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Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering

Digital Realty has announced that it is offering a $350 million note to the public. In addition, its Digital Core Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), listed in Singapore, will buy a stake in a Digital Realty-owned data center in Germany. The company noted that it is priced an underwritten ...

December 02, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year PPA with German energy infrastructure developer ib vogt to procure solar energy in the province of Zamora in Spain. ib vogt began work on the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in September, which is expected to commence commercial operations i...

December 01, 2022

Google

Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign

As part of the 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign, climate groups Extinction Rebellion and Not Here Not Anywhere took to the giant's Irish Headquarters in protest. The groups called for Amazon's AWS to pay its workers, its taxes and pay for its damage to the climate, due to its 'unsustainable' environ...

December 01, 2022

Amazon AWS

Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia

Equinix has announced its plan to develop a new International Business Exchange IBX data center in Johor, Malaysia. The data center company said it would invest up to $40m in the first stages of the data center. The JH1 data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q1 2024. The facility wi...

December 01, 2022

Equinix

AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of new Local Zones in Denmark, Oman, Argentina, and Denmark. The launch sees AWS’ total international Local Zones outside the US reach eight. Local Zones serve the purpose of Edge locations for hosting applications that need low latency to on-premis...

December 01, 2022

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Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has started work on a new facility in Virginia. The groundbreaking ceremony of the NVAL3 hyperscale data center campus took place this week. The data center’s first phase will deliver 36MW of capacity in a single building by Q1 2024. In addition, t...

December 01, 2022

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Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California

According to Real Deal and Globe Street, Vantage Data Centers has received $350m in funding to develop a data center in Santa Clara, California. Vantage DC acquired a building in the city, and the fund will be used to convert it into a data center campus. The planned facility will span 44,5...

December 01, 2022

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AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year

Amazon has announced its goal of becoming water positive by 2030, which, according to AWS, will see it returning more water to the communities that it uses in its operations. It also promised to report on its WUE each year. Through this announcement, it joins the likes of other tech giants, Go...

November 30, 2022

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Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia

AWS has announced that it has signed a PPA with Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to procure solar power for its operations in Indonesia. The state-owned electric utility will buy electricity from 210 MW of solar projects (four solar projects located in Bali and Java Island.)PLN stated that the ...

November 28, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft files to build two data centers in San Jose, California

Microsoft has filed to build two new data centers at a site in San Jose, California, it has been reported. The proposal details plans for two-building on a 632,000-square-foot campus on 22 vacant acres near the intersection of Orchard Parkway and Component Drive. These two new additions have ...

November 24, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft signs further PPAs in Ireland

Microsoft has signed CPPAs with Statkraft, Energia Group, and Power Capital Renewable Energy, for 900MW to cover its data center operations in Ireland and 28% of Ireland's renewable energy target for 2030. By 2025, the giant expects to power 100% of its Irish facilities with renewable energy....

November 24, 2022

Microsoft Azure

AWS proposal "indefinitely postponed" in Fauquier County

AWS’s Warrenton data center proposals have been ‘indefinitely postponed’ by Virginia’s Fauquier County officials following a unanimous vote. The original proposal outlined plans for a 220,000-square-foot (20,400 sqm), single-story data center in Warrenton at the intersection of Blackwell Road...

November 24, 2022

Amazon AWS

Equinix Announces Expansion in The UK

Equinix has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint in the UK in London and Manchester. The data center firm revealed that it had launched a new data center in Manchester called MA5. It is also expanding its LD7 and LD8 facilities in London. The Managing Director of Equi...

November 24, 2022

Equinix

Equinix Announces TY15 in Tokyo

Equinix has announced that it is developing a new data center in Tokyo called TY15. The company first announced the facility earlier in the month. Equinix revealed that the data center is scheduled to be in operation in H1 2024. The facility will also have a capacity of around 1,200 cabinet...

November 24, 2022

Equinix

Amazon Buys Two Data Centers in Massachusetts For $26.7m

According to the Worcester Business Journal, Amazon has acquired two data centers in Massachusetts. The company bought the two properties in Westborough and Grafton in Worcester County for $26.7m from State Street Corp. Amazon bought 600 and 800 Friberg Parkway in Westborough for $11.6 mill...

November 24, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services Opens New Cloud Region in Hyderabad, India

AWS has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Hyderabad, India. The company’s statement reads: “Today we are announcing the general availability of the 30th AWS Region, Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, with three Availability Zones and the ap-south-2 API name. The new Hyderabad Regi...

November 23, 2022

Amazon AWS

New timing protocol implemented at Meta data centers

Meta has announced that it is deploying a new network timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), which will keep each server in its data centers on the same time. Servers must be coordinated, otherwise, users can experience delays, errors, and outages.In contrast to Network Time Protocol...

November 22, 2022

Meta

Amazon Web Services Launches New Zurich Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Zurich, Switzerland. The principal developer advocate for Amazon Web Services, Sebastien Stormacq, said: “I am pleased to announce today the opening of our 28th AWS Region: Europe (Zurich), also known by its API name: ...

November 18, 2022

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AWS Launches Spanish Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services has launched a new region in Spain. With this launch, the company has opened its eight regions in the continent. Like AWS’ other regions, the Spanish region also launched with three availability zones. AWS had announced in the past that it would invest up to €2.5 billion ($...

November 17, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon follows tech industry with new round of layoffs

Amazon is the latest tech company to make big layoffs. The giant is making around 10,000 cuts to employees in corporate and technology roles, in what the New York Times has determined represents about 3% of its corporate staff. More broadly, the cuts represent less than 1% of the global workf...

November 16, 2022

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