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Vantage To Develop Second Data Center Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa

Vantage Data Centers has announced plans for a second data center campus in Johannesburg, Japan. The facility called JNB2 will be located in Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg. JNB2’s first building will feature a two-story, 33,000 square meter (355,000 square foot), 20MW data center. It is scheduled...

December 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

Aligned To Develop a 264MW and 3.3 Million Square Feet Facility at Quantum Loophole's Maryland campus

Aligned has revealed plans for its new data center at the 2,100-acre Quantum Loophole campus in Frederick County, Maryland. Quantum Loophole revealed in May 2021 that it is developing a gigawatt-scale data center campus in Frederic County, Maryland. A year later, Aligned became the first compa...

December 13, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Aligned

CyrusOne accelerates carbon neutral pledge

Data center firm CyrusOne, a member of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, has announced that it is accelerating its carbon-neutral pledge by ten years. The company is now promising to achieve this green goal by 2030 rather than 2040.According to the company, it will achieve this goal by imp...

December 12, 2022

CyrusOne

Microsoft plans gas plant at Dublin Campus over energy constraint concerns

Microsoft has announced plans to build an 'unprecedentedly large-scale gas power plant' at its Grange Castle site, an upcoming data center development, due to its concerns about Ireland's energy grid constraints. According to the giant, plans are to build a 170 MW on-site power plant alongsid...

December 12, 2022

Microsoft Azure

AWS Plans To Develop a 2.2 Million Square Feet Campus in Gainesville

Amazon is looking to develop a large data center campus in Gainesville, Virginia. The company submitted two special-use permit requests for a 2.2 million square feet data center campus that will sit on 117 acres of land at 5845 and 5945 Wellington Road. Per the company’s requests, it is lookin...

December 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Bloomberg Reporting Aligned is Close To Odata Acquisition

According to Bloomberg, Aligned is looking to acquire Brazilian data center operator Odata. The report states that the discussions are in the advanced stage of a potential $1.8 billion deal. However, there’s still uncertainty about the deal, and it is more likely to fall through as it is to...

December 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Aligned

QTS Looking To Expand in Prince William County

QTS is looking to expand its data center footprint in Prince William County, Northern Virginia. The company previously acquired a property at 10680 University Boulevard in 2018 for $5 million. The property is adjacent to its existing data center in Prince William County. The property was zoned...

December 07, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Amazon signs a new PPA in India with Vibrant Energy

Amazon has announced that it has signed 300MW worth of wind and solar power purchase agreements (PPA) in India with Vibrant Energy, a Macquarie Group's Green Investment Group (GIG) subsidiary. The projects, based in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, are projected to generate 1,163,0...

December 06, 2022

Amazon AWS

AWS signs new renewable energy deal with Brookfield

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Canadian alternative investment management company Brookfield have partnered to sign a 601 MW power purchase agreement (PPA). Brookfield Renewable, a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, will provide wind and solar energy capacity to AWS’s operations.As per...

December 06, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft To Develop a $400m Data Center in Stone Ridge, Virginia

According to BizJournal, Microsoft has plans to develop a new data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The publication cited the Loudoun County records for its information. Microsoft’s plan is to develop a $400 million facility on a 67-acre land it owns in the Arcola Business Park. The IAD11 d...

December 06, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Aligned Data Centers Plans To Develop 192MW Data Center at Quantum Loophole's Maryland campus

Aligned Data Centers has announced its plan for a massive data center in Frederick County, Maryland. The company plans to develop a gigawatt-scale facility at the 2,100-acre Quantum Loophole Campus. Earlier in May 2022, Aligned announced that it would develop a data center at the Quantum Looph...

December 06, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Aligned

Meta continues sustainability efforts with new PPA in Arkansas

Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that it has signed another PPA with D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a renewable energy producer in the US. The PPA is a long-term renewable energy off-take agreement through which Meta will procure solar energy from the upcoming Long Lake Projec...

December 05, 2022

STACK Infrastructure and ESR Form JV To Develop 72MW Facility in Osaka

Stack Infrastructure has partnered with ESR Group Limited to develop a 72MW data center campus in Osaka, Japan. The JV will see the companies develop the facility in Keihanna, Osaka. Stack and ESR schedule that the development of the first of three buildings will start in Q4 2023. The build...

December 05, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW

ENGIE and Google are teaming up following the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA). The 12-year 100 MW PPA will see ENGIE deliver more than 5 TWh of green energy to Google from the Moray West project. The project is an offshore wind farm of nearly 900 MW, which is scheduled to...

December 02, 2022

Google

Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year PPA with German energy infrastructure developer ib vogt to procure solar energy in the province of Zamora in Spain. ib vogt began work on the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in September, which is expected to commence commercial operations i...

December 01, 2022

Google

Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign

As part of the 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign, climate groups Extinction Rebellion and Not Here Not Anywhere took to the giant's Irish Headquarters in protest. The groups called for Amazon's AWS to pay its workers, its taxes and pay for its damage to the climate, due to its 'unsustainable' environ...

December 01, 2022

Amazon AWS

AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of new Local Zones in Denmark, Oman, Argentina, and Denmark. The launch sees AWS’ total international Local Zones outside the US reach eight. Local Zones serve the purpose of Edge locations for hosting applications that need low latency to on-premis...

December 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has started work on a new facility in Virginia. The groundbreaking ceremony of the NVAL3 hyperscale data center campus took place this week. The data center’s first phase will deliver 36MW of capacity in a single building by Q1 2024. In addition, t...

December 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California

According to Real Deal and Globe Street, Vantage Data Centers has received $350m in funding to develop a data center in Santa Clara, California. Vantage DC acquired a building in the city, and the fund will be used to convert it into a data center campus. The planned facility will span 44,5...

December 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year

Amazon has announced its goal of becoming water positive by 2030, which, according to AWS, will see it returning more water to the communities that it uses in its operations. It also promised to report on its WUE each year. Through this announcement, it joins the likes of other tech giants, Go...

November 30, 2022

Amazon AWS

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