw a revenue of $30.9bn for the quarter, up 17.5 percent year over year (YoY) and more than the previous quarter's...

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Read Tract Plans 400-acre Data Center Park outside Charlotte
Tract Plans 400-acre Data Center Park outside Charlotte

Tract Plans 400-acre Data Center Park outside Charlotte

August 02, 2025 North Carolina

A US data center park developer is seeking to build a new campus in North Carolina. In planning since last year, the site is currently zoned RA – Residential Agricultural. Tract’s site plans suggest up to five buildings could be developed on the site. The 400-acre site, between Patterson Farm...

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Read CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center
CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center

CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center

August 01, 2025 California

US data center firm CoreSite this week announced the completion of SV9, a new 228,000 sq ft (21,181 sqm) facility offering 34MW.“This strategic expansion in Silicon Valley reflects our commitment to delivering the scalable, high-performance infrastructure our customers need to power AI, cloud,...

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Read AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement
AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

July 31, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a ground station-as-a-service (GSaaS) partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT). Under the deal, KSAT will integrate cloud services into its global network and offer access to both AWS Ground Station’s and KSAT’s antennas to its customers.“Today,...

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Read Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California
Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California

Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California

July 25, 2025 California

The Guadalupe Quarry Redevelopment Project propose in San Francisco, California, has been scaled down amid environmental concerns. The site is located south of San Francisco in the city of Brisbane and the company seeks to construct a 180,000 sq ft (17,000 sqm) data center and an industrial...

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