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 18, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced that its partnership with carbon removal specialists Climeworks is expanding with a new 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement. The new deal will make it Microsoft's first-ever long-term carbon removal supplier and is one of the largest direct air capture (DAC) deals to...
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July 18, 2022 QTS Data Centers
QTS Realty Trust has acquired up to 400 acres of land in Phoenix, Arizona, for $255 million. The data center REIT also acquired land in the Netherlands for $9 million. QTS acquired the Phoenix property from First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. and Merit Partners Inc. QTS currently operates a...
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July 08, 2022 Microsoft Azure
In an effort to keep up with the likes of tech rivals like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, Alibaba has announced that it is launching Energy Expert, a so-called 'sustainability platform' which will facilitate the organization's measuring, analyzing and managing of carbon emissions. This global...
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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 07, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure has announced that worldwide its data centers are now operating with a limited server capacity available to customers as a result of a global supply shortage. The company has over 200 data centers across the world, stretching across 60 regions - however, reports indicate that over...
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July 01, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced that it will launch its Qatar Azure cloud region in two weeks. The general manager of Microsoft Qatar, Lana Khalaf, made this known at the launch of new offices in Doha, Qatar. He said: “In the coming two weeks we will be launching the region globally, but definitely the...
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July 01, 2022 Vantage Data Centers
Pantheon Infrastructure has announced that it will be investing $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers. The investment will be geared towards the data center company’s North American business for continued growth. Vantage has data center campuses in Quebec, Montreal, Phoenix, Ashburn, Quincy, and Santa...
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June 23, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Eaton has announced that it will expand its collaboration with Microsoft as part of a new strategic agreement between the two to address major industry developments, including "digital transformation, sustainability and the energy transition." According to the companies, a key feature of the...
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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 17, 2022 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has launched a data center campus in both Poland and Germany, the former is in Warsaw, and its first step into the Polish market, while the latter is its campus in Berlin, which is the company’s second venture into Germany. Vantage has now completed the...
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June 16, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced that it will be using renewable natural gas to fuel its backup energy at its San Jose data center, which is currently under construction. This move aligns with the company’s target of being carbon negative by 2030, and the project will also provide power locally with...
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June 15, 2022 Amazon AWS
AWS has announced its plans to launch hundreds of Local Zones to expand its Edge cloud network extensively. Local Zones serve as Edge locations hosting applications that need low latency to final users or on-premises installations. Some of the services the zone offers include database, storage,...
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June 10, 2022 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica, which will enable Vantage to supplement the local grid powering the company’s data center campus in Johannesburg (JNB1) with renewable energy. According to reports, the campus is set to open in July....
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June 09, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services plans to develop a new data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia. The company has already filed with officials to develop a single-story, 220,000 square feet (20,400 square meters) data center at the intersection of Lee Highway and Blackwell Road in Warrenton town. AWS...
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June 08, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced that it added new availability zones to its Zurich Azure region. Availability zones are data center locations that are physically separate but still within the same cloud region, offering redundancy against failures in a particular location. Typically, most new regions...
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May 27, 2022 Amazon AWS
AWS is under pressure to drop a contract it holds with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which will see it host the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric database, which, according to a recent report by Mijente, Just Futures Law and the Immigrant Defense Project, holds...
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May 19, 2022 Amazon AWS
BizJournal reports that Amazon Web Services is looking to develop a third data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio. Hilliard’s economic development director, David Meadows, told BizJournal, that AWS will start developing a 151-acre site located at 4120 Scioto Darby Road, near I-270. The planned data...
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May 10, 2022 Amazon AWS
According to reports, residents in Culpeper County, Virginia, are suing the county board after it approved the rezoning of a 230-acre property for an AWS data center. The giant is seeking to build two six-story data centers, a 12-acre power station and new power lines, however, six landowners in...
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May 06, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new PPA with AES for renewable energy to fuel its facilities in California. The PPA is a 20-year “highly customized agreement” which will see Microsoft partially match its load at its California-based data centers. The energy from AES will be sourced...
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