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DataBank Acquires Its Occupied DEN2 Data Center Site

DataBank has announced the acquisition of a data center it was leasing in Denver, Colorado. The company plans to develop a new data center campus at the DEN2 facility. The data center is located at 6900 South Peoria Street, Colorado. DataBank did not reveal the details of the transaction. A...

February 04, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank

Amazon set to expand presence in Loudoun

Amazon’s data center unit, Amazon Data Services Inc, may be looking to expand its data center footprint in Loudoun County following the purchase of three buildings in Sterling, Virginia. The office buildings are located at 46000, 46010 and 46020 Manekin Plaza, and the deal closed for a total o...

February 03, 2022

Amazon AWS

DataBank to expand DEN2 facility

DataBank has announced the creation of its Centennial Campus by purchasing following the purchase of the data center it leased in the Centennial municipality in Colorado. This purchase will enable the company to expand onto the adjacent plot, which will be home to its DEN5 data center. Sp...

February 02, 2022

DataBank

EdgeConneX Granted Property Tax Break For its 22MW data center in Elk Grove

EdgeConneX is developing a new data center in Elk Grove, Illinois. It has also been granted property tax breaks for the facility. The Elk Grove Village officials met last week and endorsed a proposed Cook County property tax for the company. EdgeConneX plans to develop a 22MW data center on...

February 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX

H5 Data Centers Completes The Acquisition of Seven Data Centers From vXchnge

H5 Data Centers has announced that it has completed the acquisition of seven data center facilities from vXchnge across the United States. With this development, vXchnge has just one data center. With this agreement, H5 data centers has added over 250,000 square feet (23,200 square meters) of ...

February 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

H5 Data Centers

Microsoft to cut down 2,600 trees in San Antonio to make way for data center

Microsoft is to build a data center on a 33-acre plot in San Antonio, however, this will come at the expense of 2,642 trees. The move was recently given the go-ahead by the City Council, who voted 8-3 on Thursday, January 28, 2022. The giant will reportedly plant 833 trees around the data cen...

January 31, 2022

Microsoft Azure

CloudHQ's Cloud Capital Buys COPT's Manassas Data Center For $222m

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced that it sold a data center in Manassas, Virginia, for $222.5 million. The buying firm is CloudHQ’s investment arm. COPT revealed that it sold the DC-6 facility to Cloud Capital, CloudHQ’s affiliate company. The data center is a two-stor...

January 27, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CloudHQ Manassas Hornbaker

Meta signs wind PPA in Iowa

In its latest move towards attaining more green credentials, Meta has announced the signing of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Apex for its 225-MW Great Pathfinder Wind project in Iowa. This is the energy company’s fifth deal with the social media giant. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg,...

January 26, 2022

The Dublin City Council Challenges AWS' Plans For Another Data Center

Plans for another Amazon Web Services data center in Dublin, Ireland, are at risk of being stopped by the local council. The council asked AWS for proof that another data center would not over-saturate the area. AWS plans to build some facilities in north Dublin near its existing data center w...

January 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft to develop a $317m Chilean data center region

Microsoft has filed plans to develop a data center in Santiago, Chile. The data center is to cost the company $317 million. Microsoft first revealed its plans for a data center region in the country in December 2020. It is now finally actualizing its plans by filing its SLC03 project for asses...

January 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Verizon signs seven Power Purchase Agreements

As it expands its usage of green energy, Verizon, has announced that it has signed seven new Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy representing 910MW. The company's sustainability goals are to have carbon neutrality across all its operations (scope 1 and 2) by 2035.Renewable En...

January 22, 2022

Verizon Enterprise

USDA awards Lumen with a $1.2 billion network services contract

Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract from the US Department of Agriculture. Lumen is to deliver a fully integrated wide-area data transport service to over 9,500 US Department of Agriculture locations across the country and around the world. With this contract, Lumen will offer a...

January 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Lumen Technologies

Microsoft is buying 50 acres in Hyderabad, India a data center campus development

According to the Business Standard, Microsoft has agreed to purchase a 50-acre land in Hyderabad, India. The company plans to build a data center campus on the property. Business Standard reports that Microsoft already has a deal in place with the Telangana government of India to develop a Rs ...

January 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft buys 17 acres of land in Georgia for further expansion

According to Biz Journal, Microsoft has acquired extra 17 acres of land in Fulton County of Georgia. In addition, the Fulton County property deeds confirmed the purchase by showing that Microsoft bought 10 acres of land from Macq LLC for $1 million and 7 acres from Lit/Hodges Industrial Trust ...

January 20, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Verizon expands in Colorado Springs

Verizon has announced that it is expanding its digital footprint with the addition of a second data center in Colorado Springs. The company has submitted a proposal for a 49,000 square-foot (4,500 sqm) data center on Arrowswest Drive in El Paso County, with plans for a potential second phase ...

January 18, 2022

Verizon Enterprise

Facebook's DeKalb data center in first stage of construction

Facebook’s data center in DeKalb located east of Route 23 and south of Gurler Road, has almost reached its first phase of completion, while the second phase of construction has been approved. According to reports, an initial investment of $800 million has been made, a figure that is likely to ...

January 18, 2022

AWS continues to expand its local zones

Ever-growing and expanding its reach, AWS has announced that local zones are now available in Atlanta, Phoenix, and Seattle. This expansion means that the giant now has 17 Edge locations in 16 US metros. Its zones now include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Las ...

January 14, 2022

Amazon AWS

CloudHQ plans 4 million sq ft of data center buildings

According to DgtlInfra, a firm with links to CloudHQ wants to develop a 4 million square feet data center on a 97-acre site in Virginia. The Loudoun County Planning & Zoning commission is looking to increase the approved data center use on the Dulles Berry project site in Ashburn to 4,050,...

January 13, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CloudHQ

Amazon data center in store for Desoto?

Reports are circulating about Amazon's recent purchase of a 9-acre development site on Hampton Road south of Interstate 20 in DeSoto, southern Dallas County. This latest land acquisition has got people talking about whether the giant is planning another data center, considering its recent and ...

January 11, 2022

Amazon AWS

Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

Leeward Renewable Energy LLC has announced that it has completed the repowering of its 54.4-MW Crescent Ridge wind farm in Illinois, which will provide Amazon with renewable energy. This process involved decommissioning nine turbines, installing Vestas turbines, and replacing 24 legacy turbine...

January 07, 2022

Amazon AWS

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