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North Myrtle Beach City To Invest $12m In Developing an Emergency Operations and Data Management Center

The City of North Myrtle Beach in South Carolina has announced that it is developing an emergency operations and data management center. The city’s council members initially planned to spend $2 million developing the data center. However, the budget has risen to $12 million. North Myrtle Be...

April 26, 2022

South Carolina

Meta Expanding Campus in New Albany, Ohio

Meta has announced that it is expanding its data center campus in New Albany, Ohio. The company announced the decision in a Facebook post earlier in the week. The company revealed to BizJournal that it would be adding two buildings totaling 92,900 square meters (1 million square feet) to th...

April 22, 2022

Meta: New Albany Ohio

Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain

Thor Equities has announced its plans to move into data centers. The US real estate group, is also looking to develop its first data center in Madrid, Spain. Thor Equities will be doing this by launching a new data center division called Thor Digital. The new unit will be headed by Roy Gibbens...

April 22, 2022

Madrid

Meta signs another solar PPA with EDPR

Meta has partnered up with EDP Renewables, it has announced. The energy company will supply solar energy in Texas via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The social media giant, will gain access to 156MW, procured from the 240MW Cattlemen Solar Park in Milam County, which EDP Renewables North Am...

April 21, 2022

Meta

TikTok's European data center encounters further delays

Further delays have been announced regarding TikTok’s first data center in Europe. Its Dublin-based facility was initially planned to be up and running by early 2022, but due to what the company said were delays related to Covid, the facility’s opening was pushed back to late 2022. Now the com...

April 14, 2022

Dublin

SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota

Although back in 2019, Singapore introduced a data center moratorium following concerns around energy supplies, in 2022, this moratorium was lifted - with conditions. Part of these conditions was that the country would be more selective over future data center projects. Further details around...

April 11, 2022

Singapore

Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma

Meta has recently signed another power purchase agreement (PPA) with TransAlta Corporation. Through this deal, Meta will be provided with 200MW from the upcoming Horizon Hill Wind Power Project, which is to be based in Oklahoma. Construction on the project, which will be located on 25,000 acr...

April 08, 2022

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Meta To Develop $800m Data Center in Temple, Texas

Meta is going to develop a data center in Temple, Texas. The social media giant plans to develop the new facility on a 393-acre site located off Industrial Blvd. and NW H K Dodgen Loop. When completed, the new data center will have up to 83,600 square meters (900,000 square feet) of space. ...

April 01, 2022

Meta

Meta Puts The Zeewolde Data Center Development on Hold Due To Political Opposition

Meta has finally announced that it is pausing its plans for a mega data center in the Netherlands. The company said it would not be going forward with its plans for the facility in Zeewolde until further notice. Facebook gained approval for the facility from the Zeewolde council. However, i...

March 31, 2022

Meta

Work begins on solar farm that will power Meta's Tennessee campus

Construction on the solar farm that will supply Meta's Gallatin data centers with renewable energy is underway; it has been announced. Based in Madison County, Tennessee, the farm will see an investment of upwards of $90 million, which will be funded, owned, operated, and maintained by Nashv...

March 30, 2022

Meta

Meta confirms data center Missouri plans

Meta has confirmed that it will indeed be a tenant at the Golden Plains Technology Park and intends to build a data center at the location in Kansas City, Missouri. The giant said that construction on the facility has begun, and that it expects it to be operational in 2024.According to report...

March 28, 2022

Meta

The Netherlands' Senate Votes To Prevent Meta From Advancing Works at its Zeewolde Data Center Site

Meta’s Plans for a data center in Zeewolde has suffered another major setback. Lawmakers in the Netherlands voted last week to prevent the company from continuing any groundwork on the site. This move comes after Meta received approval from the Zeewolde council for zoning changes and plans for...

March 28, 2022

Facebook Zeewolde

Meta Confirms Development of $800m Data Center in Kansas City

Meta has confirmed that it would be developing a data center in Kansas City. The Kansas City Area Development Council announced that the social media giant has chosen Kansas for its next data center development. Meta will be starting work at the site soon and the data center is scheduled to...

March 25, 2022

Meta

Another racist incident recorded at Facebook's Utah data center

Further controversy ensues at the construction site of Meta's data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, with the discovery of a noose. This is not the first time racist activity has been found to be occurring on the site. Back in November, racist graffiti was written across the site's toilets.Contr...

March 24, 2022

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Housing Minister Opposing Meta's Zeewolde Data Center Development

Meta’s data center proposal in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, appears to have hit another roadblock. The current Minister of Housing of the Netherlands, Hugo de Jonge, has revealed that he plans to prevent the development of the facility. Although the Zeewolde council has approved the zoning chang...

March 21, 2022

Facebook Zeewolde

Facebook's Meta to build $1 billion facility for the Metaverse

As Meta gets underway with its Metaverse plans, it has announced that it will be investing $1 billion in a new data center campus in Castilla La Mancha in the Toledo region of Spain, which will form the basis of the project. The facility will reportedly be built on a 191-hectare parcel of land...

March 18, 2022

Meta

South Dublin passes motion to prevent data center builds

Continuing to pursue the ban on new data center builds in Dublin, People Before Profit Councillor Madeleine Johansson recently put forward an amendment to do just that, a motion, which was voted through by 18 votes to 13 against, with one abstention.Despite the vote to curb further builds, the...

March 15, 2022

Dublin

Meta To Develop a €1bn Data Center in Toledo, Spain

Meta is developing a €1 billion ($1.1bn) data center campus in Spain. The social media giant says the facility will be developed near Talavera de la Reina, in the Toledo region. Emiliano Garcia-Page, the socialist president of Toledo, was happy about the development and said the project wou...

March 14, 2022

Meta

Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant

According to Biz Journal, Meta will be the first tenant at the new large data center campus in Kansas, Missouri. Plans for a Golden Plains Technology Park, also known as Project Velvet, were first submitted in 2021. The developer has plans for a 510,000 square meters (5.5 million square fee...

March 11, 2022

Meta

BitNile to expand the capacity of its Michigan data center

BitNile has announced plans to expand its data center in Michigan to reach a capacity of 300 MW. This decision to expand capacity comes as the company seeks to accommodate Bitcoin mining operations at the facility, enabling the operation of approximately 90,000 Bitcoin miners. This, according ...

March 09, 2022

Michigan

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