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Amazon purchases 25 acres for a data center in Chantilly, Virginia

Amazon has purchased a 25-acre parcel of land in Fairfax County, Virginia, close to several of the company's current and planned data centers. BisNow reports that Amazon Data Services Inc. recently paid $34.44 million to acquire a 24.6-acre property at 44150 Wade Drive in Chantilly from Firefo...

July 10, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Google submits plans for a three-building data center facility in Belgium

Initially announced by the mayor of Farciennes, Hugues Bayet, the search and cloud company intends to construct three facilities in the Ecopôle business park in Wallonia. The campus will encompass 570,500 square feet. The project will begin construction by the end of the year and be completed ...

July 10, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

CyrusOne announces plans for new Frankfurt data center

CyrusOne has announced its plans to build its next data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA6, the facility is located in Germany’s “Digital City” and will offer a total IT capacity of 72 MW delivered over four floors, with each level offering 18 MW. The company shared that the acquired Eu...

July 07, 2023

CyrusOne

Vantage appeals application rejection in Dublin, Ireland

Vantage Data Centers is appealing to An Bord Pleanála over the decision to refuse its data center application in Dublin, Ireland. The application for a two-story, 12,893 sqm development in the West Dublin area of Clondalkin was rejected on both power capacity and environmental grounds, with t...

July 06, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Microsoft partners with Constellation for hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement

Microsoft has teamed up with Constellation to reduce the carbon footprint of one of its data centers in Boydton, Virginia. By signing an hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement with the energy producer, Microsoft's Boydton facility will receive up to 35 percent in environmental attribute...

July 04, 2023

Microsoft Azure

French court reverses injunction against CyrusOne's Paris data center construction

To obtain planning approvals for a data center in Paris, France, CyrusOne had to fight a legal battle. The Versailles Administrative Court overturned the local mayor's orders to prevent the issuance of two building permits. The company intends to convert a former logistics facility in the Vill...

July 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CyrusOne

The colocation and hosting business of Ntirety acquired by Data Canopy

The just-bought colocation company Data Canopy took over the colocation data center hosting division of IT security provider Ntirety. The deal's terms were not disclosed. Data Canopy, founded in 2007, provides colocation, connectivity, and cloud services from numerous data centers worldwide. I...

July 03, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataCanopy

Microsoft acquires 200 acres in New Albany for development of a data center

Microsoft has purchased a property in New Albany, Ohio, to probably construct a data center. Microsoft has reportedly acquired nearly 200 acres near Beech Road for a data center, as reported by the Newark Advocate. The Licking County Auditor's Office verified Microsoft paid $56.9 million to MB...

June 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

AWS planning new data center under name 'Project Echidna,' in West Sydney, Australia

AWS is planning a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Located in west Sydney, under the program name Project Echidna, the facility will see an investment of AU$300 million (US$200m). Built across two stories, the facility will offer 35.2MW of capacity on 9,225 sqm (99,300 sq ft), and is loc...

June 27, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon will allocate $7.8 billion to construct more central Ohio facilities

According to a news release from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Amazon intends to invest approximately $8 billion over six years in growing its data center business in central Ohio. Per a press release on Monday, the $7.8 billion initiative marks the second-largest private sector investment in Ohi...

June 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft signs 24x7 hourly matching energy agreement with Powerex Corp

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new 24x7 hourly matching agreement with Powerex Corp for carbon-free energy at its new data center in Washington state. The energy company will match the giant's hourly demand with direct deliveries of carbon-free hydro, solar, and wind power on a ...

June 23, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Old Mutual announces closure of data centers and migrates to AWS

Old Mutual Limited has announced that it has closed all of its on-premise data centers and moved its entire IT infrastructure to AWS. The company shared that through this move, it has been able to reduce downtime by 50 per cent. According to Old Mutual, which has been a customer of AWS since 2...

June 22, 2023

Amazon AWS

Lafayette Square funds DartPoints' Venyu acquisition

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 cente...

June 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DartPoints

Compass Datacenters bought by Ontario Teachers' Plan and Brookfield

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners will acquire Compass Datacenters with the company's current investor, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. This week, Brookfield Infrastructure, its financial partners, and longtime investor Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan revealed that they had officially agreed t...

June 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Compass Datacenters

Cologix completes its Scalelogix Data Center

Cologix has announced the completion of its new 120 MW facility in Data Center Alley, Ashburn, Virginia. The three-story data center spans 455,000 sqft, and has already been pre-leased, to a tenant described as a 'major global technology company.'According to reports, the Scalelogix ASH1 faci...

June 16, 2023

Cologix

Microsoft's Mount Pleasant data facility projected to produce 200 jobs during the first phase

200 people are anticipated to work at the Microsoft facility in Mount Pleasant during its initial phase, according to an executive summary provided to the village's Plan Commission. When completed, the data center will provide 460 employees, including 330 first-shift positions and 130 second-s...

June 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

More data center proposals in Spotsylvania; AWS files for four rezoning requests for data centers

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 ha...

June 13, 2023

Amazon AWS

SES will offer satellite connectivity for the AWS modular data facility

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 avai...

June 12, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Italy

Microsoft has announced the availability of its first cloud region in Italy. Consisting of three data centers located in the Lombardy region, the company said it guarantees the highest levels of security, privacy and performance. The region is pegged to accelerate the digital transition of or...

June 09, 2023

Microsoft Azure

IBM plans to construct a quantum data facility in Germany

IBM will construct a data center in Germany to house quantum processors. This week, the company revealed plans to establish its first quantum data facility in Europe on the IBM campus in Ehningen, near Stuttgart, to facilitate cutting-edge quantum computing for businesses, research institution...

June 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

IBM Cloud

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