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Read ECL to offer hydrogen-powered off-grid modular data centers
ECL to offer hydrogen-powered off-grid modular data centers

ECL to offer hydrogen-powered off-grid modular data centers

January 26, 2023 California

ECL has announced $7 million in seed funding, with plans to build the first 3D-printed modular data center to be powered by green hydrogen in California. The first facility will be built at its headquarters in Mountain View, using a construction 3D printer and a local building services company....

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Read Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia

January 26, 2023 Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia is now one of the largest data center hubs in the world. Over the years, tax incentives have brought in tech companies from far and wide. However, with this influx of companies data centers, has come a surge in energy use, which is now projected to increase electricity use by...

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Read MDC develops data center in San Diego, California
MDC develops data center in San Diego, California

MDC develops data center in San Diego, California

January 23, 2023 California

MDC Data Centers (formerly McAllen Data Centers) has announced that it is developing a new data center in San Diego, California, at 7014 Manya Cir. The new location is in partnership with Mexican telco Vívaro Telecom and will be ready to begin operations in the second quarter of 2023.The facility...

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Read A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard
A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

January 23, 2023 Atlanta

According to reports, a new data center is planned for Tilford Yard, on Atlanta’s Westside, under the project name Edged. This announcement comes following the filing of a building permit for a nearly 210,000-square-foot, two-level data center.Further to this, records show that Endeavour, the...

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Read ManageEngine launches data centers in Canada
ManageEngine launches data centers in Canada

ManageEngine launches data centers in Canada

January 20, 2023 Canada

ManageEngine has announced that it has opened two new Canadian data centers in Toronto and Montreal in order to offer Canadian customers, what it called, the benefits of localized data centers. This move is also reportedly in response to tightening privacy regulations across the world, with the...

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Read Cumulus Data completes work on first data center at Pennsylvania nuclear station
Cumulus Data completes work on first data center at Pennsylvania nuclear station

Cumulus Data completes work on first data center at Pennsylvania nuclear station

January 19, 2023 Pennsylvania

Cumulus Data, a Talen Energy subsidiary, has announced that it has finished construction of its first data center building at its nuclear-powered Susquehanna 475MW data center campus in Pennsylvania. According to the company, six facilities are planned on the campus, which have the option to...

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Read Crane Data Centers partners with Principal for new 100MW data center
Crane Data Centers partners with Principal for new 100MW data center

Crane Data Centers partners with Principal for new 100MW data center

January 17, 2023 Oregon

Crane Data Centers Inc. is partnering with Principal Asset Management through its real estate investment team, to build a 100+MW data center campus in the Forest Grove area, near Hillsboro.The campus, to be located in the Forest Grove area, will include a 300,000-square-foot facility on a 35-acre...

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Read Twitter closes its Sacramento data center
Twitter closes its Sacramento data center

Twitter closes its Sacramento data center

January 05, 2023 Sacramento

Microblogging social media platform Twitter has undergone extensive changes as of late since the takeover by Elon Musk. From the introduction of Musk's paid verification plan, slashing nearly half of the platform's workforce in November, and his massive cost-cutting exercise, Musk's tenure as CEO...

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Read Residents of The Dalles, Oregon gain access to Google's water consumption data following lawsuit settlement
Residents of The Dalles, Oregon gain access to Google's water consumption data following lawsuit settlement

Residents of The Dalles, Oregon gain access to Google's water consumption data following lawsuit settlement

January 03, 2023 Hyperscale Data Center

Those living in drought-prone The Dalles, Oregon, home to Google’s massive data centers, now know how much water the giant has consumed. This information, previously kept a secret by city officials, has been released following a legal fight funded by Google and launched by the city against The...

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Read Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks
Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks

Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks

December 22, 2022 Michigan

Legislators in Michigan are attempting to decrease the tax exemptions provided to data centers. In December of 2022, Yousef Rabhi, a Democrat from Michigan, presented two proposals to repeal sales and use tax breaks for data centers. Current Michigan legislation exempts data centers from sales...

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Read Basin Electric seeks state approval for power plant expansion to accommodate burgeoning data center industry
Basin Electric seeks state approval for power plant expansion to accommodate burgeoning data center industry

Basin Electric seeks state approval for power plant expansion to accommodate burgeoning data center industry

December 19, 2022 North Dakota

Basin Electric has reportedly reached out for state approval for a power plant expansion in McKenzie County to accommodate the growing power requirements of the data center industry. The state Public Service Commission (PCS) received the company's expansion request back in October, which would...

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Read Shell and NuScale announce nuclear-hydrogen partnership
Shell and NuScale announce nuclear-hydrogen partnership

Shell and NuScale announce nuclear-hydrogen partnership

December 19, 2022 United States

Shell has announced a partnership with US-based NuScale through which it aims to evaluate the production of hydrogen from small nuclear power stations inexpensively. This new deal is for the “Development and Demonstration of a Concept for an Economically Optimised IES” project, which will be...

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Read Applied Digital Breaks Ground on New 5MW Facility in North Dakota
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Applied Digital Breaks Ground on New 5MW Facility in North Dakota

December 16, 2022 North Dakota

Applied Digital Corporation has announced that it is developing a 5MW data center in North Dakota. The facility will be designed to host Graphics Processing Units GPUs for non-cryptocurrency use cases. Applied Digital’s new data center will be located next to its existing 100MW hosting facility...

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Read Cox Edge Launches Edge Locations in Florida and Arkansas
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Cox Edge Launches Edge Locations in Florida and Arkansas

December 15, 2022 Arkansas

Cox Edge has announced the launch of new Edge locations in Arkansas and Florida. The company's LinkedIn post reads: "We're excited to announce a new location in Johnson, Arkansas, and in Pensacola, Florida, on our journey to bring compute resources closer to end users!" Cox Edge is Cox...

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Read JLL Seeking Buyers For Property in Chicago Billed as Potential 50MW Data Center Development
JLL Seeking Buyers For Property in Chicago Billed as Potential 50MW Data Center Development

JLL Seeking Buyers For Property in Chicago Billed as Potential 50MW Data Center Development

December 15, 2022 Chicago

JLL is looking to sell a plot of land outside Chicago, Illinois. The land is being touted for data center development. JLL’s Regional Director, Sean Reynolds, posted on LinkedIn about the land. He said: “Looking for a Chicago area data center development site with quick access to 50 megawatts?”...

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Read Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision
Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

December 14, 2022 Northern Virginia

Following the Prince William County Board of Supervisors' decision to give the green light to the controversial PW Digital Gateway, it is now being faced with two lawsuits. The decision, which will permit changing the area's comprehensive plan, opening up the area to 25 million sq ft (2.3 million...

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Read Offshore wind auction reaches $757 million in bids in California
Offshore wind auction reaches $757 million in bids in California

Offshore wind auction reaches $757 million in bids in California

December 13, 2022 United States

The United States' first floating wind auction, part of the US government's pledge to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, closed on its second day last week, with prices reaching $757m. This is for five leases across 373,286 acres in waters off California, where at least 4.6 GW...

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Read Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity
Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity

Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity

December 13, 2022 CoreSite Reston Campus VA1

Backblaze, a cloud storage and backup provider, recently offered a rare glimpse into its US East Data Center, highlighting its capacity to store and manage a staggering amount of data for its growing customer base. Located in CoreSite Reston, the data center is designed to ensure top-notch...

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Read Chandler adopts data center zoning amendment
Chandler adopts data center zoning amendment

Chandler adopts data center zoning amendment

December 12, 2022 Arizona

Chandler City Council has given the green light to adopt a zoning code amendment for the location and operation of data centers in the city. This unanimous vote follows the tabling of an ordinance by Cameron Carter, an attorney with Rose Law Group and representative of Aligned Data Centers, who...

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Read Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers
Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers

Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers

December 09, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center

According to BizJournal, Microsoft is planning to expand its Leesburg data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia, by developing two data centers. The two data centers will be called IAD02 and IAD03. The planned data centers will span 44,200 square meters (475,700 square feet). The data...

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