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Five Colorado Cities and Counties Pause or Ban New Data Centers in 2026

Colorado's Front Range spent the spring slamming the brakes on data centers. Denver, Jefferson County, Boulder County, Larimer County, and the city of Longmont have all moved to pause or ban new development since May. Colorado Springs did the opposite. Its planning department [quietly approved](h...

June 21, 2026

Colorado (CO)

What India's new government policy means for the data center industry

The Indian government is introducing new policies that will encourage data center growth in the country, it has been announced. This policy announcement comes as leaders strive to make the country a hub for the world’s growing data traffic. In the government’s 2022 budget, provisions have been...

February 14, 2022

India / Bhārata

Microsoft Signs Agreement With HTX To Develop Sovereign Cloud in Singapore

Microsoft has signed a strategic agreement with Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX). The deal will see Microsoft develop a sovereign cloud to speed up the digital transformation and innovation of Singapore’s HTX. It will also help sort Singapore’s Home Team Departments’ e...

February 14, 2022

Microsoft Azure

GLP Wants To Raise $500 million to fund Chinese expansion

According to Bloomberg, GLP Pte is mulling over raising up to $500 million to expand its data center footprint in China. The Singapore-based investment manager wants to raise funds from investors in exchange for a minority stake in the firm. GLP Pte’s data center business is valued at up to $5...

February 13, 2022

China

Five 9s Digital Has Completed The Sale of Four Data Centers For $41 million

Five 9s Digital has announced the sale of four of its US data centers for $41 million. The data center firm announced that it sold four leased out data centers to a digital infrastructure investor that wants to expand its portfolio. The facilities are located in Memphis, Upper Arlington, Kanna...

February 13, 2022

NEXTDC announces AWS availability at S2 data center

NextDC has announced the availability of AWS Direct Connect in the NextDC S2 Sydney data center, the fourth to host AWS Direct Connect (Canberra (C1), Melbourne (M1), and Perth (P1)). According to the company, within the NextDC S2 data center, customers can choose 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and new hig...

February 11, 2022

NextDC Sydney S2

Frederick County and AWS: Deal falls through

AWS plans for Frederick County in Maryland have fallen through; it has been reported. This announcement came after Amazon and the county government was unable to reach an agreement on the project’s timeline. Initial plans outlined that data centers would go to three communities in the south, w...

February 11, 2022

Amazon AWS

Big tech greenwashing: A failure to deliver on sustainability pledges

Nearly every day, it seems another tech company has made another big green pledge; however, according to the nonprofit NewClimate Institute, big tech's promises to deliver on sustainability are not leading to action. Lacking real substance, according to the report, even the companies that are ...

February 11, 2022

Google

Data centers and the electrical grid

Research group Omdia recently published a survey on data centers and its ability to support the electric grid. The research revealed that within the next four years, data center operators will deploy uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) able to interact with the electric grid, supporting essen...

February 11, 2022

AWS Reveals The Size of Properties Under Its Control

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it has over 26 million square feet (2,415,500 square meters) under its control. The company announced this through its latest 10-K filing. The filing further showed that the company owns 11.9 million square feet (1,105,500 square meters) and leases 14.1...

February 11, 2022

Amazon AWS

DC Alliance Looking To Develop First Tier-rated Facility in Palau

DC Alliance has announced that it signed an MOU with Pacific Blockchain Corporation. The MOU will see the data center developer look into developing a Tier III rated data center in Palau. According to DC Alliance, the facility will have an initial capacity of 1MW while also accommodating 200 r...

February 11, 2022

DC Alliance

Oracle Partnering With Telefonica For Cloud Region in Madrid

Oracle has announced a partnership with Telefónica. The agreement sees Oracle place its Spanish cloud region in Telefonica’s data center in Madrid, Spain. Per the agreement, the two firms will jointly offer cloud platform-as-a-service and applications to public sector organizations and enterpr...

February 11, 2022

Oracle

Amazon Receives $4.7bn In Subsidies From Global Governments For The Development of Facilities

According to Good Jobs First, Amazon has received at least $4.7 billion in federal and state subsidies over the past decade around the world. The subsidies support the development of warehouses, call centers, data centers, offices, and film production projects. The watchdog group compiled data...

February 10, 2022

Amazon AWS

QTS Announces Interest in 800-acre Land In Prince William County For Data Center Development

QTS has revealed its plans to develop a data center on an 800-acre site in Prince William County, Virginia. The company’s plans are part of the controversial move by the county to rezone over 2,100 acres of land in Manassas, Northern Virginia, for developing data centers. A spokesperson for QT...

February 10, 2022

QTS Data Centers

Russia's MTS and South Korea's KT Corp Are Partnering Up

South Korea’s KT Corp and Russia’s MTS have announced that they formed a partnership to build data centers in Russia. The companies said they signed a strategic agreement to develop new business directions, including joint AI-based solutions, data centers, and media content projects. The te...

February 10, 2022

MTS Group

Element Critical partner up with NextEra Energy for renewables

Element Critical has inked a clean energy deal with NextEra Energy Resources, which will provide the data center company with renewable energy. The power purchase agreement (PPA) between the two companies, will see Element Critical provided with power from an ERCOT-connected, Texas-based win...

February 10, 2022

Element Critical

Mitsubishi Estate data center subsidiary turns to renewable energy for Tokyo data centers

Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary Marunouchi Direct Access (MDA) has announced its decision to make three of its Tokyo data centers more sustainable by switching to renewable energy. This switch happened in early February 2022 and was made through the RE100 climate plan using conforming feed-in tar...

February 10, 2022

Marunouchi Direct Access ltd

Centenary Group moves into Masaka

Centenary Group, a Ugandan banking group, has announced that it has plans to build a new Tier III data center in Masaka. Further details around specifications are yet to be released. According to the company, this facility, the first outside Kampala, is part of its mission to harness financial...

February 10, 2022

Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) for Interxion backup generators

Interxion is one of the latest companies to turn to Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) for its data center backup generator needs. The company is using HVO100 fuel and the first site in its French portfolio to make the change was its new PAR8 site, in La Courneuve, Paris. The fuel is made f...

February 10, 2022

InterXion

Sophos plans new data center in Mumbai, India

Sophos has announced that it is entering the Indian market by introducing a new data center in Mumbai. According to reports, development on the facility will start in March 2022. Speaking about the opportunities the facility will bring for the area, Sunil Sharma, managing director of sales for...

February 10, 2022

Google Has Still Not Acquired Land For Data Center in Sherburne County

Google has still not started work on its proposed $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota. The search engine giant announced plans for the data center in 2019, yet, the two companies involved said they hadn’t abandoned the project. At the time of the announcement, Google said it was mull...

February 10, 2022

Google

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