June 09, 2022 Orange
Orange has announced that it opened two data centers in France. The French company commissioned the data centers in the Val-de-Reuil in Normandy and the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. The data center buildings span 172,200 square feet (16,000 square meters) and 53,800 square feet (5,000...
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May 05, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced that it is expanding its Mesa data center campus in Arizona. The company announced in a Facebook post that: “In August 2021, we were thrilled to add Mesa, Arizona, to our family of data centers. Just nine months later, we’re excited to announce that we are expanding the Meta...
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May 03, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced further expansion with an injection of over $1 billion into three new data centers at its cloud campus in DeKalb, Illinois. The data center will span nearly 2.4 million-square-foot. Speaking about the decision to expand its presence at the cloud campus, Darcy Nothnagle,...
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April 21, 2022 Meta
Meta has partnered up with EDP Renewables, it has announced. The energy company will supply solar energy in Texas via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The social media giant, will gain access to 156MW, procured from the 240MW Cattlemen Solar Park in Milam County, which EDP Renewables North...
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April 08, 2022 Meta
Meta has recently signed another power purchase agreement (PPA) with TransAlta Corporation. Through this deal, Meta will be provided with 200MW from the upcoming Horizon Hill Wind Power Project, which is to be based in Oklahoma. Construction on the project, which will be located on 25,000 acres,...
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April 01, 2022 Meta
Meta is going to develop a data center in Temple, Texas. The social media giant plans to develop the new facility on a 393-acre site located off Industrial Blvd. and NW H K Dodgen Loop. When completed, the new data center will have up to 83,600 square meters (900,000 square feet) of space. Work...
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March 31, 2022 Meta
Meta has finally announced that it is pausing its plans for a mega data center in the Netherlands. The company said it would not be going forward with its plans for the facility in Zeewolde until further notice. Facebook gained approval for the facility from the Zeewolde council. However, it...
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March 30, 2022 Meta
Construction on the solar farm that will supply Meta's Gallatin data centers with renewable energy is underway; it has been announced. Based in Madison County, Tennessee, the farm will see an investment of upwards of $90 million, which will be funded, owned, operated, and maintained by...
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March 28, 2022 Meta
Meta has confirmed that it will indeed be a tenant at the Golden Plains Technology Park and intends to build a data center at the location in Kansas City, Missouri. The giant said that construction on the facility has begun, and that it expects it to be operational in 2024. According to reports,...
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March 25, 2022 Meta
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 be in...
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March 24, 2022 Meta
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....
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March 18, 2022 Meta
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....
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March 14, 2022 Meta
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 would...
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March 11, 2022 Meta
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 feet)...
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February 04, 2022 Meta
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 invested...
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January 26, 2022 Meta
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, as...
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January 18, 2022 Orange
Orange has joined forces with Engie to transform its Ivory Coast, Tier III-certified GOS (Groupement Orange Services) data center and install solar panels. The site, located in Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, was first built in 2016, spanning 16,600 sqm (179,000 sq ft). This project comes in...
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January 18, 2022 Meta
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...
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January 06, 2022 Orange
In its latest move towards its sustainability pledge, Orange has announced that it has penned a 36MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Enertrag. This deal means that up to 30% of Orange Polska’s needs will be met with wind energy, from an offshore wind farm on the Vistula River...
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December 13, 2021 Orange
Orange has announced the launch of a €50 million ($56.3m) carbon fund, which will finance reforestation and ecological restoration projects in partnership with Mirova (Natixis Investment Managers). This announcement is in line with the company's Net Zero Carbon by 2040 environmental strategy, and...
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