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Read Culpeper County looks at a new business personal property tax category for data centers
Culpeper County looks at a new business personal property tax category for data centers

Culpeper County looks at a new business personal property tax category for data centers

May 10, 2023 Virginia

In Culpeper County, the Board of Supervisors is reportedly considering a lower rate for data center developments. The proposal would see a new business personal property tax category that would introduce a lower rate for computer equipment and peripherals in data centers. Economic Development...

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Read Washington House Bill 1416 signed into law to regulate emissions tied to crypto mining and data centers
Washington House Bill 1416 signed into law to regulate emissions tied to crypto mining and data centers

Washington House Bill 1416 signed into law to regulate emissions tied to crypto mining and data centers

May 09, 2023 Washington

In Washington, House Bill 1416, a Bill set on regulating carbon emissions tied to crypto mining and data centers has been signed into law. Signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on May 3, the legislation closed a loophole in the previously passed Clean Energy Transformation Act, which enabled crypto mining...

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Read Harbor Peak Starts Building a Fiber Conduit System to Connect Ashburn, Virginia Data Centers
Harbor Peak Starts Building a Fiber Conduit System to Connect Ashburn, Virginia Data Centers

Harbor Peak Starts Building a Fiber Conduit System to Connect Ashburn, Virginia Data Centers

May 05, 2023 Virginia

Harbor Peak, a joint venture specializing in carrier-neutral dark fiber, interconnect, and network planning services, has begun construction in Ashburn, Virginia, on a new middle-mile network infrastructure that will facilitate connectivity between numerous private and public data centers. In...

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Read Oppidan Submits Paperwork For a 99,000 sq ft Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee
Oppidan Submits Paperwork For a 99,000 sq ft Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee

Oppidan Submits Paperwork For a 99,000 sq ft Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee

May 05, 2023 Tennessee

The US real estate development company Oppidan has filed plans to construct a data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The company has filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development for permission to build a data center at 3900 S. Mendenhall Road. The permit encompasses...

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Read Authorization Of A New Data Facility In Auburn, Alabama
Authorization Of A New Data Facility In Auburn, Alabama

Authorization Of A New Data Facility In Auburn, Alabama

May 03, 2023 Alabama

The Alabama city of Auburn City will soon get a new data center. The 65,700 square foot Mill Creek Data Center will be located on 52 acres of newly developed land in the city's Auburn Technology Park at 406 West Veterans Boulevard. The data center was granted approval by the City Council this...

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Read Wiz announces opening of Montreal data center
Wiz announces opening of Montreal data center

Wiz announces opening of Montreal data center

May 02, 2023 Montreal

Wiz has announced the launch of its new cloud data center in Montreal, Canada. The facility is to provide local and multinational organizations with faster, and more secure cloud security infrastructure and is also pegged to provide greater data sovereignty, while maintaining privacy...

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Read Fallen Trees And a Broken Backup Switch Triggered the University of Virginia Data Center Outage
Fallen Trees And a Broken Backup Switch Triggered the University of Virginia Data Center Outage

Fallen Trees And a Broken Backup Switch Triggered the University of Virginia Data Center Outage

May 01, 2023 Virginia

The University of Virginia experienced disruption due to the impact of fallen trees on the data center's grid line. The facility was supposed to transition to a backup generator immediately, but the backup switch failed. UVA employees manually shifted power to the data center at 11:30 a.m. on...

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Read NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach
NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

April 28, 2023 Atlanta

After a ransomware assault caused a data center outage that disrupted its Aloha cloud-based services and Counterpoint apps, NCR is making progress toward restoring services. For the subset of CMC customers who were impacted by the incident, online ordering has resumed and NCR's Command Center...

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Read A $2.24m North Carolina Data Facility Becomes an Eatery And Grocery Store
A $2.24m North Carolina Data Facility Becomes an Eatery And Grocery Store

A $2.24m North Carolina Data Facility Becomes an Eatery And Grocery Store

April 27, 2023 North Carolina

Advanced Internet Technologies (AIT) sold its Fayetteville, North Carolina base and data center, with plans to convert the majority of the space. The 93,000 square foot data center was wholly controlled and run by hosting and service provider AIT since 2004, but was sold to AIT's subsidiary Ace...

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Read Visitors and Unsecured Storage Devices Found in TikTok’s Virginia Data Centers
Visitors and Unsecured Storage Devices Found in TikTok’s Virginia Data Centers

Visitors and Unsecured Storage Devices Found in TikTok’s Virginia Data Centers

April 26, 2023 Virginia

According to a Forbes report, there have been numerous serious security lapses at TikTok's Virginia data center. The publication discovered numerous serious issues at the ByteDance facilities as well as blatant connections to the company's Chinese operations based on numerous interviews and more...

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Read New Data Center Built For the Florida Fire Dept
New Data Center Built For the Florida Fire Dept

New Data Center Built For the Florida Fire Dept

April 26, 2023 Miami

A new fire station and data center are being built for a Florida fire department. The grand inauguration of Fire Rescue Station 50, a brand-new firehouse and emergency operations data center for the City of Marco Island, is scheduled for April 28. The fire station and data center are located on...

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Read Serverspace Establish New Data Centers Around the World
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Serverspace Establish New Data Centers Around the World

April 25, 2023 Toronto

Leading cloud provider Serverspace is pleased to announce the installation of hardware in an innovative data center in Toronto, Canada. With current facilities in five other nations, this facility represents Serverspace's sixth international location. The new data center's equipment is kept in a...

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Read Soluna's Project Dorothy Data Center Receives Approval to Go Live from ERCOT
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Soluna's Project Dorothy Data Center Receives Approval to Go Live from ERCOT

April 25, 2023 Texas

The manufacturer of green data centers for Bitcoin mining and other intensive computing, Soluna Computing, Inc., announced yesterday that it had received final authorization from ERCOT for powering Project Dorothy, its flagship data center in Texas, with immediate effect. The last legal...

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Read Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event
Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

April 25, 2023 Northern Virginia

The debate surrounding the construction of a massive data center facility in Prince William County persists. Tuesday evening, residents planned to hold a protest against the Prince William Digital Gateway prior to a developer-hosted open house. Maureen Umeh of FOX 5 reports that the controversy...

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Read Can AI training energy consumption be lowered?
Can AI training energy consumption be lowered?

Can AI training energy consumption be lowered?

April 21, 2023 Michigan

These days, A.I. is seemingly never out of the headlines, with concerns about everything from lack of regulations around development, unchecked A.I. growth, and energy and water consumption. Considering the world is in the grips of a climate crisis, and A.I. training is using a growing amount of...

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Read Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes
Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

April 20, 2023 Arkansas

The Arkansas Data Centers Act was recently passed after being proposed not long ago on March 30 by Senator Joshua Bryant. The legislation seeks to regulate the Bitcoin mining industry in the state, and will allocate crypto miners the same rights as data centers. It outlines that the government...

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Read Zeittec-built intelligence data center launches in Brazil
Zeittec-built intelligence data center launches in Brazil

Zeittec-built intelligence data center launches in Brazil

April 19, 2023 Brazil / Brasil

In Brazil, Agência Brasileira de Inteligência, ABIN, Brazil’s intelligence agency has announced the launch of a new Zeittec-built modular data center. Designed to Tier III standards, the facility reportedly has extremely high security in order to perform its function to protect confidential data...

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Read Ericsson Partners with Canadian Government to Invest $351M in 5G and 6G Research and Development
Ericsson Partners with Canadian Government to Invest $351M in 5G and 6G Research and Development

Ericsson Partners with Canadian Government to Invest $351M in 5G and 6G Research and Development

April 19, 2023 Canada

A five-year agreement between the Canadian government and the Swedish vendor Ericsson will see more than $351 million invested in two research and development facilities in Ottawa, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec. To enhance mobile networks, the investment will concentrate on 5G Advanced, 6G, Cloud...

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Read Panama to Boost Connectivity with Two New Submarine Cables and Digital Gateway Project
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Panama to Boost Connectivity with Two New Submarine Cables and Digital Gateway Project

April 18, 2023 Americas

Panama, the most connected nation in Central America with six submarine cables, is set to become even more connected. Two new systems, the Carnival Submarine-Network (CSN-1) and Caribbean Expresses, are being constructed and scheduled to be operational by 2025 and 2026, respectively. These new...

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Read New study highlights significant AI water consumption
New study highlights significant AI water consumption

New study highlights significant AI water consumption

April 18, 2023 Colorado (CO)

Data centers are already known for guzzling enormous amounts of water, so as AI enters its "gold rush" era, how will it affect water consumption? Well, a new study by researchers from the Universities of Colorado Riverside and Texas Arlington found that training large AI models like OpenAI's...

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