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Figures around Microsoft's Holland data center water consumption cause concern

Microsoft's data center in the province of North Holland has been exposed for its extreme water usage. It appears that the facility consumes significantly more water than original estimates, right as the country is faced with record temperatures. According to a report by local media company N...

August 18, 2022

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne: Approval granted for Science-Based Carbon Target from SBTi

CyrusOne has announced that it has received approval of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), reaffirming its commitment to the target of reducing absolute Scope 1 (fuels) and Scope 2 (electricity) GHG emissions by 38% by 2030 from ...

August 18, 2022

CyrusOne

Compass Datacenters To Develop 48MW Data Center Campus in Milan, Italy

Compass Datacenters has announced the acquisition of and in Milan. The company partnered with real estate firm Hines to acquire the property for the development of a 48MW data center campus. The move sees Compass venture into Europe for the first time. The land acquired by the two companies...

August 17, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Compass Datacenters

Google To Launch Cloud Regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia

Google has announced its plans to launch three Cloud regions in the APAC region. The company plans to launch these regions in New Zealand, Thailand, and Malaysia. Although its competitors like Microsoft Azure and AWS already have projects in the works in Malaysia and New Zealand, it is the fir...

August 17, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Lincoln Rackhouse and Principal Real Estate Investors Acquire 7MW Data Center in Atlanta

Principal Real Estate Investors and Lincoln Rack have acquired a data center in Atlanta. The data center spans 185,000 square feet (17,200 square meters). It also sits on 38 acres of land. The facility has a capacity of 7MW. It can also be expanded to 13MW upon full build out. According to ...

August 12, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Lincoln Rackhouse

Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft embroiled in gold mine controversy

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, have all made big claims regarding sustainability and social responsibility, however, recently, the three giants have been embroiled in a c ontroversy relating to buying so-called "blood gold." According to reports, the three, alongside Apple, bought gold from an...

August 11, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon's emissions increase

Despite Amazon's lofty promises of securing carbon neutral status before 2040, the latest statistics from its sustainability report, reveal that the giant's carbon emissions actually increased by 18%, from 60.64 million metric tons to 71.54 million metric tons, the equivalent of 19 coal-fired ...

August 11, 2022

Amazon AWS

Google experiences widespread outage

This week, Google was down after experiencing an outage that impacted systems worldwide. As reported by DCD, this outage occurred shortly after an explosion at Google’s data center in Iowa - however, currently, it is unknown whether the two are related. According to Down Detector, the ou...

August 10, 2022

Google

Microsoft's hydrogen fuel test successful

Microsoft has announced that its hydrogen fuel cell tests have been successful. The giant recently trialed the energy source for its backup generators to support its data center, in what has been called a “moon landing” moment for the data center industry. Microsoft director of data center re...

August 10, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Leases 5.5 Acres in Mumbai for 21 Years

Amazon Data Services is leasing 5.5 acres of land from Larsen & Toubro Ltd outside Mumbai. The lease is to run for 21 years and 6 months. According to Propstack, the property documents show that Amazon is looking to develop a data center on the leased land. Amazon will be paying $451,532 p...

August 04, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Aligned Data Centers announces expansion in Northern Virginia

Aligned Data Centers has announced its expansion in Northern Virginia, with the addition of a new 72 MW four-story data center across 430,000 sqft based at its new campus in Sterling. This addition will be the company’s third in the area and part of phase one of the campus development. The fa...

August 03, 2022

Aligned

Meta announces Sarpy data center expansion

Meta has announced that it will expand its Sarpy data center in Sarpy County, Nebraska, once again, with the introduction of a new building which will make it a nine-building, four million-square-foot (371,600 sqm) campus that will be fuelled with renewable energy sourced by wind farm projects...

August 02, 2022

Meta

Hilliard's Planning Commission Approves AWS' Proposal For Data Center Campus in Hilliard, Ohio

The Hilliard planning and zoning commission has approved Amazon Web Services’ proposal to develop a third data center campus in the city. The commission voted 4-3 to approve the proposal. The Board of Zoning Appeals also approved AWS’ request to increase the maximum building height to 63 feet ...

August 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Stack Launches New Data Center at its Milan Campus

Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was deve...

July 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

AWS announces cloud region in Santiago, Chile

AWS has announced its plans to expand its footprint in Latin America with the development of a new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. Alongside this announcement, the company also explained that it had begun the process required to obtain an environmental permit for a $205 million data center i...

July 28, 2022

Amazon AWS

Vantage Data Centers opens Johannesburg Data Center

Vantage Data Centers has announced the ground-breaking of its first facility on its 80MW Johannesburg campus, a project which launched in 2021. The two-story facility called JHB11 reportedly offers 16MW of capacity of 130,000sqft square feet (12,000 square meters). According to the company, t...

July 28, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

QTS releases annual ESG report renewing commitment to sustainability and social responsibility

QTS recently published its annual ESG report, in which it highlighted its sustainability achievements and the different projects and initiatives it's pursuing in order to expand its commitment to social and environmental responsibility. This follows the company being named as one of America's ...

July 26, 2022

QTS Data Centers

Microsoft Might Be Planning To Develop its First Data Center in Romania

Romanian media Profit.ro reports that Microsoft plans to develop its first data center in the company. Microsoft buying a plot of land in the city of Otopeni is a major catalyst of this speculation. Microsoft did not deny or confirm the story reported by Profit.ro. However, the company said it...

July 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

UK data center operators battle the heat with hosepipes, while Google and Oracle face service disruption

The UK’s heatwave pushed temperatures to a record-breaking 40C this week, causing transport delays and service disruptions. To battle the heat, some data center operators have been using hose pipes to cool their facilities. According to a report by Bloomberg, staff in London have been spraying...

July 20, 2022

Google

Vantage secures green loan for Virginia data enter

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has secured a $300 million green loan for its upcoming 44MW sustainability-designed data center in Virginia. Structured and arranged by Societe Generale, the loan recognizes the facility’s sustainable features and will, according to the company, “exp...

July 19, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

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