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Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

This week, Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister made an announcement that the country's moratorium on new data center builds, which was introduced back in 2019. Minister Gan Kim Yong said that going forward, a "more selective" approach to new builds will be taken.In a written reply to a par...

January 17, 2022

Singapore

Gibtelecom initiates tree planting scheme in Wales

Gibtelecom has teamed up with the charity Protect Earth for a forestation project. Already, it has planted over 600 native British trees at the Pantpurlais farm, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, including 12 species of native saplings, including 100 Silver Birch, 50 Common Alder, 25 Bird Cherry, and ...

January 14, 2022

Wales

More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

More people are speaking out against proposed data centers along Pageland Lane, near Manassas National Battlefield. The latest to outline his opposition to the construction plans is documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. In a letter to Prince William County Board of Supervisors, Burns expressed "fea...

January 12, 2022

Northern Virginia

Cardiff Met Uni announces relocation of campus data center

Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales has announced that it is relocating its primary data center to L block in the Llandaff Learning Centre. According to the university, the reasoning behind this move is due to its School of Technologies expanding into A block in January. The relocation...

January 05, 2022

Wales

Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

Recently, Prince William County’s environmental officials announced that they were recommending that the request to replan 2,133-acres in the rural crescent for data centers should be rejected. The watershed management division has argued that the replan would be significantly detrimental to t...

December 24, 2021

Northern Virginia

Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

Reports have it that Prologis has filed for permission to convert an industrial site in Sterling, Northern Virginia, into a data center. The company aims to develop a 500,000 square feet data center on its existing 19.5-acre industrial site. The development project is referred to as Prologis N...

December 19, 2021

Northern Virginia

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW turb...

December 17, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney

Australian real estate company Trifalga is starting a data center unit with plans to have a largescale data center campus in Sydney. Trifalga and Trifalga DC’s first data center project will be an 800,000 square feet data center in Rouse Hill, Sydney. However, Trifalga did not reveal when the ...

December 16, 2021

Sydney

Hickory DC is developing a 72MW data center in Melbourne

Australian real estate development company Hickory has begun construction on its first data center in Melbourne. The company first revealed plans for the data center in June. The facility will be located on a 3.5-hectare site in Truganina, West Melbourne. The data center was to have 269,000 sq...

December 10, 2021

Melbourne

Microsoft adds new availability zones to India Central Azure cloud region

Microsoft has unveiled new availability zones in its Indian Central Azure cloud region. Usually, Azure regions launch with three availability zones. These zones are physically separated to provide higher redundancy, availability, and disaster recovery protection. However, there are cases where...

December 09, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

Plans to build data centers opposite the Manassas National Battlefield Park are being opposed. Critics are warning that the proposal, known as "PW Digital Gateway", is the "Single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in nearly three decades," compromising the environmental in...

December 09, 2021

Northern Virginia

Microsoft to develop Azure data center region in Belgium

Microsoft has announced plans for an Azure data center region in Belgium. However, it didn’t share details of where the region will be or when it plans to develop it. Yet, just like Microsoft’s other regions, the Belgium Azure region will include three availability zones to enable better redun...

November 25, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft announces opening of two new data centers in Wyoming

Microsoft has announced the launch of two new data center facilities in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The facilities are located in Bison Business Park and the Cheyenne Business Parkway. The facilities will support Microsoft’s West Central US Azure region. VP of core operations for data centers at Micros...

November 23, 2021

Microsoft Cheyenne Business Parkway

Microsoft expands in Sydney, Australia

Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Sydney, Australia. The campus in Kemps Creek, according to AFR, will be worth $1.3 billion with a capacity of 190MW, spanning over 14.4 hectares. It is being built in a new industrial estate which is being developed by Frasers and Atlis Property ...

November 22, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft tests its hydrogen fuel cell backup generator

In Quincy, Washington, tech giant Microsoft has announced that it is teaming up with Caterpillar and Ballard Power Systems to test its hydrogen fuel cell backup generators in a move towards a more sustainable future. This project accompanies Microsoft’s other backup energy efforts, like the tr...

November 22, 2021

Microsoft Azure

AT&T and Microsoft launch Azure Edge Zone in Atlanta, Georgia

Both AT&T and Microsoft have launched an Azure Edge zone in Atlanta, Georgia. Azure Edge zone is a type of infrastructure that provides 5-G connected cloud services from Edge facilities. The companies announced that they are launching the “Private Preview” of the Azure Edge zone. With this...

November 22, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft launches new availability zones in Hong Kong

Microsoft has expanded its presence in Hong Kong by launching new availability zones in its East Asia Azure cloud region in Hong Kong. Most Microsoft Azure regions tend to launch with three availability zones. These zones or locations are unique and physically separated to provide higher redun...

November 18, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft launches Azure cloud region in Sweden

Microsoft has officially opened a new Azure cloud region in Sweden. The firm revealed that it has data centers in Sandviken, Gävle, and Staffanstorp. Microsoft first announced the region in November 2020 and it would be calling the combined Azure region Sweden Central. President of Microsof...

November 18, 2021

Microsoft Azure

SteelWave buys data center and office building from Metronest in Boulder, Colorado

A real estate firm called SteelWave has acquired a data center and office complex belonging to Metronest. The property is located at 1450 Infinite Drive in Louisville, Boulder County. The building is a multi-tenant one, and it occupies 154,000 square feet of space. It also sits on a 20.3-a...

November 18, 2021

Colorado (CO)

Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center

Prince William County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to pause the development of a Gainesville data center until late January. CTP-II LLC proposed the data center project in question. CTP-II LLC wanted 22.72 acres of land to be rezoned from business and light industrial to data center con...

November 12, 2021

Northern Virginia

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