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Read More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield
More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

January 12, 2022 Northern Virginia

More people are speaking out against proposed data centers along Pageland Lane, near Manassas National Battlefield. The latest to outline his opposition to the construction plans is documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. In a letter to Prince William County Board of Supervisors, Burns expressed "fear"...

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Read Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal
Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

January 12, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has signed a green energy deal it has announced. By penning a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Neoen and Prokon, Equinix will be provided with 85% of the energy produced by the 35MW Björkliden wind farm in the municipality of Närpes, in the western region of Ostrobothnia. This...

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Read Amazon data center in store for Desoto?
Amazon data center in store for Desoto?

Amazon data center in store for Desoto?

January 11, 2022 Amazon AWS

Reports are circulating about Amazon's recent purchase of a 9-acre development site on Hampton Road south of Interstate 20 in DeSoto, southern Dallas County. This latest land acquisition has got people talking about whether the giant is planning another data center, considering its recent and...

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Read Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia
Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia

Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia

January 10, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed the development of a new 216MW data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia. The facility would be developed on an 80-acre site with three buildings with a combined space of 1 million square feet. The company revealed that the facility's first phase is scheduled to...

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Read Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy
Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

January 07, 2022 Amazon AWS

Leeward Renewable Energy LLC has announced that it has completed the repowering of its 54.4-MW Crescent Ridge wind farm in Illinois, which will provide Amazon with renewable energy. This process involved decommissioning nine turbines, installing Vestas turbines, and replacing 24 legacy turbines....

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Read Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa
Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

January 07, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has bought the majority stake in Teraco. The data center giant announced the acquisition of the South African data center company from a consortium of investors, including Permira and Berkshire Partners. The deal sees Teraco valued at about $3.5 billion. The transaction sees...

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Read AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment
AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment

AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment

January 05, 2022 Amazon AWS

Further to AWS announcing that it is establishing its AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, reports are now circulating that the giant will be investing an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in Indonesia across the 15 years through the region.According to reports, this investment will cover...

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Read Corscale is developing a 300MW data center campus in Prince William County
Corscale is developing a 300MW data center campus in Prince William County

Corscale is developing a 300MW data center campus in Prince William County

December 28, 2021 Corscale: Gainesville Crossing

Corscale has been revealed to be behind the development of a new data center campus in Prince William County. The Nascent hyperscale data center developer revealed on its website that it would be developing the data center campus in the county. It will be developing a 130-acre 300MW Gainesville...

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Read Google buys 236 acres of land in Kansas City
Google buys 236 acres of land in Kansas City

Google buys 236 acres of land in Kansas City

December 27, 2021 Google

Google has completed the acquisition of hundreds of acres of lands in Kansas City’s Northland. The search engine giant plans to develop data centers at the site. According to Kansas City Business Journal, property records show that Google bought 236.4 acres of land to the north of Hunt Midwest....

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Read Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan
Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

December 24, 2021 Northern Virginia

Recently, Prince William County’s environmental officials announced that they were recommending that the request to replan 2,133-acres in the rural crescent for data centers should be rejected. The watershed management division has argued that the replan would be significantly detrimental to the...

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Read Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia
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Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

December 19, 2021 Northern Virginia

Reports have it that Prologis has filed for permission to convert an industrial site in Sterling, Northern Virginia, into a data center. The company aims to develop a 500,000 square feet data center on its existing 19.5-acre industrial site. The development project is referred to as Prologis NOVA...

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Read Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR
 Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

December 17, 2021 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW...

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Read San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer
San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

December 17, 2021 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has sold its San Jose data center to developer Hines. Documents filed on December 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office outline that Hines paid just under $60 million ($59.6 million) for the complex. The building spans 179,800 sqft; meanwhile, the...

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Read Equinix partners with Nasdaq
Equinix partners with Nasdaq

Equinix partners with Nasdaq

December 16, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has formed a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq, Inc, which will help the company scale its NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This will also support the build-out of Nasdaq's cloud infrastructure. Tal Cohen, Executive Vice President, Head of North American Markets at Nasdaq, said...

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Read Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses
Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

December 15, 2021 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has broken ground on additional campuses in two of its existing strategic EMEA markets in both Frankfurt and Berlin. The Berlin campus will have 32MW of critical IT capacity and is due to be operational in the summer of 2022. Meanwhile, the Frankfurt...

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Read H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition
H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition

H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition

December 15, 2021 H5 Data Centers

H5 Data Centers has completed the acquisition of a data center at 925 Dalton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. The 107,000 square feet (9,940 square meters) purpose-built data center was built to Tier III standards. It currently has a 2MW capacity, but it can be expanded to 6MW upon full buildout. H5...

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Read AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta
AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta

AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta

December 15, 2021 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Jakarta, Indonesia, and has been created to support the 'fast-growing startup ecosystem, large Indonesian enterprises, and government agencies.' The region is now the tenth active in the Asia Pacific and mainland China after Beijing, Hong...

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Read New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced
New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

December 15, 2021 Equinix

The European Clean Hydrogen Partnership has announced its €2.5 million EcoEdge PrimePower project (E2P2). The tech consortium making up the partnership includes Equinix, InfraPrime, RISE, Snam, SolidPower, TEC4FUELS and Vertiv. Together, they will pursue the development of low-carbon fuel cells,...

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Read CloudHQ to buy United Airlines' Mount Prospect campus for mega data center development
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CloudHQ to buy United Airlines' Mount Prospect campus for mega data center development

December 15, 2021 CloudHQ

According to Journal & Topics, CloudHQ has acquired United Airlines’ office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Report has it that CloudHQ bought the property to make way for the development of a new 1.5 million square feet, $2.5 billion data center. Bill Cooney, the Development Director of...

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Read OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF
OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

December 15, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud has announced it has signed a 15-year renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Renewables, whereby the energy company will supply electricity from its 50MW solar power plant, located in the south of France. The solar plant is expected to be operational by 2024 “We are proud to...

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