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Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft embroiled in gold mine controversy

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, have all made big claims regarding sustainability and social responsibility, however, recently, the three giants have been embroiled in a c ontroversy relating to buying so-called "blood gold." According to reports, the three, alongside Apple, bought gold from an...

August 11, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon's emissions increase

Despite Amazon's lofty promises of securing carbon neutral status before 2040, the latest statistics from its sustainability report, reveal that the giant's carbon emissions actually increased by 18%, from 60.64 million metric tons to 71.54 million metric tons, the equivalent of 19 coal-fired ...

August 11, 2022

Amazon AWS

Google experiences widespread outage

This week, Google was down after experiencing an outage that impacted systems worldwide. As reported by DCD, this outage occurred shortly after an explosion at Google’s data center in Iowa - however, currently, it is unknown whether the two are related. According to Down Detector, the ou...

August 10, 2022

Google

Amazon Leases 5.5 Acres in Mumbai for 21 Years

Amazon Data Services is leasing 5.5 acres of land from Larsen & Toubro Ltd outside Mumbai. The lease is to run for 21 years and 6 months. According to Propstack, the property documents show that Amazon is looking to develop a data center on the leased land. Amazon will be paying $451,532 p...

August 04, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Hilliard's Planning Commission Approves AWS' Proposal For Data Center Campus in Hilliard, Ohio

The Hilliard planning and zoning commission has approved Amazon Web Services’ proposal to develop a third data center campus in the city. The commission voted 4-3 to approve the proposal. The Board of Zoning Appeals also approved AWS’ request to increase the maximum building height to 63 feet ...

August 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS announces cloud region in Santiago, Chile

AWS has announced its plans to expand its footprint in Latin America with the development of a new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. Alongside this announcement, the company also explained that it had begun the process required to obtain an environmental permit for a $205 million data center i...

July 28, 2022

Amazon AWS

Vantage Data Centers opens Johannesburg Data Center

Vantage Data Centers has announced the ground-breaking of its first facility on its 80MW Johannesburg campus, a project which launched in 2021. The two-story facility called JHB11 reportedly offers 16MW of capacity of 130,000sqft square feet (12,000 square meters). According to the company, t...

July 28, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

Equinix signs wind PPA with Neoen

Equinix has announced that it has signed a second PPA with Neoen in Finland in a 10-year deal. The deal will see Neoen (which owns an 80% stake in the project) and project developer Prokon (owning 20%) provide at least 42MW of wind capacity from the 53MW Lumivaara wind park which is currently ...

July 26, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Equinix sued over alleged patent infringement

Equinix is being faced with a lawsuit from Cloud Conductor LLC, a multi-cloud management firm, over accusations that the colocation giant stole its technology that was placed in one of its data centers. According to the filing, Equinix began offering a cloud connectivity service identical to ...

July 25, 2022

Equinix

UK data center operators battle the heat with hosepipes, while Google and Oracle face service disruption

The UK’s heatwave pushed temperatures to a record-breaking 40C this week, causing transport delays and service disruptions. To battle the heat, some data center operators have been using hose pipes to cool their facilities. According to a report by Bloomberg, staff in London have been spraying...

July 20, 2022

Google

Keppel Reveals Plans For Beijing Data Center

Keppel has announced that it is developing a data center in Greater Beijing, China. According to the Singaporean company, its Keppel Data Centre Fund II LP (KDCF II) has partnered with Heying to develop a greenfield data center facility in Greater Beijing, China. KDCF II is managed by Keppel’s...

July 19, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Keppel Data Center REIT

AWS Acquires Three Properties in Sterling, Virginia

Amazon Web Services has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. According to BizJournal, the company paid up to $30.8 million to real estate firm Clarke-Hook Corp. This will be AWS’ third low-rise office property acquisition in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022. The buildings are loc...

July 19, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Vantage secures green loan for Virginia data enter

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has secured a $300 million green loan for its upcoming 44MW sustainability-designed data center in Virginia. Structured and arranged by Societe Generale, the loan recognizes the facility’s sustainable features and will, according to the company, “exp...

July 19, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software

Tech giants, Google and Microsoft, have announced that they've invested in the carbon accounting startup FlexiDAO, which has now raised €6.1 million for its service that monitors the renewable energy that companies buy and the associated carbon emissions hour-by-hour and 24/7. While both Googl...

July 08, 2022

Google

Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen

As green hydrogen turns the heads of big investors, Amazon, Equinor, and others have announced they are backing energy startup Electric Hydrogen (EH2) with a $198 million round, led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech. EH2 is reportedly working on a ‘100MW-minimum’ electrolyzer technology for industria...

July 08, 2022

Amazon AWS

Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU

Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporatio...

July 06, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Pantheon Invests $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers

Pantheon Infrastructure has announced that it will be investing $34.7m in Vantage Data Centers. The investment will be geared towards the data center company’s North American business for continued growth. Vantage has data center campuses in Quebec, Montreal, Phoenix, Ashburn, Quincy, and S...

July 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

Edge Centres' Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Edge Facility To Come online in July

Edge Centres has started working on its Edge data center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Australian Edge data center company announced that it would be expanding into Asia. The first facility called EC31 is being developed in Malaysia. Edge Centres scheduled the site to be completed in July. Th...

June 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Kuala Lumpur

Google's data plans in Saudi Arabia: Lives at risk

Back in December 2020, Google announced that it had signed an agreement with state-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco to set up a Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia and offer Enterprise Cloud services. From the outset, this was a controversial move. Saudi Arabia is notorious for its human rights...

June 28, 2022

Google

Consortium of STT, YTL, and Linde to explore hydrogen power in Singapore

STT GDC, YTL and industrial gas supplier Linde have announced they have signed an agreement to work on a hydrogen energy proof of concept in an effort to enhance Singapore's sustainability efforts as it pushes toward its future goal of becoming a digital hub. So far, the country has been some...

June 27, 2022

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

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