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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May 03, 2023 QTS Data Centers
Last week, QTS submitted the third draft of its plans for the controversial and hotly debated Prince William Digital Gateway to the Prince William County government. The updated plan shows the company's intention to increase the size of its proposed buildings. QTS has also requested a waiver to...
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May 03, 2023 HorizonIQ
INAP has once again filed for bankruptcy. This week, the company voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 as part of its debt restructuring statement. The company stated that INAP has freely filed motions under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware...
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May 01, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
With a £250 million investment, Vantage Data Centers announced the creation of a second data center campus (LHR2) in London. Vantage Data Centers previously announced the 48MW facility (LHR1) in London for £500 million. Beginning in early 2025, LHR2 will be a single data center that offers...
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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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April 28, 2023 Google
The Paris data center of Global Switch caught fire, bringing down Google services in Europe. According to a post to the French Network Operators Group, the fire seems to have been started by a cooling system water pump malfunction that caused water to leak into the battery room, sparking the...
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April 27, 2023 Meta
In an effort to curb construction waste, Meta has announced a new project that is using mushrooms to help mitigate some of the 660 million tons of waste sent to landfills and incinerators each year. The giant has been working with Mycocycle, a tech company in the zero-waste market, to pilot the...
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April 27, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced that it has opened its first data center region in Poland, which consists of three independent physical locations around Warsaw. The giant shared that this expansion is in response to the growing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and fast and reliable access to...
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April 27, 2023 Equinix
Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in favor...
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April 27, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
Glencar, a prominent UK & Ireland construction firm that has recently been listed among Europe's fastest-growing companies, disclosed that it had been granted a contract to construct the new LHR21 facility for Vantage Data Centers at the company's second London Campus near Heathrow Airport....
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April 27, 2023 QTS Data Centers
QTS Data Centers has refrained from requesting $45 million in tax incentives for its massive data center project near the Westside Trail of the Atlanta BeltLine. According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, QTS halted its request for incentives for a $1.3 billion proposal involving two data...
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April 26, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
Plans for a new data center in San Jose, California, have been proposed by Vantage Data Centers, as stated in city planning documents. Located at 105 Nortech Parkway in San Jose's Alviso district, the facility, if given the green light, would be based on a 9.8-acre site. That said, further...
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