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Read Microsoft To Develop a $400m Data Center in Stone Ridge, Virginia
Microsoft To Develop a $400m Data Center in Stone Ridge, Virginia

Microsoft To Develop a $400m Data Center in Stone Ridge, Virginia

December 06, 2022 Microsoft Azure

According to BizJournal, Microsoft has plans to develop a new data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The publication cited the Loudoun County records for its information. Microsoft’s plan is to develop a $400 million facility on a 67-acre land it owns in the Arcola Business Park. The IAD11 data...

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Read Aligned Data Centers Plans To Develop 192MW Data Center at Quantum Loophole's Maryland campus
Aligned Data Centers Plans To Develop 192MW Data Center at Quantum Loophole's Maryland campus

Aligned Data Centers Plans To Develop 192MW Data Center at Quantum Loophole's Maryland campus

December 06, 2022 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced its plan for a massive data center in Frederick County, Maryland. The company plans to develop a gigawatt-scale facility at the 2,100-acre Quantum Loophole Campus. Earlier in May 2022, Aligned announced that it would develop a data center at the Quantum Loophole...

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Read STACK Infrastructure and ESR Form JV To Develop 72MW Facility in Osaka
STACK Infrastructure and ESR Form JV To Develop 72MW Facility in Osaka

STACK Infrastructure and ESR Form JV To Develop 72MW Facility in Osaka

December 05, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has partnered with ESR Group Limited to develop a 72MW data center campus in Osaka, Japan. The JV will see the companies develop the facility in Keihanna, Osaka. Stack and ESR schedule that the development of the first of three buildings will start in Q4 2023. The building...

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Read Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW
Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW

Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW

December 02, 2022 Google

ENGIE and Google are teaming up following the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA). The 12-year 100 MW PPA will see ENGIE deliver more than 5 TWh of green energy to Google from the Moray West project. The project is an offshore wind farm of nearly 900 MW, which is scheduled to be...

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Read Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering
Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering

Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering

December 02, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it is offering a $350 million note to the public. In addition, its Digital Core Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), listed in Singapore, will buy a stake in a Digital Realty-owned data center in Germany. The company noted that it is priced an underwritten PO of...

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Read Google signs major solar PPA in Spain
Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

December 01, 2022 Google

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year PPA with German energy infrastructure developer ib vogt to procure solar energy in the province of Zamora in Spain. ib vogt began work on the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in September, which is expected to commence commercial operations in...

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Read Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign
Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign

Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign

December 01, 2022 Amazon AWS

As part of the 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign, climate groups Extinction Rebellion and Not Here Not Anywhere took to the giant's Irish Headquarters in protest. The groups called for Amazon's AWS to pay its workers, its taxes and pay for its damage to the climate, due to its 'unsustainable'...

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Read Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia
Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia

Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia

December 01, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has announced its plan to develop a new International Business Exchange IBX data center in Johor, Malaysia. The data center company said it would invest up to $40m in the first stages of the data center. The JH1 data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q1 2024. The facility will...

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Read AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East
AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East

AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East

December 01, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of new Local Zones in Denmark, Oman, Argentina, and Denmark. The launch sees AWS’ total international Local Zones outside the US reach eight. Local Zones serve the purpose of Edge locations for hosting applications that need low latency to on-premises...

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Read Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia
Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia

Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia

December 01, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has started work on a new facility in Virginia. The groundbreaking ceremony of the NVAL3 hyperscale data center campus took place this week. The data center’s first phase will deliver 36MW of capacity in a single building by Q1 2024. In addition, the...

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Read Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California
Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For  Data Center in Santa Clara, California

Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California

December 01, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

According to Real Deal and Globe Street, Vantage Data Centers has received $350m in funding to develop a data center in Santa Clara, California. Vantage DC acquired a building in the city, and the fund will be used to convert it into a data center campus. The planned facility will span 44,500...

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Read Texas-Based Data Center Developer Signs Agreements with Landowners in Northern Virginia's Vint Hill and Catlett
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Texas-Based Data Center Developer Signs Agreements with Landowners in Northern Virginia's Vint Hill and Catlett

December 01, 2022 Northern Virginia

According to Fauquier Times, a data center developer based in Texas has acquired two plots of land in Fauquier County, Virginia. The data center developer signed agreements with landowners in the Catlett and Vint Hill towns of Northern Virginia. The Vint Hill site spans 48 acres, and it was...

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Read AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year
AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year

AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year

November 30, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced its goal of becoming water positive by 2030, which, according to AWS, will see it returning more water to the communities that it uses in its operations. It also promised to report on its WUE each year. Through this announcement, it joins the likes of other tech giants,...

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Read CorScale Plans to File FOr Permission To Develop a 140MW Facility in Iver, Buckinhamshire
CorScale Plans to File FOr Permission To Develop a 140MW Facility in Iver, Buckinhamshire

CorScale Plans to File FOr Permission To Develop a 140MW Facility in Iver, Buckinhamshire

November 30, 2022 Corscale

New data center company CorScale is looking to develop its first international data center in the UK. According to the Senior Vice President of CorScale, the company is a few days away from filing for planning permission to develop the facility in Iver, outside London. CorScale noted that the...

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Read Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia
Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia

Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia

November 28, 2022 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced that it has signed a PPA with Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to procure solar power for its operations in Indonesia. The state-owned electric utility will buy electricity from 210 MW of solar projects (four solar projects located in Bali and Java Island.)PLN stated that the...

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Read More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?
More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

November 28, 2022 Northern Virginia

In recent years, Chuck Kuhn, the founder, and CEO of JK Moving, has become a big player in the data center real estate market scene in Northern Virginia. Now, it appears that he’s looking to develop a new facility in Loudoun County, following the application for a large data center and warehouse...

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Read European Investment Bank Loans OVHcloud €200m
European Investment Bank Loans OVHcloud €200m

European Investment Bank Loans OVHcloud €200m

November 25, 2022 OVH Group

OVHcloud has secured a €200 million ($208m) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The loan will be used to fund future developments. OVHcloud's goal is to provide a sustainable cloud service alternative in Europe to replace US cloud providers. It aims to support European privacy...

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Read Microsoft files to build two data centers in San Jose, California
Microsoft files to build two data centers in San Jose, California

Microsoft files to build two data centers in San Jose, California

November 24, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed to build two new data centers at a site in San Jose, California, it has been reported. The proposal details plans for two-building on a 632,000-square-foot campus on 22 vacant acres near the intersection of Orchard Parkway and Component Drive. These two new additions have been...

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Read Microsoft signs further PPAs in Ireland
Microsoft signs further PPAs in Ireland

Microsoft signs further PPAs in Ireland

November 24, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed CPPAs with Statkraft, Energia Group, and Power Capital Renewable Energy, for 900MW to cover its data center operations in Ireland and 28% of Ireland's renewable energy target for 2030. By 2025, the giant expects to power 100% of its Irish facilities with renewable energy....

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Read AWS proposal "indefinitely postponed" in Fauquier County
AWS proposal "indefinitely postponed" in Fauquier County

AWS proposal "indefinitely postponed" in Fauquier County

November 24, 2022 Amazon AWS

AWS’s Warrenton data center proposals have been ‘indefinitely postponed’ by Virginia’s Fauquier County officials following a unanimous vote. The original proposal outlined plans for a 220,000-square-foot (20,400 sqm), single-story data center in Warrenton at the intersection of Blackwell Road and...

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