May 26, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has applied to construct a new data center in Los Angeles, California. The company has applied to construct a thirteen-story data center at 727 S Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The prospective applicant is GIP 7th Street LLC, a well-known subsidiary of Digital Realty. At...
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May 25, 2023 Meta
After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data centers,...
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May 25, 2023 QTS Data Centers
QTS Realty, owned by Blackstone, has refinanced four data center properties. Citigroup leads a consortium of four institutions that provided the loan. It will be used to refinance QTS' existing $667 million debt and provide the funds necessary to finance tenant build-outs. The refinancing is...
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May 25, 2023 Aligned
Odata, a LATAM provider of data centers, has been fully acquired by Aligned Data Centers. According to Aligned, the transaction places the company among the biggest private data center owners in the Americas, with more than 2.5GW of critical capacity throughout over 40 data centers at full...
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May 24, 2023 Meta
rPlus Energies has announced that it has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Idaho Power, which has a special energy services agreement with Meta; output from the project will go into the same grid supporting Meta's new Kuna data center. The Ada County, Idaho solar farm, known as...
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May 23, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon will demolish several office buildings it purchased in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022 and rebuild those structures with four data centers. Amazon Data Services has submitted to Loudoun County proposals to tear down and replace nine office buildings in three sites in Sterling with four data...
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May 22, 2023 ServerFarm Realty
Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM) bought the majority of Serverfarm's shares. This week, the investment firm announced that, on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II and its affiliates, it had signed an official contract to acquire a controlling stake in Serverfarm. The terms of...
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May 19, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
The Malaysian city of Cyberjaya will soon be home to Vantage Data Centers' enormous new site. State-owned Cyberview, tasked with creating a digital cluster in Cyberjaya, recently shared that Vantage will invest $3 billion to build a second data center facility there. At a recent meeting in the...
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May 18, 2023 QTS Data Centers
QTS has begun construction work on its Phoenix, Arizona data center PHX2 DC5. The company reportedly broke ground on the facility in March; it is set to span 337,330 sq ft (31,339 sqm) on 85 acres, offering 42 MW of capacity. The company shared that on March 21, it hosted a groundbreaking event...
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May 18, 2023 Meta
Details regarding Meta's water consumption at a planned data center in Toledo have been released, revealing that yearly the facility will guzzle an estimated 660 million gallons of water. The facility was given the green light by Castilla-La Mancha back in March as a PSI, due to the economic...
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May 18, 2023 Aligned
Planning approval has been given for Aligned Data Centers to build a data center on the enormous Quantum Loophole campus in Frederick County, Maryland. Last week, the Frederick County Planning Commission authorized the initial site plan for the Quantum Loophole campus's first data center. The...
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May 14, 2023 Microsoft Azure
A bill submitted Monday would exclude data center equipment, software, and other costs from state sales and use taxes. Microsoft's projected Mount Pleasant data center would presumably benefit first. The bill's creators, Rep. Shannon Zimmerman, R-River Falls, and Sen. Romaine Robert Quinn,...
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May 12, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has made a world first by inking a PPA deal with Helion for electricity from the company's first commercial fusion power plant. Scheduled to come online in 2028, the giant has been promised to receive 50MW or greater from the plant after a one-year ramp-up. This technology has been long...
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May 12, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Direct liquid cooling (DLC) capabilities have been implemented at Digital Realty's La Courneuve data center in Paris, France. According to the company, its new facility is capable of high-performance computing (HPC). Fabrice Coquio, SVP and managing director – France at Digital Realty stated that...
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May 11, 2023 Amazon AWS
Officials in a rural county in the northeastern corner of Oregon have voted to provide Amazon with tax benefits that are believed to be worth one billion dollars so that the company can build five additional data centers there. According to The Oregonian and OregonLive, the five commissioners of...
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May 09, 2023 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has inked a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Sonnedix. The deal will see the colocation provider source energy from three PV plants in the Castilla-La Mancha region of Spain. The three plants are pegged to be operational by the end of 2024; collectively,...
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May 09, 2023 Aligned
Aligned Data Centers has invested in the Canadian company QScale. The "strategic investment" received "strong support" from existing shareholders, according to QScale. The scale of the investment was not disclosed; however, it is described as a "major financing round" and is anticipated to close...
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May 08, 2023 Google
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the construction company Whiting-Turner alleging racial harassment and retaliation against former Black employees. The lawsuit centered on the company's role as the general contractor for the Google data center's...
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May 05, 2023 Google
Google and state officials announced on Wednesday that the company intends to construct two additional data centers in Ohio to support its artificial intelligence equipment and other tools. According to officials, with one data center already operational in the Columbus area, Google's total...
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May 04, 2023 DataBank
DataBank has begun constructing a new data center in Atlanta, Georgia, and has completed an expansion in San Diego, California. The US-based business announced the start of construction on its ATL4 data center in Atlanta last week. The colocation facility, located at 200 Selig Drive, will include...
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