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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August 20, 2021 Google
Google has announced that it will expand its New Albany data center campus in Ohio with an injection of $1 billion. It first broke ground on the campus back in 2019, and the project has seen $600 million of investment already. On top of its capacity expansion at the New Albany campus, the tech...
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August 17, 2021 Microsoft Azure
As part of its East US 3 Azure data center region, Microsoft wants to develop close to 1 million square feet of data center buildings in Douglasville, Georgia. Earlier in the year, Microsoft announced its plans for a new US Azure region. At the time of the announcement, the Company said it would...
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August 06, 2021 Microsoft Azure
With more and more data center companies committing to climate change initiatives, the industry is also looking at how it can make backup energy more sustainable too. For decades, diesel has served as the primary fuel for traditional backup generators - however, diesel fuels, whilst getting...
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August 06, 2021 Microsoft Azure
According to the principles of Moore’s law, technology will double in its capacity every two years. Although on the technological advancement front this is great news, with increased computer power comes challenges. The main challenge being increased excess heat and the need to cool it. A number...
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July 28, 2021 Google
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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July 23, 2021 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is reportedly in talks with the Telangana government to construct one of its largest data centers with an investment of around USD$2- 2.25 billion (Rs 15,000 crore). If this goes ahead, it will make it one of the tech giant’s biggest investments outside of the US. According to Business...
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July 21, 2021 Microsoft Azure
In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power. Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...
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July 21, 2021 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is the latest company to pledge carbon-neutrality by 2030. Within the next 19 years, the tech giant promises to run all its global data centers and offices with zero-carbon energy. In a recent blog, written by Lucas Joppa, chief environmental officer and Noelle Walsh, CVP, cloud...
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June 30, 2021 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud technology and intellectual property. It will also be making job offers to hundreds of AT&T engineers. As part of the deal, AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to Microsoft Azure. AT&T’s 5G core would be the starting point. This deal...
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June 18, 2021 Microsoft Azure
According to reports from Bloomberg, Microsoft is looking to add four new data centers in China by Q1 of 2022. The report states that Microsoft wants to expand its service across Asia and opening data centers in China is a step towards achieving that. Asides from that, the Company also intends to...
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June 09, 2021 1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)
Valterra Partners LLC and Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty LLC have acquired ColoHouse, a managed service provider with headquarters in Miami, Florida. Valterra Partners is an equity firm, while Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty is a data center Company. The deal also includes...
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June 04, 2021 Google
Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP). Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...
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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 19, 2021 Google
Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a...
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May 18, 2021 Google
Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware...
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May 15, 2021 Google
Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to...
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April 15, 2020 Google
Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The...
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April 01, 2020 Microsoft Azure
SUNeVision Holdings Ltd, a Data centre provider in Hong Kong, has announced a new Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute on-ramp. Enterprises will have the ability to directly connect to Azure in MEGA-i, either through an onsite point of presence (PoP) or via telco partners, managed service providers or...
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May 17, 2019 Lunavi
CHEYENNE, WY – Green House Data, a leading provider of digital transformation services including managed cloud hosting, data center modernization, and enterprise advisory services, today announced the acquisition of Deliveron, an agile-focused DevOps development firm. By deepening staff and...
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