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Read Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm
Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm

Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm

February 15, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

The Yum Yum solar farm will be about 175 miles southeast of the Clarksville site. The solar farm is expected to produce about 150 megawatts of clean energy. A large solar farm in West Tennessee will provide carbon-free renewable power for tech giant Google’s data center in Clarksville....

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Read Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)
Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

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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Read Another data center in the works for Sarpy County
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Another data center in the works for Sarpy County

December 31, 2018 Omaha

PAPILLION — Another company data center is in the works for Sarpy County in eastern Nebraska — a project that's raised questions about data center saturation. The identity of the company is being kept a secret until the land transaction on the west side of Papillion is ensured and utility...

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Read Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark
Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark

Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark

November 20, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center

Alphabet’s Google is to invest 600 million euros ($685.98 million) to build its first data center in Denmark.In a blog post, Google’s Vice President for Global Data Centers, Joe Kava, said the facility would be located just outside Fredericia, in the west of the country. Kava added that Google...

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Read Alibaba Cloud to launch London region
China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt.

The move was not highl...

Alibaba Cloud to launch London region

October 02, 2018 London

China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt. The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in the...

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Read Google Acquired 80 MW of Solar Power for Santiago Data Center
Google purchased 80MW of electrical power from Acciona Energy. The power will come from a 1.5 million sqm solar campus built in a piece of land measuring 280 hectares in the Atacama Desert, west of...

Google Acquired 80 MW of Solar Power for Santiago Data Center

September 09, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center

Google purchased 80MW of electrical power from Acciona Energy. The power will come from a 1.5 million sqm solar campus built in a piece of land measuring 280 hectares in the Atacama Desert, west of the Andes mountains and 645Km north of capital Santiago. Solar energy will be used to power both...

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Read Google plans $600 million expansion at Pryor Oklahoma data center
Google will spend $600 million to expand its data center near Pryor, the company announced Friday.

The expansion will include a new four-story data center at the site that already employs more t...

Google plans $600 million expansion at Pryor Oklahoma data center

September 04, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center

Google will spend $600 million to expand its data center near Pryor, the company announced Friday. The expansion will include a new four-story data center at the site that already employs more than 400 people and is the company's second-largest data center. “Oklahoma has proven to be an important...

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Read Google plans $600M data center expansion in South Carolina
Google plans $600M data center expansion in South Carolina

Google plans $600M data center expansion in South Carolina

August 13, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — Google plans a $600 million expansion of its data center in South Carolina. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports records regarding the expansion were filed with Berkeley County, which will consider a property tax break for the unit of California-based Alphabet...

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Read Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center
Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center

Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center

November 30, 2017 Hyperscale Data Center

Google has acquired a 131 hectares of land in the Aabenraa Municipality of Denmark. “I am pleased and proud that Google has chosen Aabenraa Municipality. It confirms that we have the potential to become a data centre cluster for the world’s largest IT companies,” said Mayor Thomas Andresen. “We...

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Read Amazon's Massive $1.1bn Ohio Data Center Project Swaps Townships
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Amazon's Massive $1.1bn Ohio Data Center Project Swaps Townships

June 14, 2015 Ohio

There has been heated competition in Ohio to land a $1.1 billion Amazon Web Services Data Center project. That project was recently reported to be split across three townships: Hilliard, Dublin and Orange Township. Columbus Business first reports that Amazon subsidiary Vadata has withdrawn an...

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Read Officials in Ohio Approve Amazon Data Center Development Plans
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Officials in Ohio Approve Amazon Data Center Development Plans

February 27, 2015 Ohio

Amazon’s planned data center project in Dublin, Ohio, is a step closer, with a panel of city officials approving development plans for a data-processing center on a 70-acre plot of land. The next step will be building permits. The project is expected to cost $1.1 billion and create 120 jobs with...

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