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Read EdgeConneX secures $403.8m sustainability-linked financing for Indonesia data center
EdgeConneX secures $403.8m sustainability-linked financing for Indonesia data center

EdgeConneX secures $403.8m sustainability-linked financing for Indonesia data center

September 14, 2023 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has shared that it has secured $403.8 million in sustainability-linked financing (SLF). This loan is for its 120MW data center campus development in Jakarta, Indonesia.The deal leverages EdgeConneX's Sustainability Strategy and will reportedly use offshore US dollar borrowing. It...

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Read Amazon plans a campus with two buildings in Stafford County, Virginia
Amazon plans a campus with two buildings in Stafford County, Virginia

Amazon plans a campus with two buildings in Stafford County, Virginia

September 14, 2023 Amazon AWS

More proposals for data centers are on the way to Stafford, Virginia's Stafford County. Amazon has applied to a two-building facility in the county, while an unnamed developer plans a three-building site nearby. Amazon Data Services has applied for approval to construct the Potomac Church Tech...

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Read Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper
Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper

Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper

September 11, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

AustralianSuper has made an investment in Vantage Data Centers' EMEA operations. Last week, the company announced it would invest $1.6 billion to acquire a "significant minority stake" in Vantage Data Centers Europe, Middle East, and Africa (Vantage EMEA), backed by DigitalBridge. The pension...

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Read King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility
King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility

King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility

September 11, 2023 Amazon AWS

The King George County Board of Supervisors authorized Amazon Web Service's (AWS) 19-building data center campus's 869-acre rezone from agriculture to industrial use. Birchwood Power Partners applied for rezoning for AWS. AWS has received this first approval, but Birchwood's attorney, Charlie...

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Read EdgeConneX to build 200MW Cyberjaya facility in Malaysia
EdgeConneX to build 200MW Cyberjaya facility in Malaysia

EdgeConneX to build 200MW Cyberjaya facility in Malaysia

September 11, 2023 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX continues to grow its APAC operations by adding three facilities in Malaysia, located in and around Kuala Lumpur. Business Today and Edge Malaysia report that EdgeConneX signed a sales and purchase contract with Cyberview earlier this month to acquire a 12.14-hectare tract of land in...

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Read Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City
Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City

Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City

September 11, 2023 Google

Google has submitted two planning applications to Kansas City to develop its Northland at the Hunt Midwest Business Center site. The cloud computing company acquired 78.9 acres in Northland, Kansas City, in 2019, followed by an additional 236.4 acres in December 2021, stating that the parcel of...

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Read EdgeConneX files to build a 1 million square foot data center facility in Mesa, Arizona
EdgeConneX files to build a 1 million square foot data center facility in Mesa, Arizona

EdgeConneX files to build a 1 million square foot data center facility in Mesa, Arizona

September 05, 2023 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX plans to establish a new data center facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to expand its presence there. According to BizJournal, the company has applied for Mesa's administrative and design reviews to construct a multi-phased campus near Elliot Road and Loop 202. EdgeConneX wants to build a...

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Read Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas
Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas

Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas

September 04, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has made its first land purchases in Texas, both in San Antonio. The San Antonio Report reads, based on public records from Bexar County, that Vantage has acquired 89 acres of land in San Antonio spread across two separate parcels. On August 9, the firm purchased 31 acres at...

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Read Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility
Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility

Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility

September 01, 2023 Google

Google will construct a second campus in Texas in the Red Oak neighborhood of Dallas. This week, the company announced intentions to invest $600 million in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas to build its second data center. The search, advertising, and cloud company stated that it would invest...

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Read Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina
Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina

Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina

August 31, 2023 Google

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy for wind energy in North Carolina. Through the deal, the giant will offtake the full capacity from the Timbermill Wind project, which is in the process of being built. Located in Chowan County, the project will offer 189MW...

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Read AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia
AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia

AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia

August 31, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to expand to the Virginia county of Louisa. Last week, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $11 billion by 2040 to build two data center campuses in Louisa's Technology Overlay District (TOD). The county...

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Read Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services
Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

August 29, 2023 Google

Google unveiled several cloud-based tools and services centered on artificial intelligence. Cloud TPU v5e, the company's newest Tensor Processing Unit, is now available for preview, according to the company. Google claims that, compared to TPU v4, which was released in 2021, the chip has up to...

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Read Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility
Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility

Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility

August 24, 2023 Google

Google has verified its involvement in the Lincoln, Nebraska, data center proposal. This week, the company announced it was constructing a third data center in Papillion and a data center in Lincoln. The search and cloud firm will invest $1.2 billion in the project. Long suspected to be Google,...

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Read Vantage outlines a data center facility in Atlanta, Georgia
Vantage outlines a data center facility in Atlanta, Georgia

Vantage outlines a data center facility in Atlanta, Georgia

August 22, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers intends to construct a new campus in the Atlanta, Georgia, district of Douglas County. Vantage plans to construct nearly 1.7 million square feet of data center floor space through three buildings in Douglasville, according to a filing with the state under the Developments of...

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Read EdgeConneX contests the Dublin data center denial
EdgeConneX contests the Dublin data center denial

EdgeConneX contests the Dublin data center denial

August 22, 2023 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX Ireland has appealed to An Bord Pleanála against South Dublin County Council's decision to deny its proposed data center. The company intended to construct two adjacent data centers on its Dublin Campus in Ballmakaily, Lucan, Dublin, on Newcastle Road. Two single-story data centers...

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Read Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan
Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan

Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan

August 15, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Clean Energy Connect (CEC), a solar power company in the Itochu group for solar energy. Through the 20-year corporate PPA, CEC will invest more than 10 billion yen ($75 million) by 2024 for the development of small...

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Read STT GDC plans to construct a third facility in Bangkok, Thailand
STT GDC plans to construct a third facility in Bangkok, Thailand

STT GDC plans to construct a third facility in Bangkok, Thailand

August 14, 2023 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) Thailand is constructing its third data center in Bangkok, Thailand. STT Bangkok 3 will be located in the One Bangkok district and will have 2MW of IT capacity when it opens at the end of 2023, as is currently scheduled. This facility will join the other...

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Read Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved
Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved

Amazon's 7.5m sq ft data center park in King George County, Virginia, may soon be approved

August 14, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon's plans for a 7.5 million square foot data center campus have received preliminary approval from the King George County, Virginia, planning commission. Amazon will be the project's end customer, according to the Free Lance-Star. Birchwood Power Partners requested an amendment to the...

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Read Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India
Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India

Equinix will construct a $42 million data center in Mumbai, India

August 10, 2023 Equinix

Equinix will invest $42 million in a new data center in Mumbai, India. The MB4 data center is anticipated to be operational by the end of the fourth quarter 2023. The MB4 data center is in the Kalwa Industrial Area, approximately 9 miles from the company's two other IBX data centers in Mumbai....

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Read NextDC is developing a modular data center in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
NextDC is developing a modular data center in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

NextDC is developing a modular data center in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

August 09, 2023 NEXTDC

Western Australia has received an Edge data center module from NextDC. According to the company's website, the 1.5MW, single-story PH1 provides technical space for 320 racks across 7,825 square feet. The company has projected a go-live date of August 2023. The company stated that the data center...

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