May 25, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Following the trend of building taller buildings, Facebook has revealed that it is boosting its capacity with a new multi-storey data center design as part of its global infrastructure expansion. The design is being rolled out in its Prineville, Oregon campus, deployed in two new facilities. The...
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May 25, 2021 DataBank SLC5
DataBank has announced its recent expansion, adding a third data hall at its SLC5 data center. Based in Bluffdale, Utah, at its Granite Point North campus complex, the new addition takes its current capacity to 30,000 sq ft (2,790 sq m), with a 6MW of critical IT load. The center first opened...
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May 20, 2021 North America
Yondr Group has announced a major $2 billion expansion plan to deliver data infrastructures spanning across the US, Canada, Central, and South America as part of its global scaling strategy. By 2024, the group plans to deliver data centers across five continents. Yondr Group has appointed Éanna...
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May 20, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Microsoft just gained approval from Hoffman Estates village board members to build a data center outside of Chicago, Illinois. The approved data center building is one of the two planned buildings at the 53-acre site. A 250,000 square feet building would be erected at the first phase while the...
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May 20, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
The Tennessee Valley Authority has just announced a deal with RWE Renewables and Facebook to build a 150MW solar facility near Millington TN. The solar facility will provide Facebook with 110MW of energy for its data centers in Gallatin, Tennessee, and across the Tennessee Valley. The solar...
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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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May 19, 2021 Core Scientific: Grand Forks
Core Scientific has announced that it will build a new data center based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after securing a $269,000 loan from the Grand Forks Growth Fund. In partnership with Nodak Electric Cooperative and Minnkota Power Cooperative, the blockchain company has said it plans to invest...
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May 18, 2021 ODATA Chile ST01
Odata has announced that it is planning to build its first data center in Chile. This new data center will sit on a 6-hectare site, and it will house over 40,000 square meters of data center buildings. Upon completion, the data center will have a capacity of 28MW. Odata also says it will be...
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May 18, 2021 Foxconn Industrial Internet Wisconsin
Foxconn has just opened its Globe Data Center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The data center building is 34,000 square feet in size and, it includes a 100 feet steel sphere as part of its design. The facility’s steel globe frame was initially completed in September 2020 before the installation of...
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May 18, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Google has announced that it would soon start using geothermal energy to power its Nevada data center. The announcement will see Google become the first hyper-scale cloud operator to use the earth’s heat to power its servers. Fervo Energy, a clean energy startup, will be helping Google develop...
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May 17, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Google has announced that, through its subsidiary, Eleanor Applications SRL, it has acquired 30 hectares of land in Canelones, Uruguay, to build a data center. According to El Observador, the company may have spent $818,000 on the plot, with a view to invest up to $100 million. The tech company...
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May 14, 2021 Northern Virginia
BlackChamber Group’s application to build a 530,000 sq ft (49,000 sq m) data center in Loudoun County has split the county’s board of supervisors. According to a report published in Washington Business Journal, the group’s proposal to build two facilities on the 23-acre plot could be rejected in...
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May 13, 2021 QTS Irving DC1
Telia Carrier has announced that it has deployed its full suite of connectivity services in QTS' Piscataway, New Jersey and Irving, Texas data centers. Telia is also deployed to QTS Richmond, Chicago, Miami, Hillsboro, and Atlanta. The 'full suite' of network services includes DWDM, DDoS, IP...
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May 12, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Plans are in place for Google to acquire a property in Beauharnois, Quebec, and turn it into a data center. The proposed data center is estimated to cost $600 million. The 62.4 hectares plot of land is owned by Hydro-Québec, and is currently zoned as agricultural land, the provincial government...
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May 12, 2021 São Paulo
Oracle just announced the new opening of its new Vinhedo Cloud region in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This follows the announcement of the launch of its Sao Paulo cloud region last year. The new cloud region is now its second cloud region in Brazil and its 30th one worldwide. Besides, the...
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May 12, 2021 STACK Northern Virginia
Stack Infrastructure has purchased additional 25 acres of land in Manassas, Virginia. The land is next to its Prince William county campus, which is still under development. The plan is to use the new land to build additional two 36MW facilities. The CEO of Stack Infrastructure commented that the...
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May 12, 2021 Digital Fortress: Richmond
Digital Fortress has announced a new wholesale data campus in Richmond, Virginia. This 75-acre campus is now the largest data center in Digital Fortress’ eastern United States portfolio. The new data campus is Gold LEED-certified, and it is designed to Tier III standards with access to 4.2MW of...
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May 07, 2021 Stack: TOR01A
Stack has announced a partnership with First Gulf to develop a 56 MW campus in Toronto, Ontario. This campus will be Stack’s first international expansion, and it is at a strategic location- Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America. The CEO of Stack, Brian Cox, also described Toronto as...
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May 06, 2021 EdgeConneX San Diego
EdgeConneX and Telia jointly announced that Telia will deploy its network to EdgeConneX's facility in San Diego. The deployment enhances the facility as one of the best connected facilities in the San Diego metro. The Vice President of Edge Data Center and Network Sales, Brian Bellis, commented...
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May 06, 2021 Ark: Canton
Involta has announced its acquisition of SecureData 365. As part of this acquisition, Involta will take over the company’s 29,960 sq ft (2,780 sq m) data center based in Canton, Ohio. The acquisition of the Canton facility means the company will now operate five facilities in Ohio. Its current...
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