June 22, 2023 DartPoints
DartPoints's May 2023 acquisition of Venyu was partly funded by Lafayette Square, a financial associate of data center provider DartPoints. Last month, DartPoints purchased the Louisiana-based operator, incorporating three data centers into its fleet and bringing the total number of data centers...
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June 13, 2023 Amazon AWS
More data centers are set to arrive in Spotsylvania County, as applications continue to pile up. Amazon is one of the key drivers here, planning four new data center campuses in Virginia's Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, equating to more than 10 million square feet of development. Amazon has...
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June 12, 2023 Amazon AWS
SES released a satellite connectivity solution for Department of Defense (DoD) clients using the new modular data center product from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This week, SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned division of SES, announced that satellite-powered network connectivity is now...
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June 02, 2023 Amazon AWS
Chris Vonderhaar, head of data center design, planning, construction, and operation, has made an abrupt departure from AWS. This announcement comes as AWS continues to invest in its data center footprint, pegged to invest $35 billion alone on new data centers in Virginia by 2040. AWS has also...
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June 02, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Renantis for wind energy in Finland from its two Renantis' onshore wind farms when they're complete. The Mustalamminmäki and Koiramäki wind farms in Karstula, Central Finland, will have a combined...
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May 30, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon's contentious $1 billion subsidy in Oregon is coming under fire from critics. The massive break was given the go-ahead following a unanimous vote by Port of Morrow's five commissioners which enabled the giant to secure the enterprise zone incentives. Locals were given just one day's notice...
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May 26, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be leasing land in Navi Mumbai, India, for a new data facility. The Hindustan Times reports that Amazon Data Services (an Indian subsidiary) has subleased a 451,000-square-foot site in the TTC industrial area in Bonsari, Airoli, for 15 years to construct a data...
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May 23, 2023 CyrusOne
Earlier this month, PowerHouse Data Centers announced a 30-year lease agreement with CyrusOne, for a spec-built data center, ABX-1, located in Ashburn, Virginia. The company shared that substantial completion of the data center, a two-story, 265,000 SF powered shell, is scheduled for October....
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May 23, 2023 CyrusOne
CyrusOne has announced its partnership with Japanese energy firm Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) for the development of new data centers across Japan. The 50:50 joint venture, called CyrusOne KEP, will see at least one trillion yen ($7 billion) invested in the project over the next...
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May 23, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon will demolish several office buildings it purchased in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022 and rebuild those structures with four data centers. Amazon Data Services has submitted to Loudoun County proposals to tear down and replace nine office buildings in three sites in Sterling with four data...
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May 11, 2023 Amazon AWS
Officials in a rural county in the northeastern corner of Oregon have voted to provide Amazon with tax benefits that are believed to be worth one billion dollars so that the company can build five additional data centers there. According to The Oregonian and OregonLive, the five commissioners of...
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May 04, 2023 DartPoints
DartPoints, a frontrunner in the edge market colocation, cloud, and security service space, has acquired Venyu, the leading data center infrastructure and cloud services provider in Louisiana. DartPoints now operates 11 data centers totaling over 325,000 sq ft of space and 20 MW throughout the...
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April 20, 2023 CyrusOne
Asset-backed securities totaling $701 million will be backed by real estate and tenant contracts for space and electrical capacity in five finished and operational data centers in Texas and Virginia. According to a pre-sale assessment from S&P Global Ratings, the CyrusOne Data Centers, 2023-1...
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April 14, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Networking has partnered with Element Six, a De Beers Group division, to create synthetic diamonds that can act as nodes in quantum networks. This collaboration aims to use diamond memory nodes to enable quantum communication to travel long distances...
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April 07, 2023 Amazon AWS
House Bill 2816, which sought to impose greenhouse gas emissions standards to encourage data centers to cut their carbon emissions in Oregon, died in legislative committee this week. Amazon, which aggressively lobbied against the bill, has been cited as one of the major reasons for its defeat....
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April 07, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon has signed another Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), this time with Grenergy Renovables SA, to procure solar energy in Spain. The 10-year deal will provide AWS with 469 MWp of solar energy. Grenergy Renovables is an independent power producer (IPP) involved in large-scale renewable energy...
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April 06, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon has announced that it has inked a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in New Zealand Mercury to procure wind energy. The giant will procure around half the output from the local energy company's 103MW Turitea South onshore wind farm; which is more than is required to fuel Amazon Web...
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April 05, 2023 Amazon AWS
As Amazon continues its seemingly unstoppable global expansionm, in Warrenton, North Virginia, home to the biggest data center hub in the world, environmentalists and local residents have launched a lawsuit to try and stop the behemoth's growth in the region. The environmental nonprofit Citizens...
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April 05, 2023 Amazon AWS
OneDigital, a division of the Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers, has inked a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to be its principal cloud provider. Amazon will also equip the Australian business with an AWS Skills Guild to educate and certify 500 workers. Wesfarmers, one of the...
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April 04, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon has announced that it has signed another PPA with Iberdrola, through which it will be provided with wind and solar energy from its offshore wind farms in Germany for 1.1 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually. The wind farms, Baltic Eagle and Windanker, will have a total capacity of 476MW and...
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