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Facebook acquires land in Denmark for potential data center development

Facebook has acquired 212 hectares of land in Andrup in Esbjerg, Denmark, for DKK 277 million ($43 million). The Esbjerg municipal announced that Facebook could start planning and surveying the land for building a data center in the future. Mayor Jesper Frost Rasmussen of Esbjerg municipal was...

October 13, 2021

Vantage is expanding into Johannesburg, South Africa

Vantage Data Centers is expanding into Africa by breaking ground on a new 80MW campus in Johannesburg, South Africa. The campus will be developed in phases, with the first 16MW phase scheduled to be completed in 2022. The new facility is located in Waterfall City in Johannesburg. Also, the ...

October 13, 2021

Vantage Data Centers

Stack Infrastructure: Hyperscale data center goes online in Silicon Valley

Stack Infrastructure’s latest data center facility in Silicon Valley (SVY02) is now live and is adjacent to the company’s existing SVY01 facility at its Silicon Valley Campus. This 3-story, 240,000 sqft facility brings 32MW of capacity to the region and is powered entirely by 100% renewable e...

October 12, 2021

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Microsoft expands adds South Korea and South Africa Azure regions

Microsoft has announced that it has added Availability Zones to its Cloud regions in South Korea and South Africa. It has also de-listed another region in South Africa. Each of the newly expanded Cloud regions in South Korea and South Africa now has three Availability Zones. Microsoft Cloud...

October 12, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Google and Thales Partner to form French sovereign cloud service

Google and Thales have announced a new Joint Venture that will offer a sovereign cloud service in France. The companies announced that they would develop a sovereign hyperscale cloud offering for France. The new company aims to provide cloud services to local private and public companies th...

October 08, 2021

Google

What can the data center industry learn from the Facebook blackout?

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram recently experienced a six-hour blackout, where users were unable to login, message, and peruse the platforms. But, users weren't the only ones whose access to the platform was interrupted. According to reports, tech giant Facebook also lo...

October 07, 2021

Google to move into Eagle Mountain, Utah?

Google has reportedly purchased 300 acres in Eagle Mountain, Utah, which could potentially be home to a new data center. Google already has offices in the region, in Salt Lake City and Provo. The plot of land is located in the south on Pony Express Parkway, near Facebook’s 1.5 million-square-...

October 05, 2021

Google

AWS to begin work on its second data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio

Amazon Web Services plans to start the construction of its second data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio. The Company revealed that work would begin in the next few months. Hilliard Economic Development Director David Meadows said to BizJournals that AWS would start construction on its second...

October 01, 2021

AWS US East (Ohio)

AWS buys 42-acre of land in Warrenton for $40 million

According to Fauquier Now, Amazon Web Services has acquired a 41.7-acre land in Warrenton, Fauquier County, for $39.7 million. The land it acquired is on Blackwell Road, Lee Highway. With each acre costing $952,000, this is reportedly the biggest real estate transaction in the history of No...

September 30, 2021

Amazon AWS

Google announces expansion plans in The Dallas, Oregon

According to Oregon Live, Google plans to build more data centers in The Dalles, in Oregon’s Wasco County. The report shows that the search engine giant wants to build two more data centers in The Dalles. It is also looking to get access to more water and tax breaks. Google will be building...

September 29, 2021

Google

Microsoft opens Availability Zones in Norway East Azure Cloud region

Microsoft has announced the launch of its Availability Zones in its Norway East Azure Cloud region in Oslo. However, it has also canceled its plan for the region in Stavanger, which is to the west. The Company first revealed its plans to open two Azure Cloud regions in the country in 2018. ...

September 29, 2021

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne exploring the sale of its company

According to Reuters, CyrusOne is considering the sale of its business. It is said to be exploring some strategic changes that might include a sale. CyrusOne is a real estate investment trust that has a market cap of up to $9 billion. The Company is exploring its options with investment ban...

September 29, 2021

CyrusOne

AWS plans to open data center design facility in Zagreb, Croatia

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it wants to open a data center design facility in Zagreb, Croatia. The facility will support the development and operation of AWS Cloud services while focusing on product development, research, and data center design. AWS said it would be using local ta...

September 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

BentallGreenOak completes the acquisition of two Canadian IBM data centers in sale-leaseback deals

A Canadian property manager called BentallGreenOak has acquired two IBM data centers in Canada in sale-leaseback transactions. BGO announced that it bought the two facilities. One of the facilities it acquired is in Montreal, while the other is in Markham. The facility in Montreal is at 275...

September 28, 2021

IBM Cloud

Sustainable Finance: New way to address the environmental footprint of data centers

Much has been said about how data centers adversely affect the environment. However, more data centers have begun to become 'Greener.' Besides, in order to leave a better environmental footprint, many data center companies are now spending more on green energy. Investors and data center fin...

September 27, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft's Ginger East data center project gets approval

Microsoft has reportedly been given the go-ahead to move onwards with the construction of its first building (DSM 14) as part of its Ginger East data center project, based in West Des Moines, Iowa. The West Des Moines City Council voted through the planning approval this week, and it is ...

September 24, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Uptime Institute finds data center operators are still failing to track environmental impact

The Uptime Institute recently released its 11th annual global data center survey, and unfortunately, the results were disappointing. The survey found that while there is a growing awareness of the need to pursue sustainability goals and create greener operations regarding data centers, most op...

September 24, 2021

AWS to open New Zealand Cloud Region in 2024, to spend NZ$7.5 billion (US$5.3 billion)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed its plans for a new Cloud Region in New Zealand in 2024. Consistent with AWS’s Regions, the new Asia Pacific Region in Auckland, New Zealand, will consist of three Availability Zones. In a statement by the Company, the new region will enable more enterpri...

September 24, 2021

Amazon AWS

AWS to open third Edge location in Fortaleza, Brazil

The government of Ceará in North Brazil has announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will launch an Edge facility in Fortaleza, Brazil. The facility will be AWS’s third facility in Fortaleza. Governor of Ceará, Camilo Santana, said it is the state’s wish to make Ceará the first 100% digital go...

September 24, 2021

Amazon AWS

Dublin: Heat created by Amazon data center to heat housing

An Amazon data center based in Tallaght in South Dublin is set to heat homes in the local area as part of Tallaght's pilot District Heating Scheme. As part of Dublin's Climate Action Week, locals were invited to inspect the progress that has been made with the scheme. The project is expected t...

September 21, 2021

Amazon AWS

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