June 17, 2021 Amazon AWS
The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...
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June 15, 2021 London
Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...
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June 12, 2021 Virgin Media Leeds (Temple House)
Temple House in Leeds, Yorkshire, which houses a data center used by UK telco Virgin Media, is up for sale for £7 million ($9.9 million). The building spans 102,400 sq ft (9,500 sqm), with a combined 3.06 acres across two plots, 44,333 sq ft (4,100 sqm) of which is used by Virgin. Speaking about...
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June 08, 2021 Ark Data Centres (UK)
The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended its contract with Ark Data Centers for £27 million ($38.1 million). The contract starts in June 2021 and would run till May 2026. Also, this deal will see DWP continue to occupy four 760kW dedicated data halls in Ark Data Center’s...
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June 07, 2021 Thrive Luton
Thrive has jumpstarted its expansion with the acquisition of data center services provider Oni. Backed by private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners, the deal gives the fast-growing MSP a European data center footprint. Although the deal's financial terms have not yet been disclosed, this...
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June 04, 2021 Google
Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP). Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...
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June 02, 2021 Iron Mountain London LON-2
Iron Mountain has announced its plans for a 27MW data center in Slough, East of London. The new data center dubbed LON-2 will be a three-story building with up to 25,000 sq m of space. It will also have a capacity of 27MW at full buildout. Moreover, the building will have three 9MW data halls,...
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May 28, 2021 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago....
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May 19, 2021 Google
Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a...
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May 18, 2021 Google
Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware...
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May 15, 2021 Google
Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to...
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May 12, 2021 Netwise London East (NLE)
Netwise, A data center firm in the UK, has announced that Zayo Group would be the first major Tier 1 carrier to connect to its new London East data center officially. The new data center is 13,000 square feet in size with a 1.5MW capacity. Netwise also claimed that its new data center would use...
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May 27, 2020 VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus
Bouygues, the French contractor announced it has been selected by VIRTUS Data Centres to build its LONDON7 data centre, located in Stockley Park. Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting will be responsible for the design, build, electrical and mechanical services and commissioning of the...
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April 15, 2020 Google
Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The...
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November 28, 2019 iomart
Iomart is in the final planning phases for the investment in the Manchester datacentre acquired with the LDeX acquisition. The company plans to obtain an official Tier 3 certification for the Manchester facility. The facility is 10,000 sqft.The cloud computing company reported its consolidated...
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November 27, 2019 VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus
The French contractor, Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting, has been selected by VIRTUS Data Centres for the delivery of its LONDON6 data centre, located in Stockley Park and the second data centre in its hyper scale campus. Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting will be...
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September 12, 2019 Digital Docklands: Cloud House
The new 120,000 square foot facility is located in the London Docklands, a highly connected area of London. The new facility will be interconnected with Digtial Realty's Sovereign House with a redundant 3,400 metre 432-count fiber ring. DRT Press Release LONDON, Sept. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --...
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June 05, 2019 Kao Data: Harlow KLON-01
June 5th, 2019, London, United Kingdom, Kao Data, the home of innovation and UK’s leading entrant to the wholesale colocation data centre market, has announced it will operate using 100 percent renewable energy and be cost neutral to its customers. When the campus is operating at full load...
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February 07, 2019 Google
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Chile in...
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November 05, 2018 NTT London 1 (Dagenham)
NTT Communications subsidiary, e-shelter, a European data center colocation operator with presence in all key city-markets of the DACH-region leveraging 300MW of power capacity to deliver scalable data center solutions, has announced the development of a new, large data center campus in the UK....
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