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Amazon postpones Virginia campus

Amazon has pressed pause on its 1 million sq ft (92,900 sqm) data center campus in Manassas, in Prince William County, Virginia. This announcement comes after the giant was scheduled to present three linked applications on 30 November. However, its special-use permit application has now been ...

December 19, 2022

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Vantage To Develop Second Data Center Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa

Vantage Data Centers has announced plans for a second data center campus in Johannesburg, Japan. The facility called JNB2 will be located in Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg. JNB2’s first building will feature a two-story, 33,000 square meter (355,000 square foot), 20MW data center. It is scheduled...

December 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

Equinix To Develop Data Center in Johannesburg

Equinix has announced its plan to venture into the South African data center market with a data center development. The company plans to invest $160m to develop a data center campus in Johannesburg. The 4MW data center called JN1 will have over 20,000 gross square feet of colocation space and ...

December 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Luxembourg's Ministry of Environment and Google's delayed data center

Google's Bissen data center project has gone quiet, according to Luxembourg's government, which says that it currently has no contact with the giant. The Ministry of Environment had requested a report on the environmental impact of the project, however Google also hasn't applied for a buildin...

December 14, 2022

Google

Equinix announces plan to make its Ashburn data center more aesthetically pleasing

Following approval from the Loudoun Board of Supervisors last week, data center company Equinix has announced that it will be adding multi-colored LED lights to the exterior of one of its data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. This addition to DC21, located at 22175 Beaumeade Circle in Ashburn, ac...

December 13, 2022

Equinix

Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers

Equinix has announced, in line with a broader commitment to reduce its overall power, it will adjust its data center thermostats, shifting temperatures closer to 27°C (80°F) across its global data center fleet. This change, the company said, will lead to less energy used in 'unnecessary data ...

December 12, 2022

Equinix

Edge Centres Announces Launch of New Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Edge Centres has opened a new data center in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. The company announced in a LinkedIn post that: “Today we launched our first location in Vietnam. Our first of 3 locations and the only data center to launch here this year. We would like to thank our partner USDC Technology ...

December 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edge Centres

AWS Plans To Develop a 2.2 Million Square Feet Campus in Gainesville

Amazon is looking to develop a large data center campus in Gainesville, Virginia. The company submitted two special-use permit requests for a 2.2 million square feet data center campus that will sit on 117 acres of land at 5845 and 5945 Wellington Road. Per the company’s requests, it is lookin...

December 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

STT GDC Finishes Construction Work on STT Jakarta 1

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has finished the construction work on its data center facility in Jakarta. This is the company's first facility in Indonesia. The company first announced plans for the STT Jakarta 1 facility in May 2021. The data center is located in Bekasi Regency...

December 07, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Amazon signs a new PPA in India with Vibrant Energy

Amazon has announced that it has signed 300MW worth of wind and solar power purchase agreements (PPA) in India with Vibrant Energy, a Macquarie Group's Green Investment Group (GIG) subsidiary. The projects, based in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, are projected to generate 1,163,0...

December 06, 2022

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AWS signs new renewable energy deal with Brookfield

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Canadian alternative investment management company Brookfield have partnered to sign a 601 MW power purchase agreement (PPA). Brookfield Renewable, a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, will provide wind and solar energy capacity to AWS’s operations.As per...

December 06, 2022

Amazon AWS

Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW

ENGIE and Google are teaming up following the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA). The 12-year 100 MW PPA will see ENGIE deliver more than 5 TWh of green energy to Google from the Moray West project. The project is an offshore wind farm of nearly 900 MW, which is scheduled to...

December 02, 2022

Google

Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year PPA with German energy infrastructure developer ib vogt to procure solar energy in the province of Zamora in Spain. ib vogt began work on the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in September, which is expected to commence commercial operations i...

December 01, 2022

Google

Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign

As part of the 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign, climate groups Extinction Rebellion and Not Here Not Anywhere took to the giant's Irish Headquarters in protest. The groups called for Amazon's AWS to pay its workers, its taxes and pay for its damage to the climate, due to its 'unsustainable' environ...

December 01, 2022

Amazon AWS

Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia

Equinix has announced its plan to develop a new International Business Exchange IBX data center in Johor, Malaysia. The data center company said it would invest up to $40m in the first stages of the data center. The JH1 data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q1 2024. The facility wi...

December 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California

According to Real Deal and Globe Street, Vantage Data Centers has received $350m in funding to develop a data center in Santa Clara, California. Vantage DC acquired a building in the city, and the fund will be used to convert it into a data center campus. The planned facility will span 44,5...

December 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of new Local Zones in Denmark, Oman, Argentina, and Denmark. The launch sees AWS’ total international Local Zones outside the US reach eight. Local Zones serve the purpose of Edge locations for hosting applications that need low latency to on-premis...

December 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year

Amazon has announced its goal of becoming water positive by 2030, which, according to AWS, will see it returning more water to the communities that it uses in its operations. It also promised to report on its WUE each year. Through this announcement, it joins the likes of other tech giants, Go...

November 30, 2022

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Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia

AWS has announced that it has signed a PPA with Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to procure solar power for its operations in Indonesia. The state-owned electric utility will buy electricity from 210 MW of solar projects (four solar projects located in Bali and Java Island.)PLN stated that the ...

November 28, 2022

Amazon AWS

AWS proposal "indefinitely postponed" in Fauquier County

AWS’s Warrenton data center proposals have been ‘indefinitely postponed’ by Virginia’s Fauquier County officials following a unanimous vote. The original proposal outlined plans for a 220,000-square-foot (20,400 sqm), single-story data center in Warrenton at the intersection of Blackwell Road...

November 24, 2022

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