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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

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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

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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

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HostDime's Colombia Data Center becomes first in Latin America to obtain EDGE Green Certificate

HostDime's Columbia data center has become the first in Latin America to obtain the EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) certificate. This certificate is awarded to buildings with the resource efficiency of at least 20 percent in energy, water, and embodied energy in materials...

April 25, 2023

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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

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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

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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Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

Google has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with Luminus to source wind energy in Belgium. The 12-year deal will see the tech giant acquire 23.8MW of energy from the Belgium energy company, sourced from four new onshore wind projects.According to Google, the PPA in Belgium will ke...

April 13, 2023

Google

NTT Data Center Agreement Extended by Eight Years by Alabama Pension Agency

The Retirement Systems of Alabama has renewed NTT's contract with them until 2033. NTT Data will manage the data center for the state pension agency for an extra eight years as part of the arrangement. The contract's worth wasn't shared. The downtown Montgomery data center has 300 racks and a ...

April 07, 2023

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Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar

Google has announced that it has launched a new cloud region located in Doha, Qatar, following the tech giant first announcing plans for expansion in this regard in 2020. The cloud region, the second that Google has launched this year, also launches alongside three availability zones and the ...

April 04, 2023

Google

Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year

Recent figures from S&P Global have revealed that the amount of renewable power purchased by data center operators has surged 50 percent in just a year. This latest figure now means that the sector utilizes two-thirds of the renewable power available to corporates in the US. The report hi...

April 04, 2023

Google

NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

On April 3, NTT East and NTT West, subsidiaries of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), were impacted by a network outage in Japan. NTT had a significant network outage that morning at about 7:10 local time, according to reports from regional media outlets, albeit the impacted services have s...

April 03, 2023

NTT

Fire at The Building Site of The AdaniConneX Data Center

A relatively modest fire broke out at an AdaniConneX data center that was still under construction in Noida, India. The fire was quickly put out after the incident, which occurred on Tuesday at 11:20 p.m. local time and was caused by welding work being performed at the site. Nobody was hurt in...

March 30, 2023

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Google's new RFP system to reduce process time required for PPAs

Google has announced the development of a new Request for Proposal (RFP) system in collaboration with LevelTen Energy which it said will reduce the time required to sign a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). This development comes from Google to simplify RFPs for PPAs which it said are "lengthy, ...

March 27, 2023

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A New Google Cloud Platform Region Has Been Launched in Turin, Italy

Google has introduced a new cloud region in Turin, Italy. The company did not disclose the new region's details or specs, although it did note that it has three availability zones and offers standard GCP services. After a busy 2022, it is the first new region the company has introduced in 2023...

March 24, 2023

Google

Thailand's Bangkok Will Get a New Data Center From NTT

NTT will construct a new data center in Thailand. The company revealed this week that it will spend $90 million through NTT Global Data Centers to build a 12MW, 43,000 sq ft facility in Bangkok. The second half of 2024 will see the start of operations at the next data center, BKK3, which wi...

March 23, 2023

NTT

Hackers target data center passwords

Last week hackers gained access to two Asia-based data center firms, Shanghai-based GDS Holdings and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. This revelation, first published by Bloomberg, comes after endpoint security firm Resecurity found evidence they had been compromised. Cyber se...

February 27, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

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