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Data Center Expansion in Spotsylvania

May 14, 2023 Northern Virginia

Spotsylvania County officials are planning to capitalize on data center building expansion. They are modifying the county's Comprehensive Plan as part of their efforts. The county Planning Commission scheduled data center-specific Comprehensive Plan amendment public hearings Wednesday night after...

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Read Fairfax County to look at new rules for data centers
Fairfax County to look at new rules for data centers

Fairfax County to look at new rules for data centers

May 12, 2023 Northern Virginia

According to a report by FFXNow, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is set to look into the environmental impact of data centers in the midst of its ongoing data center boom. This week, following a unanimously approved motion introduced by Board Chairman Jeff McKay, county staff were...

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Read Datacenter United Buys Hasselt DC With Two Belgian Facilities
Datacenter United Buys Hasselt DC With Two Belgian Facilities

Datacenter United Buys Hasselt DC With Two Belgian Facilities

May 10, 2023 Belgium

Datacenter United, based in Belgium, is acquiring local collocation provider Hasselt DC and constructing a new data center. This week, investment company and DCU proprietor TINC announced that the two Hasselt DC data centers in Limburg are now "part of the Datacenter United ecosystem." The terms...

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Read Racial Harassment at Google Data Center Construction Site Cost Whiting-Turner $1.2m
Racial Harassment at Google Data Center Construction Site Cost Whiting-Turner $1.2m

Racial Harassment at Google Data Center Construction Site Cost Whiting-Turner $1.2m

May 08, 2023 Google

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the construction company Whiting-Turner alleging racial harassment and retaliation against former Black employees. The lawsuit centered on the company's role as the general contractor for the Google data center's...

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Read DE-CIX exchanges in Norway Bulk Data Centers go live
DE-CIX exchanges in Norway Bulk Data Centers go live

DE-CIX exchanges in Norway Bulk Data Centers go live

May 05, 2023 Norway

DE-CIX has announced that its new DE-CIX IXs are now available in Bulk data centers in Oslo (OS-IX) and Kristiansand (Campus N01). Its InterconnectionFLEX service will be available via the partnership with Bulk Infrastructure Group, through which customers will be provided with an interconnection...

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Read Google Will Build Two Additional Data Centers in Ohio
Google Will Build Two Additional Data Centers in Ohio

Google Will Build Two Additional Data Centers in Ohio

May 05, 2023 Google

Google and state officials announced on Wednesday that the company intends to construct two additional data centers in Ohio to support its artificial intelligence equipment and other tools. According to officials, with one data center already operational in the Columbus area, Google's total...

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Read Oppidan Submits Paperwork For a 99,000 sq ft Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee
Oppidan Submits Paperwork For a 99,000 sq ft Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee

Oppidan Submits Paperwork For a 99,000 sq ft Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee

May 05, 2023 Tennessee

The US real estate development company Oppidan has filed plans to construct a data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The company has filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development for permission to build a data center at 3900 S. Mendenhall Road. The permit encompasses...

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Read Authorization Of A New Data Facility In Auburn, Alabama
Authorization Of A New Data Facility In Auburn, Alabama

Authorization Of A New Data Facility In Auburn, Alabama

May 03, 2023 Alabama

The Alabama city of Auburn City will soon get a new data center. The 65,700 square foot Mill Creek Data Center will be located on 52 acres of newly developed land in the city's Auburn Technology Park at 406 West Veterans Boulevard. The data center was granted approval by the City Council this...

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Read Wiz announces opening of Montreal data center
Wiz announces opening of Montreal data center

Wiz announces opening of Montreal data center

May 02, 2023 Montreal

Wiz has announced the launch of its new cloud data center in Montreal, Canada. The facility is to provide local and multinational organizations with faster, and more secure cloud security infrastructure and is also pegged to provide greater data sovereignty, while maintaining privacy...

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Read Data center proposal for SDC Piperstown in Dublin, Ireland, pulled
Data center proposal for SDC Piperstown in Dublin, Ireland, pulled

Data center proposal for SDC Piperstown in Dublin, Ireland, pulled

April 30, 2023 Dublin

The Dublin, Ireland, two-story data center developing application has been retracted. SDC Piperstown II Ltd submitted a request to Fingal County Council on January 17, 2023, for permission to build a data center on a 20-acre site in Piperstown, Dublin. But this has since been dropped, for no...

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Read NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach
NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

April 28, 2023 Atlanta

After a ransomware assault caused a data center outage that disrupted its Aloha cloud-based services and Counterpoint apps, NCR is making progress toward restoring services. For the subset of CMC customers who were impacted by the incident, online ordering has resumed and NCR's Command Center...

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Read Google Downtime Due to Paris Global Switch Data Center Fire Caused by Water Leak
Google Downtime Due to Paris Global Switch Data Center Fire Caused by Water Leak

Google Downtime Due to Paris Global Switch Data Center Fire Caused by Water Leak

April 28, 2023 Google

The Paris data center of Global Switch caught fire, bringing down Google services in Europe. According to a post to the French Network Operators Group, the fire seems to have been started by a cooling system water pump malfunction that caused water to leak into the battery room, sparking the...

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Read Google signs new PPA with EDPR
Google signs new PPA with EDPR

Google signs new PPA with EDPR

April 25, 2023 Google

Google has announced that it has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), EDPR NA Distributed Generation (EDPR NA DG), for solar energy in the US. This deal is reportedly the largest-ever corporate sponsorship for distributed generation signed between two companies in the US. Over 80...

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Read Google merges DeepMind and Brain
Google merges DeepMind and Brain

Google merges DeepMind and Brain

April 25, 2023 Google

Google has announced a merger between its DeepMind subsidiary and Google Research's Brain division, dubbed 'Google DeepMind, as it pursues its big AI push. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai outlined that this move will "significantly accelerate" the company's AI progress. This move may come...

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Read Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event
Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

April 25, 2023 Northern Virginia

The debate surrounding the construction of a massive data center facility in Prince William County persists. Tuesday evening, residents planned to hold a protest against the Prince William Digital Gateway prior to a developer-hosted open house. Maureen Umeh of FOX 5 reports that the controversy...

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Read Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes
Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

April 20, 2023 Arkansas

The Arkansas Data Centers Act was recently passed after being proposed not long ago on March 30 by Senator Joshua Bryant. The legislation seeks to regulate the Bitcoin mining industry in the state, and will allocate crypto miners the same rights as data centers. It outlines that the government...

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Read Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco
Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco

Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco

April 19, 2023 Google

Google has announced that it has signed a new 10-year PPA with Eneco, a Dutch utility company, for 0.5TW/h of power, with a capacity of 153MW across the lifespan of the deal. The two wind farms the energy will be sourced from are the Fryslân offshore wind farm and the Kroningswind onshore wind...

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Read Floating data center park in Singapore to go ahead after gaining regulatory approval
Floating data center park in Singapore to go ahead after gaining regulatory approval

Floating data center park in Singapore to go ahead after gaining regulatory approval

April 18, 2023 Singapore

Keppel Data Centres has announced that its floating data center park in Singapore has received approval and will proceed. Located at the Loyang Offshore Supply Base operated by Toll Group, the facility was originally proposed back in 2019, which came after a significant investment in...

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Read Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium
Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

April 13, 2023 Google

Google has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with Luminus to source wind energy in Belgium. The 12-year deal will see the tech giant acquire 23.8MW of energy from the Belgium energy company, sourced from four new onshore wind projects. According to Google, the PPA in Belgium will keep...

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Read Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia
Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia

Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia

April 13, 2023 Northern Virginia

A first-of-its-kind combination data center and hydrogen fuel hub is on its way to Surry County, North Virginia, it has been announced. Middleburg-based Green Energy Partners LLC is leading the project, which is called the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) and comes after GEP secured 641 acres of...

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