February 23, 2023 NTT
On February 22nd, NTT Global Data Centers revealed that its MIST subsea cable had arrived in Mumbai, India. The Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system has a length of approximately 5000 miles. It links Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as Mumbai and Chennai...
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February 15, 2023 Google
Following the successful introduction of Arm server processors by Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud is preparing two Arm CPUs for its cloud service. Before launching the cloud service in 2025, the firm made a significant stride and will put them into trial operation this year. The cloud servers...
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February 14, 2023 Google
Uber Technologies wants to close its data center facilities after signing two significant cloud contracts. In two seven-year contracts, it will migrate over 95% of its IT to Google Cloud and Oracle from its own data centers. After 11 months of analysis, the taxi and delivery startup opted to use...
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February 09, 2023 Google
Late on Wednesday, there was a Twitter outage that prevented users from Tweeting, following accounts, or sending direct messages. A notification stating that the "daily limit of tweets has been reached" was displayed to certain users. Elon Musk, the CEO and new owner, advised workers in an email...
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February 07, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has filed for a Loudoun County campus near Ashburn. Vantage applied for federal and state approvals for its VA3 data center facility with the US Army Corps of Engineers district commander. Vantage plans to build a "large-scale data center complex" on 134 acres west of Belmont...
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February 06, 2023 VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd
Virtus, a data center company in the United Kingdom, has hired JLL to manage its centers. This week, JLL confirmed that it had been selected to provide complete facilities management expertise for all of its UK data center facilities. Neil Cresswell, the CEO of Virtus, stated that this is an...
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January 25, 2023 Google
Alphabet, Google's parent company, has announced that it is making further cuts to its staff, and is set to lose around 6% of its global workforce. The giant's reasoning for the significant downsizing is similar to the reasons cited by other tech firms that have cut back on staff in recent...
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January 18, 2023 NTT
NTT has announced that it is expanding in Texas with the addition of a new data center, dubbed ‘TX3 Data Center’. According to the company, the development will span 230,000 sq ft (21,350 sqm) and include a two-story office alongside the data center. The development has been filed with the Texas...
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January 16, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
CleanArc Data Centers, a new data center platform, has just launched, as a product of 547 Energy, a clean energy investment firm and led by Vantage Data Centers founder Jim Trout. According to the company, it will offer hyperscale customers green developments via bundling new data center campuses...
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January 12, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is to develop a 48MW data center campus in London. This move will see the company enter the London market for the first time with this £500 million ($600 million) project, its 11th EMEA campus. The company has announced that LHR, will total 430,000 sq ft...
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January 04, 2023 Google
Google is reportedly looking to expand its data center site development in Omaha, Nebraska after it first announced and filed to build a data center near State Street and Blair High Road to the northwest of the city in April. Now, according to reports, the giant has applied to rezone an...
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December 29, 2022 Google
Google has announced that it has canceled its $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota, after calling off its electric service agreement. First announced back in 2019, and based near the Sherco power plant, Google dragged its feet on the development for quite some time, and although it...
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December 29, 2022 NorthC Datacenters
NorthC Datacenters (NorthC) has partnered up with INNIO to use its Jenbacher Ready for H2 engine technology to deliver an emergency backup power solution for its newest data center, set to be constructed in Eindhoven, Netherlands. According to the company, if it is faced with electricity grid...
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December 16, 2022 NorthC Datacenters
NorthC has broken ground on a 4.5MW data center in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The 43,000 square feet (4,000 square meters) facility will be the company’s second data center in Eindhoven. It will also be located next to its existing data center on the Eindhoven High Tech Campus (HTC). The...
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December 16, 2022 AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge has announced its plan to build two data centers in Manchester, UK. The company secured permission for two data center buildings in Salford, Manchester. This will be the company’s first development since it was established in 2021. AtlasEdge filed for the buildings in May 2022 and got...
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December 14, 2022 Google
Google's Bissen data center project has gone quiet, according to Luxembourg's government, which says that it currently has no contact with the giant. The Ministry of Environment had requested a report on the environmental impact of the project, however Google also hasn't applied for a building...
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December 14, 2022 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has announced plans for a second data center campus in Johannesburg, Japan. The facility called JNB2 will be located in Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg. JNB2’s first building will feature a two-story, 33,000 square meter (355,000 square foot), 20MW data center. It is scheduled to...
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December 08, 2022 NTT
T4 Group and NTT Ltd have signed an agreement that will see the former provide data center infrastructure for the latter. T4 Group is a colocation provider with data centers in Auckland and Whangarei, New Zealand. It also has a third facility under development on New Zealand’s South Island. The...
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December 02, 2022 Google
ENGIE and Google are teaming up following the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA). The 12-year 100 MW PPA will see ENGIE deliver more than 5 TWh of green energy to Google from the Moray West project. The project is an offshore wind farm of nearly 900 MW, which is scheduled to be...
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December 01, 2022 Google
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 in...
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