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Microsoft and PNNL to conduct battery materials research

Microsoft and the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have partnered to find the best materials for batteries. Using Microsoft's Azure Quantum Elements, they have reduced the possibilities of materials from millions to only a few options, with one curre...

January 15, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea

Google revealed in a recent announcement that it will be joining a consortium to deploy the first subsea cable between Chile and Australia. The company said, “Today, we’re joining Desarrollo País of Chile and Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to announce Humboldt...

January 13, 2024

Google

NTT unveils new facility campus in Delhi, India.

NTT this week announced the launch of its new data center campus, Noida 2, and the opening of its first data center. The first building offers 22.4MW across 300,000 square feet and spans across six acres. The Merlin campus will support a planned capacity of 52.8MW critical IT load in two data ...

January 13, 2024

NTT

Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

In a blog post shared on Thursday, Google Cloud Platform announced that it has removed "exit fees" for customers wishing to leave its services. Amit Zavery, head of platform at Google Cloud wrote: "Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their dat...

January 12, 2024

Google

Stack Infrastructure to expand footprint in Virginia

Data center firm Stack Infrastructure this week announced plans to expand its footprint in Virginia with a new 72MW campus in Leesburg. in Loudoun County. This planned facility, known as the NVA-06 will initially host a 48MW building set to deliver Q2 2025, followed by a second 24MW building ...

January 11, 2024

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Qcells announces long-term extension of alliance with Microsoft

South Korean solar panel producer Qcells this week announced an eight-year strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. to extend the companies’ existing solar panel supply deal. This extension comes as Microsoft looks to procure a large amount of solar panels produced in the US for its renewable e...

January 09, 2024

Microsoft Azure

King George County vote to reconsider Amazon deal

In a recent development, Virginia's King George County Board of Supervisors voted to renegotiate the performance agreement with Amazon. This agreement is for the facility's first phase at the old Birchwood power plant on State Route 3 near Sealston. Following the existing agreement, Amazon wo...

January 06, 2024

Amazon AWS

EdgeCore secures $1.9 billion in green energy debt financing

US data center firm EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure recently raised $1.9 billion in a debt financing transaction to fund scalable development on its campus in Mesa, Arizona. This financing comprises a limited-recourse senior secured term loan, a revolving senior secured letter of credit facili...

January 05, 2024

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands

Google has broken ground on a new data center in the Netherlands and has officially begun work on the facility in Winschoten, Groningen, in the north of the country. Marco Ynema, data center lead in the Netherlands at Google, said, "People are increasingly using digital tools, and organization...

December 28, 2023

Google

Digital Realty signs energy deal with Süwag Energie

Digital Realty has announced that it signed a renewable energy agreement with the energy service provider Süwag Energie AG to procure hydroelectric power in Germany. Following this agreement, Digital Realty has secured Guarantees of Origin (GoOs) for 6,000MWh of hydropower – originating from t...

December 28, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers

Equinix is now one of the top ten largest green bond issuers in the United States after allocating $4.9 billion in green bonds to building and efficiency projects. These bonds will fund 172 green building projects on 105 sites, along with 33 energy efficiency projects. Equinix first issued gre...

December 28, 2023

Equinix

Jeff Bezos provides new details about Blue Origin’s space data center

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has provided a few more details about Blue Origin's plans to put compute in space, which was first announced in October. Bezos explained on the Lex Fridman podcast that the 'Blue Ring' project, aims to provide multiple services to space customers. He said, "Blue Ring ...

December 23, 2023

Amazon AWS

Google & AirTrunk sign solar PPA in Australia

Google and AirTrunk have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy provider OX2 in Australia for the development of a new solar farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, from which Google and AirTrunk will receive 25MW of renewable power. Damien Spillane, AirTrunk chief custo...

December 20, 2023

Google

Microsoft signs large Biorchar carbon removal agreement with Carbonfuture

Microsoft has recently signed a large deal to pay for biochar production in Bolivia to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Following this deal, Exomad Green, the world’s largest biochar producer, will create the inert carbon residue at its facility in Concepción, Bolivia. Microsoft will pay for...

December 20, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Yondr Group powers up Virginia facility

Yondr Group has finally powered up its first data center in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, after breaking ground on the facility in October 2022. Once completed, this facility will be able to deliver 96MW of IT capacity across two buildings, with the potential for further expansion. Eanna ...

December 19, 2023

Yondr Group

LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

Renewables transaction company LevelTen Energy has set up a marketplace for time-based energy certificates to support renewable energy commitments around he clock. The GC Trading Alliance, supported by Google, Microsoft, and others, will be a platform to exchange "granular certificates" that v...

December 18, 2023

Google

CoreSite plans new facilities in Secaucus and Denver

American Tower subsidiary CoreSite revealed its plans to expand its data center footprints in New Jersey and Colorado. The company revealed that it is already making plans for a data center in New Jersey which will be located adjacent to its NY2 facility at 2 Emerson Lane in Secaucus. It has a...

December 15, 2023

CoreSite

Microsoft to use renewable natural gas in San Jose facility

Microsoft recently revealed its plans to use renewable natural gas (RNG) made from food waste to help power a microgrid that provides resilience at its San Jose data center. Fuel cell provider Enchanted Rock is in charge of this project and announced in 2022 that the microgrid would use biogas...

December 13, 2023

Microsoft Azure

County’s planning staff recommends denial of massive data center project again

The Prince William County staff have again recommended the denial of all three rezoning requests associated with the PW Digital Gateway data center project. This comes after two rejections of the rezoning requests by QTS and Compass in recent months. County staff said in a report, “At this po...

December 13, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Equinix to roll out support for liquid cooling at over 100 facilities

Colocation firm Equinix announced this week that it plans to expand support for liquid cooling technologies – including direct-to-chip – to more than 100 of its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in more than 45 metros globally. Tiffany Osias, VP of global colocation at Equinix...

December 12, 2023

Equinix

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