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Regulators instruct Facebook to review power purchase agreements in New Mexico

Regulators have instructed Facebook to renegotiate the terms of its proposed power purchase agreements regarding solar energy and energy storage facilities in New Mexico.The agreement relates to 50MW of solar energy from Encino North Solar Energy Center, 190MW of solar from Sky Ranch Solar Fac...

July 05, 2021

Eric Advinci

Meta Los Lunas Campus

MCIT looks towards massive data center expansion in Saudi Arabia

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) in Saudi Arabia has announced large-scale data center development plans across the country. Included within these plans is the building of a hyperscale data center. By 2030, it is expected that an injection of $18 billion will be...

July 04, 2021

Eric Advinci

Saudi Arabia

PT DCI Indonesia Tbk (DCI) Announces The Construction of the Second Location Hyperscale Data Center Campus (H2)

JAKARTA, June 21, 2021 - As part of PT DCI Indonesia Tbk (DCI)’s commitment in being the leading provider of data center services in Indonesia, officially announced the construction of a second location for DCI campus hyperscale data center in the Region Pertiwi Lestari Industrial Estate Karaw...

July 02, 2021

Eric Bell

DCI Indonesia H2

Amazon files an application to build four data centers in Manassas, Virginia

Amazon has filed an application to build four data centers on land in Manassas, Virginia. It filed to build the data centers on empty land that’s between Sudley Road and Ashton Avenue. The piece of land is presently owned by the estate of Lewis Percival Ashby Jr., and it is being used as a ...

July 02, 2021

Eric Advinci

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Safe Host Is Expanding its SH2 data center in Gland, Switzerland

SafeHost, a Swiss colocation provider, has announced that it is expanding its SH2 data center facility in Gland, Switzerland. Webuild Group, through its subsidiary CSC Costruzioni SA, will be responsible for building the additional 18MW of capacity at the SH2 facility. The project will als...

July 01, 2021

Eric Bell

STACK Gland GEN02

Yandex enters 5-year renewable energy deal in Finland

Yandex, Russia's largest search platform, has decided to make the push towards renewable energy by signing up for a five-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for wind power at its Mäntsälä data center. According to Yandex, the deal with Finland's Ilmatar Energy will mean that 20% of the compan...

July 01, 2021

Yandex NV

Bee Information Technology PH plans to build ‘largest carrier neutral data center in Philippines

Bee Information Technology PH says it plans to build the largest carrier-neutral data center in the Philippines. The Company already leased out the entire Campus One building in the new Bridgetowne Destination Estate. The building it leases is a three-story one with leasable space of up to 205...

July 01, 2021

Eric Bell

Beeinfotech: The Hive

Google buys plot of land in the Netherlands for potential data center

Google just bought a plot of land in Groningen province, the Netherlands, for €3 million ($3.5 million). The plot of land bought is the last one at the Hoogebrug Winschoten business park in the municipality of Oldambt. There are reports that Google is planning to build a data center on the pie...

July 01, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google Eemshaven Netherlands

Thésée DataCenters opens its first Tier IV data center in Aubergenville, France

Thésée DataCenters has opened its first data center in Aubergenville, France. The data center coined TDC01 has 64,500 square feet of floor space in two rooms. The Uptime Institute has also certified the facility as Tier IV. According to Thésée DataCenters' president, Christophe Bouniol, the C...

July 01, 2021

Eric Bell

Thésée: Aubergenville TDC01

Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary, Marunouchi Direct Access opens 130-rack data center in Tokyo

Marunouchi Direct Access, a Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary, has opened its new data center in Tokyo, Japan. The Otemachi DC II facility is a 130-rack facility that’s built in the Tokyo Torch development. Marunouchi Direct Access is a joint venture between Mitsubishi Estate and Marubeni Corporat...

July 01, 2021

Eric Bell

Marunouchi: Otemachi II

Scala Data Centers awarded carbon neutral certification in Brazil

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has secured carbon-neutral certification in Brazil. This comes as the company reaches its net-zero carbon emissions targets, with 100% of its energy consumption deriving from renewable and certified sources. This makes Scala the first company of its kin...

June 30, 2021

Eric Bell

Scala Data Centers

Euronext is moving its data center infrastructure from London to Italy because of Brexit

Euronext, the largest stock exchange in Europe says it is moving its data center out of London to Italy because of Brexit. It says it made the decision because it needs a predictable regulatory environment which the UK can’t provide. Euronext initially moved its data center infrastructure from...

June 30, 2021

Eric Bell

Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building an operations center in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building a new operations and communications center, which includes, a data center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The project will cost the Company $7.7 million. Gerald R. Ford International airport says the new facility will be on the east side of the airp...

June 30, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Grand Rapids MI

Microsoft to acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud; AT&T to move its 5G network to Azure

Microsoft will acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud technology and intellectual property. It will also be making job offers to hundreds of AT&T engineers. As part of the deal, AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to Microsoft Azure. AT&T’s 5G core would be the starting point. This deal...

June 30, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Rocky Mountain Power to build 120MW solar farm in Utah for Facebook power

Rocky Mountain Power has announced that it would be building a new 120MW solar farm in Iron County, Utah, for Facebook. The solar farm will power Facebook’s Eagle Mountain data center. Head of renewable energy at Facebook, Urvi Parekh, commented on the development. He said the Company is happ...

June 30, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Eagle Mountain Utah Campus

CDH raises RNB 2 billion ($310 million) for a Chinese data center company

CDH Investments has announced that it has raised RNB 2 billion ($310 million) for a domestic data center Company. CDH Investments is a Beijing-based firm, and the funds it raised are said to be the first domestic fund in China that’s focused on investing in data centers. Ye Tao, managing dire...

June 29, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

China

Cyxtera Technologies expands in Silicon Valley and Chicago

Cyxtera has announced that it is expanding its data center data footprint in Silicon Valley and Chicago. This includes the leasing of a 9MW data center based in Santa Clara, which offers 121,000 sq ft across four floors. In addition to this, the company is also adding around 1.6 MW of capacity...

June 29, 2021

Cyxtera Technologies

Prime Data Centers to lease 9MW data center in Santa Clara to Cyxtera

Prime Data Centers announces pre-lease of its new 9MW facility under construction in Santa Clara, California, to Cyxtera. Cyxtera will be leasing the entire four-story building facility with a total space of 121,000 square feet. Prime Data Centers first announced the facility's construction in...

June 29, 2021

Eric Bell

Prime Data Centers

NASA awards $2.5 billion IT & communications contract to Leidos Inc

NASA confirms that they have awarded a new agency-wide information technology and communications services contract for Advanced Enterprise Global Information Technology Solutions contract worth $2.5 billion to Leidos Inc. The contract will run for ten years, and it will see Leidos provide clou...

June 29, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Princeton Digital Group announces $1 billion hyperscale campus in Tokyo, Japan

Princeton Digital Group is building a 100MW hyperscale campus in Tokyo, Japan. Investments in the facility are also expected to reach $1 billion. The facility would be built on an eight-acre site in Saitama City, Tokyo. Princeton Digital Group will build the facility in two phases, with each ...

June 29, 2021

Eric Bell

Princeton PDG TY1

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