January 12, 2023 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is to develop a 48MW data center campus in London. This move will see the company enter the London market for the first time with this £500 million ($600 million) project, its 11th EMEA campus. The company has announced that LHR, will total 430,000 sq ft...
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January 10, 2023 Microsoft Azure
Following an extensive investigation by ProPublica, it has been found that Microsoft and local officials in rural Virginia helped erase a historic black cemetery by downplaying its cultural significance in order to pursue data center development. Back in 2014, when the giant was looking to expand...
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January 09, 2023 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed a third power purchase agreement (PPA) in Finland with Neoen, totaling 129MW. Through the ten-year deal, the company will obtain 60% of the output and guarantees of origin to be produced by the future 95MW Storbötet wind farm from the French renewable...
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January 04, 2023 Google
Google is reportedly looking to expand its data center site development in Omaha, Nebraska after it first announced and filed to build a data center near State Street and Blair High Road to the northwest of the city in April. Now, according to reports, the giant has applied to rezone an...
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January 02, 2023 Meta
The latest data center to take the hit in Meta's AI redesign rethink is its Kuna, Idaho, data center. The facility, an $800 million development, was only announced by the giant in February, with the company commencing work on the project in September. Kuna data center paused as part of wider...
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January 01, 2023 Dublin
According to reports, in the wake of the Dublin data center moratorium over grid issues, 21 new data centers are planned outside of the greater Dublin area. Sixteen of these facilities are large-scale data centers, while a further five smaller-scale data center projects are being discussed with...
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December 29, 2022 Google
Google has announced that it has canceled its $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota, after calling off its electric service agreement. First announced back in 2019, and based near the Sherco power plant, Google dragged its feet on the development for quite some time, and although it...
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December 21, 2022 Meta
Meta has paused construction on its data center expansion in Huntsville, Alabama. This follows the giant’s announcement that its Odense, Denmark project was being completely canceled, and its Temple, Texas development was being paused as part of a wider AI data center design change. The...
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December 19, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced more solar projects, this time in Georgia and Tennessee. According to the company, the projects will be delivered through Silicon Ranch's partnership with Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Together, these three entities will...
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December 19, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon has pressed pause on its 1 million sq ft (92,900 sqm) data center campus in Manassas, in Prince William County, Virginia. This announcement comes after the giant was scheduled to present three linked applications on 30 November. However, its special-use permit application has now been...
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December 16, 2022 Meta
Meta, as part of a wider plan to integrate AI into its data center operations, has paused a number of its data center projects in a 'rescoping' effort, it has been announced. The first facility development that the giant announced it was halting was at its data center campus in Odense, Denmark,...
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December 14, 2022 Google
Google's Bissen data center project has gone quiet, according to Luxembourg's government, which says that it currently has no contact with the giant. The Ministry of Environment had requested a report on the environmental impact of the project, however Google also hasn't applied for a building...
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December 14, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced its plan to venture into the South African data center market with a data center development. The company plans to invest $160m to develop a data center campus in Johannesburg. The 4MW data center called JN1 will have over 20,000 gross square feet of colocation space and a...
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December 14, 2022 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has announced plans for a second data center campus in Johannesburg, Japan. The facility called JNB2 will be located in Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg. JNB2’s first building will feature a two-story, 33,000 square meter (355,000 square foot), 20MW data center. It is scheduled to...
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December 13, 2022 Equinix
Following approval from the Loudoun Board of Supervisors last week, data center company Equinix has announced that it will be adding multi-colored LED lights to the exterior of one of its data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. This addition to DC21, located at 22175 Beaumeade Circle in Ashburn,...
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December 12, 2022 CyrusOne
Data center firm CyrusOne, a member of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, has announced that it is accelerating its carbon-neutral pledge by ten years. The company is now promising to achieve this green goal by 2030 rather than 2040. According to the company, it will achieve this goal by...
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December 12, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced, in line with a broader commitment to reduce its overall power, it will adjust its data center thermostats, shifting temperatures closer to 27°C (80°F) across its global data center fleet. This change, the company said, will lead to less energy used in 'unnecessary data...
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December 12, 2022 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has announced plans to build an 'unprecedentedly large-scale gas power plant' at its Grange Castle site, an upcoming data center development, due to its concerns about Ireland's energy grid constraints. According to the giant, plans are to build a 170 MW on-site power plant alongside 21...
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December 09, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty's Greek data center unit Lamda Helix has announced plans to develop its fourth data center in Athens, Greece. The company's data center campus currently has two carrier-neutral data centers with a total capacity of 22 MW. It is also developing two more on the site. Lamda Helix...
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December 09, 2022 Amazon AWS
Amazon is looking to develop a large data center campus in Gainesville, Virginia. The company submitted two special-use permit requests for a 2.2 million square feet data center campus that will sit on 117 acres of land at 5845 and 5945 Wellington Road. Per the company’s requests, it is looking...
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