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Amazon plans a campus with two buildings in Stafford County, Virginia

More proposals for data centers are on the way to Stafford, Virginia's Stafford County. Amazon has applied to a two-building facility in the county, while an unnamed developer plans a three-building site nearby. Amazon Data Services has applied for approval to construct the Potomac Church Tech...

September 14, 2023

Amazon AWS

Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper

AustralianSuper has made an investment in Vantage Data Centers' EMEA operations. Last week, the company announced it would invest $1.6 billion to acquire a "significant minority stake" in Vantage Data Centers Europe, Middle East, and Africa (Vantage EMEA), backed by DigitalBridge. The pension ...

September 11, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility

The King George County Board of Supervisors authorized Amazon Web Service's (AWS) 19-building data center campus's 869-acre rezone from agriculture to industrial use. Birchwood Power Partners applied for rezoning for AWS. AWS has received this first approval, but Birchwood's attorney, Charlie ...

September 11, 2023

Amazon AWS

EdgeConneX to build 200MW Cyberjaya facility in Malaysia

EdgeConneX continues to grow its APAC operations by adding three facilities in Malaysia, located in and around Kuala Lumpur. Business Today and Edge Malaysia report that EdgeConneX signed a sales and purchase contract with Cyberview earlier this month to acquire a 12.14-hectare tract of land i...

September 11, 2023

EdgeConneX

Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City

Google has submitted two planning applications to Kansas City to develop its Northland at the Hunt Midwest Business Center site. The cloud computing company acquired 78.9 acres in Northland, Kansas City, in 2019, followed by an additional 236.4 acres in December 2021, stating that the parcel ...

September 11, 2023

Google

Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm

Manulife Investment Management has concluded the acquisition of data center firm Serverfarm on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II. In May 2023, Manulife announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in Serverfarm. Avner Papouchado, the CEO of Serverfarm, and NantCapital LLC will r...

September 08, 2023

ServerFarm Realty

University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

The University of Minnesota (UoM) Board of Regents has authorized the $39.7 million land sale to Meta. The 280-acre tract of land in UMore Park has been sold to Jimnist LLC, a subsidiary of Meta, for a data center.The land that comprises UMore Park is located in Rosemount and is bordered by Co...

September 08, 2023

Meta

Digital Realty to expand in Italy

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to comm...

September 07, 2023

Italy

Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome

Digital Realty plans to extend its operations into Italy and has already purchased land in Rome, the country's capital. Following the purchase of land in Rome and the subsequent pre-development planning for it, the company announced its entry into the Italian market last week.The ROM1 data cen...

September 07, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Meta confirms $700m Minnesota data center venture

Social network Meta is supporting a new Minneapolis data center project. Late last week, a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission document confirmed Meta's $700 million Minneapolis data center project. Xcel Energy announced an 'enterprise data center' project with a Fortune 100 company in Novem...

September 05, 2023

Meta

EdgeConneX files to build a 1 million square foot data center facility in Mesa, Arizona

EdgeConneX plans to establish a new data center facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to expand its presence there. According to BizJournal, the company has applied for Mesa's administrative and design reviews to construct a multi-phased campus near Elliot Road and Loop 202. EdgeConneX wants to build ...

September 05, 2023

EdgeConneX

Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas

Vantage Data Centers has made its first land purchases in Texas, both in San Antonio. The San Antonio Report reads, based on public records from Bexar County, that Vantage has acquired 89 acres of land in San Antonio spread across two separate parcels.On August 9, the firm purchased 31 acres a...

September 04, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility

Google will construct a second campus in Texas in the Red Oak neighborhood of Dallas. This week, the company announced intentions to invest $600 million in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas to build its second data center. The search, advertising, and cloud company stated that it would inv...

September 01, 2023

Google

Switch invests $772m in another Georgia facility outside Atlanta

Switch is preparing to construct a new data center facility in Bartow County, Georgia. Switch is preparing to build the "Switch KEEP 2.0 Atlanta North Campus" in Cartersville, according to the Developments of Regional Impact filings (DRI, 1-2).The 126-acre site is located in Cartersville, sout...

September 01, 2023

Switch

Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy for wind energy in North Carolina. Through the deal, the giant will offtake the full capacity from the Timbermill Wind project, which is in the process of being built. Located in Chowan County, the project will offer 18...

August 31, 2023

Google

AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to expand to the Virginia county of Louisa. Last week, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $11 billion by 2040 to build two data center campuses in Louisa's Technology Overlay District (TOD). The county...

August 31, 2023

Amazon AWS

Old Verizon office and data center in Pittsburgh for sale/lease

Verizon's former Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office and data center is available for purchase or lease. It has been put up for sale or lease by Colliers and Sampson Morris Group at 5400 Campbells Run Road. The 10-acre, 1959-built office and data facility features 130,000 rentable square feet and ...

August 29, 2023

Verizon Enterprise

Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

Google unveiled several cloud-based tools and services centered on artificial intelligence. Cloud TPU v5e, the company's newest Tensor Processing Unit, is now available for preview, according to the company. Google claims that, compared to TPU v4, which was released in 2021, the chip has up to...

August 29, 2023

Google

Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility

Google has verified its involvement in the Lincoln, Nebraska, data center proposal. This week, the company announced it was constructing a third data center in Papillion and a data center in Lincoln. The search and cloud firm will invest $1.2 billion in the project.Long suspected to be Google,...

August 24, 2023

Google

Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure

The digital arm of the Malaysian energy company Petronas, Petronas Digital, has inked a contract with Microsoft to develop a high-performance computing (HPC) artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform. The organization will use the platform to perform AI and machine learning to look ...

August 22, 2023

Microsoft Azure

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