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Read King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility
King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility

King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility

September 11, 2023 Amazon AWS

The King George County Board of Supervisors authorized Amazon Web Service's (AWS) 19-building data center campus's 869-acre rezone from agriculture to industrial use. Birchwood Power Partners applied for rezoning for AWS. AWS has received this first approval, but Birchwood's attorney, Charlie...

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Read Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City
Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City

Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City

September 11, 2023 Google

Google has submitted two planning applications to Kansas City to develop its Northland at the Hunt Midwest Business Center site. The cloud computing company acquired 78.9 acres in Northland, Kansas City, in 2019, followed by an additional 236.4 acres in December 2021, stating that the parcel of...

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Read CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt
CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt

CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt

September 08, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne is required to construct a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Last week, the company unveiled plans for its seventh data center facility in Frankfurt, designated FRA7 and situated on a 678,125-square-foot plot in the Frankfurt Westside business park. The development will include two...

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Read Digital Realty to expand in Italy
Digital Realty to expand in Italy

Digital Realty to expand in Italy

September 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to...

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Read Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome
Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome

Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome

September 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty plans to extend its operations into Italy and has already purchased land in Rome, the country's capital. Following the purchase of land in Rome and the subsequent pre-development planning for it, the company announced its entry into the Italian market last week. The ROM1 data...

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Read Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas
Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas

Vantage purchases two parcels of land in San Antonio, Texas

September 04, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has made its first land purchases in Texas, both in San Antonio. The San Antonio Report reads, based on public records from Bexar County, that Vantage has acquired 89 acres of land in San Antonio spread across two separate parcels. On August 9, the firm purchased 31 acres at...

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Read Crusoe plans to install gas flare data centers in Utah
Crusoe plans to install gas flare data centers in Utah

Crusoe plans to install gas flare data centers in Utah

September 01, 2023 Crusoe

Crusoe Energy will install data center modules at Utah oil wells and power the facilities with excess natural gas. This week, Crusoe Energy Systems and XCL Resources announced a new agreement to deploy Crusoe's Digital Flare Mitigation (DFM) technology at XCL sites in Utah's Uinta Basin. Large...

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Read Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility
Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility

Google announces intentions for Texas's Red Oak data center facility

September 01, 2023 Google

Google will construct a second campus in Texas in the Red Oak neighborhood of Dallas. This week, the company announced intentions to invest $600 million in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas to build its second data center. The search, advertising, and cloud company stated that it would invest...

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Read Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina
Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina

Google to procure wind energy in North Carolina

August 31, 2023 Google

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy for wind energy in North Carolina. Through the deal, the giant will offtake the full capacity from the Timbermill Wind project, which is in the process of being built. Located in Chowan County, the project will offer 189MW...

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Read Clark provides NTT with a data center in Ashburn, Virginia
Clark provides NTT with a data center in Ashburn, Virginia

Clark provides NTT with a data center in Ashburn, Virginia

August 31, 2023 NTT

NTT's Ashburn, Virginia, data center has been delivered by the construction company Clark. This week, Clark Construction Group revealed the notable finalization of the first phase of the VA6 Data Center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The project, which began in May 2022, was completed on time for...

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Read AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia
AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia

AWS to build two facilities northwest of Richmond in Louisa County, Virginia

August 31, 2023 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to expand to the Virginia county of Louisa. Last week, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $11 billion by 2040 to build two data center campuses in Louisa's Technology Overlay District (TOD). The county...

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Read CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design
CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design

CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design

August 30, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced the launch of an AI-specific built-to-suit data center design, which it says has been developed specifically to address the “rapidly growing needs of AI applications and services.”The company notes that the Intelliscale data center is built on an ultra-high-density...

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Read Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services
Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

Google launches Nvidia H100 GPUs and TPUs, adding generative AI cloud services

August 29, 2023 Google

Google unveiled several cloud-based tools and services centered on artificial intelligence. Cloud TPU v5e, the company's newest Tensor Processing Unit, is now available for preview, according to the company. Google claims that, compared to TPU v4, which was released in 2021, the chip has up to...

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Read NTT data centers in India becomes 100% booked
NTT data centers in India becomes 100% booked

NTT data centers in India becomes 100% booked

August 28, 2023 NTT

The entire capacity of NTT's data center campuses currently under construction in Kolkata, Noida, Chennai, and other areas of Maharashtra has been pre-booked. NTT Data's Senior Vice President of Global Delivery, Ravi Kumar, stated. The Japanese conglomerate revealed plans to invest $2 billion in...

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Read Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility
Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility

Google confirms participation in Lincoln, Nebraska 2 million sq ft data center facility

August 24, 2023 Google

Google has verified its involvement in the Lincoln, Nebraska, data center proposal. This week, the company announced it was constructing a third data center in Papillion and a data center in Lincoln. The search and cloud firm will invest $1.2 billion in the project. Long suspected to be Google,...

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Read CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center
CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center

CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center

August 23, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has applied to the South Dublin County Council for permission to construct a new data center in the Grange Castle Business Park in the Irish capital. The application, submitted on July 14, calls for the demolition of a one-story home called "Erganagh" and the erection of a three-story...

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Read Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure
Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure

Microsoft creates Petronas HPC AI infrastructure

August 22, 2023 Microsoft Azure

The digital arm of the Malaysian energy company Petronas, Petronas Digital, has inked a contract with Microsoft to develop a high-performance computing (HPC) artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform. The organization will use the platform to perform AI and machine learning to look...

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Read Vantage outlines a data center facility in Atlanta, Georgia
Vantage outlines a data center facility in Atlanta, Georgia

Vantage outlines a data center facility in Atlanta, Georgia

August 22, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers intends to construct a new campus in the Atlanta, Georgia, district of Douglas County. Vantage plans to construct nearly 1.7 million square feet of data center floor space through three buildings in Douglasville, according to a filing with the state under the Developments of...

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Read STACK Infrastructure Constructs Its First Data Center in Australia
STACK Infrastructure Constructs Its First Data Center in Australia

STACK Infrastructure Constructs Its First Data Center in Australia

August 22, 2023 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

A new data center campus has been opened by Stack in Melbourne, Australia. This week, the company announced the conclusion of its MEL01 Asia-Pacific (APAC) data center. The 36MW MEL01A facility, situated on a 3.6-hectare site in Melbourne's Truganina region, is part of a 72MW campus that will...

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Read 45 Sprint switch facilities to be converted into colo data centers by Cogent
45 Sprint switch facilities to be converted into colo data centers by Cogent

45 Sprint switch facilities to be converted into colo data centers by Cogent

August 22, 2023 Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications intends to transform the former Sprint switching plant real estate footprint acquired from T-Mobile into a substantial colocation data center portfolio. T-Mobile announced in September 2022 that it had agreed to sell its Wireline business to Cogent for a symbolic $1, with...

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