November 21, 2022 London
Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North...
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November 18, 2022 Detroit
Real estate company Bedrock has announced its plan for a new carrier hotel data center in Detroit, Michigan. The company said it is partnering with Raeden, a digital infrastructure platform provider, to launch the independent carrier hotel in the city. The new carrier hotel will be located on...
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November 11, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Google has started paying property taxes at its Oregon data center- 15 years after it launched the facility. The company got a tax bill of $5.2m from Wasco County after its tax break expired. Google developed the data center in 2006. The tax bill might be small for Google, but it will...
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November 10, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Tech giant Google has leased 464,000 square feet at an Adani Data centre in Noida for 10 years with starting annual rent of 130.98 crore, according to documents accessed by CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm.The deal has been signed between Dc Development Noida Private Limited, an...
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November 08, 2022 London
According to Havering Council, it is negotiating with a private sector developer, Digital Reef, to build a huge data center campus in the eastern London Borough of Havering. The London Data Freeport project would reportedly be 'Europe's largest data center' sitting on a site of 175 hectares....
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November 07, 2022 Northern Virginia
After months of protests and deliberation, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a change to the county's comprehensive plan to allow a controversial data center development on the Digital Gateway lands. This vote of 5-2 permits 27 million square feet of data center...
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November 07, 2022 Google
This week, Google signed a 942 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with SB Energy to procure solar energy in Texas. The giant is set to purchase 75% of the renewable energy produced by four of the solar projects under development; the Orion 1-3 and Eiffel solar projects total 1.2GW and are...
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November 01, 2022 Northern Virginia
Today the Prince William County Board of County Supervisors is set to vote on a much-anticipated and controversial data center development, "the PW Digital Gateway", which would introduce 26.7 million square feet of data center space to 2,100 acres next to rural land of historical and...
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October 31, 2022 London
According to reports, a proposal for a new data center at the London Docklands has been rejected on the grounds that the proposals were "bulky" and could have a negative impact on the nearby Naval Row Conservation Area. Although council planning officers had recommended the proposal, which would...
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October 31, 2022 Brussels
LCL has announced that it's replacing diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) for its backup generators at its Brussels-West data center in Aalst, after investing in six new 2.25 MVA generators. The company is reportedly the first to do so in Belgium, and it aims to have all the generators...
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October 27, 2022 Frankfurt
German energy company Mainova is moving into the data center business. The company broke ground on the new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. Mainova WebHouse, a subsidiary of the energy company, announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place earlier in the month. The new data...
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October 27, 2022 Google
Search engine and cloud Giant Google has acquired a 36-hectare plot outside Brussels, Belgium. According to a report, the land will likely be used for data center development. The terms of the acquisition were not revealed. The land is located in the Feluy Industrial Estate, 40KM south of...
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October 20, 2022 London
According to reports, a new data center is being proposed in east London, UK, on a 1.39-hectare site. Located on the western edge of the former East India Import Dock, the proposed facility could have a potential IT power of 30MW, with six halls each of 1,200 sqm (12,900 sq ft). It's also noted...
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October 13, 2022 Northern Virginia
Penzance, a real estate investment firm, has announced that it is considering a site that was previously earmarked for an auto sales facility for a data center development instead. The company has reportedly applied to rezone a plot of land, located in Chantilly in Northern Virginia, just off of...
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October 13, 2022 Google
Per information privy to CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm, Google has leased a 43,100 square meter (464,000 square feet) data center in Noida, India from Adani. The lease is to run for ten years and it will start with an annual rate of Rs130.98 crore ($16m). The agreement has already...
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October 10, 2022 Google
Google is opening its first data center in Japan, it has announced. To be located in Inzai City, Chiba, the facility is part of the company's $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024 and is set to open by 2023. Google The data center, the company's third data center in...
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October 06, 2022 Northern Virginia
According to BizJournal, Real estate investment company BlackChamber Group has plans to develop a 157,900 square meter (1.7 million square feet) data center campus in Arcola, Loudoun County, Virginia. The company is looking to build four data center buildings on its land on Belmont Ridge Road,...
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October 04, 2022 Google
Google is reportedly close to buying a 30-hectare plot for its upcoming Berlin Google Cloud region in Germany having already signed corresponding preliminary contracts. According to reports by Maerkische Allgemeine, the site that it has chosen is in the Schenkendorf area of Mittenwalde,...
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October 03, 2022 Dublin
After much back and forth, South Dublin County Council (SDCC) is now complying with the government's order to scrap plans to ban data centers in the area, despite serious concerns about the environmental impact of additional facilities and the extra pressure the would place on the grid. This...
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October 03, 2022 Northern Virginia
Dominion Energy has announced that some new data centers in Loudoun County, home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, will be reconnected, following concerns that transmission infrastructure restraints would halt new additions. Back in July, the energy utility had said that new...
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