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Read Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM
Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM

Google opens Milan, Italy, region in partnership with TIM

June 21, 2022 Google

Google has announced it has opened a cloud region, in Milan, Italy, in partnership with TIM, namely the Europe-west8 region, its first in this region, following both AWS and Microsoft doing the same. According to the giant, it will bring on a second in Turin, which will happen over the next few...

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Read Vantage announces the opening data center campuses in Warsaw and Berlin
Vantage announces the opening data center campuses in Warsaw and Berlin

Vantage announces the opening data center campuses in Warsaw and Berlin

June 17, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has launched a data center campus in both Poland and Germany, the former is in Warsaw, and its first step into the Polish market, while the latter is its campus in Berlin, which is the company’s second venture into Germany. Vantage has now completed the...

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Read San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup
San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

June 16, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it will be using renewable natural gas to fuel its backup energy at its San Jose data center, which is currently under construction. This move aligns with the company’s target of being carbon negative by 2030, and the project will also provide power locally with...

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Read Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project
Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project

Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp push back against big renewable project

June 13, 2022 Google

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Corp., currently three of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of clean power, have voiced their opposition to a nearly $4-billion, Warren Buffett-backed renewable-energy project proposed in Iowa. According to the three giants, the project, which would be the...

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Read Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development
Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development

Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development

June 10, 2022 Meta

Meta has announced that it will be expanding its Gallatin data center campus, which is located in Tennessee. The plans for the campus, which will see an injection of $1B, were first announced back in 2020, and the campus will be powered in part by solar energy from a 110MW power purchase...

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Read Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica
Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

June 10, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica, which will enable Vantage to supplement the local grid powering the company’s data center campus in Johannesburg (JNB1) with renewable energy. According to reports, the campus is set to open in July....

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Read Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory
Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

June 09, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it is expanding into Australia. The company is partnering with Hickory, an Australian real estate developer. In addition, the development will see Stack develop data centers in three cities in the country. Stack Australia is already developing a data center...

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Read Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland
Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

Microsoft Announces New Availability Zones in Zurich, Switzerland

June 08, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it added new availability zones to its Zurich Azure region. Availability zones are data center locations that are physically separate but still within the same cloud region, offering redundancy against failures in a particular location. Typically, most new regions...

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Read Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas
Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas

Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas

June 08, 2022 Google

Google has announced a new cloud region in Dallas, Texas. In a statement by the company, it said it is happy to expand its presence in Texas by launching a new cloud region in Dallas, making it the second region in the central US and the eleventh in North America. This is the company’s first...

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Read Engie & Google Cloud AI to predict wind power
Engie & Google Cloud AI to predict wind power

Engie & Google Cloud AI to predict wind power

June 06, 2022 Google

French multinational utility company Engie has announced that it will be teaming up with Google Cloud to use AI to predict wind power and optimize its portfolio, making it the first customer of the giant's AI technology. Engie will be utilizing Google's DeepMind technology, which was...

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Read Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region
Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region

Google Opens New Columbus Cloud Region

May 25, 2022 Google

Google has announced the launch of its new cloud region in Columbus, Ohio. The company noted that the new cloud region (us-east5) would provide users with the availability and speed needed to serve local customers, innovate quicker, and develop high-performing applications. Google first announced...

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Read New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact
New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact

New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact

May 24, 2022 Google

Over the last few years, tech giants have made big claims regarding carbon emissions and their sustainability efforts, yet, despite many of them claiming to be carbon neutral, a new report has found that their investments' carbon footprint is, in fact, greater than all the emissions created...

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Read Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned
Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned

Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned

May 20, 2022 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has increased its existing sustainability-linked (SLL) from $375 million to $1.75 billion in an effort to “accelerate its next phase of strategic growth and expansion.” This loan is linked to ESG goals, and if the company manages to reach the pre-agreed...

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Read Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus
Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

May 19, 2022 Lincoln Property Company

Investment and real estate firms Harrison Street and Lincoln Property Company plan to develop an industrial campus and data center in New Albany, Ohio. Both companies have formed a joint venture for this purpose. The JV has purchased a 190-acre site to develop a multipurpose technology and...

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Read What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?
What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?

What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?

May 10, 2022 CyrusOne

CyrusOne, a founder and signatory of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, recently released its latest sustainability report, where it outlined its efforts to cut both Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions, and revealed it has hit its 2030 carbon reduction commitments eight years early and become water...

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Read Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES
Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES

Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES

May 06, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new PPA with AES for renewable energy to fuel its facilities in California. The PPA is a 20-year “highly customized agreement” which will see Microsoft partially match its load at its California-based data centers. The energy from AES will be sourced...

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Read Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility
Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility

Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility

May 05, 2022 Google

Luxemburg has instructed Google to decide on its planned data center in the country. The search engine giant bought land in 2017 to develop the facility, but development has been delayed due to local court cases and protests. Earlier in 2017, Google wanted to start the €1 billion ($1.1bn)...

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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 Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project
Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

May 03, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Infrastructure Masons, a body for large data center builders, has announced the formation of a new group, the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), to establish a standard for data centers' embodied carbon. So far, some of the hyperscalers involved in the project include AWS, Google, Meta, and...

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