April 27, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced it has signed another PPA, this time, with ATCO Group. The PPA will enable the giant to procure solar energy in Canada from a 37MW Deerfoot solar project, which is adjacent to ATCO's 27-MW Barlow project. According to reports, the projects' construction will take place in...
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April 27, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is looking to develop a new data center in Manassas, Northern Virginia. The company submitted a request to the US Army Corps of Engineers to build the MNZ01 Balls Ford Road Data Center. The project will involve Microsoft developing two three-story buildings, MNZ01 and MNZ02, on the...
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April 22, 2022 CyrusOne
CyrusOne, a signatory and founding member of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, has announced that it is collaborating with Gexa Energy following the signing of a new power purchase agreement (PPA). Through this agreement, the data center company will be provided with wind and solar power for...
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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 20, 2022 Aligned Chicago ORD-01
Aligned has announced the completion of work on the first data center at its campus in Chicagoland. In addition, the company has also broken ground on a new data center at the campus. Aligned completed the first phase of its ORD-01 data center, which is located in Northlake, Illinois. The data...
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April 20, 2022 DataBank
DataBank has announced that it is expanding its SNA2 data center in Irvine, California. The expansion will see the company add 4MW of critical power and 24,000 square feet (2,200 square meters) of raised floor space. The facility currently offers 4MW of critical power and 3,100 square meters...
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April 19, 2022 Csquare
Evoque has announced that it is moving beyond a colocation provider to offering build-to-suit data center services. The company's senior director of communications, Kevin Fleming, revealed that it is pioneering a new development with its build-to-suit solutions for government, hyperscale, and...
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April 15, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has announced its plans to develop an 84MW mega data center campus in Prince William County, North Virginia. The facility will be housed on a 34-acre site. It will also feature a minimum of two data center buildings spanning 602,000 square feet. Stack plans to deliver the...
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April 14, 2022 Aligned
Aligned Data Centers has announced the launch of a material tracing system called the OriginMark system. According to the company, this tracing system has been introduced to enhance and accelerate supply chain decarbonization. This will be achieved through the use of a unique identifier, similar...
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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 07, 2022 Equinix
In its latest sustainability effort, Equinix has announced $1.2 billion of "green bonds," the fourth green bond the company has issued. Now the company's total green bonds stand at $4.9 billion. According to the company, the company will use these funds to push forward its sustainability...
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April 05, 2022 NTT
NTT and Macquarie Asset Management are partnering up to invest in data centers. These firms announced that they had entered a strategic real estate partnership that covers NTT’s wholesale facilities across North America and Europe. The agreement will see Macquarie invest real estate capital with...
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April 04, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has joined Host In Ireland’s Orchards in the Community initiative, alongside CyrusOne, and is now one of 52 pledgers – and more than 90 schools and community groups. The initiative plans to help plant over 1,200 orchards across Ireland to bolster the country’s declining bee population....
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April 04, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it plans to build a data center in Salalah, a city located on the south coast of the Sultanate of Oman, making it the second in Oman, with links to its MC1 in Muscat. SN1 will also be the company's fifth data center in the region, and will be built in partnership with...
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April 04, 2022 CyrusOne
KKR & Global Infrastructure Partners have announced that they have completed and closed the acquisition of CyrusOne. The acquisition sees the public company become private. The acquisition fee is $15 billion, making it the largest Merger and Acquisition deal in the data center industry...
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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 31, 2022 NTT
NTT and QD.Tek are partnering up to build a data center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Both companies will form a joint venture called NTT Global Data Centers HCMC1 Limited Liability. The partnership will see the companies develop the new facility called Ho Chi Minh City 1 Data Center. The...
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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 30, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has launched preliminary plans for a large data center complex near the corner of Component Drive and Orchard Parkway in San Jose, after it bought the plot back in 2021. According to Santa Clara County property records, the giant paid $78.7 million for the 21.3-acre site. Jonathan Fox,...
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