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Read Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA
Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

June 13, 2022 Denmark

Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be...

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Read Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland
Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

June 08, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it added new availability zones to its Zurich Azure region. Availability zones are data center locations that are physically separate but still within the same cloud region, offering redundancy against failures in a particular location. Typically, most new regions...

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Read Bristow Officials To Allow Data Center Development on Stanley Martin’s Devlin Technology Park
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Bristow Officials To Allow Data Center Development on Stanley Martin’s Devlin Technology Park

May 30, 2022 Northern Virginia

Bristow’s officials have voted in favor of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment. This amendment could see the development of a 4.25 million square feet data center campus in the area. Stanley Martin, a Virginia-based developer, is looking to have over 250 acres in Prince William County rezoned. The...

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Read RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development
RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development

RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development

May 23, 2022 Singapore

MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX), a crypto exchange regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has announced it is teaming up with AI firm Red Dot Analytics, for carbon measurement and to offset tropical data centers. Singapore implemented a three-year moratorium on new data center...

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Read Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus
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Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

May 19, 2022 Ohio

Investment and real estate firms Harrison Street and Lincoln Property Company plan to develop an industrial campus and data center in New Albany, Ohio. Both companies have formed a joint venture for this purpose. The JV has purchased a 190-acre site to develop a multipurpose technology and...

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Read Application for 277-acres of data center development filed in Nokesville
Application for 277-acres of data center development filed in Nokesville

Application for 277-acres of data center development filed in Nokesville

May 11, 2022 Northern Virginia

According to a report by Inside NoVa, an application has been filed in Nokesville, in Virginia’s Prince William County, for 277-acres of data center development. The application, submitted by the House family, seeks to change their property designation from an agricultural estate to a...

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Read OADC Launches First Data Center in South Africa, Plans 100 Edge Facilities Across The Country
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OADC Launches First Data Center in South Africa, Plans 100 Edge Facilities Across The Country

May 09, 2022 South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced the opening of its first data center in South Africa. The company’s first data center is located in Durban, and it offers up to 23,700 square feet (2,200 square meters) of white space. It also offers 5MW of capacity. In addition, the Durban data...

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Read Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES
Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES

Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES

May 06, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new PPA with AES for renewable energy to fuel its facilities in California. The PPA is a 20-year “highly customized agreement” which will see Microsoft partially match its load at its California-based data centers. The energy from AES will be sourced...

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Read Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project
Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

May 03, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Infrastructure Masons, a body for large data center builders, has announced the formation of a new group, the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), to establish a standard for data centers' embodied carbon. So far, some of the hyperscalers involved in the project include AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft,...

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Read Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time
Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

May 02, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has shared its data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE) data for the first time. Overall, the giant achieved a high level of efficiency with regards to PUE, while when it came to WUE, it didn't quite meet its target, and there was room for...

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Read Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington
Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington

Microsoft Signs Agreement To Purchase Over 100-acres in Chelan County, Washington

April 28, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is set to buy over 100 acres in Malaga, Washington. According to the county's officials, the company will be using the land to develop data centers. Commissioners of the Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority signed a sale and purchase agreement with Microsoft for 102.5 acres of land in...

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Read Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland
Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland

Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland

April 27, 2022 Dublin

Energia Group has announced that Fingal County Council has granted the company planning permission for two new data centers next to the Huntstown Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. The two facilities, known as Buildings A and B, are expected to have a gross floor area of c. 37,647 sqm (400,000 sq...

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Read Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada
Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada

Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada

April 27, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced it has signed another PPA, this time, with ATCO Group. The PPA will enable the giant to procure solar energy in Canada from a 37MW Deerfoot solar project, which is adjacent to ATCO's 27-MW Barlow project. According to reports, the projects' construction will take place in...

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Read Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia
Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia

Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia

April 27, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is looking to develop a new data center in Manassas, Northern Virginia. The company submitted a request to the US Army Corps of Engineers to build the MNZ01 Balls Ford Road Data Center. The project will involve Microsoft developing two three-story buildings, MNZ01 and MNZ02, on the...

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

April 22, 2022 Madrid

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,...

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Read TikTok's European data center encounters further delays
TikTok's European data center encounters further delays

TikTok's European data center encounters further delays

April 14, 2022 Dublin

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...

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Read 685,404 sq ft Data Center in Sterling, Virginia, Coming after Rezoning Approval
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685,404 sq ft Data Center in Sterling, Virginia, Coming after Rezoning Approval

April 14, 2022 Northern Virginia

Another data center is coming to Sterling, Northern Virginia, as county officials have approved a rezoning request in the area. Long Drive Land Company LLC sought to rezone up to 39.82 acres of land in Loudoun County to develop a data center with up to 63,675 square meters (685,404 square feet)...

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Read 'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London
'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to  East London

'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

April 12, 2022 London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's...

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Read SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota
SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota

SGTech's response to Singapore's data center quota

April 11, 2022 Singapore

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...

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Read PRP Buys Land in Manassas To Develop Three Data Centers
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PRP Buys Land in Manassas To Develop Three Data Centers

April 11, 2022 Northern Virginia

According to BizJournal, PRP has completed the acquisition of 22 acres of land in Prince William County, Virginia. The property is located at 7816 Bethlehem Road in Manassas. The Real estate firm paid $22 million to Allan Myers for the property. It is also negotiating for another 13 acres with...

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