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Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be en...

June 13, 2022

Denmark

Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Corp., currently three of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of clean power, have voiced their opposition to a nearly $4-billion, Warren Buffett-backed renewable-energy project proposed in Iowa. According to the three giants, the project, which would be the l...

June 13, 2022

Google

Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas

Google has announced a new cloud region in Dallas, Texas. In a statement by the company, it said it is happy to expand its presence in Texas by launching a new cloud region in Dallas, making it the second region in the central US and the eleventh in North America. This is the company’s firs...

June 08, 2022

Google

Engie & Google Cloud AI to predict wind power

French multinational utility company Engie has announced that it will be teaming up with Google Cloud to use AI to predict wind power and optimize its portfolio, making it the first customer of the giant's AI technology. Engie will be utilizing Google's DeepMind technology, which was first ann...

June 06, 2022

Google

Bristow Officials To Allow Data Center Development on Stanley Martin’s Devlin Technology Park

Bristow’s officials have voted in favor of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment. This amendment could see the development of a 4.25 million square feet data center campus in the area. Stanley Martin, a Virginia-based developer, is looking to have over 250 acres in Prince William County rezoned. T...

May 30, 2022

Northern Virginia

Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region

Google has announced the launch of its new cloud region in Columbus, Ohio. The company noted that the new cloud region (us-east5) would provide users with the availability and speed needed to serve local customers, innovate quicker, and develop high-performing applications. Google first ann...

May 25, 2022

Google

New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact

Over the last few years, tech giants have made big claims regarding carbon emissions and their sustainability efforts, yet, despite many of them claiming to be carbon neutral, a new report has found that their investments' carbon footprint is, in fact, greater than all the emissions created by...

May 24, 2022

Google

RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development

MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX), a crypto exchange regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has announced it is teaming up with AI firm Red Dot Analytics, for carbon measurement and to offset tropical data centers.Singapore implemented a three-year moratorium on new data center ...

May 23, 2022

Singapore

Hulic's Plan For a Data Center in Tokyo Revealed

Japanese real estate company Hulic has plans to develop a data center in Tokyo, Japan. According to the Japanese press and Japan Property Central, the firm will be building the data center on the site of an existing office it owns. The office is located in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Hulic will demolis...

May 23, 2022

Tokyo

Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

Investment and real estate firms Harrison Street and Lincoln Property Company plan to develop an industrial campus and data center in New Albany, Ohio. Both companies have formed a joint venture for this purpose. The JV has purchased a 190-acre site to develop a multipurpose technology and dis...

May 19, 2022

Ohio

Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European conti...

May 17, 2022

Frankfurt

Alibaba Launches First Data Center in Bangkok Thailand

Alibaba Cloud opened its first data center in Bangkok, Thailand. The company first announced the facility in October 2021. It, however, had an opening ceremony for the new data center this week. Alibaba Cloud Intelligence’s country manager for Thailand, Tyler Qiu, said data protection and secu...

May 13, 2022

Bangkok / Krung Thep

Application for 277-acres of data center development filed in Nokesville

According to a report by Inside NoVa, an application has been filed in Nokesville, in Virginia’s Prince William County, for 277-acres of data center development. The application, submitted by the House family, seeks to change their property designation from an agricultural estate to a newly-pr...

May 11, 2022

Northern Virginia

Cisco launches Mumbai data center

Cisco's Duo has announced that it has launched its first data center in Mumbai , with the intention of providing its customers with enhanced cyber defense and data localization. This move is also part of a wider global expansion strategy. Information about the facility's specifications are yet...

May 05, 2022

Mumbai

Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility

Luxemburg has instructed Google to decide on its planned data center in the country. The search engine giant bought land in 2017 to develop the facility, but development has been delayed due to local court cases and protests. Earlier in 2017, Google wanted to start the €1 billion ($1.1bn) p...

May 05, 2022

Google

Google Launches First Spanish Region in Madrid

Google has announced that it has opened its first cloud region in Madrid, Spain. The company noted that the just opened cloud region is designed to meet the technological needs of businesses in Spain. In addition, it added that the region helps provide low latency cloud services with high data...

April 29, 2022

Google

Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland

Energia Group has announced that Fingal County Council has granted the company planning permission for two new data centers next to the Huntstown Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. The two facilities, known as Buildings A and B, are expected to have a gross floor area of c. 37,647 sqm (400,000 ...

April 27, 2022

Dublin

Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas

Diode Ventures is looking to develop a massive data center campus in Kansas. The company filed a preliminary plan for a data center campus called Creek Technology Park. The campus will sit on an undeveloped 359 acres of land in the northeast of US Highway 169 and Interstate 435 in Missouri....

April 26, 2022

Kansas City

North Myrtle Beach City To Invest $12m In Developing an Emergency Operations and Data Management Center

The City of North Myrtle Beach in South Carolina has announced that it is developing an emergency operations and data management center. The city’s council members initially planned to spend $2 million developing the data center. However, the budget has risen to $12 million. North Myrtle Be...

April 26, 2022

South Carolina

Google replaces diesel at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center

Google has announced that it is replacing some of its diesel backup capacity at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center, with a 2.75MW battery system from Fluence. This announcement aligns with Google's public pledge to use entirely carbon-free energy by 2030 by reducing its emissions. The batt...

April 25, 2022

Google

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