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Read Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs
Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

May 20, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for solar energy in California and another Georgia, with Terra-Gen and Georgia Power, respectively. The former is for a 12-year agreement with Terra-Gen, which will support the development of the 130MW Edwards...

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Read Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus
Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

May 19, 2022 Lincoln Property Company

Investment and real estate firms Harrison Street and Lincoln Property Company plan to develop an industrial campus and data center in New Albany, Ohio. Both companies have formed a joint venture for this purpose. The JV has purchased a 190-acre site to develop a multipurpose technology and...

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Read AWS To Develop Third Campus in Hilliard, Ohio
AWS To Develop Third Campus in Hilliard, Ohio

AWS To Develop Third Campus in Hilliard, Ohio

May 19, 2022 Amazon AWS

BizJournal reports that Amazon Web Services is looking to develop a third data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio. Hilliard’s economic development director, David Meadows, told BizJournal, that AWS will start developing a 151-acre site located at 4120 Scioto Darby Road, near I-270. The planned data...

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Read DataBank To Develop a 40MW Data Center at Newly Acquired Property
DataBank To Develop a 40MW Data Center at Newly Acquired Property

DataBank To Develop a 40MW Data Center at Newly Acquired Property

May 18, 2022 DataBank

DataBank has announced the acquisition of an existing data center and 18-acre land in Atlanta, Georgia. The property acquired is located at 200 Selig Drive, Atlanta. Although the company did not reveal the transaction terms, CoStar reports that DataBank paid $10.9 million for the property. The...

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Read New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends
New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends

New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends

May 16, 2022 Equinix

According to a newsletter from Christian Koch’s Foundations, New York Internet (NYI) will be taking over a space in 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel currently occupied by Equinix. Equinix announced in May 2021 that it would be exiting some of its leased data centers in the US. One of those...

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Read Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin
Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin

Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin

May 13, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has announced its involvement in a new district heating system project in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The data center company is teaming up with Codema, the Dublin energy agency, which will begin by carrying out a feasibility study. The project will reportedly be based around Equinix's DB5, a...

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Read Evoque To Develop a 100MW Facility in Nashville
Evoque To Develop a 100MW Facility in Nashville

Evoque To Develop a 100MW Facility in Nashville

May 13, 2022 Csquare

Evoque has announced that it is developing a data center campus outside Nashville in Gallatin, Tennessee. Evoque is working with Archer Datacenters to provide data center capacity at an existing data center while expanding the site further. The 28.5-acre site is located at 1398 Gateway Drive. It...

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Read Application for 277-acres of data center development filed in Nokesville
Application for 277-acres of data center development filed in Nokesville

Application for 277-acres of data center development filed in Nokesville

May 11, 2022 Northern Virginia

According to a report by Inside NoVa, an application has been filed in Nokesville, in Virginia’s Prince William County, for 277-acres of data center development. The application, submitted by the House family, seeks to change their property designation from an agricultural estate to a...

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Read What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?
What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?

What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?

May 10, 2022 CyrusOne

CyrusOne, a founder and signatory of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, recently released its latest sustainability report, where it outlined its efforts to cut both Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions, and revealed it has hit its 2030 carbon reduction commitments eight years early and become water...

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Read Culpeper County sued by neighbors over rezoning
Culpeper County sued by neighbors over rezoning

Culpeper County sued by neighbors over rezoning

May 10, 2022 Amazon AWS

According to reports, residents in Culpeper County, Virginia, are suing the county board after it approved the rezoning of a 230-acre property for an AWS data center. The giant is seeking to build two six-story data centers, a 12-acre power station and new power lines, however, six landowners in...

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Read Triple Double and Stonerock Capital Partners Acquire Two Properties in Miami Including a Cogent-occupied Facility
Triple Double and Stonerock Capital Partners Acquire Two Properties in Miami Including a Cogent-occupied Facility

Triple Double and Stonerock Capital Partners Acquire Two Properties in Miami Including a Cogent-occupied Facility

May 09, 2022 Cogent Communications

Stonerock Capital Partners and Triple Double have completed the acquisition of two properties in downtown Miami. The properties are located at 200 SE 1st Street and 44 W. Flagler Street. They paid $56.7 million for both properties. The 200 SE 1st property is a 12-story, 13,200 square meter...

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Read Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES
Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES

Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES

May 06, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a new PPA with AES for renewable energy to fuel its facilities in California. The PPA is a 20-year “highly customized agreement” which will see Microsoft partially match its load at its California-based data centers. The energy from AES will be sourced...

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Read Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility
Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility

Luxembourg Asks Google To Make Decision About Its Delayed $1bn Facility

May 05, 2022 Google

Luxemburg has instructed Google to decide on its planned data center in the country. The search engine giant bought land in 2017 to develop the facility, but development has been delayed due to local court cases and protests. Earlier in 2017, Google wanted to start the €1 billion ($1.1bn)...

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Read NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai
NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai

NTT Launches New Facility in Navi Mumbai

May 05, 2022 NTT

NTT has announced the opening of a new data center in Navi Mumbai, India. It also opened another data center in Mumbai recently without fanfare. The Navi Mumbai facility is called NAV1A, located in the Mahape area. The eight-story data center spans 400,000 square feet, and it has 45MW in power...

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Read AWS Expanding Presence in Oregon with Four More Data Centers in Morrow County
AWS Expanding Presence in Oregon with Four More Data Centers in Morrow County

AWS Expanding Presence in Oregon with Four More Data Centers in Morrow County

May 05, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Service (AWS) has plans to develop up to four data centers in Boardman, Oregon. The company filed with Oregon’s Marrow County to develop a data center campus on a 127-acre site. The site is located on the west side of Bombing Range Road, a mile away from Interstate 84 Interchange and...

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Read Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project
Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

Infrastructure Masons' new data center embodied carbon project

May 03, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Infrastructure Masons, a body for large data center builders, has announced the formation of a new group, the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), to establish a standard for data centers' embodied carbon. So far, some of the hyperscalers involved in the project include AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft,...

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Read Amazon To Develop New Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia
Amazon To Develop New Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

Amazon To Develop New Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

May 03, 2022 Amazon AWS

Amazon is going to develop another data center in Chantilly, Virginia. The news was first broken by BizJournal. However, it has now been confirmed with local county records that the company has been granted permission to develop the data center at 3980 Virginia Mallory Drive. The filing didn’t...

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Read Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time
Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

Microsoft shares data center PUE and WUE data for the first time

May 02, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has shared its data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE) data for the first time. Overall, the giant achieved a high level of efficiency with regards to PUE, while when it came to WUE, it didn't quite meet its target, and there was room for...

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Read Planned AWS data center in Dublin to go ahead despite challenge
Planned AWS data center in Dublin to go ahead despite challenge

Planned AWS data center in Dublin to go ahead despite challenge

April 29, 2022 Amazon AWS

After a prolonged battle by charity An Taisce to defeat Amazon's Co Meath 48 megawatt (MW) data center proposal at the IDA Business & Technology Park, it has been announced that the giant's plans have been given the green light. The charity had opposed the facility based on environmental...

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Read AWS Given Green Light To Purchase Land For New Zealand Cloud Region cloud region
 AWS Given Green Light To Purchase Land For New Zealand Cloud Region cloud region

AWS Given Green Light To Purchase Land For New Zealand Cloud Region cloud region

April 29, 2022 Amazon AWS

It is good news for Amazon Web Services as it has been granted permission to acquire land for its planned data center development in New Zealand. In September last year, the company revealed plans to launch its new Cloud Region in the country in 2024. Consistent with Microsoft’s previous regions,...

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