October 29, 2021 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...
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October 13, 2021 Meta
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...
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October 07, 2021 Meta
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 lost...
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September 24, 2021 Meta
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...
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September 09, 2021 Apple
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 to...
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August 20, 2021 Meta
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...
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July 28, 2021 Apple
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...
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May 27, 2021 Meta
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 economic...
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May 25, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Following the trend of building taller buildings, Facebook has revealed that it is boosting its capacity with a new multi-storey data center design as part of its global infrastructure expansion. The design is being rolled out in its Prineville, Oregon campus, deployed in two new facilities. The...
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October 07, 2020 Apple
T5 has announced that it has acquired an enterprise data center in Newark, CA. The description matches an Apple data center near Fremont. It's a legacy site and Apple is continuing to build monster data center campuses, so it makes sense that the iPhone make would divest the property. The nearest...
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June 11, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center
Facebook has announced their ninth data center on the Prineville, Oregon campus. The building will be 450,000 sqft and be completed in 2023. Rendering of the 9th data center accompanied the announcement
April 25, 2019 Apple
AppleInsider reports that Apple's spending on Amazon Web Services is declining. This makes sense, as Apple continues to build their own data centers, their reliance on 3rd party cloud services will decline. That said, Apple needs to work out a better "edge" CDN solution to deliver their content...
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March 06, 2019 Meta
Facebook plans to sell excess fiber on its owned long haul routes that interconnect Facebook data centers. As part of the plan, Facebook will allow local and regional network providers to acquire capacity. Fast Facts: Initially, Facebook is focused on the network connecting their data centers in...
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October 23, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center
Story originally appeared on Solar Power WorldA solar power plant developed and to be built by First Solar will help support Facebook’s Prineville, Oregon, data center with 100% renewable energy. Through a power purchase agreement (PPA) with PacifiCorp, the 58-MWac Cove Mountain Solar Project...
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October 21, 2018 US Signal
US Signal, a leading end-to-end IT solutions provider, today announced that it has partnered with Cloudflare, the leading internet performance and security company, to bring a fully managed and customizable distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection service to market. The new service...
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October 02, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center
Social network and advertising giant Facebook plans to add another two buildings to its data center campus in Crook County, Oregon, by mid-2020. The $750 million investment will bring the company's total footprint at the site to more than 3.2 million square feet (300,000 sq m), making it...
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July 19, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center
Facebook and Pacific Power said they are joining up to construct solar projects that will generate energy to offset what Facebook uses at its data centers in Prineville, Oregon. The solar projects, two near Prineville and four in Utah, expect to produce 437 megawatts of power when finished by the...
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