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Microsoft To Develop a $215.9m Data Center in San Antonio, Texas

Microsoft has filed to develop a data center in San Antonio, Texas. The company is looking to develop the SAT15 facility at 3555 Westover Link in Bexar County, San Antonio. The new data center will span 245,000 square feet. Microsoft will also invest up to $215.9m in developing the facility. C...

August 24, 2022

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Digital Realty Expanding in Dallas, Texas With $59m Data Center

Digital Realty has plans to develop a new facility in Dallas, Texas. The data center firm filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop the data center in the Lewisville area of Dallas. The company coined the development ‘Project Gold’ and is looking to invest up to $5...

August 23, 2022

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Microsoft Announces Launch of Qatar Azure Cloud Region

Microsoft has announced the launch of its first Azure cloud region in Doha, Qatar. The company said, “We are launching our newest data center region in Qatar. The new data center region includes Azure Availability Zones, which offer you additional resiliency for your applications by designing ...

August 19, 2022

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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

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Digital Realty Announces Sale of Data Center For $205m

Digital Realty has announced the sale of a “mature” data center. The move is to ensure that more capital is available for new projects. Notably, the company did not reveal which building it sold or who acquired the facility. According to a release from the company, it has disposed of the prope...

August 15, 2022

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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

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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

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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

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Microsoft To Develop a Data Center campus in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Microsoft has filed to develop three data center buildings in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The company wants to develop the buildings at a greenfield site in the County. The site is located at 210 Tunstall Road, Mecklenburg County. The data center buildings will be developed on a 132-acre sit...

July 19, 2022

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Microsoft teams up with Climeworks

Microsoft has announced that its partnership with carbon removal specialists Climeworks is expanding with a new 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement. The new deal will make it Microsoft's first-ever long-term carbon removal supplier and is one of the largest direct air capture (DAC) deals...

July 18, 2022

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Alibaba strives to keep up with Microsoft, Amazon and Google with carbon counting

In an effort to keep up with the likes of tech rivals like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, Alibaba has announced that it is launching Energy Expert, a so-called 'sustainability platform' which will facilitate the organization's measuring, analyzing and managing of carbon emissions. This global l...

July 08, 2022

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Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity"

Microsoft Azure has announced that worldwide its data centers are now operating with a limited server capacity available to customers as a result of a global supply shortage. The company has over 200 data centers across the world, stretching across 60 regions - however, reports indicate that ...

July 07, 2022

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Telia announces it has signed wind PPA in Estonia

Telia has announced that it has signed a PPA with Eesti Energia to be provided with 156GWh of renewable wind electricity over five years, starting at the end of 2022. According to the company, this deal will provide the European telco with 70% of its power needs, including its fixed and mobil...

July 04, 2022

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Microsoft To Launch New Azure Region in Qatar

Microsoft has announced that it will launch its Qatar Azure cloud region in two weeks. The general manager of Microsoft Qatar, Lana Khalaf, made this known at the launch of new offices in Doha, Qatar. He said: “In the coming two weeks we will be launching the region globally, but definitely th...

July 01, 2022

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Microsoft teams up with Eaton to enhance sustainability

Eaton has announced that it will expand its collaboration with Microsoft as part of a new strategic agreement between the two to address major industry developments, including "digital transformation, sustainability and the energy transition." According to the companies, a key feature of the p...

June 23, 2022

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San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

Microsoft has announced that it will be using renewable natural gas to fuel its backup energy at its San Jose data center, which is currently under construction. This move aligns with the company’s target of being carbon negative by 2030, and the project will also provide power locally with em...

June 16, 2022

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Digital Realty Files To Develop its Fourth Data Center in Atlanta

Digital Realty is looking to develop its fourth facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The company applied with the city of Atlanta to develop the data center opposite its 56 Marietta Street data center. Digital Realty is looking to build a 10-story building data center with a total floor area of 30...

June 16, 2022

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Digital Realty Forms JV With Mvine For Data Center Development

Digital Realty has announced a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a data center campus in Tel Aviv, Israel. The plan is to develop a multi-tenant data center campus. Mivne is a real estate company with a lot of land across Israel. According to reports, the firm owns up to 1.9 mill...

June 15, 2022

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Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it is expanding into Australia. The company is partnering with Hickory, an Australian real estate developer. In addition, the development will see Stack develop data centers in three cities in the country. Stack Australia is already developing a data ...

June 09, 2022

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Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

Microsoft has announced that it added new availability zones to its Zurich Azure region. Availability zones are data center locations that are physically separate but still within the same cloud region, offering redundancy against failures in a particular location. Typically, most new regions ...

June 08, 2022

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