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Stack Plans to Setting up Two San Jose Data Centers

Stack has applied for approval to expand its San Jose, California data center campus. This week, the San Jose City planning commission will consider Stack's request to construct two data centers at 2400 Ringwood Avenue and 1880 Fortune Drive in Santa Clara County, as first reported by SF Yimby...

April 26, 2023

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Meta Redesigned its Data Center After Abandoning AI Chip Rollout And Switching to Nvidia GPUs

Reuters reports that Meta abandoned plans to release its own artificial intelligence processor and instead adopted Nvidia GPUs. Initial use of CPUs for AI training and chips for inference caused the company to fall behind in AI development. The switch to GPUs necessitated the redesign of its d...

April 26, 2023

Meta

Google signs new PPA with EDPR

Google has announced that it has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), EDPR NA Distributed Generation (EDPR NA DG), for solar energy in the US. This deal is reportedly the largest-ever corporate sponsorship for distributed generation signed between two companies in the US.Over 80 distr...

April 25, 2023

Google

Google merges DeepMind and Brain

Google has announced a merger between its DeepMind subsidiary and Google Research's Brain division, dubbed 'Google DeepMind, as it pursues its big AI push. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai outlined that this move will "significantly accelerate" the company's AI progress. This move may co...

April 25, 2023

Google

Microsoft gains approval for construction in Hollands Kroon area

After what has been a long road, potted with controversy and setbacks, Microsoft has obtained construction permission for its data center in the Hollands Kroon area in the north of the Netherlands, after a protracted permitting process. While permission has now been granted, back in 2021, the ...

April 25, 2023

Microsoft Azure

EdgeConneX Increases the Size of Its Israeli Data Centers

The construction of a new facility in Rishon will allow EdgeConneX, an innovator in global Hyperlocal to Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, to increase its data center impact in Israel. The new data center will meet the region's growing demand from hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and bus...

April 25, 2023

EdgeConneX

CyrusOne Data Centers is Getting Ready to Issue CMBS Worth $701 million

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, 202...

April 20, 2023

CyrusOne

Cologix Concludes a $144.7 Million Asset Securitization Deal

Asset-backed securities worth $144.7 million have been closed by Cologix. Through a private placement transaction that was completed on April 5, the North American and Canadian hyperscale Edge data center and network-neutral links provider made a deal with secured notes. Cologix's chief financ...

April 20, 2023

Cologix

Final approval: Microsoft's $1 billion data center receives green light in Racine County

In Racine County, Microsoft's $1 billion data center campus in Wisconsin has been given the go-ahead by The Racine County Board of Supervisors after initially receiving Village Board approval. As per the deal, the tech giant will begin the first phase of construction by July 2026, with the sec...

April 19, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco

Google has announced that it has signed a new 10-year PPA with Eneco, a Dutch utility company, for 0.5TW/h of power, with a capacity of 153MW across the lifespan of the deal. The two wind farms the energy will be sourced from are the Fryslân offshore wind farm and the Kroningswind onshore win...

April 19, 2023

Google

Microsoft eyes expansion in Chicago, Illinois

Following news that Microsoft has acquired over 30 more acres of land in Chicago, Illinois, it is believed that the giant will be expanding its data center presence in the region. The land, purchased for $41.5 million, is reportedly set to house two 207,000-square-foot (19,230 sqm) data center...

April 18, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Aligned Acquires 177k Sq. Ft. Office Building in Chicago for New Data Center Campus

Aligned bought an office property in the Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Elk Grove. It is currently unknown whether the company intends to convert the facility occupied by CitiBank into a data center. The Real Deal reports, citing Cook County public records, that Aligned purchased 50 Nort...

April 18, 2023

Aligned

Human Rights Watch releases statement on Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans

Microsoft's new cloud data center region in Saudi Arabia has faced criticism since the tech giant announced its plans in early February. Now, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for Microsoft to suspend its investment in the country until it can "clearly demonstrate" how it plans to mitigate ...

April 14, 2023

Microsoft Azure

AWS and Element Six Develop Synthetic Diamonds for Quantum Networks

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 distance...

April 14, 2023

Amazon AWS

Authomize Expands Cloud Security Services to Australian Businesses with Microsoft Data Centers Availability

Authomize, a leading cloud security and authorization platform, has announced that its services are now available in Microsoft data centers in Australia. This expansion brings Authomize's innovative platform closer to Australian businesses seeking advanced security solutions. According to the ...

April 14, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

Google has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with Luminus to source wind energy in Belgium. The 12-year deal will see the tech giant acquire 23.8MW of energy from the Belgium energy company, sourced from four new onshore wind projects.According to Google, the PPA in Belgium will ke...

April 13, 2023

Google

Microsoft Submits Plans For a Six-Building Data Center Facility in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Microsoft has filed plans to construct a new data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. This week, the Norfolk District of the US Army Corps of Engineers got a joint license application for Federal and State clearances from the corporation. According to the application – labeled LYH03 Bailey...

April 12, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership, which aims to encourage organizations to voluntarily utilize green power for the benefit of the planet and human health. Through signing up for the Green Power Partnership...

April 11, 2023

Aligned

"Shut it all down": Machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky sounds alarm on AI evolution

As AI continues its rapid evolution, machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is sounding the alarm, arguing that AI should not only be paused, as recommended by the Future of Life Institute, but stopped entirely. Yudkowsky has been a vocal critic of AI for over two decades, and says that...

April 11, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying

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....

April 07, 2023

Amazon AWS

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