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Amazon Plans Four Data Centers in Sterling, Virginia

Amazon will demolish several office buildings it purchased in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022 and rebuild those structures with four data centers. Amazon Data Services has submitted to Loudoun County proposals to tear down and replace nine office buildings in three sites in Sterling with four data...

May 23, 2023

Amazon AWS

Princeton Digital Group Intends to Construct a 150MW Data Facility in Johor, Malaysia

A new campus for data centers is being built by Princeton Digital Group in Johor, Malaysia. This week, the company announced that it had purchased 31 acres of land from JLand Group (JLG) to construct a 150MW campus in Sedenak Tech Park (SteP). The first 60MW phase, JH1, is expected to be opera...

May 22, 2023

Princeton Digital Group

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres to construct sustainability-focused data center in the Philippines

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (Philippines) (STT GDC Philippines), a joint venture (JV) between Globe, Ayala Corporation, and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), has announced plans to develop the largest carrier-neutral data center in the Philippines. The STT F...

May 21, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

NTT Will Invest $11b Over Five Years in Data Centers

Over the next five years, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) intends to invest $59 billion in data centers, AI, and other "growth areas." At least $11 billion will be allocated to expanding or modernizing its data centers. The digital industry, which includes AI and robotics, receives at lea...

May 19, 2023

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Amazon Receives $1 Billion in Oregon Tax Rebates For New Data Center Facilities

Officials in a rural county in the northeastern corner of Oregon have voted to provide Amazon with tax benefits that are believed to be worth one billion dollars so that the company can build five additional data centers there. According to The Oregonian and OregonLive, the five commissioners ...

May 11, 2023

Amazon AWS

Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

Equinix has announced that it has inked a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Sonnedix. The deal will see the colocation provider source energy from three PV plants in the Castilla-La Mancha region of Spain. The three plants are pegged to be operational by the end of 2024; collective...

May 09, 2023

Equinix

Digital Edge's second ESG report reveals key metrics on carbon neutrality

Digital Edge recently published its second ESG report, which shared key metrics for achieving its carbon neutrality target by 2030. Based on the theme of "Future Possible," the report emphasized the importance of building the digital infrastructure of the future sustainably and responsibly an...

May 08, 2023

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Racial Harassment at Google Data Center Construction Site Cost Whiting-Turner $1.2m

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the construction company Whiting-Turner alleging racial harassment and retaliation against former Black employees. The lawsuit centered on the company's role as the general contractor for the Google data center's...

May 08, 2023

Google

AdaniConneX to Develop a New 200MW Data Center Facility in Andhra Pradesh, India

Adani Group is building a 200MW data center complex in Andhra Pradesh, India. The company's "Integrated Data Center and Technology Business Park" at Madhurawada, Vizag (Visakhapatnam), is the first of three technology zones intended for the city. The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Yeduguri ...

May 08, 2023

AdaniConneX

Google Will Build Two Additional Data Centers in Ohio

Google and state officials announced on Wednesday that the company intends to construct two additional data centers in Ohio to support its artificial intelligence equipment and other tools. According to officials, with one data center already operational in the Columbus area, Google's total i...

May 05, 2023

Google

Navigating evolving data center security risks and requirements

In recent years, data center security has come to the fore, with an increase in firmware attacks and security failures. Research shows that 83 percent of businesses have experienced firmware attacks in recent years, and in February, GDS and STT GDC hit the headlines when hackers compromised tw...

May 03, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Google Downtime Due to Paris Global Switch Data Center Fire Caused by Water Leak

The Paris data center of Global Switch caught fire, bringing down Google services in Europe. According to a post to the French Network Operators Group, the fire seems to have been started by a cooling system water pump malfunction that caused water to leak into the battery room, sparking the f...

April 28, 2023

Google

Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in...

April 27, 2023

Equinix

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) launches fourth data center in Inzai

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has announced that it has begun work on its fourth data center in Inzai City, Japan. The new facility is located just 600m from Colt Data Centre Services' existing Inzai Campus, and is the second development under the joint venture between Fidelity Investm...

April 26, 2023

Colt Data Centre Services

Google signs new PPA with EDPR

Google has announced that it has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), EDPR NA Distributed Generation (EDPR NA DG), for solar energy in the US. This deal is reportedly the largest-ever corporate sponsorship for distributed generation signed between two companies in the US.Over 80 distr...

April 25, 2023

Google

Google merges DeepMind and Brain

Google has announced a merger between its DeepMind subsidiary and Google Research's Brain division, dubbed 'Google DeepMind, as it pursues its big AI push. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai outlined that this move will "significantly accelerate" the company's AI progress. This move may co...

April 25, 2023

Google

Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco

Google has announced that it has signed a new 10-year PPA with Eneco, a Dutch utility company, for 0.5TW/h of power, with a capacity of 153MW across the lifespan of the deal. The two wind farms the energy will be sourced from are the Fryslân offshore wind farm and the Kroningswind onshore win...

April 19, 2023

Google

Brookfield Secures A $3.8B Piece Of The European Data Center Market

The infrastructure division of Brookfield has entered the European data center market with the acquisition of a 31-center platform. The transaction, with a reported value of $3.8 billion, occurs as global capital focuses on development opportunities in the European data center market. Accordin...

April 18, 2023

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Digital Edge announces groundbreaking of Incheon data center

This week, Digital Edge announced that it had broken ground on its new SEL2 data center in Incheon, South Korea. The facility was first announced back in April last year, and will see around one trillion won ($800m) invested in the project.The company is working in partnership with SK ecoplant...

April 14, 2023

Digital Edge DC

Iron Mountain signs PPA in the Netherlands

Iron Mountain will procure solar energy for its Dutch campus following the signing of a PPA with local energy company Sunrock, the largest developer of rooftop solar deployments in the Netherlands. Through the deal, the data center company will source energy from a 4MW solar system, which has...

April 14, 2023

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