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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

AWS inks another PPA in Spain with Grenergy Renovables SA

Amazon has signed another Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), this time with Grenergy Renovables SA, to procure solar energy in Spain. The 10-year deal will provide AWS with 469 MWp of solar energy. Grenergy Renovables is an independent power producer (IPP) involved in large-scale renewable energ...

April 07, 2023

Amazon AWS

DataBank Obtains Credit Facility of $325 Million

To help support its development aspirations, US colocation provider DataBank has obtained a new $325 million credit line. The facility, led by TD Securities, consists of a $50 million conventional credit line, a $125 million deferred draw term loan, and a $175 million five-year term loan. The ...

April 07, 2023

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NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency

The Retirement Systems of Alabama has renewed NTT's contract with them until 2033. NTT Data will manage the data center for the state pension agency for an extra eight years as part of the arrangement. The contract's worth wasn't shared. The downtown Montgomery data center has 300 racks and a ...

April 07, 2023

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AWS to offtake from Mercury's Turitea wind farm to power new Auckland region

Amazon has announced that it has inked a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in New Zealand Mercury to procure wind energy. The giant will procure around half the output from the local energy company's 103MW Turitea South onshore wind farm; which is more than is required to fuel Amazon Web Ser...

April 06, 2023

Amazon AWS

Equinix expands footprint in Canada

Equinix has announced plans for a facility in Montreal, Canada. Known as MT2, the new facility is projected to be operational in the second half of 2023. In the first phase of the project, the facility will offer 500 racks from Q3, phase two, meanwhile, will add a further 500 racks by the fou...

April 06, 2023

Equinix

Lawsuit filed against Amazon data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia

As Amazon continues its seemingly unstoppable global expansionm, in Warrenton, North Virginia, home to the biggest data center hub in the world, environmentalists and local residents have launched a lawsuit to try and stop the behemoth's growth in the region. The environmental nonprofit Citize...

April 05, 2023

Amazon AWS

Wesfarmers OneDigital Enters a Five-Year Contract With AWS

OneDigital, a division of the Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers, has inked a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to be its principal cloud provider. Amazon will also equip the Australian business with an AWS Skills Guild to educate and certify 500 workers. Wesfarmers, one of th...

April 05, 2023

Amazon AWS

Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar

Google has announced that it has launched a new cloud region located in Doha, Qatar, following the tech giant first announcing plans for expansion in this regard in 2020. The cloud region, the second that Google has launched this year, also launches alongside three availability zones and the ...

April 04, 2023

Google

Amazon signs PPAs with Iberdrola

Amazon has announced that it has signed another PPA with Iberdrola, through which it will be provided with wind and solar energy from its offshore wind farms in Germany for 1.1 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually. The wind farms, Baltic Eagle and Windanker, will have a total capacity of 476MW and 3...

April 04, 2023

Amazon AWS

Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year

Recent figures from S&P Global have revealed that the amount of renewable power purchased by data center operators has surged 50 percent in just a year. This latest figure now means that the sector utilizes two-thirds of the renewable power available to corporates in the US. The report hi...

April 04, 2023

Google

All of Unilever's Workloads Are Moved to The Cloud, Mostly to Microsoft Azure

Unilever has finished moving to the cloud. The business has shifted workloads for its 400+ brands to the cloud, using Azure as its main cloud platform, in what it calls the "biggest and most difficult cloud migration in the consumer products market." With the aid of Accenture, Microsoft, an...

April 04, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property.The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 s...

April 03, 2023

Equinix

NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

On April 3, NTT East and NTT West, subsidiaries of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), were impacted by a network outage in Japan. NTT had a significant network outage that morning at about 7:10 local time, according to reports from regional media outlets, albeit the impacted services have s...

April 03, 2023

NTT

Microsoft's $1bn Mount Pleasant facility receives Village Board approval

Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Wisconsin, with a $1 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant. The plan, discussed at a recent closed session meeting, outlined that the campus will be situated on a 315-acre parcel of land owned by the Village of Mount Pleasant. Microsoft is...

March 31, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Amazon and Oregon's clean energy bill

In Oregon, House Bill 2816, aims to require data centers to utilize renewable energy and reduce their carbon emissions and Amazon is fighting it. The giant has reportedly been lobbying against the bill since it was first introduced, despite its big green pledges and commitment to reach zero ca...

March 31, 2023

Amazon AWS

EdgeCore plans a new Loudoun data center

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure is reportedly working on a new data center with Penzance, a real estate investor and developer. The facility, which will be located at 1501 Moran Road in Sterling, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia will be three stories, spanning a 285,000-square-foot data cent...

March 31, 2023

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

Microsoft purchases carbon removal credits from CarbonCapture

Microsoft is the latest company to invest in the potential of carbon capture, with the recent announcement that it will buy "carbon removal credits" from CarbonCapture. The company is the owner of Project Bison, which is a direct air capture (DAC) plant in Wyoming, set to open next year. The ...

March 29, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Google's new RFP system to reduce process time required for PPAs

Google has announced the development of a new Request for Proposal (RFP) system in collaboration with LevelTen Energy which it said will reduce the time required to sign a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). This development comes from Google to simplify RFPs for PPAs which it said are "lengthy, ...

March 27, 2023

Google

Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Marti...

March 27, 2023

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