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Read Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels
Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels

Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels

June 06, 2022 Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Foster Fuels, which will now serve as the data center company's "preferred green diesel provider," making it the first provider in the industry to use Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil-based biodiesel (HVO) to fuel its on-site...

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Read Evoque To Develop a 100MW Facility in Nashville
Evoque To Develop a 100MW Facility in Nashville

Evoque To Develop a 100MW Facility in Nashville

May 13, 2022 Csquare

Evoque has announced that it is developing a data center campus outside Nashville in Gallatin, Tennessee. Evoque is working with Archer Datacenters to provide data center capacity at an existing data center while expanding the site further. The 28.5-acre site is located at 1398 Gateway Drive. It...

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Read Meta Expanding Its $800m Mesa Campus in Arizona
Meta Expanding Its $800m Mesa Campus in Arizona

Meta Expanding Its $800m Mesa Campus in Arizona

May 05, 2022 Meta

Meta has announced that it is expanding its Mesa data center campus in Arizona. The company announced in a Facebook post that: “In August 2021, we were thrilled to add Mesa, Arizona, to our family of data centers. Just nine months later, we’re excited to announce that we are expanding the Meta...

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Read Meta to expand at DeKalb data center campus and announces new sustainability projects
Meta to expand at DeKalb data center campus and announces new sustainability projects

Meta to expand at DeKalb data center campus and announces new sustainability projects

May 03, 2022 Meta

Meta has announced further expansion with an injection of over $1 billion into three new data centers at its cloud campus in DeKalb, Illinois. The data center will span nearly 2.4 million-square-foot. Speaking about the decision to expand its presence at the cloud campus, Darcy Nothnagle,...

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Read Flexential To Develop an 18MW Facility in Raleigh, North Carolina
Flexential To Develop an 18MW Facility in Raleigh, North Carolina

Flexential To Develop an 18MW Facility in Raleigh, North Carolina

April 28, 2022 Flexential

Flexential has announced that it plans to develop an 18MW data center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The data center will span 11,150 square meters (120,000 square feet). The first phase is expected to deliver 4.5MW capacity, and it is scheduled to come online in Q3 2023. Flexential has also...

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Read Meta signs another solar PPA with EDPR
Meta signs another solar PPA with EDPR

Meta signs another solar PPA with EDPR

April 21, 2022 Meta

Meta has partnered up with EDP Renewables, it has announced. The energy company will supply solar energy in Texas via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The social media giant, will gain access to 156MW, procured from the 240MW Cattlemen Solar Park in Milam County, which EDP Renewables North...

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Read DC Blox Going on An Expansion Spree
DC Blox Going on An Expansion Spree

DC Blox Going on An Expansion Spree

April 20, 2022 DC BLOX

DC Blox is going on an expansion spree as it outlines an expansion plan for its Greenville, Birmingham, South Carolina, and Alabama data centers. According to DC Blox, the data center in Greenville will see another data hall added to it. The company’s Birmingham facility will also deploy its...

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Read Evoque Starts Offering Build-to-Suit Data Center Services
Evoque Starts Offering Build-to-Suit Data Center Services

Evoque Starts Offering Build-to-Suit Data Center Services

April 19, 2022 Csquare

Evoque has announced that it is moving beyond a colocation provider to offering build-to-suit data center services. The company's senior director of communications, Kevin Fleming, revealed that it is pioneering a new development with its build-to-suit solutions for government, hyperscale, and...

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Read Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma
Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma

Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma

April 08, 2022 Meta

Meta has recently signed another power purchase agreement (PPA) with TransAlta Corporation. Through this deal, Meta will be provided with 200MW from the upcoming Horizon Hill Wind Power Project, which is to be based in Oklahoma. Construction on the project, which will be located on 25,000 acres,...

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Read Meta To Develop $800m Data Center in Temple, Texas
Meta To Develop $800m Data Center in Temple, Texas

Meta To Develop $800m Data Center in Temple, Texas

April 01, 2022 Meta

Meta is going to develop a data center in Temple, Texas. The social media giant plans to develop the new facility on a 393-acre site located off Industrial Blvd. and NW H K Dodgen Loop. When completed, the new data center will have up to 83,600 square meters (900,000 square feet) of space. Work...

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Read Meta Puts The Zeewolde Data Center Development on Hold Due To Political Opposition
Meta Puts The Zeewolde Data Center Development on Hold Due To Political Opposition

Meta Puts The Zeewolde Data Center Development on Hold Due To Political Opposition

March 31, 2022 Meta

Meta has finally announced that it is pausing its plans for a mega data center in the Netherlands. The company said it would not be going forward with its plans for the facility in Zeewolde until further notice. Facebook gained approval for the facility from the Zeewolde council. However, it...

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Read Work begins on solar farm that will power Meta's Tennessee campus
Work begins on solar farm that will power Meta's Tennessee campus

Work begins on solar farm that will power Meta's Tennessee campus

March 30, 2022 Meta

Construction on the ​​solar farm that will supply Meta's Gallatin data centers with renewable energy is underway; it has been announced. Based in Madison County, Tennessee, the farm will see an investment of upwards of $90 million, which will be funded, owned, operated, and maintained by...

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Read Meta confirms data center Missouri plans
Meta confirms data center Missouri plans

Meta confirms data center Missouri plans

March 28, 2022 Meta

Meta has confirmed that it will indeed be a tenant at the Golden Plains Technology Park and intends to build a data center at the location in Kansas City, Missouri. The giant said that construction on the facility has begun, and that it expects it to be operational in 2024. According to reports,...

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Read Meta Confirms Development of $800m Data Center in Kansas City
Meta Confirms Development of $800m Data Center in Kansas City

Meta Confirms Development of $800m Data Center in Kansas City

March 25, 2022 Meta

Meta has confirmed that it would be developing a data center in Kansas City. The Kansas City Area Development Council announced that the social media giant has chosen Kansas for its next data center development. Meta will be starting work at the site soon and the data center is scheduled to be in...

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Read Flexential expands and announces Atlanta construction
Flexential expands and announces Atlanta construction

Flexential expands and announces Atlanta construction

March 24, 2022 Flexential

Flexential has announced that it is planning to expand this year, and will add 22MW of new data center development projects this year, at double the growth rate of 2021. In conjunction with this, the company announced that it had completed its 36MW Hillsboro 3 data center in Portland, Oregon,...

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Read Another racist incident recorded at Facebook's Utah data center
Another racist incident recorded at Facebook's Utah data center

Another racist incident recorded at Facebook's Utah data center

March 24, 2022 Meta

Further controversy ensues at the construction site of Meta's data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, with the discovery of a noose. This is not the first time racist activity has been found to be occurring on the site. Back in November, racist graffiti was written across the site's toilets....

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Read Facebook's Meta to build $1 billion facility for the Metaverse
Facebook's Meta to build $1 billion facility for the Metaverse

Facebook's Meta to build $1 billion facility for the Metaverse

March 18, 2022 Meta

As Meta gets underway with its Metaverse plans, it has announced that it will be investing $1 billion in a new data center campus in Castilla La Mancha in the Toledo region of Spain, which will form the basis of the project. The facility will reportedly be built on a 191-hectare parcel of land....

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Read Meta To Develop a €1bn Data Center in Toledo, Spain
Meta To Develop a €1bn Data Center in Toledo, Spain

Meta To Develop a €1bn Data Center in Toledo, Spain

March 14, 2022 Meta

Meta is developing a €1 billion ($1.1bn) data center campus in Spain. The social media giant says the facility will be developed near Talavera de la Reina, in the Toledo region. Emiliano Garcia-Page, the socialist president of Toledo, was happy about the development and said the project would...

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Read Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant
Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant

Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant

March 11, 2022 Meta

According to Biz Journal, Meta will be the first tenant at the new large data center campus in Kansas, Missouri. Plans for a Golden Plains Technology Park, also known as Project Velvet, were first submitted in 2021. The developer has plans for a 510,000 square meters (5.5 million square feet)...

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Read Argo Infrastructure Partners Invests $500m in TierPoint
Argo Infrastructure Partners Invests $500m in TierPoint

Argo Infrastructure Partners Invests $500m in TierPoint

March 02, 2022 TierPoint

TierPoint has announced that Argo Infrastructure Partners has invested $500 million into its business. The move sees Argo Infrastructure Partners become the largest single equity investor in the firm. TierPoint will use the net proceeds from the transaction to expand the company and provide...

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