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Flexential Announces Plan To Expand Its Data Center Presence in Hillsboro, Oregon

Flexential has announced that it is developing a data center facility outside Portland, Oregon. The development will see the company erect two new buildings in conjunction with T5. According to Flexential, the facility is located adjacent to its Hillsboro 3 data center at 5419 NE Starr Blvd...

September 12, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Flexential

Microsoft Azure's New Zealand data center powered by 100 percent renewable energy

Microsoft recently announced that its data center region in New Zealand (specific location not yet disclosed), will be powered by 100 percent renewable electricity due to a partnership with Ecotricity, a sustainable electricity retailer. This means that the region will use solar, wind, and hy...

September 06, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services Launches UAE Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of its new cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company said the cloud region’s official name is Middle East (UAE). It also noted that the API name is me-central-1. According to AWS, the zone is ready for use to store data and deploy worklo...

September 05, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

CloudHQ To Develop a 180MW Facility in Minnesota

According to BizJournal, CloudHQ has plans to develop a data center in Chaska, Minnesota. The data center campus will sit on 72 acres of land in Carver County, Chaska. Per the filing, CloudHQ wants to either develop a large 1.8 million square feet (167,225 square meters) building or four build...

September 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CloudHQ

CloudHQ Begins Construction of 80MW 1.5 Million Square Feet Data Center Campus in Illinois

CloudHQ has announced that it has begun constructing a new facility in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), an energy provider, said the (140,000 square meters) 1.5 million square feet data center campus would cost $2.5 billion. The first phase of the development i...

August 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CloudHQ

AWS Looking To Develop a 900,000 Square Feet Data Center Campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia

Amazon Web Services has plans to develop an 83,600 square meter (900,000 square feet) data center campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia. The company has filed to rezone over 59 acres in Nokesville Road from A-1, Agricultural to Planned Business Development. This is for the sole purpose of devel...

August 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft To Develop a $215.9m Data Center in San Antonio, Texas

Microsoft has filed to develop a data center in San Antonio, Texas. The company is looking to develop the SAT15 facility at 3555 Westover Link in Bexar County, San Antonio. The new data center will span 245,000 square feet. Microsoft will also invest up to $215.9m in developing the facility. C...

August 24, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

AWS granted permission for two data center buildings in Dublin despite controversy

AWS has reportedly been granted permission to build two data centers in Dublin on the site of a former Ricoh building, which was once earmarked for T5’s first European facility. This approval has gone ahead despite mounting concerns around energy availability in Dublin, environmental concerns...

August 19, 2022

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Announces Launch of Qatar Azure Cloud Region

Microsoft has announced the launch of its first Azure cloud region in Doha, Qatar. The company said, “We are launching our newest data center region in Qatar. The new data center region includes Azure Availability Zones, which offer you additional resiliency for your applications by designing ...

August 19, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Figures around Microsoft's Holland data center water consumption cause concern

Microsoft's data center in the province of North Holland has been exposed for its extreme water usage. It appears that the facility consumes significantly more water than original estimates, right as the country is faced with record temperatures. According to a report by local media company N...

August 18, 2022

Microsoft Azure

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

Microsoft's hydrogen fuel test successful

Microsoft has announced that its hydrogen fuel cell tests have been successful. The giant recently trialed the energy source for its backup generators to support its data center, in what has been called a “moon landing” moment for the data center industry. Microsoft director of data center re...

August 10, 2022

Microsoft Azure

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

Meta announces Sarpy data center expansion

Meta has announced that it will expand its Sarpy data center in Sarpy County, Nebraska, once again, with the introduction of a new building which will make it a nine-building, four million-square-foot (371,600 sqm) campus that will be fuelled with renewable energy sourced by wind farm projects...

August 02, 2022

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

Microsoft Might Be Planning To Develop its First Data Center in Romania

Romanian media Profit.ro reports that Microsoft plans to develop its first data center in the company. Microsoft buying a plot of land in the city of Otopeni is a major catalyst of this speculation. Microsoft did not deny or confirm the story reported by Profit.ro. However, the company said it...

July 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft To Develop a Data Center campus in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Microsoft has filed to develop three data center buildings in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The company wants to develop the buildings at a greenfield site in the County. The site is located at 210 Tunstall Road, Mecklenburg County. The data center buildings will be developed on a 132-acre sit...

July 19, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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

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