September 22, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
STACK Infrastructure has successfully connected its data center to Hafslund Oslo Celsio System in Norway for city-wide heat reuse. This is the first time a project of this kind has taken place in the country. Now, after a one-year ramp-up, STACK's OSL01 data center is now providing heat and hot...
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September 19, 2022 California
Zscaler has announced that it has achieved carbon neutral status, and said that it intends to reach net zero emissions by 2025. However, the company has not published a link to the emissions and carbon accounting data underlying this claim along with the announcement, and the data has not yet...
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September 19, 2022 Amazon AWS
AWS has announced its filing to build a new facility in DeSoto, outside Dallas, Texas. The data center will reportedly span 30,000 square foot (2,790 sq m), and work will commence early next year, with a view for completion in 2024. The facility is known as the Ezell Drive Campus and according...
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September 14, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
ESR Cayman and Stack Infrastructure have partnered to develop a new data center in Seoul, South Korea. Both companies announced the joint venture to develop a 48MW data center in Incheon. The companies plan to break ground on the data center in Q1 2023. The facility is also scheduled to be...
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September 13, 2022 California
As heat extremes in California continue, Twitter has reportedly been left without one of its key data centers in Sacramento. First reported by CNN, an internal company memo outlined that the company experienced the loss of its Sacramento data center region on September 5th, with Carrie Fernandez,...
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September 13, 2022 Evocative
San Jose, CA, –Evocative, a global provider of Internet infrastructure, announces today that the company has consolidated its portfolio to one brand: Evocative. Evocative enables enterprise organizations with a full suite of digital transformation solutions including colocation, network, bare...
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September 08, 2022 Nautilus Stockton
Backblaze, a storage cloud platform, has contracted with Nautilus Data Technologies for 1 Megawatt deployment at their Stockton Data Center in California. The move comes as part of Backblaze's plan to expand its data center portfolio and provide more scalable, efficient, and affordable cloud...
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September 06, 2022 California
California temperatures have soared to a record high, placing serious pressure on the power grid, and causing state officials to urge residents to limit their power usage. According to reports, the heat wave is most seriously affecting the Central Valley, which is projected to reach 115 degrees...
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September 05, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of its new cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company said the cloud region’s official name is Middle East (UAE). It also noted that the API name is me-central-1. According to AWS, the zone is ready for use to store data and deploy...
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September 05, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area
JLL and CIM Group have listed a new purpose-built data center for lease. The data center is located at 400 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California. The data center offers 24MW of power across 182,250 square feet of two-story powered shell building on 7.3 acres. Per additional information in the...
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August 29, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has plans to develop an 83,600 square meter (900,000 square feet) data center campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia. The company has filed to rezone over 59 acres in Nokesville Road from A-1, Agricultural to Planned Business Development. This is for the sole purpose of...
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August 19, 2022 Amazon AWS
AWS has reportedly been granted permission to build two data centers in Dublin on the site of a former Ricoh building, which was once earmarked for T5’s first European facility. This approval has gone ahead despite mounting concerns around energy availability in Dublin, environmental concerns,...
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August 11, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, have all made big claims regarding sustainability and social responsibility, however, recently, the three giants have been embroiled in a c ontroversy relating to buying so-called "blood gold." According to reports, the three, alongside Apple, bought gold from an...
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August 11, 2022 Amazon AWS
Despite Amazon's lofty promises of securing carbon neutral status before 2040, the latest statistics from its sustainability report, reveal that the giant's carbon emissions actually increased by 18%, from 60.64 million metric tons to 71.54 million metric tons, the equivalent of 19 coal-fired...
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August 04, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Data Services is leasing 5.5 acres of land from Larsen & Toubro Ltd outside Mumbai. The lease is to run for 21 years and 6 months. According to Propstack, the property documents show that Amazon is looking to develop a data center on the leased land. Amazon will be paying $451,532 per...
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August 01, 2022 Amazon AWS
The Hilliard planning and zoning commission has approved Amazon Web Services’ proposal to develop a third data center campus in the city. The commission voted 4-3 to approve the proposal. The Board of Zoning Appeals also approved AWS’ request to increase the maximum building height to 63 feet...
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July 29, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was...
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July 28, 2022 Amazon AWS
AWS has announced its plans to expand its footprint in Latin America with the development of a new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. Alongside this announcement, the company also explained that it had begun the process required to obtain an environmental permit for a $205 million data center in...
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July 19, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. According to BizJournal, the company paid up to $30.8 million to real estate firm Clarke-Hook Corp. This will be AWS’ third low-rise office property acquisition in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022. The buildings are...
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July 08, 2022 Amazon AWS
As green hydrogen turns the heads of big investors, Amazon, Equinor, and others have announced they are backing energy startup Electric Hydrogen (EH2) with a $198 million round, led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech. EH2 is reportedly working on a ‘100MW-minimum’ electrolyzer technology for...
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