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Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches Local Zones in Chile and Australia

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of two new Local Zones, one in Perth Australia, and the other in Santiago, Chile.In the announcement, the company outlined: “AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Perth and Santiago. You can now use these Local Zones to deli...

January 13, 2023

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Equinix signs another PPA in Finland

Equinix has announced that it has signed a third power purchase agreement (PPA) in Finland with Neoen, totaling 129MW. Through the ten-year deal, the company will obtain 60% of the output and guarantees of origin to be produced by the future 95MW Storbötet wind farm from the French renewable ...

January 09, 2023

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Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center

Google is reportedly looking to expand its data center site development in Omaha, Nebraska after it first announced and filed to build a data center near State Street and Blair High Road to the northwest of the city in April. Now, according to reports, the giant has applied to rezone an addit...

January 04, 2023

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Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project

Google has announced that it has canceled its $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota, after calling off its electric service agreement. First announced back in 2019, and based near the Sherco power plant, Google dragged its feet on the development for quite some time, and although it r...

December 29, 2022

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Amazon postpones Virginia campus

Amazon has pressed pause on its 1 million sq ft (92,900 sqm) data center campus in Manassas, in Prince William County, Virginia. This announcement comes after the giant was scheduled to present three linked applications on 30 November. However, its special-use permit application has now been ...

December 19, 2022

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Luxembourg's Ministry of Environment and Google's delayed data center

Google's Bissen data center project has gone quiet, according to Luxembourg's government, which says that it currently has no contact with the giant. The Ministry of Environment had requested a report on the environmental impact of the project, however Google also hasn't applied for a buildin...

December 14, 2022

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Equinix To Develop Data Center in Johannesburg

Equinix has announced its plan to venture into the South African data center market with a data center development. The company plans to invest $160m to develop a data center campus in Johannesburg. The 4MW data center called JN1 will have over 20,000 gross square feet of colocation space and ...

December 14, 2022

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Equinix announces plan to make its Ashburn data center more aesthetically pleasing

Following approval from the Loudoun Board of Supervisors last week, data center company Equinix has announced that it will be adding multi-colored LED lights to the exterior of one of its data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. This addition to DC21, located at 22175 Beaumeade Circle in Ashburn, ac...

December 13, 2022

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Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers

Equinix has announced, in line with a broader commitment to reduce its overall power, it will adjust its data center thermostats, shifting temperatures closer to 27°C (80°F) across its global data center fleet. This change, the company said, will lead to less energy used in 'unnecessary data ...

December 12, 2022

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AWS Plans To Develop a 2.2 Million Square Feet Campus in Gainesville

Amazon is looking to develop a large data center campus in Gainesville, Virginia. The company submitted two special-use permit requests for a 2.2 million square feet data center campus that will sit on 117 acres of land at 5845 and 5945 Wellington Road. Per the company’s requests, it is lookin...

December 09, 2022

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T4 Group Signs Partnership With NTT New Zealand

T4 Group and NTT Ltd have signed an agreement that will see the former provide data center infrastructure for the latter. T4 Group is a colocation provider with data centers in Auckland and Whangarei, New Zealand. It also has a third facility under development on New Zealand’s South Island. Th...

December 08, 2022

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STT GDC Finishes Construction Work on STT Jakarta 1

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has finished the construction work on its data center facility in Jakarta. This is the company's first facility in Indonesia. The company first announced plans for the STT Jakarta 1 facility in May 2021. The data center is located in Bekasi Regency...

December 07, 2022

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Princeton Digital Group MU1 Data Center in Navi Mumbai Comes Online

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced the launch of its new data center in Navi Mumbai, India. This is PDG’s first data center development in the country. The facility is built on a six-acre site in Airoli, Navi Mumbai. It has a 48MW capacity across two buildings. It is also IGBC Platinu...

December 07, 2022

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Amazon signs a new PPA in India with Vibrant Energy

Amazon has announced that it has signed 300MW worth of wind and solar power purchase agreements (PPA) in India with Vibrant Energy, a Macquarie Group's Green Investment Group (GIG) subsidiary. The projects, based in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, are projected to generate 1,163,0...

December 06, 2022

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AWS signs new renewable energy deal with Brookfield

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Canadian alternative investment management company Brookfield have partnered to sign a 601 MW power purchase agreement (PPA). Brookfield Renewable, a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, will provide wind and solar energy capacity to AWS’s operations.As per...

December 06, 2022

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Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW

ENGIE and Google are teaming up following the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA). The 12-year 100 MW PPA will see ENGIE deliver more than 5 TWh of green energy to Google from the Moray West project. The project is an offshore wind farm of nearly 900 MW, which is scheduled to...

December 02, 2022

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Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year PPA with German energy infrastructure developer ib vogt to procure solar energy in the province of Zamora in Spain. ib vogt began work on the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in September, which is expected to commence commercial operations i...

December 01, 2022

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Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign

As part of the 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign, climate groups Extinction Rebellion and Not Here Not Anywhere took to the giant's Irish Headquarters in protest. The groups called for Amazon's AWS to pay its workers, its taxes and pay for its damage to the climate, due to its 'unsustainable' environ...

December 01, 2022

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Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia

Equinix has announced its plan to develop a new International Business Exchange IBX data center in Johor, Malaysia. The data center company said it would invest up to $40m in the first stages of the data center. The JH1 data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q1 2024. The facility wi...

December 01, 2022

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AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of new Local Zones in Denmark, Oman, Argentina, and Denmark. The launch sees AWS’ total international Local Zones outside the US reach eight. Local Zones serve the purpose of Edge locations for hosting applications that need low latency to on-premis...

December 01, 2022

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