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Apple commences infrastructure improvements at Iowa data center

Work is finally due to commence on Apple's Iowa data center, it has been announced. Infrastructure improvements are underway on the site, and the giant is also planning to expand and connect its Viborg data center in Denmark to a district heating scheme - a data center project that was complet...

March 28, 2022

Apple

Meta Confirms Development of $800m Data Center in Kansas City

Meta has confirmed that it would be developing a data center in Kansas City. The Kansas City Area Development Council announced that the social media giant has chosen Kansas for its next data center development. Meta will be starting work at the site soon and the data center is scheduled to...

March 25, 2022

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Another racist incident recorded at Facebook's Utah data center

Further controversy ensues at the construction site of Meta's data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, with the discovery of a noose. This is not the first time racist activity has been found to be occurring on the site. Back in November, racist graffiti was written across the site's toilets.Contr...

March 24, 2022

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Facebook's Meta to build $1 billion facility for the Metaverse

As Meta gets underway with its Metaverse plans, it has announced that it will be investing $1 billion in a new data center campus in Castilla La Mancha in the Toledo region of Spain, which will form the basis of the project. The facility will reportedly be built on a 191-hectare parcel of land...

March 18, 2022

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Meta To Develop a €1bn Data Center in Toledo, Spain

Meta is developing a €1 billion ($1.1bn) data center campus in Spain. The social media giant says the facility will be developed near Talavera de la Reina, in the Toledo region. Emiliano Garcia-Page, the socialist president of Toledo, was happy about the development and said the project wou...

March 14, 2022

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Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant

According to Biz Journal, Meta will be the first tenant at the new large data center campus in Kansas, Missouri. Plans for a Golden Plains Technology Park, also known as Project Velvet, were first submitted in 2021. The developer has plans for a 510,000 square meters (5.5 million square fee...

March 11, 2022

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What is Waukee saying about Apple's data center?

Following the recent green light given by local planning officials on Apple’s Iowa development, a number of business people and leaders in the area have voiced their thoughts on what the development will mean for the area. Mayor Courtney Clarke outlined that in the first phase of development t...

February 14, 2022

Apple

Apple's planned data center in Waukee goes before commission

It has been five years since Apple announced its $1.3 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa; however, it is finally going before the city's planning commission on Today. At the time of announcing the facility, Tim Cook, CEO of apple, said the data center would help "drive Apple's future," but s...

February 08, 2022

Apple

Meta's Q4 2021 Capex Stands at $5.5bn- Also Loses $200b in Valuation

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has released its Q4 2021 financial reports. The report shows that the social media giant has spent $5.5 billion on capital expenditure in Q4 2021. The investment was in servers, office facilities, data centers, and network infrastructure. The company has inves...

February 04, 2022

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Meta signs wind PPA in Iowa

In its latest move towards attaining more green credentials, Meta has announced the signing of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Apex for its 225-MW Great Pathfinder Wind project in Iowa. This is the energy company’s fifth deal with the social media giant. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg,...

January 26, 2022

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Facebook's DeKalb data center in first stage of construction

Facebook’s data center in DeKalb located east of Route 23 and south of Gurler Road, has almost reached its first phase of completion, while the second phase of construction has been approved. According to reports, an initial investment of $800 million has been made, a figure that is likely to ...

January 18, 2022

Meta

Facebook plans massive $29-34 billion CAPEX

Facebook says it plans to spend between $29 billion and $34 billion on capital investments in 2022. This is an increase from the social media giant’s $19 billion spend this year. Chief Financial Officer at Facebook, David Wehner, says the rise in expenditure was due to investments in servers, ...

November 05, 2021

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Facebook is rebranding as Meta

Social Media and advertising giant Facebook have rebranded its company name as ‘Meta.’ The company’s top social media website will retain its name as Facebook. Its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp will also keep their names. The company revealed that it would start trading under the stock t...

October 29, 2021

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Facebook acquires land in Denmark for potential data center development

Facebook has acquired 212 hectares of land in Andrup in Esbjerg, Denmark, for DKK 277 million ($43 million). The Esbjerg municipal announced that Facebook could start planning and surveying the land for building a data center in the future. Mayor Jesper Frost Rasmussen of Esbjerg municipal was...

October 13, 2021

Meta

What can the data center industry learn from the Facebook blackout?

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram recently experienced a six-hour blackout, where users were unable to login, message, and peruse the platforms. But, users weren't the only ones whose access to the platform was interrupted. According to reports, tech giant Facebook also lo...

October 07, 2021

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Uptime Institute finds data center operators are still failing to track environmental impact

The Uptime Institute recently released its 11th annual global data center survey, and unfortunately, the results were disappointing. The survey found that while there is a growing awareness of the need to pursue sustainability goals and create greener operations regarding data centers, most op...

September 24, 2021

Meta

Ukraine looks to attract hyperscalers

Reports are circulating that President Volodymyr Zelensky is seeking to attract hyperscalers into Ukraine, following Zelensky meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding the tech giant’s expansion into the country. However, the president’s plans to expand Ukraine’s data center footprint appear t...

September 09, 2021

Apple

Facebook pledges a "water-positive" future by 2030

As the climate crisis reaches breaking point and the number of water-stressed regions across the US increase, Facebook, whose data centers consume huge amounts of water in areas plagued by water scarcity, has promised to reverse its environmental impact.According to Sylvia Lee, Facebook’s sust...

August 20, 2021

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Apple and Google rally against Ireland's proposed moratorium on new data centers

Last month, the People Before Profit party in Ireland proposed an amendment to the Planning and Development act, to place a moratorium on new data centers being built. This proposal follows Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), launching a consultation on data center grid con...

July 28, 2021

Google

Facebook releases Renewable Impact Study

A new study into the impacts of Facebook's renewable energy projects was recently released. The report, commissioned by Facebook, and conducted by RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, revealed the social media company's renewable energy efforts have had widespread positive econom...

May 27, 2021

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